Hi debian-devel,
it has probably been a decade since I've last seen a PostgreSQL
installation in the wild on a 32-bit machine. PostgreSQL itself works
fine there, but more and more extensions are not compatible anymore,
either deliberately, or (more common) because of subtle bugs in printf
pattern
Re: To debian-devel
> it has probably been a decade since I've last seen a PostgreSQL
> installation in the wild on a 32-bit machine. PostgreSQL itself works
> fine there, but more and more extensions are not compatible anymore,
> either deliberately, or (more common) because of subtle bugs in prin
Re: Simon Richter
> That is not a 32 bit bug, but an indication of something else being broken.
It is the same problem in the sense that 64-bit architectures are
fine, and something (probably in some autoconf script) is broken on
32-bit. The point here is that these are always weird bugs in weird
Re: Lior Kaplan in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Description : a powerful text editor for GNU/Linux and *BSD
I always have the impression that those packages having "powerful" in
the description are the least deserving it... Besides that, "for
GNU/Linux" in a Debian GNU/Linux package description is
Re: jaromil in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> in case you are an arrogant person (i don't mean you are, i just don't
> know you at all) then consider that the GNU FDL license applied to the
> manual and documentation of hasciicam requires: the Invariant Sections
> being NAME, SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION, AUTHOR
Re: Carlo U. Segre in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I noticed that a number of perl packages and perl-tk in particular have
> been orphaned but they do not appear on the "wnpp" list.
>
> Is this beacause they have not been orphaned by the Maintainer himself?
Looking at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkg
Re: Anders Karlsson in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> How do I best collect the information that the package maintainer would
> like?
Hi,
if you file a regular bug, the maintainer will contact you to provide
the information he needs. He is the one who knows the package best.
Besides that, there's strace,
Re: Carl B. Constantine in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm trying to trim my system a little bit. I wanted to purge Evolution
> from my system since I use Mutt for email. But doing that wants to
> remove Gnome.
apt-cache is your friend:
[0] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $apt-cache show gnome
Package: gnome
[...]
Re: Paul van der Vlis in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You will understand that my most important point is security-support.
...which Debian provides for its stable distribution at any time, even
if the last stable release was ages ago. How does a fixed release date
help there?
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Re: Steve Langasek in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link
> > > time reference (/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10)
>
> > I don't know this problem is "missing GLIBC_2.2 symbols" issue. It
> > does not clear Christoph's problematic archit
Re: Sergei I. Kononov in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I wrote small scripts which should help to build chroot enviroment. I
> know already exists such things like 'makejail'. But I wrote my own
> version of 'how to chroot specified packages under debian'.
What's the difference to makejail and debootstrap
Re: Frederik Dannemare in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> For instance, the issue with nvidia and building gl apps I mentioned: I
> have a sid chroot (debootstrap) on my sarge desktop machine which uses
> the nvidia driver. Trying to start X in the chroot with the normal nv
> driver failed due to nvidia a
Re: kooolman in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Serait-il possible de connaître quand la version de php passera à la
> version 4.3 ?
Please use english when writing to Debian lists.
PHP4 is at version 4.3 in the upcoming Sarge release:
4:4.3.10-2 0
700 http://ftp2.de.debian.org sarge/main Pac
Re: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I intend to orphan xkeycaps.
>
> If you are interested in taking over this package, do let me know.
I'm using this package and I'd take it.
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Re: Grzegorz Bizon in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Package name: tarp
> * URL : http://joker.linuxstuff.pl
> Description : small script adding progress bar support for GNU tar
>
> Simple perl script adding progress bar support
> for GNU tar.
Hi,
I'd say this is way to small to
Re: Eduard Bloch in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Agreed. However, I though about writting cp/mv versions that display
> progress bars and allow interactive "resuming" of copy operations. I
> think such things together with ptar could go into some kind of
> "interactive-command-line-tools" package.
rsync
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: aspell-de-alt
Version : 2.1-1
Upstream Author : Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Heinz Knutzen
Björn Jacke
* URL : ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/de/
* License : GPL
Re: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I would like to put on my homepage list of packages that I maintain.
> I suppose that the easiest way would be to fetch this information from
> ldap database. I don't want to reinvent the wheel, and I'm sure some of
> you have already simi
Re: Daniel Burrows in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'd imagine that it doesn't use mv for the same reason "install" doesn't;
> ie, its purpose is to COPY files, not MOVE them.
As I understood it, the question was about moving stuff from
debian/tmp to debian/package. The stuff in debian/tmp should get
Re: Nelson A. de Oliveira in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Package name: wmansied
> Version : 0.4
> Upstream Author : Walter Schreppers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~wschrep/ansied/
> * License : GNU General Public Licence version 2
> Descrip
Re: Michael Koch in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> is "rm /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm" not easy enough for you ?
Please don't recommend rm'ing the S* links. Rename them to K* instead
or else they will be recreated on the next upgrade.
Christoph
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Re: Sean Perry in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >What would people think about adding a check on all the *dm managers (read
> >kdm, gdm and friends) about cheking the kernel command line from
> >/proc/cmdline
> >and grep for nox?
Would be neat :)
> Should be easy for you to do locally and since the init
Re: y in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi "y",
please use your real name to report bugs, *especially* wnpp bugs. It
feels very strange to imagine "y" maintaining Debian packages...
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Re: Klaus Fuerstberger in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> sorry, if this is the wrong list for my request. Maybe you could give me
> the direction.
Hello,
please check the BTS (bugs.debian.org) whether these bugs are already
filed. If not, please file them, if they are, you might be able to
provide useful
Re: Thiemo Seufer in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Do *not* file 6229 bugs about the same subject. Never.
>
> Why not? As wishlist bugs with patch this seems sensible to me.
I assume that you will hand-check the patches in those 6229 bug
reports that the watch files actually do the right thing before y
Re: Andres Salomon in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> without being constricted by others' deadlines and such. Unfortunately,
> the naming (second class citizen?), and the feeling that their
> architectures are no longer "officially supported", means that people will
> view this as a negative thing.
I'd pr
Re: Eduard Bloch in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I like this idea. SCC was a working codename that I think was originally
> > intended to be changed as soon as somebody thought of something better,
> > but nobody ever quite got round to it ...
>
> Does it sound discriminating because you associcate tha
Re: Steve Langasek in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If you maintain a package that's affected by this issue, you can help
> today; there's no need to wait until your package is hit by a library
> transition to make the changes described above. Indeed, for packages
> which depend on libfreetype6, it's impo
Re: Thomas Viehmann in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Really, how about just automatically[1] removing orphaned packages
> without maintained rdepends from testing?
Seconded.
Christoph
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Re: Wouter Verhelst in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Obviously something broke. Perhaps the ldap interface to the BTS, since
> > packages.qa.debian.org is giving bogus results too.
>
> I'm guessing the LDAP interface is temporarily offline; aba mentioned a
> few days ago that he's moving some of his se
Re: Davide G. M. Salvetti in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I was trying to upload them from people to ftp-master with ftp, maybe I
> forgot to set the binary mode on (though I seem to recall that between
> Unix systems it shouldn't matter).
Uhm, use dput? It also does some checks on the .changes to see if
Re: Luca Capello in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So, simple question: why not re-open the ancient ITP, instead of a new
> one? ;-)
You cannot reopen archived bugs.
Christoph
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Re: Henning Makholm in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> (On a related note, will I lose my position in the NEW queue by
> uploading improved versions of the package before it is accepted?)
As I was told, no. The order in the html NEW summary will change, but
the order in which lisa presents the packages to t
Re: Daniel Haude in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> again I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but let me ask anyway.
Please don't hijack random threads. Start a new one.
Christoph
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Re: Henning Makholm in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Huh? I run one machine that is mostly woody but with sarge's libc6 and
> a few selected other sarge packages. This seems to work impeccably in
> general (I do know where to point my anger at when it doesn't, but in
> those casses libc has never been invo
Re: Schoppitsch Dieter in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This software is downloadable at:
> http://web.uta4you.at/shop/
Hi,
if you want to have these programs in Debian, you have to file the
proper WNPP wishlist bugs. See [1].
If you want to package them yourself, read the maint-guide [2].
[1] http
Re: Søren Boll Overgaard in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> During packaging, that is, during the installation of a package, I need to
> determine which MTA is currently installed, since I need to set certain
> permissions specific to my package, so that they match with those of the
> currently running MTA.
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: sdate
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/
* License : GPL
Description :
Re: Josselin Mouette in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Description : never ending september date
> >
> > This package wraps the libc localtime() and gmtime() functions to output
> > the
> > eternal september 1993 date.
>
> Is there any real-life use for this program?
No.
Christoph
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Re: sean finney in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Is there any real-life use for this program?
> >
> > No.
>
> then please don't put it in debian.
Which of the other games in Debian do serve a purpose?
Christoph
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and I'm sure some of
> > you have already similar lists on your websites.
>
> Otherwise, try something like
> $ grep-available -FMaintainer fenio -sPackage
>
> (Don't forget "dselect update" before.)
For the record, I'm now using the following wml sn
Re: Peter Samuelson in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > * Package name: connect
> > Version : 1.93
>
> That's a terrible package name. What will the GNUSTEP people do if
> they ever want to package something that manages SMB client mounts?
That's what upstream calls the program (actually co
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Re: gaurav p in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> We have just initiated Stateless Debian Project and we are looking for
Is the project itself also stateless such that it doesn't know whether
it already sent out an announcement?
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Re: Marc Haber in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Am I missing something or is this part of policy widely ignored?
I had my own problems with that paragraph and would appreciate to have
it clarified.
There's a new mailing list for webapps since last week, shouldn't the
discussion go there?
http://lists.de
Re: Martin Michlmayr in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have therefore decided to stop the weekly WNPP summaries to d-d-a
> and instead do the following:
>
> - send the weekly posting to debian-wnpp instead of d-d-a
>
> - only include new entries
I always read the announcements to look for O or RFAs o
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Re: William J Beksi in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ~ Description : Smart Common Input Method platform for KDE/QT
>
> skim is an input method platform based upon scim-lib under *NIX systems
> (including GNU/Linux and FreeBSD) optimized for KDE. It provi
Re: John D. Hendrickson in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: libglade
> Version : x.y.z
> Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.example.org/
> * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
> Desc
Re: John D. Hendrickson in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Package name: electric
Package: electric
Priority: optional
Section: electronics
Installed-Size: 9088
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 6.05-2.1
Depends: lesstif1, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libice6 | xli
/me grabs a bigger cluebat
PLEASE READ http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ and stop filing new
bugs. RETITLE the existing ones!
Christoph
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Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Total number of orphaned packages: 188 (new: 1)
> Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 83 (new: 0)
> Total number of packages requested help for: 9 (new: 0)
I like the new wnpp announcement format very much. Thanks Martin!
(And using -dev
Re: Norbert Preining in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Package name: texlive
> Description : The TeXlive system packaged for debian
>
> TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with TeX. It includes all
> major freely-available TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts,
> including s
Re: Nico Golde in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> is there an easy way to mail all people who reported a bug
> to a specific package?
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s-pkg-tracking-system
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Re: Tatsuya Kinoshita 2006-07-29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Should `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11' be added to the list of
> virtual package names?
>
> I've discovered that the virtual package `pinentry' is provided by
> pinentry-curses, pinentry-gtk, pinentry-gtk2 and pinentry-qt, and
> the virtual pack
Re: Nacho Barrientos Arias 2006-07-29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What could be the best section for this package? 'admin' like
> "john" (pdfcrack has got a similar behaviour) or 'utils'?
Cracking pdfs is not something an admin would usually do.
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st of
companies who do so, though:
http://www.debian.org/consultants/
Please refer to them.
(On a sidenote, Linux ES is a Redhat product, you might want to check
www.redhat.com.)
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Re: martin f krafft 2006-09-08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Please see #385957, and the discussion between Julian and myself.
>
> Basically, we thought about two solutions, and I came up with
> a third one last night.
>
> 1. Julian proposes to simply to encode the information about a BSP
> into t
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Re: Ron Johnson 2006-09-14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 09/13/06 20:15, Adam Cecile wrote:
> [snip]
> > It includes the following features :
> [snip]
> >- Can handle files up to 2Gb.
>
> That's a feature?
No, a bug (or rather, doesn't meet a release
Re: Andreas Tille 2006-09-19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The situation you described qualifies for a group maintained upload.
> You might keep the original maintainer in the Uploaders field for the
> sake of politeness because a complete hijack is regarded rude (even
> if the facts you describe would jus
[sending manually, the cron mail got stuck somewhere]
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Total number of orphaned packages: 309 (new: 20)
Total number of packages offered up for
Re: Christian Aichinger 2006-09-25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> As a start, I've written a script that searches for unnecessary
> dependencies and reports them. Results are available here:
> http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib
DDPO (aka developer.php) has a link to the list of checklib results
per maintaine
Re: Steve Langasek 2006-09-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > What I would expect at least:
> > Rename the task from "Desktop" to "Desktop (Gnome)" so more experienced
> > users know what's coming up.
>
> Should we also have "Mail Server (exim4)" and "Mail Server (postfix)" for
> the same reason?
Sarge'
Re: Esteban Manchado Velázquez 2006-09-25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have even rewritten dhelp_parse, one of the main utilities, in Ruby [4]
> (mostly because it's a huge PITA finding and fixing bugs in a largely text
> processing program... written in C). It maintains compatibility with the
> doc
Re: Andreas Tille 2006-09-27 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The hint to non US keyboard is *very* important. I would love if
> *every* string a user (not a hacker) has to type at the boot prompt
> would work on *any* keybord according to its marking, which means only
> letters (no =_/ etc.) are allowed.
G
Re: Raúl Sánchez Siles 2006-10-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't think this bug could only be considered as a minor bug, since it
> prevented me to enter into kde and once you are used to apps inside a
> graphical environmnet it's quite difficult to find a solution yourself.
Do you have an idea w
Re: Andreas Metzler 2006-10-13 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> packages.debian.org is lagging almost a whole day (bug #335011), you
> should use madison on merkel or "apt-cache show" on a up to date sid
> system to check the available version.
'rmadison' in the devscripts package queries the database remote
Re: Eike Nicklas 2006-10-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So I think it is about time to send a big THANK YOU to ALL of you who
> created this great distribution. Debian was the first distribution that
> persuaded me of the advantages of linux and of free software and by now,
> it has been my favourite ope
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: retty
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Petr Baudis, Jan Sembera
* URL : http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/retty/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C and i386 asm (it d
Hi,
I'm packaging a database wrapper library (http://oss.devit.com/yada/).
Its purpose is to provide one single API to a program and let the user
configure if the database used is actually postgres/mysql/sqlite. The
actual interfacing with the databases is done by .so plugins that are
dlopened at
Re: Mike Hommey 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> How good does it support it when its plugins can't load, which is going
> to happen if you load, for example, the mysql plugin and don't have the
> libmysqlclient installed ?
Yada returns ENOENT like it does if the user specifies a non-existant
plug
Re: Hendrik Sattler 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The thought should not be how many files are in each package but what the
> average client saves by not pulling all dependency chains.
Just tried installing in pbuilder:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get install libmysqlclient15off
The following NE
Re: Kurt Roeckx 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > | Depends: [...], libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.24-2), libpq4 (>= 8.1.4),
> > libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.3.8)
>
> >From the subject, I seem to understand that those are added by shlibs?
> This seems to suggest that something in the package is linked to all
Re: Mattia Dongili 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Is it in this case ok if I replace ',' by '|' there? This would allow
> > the user to really choose what database backend he wants.
>
> Yes, why not? does yada handles gracefully the absence of a library (eg.
> if incorrectly configured or such
Re: Andreas Metzler 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Which does not seem to be properly translateable into a valid single
> fasel|(foo | bar, blah) Depends relation[1].
It won't work if a plugin needs more than one dependency, right.
> You could move the plugin's additional dependencies into Rec
Re: Mike Hommey 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Then remove the libc6 parts and use
^^
> > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${mysql:Depends} | ${postgres:Depends} |
> > ${sqlite:Depends}
... and make sure there's only one package left.
> Not exactly what you'd like...
Re: Pierre Habouzit 2007-01-08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The perl team, on the other hand, uses the different scheme:
> > Maintainer: "main responsible person for the package"
> > Uploaders: the team mailing list, + members who actually care for the
> > package (who have touched it in the past,
Re: Steve M. Robbins 2006-03-25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Wouldn't it be nice if you could simply "sudo apt-get install "
> yourself? Is it feasible to have at least some of the sid chroots
> allow this? Alternatively, how about "sudo pbuilder login ..."?
I was ranting about that on irc before,
Re: Raphael Hertzog 2006-03-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Each package with translations has several dozens of copyright holder,
> we don't have to keep that list in the copyright file, do we ?
And we ignore any (C) FSF in generated autofoo stuff.
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Re: Benjamin Mesing 2006-03-27 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You can download the package from
> http://www.mesing.de/packagesearch/packagesearch_2.1_i386.deb
> and a pgp signature from:
> http://www.mesing.de/packagesearch/packagesearch_2.1_i386.deb.sig
Usually people want the source package here. I see
Re: Bill Allombert 2006-03-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Please always keep the full Debian changelog information in the package.
> Of course, you can move very old changelog entry to changelog.old or
> changelog.1 if they cause problems, but ship them in the deb.
Please don't even do that, the changel
Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Just to be sure, is the following enough for the BSD license?
>
> This software is licensed under the terms of the BSD license,
> which can be found on Debian systems in the file
> /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD or from
> http://www.opensource.
Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong :-)
That's what I intended to say, sorry if I made the impression of
contradicting you. The point was that some people new to packaging
seem to think that they don't have to include the full license, and if
the licens
Re: Michael Martinez 2006-03-29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Might want to consider adding the following patch to the distribution:
>
> http://atftplocalnet.sourceforge.net/
>
> I wrote an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] don't know if that's the right
> email for him.
The right place for requests concernin
Re: Erast Benson 2006-04-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Attached is the first in the series of dpkg patches which adds
> solaris-i386 architecture support used by NexentaOS.
>
> We would like to start submitting patchsets for core packages like dpkg,
> apt, debhelper, coreutils, gcc, xorg, and many othe
Re: Adrian von Bidder 2006-04-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> QA/MIA people: are you reading this (below)? Or Thomas - perhaps you have
> time to dropa a quick note yourself?
We are reading -qa, yes. (And -devel, but things are harder to spot
there.)
You could have checked the pinging going on current
Re: Andreas Metzler 2006-04-09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> #1 sane packages redirect mail via /etc/aliases
> #2 un-aliased mail to systemusers (e.g. spam) is not accepted and
> dumped into /var/mail/systemuser but rejected immediately (at SMTP
> time).
I'm not aware of any package inserting its system u
Re: Andreas Metzler 2006-04-09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I'm not aware of any package inserting its system users into
> > /etc/aliases, and in fact, my sid chroot doesn't even have that file.
>
> They shouldn't, unless they want to receive mail for the system-user
> account.
If they _don't_ want to
Re: Felipe Sateler 2006-04-14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Shouldn't package maintainers close these bugs when they have
> received help?
Yes, definitely. If you are aware of any "solved" RFH bugs, could you
ping the maintainers?
Christoph
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Re: Olaf van der Spek 2006-04-19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Does anyone know whether Philipp Matthias Hahn is MIA?
Hi,
please Cc: the person in question when asking about MIAness. At the
same time, Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to make sure the MIA tracking team is
aware, we might miss your message on -de
Re: Oleksandr Moskalenko 2006-04-18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I wonder if anyone has knowledge of the whereabouts of Jose Luis Tallon as far
> as his Debian involvement is concerned. His packages have several RC bugs,
> have not been updated for while, and some of them have been NMUed a while ago.
Hi
Re: Russ Allbery 2006-04-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Must we decide on a policy? Can't Manoj just package gnus-dfsg and
> > be done with it? Is that really such a big problem?
>
> > I think not.
>
> Amen.
>
> I can understand people disagreeing with Manoj's choice, but am completely
> mystified b
Re: To debian-devel@lists.debian.org 2006-04-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [*] Though I don't think "we" ever said Manoj's wish to rename the
> package was unethical - "we" just think that it confuses users more
> than it serves them. But as said, that's up to the maintainer to
> decide.
Hrm, I missed
Re: Jason D. Clinton 2006-04-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In short, your key is gone and with the current long delays in getting new
> keys added to the keyring, that's a big problem. You can't recover a GPG
> password.
If you had read the keyring.d.o changelog you would have seen that
these long de
Hi,
Re: Pierre Habouzit 2006-05-03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * as of tags, it only touches (like I explained) :
>- upstream: ensure it's always set
>- wontfix: try to guess if upstream tagged that bug wontfix, and
>set/unset it accordingly
>- fixed-upstream:
>
Re: Joey Hess 2006-05-03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I won't discuss here the goodwill of this change, I just want to
> > point out that by now, 110 packages are RC bug candidates because of
> > this [2] (422 files installed inder `/usr/lib/cgi-bin').
>
> Policy uses a "should" for this, so at most th
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-05-03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It seems the gnokii package is unmaintained and its maintainer doesn't do
> anything.
> Should the package be orphaned so other interested developers can take it?
It is already orphaned (with a pending ITA). Please so some research
before pos
Re: Kevin B. McCarty 2006-05-17 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In case anyone is interested in filing mass bug reports (I am not
> sufficiently interested, sorry), here are the -dev packages in
> unexpected sections, obtained as follows:
Isn't that more a matter of updating the override files?
Christoph
ave files in (/usr)/bin.
> sdate Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bogus. (sdate is a fakeroot fork and needs a .so in /usr/lib/ for
technical reasons.)
Christoph
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Re: Erik Steffl 2006-05-21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> is drupal debian package effectively orphaned? It is already two
> major upgrades (more than a year) behind upstream (and upstream
> recommends to upgrade from one version to next so the upgrades to
> current might get complicated).
No, please
Re: martin f krafft 2006-06-09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> also sprach Jean Parpaillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.09.1118 +0200]:
> > I want to migrate my package (wormux) to CDBS.
>
> Why?
I was just about to ask the same. Which packaging scheme do you use
now?
> This is my opinion and others will
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