Re: Downtime for some debian.org machines (people, db, buildd, etc.)

2006-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, James Troup wrote: > This Saturday (2006-03-25) between 13:00 - 21:00 UTC, the debian.org > machines hosted by HP are going down due to maintenance in their cage > on the power systems. The following machines and services are > affected: > > o gluck - people.d.o, planet.d.o,

Re: Moving GFDL documentation to non-free

2006-03-25 Thread JérÎme Marant
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was told unequivocally that just shipping the whole tarball > for make, which is 1.5MB large, would not be acceptable. I ended up I was suspecting this. > having to create two new .orig.tar.gz files, with minimal overlap in > contents

Re: Moving GFDL documentation to non-free

2006-03-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10604 March 1977, Jérôme Marant wrote: > The simplest way I can see is to take the pristine tarball and rename > to foo-non-free of foo-non-dfsg, and to just install what was removed > from the modified tarball in main. However, the Emacs tarball is > 18 megs big so I'm not sure ftp masters wou

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-25 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > >> Kevin Mark wrote: >> >>> Hi *, >>> I noticed on occassion on -devel and planet that folks mention in passing >>> that "I'll be in MN in US from MAR 01 thru 05" and I'd like to have a >>> beer and d

Keysignings and other "meetups" (Was: etch before vista)

2006-03-25 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 11:53 -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > > > >> Kevin Mark wrote: > >> > >>> Hi *, > >>> I noticed on occassion on -devel and planet that folks mention in passing > >>> that "

Re: GFDL question

2006-03-25 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:06 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok, there are no invariant sections, but there is (a short) front and > > back cover text. > > > > How do we proceed with these documents? > > The resolution which passed excludes do

Re: Moving GFDL documentation to non-free

2006-03-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10604 March 1977, Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> The simplest way I can see is to take the pristine tarball and rename >> to foo-non-free of foo-non-dfsg, and to just install what was removed >> from the modified tarball in main. However, the Emacs tarball

Bug#358979: ITP: pyvnc2swf -- Pyvnc2swf is a cross-platform screen recording tool

2006-03-25 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pyvnc2swf Version : 0.8.2 Upstream Author : Yusuke Shinyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ * License : GPL Description : Pyvnc2s

Re: Keysignings and other "meetups" (Was: etch before vista)

2006-03-25 Thread Luk Claes
Jeroen Massar wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 11:53 -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > >>Kevin Mark wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: >>> >>> Kevin Mark wrote: >Hi *, >I noticed on occassion on -devel and planet that folks

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2006-03-25 Thread benedikt . heinen
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Re: Keysignings and other "meetups" (Was: etch before vista)

2006-03-25 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Luk Claes wrote: > Jeroen Massar wrote: > >> On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 11:53 -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: >> >> >>> Kevin Mark wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >

Re: Keysignings and other "meetups" (Was: etch before vista)

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 01:16:16PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > > Jeroen Massar wrote: > >> On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 11:53 -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > >>> Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > > > Ke

idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Howdy, Suppose you're a debian developer with limited time each week for Debian. You get a bug report because your package fails to build on architecture X. When you have your 2 hour window to sit down and fix things, you log in to one of the project machines of the appropriate architecture, apt

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:01 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > [...] apt-get your sources, chroot into sid, and discover that > one of the build-dependencies is missing. There's no way to debug the > build problem: by the time you find the right address to email about > adding the build-dependency,

Building the whole Debian archive with GCC 4.1: a summary

2006-03-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Over the last 2.5 weeks I have built the complete Debian archive on a quad-core MIPS machine donated by Broadcom using the recently released version 4.1 of GCC. In parallel, I have done the same on an EM64T box donated to Debian by Intel and hosted by Stephen Frost. The purpose of this exercise w

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Laszlo Boszormenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:01 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> [...] apt-get your sources, chroot into sid, and discover that >> one of the build-dependencies is missing. There's no way to debug the >> build problem: by the time you find the right a

Debian Packages for XaraLX

2006-03-25 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi everybody, on http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/xaralx/, you can find debian source and binary (i386) packages for XaraLX[1], the recently GPL-freed vector drawing application. The packages are there for public review of both the program itself and the packaging work. Please note that until Xa

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 00:22 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Create a new custom chroot with the packages preinstalled on demand. Sounds like a use-case for combining pbuilder and cowdancer (or lvm snapshots). No time-consuming tarball extraction, disk usage is reduced and the original chroot

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Laszlo said: > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:01 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Wouldn't it be nice if you could simply "sudo apt-get install " > > yourself? Is it feasible to have at least some of the sid chroots > > allow this? Alternatively, how about "sudo pbuilder login ..."? > > I was