Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-16 Thread Adam M.
Ken Bloom wrote: > I noticed that glabels is broken on i386 because it's not binary NMU > safe, and someone did a binary NMU. > > After poking around a bit, I found > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2005/11/msg0.html, which > discussed a possible solution to this problem. Since then, we ha

Re: Getting openswan 2.2.0 back into sarge

2005-03-24 Thread Adam M.
Rene Mayrhofer wrote: >Hi all, > >[Please CC me in replies, I am currently not subscribed to this list.] > >As some have already noticed, openswan has been removed from testing a while >ago, most probably because of bug #291274, which did not apply to package >version 2.2.0-4 (the one that has

Re: Bug#301083: ITP: libevolution-ruby -- revolution, ruby binding for the evolution mail client

2005-03-24 Thread Adam M.
David Moreno Garza wrote: >On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 17:31 +, Henning Makholm wrote: > > >>Scripsit David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >>>Revolution is a little Ruby binding to the excellent Evolution email >>>client. >>> >>> >>Is it so little that it would be better to in

Re: gluck (cvs, people, planet, etc.) downtime - ongoing raid problems

2005-04-04 Thread Adam M.
Christian Storch wrote: >Strange: Could there be any correlation with my observed problems >about resolving anything of debian.org during exactly that time? >(http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2005/04/msg00023.html) > > Name Server:SAENS.DEBIAN.ORG Name Server:KLECKER.DEBIAN.ORG Name Server:SP

Re: gluck (cvs, people, planet, etc.) downtime - ongoing raid problems

2005-04-04 Thread Adam M.
Blars Blarson wrote: >>Name Server:SAENS.DEBIAN.ORG >>Name Server:KLECKER.DEBIAN.ORG >>Name Server:SPOHR.DEBIAN.ORG >> >> > >spohr changed IP addresses last week, and the glue record returned by >the .org nameservers still had the old address when I checked a few >hours ago. This has been rep

Re: watch file for SourceForge packages

2005-04-04 Thread Adam M.
Shaun Jackman wrote: >This doesn't work for me: > >$ cat debian/watch >version=2 >http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/n/ne/neutrino/neutrino-(.*)\.tar\.gz >debian uupdate >$ uscan >neutrino: Newer version (0.8.2) available on remote site > (local version is 0.7.3) >neutrino: Successfully downloade

Re: Making new packages

2005-04-12 Thread Adam M.
Nico Golde wrote: >Hi, >if we would drop some archs now, what is the best way of >making new packages. Should we just fill in the archs which >are supported in the future too to hold the load on the >archs buildds which will be dropped low? > > No. Just leave it as any unless there is a good re

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-15 Thread Adam M.
Patrick A. Ouellette wrote: >The progression I see is: > >unstable -> testing -> candidate -> stable > > Unfortunately this totally changes the purpose of "stable". Stable is there not to provide bug free, up-to-date software releases. Stable is to provide environmental stability. When someone

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-18 Thread Adam M
On 4/16/05, Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 21:48 -0500, Adam M. wrote: > > > Unfortunately this totally changes the purpose of "stable". Stable is > > Yes and no. It changes the concept of stable in that stable evolves. &

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-20 Thread Adam M
> Isn't the process: > > 1) make a patch > 2) give it to the apache developers > 3) new packaged apache versions have the patch > 4) patch makes it upstream > 5) patch no longer needed in debian package You know, there are security updates for stable releases. You have to patch those. If there ar

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-20 Thread Adam M
On 4/20/05, Jeff Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam M wrote: > > >>? I guess I don't understand enough about how the build process works > >>for the packages in debian but that sounds funny to me. Or I just don't > >>understand what you mean

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-29 Thread Adam M.
Steve Langasek wrote: >Ideally, we would have agreement to update all of the following packages to >libmysqlclient12 at the same time: > > I would suggest that libmysqlclient14 should be used if possible. MySQL has changed the way passwords are stored in the database and this prevents clients f

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Adam M.
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: >Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > > >>The according bug is #306608. >> >> > >This is a bug, though possibly not in the libwxgtk2.4-python package. If >the relevant maintainers (libwxgtk2.4-python, wxpython2.5.3) and bug >sumitters can't work out a solution, then ask the Tech

Re: launchd and lookupd

2005-05-02 Thread Adam M.
martin f krafft wrote: >Apple has just released launchd, a init/cron/watchdog/etc. >replacement. Has anyone looked at it? It seems like a bit of work to > > It is not a good idea to replace multiple system utilities with one. Right now I can install a different cron or inetd or atd, or I can rem

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Adam M.
Adrian Bunk wrote: >grave <-> serious isn't worth a discussion since there's not a big >difference between them (both are RC) > > You are 100% wrong here. Why do we have bug severities then? Severities are there to inform the developer and the rest of the Debian world about the seriousness of

Re: Upcoming removals

2005-05-03 Thread Adam M.
François-Denis Gonthier wrote: >On May 3, 2005 09:54 am, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > >>#297426: O: langband -- The langband Common lisp game >>Reported by: "Kevin M. Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 63 days old. >> >>#297427: O: langband-data -- The Langband sound/image/etc files for >>langband e

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Adam M
On 5/4/05, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:54:46PM -0500, Adam M. wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > >grave <-> serious isn't worth a discussion since there's not a big > > >difference between them (both

Re: Bug#307570: please provide releasenotes (Re: Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts)

2005-05-04 Thread Adam M.
Holger Levsen wrote: >btw, google has no (good) hits for "sarge releasenotes", but for "sarge >release notes" they have... maybe this helps. > > Try "sarge release notes" - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: www.debian.org and users information

2005-05-05 Thread Adam M.
Kevin Mark wrote: >Hi DD folks, >Sarge is now approaching zero kelvin and folks are scrambing to get the >last few bugs squashed. I was recently thinking about why the non-clued >folks bash Debian with incomplete or inaccurate facts and a way to >address that. I think there should be a section on

Debian AMD64 is Debian

2005-05-08 Thread Adam M.
Hamish Moffatt wrote: >>On Friday 06 May 2005 11:22am, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> >> >>>Hi >>> >>> Note: non-free is NOT provided yet. We need to decide what we do with >>> it, as we may be forbidden to distribute some of the software in it (we >>>aren't Debian). >>> >Not necessary. For 'sattrack

Re: Debian AMD64 is Debian

2005-05-08 Thread Adam M.
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >"Adam M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >We are not part of Debian. We are not allowed to use certain Debian >resources such as buildd.d.o for buildd logs, access to the incoming >queue for buildds or wanna-build and several other things. >

Re: mrtg package problems

2005-05-11 Thread Adam M.
Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: >Hi, > >On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 12:23 -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > > >>Currently there are two packages that he maintains, >> >> > Yup. > > > >>I would like to maintain mrtg since I do use it. As to the other >>package, it probably should be orphaned. >> >> > OK, please check

Re: mrtg package problems

2005-05-11 Thread Adam M.
Gunnar Wolf wrote: >Adam Majer dijo [Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:23:10PM -0500]: > > >>Currently there are two packages that he maintains, >> >>http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>*libnet**-easytcp-perl >>**mrtg >> >>I would like to maintain mrtg since I do use it. As to the other >>package, i

Bug#308725: ITP: dhcpv6 -- a stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for IPv6

2005-05-11 Thread Adam M.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adam M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dhcpv6 Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : ?? Not a single one - many... * URL : http://dhcpv6.sourceforge.net/ * License : Mostly BSD, some LGPL and MIT/X Des

Re: [Baghira] :: Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-11 Thread Adam M.
Vadim Petrunin wrote: > Sorry, but looks like there is no rc bugs in the "baghira" package. > There was only one bug "Serious policy violations" but it is resolved > now. > Why it is out of release? http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/baghira.html Ask the maintainer. It was not in Sarge because of t

Re: Bug#308725: ITP: dhcpv6 -- a stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for IPv6

2005-05-12 Thread Adam M
On 5/12/05, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Adam M.] > > Description : a stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for IPv6 > > DHCPv6 is a stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for IPv6, a > > counterpart to IPv6 stateless addr

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Adam M.
Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I moved the server because wedohosting.com's bandwidth fees were > getting prohibitive (i'm with iweb.ca now).. otherwise I would have been > happy to have it continue running for another few thousand days. :-) I find that Tera-Byte.com in Edmonton has nice colo rate