Re: I want one of those!

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 08:30:04AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Now I'm not a buildd operator nor do I have any experience on non-x86 > arches, but a 16 core MIPS 1U server that only pulls 50W power and that > ships with Debian preinstalled just has a very high coolness factor :-) > > http:

Work-needing packages report for Aug 18, 2006

2006-08-18 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 330 (new: 16) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 105 (new: 23) Total number of packages reque

Bug#383595: ITP: aria2 -- High speed download utility

2006-08-18 Thread Patrick Ruckstuhl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Ruckstuhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: aria2 Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://aria2.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Descrip

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-18 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 18 August 2006 06:56, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:48:24PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > So are some widespread programming languages. If you blindly follow bad > > examples and bad styles you can dynamite yourself happily without even > > noticing, but that d

Re: I want one of those!

2006-08-18 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 08:30:04AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Now I'm not a buildd operator nor do I have any experience on non-x86 > arches, but a 16 core MIPS 1U server that only pulls 50W power and that > ships with Debian preinstalled just has a very high coolness factor :-) > http://

Re: Why no /usr/local/etc in Debian?

2006-08-18 Thread Holger Levsen
severity 383493 serious thanks Hi, On Thursday 17 August 2006 18:45, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > FYI, I've now filed this as #383493. (Filed as "important" rather than > "serious" to avoid stepping on the toes of release people.) I've learnt that not filing bugs with the appropriate severity does

Re: I want one of those!

2006-08-18 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Freitag, den 18.08.2006, 11:27 +0300 schrieb Riku Voipio: > > http://www.movidis.com/products/rev.asp > > Has anyone contacted movidis/cavium of getting this system supported > in etch? It would make a nice bullet in etch release notes :) According to the linked informationweek article in Adri

Re: I want one of those!

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Thomas Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-18 10:48]: > > Has anyone contacted movidis/cavium of getting this system supported > > in etch? It would make a nice bullet in etch release notes :) > > According to the linked informationweek article in Adrians's original > posting, this machine actual

Re: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

2006-08-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-07-03 09:04:39, schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > su, 2006-07-02 kello 18:17 -0400, Jason Spiro kirjoitti: > > * Package name: openwatcom > > Description : C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable > > code > > What does it mean for a compiler to produce portable code? It

take anything you like...

2006-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
DDD (Dear Debian Developers), just said kind of "thanks" in a mail to debian-boot, but I forgot to mention one thing: if anyone of you wants to take anything from my pages, for instance the screenshots from http://blog.thedebianuser.org/?p=27 (text-mode install) or http://blog.thedebianuser.org/

Bug#383609: ITP: pgfouine - PostgreSQL log analyzer

2006-08-18 Thread Clément Stenac
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: pgfouine * Version : 0.7 * Upstream Author : Guillaume Smet * URL : http://pgfouine.projects.postgresql.org/ * License : GPL * Programming Lang: PHP * Description : Pos

Re: WTF ? (Fwd: Your message to Yaird-devel awaits moderator approval)

2006-08-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Rafael Laboissiere skrev: I think that, in the case of responsive list moderators, this is indeed the right thing to do. However, I do not know how to configure Mailman for doing it. Does someone know? Set respond_to_post_requests to no. It's under notifications on the general settings pag

Re: Problems with security updates

2006-08-18 Thread Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
I just encountered another crash upon saving .sxw Lucky that I don't use OpenOffice.org daily... Peter Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote / napísal(a): Ralph, it's interesting, but now it works for me too, versions are the same. Just few days ago it "crashed happily". Well, seems it would b

Re: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

2006-08-18 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-07-03 09:04:39, schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > > su, 2006-07-02 kello 18:17 -0400, Jason Spiro kirjoitti: > > > * Package name: openwatcom > > > Description : C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, > > > porta

Re: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

2006-08-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-18 08:10:27, schrieb John Goerzen: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2006-07-03 09:04:39, schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > > > su, 2006-07-02 kello 18:17 -0400, Jason Spiro kirjoitti: > > > > * Package name: openwatcom > > > > Description : C/C

Re: Not able to build a package with pbuilder

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2006-08-17 04:53:36, Matthias Julius wrote: You could run autoconf from within rules and have configure be created during build. Doh, why didn't I come up with that idea:-) This is of-course the must generic solution. Thanks. -- Hilsen/Regards Michael Rasmussen Get my public GnuPG keys:

Re: Problems with security updates

2006-08-18 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- "Mgr. Peter Tuharsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I just encountered another crash upon saving .sxw > Lucky that I don't use OpenOffice.org daily... > > Peter You should send a bug report to the BTS. Is there any point in publishing every bug in this list? BTW, What's the real p

Re: libslang2 breaks jed

2006-08-18 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Alastair, Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jörg Sommer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've two problems with libslang2. The first is, the package libslang2 >> includes a patch that changes the behaviour of a function. > I apologize for this; I'd lost track of this particular bug (busy do

Bug#383645: ITP: nta -- network traffic analyzer, generate static html reports from /proc/net/dev

2006-08-18 Thread Luca Bigliardi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luca Bigliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nta Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : C. McCohy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://nta.kyberdigi.cz/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : network tr

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-18 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Russ Allbery may or may not have written... > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> And, for example, all of a sudden (autoconf 2.5, I think) every/many >> (newly generated or regenerated) configure script starting checking for >> C++ compilers, Fortran compilers, etc. etc.

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-Aug-06, 23:33 (CDT), Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Steve Greenland] > > By "autoconf related problems" I mean things like it suddenly > > deciding it's running a cross compiler, or that stdlib.h is > > missing. A lot of this kind of stuff could be improved by simply > > SH

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-18 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag 17 August 2006 22:57 schrieb Otavio Salvador: > Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The suggestion to use "nodaemon" as default for exim4 when only handling > > local mail will probably be rejected? > > I guess you meant nullmailer. No. I meant the setting in /etc/default

Re: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

2006-08-18 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-07-03 09:04:39, schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > > su, 2006-07-02 kello 18:17 -0400, Jason Spiro kirjoitti: > > > * Package name: openwatcom > > > Description : C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, > > > porta

Question about different kernel versions included on Etch

2006-08-18 Thread carlopmart
Hi all, I need to deploy several xen servers under Debia nEtch next week, and I have one doubt. Which is the difference between these kernels: linux-image-2.6.16-2-xen-686 and linux-image-2.6.16-2-xen-vserver-686? What does it means -vserver suffix?? Can I install third party kernel modules

using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Hi list, I have a package which relies on support for long long and using gcc does not give problems. The same goes for printf support of %m. What various me is that these features are not supported in ISO C90. My question is if this is problem in Debian and if so should I make some check

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2006-08-18 kello 23:25 +0200, Michael Rasmussen kirjoitti: > I have a package which relies on support for long long and using gcc > does not give problems. The same goes for printf support of %m. What > various me is that these features are not supported in ISO C90. My > question is if th

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2006-08-18 23:36:50, Lars Wirzenius wrote: C90 has been obsoleted by C99. The C implementation we have, consisting of gcc and glibc, support long long and %m (the latter being a GNU extension, even, it seems). So from what your a saying it would be allowed to add -std=c99 to gcc options?

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-18 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag 18 August 2006 23:25 schrieb Michael Rasmussen: > I have a package which relies on support for long long and using gcc > does not give problems. The same goes for printf support of %m. No, %m is, according to printf(2) manpage: m (Glibc extension.) Print output of strerror(errno).

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2006-08-18 23:48:02, Hendrik Sattler wrote: So why isn't printf("%s\n",strerror(errno)); used instead of printf("%m\n"); ? Not like a problem in Debian GNU/* but you should tell upstream about questionable coding style and portability. I agree with you on this issue - I personally prefer

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2006-08-18 kello 23:44 +0200, Michael Rasmussen kirjoitti: > So from what your a saying it would be allowed to add -std=c99 to gcc > options? It would be nice since I will avoid these warnings using > option -pedantic including warning against // before comments:-) Unless -std=c99 doesn't

Re: Problems with security updates

2006-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:16:47PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > You should send a bug report to the BTS. No, he shouldn't. There is already an open bug report for this issue. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2006-08-19 00:25:38, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Unless -std=c99 doesn't work on one of the Debian archs, certainly. Great. Now added, and a nice warning free compilation as a result:-) Is there any written documentation on debian.org for support of c99 in the archs supported by debian? --

Re: Bug#381599: ITP (RFC): python-debian -- python modules to work with Debian-related data formats

2006-08-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Adeodato Simó [Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:05:33 +0200]: > also create a mailing list somewhere http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-python-debian-discuss -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer a

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-18 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:52:17AM +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > Is there any written documentation on debian.org for support of c99 in > the archs supported by debian? Well, even the gcc-4.2 documentation still has the sentence "GCC has incomplete support for this [C99] standard version",

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2006-08-19 02:47:55, Gabor Gombas wrote: in current gcc versions, so the real-life answer is more like "you can assume C99 support on all archs". Nice, thanks. -- Hilsen/Regards Michael Rasmussen Get my public GnuPG keys: michael rasmussen cc http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/pks/looku

Bug#383735: ITP: renpy -- framework for developing visual-novel type games

2006-08-18 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: renpy Version : 5.5.4 Upstream Author : PyTom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.bishoujo.us/renpy/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python, C Description : fra

Re: Bug#381568: ITP: med-fichier -- Library to exchange meshed data

2006-08-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:36:54AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > but some kind of strange feeling continues if I hear this name (and > > the translation of it). It's just misleading. > > Er, just because you have a "strange feeling" doesn't mean th

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-18 Thread Bernd Schubert
Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:03:31 +0200, Bernd Schubert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Ubuntu already has vmware kernel module packages > > Yes, but adapting them to Debian seems to be nontrivial. I have not > yet been able to get them build on Debian. Actually I didn't have muc