Re: Strange armel build error

2024-08-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2024-08-18 at 14:23 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 11:02:03AM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > > > On 18/08/2024 09:04, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > [...] > > > If you can’t fix the build, you don’t need to exclude the > > > architecture — you > > > ca

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:42 AM, Ingo Juergensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding James Troup... [...] > I still believe that it would be better for the project when he would retire from > some of his many positions, because he's too loaded with them. I'm assuming you haven't spott

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:05 AM, Ingo Juergensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > When Joerg Jaspert is already doing the dirty daily work, why does > James still needs in place then? (Except he just stays in that > position for a transitional period until Joerg is taking over that > t

Re: removal syncing among "official" and amd64 archive

2005-11-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:42 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > While we are it ... I noticed that removal of packages from the official > > debian archive are not propagated to the amd64 archive. E.g. query > > packages.debian.org for the "edi

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:17 AM, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:11:45PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: [...] >> On that score, the description for d-d-c says that it includes >> buildd logs, > > Then that description is wrong. It never did include bui

Re: packages.debian.org service stop ?

2006-01-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:59 PM, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've dug out some information from IRC logs: > > saens was overloaded around 5 Jan 2006, with load average of 140 or > something, and eventually apache stopped. Since saens is one of > ftp.debian.org, it h

Re: Obsolete packages in Experimental

2006-01-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:35 AM, Jérôme Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After the last update of OOo in Sid (aka Unstable), I wonder if it is > generally considered acceptable to keep obsolete packages in > experimental (currently, Sid has 2.0.1-2 and Experimental 2.0.1-1). Further to

Re: missing packages

2006-03-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, March 08, 2006 7:53 AM, Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did an 'apt-cache stats' today, and it was very nice to see that we > have 17519 packages total. > > 3635 packages are "missing", however. An 'apt-cache unmet | grep -c > "unmet dep:" brings out 662 packages with u

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:18 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > "Because I don't wanna play by the rules!" is not a rationale. So you have > > to specify a path -- so what? The way things stand at the moment, if I were > > to drop a gettext.sh

Re: problems with public keys

2005-06-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
"Nico Golde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, Wednesday, June 08, 2005 9:52 AM > My qa page http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > looks like this: > General information for Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (click to > collapse) > GPG key id not found! (key id was not found neither in the > Debian keyring nor on

Re: Questions on how to handle this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: httperf_0.8-3_i386.changes REJECTED]

2005-06-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote, on Friday, June 17, 2005 6:37 AM: > Below I have included the text rejecting my httperf package. I am > taking over as maintainer and uploaded a new version that also >closed a couple of bugs and moved it from non-US to main. If linking > with lib

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:28 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [breaking circular dependencies] > Dpkg does it the way policy says it should do it and even slightly > better since it checks for postinst files. That's unsurprising, given that the relevant sections of policy and dpkg were written by

Re: huge wnpp bug report page

2006-08-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, > I tried to take a look at the wnpp bug page but neither Konqueror > nor Firefox were able to handle it on my system. Really? Galeon handles it fine, as does Firefox (the latter on win32). > 3182462 bytes for the HTML code of a single web page is a bit much, isn't it? Possibly. It's also 2

Re: dresden-ocl missing orig.tar.gz

2006-08-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 14:50 -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > I'm not quite sure how to report this. A user noted that > whatever mirror he used to create his own mirror (using debmirror) > he got a problem with dresden-ocl-1.0.1_orig.tar.gz. If he uses > - --nosources the

Re: Bug#391171: ITP: grepcidr -- Filter IP addresses matching IPv4 CIDR/network

2006-10-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:06 AM, Ryan Finnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Ryan Finnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: grepcidr Erm... didn't you already submit this as #391168? :) Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Jiri Klouda wrote, Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:57 AM [...] > I just wanted to ask when xv is going to be updated or what is > holding it up or if someone has some suggestion how I could > upgrade and still get it working (some experimental xv package?) > or do I need to compile from sources? xv w

Bug#391359: general: packages.debian.org package view could have a link to see the source changelog.

2006-10-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
reassign 391359 qa.debian.org thanks On Friday, October 06, 2006 9:51 AM, Raúl Sánchez Siles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > With aptitude changelog is quite easy to know the latest modifications > of a package, but it quite often refers to new upstream re

Re: ftp upload queue?

2006-10-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Monday, October 09, 2006 6:42 AM, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aurélien GÉRÔME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> As soon as I send a mail, the deamon restarts... Good news! ;) > > Yep. Thanks magic elves! I've never really pictured aj as an elf... ;-) Adam -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Why weren't the GR voting mails sent to debian-devel-announce?

2006-10-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 12:56 -0600, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > According to the chapter 3.3 of the Dev. reference the GR calls for votes > should've been sent to the debian-devel-announce, but in reality they weren't. > It seems that the only way to get those would be to subscribe to debian-vote

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 19:51 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:36:27PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Doesn't policy violation warrant Critical severity? > > > > No. Please see the top of http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt > > for which bugs

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 10:00 -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Doesn't policy violation warrant Critical severity? > > No, it "only" warrants the lowest RC severity, serious [0], unless the > bug in addition makes the package or other software (mostly) unusable, >

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:59 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:53:39AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti: [...] >>> AFAIK, vilolating policy always waarent a serious bug: [...] >> This is not wha

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Friday, August 05, 2005 3:42 PM, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/2/05, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 07:45:12PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >>> What's the maintenance status of the net-tools package? >> >> It is maintained. Patches

Re: http://www.debian.org/security/

2005-09-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:08 AM, Aaron Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having the same problem with a sources.list file that reads as > follows [...] > deb http://security.debian.org stable updates [...] > Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates Packages > > 404 Not Found

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-09-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 23:56 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > Alfie Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:32:41 +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > | > | ...but try come up with a rule of thumb for '%%' (big suffix), '#' > | (small prefix), etc.? Maybe the 'p' in percent is for Prefix --

Re: Testing-watch emails

2005-11-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:17 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > If you're interested in making this happen I'll be happy to give > > you any info I can; > > OK, here are some questions. > > 1) The copy of britney in merkel:/org/ftp.debian.org/ does

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:03 AM In a fresh package (edac-utils) I have closed a bug in recent upload (proper Closes statement and a Closes in .changes). But bug remains Done but not closed: #456644. From edac-utils' bug index: Debian Bug report logs: Bugs

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 22:39 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Well... as Neil pointed it seems not to be the case -- m68k arch is > still -1 but now it is "resolved". Where are you seeing it as "resolved"? It's still listed as outstanding on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=e

Re: checkbashisms: fails to detect shell wrappers

2008-01-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:40 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> This sounds more like a report against checkbashisms. > >> I guess it could try to detect these: > > > > See script_is_evil_and_wrong() in lintian's check/

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > The script basically uses find on those directories (under /usr/share it > > only searches for '*.sh') and then uses file on those to get a new list > > of those file being shell scripts

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 16:39 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Atm, checkbashisms only complains with this: > > > >> _From_: bashisms-amd64-2.10.15/libtool_1.5.26-1_amd64.deb > >> possible bashism in ./usr/bin/libtool line 1218 (trap with signal > > num

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 16:59 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Atm, checkbashisms only complains with this: > > > >> _From_: bashisms-amd64-2.10.15/libtool_1.5.26-1_amd64.deb > >> possible bashism in ./usr/bin/libtool line 1218 (trap with signal > > number

Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-15 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[nutshell version for those who can't be bothered to read the full mail :-) - what version number should a security upload of a native package have] Hi, devscripts 2.10.19 (soon to be uploaded) will modify the behaviour of "debchange --nmu" to version an NMU of a native package as X+nmu1 rather t

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 03:47 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > The current binNMU numbering scheme was selected explicitly to allow > security uploads to sort later by numbering as > +; e.g., 1.2-5.1+etch1. That makes sense, although doesn't seem to match current practice. Was any consideration given

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 09:06 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > [Adding bug #437392 to Cc, which deals with this issue for normal > NMUs, because I'm making a suggestion about them.] > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:52:55PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > devscripts 2.10.19 (so

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 11:22 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 09:06 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: [...] > >> Good idea. Even better, IMO, would be to use a system which is in > >> line wit

Re: Service stopping in prerm considered harmful

2008-03-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Ed Falk wrote, 2008-03-28 01:35: For the nth time squared, an initscript MUST NOT FAIL to stop an already stopped service. How is it supposed to do that? The service isn't running, so can't be stopped, therefore the script (if called to stop it) can only fail to stop it... If the service is a

Re: uscan download URL mangling

2008-04-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Michal Čihař wrote, Monday, April 07, 2008 11:16 AM I currently have following, but it does not seem to work and the #md5= is not removed. opts="downloadurlmangle=s/#.*//" \ http://pypi.python.org/simple/python-mpd/ \ http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-mpd/python-mpd-(.*)\.tar\

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Andreas Tille wrote: it is the third time that I've got this type of rejection. I faced it two times with package gnumed-client and now with a different package. [...] Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed. Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: actual file size (1289) does not match size (1

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote, Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:24 AM On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: do you have updated devscripts? debsign signs the dsc then updates the md5 hash in the changes before signing that. It needs to update the sha checks as well. The latest d

Re: NMU versioning (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflowsfor Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Raphael Hertzog wrote, Friday, April 25, 2008 3:16 PM On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, James Vega wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:42:59PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > This DEP is available on the Debian Wiki[1]. "The version must be the version of the last upload, plus +nmuX, where X is a counter startin

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Russ Allbery wrote: "Bryan Donlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b1 pulls in over 200mb of dependencies, including mozilla-browser, iceape-browser, and half of g

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 09:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I recommend to always do an upgrade before doing a dist-upgrade (or > > install of something pulling in 200mb). The upgrade will never install > > new or remove packages so it is save. I

Re: morse package is "Architecture: any" but build daemons won't act

2008-05-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:45 +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > It looks like the morse package isn't built by the build daemons, even > though it is "Architecture: any" in the control file. I think this > might be caused by the morse package in oldstable, which was a totally > different package with t

Re: db.debian.org/password.html : Why ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to setup OpenSSH for RSA

2008-05-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 19:50 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Recent openssl issue lead me to http://db.debian.org/password.html and > > made me wonder why script example uses DSA key while main text only > > talks about RSA key. > > The text talks about RSA keys as they

Re: possible mass-bug filing on fc-cache-using packages

2008-05-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
martin f krafft wrote, Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:41 PM also sprach Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.20.1323 +0100]: > Le mardi 20 mai 2008 à 12:05 +0100, martin f krafft a écrit : > > if [ "$1" = configure -a -x /usr/bin/fc-cache ] > > Note -that the "$1" = configure check is wrong,

Re: bashism question

2008-06-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Michael Meskes wrote, 2008-06-23, 10:07:27 +0200: With our move to dash as sh we have to remove all bashisms from scripts run by /bin/sh. However, checkbashism seems to moan about clauses that work in dash as well. I don't know in which shells a trap with a signal number is guaranteed to work, b

Re: bashism question

2008-06-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 19:28 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:39:07PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > It's not guaranteed to work in any shell implementing POSIX without > > extensions, which is what Policy says you're allowed to rely

Re: bashism question

2008-06-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 19:45 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:33:21PM -0400, James Vega wrote: > > > >From this I'd say for Lenny using trap with a signal number is fine. > > > > > > Also they same question comes up with the "local" keyword. Dash seems to > > > support thi

Re: bashism question

2008-06-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 17:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Supporting "local x" would be relatively simple; suggestions for a > > reliable regex to catch use of -a/-o welcome... :) > > There was

Re: bashism question

2008-06-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 09:34 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Supporting "local x" would be relatively simple; suggestions for a > >> reliable regex t

Re: bashism question

2008-06-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:36 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Assuming "not-POSIX-but-supported-by-policy" checkbashisms already has a > > flag to indicate whether "echo -n" should be flagged for

Re: bashism question

2008-06-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Adam D. Barratt wrote: [...] The next release of checkbashisms will include a "--posix" flag which will allow the non-POSIX behaviours permitted by policy to be flagged. Currently neither set of "local" checks flags "local x, y"; I seem to remember there being

Re: bashism question

2008-06-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Lars Wirzenius wrote: To clarify: is "local foo=bar" policy-compliant or not? (If not, *sigh*.) To the best of my knowledge, no, it's not compliant. The relevant section reads: * `local' to create a scoped variable must be supported; however, `local' may or may not preserve

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-10-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Brian May wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:57:35PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: - statically-linked-binary This is not always a bug. e.g. dar-static is supposed to be statically linked! Lintian intentionally doesn't warn about binaries with names ending -static, hence the non-appearan

Re: xulrunner, poppler, gnome and gupnp transitions

2009-11-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 12:48 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > * gupnp > - libnice not yet rebuilt/reuploaded libnice was binNMUed as part of this transition so shouldn't be a blocker. The remaining issue that I can currently see here is gupnp-igd being out-of-date on mips. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: xulrunner, poppler, gnome and gupnp transitions

2009-11-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 15:45 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: [...] > > Le dimanche 08 novembre 2009 à 12:48 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : [...] > >> - empathy not built on kfreebsd* > > > > It’s waiting on geoclue, which in turn needs disabling of gammu support > > on !linux. > > T

Re: Is a README.Source required for the new package formats?

2009-11-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:24 -0800, Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: > lintian is complaining about a package of mine I just converted to 3.0 > (quilt) that: > > W: rep-gtk source: patch-system-but-no-source-readme [...] > But, since dpkg-source will extract this package into the preferred > form for modifi

Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

2007-01-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch 17 Januar 2007 12:34 schrieb Luca Capello: >> Please the next time use the X-Debbugs-CC: header [1] instead of [...] > Will b.d.o accept those headers in the first lines of a mail body? Yes (at least, it should). See #179340 against debbugs, currently flagged

Re: about gstreamer0.8 and python2.3 removal

2007-02-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 20:57 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > It's been a while since someone mentioned removal of gst0.8 and py2.3 > and wonder what's going on. python2.3 is no more, as of a month ago today: python2.3 | 2.3.5-3sarge1 |stable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386,

Re: Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

2007-05-31 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Magnus Holmgren wrote, Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 PM Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The second one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies and is removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable, but still remains in oldstable. Question: Ca

Re: Filing FTBFS bugs and packages in NEW

2007-06-01 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/07 04:59, Kari Pahula wrote: I'd like to file a wishlist bug on people who file FTBFS bugs. It would be nice if you checked first whether there's a package pending in NEW or incoming and see if that might resolve the issue already. I'm looking at you, #426867. Eve

Re: Bug#427297: ITP: sturmbahnfahrer -- simulated obstacle course for automobiles

2007-06-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 21:33 +0200, Izak Burger wrote: [...] > But no-one said english was logic :-) What with unkempt (no such word > as kempt though) I didn't think there was, but http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/kempt?view=uk disagrees ;) Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:08 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:25:13PM +, Evgeni Golov > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:42:08 -0300 Paulo Marcondes wrote: > >> > >> > billion = 10^6 * 10^6 (IIRC, as used in Portugal - n

Re: Problems with closing certain bugs

2007-06-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:58 -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: > I appear to be unable to close certain bugs lately, while others work fine. > One earlier example was #205163, which I was trying to close as it was fixed > a long time ago. Then yesterday closing #379237 and #387587 worked, but in >

Re: Bug#491156: ITP: postgresql-8.3-plr -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R

2008-07-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: The package was removed after noone was interested in maintaining it for four(!) years. Huh? [...] * Orphan package (see #228074). -- Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:38:42 +0100 That's about 6 month

Re: [VAC] August 08

2008-08-01 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:28 +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > PS: I'm not sure how DM's are supposed to deal with VAC notices, as > (I far as I know) we don't have access to -private. Anyone can post to -private; I tend (as a DM) to cc my VAC notices there, which has elicited a couple of (quite us

Bug#161978: this really should be checked by lintian

2008-08-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Mon, August 25, 2008 11:56, Holger Levsen wrote: > downgrading severity, as this is about an old issue with tetex and because > there is probably even a lintian check for this already. (Too lazy to > confirm > now, thus I'm also not reassigning the bug to lintian yet.) As far as I can see,

Re: bug closed by spam for the second times

2008-09-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this reopens and also reports. [...] echo reopen $bug| mail -s "Reopening $bug closed by spam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] w3m -dump "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugspam.cgi?bug=$bug;ok=ok"; else echo If you've got devscripts installed, then "bts reopen $bug . r

Re: bug closed by spam for the second times

2008-09-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Vincent Danjean wrote: Adam D. Barratt wrote: If you've got devscripts installed, then "bts reopen $bug . reportspam $bug" will do the same. I suppose that the 'reportspam' command does the same thing as the link 'Send a report that this bug log contains spam&#

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

2008-10-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 05:56 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 06/10/08 at 18:36 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [...] > > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >firmware-nonfree (U) > > >mklibs (U) > > >openldap (U) > > >php5 (U) > > > > Steve stepped do

Re: Britney error with the gossip package?

2008-10-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 20:21 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > $ rmadison libloudmouth1-0 > > libloudmouth1-0 |1.4.0-1 | testing | alpha, amd64, arm, > armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > libloudmouth1-0 |1.4.2-1 | unstable | alpha, amd64, arm, > armel,

Re: Bug#503087: ITP: openvpn-auth-ldap -- The OpenVPN Auth-LDAP Plugin implements username/password authentication via LDAP for OpenVPN 2.x.

2008-10-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I want to add this functionality to OpenVPN to auth on OpenLDAP. There's already a package of openvpn-auth-ldap (packaged by Debian's openvpn maintainer) in the NEW qu

Re: Bug#503087: ITP: openvpn-auth-ldap -- The OpenVPN Auth-LDAP Plugin implements username/password authentication via LDAP for OpenVPN 2.x.

2008-10-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Thanks, How can I close this bug? Just e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've done that with this mail, so the bug should now be closed (or will be in a few minutes time). Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Bug#503367: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

2008-10-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:18 +0300, Teodor wrote: > Since renaming seems to be the only solution, than IMO it is more > appropriate to rename 'plink' in putty-tools than in the plink > packages since this is exactly the source/binary package name. [...] > This has been done already in putty-tools fo

Re: can buildd logs be sorted (again)?

2008-10-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 12:47 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > >> > >> You should report a bug against qa.debian.org / www.debian.org. > > > > Neither of those is the correct contact/package regarding > > buildd.debian.org.

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings (was: NEW processing)

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:17 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Latest, the warning about quilt patches without any description. Sure it is nice to have a description, but I don't need lintian to tell it. This is severity: minor, certainty: certain, which curr

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:28:59 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: From the lintian hacker desk: $ lintian -I --exp-output format=letterqualifier [...] Other *experimental* output formats are 'xml' and 'colons' (currently b0rken). It's fixed in HEAD (well, it now works for me). Adam -- To UNSU

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 12:51 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As I mentioned to Sune on IRC last night, the quilt tag's severity was > > copied from the equivalent dpatch tag (which was originally implemented &

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:00 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Charles Plessy writes: > > In reality, it is an endangered mechanism, as it was deprecated in > > January 2008. > > I'm not sure what you're referring to here. I'd guess Charles meant the following addition to README.feature-removal-schedu

Re: Bug#434206: ITP: moe -- powerful text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character encodings

2007-07-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Neil Williams wrote, Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:07 AM On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:13:23 +0530 "Kumar Appaiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > OK. It's in the NEW queue. Could you please tell me the procedure to > prevent it from entering the archives? Retitle the ITP to a RM http://wiki.debian.

Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix

2007-09-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 07:53 +, Oleg Verych wrote: [...] > What about having more secure Debian's sshd_config by default? > " > PermitRootLogin no You'll have to convince the openssh package maintainers first - see #105571, #298138 and #431627 for their opinions on whether that change is "more

Re: Releasing packages with 'pending' RC bugs

2007-09-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Daniel Baumann wrote, Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:43 AM out of curiousity.. imagine a package where: * the Debian maintainer is also upstream maintainer * the package has practically no users (popcon << 10) * the package has RC bugs * the RC bugs are fixed upstream * the RC bugs are ta

Re: reportbug and usertags

2007-11-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:14 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: [User: and Usertags: in reportbug-generated mails not reaching the BTS] > Sounds like a bug in reportbug to me; it's probably stripping out > unknown pseudoheaders. Indeed; see #418677 and #445144, both currently filed at wishlist against r

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Occasionally I notice a package upgrade on a host, but the Debian > changelog for the package has no corresponding changelog entry for the > new release. > > The most recent example is ‘mercurial’: > > = > $ PACKAGE=mercurial > > $ dpkg-

Re: Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
# Cc to -devel for information after the reassign merge 570980 348864 thanks Holger Levsen wrote, Monday, February 22, 2010 5:19 PM clone 570991 -1 reassign -1 lintian retitle -1 "please add a check against commands in /sbin using section 1 manpages" fwiw, there *was* such a lintian check, wh

Re: Decoupling GNOME 2.30 transitions

2010-05-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, March 28, 2010 12:54, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 3 - totem-pl-parser (libtotem-plparser12 → libtotem-plparser17) > + evince (libevince1 → libevince2) As discussed on IRC, please go ahead with these: > Sourceful uploads: > brasero > evince > gnome-python-deskto

Re: [OSRM] Planning for final Etch point release and archiving of oldstable?

2010-05-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, May 8, 2010 18:06, Frans Pop wrote: > I would have expected a final point release for Etch to have happened by > now (since security support was ended back in February). My personal > interest is of course the D-I updates included for that release. Regrettably, sorting out etch hasn't had

Re: Waiting for SCons 2.0: rebuild test

2010-06-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 16:30 +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: > So, I rebuilt reverse dependencies of SCons to spot some problems, and I > published my results online. Here is a brief summary: > > * 58 packages build-depending on SCons > * 53 packages built successfully (2 of them needed sourceful

Re: chromium-browser from experimental has included h.264 by default?

2010-08-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 20:55 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On 2010-05-11, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > Surely not. Chromium ships a *private* copy of ffmpeg, more precisely, a > > fork of ffmpeg called ffmpeg-mt. Debian does not include ffmpeg-mt > > because of bug #575600 (tagged wontfix). Mor

sendmail 8.1.4.4-1(was: Re: Richard A Nelson (Rick) MIA)

2010-11-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 08:09 +0100, Harald Jenny wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:48:08PM -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Harald Jenny wrote: > > >Could you give us a quick overview what the current state of > > >packaging sendmail and libmilter is? Do you need any help? I

Re: sendmail 8.1.4.4-1(was: Re: Richard A Nelson (Rick) MIA)

2010-11-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[please drop -devel from further follow-ups; this is drifting further off-topic there] On Sun, November 7, 2010 22:05, Harald Jenny wrote: > On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 12:52:06PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 08:09 +0100, Harald Jenny wrote: >> > On Mon,

Re: Bug#605912: runit: Upgrade failure lenny -> squeeze

2011-01-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
# CC to debian-devel for squeeze blocker user release.debian@packages.debian.org usertag 605912 + squeeze-is-blocker thanks Hi, Thanks for looking at this bug. I think the patch you've suggested is the wrong solution, however. On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 01:14 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > I gue

Re: /etc/profile.d

2011-01-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, January 10, 2011 09:57, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > According to #370348, since 5.3 base-files has supported /etc/profile > sourcing /etc/profile.d. I am using version 6.0. > However /etc/profiles seems to be doing no such thing. When was the system in question installed? The changelog for b

Your pdf-presenter-console upload

2011-01-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, I was just having a look at the diff for your upload of pdf-presenter-console 1.1.1+git.02dfcf-3, fixing #609608, to check if it was suitable for unblocking for squeeze. Firstly, thanks for fixing the bug so quickly. Unfortunately, the upload included a couple of other changes which aren't r

Re: Your pdf-presenter-console upload

2011-01-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Gah, that was intended for debian-release, not debian-devel; please direct follow-ups to -release. On Tue, January 11, 2011 13:18, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi, > > I was just having a look at the diff for your upload of > pdf-presenter-console 1.1.1+git.02dfcf-3, fixing #609608, to

Re: "Mass" (non invasive) NMUs planned to fix debconf translations broken in multiple packages

2011-01-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 19:43 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > My plans are to upload before the end of the upcoming week-end an NMU > for each of the affected package(s). > > I currently have: fwiw, from a quick look at the list, at least boxbackup would need a t-p-u upload in order to get fixed

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, January 20, 2011 03:18, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Brian May > wrote: > >> What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new >> regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed >> in stable? > > If a stable security update contain

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-21 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 20:58 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >>> until today our Release files included 3 Hashes for all their entries: > >>> MD5SUM, SHA1, SHA256. I just modified the code to no longer include > >>> MD5SUM in *all* newly generated Release files. > >> When will that affect Release file

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-26 Thread Adam D. Barratt
severity 615476 important tag 615476 + unreproducible thanks On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:25 +0300, sergey wrote: > Some programs can not start because of missing libtiff.so.3 file. I suspect this is a local problem, as none of the packages in question depends on libtiff at all; I'm therefore lowerin

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