Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)

2007-11-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 04:28:24PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions > sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)"): > > I think you mean that Ian Jackson always recommends upgrading apt and > > aptitude prior to perform

Re: [help] brltty: Java behaves strangely on different archs?

2007-11-18 Thread Michael Koch
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:57:47AM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > Hi. > > One of my packages (brltty) recently gained Java bindings for its API. > Now since I added the usage of gcj to brltty, I see that the java toolchain > seems to be quite out of sync on different archs in different ways. > > At f

Re: Bug#377392: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:50:18PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> W: dpkg-dev: manpage-has-errors-from-man > >> usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-architecture.1.gz 104: warning: `C`' not defined > > > I'm not entirely sure what all this line noise is trying to ac

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Two data points for the discussion: (1) The data, and more useful data, is available in iso-codes. The iso-codes-3166-2 list contains the subdivision lists for not just the US but all countries. (In the US, its states, in the Ireland counties, German Lander, etc.), and their translations. (

Quién es el mexicano más chido?

2007-11-18 Thread Fixus Fixus
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Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: [...] >> * No locate should have standard priority as long as findutils >> contains locate. >> * locate should move out of findutils into a separate package. >> * Once that happens, if any locate should have priority standard, >> mloca

Re: pbuilder build with passing -sa option

2007-11-18 Thread Jens Peter Secher
On 17/11/2007, Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I give up. I really don't know how to pass "-sa" option to > dpkg-buildpackage when I use > > pbuilder build *.dsc I use eg. pdebuild --configfile ~/debian/stable-pbuilderrc --debbuildopts '-sa -v1.5-1' when doing backports. --

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Andreas Metzler [Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:57:29 +0100]: > Hello, > FYI I think we have got most pieces now: > - GNU locate package in experimental (Priority: optional) split-off > from findutils, using update-alternatives. The locate package > conflicts with slocate (<= 3.1-1.1). The respective

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 06:55:01PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > I've also uploaded mlocate to experimental now (needs NEW processing). Great, I'll give it a spin :) If you want more testing you could post an appropriate message to d-u. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you d

Re: pbuilder build with passing -sa option

2007-11-18 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> I use eg. > > pdebuild --configfile ~/debian/stable-pbuilderrc --debbuildopts '-sa > -v1.5-1' > > when doing backports. Hmm... Which version of pbuilder supports spaces in --debbuildopts properly? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:29:36PM +, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > Hi Maintainer, > > rejected, im missing the source for the files in doc/* (if you look at > them its pretty clear that its LaTeX source). Hi Joerg, I would like to discuss this on -devel, because I think that the issue of these

Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)

2007-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:11:04AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 04:28:24PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions > > sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)"): > > > I think you mean that Ian Jack

[OT] Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-18 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:26:55AM +, Ron Johnson wrote: The USPS doesn't care about entry into the union. It cares about collating and routing. This is true. Until sometime in the twentieth century, states were addressed with more verbose abbreviations (Tex. or Penn., for example), so

Re: pbuilder build with passing -sa option

2007-11-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Jens Peter Secher wrote: On 17/11/2007, Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I give up. I really don't know how to pass "-sa" option to dpkg-buildpackage when I use pbuilder build *.dsc I use eg. pdebuild --configfile ~/debian/stable-pbuilderrc --debbuildopts '-

Re: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-18 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> W: libdirectfb-dev: manpage-has-errors-from-man >> usr/share/man/man1/directfb-config.1.gz 24: warning: `l' not defined >> W: dvidvi: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/a5booklet.1.gz 9: >> warning: `IX' not defined >> Th

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: - despite the absence of latex sources one is allowed to take a html, pdf or ps editor and modify the old documentation in the .orig.tar.gz under the terms of the LGPL; Fine. - the content of the source-orphan files is available in another sourc

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-18 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all, this is a nice and good discussion, I want to link in because there are other things awaiting here ... On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: > Now that I have a XML source that is almost equivalent to the latex one, > I could generate html, pdf and ps replacements to the existing > do