Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And people should check the VCS history just to get the current > > "patch"? > > What is "the current patch"? If you mean the entire set of differences > against the upstream source, I already addressed that

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: > Should, I file a lenny release goal first and wait for it's approval, or > can I take this thread as consensus that I can pursue changing the > default system-log-daemon to rsyslog? Go ahead and keep up the good work! Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

Raphael, please follow the Debian Mailing List code of conduct http://www.debian.org/MailingLists#codeofconduct>; in particular, don't send individual copies of list messages unless specifically requested. Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Imagine an history like this: > > - Change b

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

Le jeudi 31 janvier 2008 à 11:28 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > This just isn't going to happen as long as svn dominates, because acls on > centralized svn repos are just too coarse-grained. Maintainers (including > me) aren't going to want their package staging areas to be randomly > scribbled

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > Raphael, please follow the Debian Mailing List code of conduct > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists#codeofconduct>; in particular, > don't send individual copies of list messages unless specifically > requested. If you were using mutt and a right configurat

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

Le vendredi 01 février 2008 à 10:45 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > If you were using mutt and a right configuration, you would have > an appropriate Mail-Followup-To and those mistakes wouldn't happen... Mail-Followup-To is not a standard of any kind. Only a handful of mailers understand it an

Re: Automatic mirror selection

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:38:04AM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > Hey there, > > As an incredibly late follow-up to this [0] small thread, I created a > small script to act as backend for pdns and return a mirror for the > user's country. > It's a simple DNS based geographic mirror selection

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On pe, 2008-02-01 at 01:45 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Lars, I do not get your point. > > If you are concerned that the persons who sent you a package to sponsor > have put malicious code in it, what I guess you will first review is > wether the scripts you have to execute to test the packag

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 01 Feb 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > > Raphael, please follow the Debian Mailing List code of conduct > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists#codeofconduct>; in > > particular, don't send individual copies of list messages unless > > specifically re

Re: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be Include InDebian Distribution

Dear May, On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, May Hwang wrote: > Dear Margarita, > > Thanks, please help include our driver in etch-n-half. > > Please find Latest HighPoint Source files in 2.6.24 are located at: > drivers\scsi\hptiop.c > drivers\scsi\hptiop.h > Documentation\scsi\hptiop.txt > > 2.6.24-rc8-mm

Fwd: ITP: latencytop -- A tool for developers to visualize system latencies

> * Package name: latencytop > Version : 0.3 > Upstream Author : Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.latencytop.org/ > * License : GPL-2 > Description : A tool for developers to visualize system latencies > > LatencyTOP is a Linux tool

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

Am Freitag, den 01.02.2008, 08:25 +1100 schrieb Ben Finney: > Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And people should check the VCS history just to get the current > > "patch"? > > What is "the current patch"? The current specific/logical patch for one issue. > If you mean the entire

Re: Fwd: ITP: latencytop -- A tool for developers to visualize system latencies

Quoting Fathi BOUDRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: * Package name: latencytop Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.latencytop.org/ * License : GPL-2 Description : A tool for developers to visualize system latenci

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On 01/02/2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > With git I'd use a "debian-patches" branch that I would rebase on the > upstream branch regularly and would edit history of changes as needed so > that one commit generates one file in debian/patches/. Dear Raphael, Is this what you mean? - Have a branch u

RE: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be IncludeInDebian Distribution

Dear Maks, Thanks for the update. So this etch-n-half is the next Debian release, which already have HighPoint driver included? When etch-n-half will official hit the market? Best Regards, May Hwang HighPoint Technologies,Inc. Tel:408-240-6118/6112 Fax-408-942-5800 -Original Messa

Re: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be Include InDebian Distribution

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, May Hwang wrote: > > Thanks, please help include our driver in etch-n-half. > forgot to mention that your posting gave you good german tech press -> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/102841 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Fwd: ITP: latencytop -- A tool for developers to visualize system latencies

Quoting Fathi BOUDRA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > * Package name: latencytop > > Version : 0.3 > > Upstream Author : Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://www.latencytop.org/ > > * License : GPL-2 > > Description : A tool for developers to vis

Re: Bug#463584: ITP: rubyripper -- an open-source secure ripper for Linux

Quoting Carlos Laviola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: rubyripper > Version : 0.5.0 > Upstream Author : Bouke Woudstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/rubyri

Re: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be IncludeInDebian Distribution

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 06:29:48PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 01 février 2008 à 07:38 -0800, May Hwang a écrit : > > Dear Maks, > > > > Thanks for the update. So this etch-n-half is the next Debian release, which > > already have HighPoint driver included? When etch-n-half will o

Bug#463597: ITP: libdb4.6-ruby -- Interface to Berkeley DB 4.6 for Ruby

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libdb4.6-ruby Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Guy Decoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://moulon.inra.fr/ruby/bdb.html * Licen

Bug#463584: ITP: rubyripper -- an open-source secure ripper for Linux

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: rubyripper Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Bouke Woudstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/ * License : GPL v3 Programming Lang: Ruby

Re: Automatic mirror selection

Adam Borowski wrote: > you can also get a "geoip-city-lite" database which appears to be dfsg free > once you purge nondistributable parts about ISPs (city and ISP data is > intermingled in a single file). That could perhaps provide some better > resolution than just country. I thougth about this

Re: Fwd: ITP: latencytop -- A tool for developers to visualize system latencies

(CCing the BR.) On Friday 01 February 2008, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:17:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > > * Package name: latencytop > > > Version : 0.3 > > > Upstream Author : Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * URL : http://www.latency

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 05:30:47 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 00:11:44 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > For 12.) and 28.), I'd file a wishlist bug providing a config file > > > snippet for /etc/rsyslog.d/ > > > > Can we please use /etc/syslog.d/ instea

Re: Fwd: ITP: latencytop -- A tool for developers to visualize system latencies

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:17:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > * Package name: latencytop > > Version : 0.3 > > Upstream Author : Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://www.latencytop.org/ > > * License : GPL-2 > > Description : A tool for

Re: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be IncludeInDebian Distribution

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:48:42AM -0800, May Hwang wrote: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=tree;f=dr > ivers/scsi;h=03a18a7adc45ab39658ac83cf90e56e43598ee3e;hb=HEAD. i know if you followed the link to the kernel svn change, you would have seen that the commit w

Re: Fwd: ITP: latencytop -- A tool for developers to visualize system latencies

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:13:38PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > LatencyTOP is a Linux tool for software developers (both kernel and > > > userspace), aimed at identifying where system latency occurs, and what > > > kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen. By identifying >

Re: Fwd: ITP: latencytop -- A tool for developers to visualize system latencies

> * Package name: latencytop > Version : 0.3 > Upstream Author : Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.latencytop.org/ > * License : GPL-2 > Description : A tool for developers to visualize system latencies > > LatencyTOP is a Linux tool

RE: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be IncludeInDebian Distribution

Dear Maks, Thanks! Is this the first time you head about HighPoint? We used to only offer Cost effective RAID controller or if refer to Linux community these are the Fake RAID category. My SI customer suggest we should educate Linux distributions or ask advice from Linux distribution developer w

RE: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be IncludeInDebian Distribution

Dear Mak, I have communicated your suggestion to corresponding departments, we will update our FAQ and check out dell idea storm cite as well. Thanks for being so helpful for HighPoint, appreciated everyone's valuable advice. Best Regards, May Hwang HighPoint Technologies,Inc. Tel:408-240-

Re: Bug#463597: ITP: libdb4.6-ruby -- Interface to Berkeley DB 4.6 for Ruby

Quoting Scott Kitterman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > * Package name: libdb4.6-ruby > Version : 0.6.2 > Upstream Author : Guy Decoux <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

Hi, On Fri, 01 Feb 2008, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On 01/02/2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > With git I'd use a "debian-patches" branch that I would rebase on the > > upstream branch regularly and would edit history of changes as needed so > > that one commit generates one file in debian/patches/. >

RE: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be IncludeInDebian Distribution

Le vendredi 01 février 2008 à 07:38 -0800, May Hwang a écrit : > Dear Maks, > > Thanks for the update. So this etch-n-half is the next Debian release, which > already have HighPoint driver included? When etch-n-half will official hit > the market? This release will include whatever has been inc

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

Hi, On Wednesday 30 January 2008 18:00, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > What do you think about that lucas? Why only a redirect in the first > > place? > > 1. http://people.debian.org/~nion/net-domains.html > Lucas offered that to me but the host the site runs > on cannot handle a new IP for free. I

Re: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be IncludeInDebian Distribution

hello May, On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:31:29AM -0800, May Hwang wrote: > > Thanks! Is this the first time you head about HighPoint? We used to only > offer Cost effective RAID controller or if refer to Linux community these > are the Fake RAID category. not the first time, i had followed the hpt

Re: Automatic mirror selection

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:09:24PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > Adam Borowski wrote: > > Uhm, and how exactly do you get the arch? At DNS time you don't have > > anything but the requester's or his ISP's IP. > > This would have to be placed inside sources.list at some point, then I > figur

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

Hi Michael, On Thursday 31 January 2008 00:11, Michael Biebl wrote: > > - Involve the rsyslog maintainer in the work > I'm here and all ears. I'm willing to work on the necessary steps. > Ok, here we go... I just wish to say a big thanks to you for all the work you've already done on this. You

Re: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be IncludeInDebian Distribution

Hello May! On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 07:38:03AM -0800, May Hwang wrote: > > Thanks for the update. So this etch-n-half is the next Debian release, which > already have HighPoint driver included? When etch-n-half will official hit > the market? etch-n-half is the planed Linux kernel upgrade for t

Adding Install-Architecture to debian/control

Currently, we have Architecture to specify supported Architectures. The problem are packages containing arch-indep content, but are only useful on specific architectures (e.g. ndisgtk on i386 and amd64) and/or need dependencies only available on these architectures. This means that the package wou

Bug#463643: no i386 and powerpc build daemons available which can run 64bit binaries

Package: general Severity: important There are no i386 and powerpc build daemons which run a 64bit kernel. This means that packages requiring testsuites to be run for 64bit won't run and won't be tested on a regular basis. If we do want to be able to test packages build for a biarch setup we shou

Re: Bug#463584: ITP: rubyripper -- an open-source secure ripper for Linux

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:15:04PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > "open source" is not really relevant here > > "secure audio ripper" seems to better fit the recommended writing > style (DevRef 6.2.2) "secure" connotes "safe from exploits", but I think what is intended is "extremely careful ab

Re: Adding Install-Architecture to debian/control

Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently, we have Architecture to specify supported Architectures. > > The problem are packages containing arch-indep content, but are only > useful on specific architectures (e.g. ndisgtk on i386 and amd64) and/or > need dependencies only availab

Re: Automatic mirror selection

Adam Borowski wrote: > Ah, right. Yet at least in some cases, it could be tricky to have the arch, > so I think you would need a generic mirror anyway. I don't see any scenario where getting the arch would be tricky, do you have any in mind? Even if there is such a case, we have many mirrors that

Happy New Year and May all the bitches disappear from the humanbeings world !

http://www.firstsing.com/news_8.htm *Dear all the people with ingenuous head and heart , * * * *Thanks for all your help during the year 2007 ! * *And may god bless us to lift our h

Bug#463643: no i386 and powerpc build daemons available which can run 64bit binaries

Le Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:11:19PM +0100, Matthias Klose a écrit : > Package: general > Severity: important > > There are no i386 and powerpc build daemons which run a 64bit kernel. > This means that packages requiring testsuites to be run for 64bit > won't run and won't be tested on a regular bas

Bug#463666: ITP: tomoe -- Tomoe - A handwriting recognition engine

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: NIIBE Yutaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tomoe Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Takuro Ashie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HIGUCHI Daisuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Juernjakob Harder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hiroyuki Ike

Re: Bug#463666: ITP: tomoe -- Tomoe - A handwriting recognition engine

Quoting NIIBE Yutaka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Description : Apparently your proposed synopsis for the package is "-- Tomoe - A handwriting recognition engine". May I suggest a simpler and more "standard" one: handwriting recognition engine signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

Holger Levsen wrote: Lucas offered that to me but the host the site runs on cannot handle a new IP for free. It doesnt need a new IP. Just point wnpp.d.n to the current IP of your server. Sorry for me imprecision. I think I cannot make that server accept requests for wnpp.debian.net . Seba

Package synopsis: appositive clause, not full sentence (was: Bug#463666: ITP: tomoe -- Tomoe - A handwriting recognition engine)

Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting NIIBE Yutaka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Description : > > Apparently your proposed synopsis for the package is "-- Tomoe - A > handwriting recognition engine". May I suggest a simpler and more > "standard" one: > > handwriting recognit