Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
n't see any reason why it should have a higher priority than optional. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Not sure if anybody is still using the old BSD printing stuff - at least >> I can't see any reason why it should have a higher priority than >> optional. > > I am. It's simple and

Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
can say that if I am on a UNIX like > machine, and I can't just say lpr foo.txt and have it printed on the > default printer, I would find the system deficient and un-UNIX like. That works well with cups if you have the cupsys-bsd package installed. -- Bernd

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Andreas Metzler wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> Why not remove locate from findutils instead of putting it into a >> separate package? I can't see any reason why one would need it if >> there's mlocate. Probably add a Recommends:

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
a > serious problem. Definiteyl not a feature I'm missing. I hope exim caches the reply from the final MX for some time, otherwise this sounds like a good way to run a DOS attack. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNS

Bug#451561: ITP: navit -- Car navigation system with GPS tracking

2007-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : navit Version : 0.0.2 (alpha quality, will go to experimental first) Upstream Authors : Michael Farmbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Schaller <[EMAIL PRO

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
f upstream's original document is the pdf - or if the pdf was created from xml/tex/... source. It's not common to create documentations as pdf file in pdfedit or Adobe Acrobat, but it may happen, and then they should be allowed in main (probably after checking for embedded fonts). Cheers,

Bug#452093: ITP: geopy -- Geocoding toolbox for Python

2007-11-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: geopy Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Brian Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://exogen.case.edu/projects/geopy/ * License : MIT Programming

Re: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
packagename/ available, even if there're no arch independent modules in the package. If I remember right python-support uses the directory to be able to clean up /var/lib/python-support if necessary - or something like that. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ith somthing matched by /var/lib/zope[0-9.]+ -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About dpkg-shlibdeps checks

2007-11-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
was announced often enough. If packages run into trouble with it now, it's imho not the problem of the dpkg maintainer (except there're bugs in dpkg, of course). -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Contents-source.gz

2007-11-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
#x27;d find a Koders-like search trough all sources much more interesting, especially if it comes with a way to retrieve diffs between releases or uploads. /me goes and puts Debian into git. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Packages with httpd needs

2007-11-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
HP, so the applications you mentioned > can't be use with it. lighttpd supports php for example, using fastcgi. Imho the best thing here would be to add the libapache2-* stuff to Recommends, so it will be installed in default configurations, but it also allows the admin to ignore th

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-11-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
rt-ability? After > all backports is not an official part of Debian. YMMV. > for a backport you have to add a changelog entry anyway, fixing the Homepage field is not that complicated, so I can't see a problem here. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <

Bug#454189: ITP: brad -- Blender based user interface for Radiance

2007-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: brad Version : 0.2_2007-01-08 Upstream Author : Francesco Anselmo * URL : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/brad/ * License : GPL Programming Lang:

Re: uploading as Debian Maintainer - rejected

2007-12-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ainers? Since when is Ondrej == Kartik? -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: priorities

2007-12-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tandard on a lot of systems, including OSX, it is 'bashed' for being bad in Debian's policy. But I wanted to send a bug about that anyway... -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: ITP: squeak-vm -- Virtual machine needed to run Squeak images on unix

2007-12-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
and no license information at all in the randeom ~10 source files I looked into. Looks like http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package is still correct - but it would be a good thing to convince upstream to fix that. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
independent point of view can decide if 2.8 should/needs to be shipped with Lenny. Best regards, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, ...

2007-12-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
shed on me. Same here, using it at home in smarthost mode, and on several machines with a lot of mail traffic, and I never had any trouble at all with postfix. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: git-core maintenance

2010-01-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e maintainer in the hope to get some more informations from him. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1

Re: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libjpeg62-dev but it is not going to be installed

2010-02-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e. Something is broken in your way of packaging this library. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3

Re: debian/rules clean as root or non-root?

2010-02-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hitectures and the buildds used sudo. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95

Re: JPEG 8 transition

2010-02-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
can't do that. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 43

Re: klibc only initramfs

2010-02-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Add more network cards to your boot-server. Add a second bootserver if necessary. Or just don't boot all machines at the same time (hint: that might also save your building's power supply...). -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linu

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
missing) so it seems out > of scope for squeeze. Maybe squeeze+1. I think its about time to require to generate checksums for packages and make all packages which do not do so RC buggy. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
u being a > coward who does not deserve to be heard in the future. > > Please be responsible and do help us out here. Are you sure you're the person who should write such an email? Instead of writing such emails you should spend your time on doing a *PROPER*

deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test

2010-04-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
y straight forward. Comments, bugreports and patches are welcome! Hope its useful! Bernd - -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04

Re: deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test

2010-04-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nsfer the domain into the hands of SPI anf just take care of the software... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test - ciabot script added

2010-04-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/03/2010 01:52 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: [...] > And if you want to give it a try now, log into alioth.debian.org and have a > look > into /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/bzed/godebian-client - the usage is > documented in the README file and should be pretty straight forward.

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e) here. Exactly. I gain much more from moving the start of $many_daemons behind the start of kdm on my desktop. The speed difference with/without CONCURRENCY=makefile is not really noticeable for me. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test

2010-05-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/03/2010 01:52 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > So I'm happy to announce the public beta test of http://deb.li (also available > under http://go.debian.net)! Please note that neither the content of the pages > nor the CSS is finished... :) Just a short update: Everything is runni

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

2010-05-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
thing to do in such cases is to report a bug as this ensures that the maintainer will see it or somebody else will be able to handle it. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints:

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ow that there are a lot of arguments against the 3.0 format out there, so please do not enforce such changes without discussing them first. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/26/2010 11:07 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Environment variables do not override variable definitions in a makefile. You can't believe how messy upstream stuff can be. Messing with $(LDFLAGS) and $${LDFLAGS} and simmilar stuff just happens -- Bernd

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ages in a month is a high traffic mailing list for you? debian-bugs-dist is high traffic, or LKLM, or sometimes debian-devel, but not backport-users. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org G

The state of root-system in Debian

2010-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/root-system.html -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95

Re: "dh" and dh_installxmlcatalogs

2010-07-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence for examples. Obviously that is not a quick fix and needs an xml-core upload. The other way would be to override one of the dh_* calls, for example override_dh_install: dh_install dh_installxmlcatalogs There are other ways for sure :) Cheers, Be

Re: packages being essential but having stuff in /usr/?!

2010-07-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
iously > think they can ignore the policy just as they like (this issue is really > unbelievable,... wonder why we have all that policy crap...) in order to > save them work... Full ack. If the policy does not fit reality, then it should be changed *or* (which is what I'd prefer), the pa

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
into the described problem in a few rare cases. What do you prefer? Also adding update-python-modules -p to a postinst script does not hurt, even when dependencies change. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp:

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ge is being configured (Debian Policy 3.5). So if you depend on a properly install *and* configured lsb_release, either add a Pre-Depends *or* chose a different way to ensure it is configured properly. And this is an easy one actually as all you need to do is to run update-python-modules -p. -- Be

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/20/2010 09:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 21:44:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> On 07/20/2010 09:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: >>> Well, that lsb_release is written in Python is just an implementation >>> detail, no? So it just shoul

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/20/2010 10:04 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed and >> configured before it can be installed. In this case, you must specify a >> Pre-Depends entry for the package. > > "In

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
for a renaming ever. > > Just an example. > > Have fun! > > Hans-J. Ullrich > > Just an example > > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerpr

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t > Russ> aren't required. > > Russ> I think wishlist is the correct severity for this. > > For the lintian check, or for the (coming) bug report? :-P both. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
of fonts in Debian is one of the reasons why many > desktop users switch to other distros. Interesting, I've never run into any trouble with subpixel rendering... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp:/

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/13/2010 11:56 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > The PTS is insufficient for this purpose as it can't automatically > unsubscribe people when their package is superceeded. That should not be too hard to implement without an extra control field. --

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/13/2010 06:22 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> On 08/13/2010 11:56 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> >>> The PTS is insufficient for this purpose as it can't automatically >>> unsubscribe people when their package

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
w do you call this? Obvious fail. The list is read only as the communication has to go trough the BTS. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 06

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
y have to maintain th ebug anyway, which includes looking at the bugs and fixing them... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ave no problem with people backporting any of my > packages that are useful to them, but I shouldn't have to read bug mail for > them. I have enough bugs of my own. Chances are good that htese bugs affect your package in testing, too. Why ignore them? Instead you should be happy that your packag

Re: Moving package with quilt to new upstream version

2010-09-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
, the > tree will be dirty for git at annoying times), BUT it helps a DAMN GREAT > DEAL to keep quilt in check, enough that I do it for every package I > take care of. Keep one branch with the patches applied and export them when you're ready to build them - gbp-pq helps with that.

Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable

2010-09-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e it, I'd expect that a lot of developers would concentrate on throwing new stuff into unstable instead of fixing bugs to be able to release soon. The proper way to fix the issue is to release faster by fixing all remaining issues faster :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian

Re: Three common voting errors - how to avoid them

2010-10-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
in the announcement-mail would hav ebeen nice. I almost sent mine to secretary@, too :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-10-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
o minutes to start only if you don't configure it properly. But yes, it should go imho. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-10-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 10/27/2010 06:36 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > FWIW, it's what worked best when I set up Time Machine over the network. That sounds like they're using CNIDs then... Indeed netatalk is the only way to get such things done properly. -- Bernd ZeimetzDeb

Useful descriptions please (was: ITP: haskell-hxt-xpath -- The XPath modules for HXT.)

2010-11-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Collecting data

2010-12-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/24/2010 05:39 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 05:41:12PM +0200, derleader __ wrote: >> The kernel module will check the status of the OS every 5 minutes. What is >> the most efficient way to collect these data? > > apt-get install munin-node or use

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ive that work to the buildd-admins... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r at least make sure that debmirror and friends are updated in an oldstable pointrelease. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB3

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
either one of the following happens: # wget -q -O - ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/lenny/updates/Release | grep -i md5 # Please fix this on security.debian.org ASAP. Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
es from build-dependencies, the issue should be fixed in the buildd software - it should know which libraries are available on all architectures and build against them, or maybe stick to the first available package in the list. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux De

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

2011-03-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
y1.9.1 Here you're basically at a point where Python was years ago - one binary package for every supported version. i think you should find a way to move the whole stuff for all ruby versions into one package and find a proper way to handle dependencies and whatever else is needed. -

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

2011-03-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/01/2011 11:17 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 01/03/11 at 10:44 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 02/27/2011 04:31 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>> Ideally, we would have binary packages named like that: >>> ruby-foo: arch-indep part of the foo library >>> r

Re: Call for projects for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. See current > d-devel discussion. What about a project which prepares a migration to http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd ? -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Finger

Re: Call for projects for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
mons on (k)freebsd. For systemd it definitely makes sense to use all the fancy linux APIs - but it should still be possible to write a proper replacement for freebsd. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debia

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ported' (but non-default) other versions. Again my recommendation - look at the way how these things are handled in Python (yeah, ignore the discussions around varoius Python helpers and so on). -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Lucas Nussbaum schrieb: >That's what we plan to do: for now, ruby1.8 is the default >implementation/version, and will have the highest priority in >alternatives. So switching to say jruby would require manual >intervention. Exactly that will ensure you run into a mess. Don't allow to switch

Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#616782: cssutils: deprecation of dh_pycentral, please use dh_python2

2011-03-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Now I see yet another mess of left-over files coming. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
me to rewrite working stuff in a different language. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dev

Re: Removal of wanna-build from sbuild

2011-03-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
these two branches not merged and developed by a team? -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hy does anyone package it? If we can get is as a package, > it's easier to update. git clone https://ftp-master.debian.org/git/archvsync.git Easy enough to keep updated. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/15/2011 04:17 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Indeed, I don't know why we bother with packages at all. Thanks for your constructive comment. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/15/2011 04:54 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 03/15/2011 04:17 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>> Indeed, I don't know why we bother with packages at all. >> >> Thanks for your constructive comment. &g

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
anks for for your work! Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Python related changes for unstable/squeeze

2009-02-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tool, which gets more testing and will have less bugs than > current concurrent solutions. Ack. Please guys, get together, discuss it in a *sane* way (why do I fear that's not possible...) and merge both tools or drop both of them and do something else useful - together. -- Bernd Zeim

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
lopment. > > I don't if that warrants an "ocaml" section, which is your call, but > if it does, well, ... heads up :-) b...@think:~$ apt-cache search liblua | wc -l 84 So I guess we should have a lua section, too? liblua.* would fit into that section

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
27;t see the sense in spenting time to write a .dekstop file for an application *and* a menu file. That's just a waste of time. Nothing against supporting old-fashioned environments, but please use methonds from 2009 to do so. Thanks, Bernd - -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. It plays on the same level as this thread here. And the only thing that will happen is that I run out of popcorn and become fat. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
affic is limited Use gdb, get a backtrace and upload that. I doubt anybody wants to have the core file. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@li

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Josselin Mouette wrote: > The only thing for which you’ll need Schily-based software in Debian is > for burning CDs. For DVDs and Blu-Rays, we have dvd+rw-tools already. > What about libburn + cdrskin and similar tools? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
w working with the repository works, which branches are used for what, and so on. At least that would fit *todays* way of handling packages, at least for a lot of people. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
es in my git, usually named upstream-svn/upstream-cvs or similar. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> a) Run a upstream version check from cron, which mails me if there are >>> new upstream versions of something I have. >> What happens if your watc

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> No, please don't just add another watch file just for the sake of it, >> using these files is more or less like living in the last >> century. People are able to get the current source from the Debian pool, >> i

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
dev. Being able to rename an interface without messing with udev is a feature, not a bug. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: DebianWiki migrated

2009-03-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ution. If I remember right, the GUI editor messed up several pages, so it was recommended not to use it (and I always hated it with a passion), so the question is if it is really needed to have it enabled again. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Devel

Re: group nvram

2009-03-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
with an agent nor you want to run everything as root. The idea behind policykit is not bad, but it should be introduced with care and not by breaking well working ways of handling access. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C

Re: group nvram

2009-03-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
urity hole in my opinion. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: group nvram

2009-03-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
otkey-setup, which runs a daemon as root to handle polling the nvram state, > so the group permissions don't matter. What way use other programs like pidging-blinklight these days? I remember that /dev/nvram was needed to get a blinking keyboard light years ago... not sure what the curr

Re: group nvram

2009-03-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
s what it the group is used for at one of our customers. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: group nvram

2009-03-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
're still used through > /dev/sgX. Actually, all high-volume, high-speed scanners are > SCSI. Some have a USB interface too, but it's slower. I also know some fancy damn expensive scanners with firewire, but I doubt they're supported in sane - unfortunately. -- Bernd Z

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

2009-03-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ith the latest upstream version. Importing tarballs is manual work, but it is possible... -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

2009-03-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
om the changelog as commit date, this worked well enough for me. Probably needs some fine-tuning, but I hope that's something you can work on. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Grammostola Rosea wrote: >> >> http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=ardour >> > So this should be fixed, wait till it hit testing and then make an > backport? Yes. That's the best way to go. -- Bernd Zeimetz De

Re: Bug#523794: ITP: php-version-control-svn -- wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client

2009-04-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ing to svn for another language. Please use that instead of the command line client. - -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: Bug#523794: ITP: php-version-control-svn -- wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client

2009-04-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-04-12, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Artur R. Czechowski wrote: >>> Programming Lang: PHP >>> Description : wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client >> A php wrapper around the svn command-line client sounds like an

Re: Bits from the 2nd Debian Groupware Meeting

2009-04-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
eeting announced? I was pretty surprised by the posting to d-d-a, as I didn't even know such a team exists. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
rmware). This still does NOT warrant to post such things on debian-devel-announce. It is more than offtopic there. Bernd - -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

[Fwd: RFP: ingex -- tapeless television production software]

2009-04-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
reportbug forgot to CC it to d-devel... Original Message Subject: RFP: ingex -- tapeless television production software Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:47:26 +0200 From: Bernd Zeimetz To: Debian Bug Tracking System Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ingex

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