Re: backports.org moved to backports.debian.org

2010-09-06 Thread Alexander Wirt
gregor herrmann schrieb am Monday, den 06. September 2010: Hi, > > You should also update your dput/dupload config, uploading to > > backports-master.debian.org instead of www.backports.org > > http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ talks about > backports.debian.org, something is confusing h

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:49:12 +0200 Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Neil Williams (codeh...@debian.org): > > (of course, I mostly disagree with the initial comment as most, if not > nearly all, Debian developers are now very i18n-friendly and most of > the time do what's needed to make translat

Re: Bug#595202: ITP: felix -- Latin-French dictionary, by Felix Gaffiot

2010-09-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear Georges, Am 03.09.2010 22:46, schrieb Georges Khaznadar: You are right, a set of scanned pages is a bold package. So, which would be the most reasonable thing to do: cancel the upload of "felix" into Debian, or upload only the reader, and suggest to get the data from some other place? I'd

Re: backports.org moved to backports.debian.org

2010-09-06 Thread Holger Levsen
for those about to file a bug... On Montag, 6. September 2010, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > This appears in my /etc/dput.cf: [...] > I don't recall putting it there, so I believe that it ships that way. > Is there a way that the dput package in Debian be updated to point to > the new location? It

upgrading unstable -> nvidia and fglrx installation

2010-09-06 Thread Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel
Hello I upgraded my computer today. And what a surprise, I got installed the nvidia and fglrx drivers Is it a bug and where can I report this ? x:/home/picca# upgrade-system 1) Updating package lists. 2) Upgrading packages: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

Re: GeoMirror for Backports? (Also, YAY! Backports is Official)

2010-09-06 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 05 Sep 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I was wondering if backports.debian.org was going to be available through the > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror service. > I was hoping that all the official services (core, security, volatile, and > backports) would be available throu

Re: Bug#595427: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2010-09-06 Thread Roman V. Nikolaev
05.09.2010 12:11, Moritz Muehlenhoff пишет: > In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general, you wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Roman V. Nikolaev wrote: >>> Package name: winetricks >>> Version: 20100822 >>> Upstream Author: Austin English , Google: Dan >>> Kegel >>> URL:http://wiki.winehq.org/w

Re: how to best handle this library update?

2010-09-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:45 PM, sean finney wrote: > i have the following ideas: > > 1) split out the c++ libraries, make the c++ library conflict with the older >    version of libxmlrpc-c3 (conflicting files) make the -dev package >    depend on both libraries, and hope that a half dozen binNMU

apt stuck! clear out 0 byte files from the mirrors

2010-09-06 Thread jidanni
Better get those 0 byte files off of the mirrors. Apt is stuck. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595691 That's the only way to get out of this mess without needing to alert users. Get rid of the zero byte files on the mirrors, push out a new apt, and hope nobody notices. You can

Re: on the role of debian among its derivatives

2010-09-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:43:44AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > At the same time, In doing all that we should not consider Ubuntu as a > special case, as that would be a mistake. Ubuntu is currently one of a > kind in term of users, but assuming it will be the case forever is > risky. After a

Re: how to best handle this library update?

2010-09-06 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-09-06, sean finney wrote: > the package in question is xmlrpc-c, which provides among other things > libxmlrpc-c3. this package contains runtime libraries for c and c++ > applications. it has a fairly small (6, from a quick look) set of > reverse dependencies. > > in the version in testi

apt stuck! clear out 0 byte files from the mirrors

2010-09-06 Thread jidanni
OK, it seems only debian-multimedia has the problem. I'll tell maril...@debian.org to please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595691 . P.S., the way the progress messages appear, one cannot tell which server we are working with, but instead the last transaction completed etc.

Re: upgrading unstable -> nvidia and fglrx installation

2010-09-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:48:50AM +0200, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > Hello > > I upgraded my computer today. And what a surprise, I got installed the nvidia > and fglrx drivers > > Is it a bug and where can I report this ? > > > x:/home/picca# upgrade-system snip What happens i

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes ("Backports service becoming official"): > Because of limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs > relevant to backported packages still have to be reported to the > debian-backports [3] list, which have now also been moved to > lists.debian.org [4]. W

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 06 sep 10, 17:52:17, Ian Jackson wrote: > Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes ("Backports service becoming official"): > > Because of limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs > > relevant to backported packages still have to be reported to the > > debian-backports [3] list, which

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 at 17:52:17 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes ("Backports service becoming official"): > > Because of limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs > > relevant to backported packages still have to be reported to the > > debian-backports [3]

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Neil Williams may or may not have written... [snip] > It comes down to a problem with the gettext design - it's too tightly > integrated into the upstream build process Not to mention the source itself, given that the .pot is (normally) generated by invoking a specific target in po/

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:53:02PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Neil Williams may or may not have written... > > > Churn is the problem here, IMHO. Many packages just change too fast at > > specific times to allow generated files like the POT into the VCS. i.e. > > the source code is

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/06/2010 07:33 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 at 17:52:17 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes ("Backports service becoming official"): >>> Because of limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs >>> relevant to backported packages still hav

Bug#589632: ITP: ppp -- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon

2010-09-06 Thread Gustavo Jordan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: normal * Package name: ppp Version : 2.4.5-4 Upstream Author : Marco d'Itri * URL : http://ppp.samba.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Point-to-Point Protocol (

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Roger Leigh may or may not have written... > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:53:02PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Neil Williams may or may not have written... >>> Churn is the problem here, IMHO. Many packages just change too fast at >>> specific times to allow generated fil

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 08:22:01PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Roger Leigh may or may not have written... > > > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:53:02PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > >> I demand that Neil Williams may or may not have written... > >>> Churn is the problem here, IMHO. Many pac

Bug#595805: ITP: devmem2 -- Simple program to read/write from/to any hardware address

2010-09-06 Thread Michael Opdenacker
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Opdenacker * Package name: devmem2 Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Jan-Derk Bakker * URL : http://www.lartmaker.nl/lartware/port/devmem2.c * License : GPLv2 or later Programming Lang: C Description :

Bug#595817: ITP: libpam-ssh-agent -- PAM module providing authentication via ssh-agent

2010-09-06 Thread Matt Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matt Brown * Package name: libpam-ssh-agent Version : 0.9.2 Upstream Author : Jamie Beverly * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pamsshagentauth/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : PAM module pr

Re: Bug#589632: ITP: ppp -- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon

2010-09-06 Thread jidanni
Your posting looks identical to one for a package that didn't yet exist in Debian. Readers think when they see the Subject: "I swear I already use a such named package". Therefore there should be put into place a system to allow you to use a different subject. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Bug#595805: ITP: devmem2 -- Simple program to read/write from/to any hardware address

2010-09-06 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:37:33PM +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Michael Opdenacker > > > * Package name: devmem2 > Version : 1.0.0 > Upstream Author : Jan-Derk Bakker > * URL : http://www.lartmaker.nl/lartware/port/de

Re: Any one getting aptitude frozen on "update" with Translation-en bzip2 ?

2010-09-06 Thread jidanni
>> Yes, my aptitude is frozen right now at the same spot :( AH> I am also experiencing this, seems to just be a problem with the main AH> repo. I use http://ftp.uk.debian.org. The problem is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595691 FT> Too late to hope this problem will not be disc

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net): > How often do people make use of the information, and what for? When it comes at me: never. I very much prefer having the "previous original version" comments (lines starting with #|) that help *a lot* spotting what changed in a fuzzy string (intelli

Re: Bug#589632: ITP: ppp -- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon

2010-09-06 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On måndagen den 6 september 2010, Gustavo Jordan wrote: > ITP: ppp -- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon > [...] > Comments : I already sent e-mail to 589...@bugs.debian.org and > sub...@bugs.debian.org You mean ITH (Intent To Help)? I don't think you need to announce that... Could also mean

Re: Bug#589632: ITP: ppp -- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon

2010-09-06 Thread Gustavo Jordan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm new, sorry my mistake http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#howto-o I read and colaborate with orphaned packages I did not know about ITH, i newbie. Em 06-09-2010 18:08, Magnus Holmgren escreveu: > On måndagen den 6 september 2010, Gustavo Jordan wrot

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-06 Thread Andrea Colangelo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrea Colangelo * Package name: woof Version : 2009.12.27 Upstream Author : Simon Budig * URL : http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: Python Description : A small, simple, stupi

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:47:35 +0100 Roger Leigh wrote: > > > Add --no-location to XGETTEXT_OPTIONS in po/Makevars. > > > Now those stupid comment lines with the source file and line > > > number are no longer generated (what use were they in the first > > > place?)! > > > > Well... I'm aware that

Re: Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-06 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:55:51PM +0200, Andrea Colangelo wrote: > * Package name: woof > Version : 2009.12.27 > Upstream Author : Simon Budig > * URL : http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/ > * License : GPL2 > Programming Lang: Python > Description : A

Re: Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-06 Thread Mauro Lizaur
2010-09-06, brian m. carlson: > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:55:51PM +0200, Andrea Colangelo wrote: > > * Package name: woof > > Version : 2009.12.27 > > Upstream Author : Simon Budig > > * URL : http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/ > > * License : GPL2 > > Pr

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/09/10 at 20:32 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 06 sep 10, 17:52:17, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes ("Backports service becoming official"): > > > Because of limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs > > > relevant to backported packages still have