Re: Bug#389817: ITP: pm-utils -- utilities and scripts usefull for power management

2006-09-28 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Op Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:29:14 +0100 schreef Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This one time, at band camp, Tim Dijkstra said: > > Op Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:28 +0100 > > schreef Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > The advantage HAL has over acpid, is > > that it is very well integrated in

Re: Free flash player for your browser (Was: Running x86-64 debian inside i386 pbuilder on AMD64)

2006-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:38:51AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: [on gnash] > In my experience, it will even _require_ AMD64 or similar CPUs to > display even trivial pages. Isn't that a given for anything even remotely related to flash? -- Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-de

Re: Bug#389053: apache2-common: API module structure `perl_module' in file /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so is garbled

2006-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Steve Langasek skrev: So can we have apache2.2 uploaded to unstable so that this can happen? :-) Working on it. We are going to rename apache2-common to apache2.2-common and any apache modules must depend on the appropriate -common to ensure they are removed when an incompatible apache is

Re: Bug#389053: apache2-common: API module structure `perl_module' in file /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so is garbled

2006-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:51:36AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >So can we have apache2.2 uploaded to unstable so that this can happen? :-) > Working on it. We are going to rename apache2-common to > apache2.2-common and any apache modules must depend on the appropriate > -common to ensure

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Martijn van Oosterhout skrev: Which is all crap. Yes, this is the list you need for static, but pkg-config is recursing through modules even for dynamic linking which is wrong. Now either pkg-config of the gtk+2 pc file needs to be fixed, then you can start recompiling all the affected programs.

Re: Bug#389053: apache2-common: API module structure `perl_module' in file /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so is garbled

2006-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Steve Langasek skrev: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:51:36AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: So can we have apache2.2 uploaded to unstable so that this can happen? :-) Working on it. We are going to rename apache2-common to apache2.2-common and any apache modules must depend on the appropriate -

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-28 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:35:12PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > [**] I hope someone out there knows how a library maintainer can > reliably determine this! "Use the Source, Luke." For C, you should examine all functions marked with __attribute__((__constructor__)) or __attribute__((__destruct

Re: release update: release notes, base freeze

2006-09-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060928 08:56]: > we hope to address with a General Resolution; or will be fixed with the > removal of mozilla or the addition of X.org 7.1. This means that we are "removal of mozilla" means of course the old all-in-one-suite that is no longer supported by upst

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Miriam Ruiz] > Jonas has already filed some bugs against gnash. To be honest, I > don't know the reason for your words, and if there's some kind of > irony behind them. There might of course be a bug in gnash related to the X crash, but if a user space program is able to crash the X server, ther

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:48:49PM +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > >"tasks=kde-desktop" is a bit rude to type (try it on a non US > > >key

Re: Free flash player for your browser (Was: Running x86-64 debian inside i386 pbuilder on AMD64)

2006-09-28 Thread Amaya
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:38:51AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > [on gnash] > > In my experience, it will even _require_ AMD64 or similar CPUs to > > display even trivial pages. > > Isn't that a given for anything even remotely related to flash? Exactly, it is not like the

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:45:16AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > It appears that dpkg-deb does not exec gzip, and it's not dynamically > linked with anything except glibc. I suppose that it's statically linked > against zlib1g or something like it. So the question is, how can the > exact compression a

Dialog Example

2006-09-28 Thread Rodrigo Tavares
Hello, Where I can a code example of dialog, with intetion: Installing one package and happen a bar of progress when in run this command : /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb -E LATIN1 BD &> /dev/nul /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -d DB -U xyzt -h localhost -f script.sh &> /dev/null Somebody can help me

Bug#389926: ITP: tig -- content addressable filesystem (CLI repository browser)

2006-09-28 Thread Sebastian Harl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tig Upstream Author : Jonas Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/ * License : GPL Description : content addressable filesystem (CLI repository browse

replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Ian Bruce
I'm working on a system for differential transport of deb packages using zsync (client-side rsync). This involves decompressing the gzip'ed tar archives in the package and then recompressing them later. In order that the reconstructed package match the "Size" and "MD5sum" fields in the Apt packages

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
Followup to the other lists too... On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:15:21PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:45:16AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > > > It appears that dpkg-deb does not exec gzip, and it's not dynamically > > linked with anything except glibc. I suppose that it's static

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-28 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 28/09/2006 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Miriam Ruiz] > > Jonas has already filed some bugs against gnash. To be honest, I > > don't know the reason for your words, and if there's some kind of > > irony behind them. > > There might of course be a bug in gnash related to the X crash, but if >

Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, is there any relieable way to force opening a terminal from a menu entry and call a programm from this terminal to make sure that console output will be visible? I never succeeded to find this out. :-( Kind regards Andreas. On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Karsten Hilbert wrote: Package: g

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Ian Bruce
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:45:16 -0700 Ian Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it seems that with the currently shipping versions of gzip (I tried > both "stable/updates" and "testing"), there is actually no way to > exactly replicate the compression produced by the standard package > build system.

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 9/28/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout skrev: > Which is all crap. Yes, this is the list you need for static, but > pkg-config is recursing through modules even for dynamic linking which > is wrong. Now either pkg-config of the gtk+2 pc file needs to be > f

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-28 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060928 16:09]: > is there any relieable way to force opening a terminal from a menu > entry and call a programm from this terminal to make sure that > console output will be visible? > > I never succeeded to find this out. :-( Regarding Debians menu syst

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-28 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > it seems like gnash puts heavy load on my system, if a flash animation > at www.myspace.com is started. and as i was not able to reproduce the > Xserver crash later, i believe that it was related to other heavy > applications running the first tim

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:50:53AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > It turns out that the zlib1g-dev package contains a program called > "minigzip" in source form. This is what's needed; "minigzip -9" > reproduces exactly the compression used by dpkg-deb, unlike regular > gzip. This may not produce iden

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Christian Perrier wrote: > > >"tasks=kde-desktop" is a bit rude to type (try it on a non US > >keyboard...). > > The hint to non US keyboard is *very* important. I would love if > *every* string a user (not a h

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:52:58 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > A "-" might work on the numeric > > keyboard but it is often even hard enough to find the '=' > would it be kooky to use numbers instead of letters and then have the > help screen show what the number mean: eg. > task=001 # sets gnome desk

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:17:39PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > > >The gtk+2 .pc file needs to be changed to mark a bunch of those Requires > >as Requires.private, pkg-config provides all the necessary > >infrastructure now. (If not, please do file bugs.) > > Ok, the reduces the libs

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >Which is all crap. Yes, this is the list you need for static, but > >pkg-config is recursing through modules even for dynamic linking which > >is wrong. Now either pkg-config of the gtk+2 pc file needs to be > >fixed, then you can start recompiling al

Re: release update: release notes, base freeze

2006-09-28 Thread Jérôme Marant
Le jeudi 28 septembre 2006 08:54, Andreas Barth a écrit : > * sorting out docs-in-main vs. the DFSG > > Most packages with non-free docs have been split now and only a few > packages are left. Sadly, the remaining packages include glibc, > automake and emacs21. Please try to help out for those.

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:37:58PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > * Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060928 16:09]: > > > is there any relieable way to force opening a terminal from a menu > > entry and call a programm from this terminal to make sure that > > console output will be v

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 9/28/06, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that Requires.private is used for cflags since the last version of pkg-config. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/340904 Well, then something wierd is going on. I have 0.21-1 installed and I get this. This first time is with Requires, the

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:20:18PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/06, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Note that Requires.private is used for cflags since the last version > >of pkg-config. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/340904 > > Well, then somet

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 9/28/06, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > vali:/usr/lib/pkgconfig# pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 > -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include > -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo I don't know what pkg-config is supposed to do, but surely you don't need the freetype2 nor

Re: Free flash player for your browser (Was: Running x86-64 debian inside i386 pbuilder on AMD64)

2006-09-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 28, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my experience, it will even _require_ AMD64 or similar CPUs to > > display even trivial pages. > Isn't that a given for anything even remotely related to flash? Not at all. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:20:18PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On 9/28/06, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Note that Requires.private is used for cflags since the last version > >of pkg-config. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/340904 > > Well, then something wierd is going o

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies

2006-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Martijn van Oosterhout" | On 9/28/06, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Note that Requires.private is used for cflags since the last version | > of pkg-config. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/340904 | | Well, then something wierd is going on. I have 0.21-1 installed and I | get th

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:40:43PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/06, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> vali:/usr/lib/pkgconfig# pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 > >> -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include > >> -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/incl

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:52:58AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Andreas and Christian, > would it be kooky to use numbers instead of letters and then have the > help screen show what the number mean: eg. > task=001 # sets gnome desktop > task=002 # sets kde desktop That doesn't work, as already t

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:24:40 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > You can actually look at what different layouts look like, by using the > "xkbprint" tool and a compiled xkb keymap (see xkbcomp, or fetch it from > your running X server). Or xkeycaps. gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.a

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag 28 September 2006 21:14 schrieb Kurt Roeckx: > Note that Requires.private is used for cflags since the last version > of pkg-config. Interesting but maybe documenting Requires.private would be a good idea? Hint: the manpage only mentions Libs.private, see #341977 #346602. And 9 month

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:18:49AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Christian Perrier wrote: > > >That still leaves 20 ASCII characters which are supposedly at the same > >place on all keyboards (to be checked, though). You also need at least - / = > I guess that there are othe

Help with piuparts?

2006-09-28 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I'm not subscribed to -devel; if you want me to see replies, remember to Cc me, thanks. I'm not going to be able to work much on piuparts in the coming months. This includes both improving the code, and processing log files and reporting bugs found by piuparts. It might be a good idea if someone

Re: Accepted kde-icons-crystalclear 0.0.20050623.dfsg.1-1 (source all)

2006-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
Please do _not_ use a mail@ or root@ or daemon@ address to send mail to debian addresses. They will be filtered out as such addresses are considered to be reserved for administrative and system accounts. I've attached 2 mails that were filtered out because of this today. See also man procmailrc

No Config-Files state even though postrm purge failed while purging an installed package?

2006-09-28 Thread shaulka
http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts states, while discussing the purging of a fully installed package ("Removing and Purging", Removal+Purge of foo (Installed)), that there's no way that the package might end-up in a Config files state, even if "postrm purge" fails.

Re: No Config-Files state even though postrm purge failed while purging an installed package?

2006-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:52:05AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts states, > while discussing the purging of a fully installed package > ("Removing and Purging", Removal+Purge of foo (Installed)), that >there's no way that the packag

Bug#390037: ITP: toilet -- create ASCII and ANSI art from text

2006-09-28 Thread Sam Hocevar (Debian packages)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Sam Hocevar (Debian packages)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: toilet Version : SVN snapshot Upstream Author : Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libcaca.zoy.org/toilet.html * License : WTFPL (BSD-like)

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
gregor herrmann dijo [Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:00:06PM +0200]: > > as I would hope that numbers are not moved to random places on keyboards > > Except on french keyboards where they are accessed with Shift- > :-) > > I guess all these ideas are not that really fool-proof ... Sacre bleu... My fing

Bug#390073: ITP: nikwi -- platform game where your goal is to collect candies

2006-09-28 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nikwi Version : 0.0.20060823 Upstream Author : Kostas Michalopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.slashstone.com/more/nikwi * License : GPL Programming Lang: C /

RFH: Bug#389321

2006-09-28 Thread Tommaso Moroni
Hi all! Due to real life sudden problems I don't have time to look at Bug#389321, a FTBFS bug filed some days ago on one of the packages I maintain. Does anybody have some time to handle this? Thank you so much for your support. Regards, Tommaso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: needs="x11" command="x-terminal-emulator -e foo" should do the trick. Maybe Andreas is looking for xterm -hold ? Thanks for the hint to the -hold feature but it seems to work only for real xterm. So I have probably several possibilities: 1. Make

Work-needing packages report for Sep 29, 2006

2006-09-28 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: 297 (new: 4) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 96 (new: 1) Total number of packages requeste