Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread David Nusinow
#x27;re not able to complete the transition to the modular tree for etch. > Closing, congratulations for both teams anyway. Thank you very much. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread David Nusinow
of that font is now less good. Yes, several people have reported this issue, and I plan to look in to it as soon as the packages are updated to build properly on all arches where they've failed. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread David Nusinow
d not have pciids for > radeon X700 etc. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2005/06/msg00179.html > > Now I'm pondering between sending a patch and trusting > people to check their TODO lists :=) Patches are most assuredly welcome :-) - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread David Nusinow
uch :-) Hopefully we can get them moving in to etch and then push ahead towards getting the upcoming X.Org release in to the archive as close to its release date as possible. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-15 Thread David Nusinow
s should be fixed by their respective maintainers in time. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-15 Thread David Nusinow
about it at the very least, but if anyone has any ideas for this, I'm all ears. I refuse to resort to a debconf warning for this, but I'm running out of ideas. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-15 Thread David Nusinow
ly or debian-x to ask how to go about this. Given that the C++ transition was already laid out in full in debian-devel-announce, I assume that developers know what's going on. It's the users who are clueless this time. That said, if any developer does have any questions about the X.Org C

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:21:36PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Am Fr den 15. Jul 2005 um 20:04 schrieb David Nusinow: > > I'm mainly depressed that people aren't reading Planet Debian, or are just > > Aham, sorry for my ignorance, but what is Planet Debian?

Re: Procedure reminders on updating a lib package for a C++ ABI change

2005-07-16 Thread David Pashley
> grep'ing for Depends: libstdc++ would probably do it (although I have > recently found that some, like libgmp3, only Recommend: libstdc++ as it > is a c library with c++ bindings). Shouldn't the C++ bindings be split out and depend on libgmp3 and libstdc++? -- David Pashle

Re: Procedure reminders on updating a lib package for a C++ ABI change

2005-07-16 Thread David Nusinow
s weren't > > exported as part of the ABI. > > Ah... that was my guess... > > > David, do you want me to put together a patch that updates the > > Provides/Conflicts of libglu1-xorg appropriately? (Might as well > > keep the name change now that it&

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread David Nusinow
interest in the software used to run our systems, and to not run that on our own site shows a lack of confidence and pride in our own work. > why do you even care? It's rather pathetic that the Debian mentors site doesn't run the operating system that's the reason for its existen

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:14:32PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.07.19.1507 +0200]: > > It's rather pathetic that the Debian mentors site doesn't run the operating > > system that's the reason for its

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:30:14AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's rather pathetic that the Debian mentors site doesn't run the operating > > system that's the reason for its existence. > > Unbuntu is 9

Re: aspell upgrade woes

2005-07-20 Thread David Nusinow
r these sorts of libraries before messing things up again? I won't be doing it again for libGLU obviously, but some sort of script or large-scale automated check of the archive would potentially go a long way. - David Nusinow, who's embarrassed about what happened with libGLU -- To

Re: GPG Key Signing

2005-07-20 Thread David Weinehall
o don't pass up on the chance to get it signed by someone just because they aren't DD's =) Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://w

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread David Weinehall
tart with our base system; hopefully it's already correct, but you never know, and fixing such bugs as early in the release cycle as possible is important. Also, branch packages (for instance perl/php/python/apache/mysql) seems more important to test at an early stage than leaf packages (ap

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-23 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 02:53:42PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, David Nusinow wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:41:18PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Sean Perry wrote: > > > > I just updated to X.org. With apt. Autom

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-01 Thread David Weinehall
to not actively fix your packages because other things have a higher priority, but when someone else goes through the trouble of fixing your packages and submit patches, I think rejecting the patches is pretty unnecessary. Having POSIX-clean scripts also ensures tha

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-09 Thread David Nusinow
#x27;re in development in order to push the distro as a whole forward. No one says that you have to be running the s00p3r 133t newest version of everything on your system at all times. Testing should be a good compromise for your needs anyway. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-09 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:45:16PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:28:58AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > Where would you like us to do our work? This is exactly what unstable is > > *for*. It lets us break things while they're in development in order to

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-09 Thread David Nusinow
://secure-testing.alioth.debian.org/) > > so while testing seems like a good idea in general it doesn't seem to > be very appealing in its current incarnation... (I started to use > testing but gave up) Yet another part of the project that needs hard work to fix. Want to help? - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-09 Thread David Nusinow
ble until they're at least blessed by upstream. Asking for a canonical definition of experimental isn't going to get you anywhere though, since different developers will use it differently. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-09 Thread David Nusinow
gcc change. Do you have any other examples of these unnecessary changes that you assert are happening but shouldn't? This time with rationale to explain why they're so unneccessary beyond "unstable is the only thing useful for desktops" please. - David Nusinow -- To UNS

Re: Bug#323245: ITP: libpoe-component-jabber-perl -- A POE Component for communicating over Jabber

2005-08-15 Thread David Goodenough
er Over Ethernet, but that hardly seems relevant here. David > access to the Jabber protocol through the use of one of the four Client > classes. With built in events for common Jabber packets, all a POE > developer need do is provide an event and arguments for most events so the > re

Re: Accepted arts 1.4.2-3 (source i386 all)

2005-08-15 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:02:06PM -0700, Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers wrote: [snip] > libarts1c2 - aRts sound system core components [snip] >* Use g++-3.4 on arm and m68k since 4.0 ICEs there (#323133): Won't this create g++ transition chaos on those two platforms?! Reg

Re: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-21 Thread David Weinehall
rch has been orphaned upstream because of Tom Lord's announcement is > roughly similar to saying that Linux has been orphaned because the 2.0 > kernel series is no longer maintained... Oh, thanks for the news, I didn't know that. [snip]

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-21 Thread David Weinehall
y signed, not built, by official > Debian Developers. I don't know about others, but I never sign and upload packages built by others; I always rebuild packages when I sponsor someone. I really hope others do the same. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway? (Was: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal)

2005-08-21 Thread David Nusinow
ey join the team and are responsible for what they've taken on. If the teams themselves can't or won't do the work for good reasons and no one else is willing to do it as well, then the DPL can't force people to do the work. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#324296: ITP: ldapscripts -- Add and remove user and groups stored (using ldap)

2005-08-22 Thread David Pashley
should work out from the box for most users. > > The scripts may be used independently - within command lines - or > automatically by Samba (like smbldap-tools), to handle POSIX information > within accounts before adding Samba information. > -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: version numbering

2005-08-22 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:15:12AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > debian-changelog-mode automatically increments the version numbers for > me, including the epoch, so it is no burden -- even the poor vi using > sods can just do cut and paste dch -i - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-22 Thread David Nusinow
m for each > port, so that we don't get the first sign of these bugs when the > packages hit unstable. What sort of q&a would upstream be doing that would help us out here? Can the port teams do this kind of work themselves prior to packages hitting unstable? - David Nusinow -- To

Re: removing /etc/hotplug.d/ support

2005-08-25 Thread David Weinehall
K-H is upstream for both udev and hotplug, I'd say that's probably quite unlikely... [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-26 Thread David Weinehall
r than perl. I don't know about > zsh. Well, writing scripts that use /bin/sh or perl means that the init script will run without any dependencies on optional packages. zsh is Priority: optional... And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh scripts should work with dash t

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-27 Thread David Weinehall
e can be relaxed, imho. Well, it's helpful when you might want to replace grep etc with its busybox counterparts; for instance, busybox grep doesn't support -o. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~

Re: REMOVE ME FROM CALL WAVE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
t;512 Kings Row >Yazoo City, MS 39194 > This list is for developers of Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org) and are not related to Callwave in any way. Please view http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01444.html for information on how to remove yourself from Callwav

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
ies. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01444.html -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 17:13, John Hasler praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley writes: > > I believe it is far more useful to follow up to these emails providing > > useful information how to remove themselves and in particular link to the > > rather informative email fr

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 18:14, Bob Proulx praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley wrote: > > > Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. > > > > No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. > > That is exactly the point.

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 18:33, John Hasler praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley writes: > > No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. > > If these people read the messages they find with their searches they > wouldn't post here. The

Re: Build-Depend'ing on libasound2-dev just for Linux

2005-09-15 Thread David Nusinow
, so I had to explicitly remove non-linux ports from the requirement. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#329006: ITP: newton -- A desktop wiki applet for Gnome

2005-09-18 Thread David Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: newton Version : 0.0.9 Upstream Author : Dennis Craven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://newton.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description : A desktop

Bug#329116: ITP: gnudoku -- A program for creating and solving SuDoku puzzles

2005-09-19 Thread David Gil
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gnudoku Version : 0.92 Upstream Author : Phillip Jordan, Colin Lewis and John Spray * URL : http://icculus.org/~jcspray/GNUDoku/ * License : GPL Description : A p

Re: Debian Security Host Bandwidth Saturation

2005-09-20 Thread David Nusinow
ppening in the future. While this will continue to be a problem throughout the lifetime of sarge, hopefully for etch and beyond the X packages won't be a culprit for this sort of issue. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: port "qualification declarations" for etch

2005-10-05 Thread David Nusinow
eing that AJ lives in Australia and Steve lives in Western USA and this is a convenient time for them. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-12 Thread David Weinehall
o the trick. And until this is corrected, a lot of us won't enable default installation of Recommendations, simply because our systems get unnecessarily bloated. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~

A thought about killing two bird with one stone

2005-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
systems (and I know that not all of these are official Debian packages) when Postgresql is upgraded, OpenNMS needs to be restarted, which in turn requires Tomcat to be restarted. Just as Tomcat needs OpenNMS to have started which in turn needs Postgresql to have started. Does this make sense? David

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

2005-10-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 23:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > Does this make sense? > > Yes, it does. Such functionality is part of a proper dependency-based > initscript system, actually. Which doesn't actual

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread David Nusinow
requires authentication. > > you have to send e-mail to Alex and request an account. This is "pilot" > program, and mainly for web polishing, etc People have to ask for an account to find out how you're not violating the license on their code? - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:41:10AM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:13 -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > People have to ask for an account to find out how you're not violating > > the license on their code? > > We wanted to get as much feedbacks ab

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread David Nusinow
'm not willing to push this belief on other people, but I recommend you take a look at the thread and decide for yourself. If the Debian/OpenSolaris people are serious about becoming a subproject then the question is something that the project as a whole is going to have to deal with. - David N

Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-07 Thread David Schmitt
to assume that other components on the CD are Free Software too. Therefore I again request you kindly to make the sources to the used libraries[4] available to me. Regards, David Schmitt [1] http://www.gnusolaris.org/elatte_live_prealpha1_x86.iso.gz, md5sum:17b70141a1c4a3d877af5271b1caf920 [2

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-07 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 07 November 2005 21:29, John Hasler wrote: > David Schmitt writes: > > I have downloaded the elatte_live_prealpha1_x86.iso.gz[1] from your > > website and found a dpkg binary on it. > > > > Much to my dismay I was not able to locate the source for this b

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-07 Thread David Schmitt
Dear Alex! On Monday 07 November 2005 21:58, Alex Ross wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > David Schmitt writes: > >> I have downloaded the elatte_live_prealpha1_x86.iso.gz[1] from your > >> website and found a dpkg binary on it. > >> > >> Much to my d

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-07 Thread David Schmitt
ested in my other mail. Further I also couldn't find the Sources for the sunw* packages needed to build the rest of the build requirements. Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir über ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-08 Thread David Schmitt
lopment directory as long as I can build from there and it has appropriate (i.e. GPL compatible) licensing terms attached. Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir über ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-08 Thread David Schmitt
stalled on the ISO image, but no corresponding source package under sources/ or http://www.gnusolaris.org/apt/dists/elatte-unstable/main/source/Sources Further I'm also still searching for the Sources for the sunw* packages needed to build the rest of dpkgs build environment. Regards, David

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-08 Thread David Schmitt
esponding source package under sources/ or > > http://www.gnusolaris.org/apt/dists/elatte-unstable/main/source/Sources > > It is there now... thanks for noticing that! Thanks, Further I'm also still searching for the Sources for the sunw* packages needed to build the rest of

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-10 Thread David Schmitt
rse thusly built ISO images wouldn't be distributable, but IIRC this would be similar to the pine and qmail situation, which also prohibit (modified) binary distribution. On other news, private communication by the gnusolaris.org people lead me to the conviction that they are internally working on res

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread David Schmitt
On Friday 11 November 2005 06:48, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:07:33PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > > > [0] Presuming the FSF's claims about dynamic linking hold up in this > > > case, anyway. > > > > I consider a Debian-deri

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-11-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:16:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh > > scripts should work with dash too. > > That's incorrect. A correctly w

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-11 Thread David Schmitt
gt; messages on that thread which have been already replied but missed by > myself. Take a look at Anthonys mail and my reply, which explore this issue: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00753.html Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir über ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread David Schmitt
he point: > > the binary is not independent any more and therefore "the same sections > > [are distributed] as part of a whole [(i.e. /usr/bin/dpkg + > > /lib/libc.so)] which > > is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on > > the

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-12 Thread David Schmitt
tools does not make the software itself a derived work. The other question is whether the package as a whole constitutes more than a "medium of distribution" but I believe it customary that maintainer scripts follow the upstream license, which alleviates this problem usually. Regard

Re: Incorrect use of dpkg conffile suffixes and lintian checks

2008-01-20 Thread David Nusinow
ackburner for me for a while. I'd happily contribute what we've got to such a package, or help start one up. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#461976: ITP: polymake -- Tool for algorithmic discrete geometry/topology

2008-01-21 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: polymake Version : 2.3 Upstream Author : Ewgenij Gawrilow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Joswig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.math.tu-

Re: Bug#462027: ITP: libactiverecord-ruby -- library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby

2008-01-21 Thread David Nusinow
> Version : 2.0.2 > Upstream Author : David Heinemeier Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://ar.rubyonrails.com/ > * License : MIT > Programming Lang: Ruby > Description : library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby >

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-26 Thread David Nusinow
ng on the Xorg monolith (carrying around 100 patches, many of them very complicated) moving from dbs to quilt cut the time to deal with those patches from 2 months to 2 weeks. dpatch has the same problems as dbs, which really leaves only quilt as a workable option for all packages. If we can'

Re: dpatch -> quilt (Was: How to cope with patches sanely)

2008-01-28 Thread David Paleino
CH@")? Or am I missing something? I believe one can just remove those headers and `quilt import` them. Cheers, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 |

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-28 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:54:47PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Samstag, den 26.01.2008, 19:05 +0100 schrieb Pierre Habouzit: > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:34:27PM +0000, David Nusinow wrote: > > > If we can't figure out a good and clean way to keep a large stack of &

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-29 Thread David Nusinow
hatever it is people are using these days to do this sort of thing provide a way to get it anyhow? Why do you need quilt to do it for you? - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-01-29 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > The Debian archive is the biggest of all distributions and although > there's security support for all security issues being found, there's > still room for improvement and a need for increased resilience against > flaws not yet discovered. >

Library versioning

2008-01-30 Thread David Paleino
If not, is it that important that the filename has the same version number as the package? Kindly, David [1] please have a look at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2008/01/msg00207.html -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|

Re: Library versioning

2008-01-30 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:38:42 +0100 Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Hi David, Hi Sebastian, > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:14:13PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > > Is there any solution to this? If not, is it that important that the > > fi

Re: Bash Commander package, anybody please

2008-01-31 Thread David Bremner
Serge> http://bashc.sourceforge.net/ ___ Regards, Serge Vakulenko Hi Serge; Please file an RFP (request for package) bug on package wnpp. It sounds a bit obscure, but if you run "reportbug wnpp" from a shell, it will guide you. All the best, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-31 Thread David Nusinow
ges we don't store the .pc file in the VCS, just the patches and series file, and it works perfectly. If you name the file something other than series, it can be symlinked and quilt will work fine. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-31 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:52:55PM +0100, sean finney wrote: > i'd argue that's it's somewhat backwards to expect a patch management system > like dpatch or quilt to perform this task, and really it should be the > responsibility of the vcs or vcs-wrapper tools. I a

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-02 Thread David Nusinow
s to make it easy to shrink the delta from upstream, and doing so requires the ability to be easily aware of the state of any specific patch at any time. A diff, be it between branches or just a file sitting in debian/patches, is the best way to facilitate this. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-02-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:18:26PM +1100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.01.27.0334 +1100]: > > External patch systems are not ideal by any means, but they do > > clearly address these issues as well as I could ask for. It's

Re: Bug#464159: ITP: ktsuss -- gtk wrapper for su

2008-02-05 Thread David Paleino
Hi Yves-Alexis, Il giorno Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:09:27 +0100 Yves-Alexis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > * Package name: ktsuss > Version : 1.2 > Upstream Author : David B. Cortarello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://developer.berlios.de/pro

Re: Bug#464159: ITP: ktsuss -- gtk wrapper for su

2008-02-05 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:54:52 +0100 Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:41:46PM +0000, David Paleino wrote: > > And the main differences with gtksu are...? Just keeping simple? > > Not depending on gnome stuff. See thread on

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread David Paleino
e Lenny. The basic reason is that > > the selinux packages have basically been unmaintained since the release > > of Etch. > > I'd like to work on SELinux packages and bugs. Can't one just file NMUs and upload them to DELAYED/*? David -- . ''`. Debian ma

Binaries with the same name

2008-02-09 Thread David Paleino
would be a suitable solution. This is way I suggested him to rename his binary to something less generic than "translate". Is this the Right Way to behave? And what if doesn't reply to that bug? Should I file my RFS nevertheless, thus expecting a RC bug filed? Should I rename my binary

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-09 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:20:43 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > David Paleino wrote: > > Any suggestion/idea/* is very welcome. > > As your program is gnome-only I don't think you can even claim to be > more "generic" than the

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-09 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:28:23 +0100 sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > hi, Hi, > On Saturday 09 February 2008 07:48:08 pm David Paleino wrote: > > Is this the Right Way to behave? And what if doesn't reply to that > > bug? Should I file my RFS neve

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-10 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:16:17 +0200 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On la, 2008-02-09 at 19:48 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > The problem is that "translate" by does only de<->en translations, > > while "my" translate offer

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-10 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:23:47 +0200 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On su, 2008-02-10 at 11:52 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > I believe I can claim the use of the generic name "translate". > > I think I wasn't clear enough in my

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-10 Thread David Paleino
(please do _not_ CC me :) Il giorno Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:17:30 +0100 Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:51:46PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > > Ok, then. Is translate-bin a right choice? Or is that too generic? > > Since -

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-10 Thread David Paleino
without bothering anybody. I believe that renaming it to "ntranslate" is a good choice, I'll also update all the references to it (the manpage, ...). Regards, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-10 Thread David Paleino
ide the same basic functionality indeed (i.e. translations), and the implementation is different. Why not using alternatives|Conflicts then? (read as: I can't understand your Policy citation, since it seems you're contradicting yourself). However, as already stated, I'll

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-10 Thread David Paleino
t, IMHO. However, we can have further discussion on the bug report, as I've just filed it. Cheers, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http:

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-11 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:03:12 -0500 "David Moreno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > No package should be generic for anything, most of the time, and it's up the > users and alternatives to do that. Agreed, and in fact I've already renamed the b

Re: Binaries with the same name

2008-02-11 Thread David Moreno
On Feb 10, 2008 5:52 AM, David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Il giorno Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:16:17 +0200 > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > On la, 2008-02-09 at 19:48 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > > The problem is that "transl

Re: Meaning of the "Altering package upload rules"

2008-02-13 Thread David Paleino
not yet been built on the buildd's for ? (Providing > that one is building from the same sources, of course!) Interpreting the paragraph cited above ("The Debian project resolves..."), I believe you saw it right. But I'd like to know where is the full text of the GR (or proba

Re: dpatch -> quilt

2008-02-16 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:07:18 +0100 Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On jeu, 2008-02-07 at 23:07 +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: > > However, I wonder wether quilt has any way (through a known wrapper > > perhaps) to support the thing I like (though I'm not too attached to > > t

Re: Idea for package name instead of "build" (ITP)

2008-02-16 Thread David Bremner
> "Raphael" == Raphael Bossek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raphael> Now I'm looking for a idea how to name the "build" Raphael> package. For my perspective of view is "build" to simple Raphael> to be packaged as it is. My idea was to sue the first Raphael> letters (forename, su

Re: Idea for package name instead of "build" (ITP)

2008-02-17 Thread David Bremner
e name could hint at that fact. The rest of my message was suggestions for names. Upon reflection, not only was the idea not so well expressed, but relationship with GNU Make could be better expressed in the short description. OK, I think I have generated enough noise on this issue. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian over sensitivity?

2008-02-20 Thread David Paleino
an asks for. > > Lintian version 1.23.45 > > Changing the line to read: > > Copyright (C) 2007-2008 by Shachar Shemesh > pacifies lintian, but I still think this is over sensitivity on its behalf. Not really. AFAIK "(C)" has no legal validity, while "C

Re: [med-svn] r1456 - trunk/community/infrastructure/scripts

2008-02-20 Thread David Paleino
ot;originator").replace("<", > > "<").replace(">", ">") > > Lastly you can blame me for causing this problem. It was my > shameless switching of HTMLTemplates Encoding mechanism. [..] Erm... why did you post this on -devel? :) M

Re: Lintian over sensitivity?

2008-02-21 Thread David Paleino
Ciao Giacomo, Il giorno Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:46:35 +0100 "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > David Paleino wrote: > > > Not really. AFAIK "(C)" has no legal validity, while "Copyright" and "©" > > have. > &g

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-21 Thread David Nusinow
ges rather than their vanity package of the hour, I think everyone would benefit. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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