[...]
>> Method B
>
>> Package: oldpkg
>> Depends: newpkg
>> Files:
>> /usr/share/doc/oldpkg -> /usr/share/doc/newpkg
>> (and nothing else)
>
>> Package: newpkg
>> Replaces: oldpkg
>> Provides: oldpkg
>> Files:
>> (...)
>> /usr/share/doc/oldpkg -> /usr/share/doc/newp
also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.02.0830 +0200]:
> Why do you replace initramfs-tools and not just initramfs-tools << 0.60
> (or 0.63 as is the version you conflict with)?
Mh, that's a human error. Thanks for spotting it.
> Also, depending on makedev | udev would be more
also sprach Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.02.0847 +0200]:
> Would combining the drives that went well make sense?
> Starting RAID devices... md0, md1, md4 done
> Starting RAID device md2 ... 2/3 drives, degraded
> Starting RAID device md3 ... 1/3 drives, failed
Nice, but is it wort
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:48:13PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Well, KSP's in Debian are essentially dead, as far as I am
> concerned, since the community has not come to an agreement that
> bringing Bubba's passports is an unacceptable action.
Well, for my part, it's actually sligh
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 21:51 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> [ crosspost to live, -devel and -edu; replies please to -devel ]
>
> * and three larger ones, each of which contains one of the common
> desktop-environments on it (gnome, kde, xfce).
I would like to see mono + mono apps (banshee, b
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:27:07AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Well, the stats have continued dropping since then, now down by about 1.5%
> in less than a week.
And up again, by about .5%, today.
> The last such dip on the graph seems to have taken about a month to
> recover from,
20 days, ac
Andreas Barth wrote:
> N-110 = Mon 7 Aug 06:
>
> freeze base, non-essential toolchain (including e.g. cdbs)
>
> RC bug count less than 180
Is there a list of packages that make up the "non-essential toolchain"?
> N-45 = Wed 18 Oct 06:
>
> general freeze [about 2 months after
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:15:53AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > So I guess if the current dip doesn't look out of the ordinary to any of the
> > porters, we can wait and see.
> Currently, I'm suspecting a pre-freeze upload frenzy, since there's a
> dip for almost every architecture (though mo
> The existing European software patents were granted based on the
> assumption that you can differentiate between a computer program and
> its underlying ideas. I think such a distinction is indeed possible,
> and granting theese patents does not contradict Article 52. But I
> strongly believe t
Hi Daniel,
[...]
> I did that once in 2003 for dx but hit a different bug then: dpkg would
> try to configure oldpkg when it had disappeared already. It worked fine
thats also my experience with current dpkg unstable. See my reply in
the this thread some postings above. The strange thing is that
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, you should bring a government-issued ID, and no, having an ID
> card that is not trustable should not be considered acceptable.
This thread has already established that many governments have
untrustable ID issuing procedures. If the definition of
Chris Walters wrote:
> Software code can be copyrighted, but that is an easy thing to get
> around - even if you got your original idea from some copyrighted code.
> Patents are not easy to get around. They totally protect all
> implementations of the procedures used to do x (whatever x is).
Onl
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Franz Pletz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: gplanarity
Version : 11496
Upstream Author : Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/gPlanarity.html
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Desc
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Dear developers,
I request an adopter for the flwm package, that would spend more time
wit this package than I do. I am still using flwm though.
FLWM is a lightweight window-manager using the FLTK library. There is no
major issue with this package, upstream is aliv
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:19:42AM +0200, Andreas Fester wrote:
> Absolutely. Its also the method I would prefer because it adds minimal
> overhead providing the most seamless upgrade. I implemented it for my
> package, and the first test succeeded very well (amd64 testing/unstable),
> but today I
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:46:12PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:06:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Oooh, Method B is one I haven't seen proposed before in the context of dummy
> > packages. That looks far more elegant to me than the alternatives. Have
> > you tes
Reinhard Tartler wrote:
I don't think debian has decided on a more or less 'official' position
regarding software patents. There many packages in debian, which are
suspected to implement many ideas described by software patents. I don't
know of any case were debian had to explain in court. This c
On 5/30/06, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
gnome:
gnome-desktop-environment gdm-themes gnome-cups-manager
gnome-themes-extras rhythmbox synaptic gnome-screensaver gdm
x-window-system-core
I would like:
gnome-fifth-toe firefox xchat gnome-devel meld
And some (less important to me) s
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:23:51PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> I am for the radical way, to keep Debian completely free, libre.
If I'm understanding you correctly on this (i.e. remove from Debian
every software which has parts covered by software patents), this is
a complete nonsense. It will
Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Only if they are enforcable in court. Regarding many multimedia related
> software, there is indeed an ugly lot of software patents around, and it
> is very unclear if they would succeed in court if somebody would
> distribute software which implement ideas described by a
I claim not being expert on this subject. But this argument seems
rehash of ones done in debian-legal and debian-user.
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:23:51PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
...
> Remaining on the multimedia side, if mp3 is covered by numerous patents
> that implementing a codec cannot
Margarita Manterola wrote:
> If there's a wiki-page or similar thing with the complete list of
> packages (and the amount of free-space), that would be interesting to
> have in order to make more suggestions.
will do that, i first thought it would be a good idea to put it into a
wiki. i'll prepare
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Rockai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: app-install-data
Version : 0.1.32
Upstream Author : Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Niran Babalola
Sebasitan Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:23:51PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
I am for the radical way, to keep Debian completely free, libre.
If I'm understanding you correctly on this (i.e. remove from Debian
every software which has parts covered by software patents), this is
a
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 03:05:08PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:46:12PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:06:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Oooh, Method B is one I haven't seen proposed before in the context of
> > > dummy
> > > package
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Steve Langasek wrote:
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>> Anyway, as noted in my previous mail to this thread, when testing this
>> method on unstable and sarge, I hit a bug in apt that rules it out for
>> etch. If you still like this method, we can get the necessary fixes in
>>
Package: general
Severity: wishlist
tiger says
# Checking for existence of log files...
--FAIL-- [logf005f] Log file /var/log/btmp permission should be 660
OK, now how do I even find out what package /var/log/btmp belongs to
in order to tell them about the problem? dlocate? No.
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To UNSUBSCRI
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
>
> tiger says
> # Checking for existence of log files...
> --FAIL-- [logf005f] Log file /var/log/btmp permission should be 660
>
> OK, now how do I even find out what package /var/log/btmp belongs to
> in order to
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Bug#370050: general: /var/log/btmp permission should be 660
Bug reassigned from package `general' to `logrotate'.
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