Re: Querying the BTS

2005-11-16 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Arnaud... On Wednesday 16 November 2005 16:58, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > I'd like to query the bts automatically to write an application where I > could summarize bug counts and release bloquers for the java team. > > Is there a way to query the bts and receive the response in a way it's > easil

Re: awstats configuration and installation

2005-12-05 Thread Christoph Haas
On Monday 05 December 2005 14:29, kevin bailey wrote: > after installing awstats package on sarge it took a bit of figuring out > how to configure it. > > here are my notes which may help someone or mey help the awstats package > maintainer. Thanks for taking the time. I'm not the maintainer of aw

Re: packages for sale

2006-01-10 Thread Christoph Haas
On Monday 09 January 2006 09:52, Zak B. Elep wrote: > On 1/9/06, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I intend to orphan the following packages: > > > > bricolage > > dbacl > > I intend to adopt the above packages. > > > If you want one of these, upload it with yourself as Maintainer. > > Imm

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-15 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sunday 15 January 2006 09:33, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:40:41 +, Roger Leigh said: > > Andrew, do you understand just how inappropriate and offensive your > > mail was? Nothing justifies abuse of our lists like that. d-d-a is > > a widely-read list both inside and ou

Re: debian developer

2006-03-10 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Mark... On Friday 10 March 2006 15:27, Mark Walter wrote: > I want to step in to be a debian developer. Great to hear that. > While processing the new maintainer's guide I need to cross checked > boxes to apply. > > Two of them are not true for me at all and I can't apply as a developer > :-

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-01 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 13:44, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.01.0005 +0100]: > > Subversion, in conjunction with alioth, has risen dramatically in > > Debian to accomodate team-based maintainance. There are of course > > plenty of challengers, bu

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-02 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:47, John Goerzen wrote: > I do use darcs to track patches against upstream. I really don't > understand the whole cdbs/dpatch/whatever thing -- why use a hack to > manage your patches when you could use a real VC tool that does it > better? Is there a common "best pra

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-02 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 21:44, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Otavio Salvador [Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:43:56 -0300]: > >> Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Then each developer can prepare a set of changes offline, do all > >> > the branching,

Re: Orphaned Packages

2006-08-17 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Klaus... On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:47, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > I read that the packages cvsps and xearth are orphaned now. I might be > able to get over this packages. But there is a small problem: > > Years ago I start getting a official debian maintainer. Unfortunately it > went asleep as

Re: Openwebmail

2006-09-17 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thursday 14 September 2006 17:34, Michael Bellander wrote: > Is there anybody that can start with openwebmail for debian again, > Debian sarge unstable or something? I mean is there any chance to see an > updated verison of openwebmail in debian again. Do you know whether the RC bugs that lead

Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-26 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, devs... I have tried the new Etch installer last weekend and I'm impressed. The installation works perfectly well and the graphical installer - while it doesn't add much value IMHO to the dialog based installer - looks nice and will surely be liked by many users. Kudos to the installer team

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-26 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 11:25, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:12:58AM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > What I would expect at least: > > Rename the task from "Desktop" to "Desktop (Gnome)" so more > > experienced users know what&#

Re: Packages up for adoption

2006-10-10 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 21:25, Steve Kemp wrote: > I've recently orphaned all my packages whilst being on a > bit of hiatus from project work. > >* driftnet >* dsniff I'll take driftnet. What would a network admin do without it? ;) I saw that Christian Kujau showed interest in dsniff

ethstatus: no upstream, RFA or removal?

2006-10-19 Thread Christoph Haas
Dear list... I'm the maintainer of the "ethstatus" package - a console-based ethernet statistics monitor. You can e.g. run it on your gateway's 9" CRT on the console and see how much bandwidth is currently used in a bar-like view. I'm in the process of RFA'ing the package. But I wonder whether

Re: ethstatus: no upstream, RFA or removal?

2006-10-19 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thursday 19 October 2006 13:37, Christoph Haas wrote: > I'm the maintainer of the "ethstatus" package - a console-based ethernet > statistics monitor. You can e.g. run it on your gateway's 9" CRT on the > console and see how much bandwidth is currently use

Virtual package "editor" gone?

2006-11-15 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, I just received a bug report (#398744) that my package 'cream' should provide the virtual package 'editor'. I checked http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt and the 'editor' package is documented to have been removed back in 1996. Still several packages p

Re: Local woody mirror?

2006-04-04 Thread Christoph Haas
use "debmirror" to create a proper mirror. Kind regards Christoph Haas -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%--1,48 All -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a policy for the .desktop files?

2006-04-15 Thread Christoph Haas
ps ? Just provide a .desktop file with the appropriate information. Here is the formal description of .desktop files: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/desktop-entry-spec In my experience not all categories worked in my KDE Sid installation. I didn't investigate that, yet. Kind regards Chris

Re: sources.list

2006-04-17 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:24:27AM +0430, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > When i wanna a local directory from my HDD,& parallel of it,I use > apt-get from that directory,How i dpo it? man sources.list Kind regards Christoph Haas -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%--

Re: ip access pemit

2006-04-19 Thread Christoph Haas
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Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-09 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:07:27AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I intend to take over the Bacula package. Although hijacking generally feels mean I welcome your action here. > * Bacula has had RC bugs open for more than a year. It was removed >from testing several months ago because of this

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Christoph Haas
Morning... Matthias, your "From:" line appears to be missing. Or my MUA is b0rked. On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:29:34PM +0200, wrote: > * NTP server > (some work required; currently, not-really-maintained by the Debian > NTP Team, which consists of zero active members) I'd take my chance on t

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:25:58AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Christoph Haas schrieb: > > >>* NTP server > >> (some work required; currently, not-really-maintained by the Debian > >> NTP Team, which consists of zero active members) > > >I'd take

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:09:07AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Christoph Haas schrieb: > > > >>>* NTP server > >>> (some work required; currently, not-really-maintained

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:45:10PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Christoph Haas wrote: > > > > I'm currently looking into several systems. Usually I use Subversion and > > svn-buildpackage but due to a lot of trouble with svn-buildpackage I > > have moved away

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:48:14PM +0200, I (Christoph Haas) wrote: > * svn-inject > > Injecting new packages through svn-inject fails here. I get errors about > the MKCOL method not being allowed on the remote WebDAV server. Perhaps > it's a problem that the Apache run

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-06-07 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:25:27AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Christoph Haas wrote: > > Yes, of course. Besides some minor things I don't quite like about > > Subversion ([...] getting out old revisions of a file means typing > > the full URL for no reason) &g

Regexp to parse "Version:" fields

2006-06-21 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi... for mentors.debian.net I would like to find a perfect (TM) regular expression to split the "Version:" line of a control file into: - epoch - upstream version - Debian package revision My current attempt is: ^(?:(\d+):)?(\d[\w\.\+-:]*?)(?:-(.+))?$ I have extracted the version of my

Re: Regexp to parse "Version:" fields

2006-06-21 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:15:41AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So before diving into into regular expressions any further (I have no > > practical experience with lookahead patterns for example) I would like > &

Re: Regexp to parse "Version:" fields

2006-06-21 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:15:41AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > So before diving into into regular expressions any further (I have no &

Re: How to Avoid GPL Issue

2003-06-29 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:27:40PM -0400, G. C. wrote: > Currently we are trying to port some third party code to Linux kernel. Some > modules of third party code need to be ported into Linux kernel and some > drivers need to be ported from Vxworks to Linux drivers. The problem we > have is that

Re: Debian job board?

2003-07-02 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:28:01PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > Is there any place where someone could advertise jobs that would be suitable > for Debian developers? We (the folks at mentors.debian.net) are planning a forum where NMs are seeking sponsors. It would be no additional effort to create

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-08 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:33:08PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > What we need is a database with simple mailing list function (similar to > PTS) where willing sponsors for a certain package can subscribe and > sponsorees with much motivation can send diffs for the next version > upgrade. Easy to rev

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

2005-07-20 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Nico... I'm not reading debian-devel for two days and now this. ;) On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:21:09PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > why is mentors.debian.net powered by Ubuntu? mentors.debian.net is work in progress. As we are working on an improvement of the import process (that analyses the u

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

2005-07-20 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:01:09PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > The intention, as I understand it, isn't to be a general-purpose package > repository (at least, last time I looked at it, no pre-built binary packages > were provided), but to be a "staging area" of sorts for packages which > people

localhost.localdomain

2005-09-23 Thread Christoph Haas
Howdy... is there a reason that the default entry for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts reads "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost"? This has hit me several times and is especially problematic when accessing a MySQL database locally. MySQL quickly complains like this: ..warning: connect to mysql serv

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-23 Thread Christoph Haas
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:59:52PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:47:58PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > ..warning: connect to mysql server foobar: Access denied for user > > 'whoever'@'localhost.localdomain' (using password: YES) >

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-23 Thread Christoph Haas
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:07:54PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 9/23/05, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It appears like MySQL does that. It seems to check the IP address of the > > connecting client to find the permissions in it's internal `us

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-24 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:35:09PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:01:05PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > It appears like MySQL does that. It seems to check the IP address of the > > connecting client to find the permissions in it's internal `

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-24 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 08:33:25PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > "localdomain" is not a registered top-level domain and hopefully never > > will be, so it is safe to use locally as it won't cause communication > > problems. > > It is not safe to use

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-07 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:37:47PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 06, Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > .localdomain is such a peace of shit which only makes troubles. So > Please explain which troubles. Mine with MySQL. And the reason why I initiated this thread. :) MySQL defin

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-07 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:44:42PM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:24:12PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Oct 2005, Pierre Machard wrote: > > > > > > IIRC The main reason was described in #247734 > > > > ARGH! > > > > If that bug was t

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-09 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 06:53:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > But it's then very hard to see if this breaks anything. After all, the > relevant change was made in netcfg in July of 2004. For an entire year, > it was in every system installed, and nobody complained, although a few > of us noticed it

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-14 Thread Christoph Haas
Thomas... On Friday 14 October 2005 10:47, Thomas Hood wrote: > OK, I have modified netcfg so that it writes > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > to /etc/hosts. Thank you very much. My fellow sysadmins will appreciate that. And of course I'm very glad that after a lot of global warming the thread fina

adept for Debian?

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi... A coworker just showed me his Ubuntu/Breezy installation featuring their package management tool "adept" [1]. It looks pretty nifty. Are there plans already to offer the same package in Debian? It's not listed in the wnpp yet. I'm just curious if anyone has talked to Ubuntu maintainers about

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-20 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thursday 20 October 2005 16:01, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > MySQL definitely chokes on localhost.localdomain. And although MySQL > > will adopt to distributions using "localhost.localdomain" instead of >

Re: Bug#335173: ITP: dspam -- Highly accurate and fast statistical spam filter

2005-10-22 Thread Christoph Haas
On Saturday 22 October 2005 12:08, Rudolf Weeber wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Rudolf Weeber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: dspam > Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Deep Logic Inc. > * URL : www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam > * Li

Bug#335572: ITP: python-iplib -- Python library to convert amongst many different IPv4 notations

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Haas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-iplib Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Davide Alberani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://erlug.linux.it/~da/soft/iplib/ * License : GPL Description

Re: How can I help debian?

2005-10-25 Thread Christoph Haas
Hello, Alejandro... On Monday 24 October 2005 23:34, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > I was planning on purchasing some HD's and hardware to make a release > mirror or a apt-get mirror for Debian users... you know, to be of some > help like others have done. That's a nice idea. Although there are many

Re: todos: command not found

2005-11-02 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 22:20, João Silva wrote: > Anyone knows what package brings the todos command? > I had this error in a debian-cd try: > tools/add-bin-doc: line 42: todos: command not found Try http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents Christoph -- |\ _,,,---,

Re: keyTouch package

2005-11-12 Thread Christoph Haas
On Saturday 12 November 2005 19:28, Marvin Raaijmakers wrote: > Is there a volunteer to create a package for keyTouch 2? > Website: http://keytouch.sf.net Please file an RFP (request for package). That's the best way to find a packager. Documentation at: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Chris

SoC application deadline has been extended to April 7th

2008-03-31 Thread Christoph Haas
Dear lists... Giridhar was kindly forwarding my offer of being a sponsor for the Google Summer-of-Code regarding the 'debexpo' ([72]) project. You may have read the news already ([42]) that Google has extended the application deadline for students to April 7th. So if any student is interested in w

mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Christoph Haas
Fellow earthicans... as part of Google's Summer of Code we are working the "debexpo" project which is supposed to create a software basis to run "social network"-enhanced Debian package repositories. Think mentors.debian.net with more social interaction like commenting on other people's packages a

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:28:19PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > This does not need to happen before fall 2008. But then it would be nice > > if we could move it then. Who is in charge of the debian.org servers for > > thi

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:58:36PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > As soon as that part is done I would like to consider moving the service > > to an official Debian machine. I've been sponsoring hardware for > > mentors.

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-08 Thread Christoph Haas
Moin, Raphael... On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:12:25PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > This is offtopic to your questions, but I should better say this now than > forgetting about this idea: > > For the new users registration process what about making mentors: > > * require the key to be in a key

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-08 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > The focus of mentors.debian.net is to host source packages that are > > supposed to be sponsored. So it's not some weird multiverse non-free > > binary

Bug#476831: ITP: tempita -- A very small text templating language

2008-04-19 Thread Christoph Haas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: tempita Version: 0.1 Upstream Author: Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://pythonpaste.org/tempita/ License: MIT Descripti

Bug#476923: ITP: python-weberror -- Python web error handling and exception catching module

2008-04-20 Thread Christoph Haas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-weberror Version : 0.8a Upstream Author : Ben Bangert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Bug#476924: ITP: python-webob -- Python module providing WSGI request and response objects

2008-04-20 Thread Christoph Haas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-webob Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pythonpaste.org/webob/ * License : MIT Programming

Package maintenance in $HOME os an NFS share? (best practices survey)

2008-04-20 Thread Christoph Haas
Fellow devs, I'm encountering a lot of bitching with using svn-inject (from svn-buildpackage) over an NFS share. A quick survey of fellow DDs told me that they don't build packages on an NFS share anyway but instead use their local disks. And - voila - svn-inject finally worked from a local di

Re: Package maintenance in $HOME os an NFS share? (best practices survey)

2008-04-24 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mittwoch, 23. April 2008, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:58:26 +1000, Ben Finney > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So I'm wondering what other developers do. Are you using NFS at all? > >&

Re: conffiles handling between version up

2008-05-02 Thread Christoph Haas
On Freitag, 2. Mai 2008, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > I'm afraid this might be already discussed somewhere > but I'd like to know how developers think of it. > > I recently noticed that there were /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/ > and /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/ so my customization of > /etc/postgresql/8.2/main

libweather-com-perl useless in Etch

2008-05-29 Thread Christoph Haas
Fellow earthicans, I'm maintaining the libweather-com-perl package. Apparently (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35681) the package stopped working after May 6th 2008. I patched the package so it works again and uploaded it into unstable. Just wondering what to do with Etch because

pdns (PowerDNS): need new (co)maintainer

2009-10-22 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, everyone... Matthijs Mohlmann and me are the current maintainers of the "pdns" package. It is a (DNS) name server software that can use different database backends like MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite and is used by large organisations with many domains to maintain their DNS zones. In addition the

Bug#414182: ITP: python-authkit -- authentication and authorisation framework for Python WSGI applications

2007-03-09 Thread Christoph Haas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-authkit Version : 0.3.0pre5 Upstream Author : James Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://authkit.org/ * License : MIT Programming

Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Christoph Haas
Dear list... what has always annoyed me is now ready to be asked on this list. :) It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database of installed packages is terribly slow at times. I have roughly 1800 packages installed and it sometimes takes 20-30 seconds to install a single

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Christoph Haas
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 > > of installed packages is terribly slow at times. > > Interesting. I have ~16

Re: Slow package database

2007-04-02 Thread Christoph Haas
On Friday 30 March 2007 22:25, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Christoph Haas: > > What might be the cause? Is there some fragmentation effect? > > It's probably ext3's directory hashing. It tries to access the files > in /var/lib/dpkg/info in hash order, which leads to e

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-04 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:28:49PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 > Version : 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 > Upstream Author : MPAA <[EMAIL PR

LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)

2007-05-04 Thread Christoph Haas
Dear list... someone (curse you, Matthijs) motivated me to dump NIS in favor of LDAP for user accounts on my small home net. Good thing I did it during my vacation because it's not as trivial as I hoped. I'm unhappy with the outcome of the bug #298148 (kdebase-bin: kcheckpass needs setuid bit for

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

2007-05-04 Thread Christoph Haas
Petter, On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 05:29:07PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Christoph Haas] > > I'm unhappy with the outcome of the bug #298148 (kdebase-bin: kcheckpass > > needs setuid bit for ldap authentication). When using libnss-ldap and > > libpam-ldap (optiona

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

2007-05-04 Thread Christoph Haas
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 07:55:14PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Christoph, > > > Thanks in advance for the hints. I'm taking notes already to document > > this better. > > please post a link as soon as you have some documentation online. I'd > think that a wiki would be a good place for it. pam-

Re: Why not move Apt to a relational database

2007-06-03 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:31:18AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:55:01 +0100 > Justin Emmanuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am brand new to this mailing list, I joined it because I had an idea > > that I would like to have considered. Moving apt to a relational > > databa

Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-22 Thread Christoph Haas
Dear list... the matter has been discussed at least twice already. Roberto C. Sanchez brought the matter back up in January 2008. The response was very positive but nobody wanted to implement that. Several Debian end users in my circle would surely be happy about having screenshots available fo

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread Christoph Haas
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > > it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched > > > > http://screenshots.debian.net > > [...] > > > Have fun and let m

screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread Christoph Haas
Fellow developers... it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched http://screenshots.debian.net after two weeks of programming fun. It is an effort to help users get an idea what a certain application does and how it looks like by offering screenshots. It was suggeste

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread Christoph Haas
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - You state that screenshot will be released under the same term of > > the screenshot-ed package, why so? It seems to me rather arbitrary > > and makes impossible

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread Christoph Haas
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/11/10 Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I can even offer JSON, SOAP, XML, whatever if needed. Some URL that > > can be used in an IMG/SRC tag should probably be sufficient for > > packages.d.o. I'll

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread Christoph Haas
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > > it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched > > http://screenshots.debian.net > > First of all thanks a lot for the effort,

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread Christoph Haas
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > > Have fun and let me know what you think. > > Thank you for this; it looks very nice! > > Some quick comments: > > * don't list packages with only

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Christoph Haas
On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Raphael Geissert > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * When browsing the packages list it would be great if you could also > > provide links to browse packages by name (e.g. A, B, C, etc, you get > > what I mean). *

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Christoph Haas
On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also need lists of packages without screenshots for a given dist: > > > > s.d.n/needed/sid/a > > s.d.n/needed/etch/b > > In a similar vein, it might be a good idea to have p

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Christoph Haas
On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:02:42AM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > * There are 14 pages and the navigation is truncated to 'Page: 1 2 > > > 3 .. 14 >'. Could you (optionally) display links to all p

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Florian... On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, Florian Maier wrote: > Christoph Haas wrote: > > Fellow developers... > > > > it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched > > > > http://screenshots.debian.net > > > > after two weeks o

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-12 Thread Christoph Haas
Marc, On Mittwoch, 12. November 2008, Marc Bertram wrote: > Thank you for this great service! Great you like it. > I found a bug in the search results. > If you go to another page of the search results (e.g. 2), you go > back on the page "browsing screenshots". > I think there is a wrong link to

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-13 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Michael... On Donnerstag, 13. November 2008, Michael Lamothe wrote: > There's a little typo on the page ... "appliation". Thanks, fixed. > Also, when you say "English", which one do you mean? I mean that west germanic language[0]. I wouldn't delete a screenshot just because one uses 's' wh

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-14 Thread Christoph Haas
On Freitag, 14. November 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: > Please excuse my cumbersomeness but may I repeat my hint that a > potential Screenshots 2.0 system should enable multi language > screenshots. I'm in big favour of translating everything which is > targeting at end users and screenshots are def

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-15 Thread Christoph Haas
On Samstag, 15. November 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18:26PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > > I would love to see the screenshots integrated into > > packages.debian.org and perhaps they even get used in graphical > > package managers like syna

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-16 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sonntag, 16. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18:26PM +0100, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Thumbnail (<= 160x120 pixels): > > http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/PACKAGENAME > > (this URL r

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-17 Thread Christoph Haas
On Montag, 17. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:46:27PM +0100, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > There should be a way to select what screenshot you want. I'm saving > > the version number along with the screenshot.

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:37:13PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > * Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-22 19:26]: > > (Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) > > Dear Debian developers, > > > > I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an > > approximate list of p

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-20 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:05:04AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > A recent discussion back in August, in -devel, showed that the current > common trick of using a "Homepage:" pseudo-field in binary packages' > descriptions is not really optimal. Indeed. It's formally specified to be used in the

Re: dupload failed

2007-11-08 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:01PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote: > I couldn't upload my package into the incoming queue with dupload > because I could not connect to ftp-master.debian.org on port 21 and 22. ftp-master is temporarily out of service. See [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christoph -- A consultant

Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-06 Thread Christoph Haas
Fellow Debianistas... At work we are using syslog-ng a lot and it's very useful for a central logging server. However I don't like the syntax because it's verbose and typo-prone. So I was looking at metalog and seeing it orphaned I decided to adopt it (#423299). I've started bringing the package i

Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-09 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > Christoph Haas wrote: >> At work we are using syslog-ng a lot and it's very useful for a central >> logging server. However I don't like the syntax because it's verbose and >> typo-prone. So I

Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-10 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:07:34AM +0100, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 01:42:02PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > > I think I agree to that. Thus I will request the removal of the package > > until metalog will one day be more configurable and allow to mimic o

dput uploads using HTTP/PUT and 15 seconds delays

2007-12-29 Thread Christoph Haas
Fellow earthicans... you may remember that I'm working on a refactoring of the mentors.debian.net site. Currently there are many processes involved which makes maintaining the whole application a bit confusing. So I thought it would be great if uploads could be sent to the web application directly

Bug#461087: ITP: python-babel -- A collection of tools for internationalizing Python applications.

2008-01-16 Thread Christoph Haas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-babel Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://babel.edgewall.org/ * License : BSD Programming

Re: screenshots.d.n

2010-12-05 Thread Christoph Haas
[Late response, I know. I'm lagging following email and mailing lists.] Am 17.11.2010 14:11, schrieb Simon Paillard: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:45:22PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 07:14:41PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>> Currently packages.d.o does not know if a package

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