Re: Please upload NMU of tix package to close #360920

2006-10-23 Thread Amaya
Hi there, Matthias, Michael Michael Hanke wrote: > tags 360920 patch Matthias, I will review this package and sponsor the NMU. I will then upload to the delayed-1 queue. I hope you have no problem with this. -- ·''`. If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution : :' :

Update on Bug#394566: ITP: conkeror -- completely keyboard driven Gecko based web browser

2006-10-23 Thread Axel Beckert
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 11:44:29PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > * License : MPL or OSI-approved[1] > [...] > [1] Exact license still unclear since it's not mentioned on the > website and I have no feedback neither from the #conkeror > IRC-channel nor mailinglist yet. I've also

Re: planet.debian.net and DWN (was: HI, I am a honest user of China, I love linux especially Debian distribution , I think Debian is the greatest linux distribution , but nowdays, the debian weekly ne

2006-10-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:45:01AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > IIRC, he sent an email out a few days ago saying that > > http://planet.debian.net/ now serves most of the purpose of DWN. > Unfortunately, at least for me, planet.debian.net cont

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-23 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 10:48:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I don't think using any non-POSIX feature should be a policy violation, > probably. There are some that are in such widespread use and are > supported by all shells that weren't written specifically as test suites > that I think it's

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-23 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun October 22 2006 23:22, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I still think we should go for quality of implementation. > > I also seem to be a minority in this regard. I sincerely hope not. > If the project feels that we should downgrade policy not to > set our maintainer scri

Re: cmake build-depends

2006-10-23 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-22 16:40]: > The vtk and octaviz pacakges use CMake. I initially packaged octaviz for > Debian, which is now maintained by the Debian Octave group. I do not > remember having troubles using CMake, although have been an Autotools addict > for year

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-23 Thread Matthias Julius
Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about instead of speaking about POSIX, policy should just list the > shells that are officially supported as /bin/sh? There is no need > listing every shell, just a representative subset: bash (obviously), > dash (it's popular) and an other "minimalis

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-23 Thread Jason Spiro
2006/10/17, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:02:45PM +, Jason Spiro wrote: I remember back in 2000 providing a Debian package called 'ayuda' ('help', in Spanish) developed by members of my local IEEE Student Branch. This package included ju

Re: DebConf6 DVDs available

2006-10-23 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Ben Hutchings schrieb: > On behalf of the DebConf6 video team[1] I'm proud to announce the > DebConf6 DVDs! For those interested, I've made a torrent for the PAL DVD, metafile to be found at http://honey.hogyros.de/debconf6-dvd-pal.torrent . If you are interested in running a torrent for th

Re: DebConf6 DVDs available

2006-10-23 Thread Andrea Ferraresi
On Saturday 21 October 2006 21:26, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On behalf of the DebConf6 video team[1] I'm proud to announce the > DebConf6 DVDs! > The ftp server may be down, i can't download the videos. -- .''`. Andrea Ferraresi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : KeyFP= CFE7 223E EB7A E729 9675 BA93

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

2006-10-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Am Samstag 21 Oktober 2006 11:49 schrieb Nikita V. Youshchenko: >>> Question is - does Debian i386 currently support running on 64-bit >>> binaries if hardware supports it? >> >> _and_ if the kernel supports it. >> >>> Linux blacky 2.6.18-1-

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One exciting thing with the next etch release is that the default > installer will ask if the machine should submit information to > popcon.debian.org. I look forward to see how that will affect the > number of machines submitting, as well as how

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-23 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:40:28 -0500, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Gee. Don't we already have something very like this? > These classifications are roughly equivalent to the bug > severities _serious_ (for _must_ or _required_ directive violations), > _minor_, _normal_

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:48:26 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I personally think that maintainer scripts should allow for /bin/sh >> to be not bash; or there should be documentation to the effect that >> non bash /bin/sh is not suppor

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

2006-10-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is it possible to make 64bit kernels available? > > Sarge does have them and the BTS has a patch for linux-2.6 to enable > them again. Now go and hit the kernel team till they apply the > patch

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:05:09 +0200, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 10:48:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I don't think using any non-POSIX feature should be a policy >> violation, probably. There are some that are in such widespread >> use and are supported b

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:30:20 -0400, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:40:28 -0500, Manoj Srivastava > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Gee. Don't we already have something very like this? >> These classifications are roughly equivalent to the bug severities >> _serious_

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

2006-10-23 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Is it possible to make 64bit kernels available? >> >> Sarge does have them and the BTS has a patch for linux-2.6 to enable >> them again. Now go

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

2006-10-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is it possible to make 64bit kernels available? > > > > Sarge does have them and the BTS has a patch for linux-2.6 to enab

openssh packages with updated selinux patch

2006-10-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have created openssh packages with updated SELinux patches, this brings us in line with the new SELinux release. The patch is recorded in Bug#394795. The packages are available at: http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/packages/pool/o/openssh/ or via the apt-able repository at: d

Re: Bug#394705: ITP: emma -- extendable MySQL managing assistant

2006-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 06:59:38PM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: emma Dear Piotr, I am preparing a package for a software suite called EMBOSS, and one of its binaries is called emma. Is t

Bug#394825: ITP: libtrace3 -- network trace processing library supporting many input formats

2006-10-23 Thread Matt Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matt Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtrace3 Version : 3.0.0-beta5 Upstream Author : The University of Waikato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://research.wand.net.nz/software/libtrace.php * License : GPL Pro

Re: cmake build-depends

2006-10-23 Thread Fathi Boudra
hi, Le jeudi 19 octobre 2006 16:57, Jean Parpaillon a écrit : > Maybe kde packagers are already working on it ? we have a cmake class, proposed for inclusion in cdbs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377524 I use it at least on strigi and kde4 packages. cheers, Fathi

Re: Bug#394705: ITP: emma -- extendable MySQL managing assistant

2006-10-23 Thread Piotr Ozarowski
Charles Plessy wrote: > I am preparing a package for a software suite called EMBOSS, and one of > its binaries is called emma. Is the Emma you are packaging also > containing a "emma" binary ? Yes, my package has only one file in /usr/bin - "emma". I wanted to search for sponsor today, but I will

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

2006-10-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Bear in mind that the 64-bit kernel doesn't offer all the functionality >> that the 32-bit one does. vm86 is the most obvious thing missing. > > [8:23am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> grep VM86

Re: mucking with dpkg control files in maintainer scripts?

2006-10-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Re: mucking with dpkg control files in maintainer scripts?"): > old_md5sum="`sed -n -e \"/^Conffiles:/,/^[^ ]/{' $CONFFILE'{s/.* > //;p}}\" /var/lib/dpkg/status`" This is completely and utterly wrong and gives _wrong answers_. /var/lib/dpkg/status is not gua

Re: mucking with dpkg control files in maintainer scripts?

2006-10-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Frank Küster writes ("Re: mucking with dpkg control files in maintainer scripts?"): > I think the main reason why this is not being done is that there's a > general fear that calling "dpkg -s" from a script that has been called > by dpkg might give unpredictable, or at least not the desired result

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 6

2006-10-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Bill Allombert writes ("Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 6"): > Thanks to your collective effort, the number of circular dependencies in > Debian has halved since the begining of the year. ... but as previously discussed there is nothing wrong with circular dependencies. (Although of c

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

2006-10-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:52:05AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> Bear in mind that the 64-bit kernel doesn't offer all the functionality > >> that the 32-bit one does. vm86 is the

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

2006-10-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That might explain some trouble with X on obscure video chipsets > recently reported on debian-amd64 then. On any architecture other than i386, Xorg builds use the x86emu backend rather than the vm86 one. In theory that should let things work happily, b

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-23 Thread Riccardo
Hello, On Monday, October 23, 2006, at 06:46 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I doubt it will change noticably for the non mainstream architectures. Those that have their trusty old hardware running Debian for years and years now aren't the people that reinstall their system on every release.

Re: openssh packages with updated selinux patch

2006-10-23 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Manoj Srivastava a écrit : Hi, I have created openssh packages with updated SELinux patches, this brings us in line with the new SELinux release. The patch is recorded in Bug#394795. The packages are available at: http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/packages/pool/o/openssh/ or via

Re: Bug#394705: ITP: emma -- extendable MySQL managing assistant

2006-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:40:16AM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > I am preparing a package for a software suite called EMBOSS, and one > > of > > its binaries is called emma. Is the Emma you are packaging also > > containing a "emma" binary ? > > Yes, my package has on

Bug#394705: ITP: emma -- extendable MySQL managing assistant

2006-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:40:16AM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > I am preparing a package for a software suite called EMBOSS, and one of > > its binaries is called emma. Is the Emma you are packaging also > > containing a "emma" binary ? > > Yes, my package has only

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061023 20:14]: > Strawman. No one is proosing that; we already have a mechanism > for making serious bugs non-RC (etch-ignore tags). Etch-ignore tags are usually used for issues where we expect them to be RC after etch releases. If we think an issue

Re: openssh packages with updated selinux patch

2006-10-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:36:34 +0200, Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I have created openssh packages with updated SELinux patches, this >> brings us in line with the new SELinux release. The patch is >> recorded in Bug#394795. The packages are a

Re: mucking with dpkg control files in maintainer scripts?

2006-10-23 Thread Frank Küster
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster writes ("Re: mucking with dpkg control files in maintainer > scripts?"): >> I think the main reason why this is not being done is that there's a >> general fear that calling "dpkg -s" from a script that has been called >> by dpkg might give un

RFP: tinymce -- Web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor

2006-10-23 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tinymce Version : 2.0.7 Upstream Author : Moxiecode Systems AB * URL or Web page : http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ * License : LGPL Description : Web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor The TinyMCE is a collection of Ja