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

2006-09-29 Thread Bastian Venthur
Frans Pop wrote: > 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 toda

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-29 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 28/09/2006 Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > --- 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 oth

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

2006-09-29 Thread Pascal Hakim
'lo, On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:43:45AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > 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 a

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

2006-09-29 Thread Philipp Benner
> 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 gnumed-client dependant from xterm (which seems be > useless for most of the cases. >2. Make a separate package gnumed-client debug which >

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

2006-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Jon Dowland wrote: Then perhaps that's a suitably trivial program to bundle with menu, and perhaps extend the menu spec so that you can specify "This is an X program but I want console output displayed and preserved on termination"? This sounds quite reasonable. Thanks f

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

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Andreas Tille wrote: 3. File bugs against all packages that provide x-terminal-emulator but do not show the -hold feature (would this be reasonable) If I am correct that -hold does something like your program echo press any key to continue read foo Then p

initramfs, open-iscsi, 'unknown local user with uid 0' and getpwuid()

2006-09-29 Thread Mike Machuidel
I'm currently implementing open-iscsi support in initramfs (which uses busybox and klibc) and rewriting the initramfs-tools to support more complex rootfs setups (iscsi > dm > ocfs2). Now when I try to use "iscsiadm" I get the following error: "iscsid: peeruser_unix: unknown local user with uid 0

Debian Women Wiki (was: No Config-Files state even though postrm purge failed while purging an installed package?)

2006-09-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:52:05 +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 This is important information I would never

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:52:05 +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 >

Request for Discussion about Account Handling in Maintainer Scripts Wiki Page

2006-09-29 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, Whether an account created by a package should be deleted or not has been discussed a million times. But it looks like the results of these discussions were never written down. I have created a wiki page, http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts which tries to neutrally sum

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies

2006-09-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* 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,

Re: Request for Discussion about Account Handling in Maintainer Scripts Wiki Page

2006-09-29 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006, Marc Haber wrote: > Whether an account created by a package should be deleted or not has > been discussed a million times. But it looks like the results of these > discussions were never written down. The removal of users / groups is not the only thing often debated for pur

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-09-29 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:34:45PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:52:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts states, > >>while discussing the purging of a fully installed packa

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-09-29 Thread Francois Petillon
[sry, I am coming late and I am breaking all references as I did not received this thread. Worse, I am answering to different mails at once ;-) I also apologize to debian-cd subscribers as I already sent this answer there before realizing the initial thread was posted here too. As there was no

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-09-29 Thread Sylvain Beucler
> From: "Anthony L. Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Metalinks, a cross platform vendor neutral fortmat, are used by > >download managers & contain Mirror & p2p locations for segmented > >downloads, along with automatic checksum verification when the > >download completes. It spreads the download betw

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

2006-09-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:31:57AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Andreas Tille wrote: > > 3. File bugs against all packages that provide > > x-terminal-emulator but do not show the -hold feature > > (would this be reasonable) It would not, to few x-terminal-emulator provide -hold. > >

Re: Automatic elimination of useless dependencies using debhelper

2006-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Aichinger wrote: > Con's: > * Debhelper is arch:all, thus the backend (that really strips the > NEEDED entry) would have to be in a separate package (new > dependency in debhelper). Yes, this needs to be a separate package anyway, since debhelper is not intended to be the main point

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Sylvain Beucler wrote: Or to put it the other way, why isn't the developer's reference a wiki? :) I think it's more likely to evolve that way. Just as a side note, I am very interested in the possibilities of wiki software being used to collaboratively develop more structure documentation (l

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

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Bill Allombert wrote: I suggest a simpler route (untested): command="x-terminal-emulator -e /bin/sh -c \"gnumed;echo press any key to continue;read foo\"" Note that it does not really solve the dependency on xterm: it merely replaces it on a depdendency on any terminal-emulator. What about t

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Jonas Meurer wrote: I don't use any acceleration at all. I run the mga matrox Xserver, which doesn't support any kind of 3d acceleration. (my graphics controller is a Matrox MGA G400) At this point it would be useful to see your Xorg.conf (but not to the list, perhaps better to the bug) Your

Bug#390175: ITP: python-ocempgui -- A graphical user interface toolkit written in Python providing widgets for PyGame

2006-09-29 Thread Regis Desgroppes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Regis Desgroppes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: python-ocempgui Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Marcus von Appen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ocemp.sourceforge.net/ * Lic

Re: Automatic elimination of useless dependencies using debhelper

2006-09-29 Thread Christian Aichinger
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:21:24PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Christian Aichinger wrote: > > Con's: > > * Debhelper is arch:all, thus the backend (that really strips the > > NEEDED entry) would have to be in a separate package (new > > dependency in debhelper). > > Yes, this needs to be a separ

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/09/2006 Miriam Ruiz wrote: >> --- Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: [...] >> Are you using some kind of OpenGL acceleration? It seems that CPU gets too >> loaded if not, upstream is working in that. > I don't use any acceleration at all. I

Re: Automatic elimination of useless dependencies using debhelper

2006-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Aichinger wrote: > Yep, the program which actually removes the unnecessary needed > entries should be seperate. My question was rather, would you accept > a script which uses such a tool in debhelper? That depends. I may, for example, decide that it should just be put in dh_strip or some

Re: new mplayer

2006-09-29 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 01:46:42 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > FWIW, I cannot build it in a clean and updated-to-latest-sid pbuilder > (complete script available on request, 10K gzipped): > Script started on Tue 26 Sep 2006 01:38:35 AM CEST > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ sudo pbuilder build mplayer

Re: Automatic elimination of useless dependencies using debhelper

2006-09-29 Thread Christian Aichinger
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:40:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Christian Aichinger wrote: > > Yep, the program which actually removes the unnecessary needed > > entries should be seperate. My question was rather, would you accept > > a script which uses such a tool in debhelper? > > That depends. I

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:48:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | 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 id

Re: Bug#390195: ethiop: Please package Type1 versions of the fonts

2006-09-29 Thread Paul Seelig
Frank Küster wrote: > We'd be glad to hear from you whether you want to continue maintaining > ethiop, and whether you plan to include the fonts in this or a separate > package, so that we can adjust our dependencies. In case you'd rather > give up the package (which we'd really regret), please al

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-09-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 29, Francois Petillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, as far as I am concerned, disk IO is the greatest problem (disk > capacity & bandwidth is increasing faster than seek time). Thus, we try > to optimize disk IO to get max performance out of that kind of server. > And optimization usual

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-09-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 29, Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony's point stays valid when bandwidth is limited on the > server. Which is not the case for Debian mirrors except possibly in the few hours after a major release. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RE: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-29 Thread Stephen Yorke
It says... "I have found the problem. On line 966 of the postinst it says:"... What file do I have to edit to make this work? Doing a search for postinst returns a sample only... Sorry if I sound dumb but hey...I am... -Stephen -Original Message- From: Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [mail

RE: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-29 Thread Stephen Yorke
Does anyone know when the patch for this will be uploaded ? -Original Message- From: Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:38 AM To: Stephen Yorke Cc: David Goodenough; debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject:

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-29 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 9/29/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know when the patch for this will be uploaded ? -Original Message- From: Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:38 AM To: Stephen Yorke Cc: David Goodenough; debian-user@lis

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:42:17PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:34:45PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > > Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:52:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerS

Re: non-free artwork in main

2006-09-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > today I received two bugreports regarding non-free artwork in my > packages. I maintain several iconsets with thousands of icons. I think > it is quite impossible to check every single icon whether it is free or not. > > Most icons don't contai

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 pr

Re: Request for Discussion about Account Handling in Maintainer Scripts Wiki Page

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:42:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Whether an account created by a package should be deleted or not has > been discussed a million times. But it looks like the results of these > discussions were never written down. > I have created a wiki page, > http://wiki.debian.or

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

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:12:11AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >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-c

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

2006-09-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:12:11AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> They probably want to test-build against apache2 from experimental to >> fix any source incompatibilities. It has apache2-common, not >> apache2.2-common, but should otherwise be very

SOAP interface documentation

2006-09-29 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I need documentation on what kind of state a bug can be in. pending: field looks like what I'm looking for, but it is not the same as what the index.db file has. pending -- 'open' bugs done -- 'done' bug forwarded -- 'forwarded' bugs Is this intentional and where is this terminology documen