Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread intrigeri
Hi Bill, Bill Allombert wrote (07 Oct 2013 22:04:21 GMT) : > I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing, > the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the > removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems. I believe there are good chance

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
> On 8 Oct 2013, at 07:58, Neil Williams wrote: > > The removal is simply one way to fix > the RC bug I'm broadly in favour of this course of action but in no way does it fix the bugs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Compatibility of libs for Berkeley DB (libdb5.1-dev or libdb4.8-dev)

2013-10-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 08-10-13 11:14, Просветов Евгений wrote: > What should I do now? You are asking the wrong forum. This e-mail list is for development of Debian. If you have trouble installing third-party software, you should ask this third-party. If you really insist on asking help from Debian, you could r

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing, the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems. Would this be addressed by building some mechanism

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 09:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Geoffrey Thomas wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing, > > the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the > > removal, since the package will stay in

re: Compatibility of libs for Berkeley DB (libdb5.1-dev or libdb4.8-dev)

2013-10-08 Thread peter green
I cannot install libdb4.8-dev + libdb4.8, because it conflicts with libdb5.1. This does not seem to be true, the dev packages conflict but afaict the libraries themselves (at least the versions from debian squeeze and wheezy) do not. So as long as you don't need libdb5.1-dev installed you shou

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 07:58:03AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > rc-alert has existed for quite some time and it gets the alert in > *ahead* of package removal. It alerts users to the real problem - the > RC BUG! Did you try to run rc-alert recently ? The output is totally overwhelming for somethi

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 08/10/2013 18:46, Geoffrey Thomas a écrit : > On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > >> I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing, >> the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the >> removal, since the package will stay installed on their syst

Bug#725828: ITP: netmate -- netdude clone that shows pcap dump lines in network header style

2013-10-08 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho * Package name: netmate Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : Robert Krause * URL : https://github.com/Rup0rt/netmate * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C Description : netdude clone that show

GPM and clickpad devices

2013-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear developpers, Is there other people still using gpm intensively (the console mouse selection system) ? The Debian package is unmaintained and the upstream project is not very active either. GPM does not support 'clickpads' found in newer laptop (there is no button available for pasting). Th

Re: GPM and clickpad devices

2013-10-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bill Allombert, le Tue 08 Oct 2013 23:44:26 +0200, a écrit : > Is there other people still using gpm intensively (the console mouse selection > system) ? Not very intensively, but I do use it when I don't start X. > GPM does not support 'clickpads' found in newer laptop (there is no button > avai

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 19:36:57 + Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 07:58:03AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > rc-alert has existed for quite some time and it gets the alert in > > *ahead* of package removal. It alerts users to the real problem - > > the RC BUG! > > Did you try to

Re: GPM and clickpad devices

2013-10-08 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:44:26PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Dear developpers, > > Is there other people still using gpm intensively (the console mouse selection > system) ? The Debian package is unmaintained and the upstream project is not > very active either. I do, but I don't have any h

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 07/10/13 23:04, Bill Allombert wrote: > I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing, > the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the > removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems. > This, then, cause stable releases to be missing p

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:51:42PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer a écrit : > > I really doubt that possibly interested people will subscribe to all the > packages they are interested in. Hello everybody, in one way or the other, there will always be some people who miss the inform

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: > Would this be addressed by building some mechanism (making tombstone > packages comes to mind, but there are many options) for apt to > prompt to remove packages that were removed in the archive? It is already addressed by the user-oriented package man

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 07:36:57PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > Did you try to run rc-alert recently ? The output is totally overwhelming > for something that is to run on several computers and several times by > month. Most of the bugs are reported against important packages that cannot > be rem