Moving init script from one package to another

there some magic I can put into a prerm/postrm script that will handle that? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#513272: Availability of roundl() on armel?

Hi Michael, > I am trying to fix #513272, a FTBFS on armel. The problem basically > boils down to the following snippet failing to compile on armel (tested > with a Debian lenny on a qemu-emulated armel system): see /usr/include/bits/mathdef.h on armel: ] [...] ] #ifndef __NO_LONG_DOUBLE_MATH ]

Bug#547607: ITP: pion-net -- library for implementing lightweight HTTP interfaces

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: pion-net Version : 2.1.8 Upstream Author : Atomic Labs, Inc. * URL : http://www.pion.org/projects/pion-network-library * License

Seeking advice on packaging of pion-net

rk or is appropriate for this package. Any advice/insights on this would be appreciated. Regards, -Roberto [0] http://bugs.debian.org/547607 [1] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer

Re: Moving binary packages between source packages, and closing bugs

plicated, the first upload of the new > packages would be to experimental... > This I do not know about. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

-fPIC, libraries, and overriding a lintian error

mean that I am permitted to override the lintian error? Regards, -Roberto [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-libraries -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: -fPIC, libraries, and overriding a lintian error

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:43:12PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Does that mean that I am permitted to override the lintian error? > Please disregard. It turns out that the proposed fix causes a FTBFS on amd64, which is not acceptable. Overriding the lintian error will clearly

Re: /var/www or /var/web

different root for MyServer defeats this and makes no sense for Debian. > Then why to some applications install into /usr/share/foo and then ask you to create an alias in your apache config? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.c

Re: UDP code

at my running 'apt-get source glibc' (without the quotes). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#410502: ITP: libcm -- Support code for compositing managers

he copyright of course. I imagine people reading ITPs are curious of homepages, not of where to get the tarball from. > >> * License : LGPL, GPL, BSD > > (This is correct.) > It's tri-licensed? No, it's a mixture. -- Lo?c Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: P3 capabilities (was dselect memory use)

w much RAM a particular machine supports has to do with the motherboard chipset. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: P3 capabilities

about how much memory the CPU can address. It is about the instruction set. With that in mind, every 32-bit Intel Pentium since the Pentium Pro is a P6-class CPU. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Aptitude browser activation

ey would like an apt source added to > their sources.list > Be it rather dangerous. > No kidding that is dangerous. Do the words "drive-by download" mean anything to you? What you want is universally bad and I consider it a very nice feature that Firefox/Debian do not allow that sort

Re: Bug#411617: ITP: ivtv-firmware -- firmware for the ivtv kernel driver

heir terms, that clause does not specifically apply to Debian. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

aintainer (because it affects him) might be wishlist to most users and vice versa. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

ug reports, not the > lack of fixes. > Good point. I did misread. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

g like 38 bugs. IOW, having the packages bugs properly organized and triaged is critical to knowing what you are fixing with each upload. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

just which I have submitted. Regards, -Roberto Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:45:28AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2007-02-26, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to completely disagree here. When I started in earnest with the > > effort to clean up the sasl package, I literally spent three twelve h

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

orry. I was arguing for the value of bug triage and communicating with submitters. I still on't think that holding up migration over unanswered bugs is a good idea. Hope that clears things up for you. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

em. > > well, that would be a lie: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) we don't work on them. So > all's > for the best, it's just fairly visible that we don't even pretend to, > isn't that great ? > OK. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

at at least indicates some human interaction. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

biggest package in which I am involved is sasl which has a tuny number of bugs against it compared to some of the other packages out there. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: how to request help for bugs (Re: 0-day bug forwarding and bug patching on ALL bugs)

package has the potential to leave things worse off. Now, if the package has sat untouched for a very long time and accumulated many bugs, that may be the only option. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On management

tever years to get that far in the project." I am not criticizing the current arrangement, I just think that if it is to become a goal to attract more skilled management-types, we need to create a sort of management track for new contributors. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez h

Re: On management

t that being a manager does not require being a fourth-degree blackbelt in Perl or having written a textbook on C++ programming. The point is that there are people who understand the technical issues but are much more adept managers. All I am saying is that the current NM process (I am just at

Re: On management

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:58:58PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Roberto C. Sanchez] > > I am not advocating having a manager without technical competency or > > the ability to understand technical issues. Just that being a > > manager does not require being a fo

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

akes me a better consultant to people and also improves future job prospects. Those two things are decidedly monetary gains. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

because it takes so > much time. I can't say I've been able to learn much and improve my skills > though. > Good and valid points. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

irect SMTP services > Actually, you can just send in the report yourself through webmail or however you access email from your machine: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

see how this is anything that can't be done (better) currently. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

ian package to the > Debian derivatives and the upstream sources) is done mostly through the > web. > What will a web interface provide that cannot be found/done by browsing http://bugs.debian.org/src: ? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~robe

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

e of submitting a bug report, regardless of whether a local MTA exists. If such people are so anxious to use the web, they can do so via webmail. IMHO, that is no more likely to be "bad" than someone using thunderbird or evolution on the local machine. Regards, -Roberto -- Robert

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:40:15AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:10 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:52:24AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > > > This is true for the initial report. But you also ga

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:42:57AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > > What will a web interface provide that cannot be found/done by browsing > > http://bugs.debian.org/src: ? > > A way for us to manage ou

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:37:25PM +, Ross Burton wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 12:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > The simple fact that anyone having submitted a comment to a bug is > > > automatically added to the CC list for later comments is something that &g

Re: Problems packaging a kernel using cdbs

ckage? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 07:42:26PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 à 12:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:40:15AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Just try Bugzilla. Really. It has some major issu

Re: "Mozilla" plugins to depend upon virtual "mozilla-plugin-browser"?

n browsers would not be kept out. > What is the point? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

g bug triage in there would be a good thing. > People should be given assistance and encouragement in > doing it. I actually like doing it, but I have unfortunately relatively > little time (sick family members). > I like doing bug triage as well. I guess it is because I am a neat f

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 08:12:07AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:38:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > People should be given assistance and encouragement in > > > doing it. I actually like doing it, but I

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:47:38AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2007-03-27, Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In fact, yes. More so, even. The higher the bug count the *greater* > > the reward for triaging everything properly. It helps to prevent > >

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

t happens in the case (that was already pointed out) where a bug languishes without attention for a year or more, someone NMUs to fix the bug and the mainainer immediately uploads to revert the NMU? It seems that there needs to be some way to handle situations like that. Regards, -Roberto

Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)

been reported to work on mutt, and it failed here with kmail. > Is the crypt+sign mail format standard ? > The last vote (on the package upload rules) worked for me sending encrypted from mutt. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.c

Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

-Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

; > >just a willingness to help should the current maintainer be unable to > > >continue for some reason. > > an "understudy" or "standby" ? > Could we call it "co-maintainer" or something like that? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Slow package database

way to optimize it? > Interesting. I have ~1600 packages installed on my development machine and I do not experience the slowness you talk about. It was installed about 3.5 years ago. How much RAM/CPU does the machine have? How fast are the disks? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto

Re: Slow package database

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:11:46PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2007 15:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database > > &g

Bug#416929: ITP: perl-doc-html -- Perl documentation suitable for viewing with a web browser

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: perl-doc-html Version : 5.8.8 Upstream Author : Larry Wall, et. al. * URL : http://perldoc.perl.org/per

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

mecases those are transparent to > the end users) > I think that is the principal problem. I use apt-proxy and have about a dozen machines (counting virtual machines) that all hit that one apt-proxy. I am not sure how best to solve that problem. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez htt

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

r even slower ISDN link) with an opteron, xeon, athlon64 or the like. I'm not saying that your situation is not possible, simply that trading size for compression/decompression time would benefit far more people than it would "hurt." Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánche

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

kes sense. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 01:09:50PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:12:33AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le jeudi 12 avril 2007 à 21:15 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : > > >

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:24:53AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20.51:16 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > > man procmailrc > > On gmail? > gmail does support POP. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http:

PAM config and LDAP [WAS: Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)]

d via SSL. However, this causes other really annoying problems: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-openldap-devel/2007-April/001140.html Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PAM config and LDAP [WAS: Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)]

ct? > "good or bad" depends on your goals for the configuration. > My goal is that it is secure. -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)

the > LDAP server decide if the password is correct or not. > You mean that the passwords go in the clear? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PAM config and LDAP [WAS: Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:39:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:19:34PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:49:40PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > It means that pam_unix is able to access your shadow hash on beh

Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)

the password. It is passing the > > > password over to the LDAP server (using an LDAP bind), and letting the > > > LDAP server decide if the password is correct or not. > > [Roberto C. Sánchez] > > You mean that the passwords go in the clear? > > Yes, unless you are

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

nobody forces you. > What if you are a one-time sponsor for a dozen packages? It seems like Nico's original gripe is valid. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

gt; > This would need a new field defined in some sane way and then get > enforced to use to make sense. And then the scripts can start using it. > > So the simple(r) option is "subscribe to pts". > Doesn't the key used to sign the upload tell you? Regards, -Robe

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:18:11AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11013 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > >> This would need a new field defined in some sane way and then get > >> enforced to use to make sense. And then the scripts can start using it. > &g

Re: Bug#422423: ITP: libtool-cvs -- Generic library support script - CVS snapshot

d then requires a security update, it would not be buildable in stable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: LDAP mail gateway and subkeys, RT ticket #70

ile the RT bug. However, I have experienced this problem. What can I do to help? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

ething like (>= 1.0.1-1) and (<< 1.0.1-2) be more correct? That way the package is still binNMU safe and also safe from breaking if incompatibilities are introduced in the next source upload? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > Your case is probably better handled with a simple higher-or-equal > > > dependency. > > > > Maybe I misunderstand, but wouldn't something

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:49:07PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:24:35AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Maybe I misunderstand, but wouldn't something like (>= 1.0.1-1) and

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:14:01PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:20:22PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > > Yes, but in reality what is the likelihood that either a security update > > or NMU would introduce an incompatible change? I would

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > Well, the ~ character is stated to be evaluated to be less than the > > empty string. If a package is the target of a security upload in > > stable, you can be certain t

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:54:09PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >> > >> > Well, the ~ character is stated to be evaluat

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

case, it is becoming apparent that the continued OT discussions are becoming increasingly unpopular. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

rsing > programmatically. > Something like /^Justify-\([^:]+\):/ should do it, right? Then $1 becomes the package name. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature (v2, repost)

vating > event. For example, file triggers do not inform the package of the > filename. In the future this might be added as an additional feature, > but there are some problems with this. > I'd be interested to know in what problems there are with this. Regards, -Roberto --

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

that the release team is already covered well on release.debian.org, via > regular mails to d-d-a and in the developers reference. > I think that having a centrally located list of teams within Debian and where someone can go to learn more/get involved is a good thing. Regards, -Roberto --

Re: BoF: Supporting 15,000 packages - How much support do we mean?

opment. Of course, since the security team can't possibly monitor upstream development for every package (even just those which don't have active maintainers), we can't really know. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#427113: ITP: xl2tpd -- a layer 2 tunneling protocol implementation

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: xl2tpd Version : 1.1.09 Upstream Author : Paul Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xeleran

Re: Filing FTBFS bugs and packages in NEW

d by the maintainer of the package. Especially in the case of mass filings resulting from things like rebuilding the archive or other cases (like the bug reporter not knowing/being able to access the stuff in NEW), I think there should be a bit of leniency. Regards, -Roberto -

Re: Bug#427216: ITP: gtkol-ldap -- GtkOL-LDAP is a LDAP client based on GtkOL.

e: gtkol-ldap > > Version : 1.1 > > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > URL : http://www.example.org/ > > License : GPL > > Programming Lang: C++ > > Description : GtkOL-LDAP is a LDAP client based on

Re: Touching a file in another package

s.so file in libgnomevfs2-extra's postinst (and > the same for other packages providing GnomeVFS methods), so that its > timestamp changes. > This might be a really impetus and test case for the new dpkg triggers that have been proposed. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C.

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

; mail the sysadmin when a new kernel is installed. Because reboot cannot > be automated ... or let the sysadmin install only the kernel manually > (or have an option do that) but inform the sysadmin mail command is our > friend) for the existence of new kernel.. How is what you describe diff

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:26:50PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:21:03AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > How is what you describe different from what cron-apt already does? > > That's precisely why I asked for details about this feature :

Re: Bug#428212: ITP: linky -- an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links

ected by the ftp-masters as too generic. Arnaud renamed it to mozilla-noscript and that was accepted. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

server-class disks. > That may be true when it comes to breakdowns. However, I challenge you to show me a "cheap" desktop disk that is also SCSI or SAS *and* hotpluggable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

kilo to mean exactly 1000 in the context of computing was a marketing gimmick. Besides, there are other units of measure which carry the same name and have different numerical values based on context (think statute miles and nautical miles), though I don't think any such examples can be fo

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

lowing rigorous standards. > It has never been anything more than people defaulting to a close approximation. Language is imperfect. People make do. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:36:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 03:29 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > > > It has never been anything but a gross imprecision introduced by people > > > incapable of following rigorous standards. > > >

Re: Bug#429801: ITP: libclass-accessor-grouped-perl -- build groups of accessors

l these weird and whacky new Perl module packages in aid of > something, ie are they about to become reverse dependencies of some new > package? > Do they have to be? I know that I would personally prefer to apt-get install some Perl module, rather than install it myself from CPAN or some

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

ion installed. > > It looks like rpmstrap could build you a suitable chroot (like > debootstap for Debian), but from the description it appears to be > somewhat outdated (eg Fedora Core 2). > Also, based on my experience trying to build a CentOS 3 chroot (CentOS 3 being fairly

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

ultiple Linux distros (or even with other operating systems, now that Solaris ships with GNOME). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

t for Xen in a stable release is not suitable, I would have to consider migrating those servers to some other distro. I would really hate to have to do that. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:01:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:05:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > I think the first question to resolve is to establish that it *is* > > > supported... > > > I think that the prudent thing for

Re: FHS and /var/www

/srv (or all of it). Such is not the case for /var. That is, people know better than NFS mount /var. That guarantee does not exist, since by nature /srv should mountable by NFS (e.g., for a web cluster, or something like that). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.co

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

Christoph, Thanks for prodding again on this matter. I've been extremely busy. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 05:05:03PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > Dear list... > > the matter has been discussed at least twice already. Roberto C. Sanchez > brought the matter back up in January 2

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

s, -Roberto [0] http://bugs.debian.org/314571 -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

einst had actually been reached, it > would've caused the package to fail to unpack. > In case you missed my other mail in this thread, I think this is the same issue I reported in #314571. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www

Re: Please test syslinux 3.71+dfsg-1

> > | plz test my pkgs so I can has leverage against the release > team, kthxbye > I don't get it. Isn't the amount of testing received one of the points the release team considers when deciding whether or not grant an exception? If it were not, I would be quite surpri

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

the failure). It would have eventually manifested itself on the main architectures when they switched. As it was, I was able to get upstream to fix the package will ahead of the switch in Debian. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cipux-storage_3.4~svn2489-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

ing), > and waiting a month for each of them, well, is quite a drag. > You can upload to NEW packages that Build-Depend on one another. I have done it without issue. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc De

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

ot;ITP" in the title. If there is no closes, then assume that there is no ITP and that's it. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#499906: ITP: libmemcache-client-ruby -- a Ruby client library for memcached

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libmemcache-client-ruby Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Bob Cottrell, Eric Hodel, The Robot Co-op * URL

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