Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Amaya
Steve Langasek wrote: > But if all of our Japanese, Chinese, Greek Orthodox, Muslim, and > French Revolutionary developers can tolerate having to enter their > birthdates using the Gregorian calendar, I think we'll be able to make > do with an opt-in binary gender classification too. ROTFL You are

Kernel 2.6.17 and 2.6.18-3-K7 network problem

2007-01-03 Thread Antonio Laterza
Hi all, I posted the question below to debian-user ... maybe nobody experienced my same issue. How can I contribute to eventually solve? Which other information are necessary in order to focalize the problem? I want to ask if somebody experienced the same problem I have with etch installation and

Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-03 Thread Amaya
Hi, Aleksandr Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote: > Zerotools are a set of tools to aid keeping virtual disks clean (by > filling binary zero to those regions which are no longer in "use"). I maintain the package perforate. It contains a very similar utility, zum, that is just a small c binary that seems t

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:32:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:50:27AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > breaking that would break software that expects this particular field to > > be in that particular syntax. > > That's not completely true; you could have an attrib

Re: Kernel 2.6.17 and 2.6.18-3-K7 network problem

2007-01-03 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch 03 Januar 2007 09:53 schrieb Antonio Laterza: > :( ). If I choose the kernel 2.6.18 X is OK but I am not > > able to reache many sites. I can navigate very few sites > example: www.google.com and www.mozilla.org. Using ethereal > seems that the HTTP request go out (i.e. GET / ) but

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 1/2/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:28:59PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not have an extra /usr/share/doc/$source-name

Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Aleksandr Koltsoff [Wed, Jan 03 2007, 05:47:36AM]: > Hello > > It was suggested that I'd post a short announcement on these two lists > in order to get some feedback for a small set of utilities I just > released. The documentation covers integrating the tools into Debian and > I'd app

Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:13:27PM +0100, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please add a technical overview to your introduction. As a techie, I > would like to read what is so special about zerotools what I cannot do > with: > rm crapfiles && cat /dev/zero > bigfile && sync && rm bigfile

Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Mike Hommey [Wed, Jan 03 2007, 01:38:23PM]: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:13:27PM +0100, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Please add a technical overview to your introduction. As a techie, I > > would like to read what is so special about zerotools what I cannot do > > with

FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-03 Thread Ottavio Caruso
http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_face-to-face_%28December_2006%29 Quote:"The goal of the Summit is to bring together the key people in the Linux packaging world and ISVs to discuss the future of Linux packaging. Topics will include RPM, the role of other packaging technologies (dpkg, APT, yum,

Bug#405429: ITP: cortado -- streaming applet for Ogg formats

2007-01-03 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cortado Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Authors: Wim Taymans, J^, Thomas Vander Stichele * URL : http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/ * License : GPL and LGPL Programming Lang: Ja

FOTOGRAFIA: cursos de verano

2007-01-03 Thread aprende
Hola!..Respondiendo a tu inquietud, te cuento que nosotros en este momento no estamos dando talleres de fotografia durante el verano, pero en La Escuela de fotografia MOTIVARTE, (Buenos Aires) se estan dando cursos intensivos de verano de 1 mes de duracion, que son muy recomendables, consult

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Why do we [users] have to learn of these things from external > sources? debian is volunteer project[0]. maybe you [user] should support debian when it does not fulfil your expectations. if you can not contribute[1] personally, also donations[2] are welcome. [0] http://ww

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Matthias Julius
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your SMTP server is listed in a DNSBL which I told db.debian.org > to use for my debian.org email and you try to send me a message, > then master will say "I don't accept this message" to your SMTP > server, and your SMTP server, in turn, will send yo

Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-03 Thread Aleksandr Koltsoff
Hi again, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Please add a technical overview to your introduction. As a techie, I > would like to read what is so special about zerotools what I cannot do > with: > rm crapfiles && cat /dev/zero > bigfile && sync && rm bigfile && sync. > > And you introduction does not tell me

Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-03 Thread Aleksandr Koltsoff
Hello, Amaya wrote: > I maintain the package perforate. It contains a very similar utility, > zum, that is just a small c binary that seems to do the same. Thanks for the perforate info. zum is a resparser for existing files. This is quite different from filling existing files with binary zero. A

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 01 January 2007 22:20, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 01 janvier 2007 à 17:51 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > > On Jan 01, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > rejecting email blindly based on data as > > > reliable as RBLs is likely to give tons of false positives. > > >

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 06:35:02AM -0800, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_face-to-face_%28December_2006%29 > > Quote:"The goal of the Summit is to bring together the key people in > the Linux packaging world and ISVs to discuss the future of Linux > packaging. Topics wi

Re: Kernel 2.6.17 and 2.6.18-3-K7 network problem [SOLVED]

2007-01-03 Thread Antonio Laterza
--- Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Am Mittwoch 03 Januar 2007 09:53 schrieb Antonio Laterza: > > :( ). If I choose the kernel 2.6.18 X is OK but I am > not > > > > able to reache many sites. I can navigate very few > sites > > example: www.google.com and www.mozilla.org. Using

Re: Kernel 2.6.17 and 2.6.18-3-K7 network problem [SOLVED]

2007-01-03 Thread Antonio Laterza
--- Antonio Laterza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Hi all, I posted the question below to debian-user ... > maybe nobody experienced my same issue. How can I > contribute to eventually solve? Which other information > are > necessary in order to focalize the problem? > > > I want to ask if s

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-03 Thread Sebastian Feltel
Hello, Ottavio Caruso schrieb am 03.01.2007 15:35: > http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_face-to-face_%28December_2006%29 > > Quote:"The goal of the Summit is to bring together the key people in > the Linux packaging world and ISVs to discuss the future of Linux > packaging. Topics will include R

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:32:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:50:27AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldapsearch -h 'db.debian.org' -b'cn=Subschema' -x -s > > base '(objectClass=*)' attributeTypes | grep gender > > attributeTypes: ( 1.3.6.1.4.1

etch's upgrades during life cycle

2007-01-03 Thread Luis Matos
Hello i m a debian user and like many other debian users there are things in debian that i like and dislike. I am going to get a round no for what i am asking, but i think it is a good question. Many users have complaints about in the middle of the life cycle, or before the debian stable release

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Debian Oracle
On ke, 2007-01-03 at 13:47 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > I have yet to see a use case for this LDAP item. Is it strictly for a > male/femaie survey that other FLOSS projects will join? Does this mean > that people who dont self-identify as male or female are just not > counted? According to some stats

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:47:48PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:32:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:50:27AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldapsearch -h 'db.debian.org' -b'cn=Subschema' -x -s > > > base '(objectClas

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
Luis Matos wrote: > What i am saying is: is it possible to in a lenny or lenny++ change the > way debian upgrades it's stable, just for the kernel? both things are already solved unofficially. there are kernel backports [0], and kenshi makes stable-with-new-kernel installer-images[1]. so, basical

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:31:26PM +0200, Debian Oracle wrote: > I hope that this explains everything, Kev. You owe the Oracle an e-mail > quotation trimming device. Greetings O great Oracle, I did manage to extract most of the meaning out of the consise phrases electronically transmitted by the my

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

2007-01-03 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-01-03 às 22:13 +0100, Daniel Baumann escreveu: > Luis Matos wrote: > > What i am saying is: is it possible to in a lenny or lenny++ change the > > way debian upgrades it's stable, just for the kernel? > > both things are already solved unofficially. there are kernel backports > [0], and

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
Luis Matos wrote: > So, if we loose security and stability ... why use debian? security and stability, that is excately what makes these backports unofficial (more stability and bugs are an issue than security, though). however, if you want to have latest and greatest but with stability and secur

RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Today I was trying to explain to a friend the concept of using a package management front end to search for and install packages. He liked the idea of descriptions, but found it hard to imagine what some programs looked like. It occurs to me that what is missing is screenshots. Please note that

What happened to Agnula.org (DeMuDi)?

2007-01-03 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Did the domain expire? demudi.org is full of dead links now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is dead, too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:32:52PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Today I was trying to explain to a friend the concept of using a package > management front end to search for and install packages. He liked the > idea of descriptions, but found it hard to imagine what some programs > looked li

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-03 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-03 23:53]: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:32:52PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Today I was trying to explain to a friend the concept of using a package > > management front end to search for and install packages. He liked the > > idea of des

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:05:03AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > * Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-03 23:53]: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:32:52PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Today I was trying to explain to a friend the concept of using a package > > > management front

Some of us are worrying

2007-01-03 Thread Geneva Barrett
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Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

2007-01-03 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Luis Matos wrote: > Many users have complaints about in the middle of the life cycle, or > before the debian stable release no longer supports new hardware. > Therefor a new kernel would be needed for d-i ( or an hardware > compatibility update for the kernel and modules). > > My proposal would be

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

2007-01-03 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-01-03 às 22:28 +0100, Daniel Baumann escreveu: > Luis Matos wrote: > > So, if we loose security and stability ... why use debian? > > security and stability, that is excately what makes these backports > unofficial (more stability and bugs are an issue than security, though). > > howeve

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:31:26PM +0200, Debian Oracle wrote: I hope that this explains everything, Kev. You owe the Oracle an e-mail quotation trimming device. ... more options. If its 'just' a field for our use, why does it need to use a 'standard' that