how to add my project?

2012-12-23 Thread Eduard
Hello! How can i add my project into debian-devel repository? For example, my program is the based on httrack library tool, the GUI for it, it's the clone from WinHTTrack tool, classical for windows systems. This project was programmed in Qt4 without any KDE or Gnome dependencies, source code i

Re: how to add my project?

2012-12-25 Thread Eduard
thank you! благодарю! :) Am 23.12.2012 11:43, schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:42AM +0100, Eduard wrote: Hello! How can i add my project into debian-devel repository? For example, my program is the based on httrack library tool, the GUI for it, it's the clone

Re: how to add my project?

2012-12-25 Thread Eduard
Hello John Paul Adrian! Thank You for this information and for your help! best regards, viele Grüße, Eduard Am 23.12.2012 13:03, schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: Hello Eduard, On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:42AM +0100, Eduard wrote: Hello! How can i add my project into debian-devel

Drop testing

2004-10-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include > > Some improvements have already been proposed by Eduard Bloch and > > Adrian Bunk: freezing unstable while keeping testing. > > Jerome, please, you could have asked me. I prepare an internal GR draft > for exactly this issue, but it is to be made public on the

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
-d in the last months. In this respect, I think that Testing was a bad solution. A pseudo solution for mixed social/technical problems that have been declared as technical problems and the solution became a disaster. Well, maybe it is just me. I am no exceptional case WRT the behaviour "analysis&

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
RC bug that affects sarge was fixed, > probably there could be *zero* such bugs now. If we would fix the bugs in the distribution that is to be released, there would be *zero* now. But many maintainers simply do not care much about testing, Unstable runs fine for them. That is why a refered Joel

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Gergely Nagy [Sat, Oct 23 2004, 10:44:58PM]: > > - unstable lockdown in the freeze > > - drop Testing and concentrate on work instead of wasting time on > >synching stuff. This eliminates the need for testing-security. See > >the last part of the paper for details. > > Doing

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
of the paper for details. > > You _are_ aware that this is approximately how it was done before woody, no? Similar to those and more aggressive. Didn't I write this already? Regards, Eduard. -- Junggesellen sollten hohe Steuern zahlen. Es ist nicht gerecht, daß einige Männer

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
ng new, more important bugs is > warrented by the ugliness of the bug. If the package is one of the large > majority of packages that are _not_ currently frozen in testing, then it "not currently"? In my solution, the whole Sid archive would be frozen. And there will be no Testing,

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Marco d'Itri [Sat, Oct 23 2004, 10:06:24PM]: > On Oct 23, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ABSTRACT > You are trying to force developers to work on item x, which they dislike, > by forcing them to not work on item y, which they like more. You

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
them and they promise to wait for the update to be in Sid. Then, you will wait weeks for the acknoledgement and the bug may still be in Testing in this time. And it will take another two weeks for a real fix to slip into Testing. That is not fun. That is overhead which creates confusion. Reg

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
Do you really think that this is the point? Do you have statistics? No, but some web survey can surely be done. There is something on http://www.debian-administration.org/?poll=3 but there are not enough votes (IMHO) base any statement on it. Regards, Eduard. -- Jede einem Menschen zugefügte Beleidigung, geleichgültig, welcher Rasse er angehört, ist eine Herabwürdigung der ganzen Menschheit. -- Albert Camus

Bug#278289: ITP: apt-dupdate -- diff-based update of APT's index files

2004-10-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: apt-dupdate Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : me * License : BSD Description : diff-based update of APT's index files apt-dupdate is beeing written right now. The server part is almost done, the client should be not a

Re: Bug#278289: ITP: apt-dupdate -- diff-based update of APT's index files

2004-10-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Adrian! Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder schrieb am Mittwoch, den 27. Oktober 2004: > On Monday 25 October 2004 23.47, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > - in difference to apt-pupdate, I do not use chains of small diffs, > >based on days and managed by the

Re: Finding an improved release process.

2004-12-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
e porters were not able to fix such things in time. Because of lazyness and irresponsibility, not "the bad boot-floppies code". Regards, Eduard. -- --> VioLK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has joined #debian.de hi panic hilfe! <-- VioLK has quit (Client Quit) <_rene_> ?? <_rene_> was war denn das für ne Aktion? vielleicht stand der mörder hinter ihm

Re: Finding an improved release process.

2004-12-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
to install than Windows XP", so clearly *some* users are impressed; > and considering even the most fervent Debian advocates have always regarded > the installer as a weakness, I think that's saying something... Sure, the outcome is impressive. Though, you know there are no absolute values. Regards, Eduard. -- For any stupid thing chosen at random, you'll find at least 5 people on the Internet who thinks it's a good idea. -- Steve Langasek in debian-devel

Re: Bug#288497: ITP: libsnowball-swedish-perl -- Stemming algorithm for Swedish

2005-01-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
ed. Debian is not playground for just "making your fingertipps on a great distribution". Do you really speak all that languages? Somehow I doubt. Regards, Eduard. -- argl bin i deppert

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
not more, because otherwise you would have circular dependencies (or non-sense dependencies), no good choice at all. Regards, Eduard. -- hat einer von euch schon bind9 installiert? das neue root kit? :->

apt-get should be able to install packages "directly"

2005-01-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
really need is the apt-get extension mentioned here a while ago that would allow you to run apt-get on local packages (without generating a local repository as described by Michel here). Regards, Eduard. -- "apt meldete, es werden ca. 70 Pakete deinstalliert werden müssen und mir kam es

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
hat has been a long time ago, IIRC when Herbert was still around. No idea where the paper now is, most likely between the unchecked stuff from old gluck... Regards, Eduard.

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
oads them and re-loads them. No, it doesn't. It uses the same cludge that most people would run by hand (blind dpkg -i, on failure "apt-get -f install"). In fact, I did nit find a clear solution to extract the list of dependencies and feed apt with them when I wrote that part of code. Regards, Eduard.

Re: Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included

2005-01-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Bernhard R. Link [Sun, Jan 09 2005, 02:26:51PM]: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > nvtv: nvtvd.8.gz Oh, sorry, was not a deliberate act. (Must have been from the time when dh_make sugested this crappy license per default). Maintainer: Please rel

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
lso move static libraries (.a) to separate packages. They are not really needed for normal work. Regards, Eduard. -- hat einer von euch schon bind9 installiert? das neue root kit? :-> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ipw2100-devel] debian, ipw2200 and wlan0

2005-02-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
ould NOT rely on it at all. The "reliable" solution for getting the wlan NIC id would be something like: wlan=$(iwconfig 2>/dev/null | head -1 | grep ESS | cut -f1 -d' ') Regarts, Eduard. -- ?? was geht? -!- groby [EMAIL PROTECTED] has left #debian.de [groby] groby: groby signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: pwc-source headed for unstable this weekend

2005-02-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
have a request to implement some hocus-pocus in module-assistant to warn the users more loudly when the headers are insufficient. Regards, Eduard. -- Russian roulette for linux: [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "Still breathing, eh?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#296279: ITP: tarp -- small script adding progress bar support for GNU tar

2005-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
here? 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. Regards, Eduard. -

Re: Bug#296279: ITP: tarp -- small script adding progress bar support for GNU tar

2005-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Christoph Berg [Mon, Feb 21 2005, 04:46:14PM]: > 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 su

Re: Bug#296279: ITP: tarp -- small script adding progress bar support for GNU tar

2005-02-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Verdan [Tue, Feb 22 2005, 11:01:50PM]: > Well, for telling truth, I agree it's small, or seem to be small, but in > my opinion it works quite nice (with medium-large archives) and can be > usefull. I'm not convinced if it would work well in group of > other tool

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
ow > libsdl1.2debian-all > Depends: aalib1 > Size: 184960 > > [13:11:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ apt-cache show aalib1 > Size: 53524 And you point is...? I think 0.1% (guessed) of users that may need AA support can live with extra 185kb in favor of 99.9% users saving that space. Eduard. -

Bug#297606: ITP: unionfs -- Stackable Unification File System

2005-03-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: unionfs Version : 1.0.9 Upstream Author : Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html * License : GPL

Re: Bug#297606: ITP: unionfs -- Stackable Unification File System

2005-03-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
n only one of the source directories (which makes possible to "change" files on read-only filesystems). Regards, Eduard. -- äöü ÃDÃVÃ\ Ã_ Sind das Umlaute oder Fragezeichen? sesom: Das ist UTF8. Stimmt. Was kommt bei dir an? Zeichenmüll. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
hing better, > but nobody ever quite got round to it ... Does it sound discriminating because you associcate that with real life? Is "second class port" be a better name? (scp.d.o)? Or "non-releaseable ports", nrp.d.o? Regards, Eduard. -- Aufgabe der Erziehung wäre es, den me

Re: The sarge release disaster - some thoughts

2005-03-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
rently, saying that d-i has already been there, was designed before, etc.pp. But it was a fresh toy and we have seen how long the development did take. I wonder how you seriously can assume that burning the bridges was a great idea. Regards, Eduard. -- oh NOTFALL! *** yath ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: apt-proxy

2005-11-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Eric Cooper [Mon, Nov 07 2005, 09:18:15AM]: > > Is there a good alternative? > > I wrote approx for exactly this purpose. It's now in testing. Update your package description please. Current apt-cacher does not require Apache. Eduard. -- Elric: We are dreamers,

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
is intensely frustrating to me. Welcome to reality. I remember people saying that boot-floppies had no i18n or USB support at all (etc.) even long time after Woody has been released. Looks like some kind of mental inertia. Eduard. -- und warum ist der nicht so schön bunt wie bei Suse? signature.asc

Re: c2a transition: libraries still needing transition

2005-12-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Nathanael Nerode [Tue, Dec 20 2005, 04:59:46PM]: > rlog -- old version is in testing Depends on the update of fuse. I am waiting for any reaction from Bartosz and I am going to NMU fuse next week or so if nothing happens. Eduard. -- auf tetrinet.debian.net sind leute, die

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
ompressor with whatever tool is the right to > uncompress the format. Just like you have to use -z or -j depending on > gzip or bzip2 compression. "ucat" from the unp package. However, for this purpose it is rather a cludge and IIRC it does not work with STDIN well. Eduard

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
e to the latest stable. Of course dpkg and all of its dependencies must not be compressed with 7zip. Eduard. -- Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair: Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
the rule should be: stick to what you have or make best compromises when integrating new stuff. Since a compromise (reduced python environment) is taboo, just forget it. If we follow the latest shiny tool on the horizont, we should integrate Java and .NET into base. With full dependencies, of course. Ed

Re: Offline use of apt-cacher

2006-01-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
s 503 if not > available. As said bvefore, if you activate this mode manually, this should be an easy feature to add on. How do you want to configure it? Eduard. -- Major Krantz: What if we take you with us, put you on trial. Zathras: Zathras not of this time. You take

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
corset makes your code understandable" story while they confuse different problems in human code understanding. Eduard. -- Wer wirklich noch einen 4.x-Browser benutzt, dem kann leider nicht mehr geholfen werden. Die haben soviele Sicherheitsloecher, da koennt

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
ncluding in the base > system were written in haskell or scheme, I would be the first one to > support that inclusion. Guess what? Such scripts don't exist, because > these languages are currently not suitable for these tasks. Heh, now your change your line of argumentation just to

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
higher with Python so I wonder why people want to use it for many small maintainer scripts. The only improvement comes with use of Python Psycho which is IIRC still experimental and non-portable. Eduard. -- Everything is illusion. Constructs of language, light, metaphor; nothing is real.

Re: How to contribute

2006-02-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Michael Rasmussen [Mon, Feb 13 2006, 01:58:09PM]: > Hi all, > > How to I contribute an application to Debian? > > I am the developer of the application and it is released under GPL If you are running Debian, use the reportbug tool to file a bug against "wnpp", type RFP and answer its

Size matters. 7zip. Again.

2006-02-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Lars Wirzenius [Wed, Feb 15 2006, 10:42:02AM]: > (Once we use .tar.bz2, the sizes will be even smaller.) I cannot remember a clear consens from the "Size matters" thread, and IMO we should go for 7zip at least for source packages. Eduard. -- For any stupid thing cho

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
ch text, click search, > and the complete thing is transferred to Google? One can still click on > "Advanced Search" later on. Or the search machine of the choice for those who do not thrust Google. Eduard. -- verwendet ihr irgendein web-ding zum speichern von dokus? wenn

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
send a 7MiB large one, thanks. Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
is not for discussion - and if you honestly follow the attitude you presented here, please file RC bugs against all kernel packages immediately. Their packagers allow people to run non-free software, we need to strike against this evil, now! Eduard. -- Es ehrt unsere Zeit, daß sie genügend Mut aufb

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
holy license war against the non-pure-pure-pure-freedom-followers can be won by a single coup? Eduard. -- btwotch: stable ist nicht testing. youam, Ich mische das miteinander. Ist doch nicht schlimm, solange unstable nicht reinkommt, oder? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
ways that may lead to the "dark side" should be hidden. OTOH the last action is already a kind of limiting the freedom of choice. And if not (eg. is explained as something else, political correctness or whatever) then it still means making life or users harder and is a violation of

[EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteers?

2006-03-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
re and more irrational when there are social/personal tensions. Fortunately, the ongoing DPL election seems to offer good chances to speedup developments in this direction. Eduard. -- TCW: mit daten cd geht es TCW: aber mountet man na audio cd nicht mit -t iso9660? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: supporting navigation mouse buttons in Debian

2006-03-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
mice for the old drivers untill somebody implements autodetection of the supported devices. Cc'ed to correct list. Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

2006-03-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
ns /sbin/ldconfig. Any objections, ideas? There may be corner cases where that assumptions do not work but if we integrate this into the distribution, we can find and fix the problems really soon. Eduard. -- doogie, 25 m/s is pretty fast 40m/s from apache 25m/s is from java doogie, that's

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
sing roadmap, avoiding communication etc. And I would also explain every developer in a key position to use this system. There is IMO no justification for simple hiding - no matter how important your role may look. Eduard. -- Ambassador Londo Mollari: What do you want, you moon-faced ass

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

2006-03-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
he socket to the daemon, which calls the command on dpkg's exit. When executed as eg. "ldconfig" it will act like "dpkg-hook ldconfig". When dpkg terminates, the wrapper sends the daemon the "--execute" command and a "--terminate" command, then exits wi

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

2006-03-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
is so special about libc from dynamic loader's point of view? Would any glibc maintainer second that? And of course the command is to be removed from the list of pending task when the task is executed, why would we want to run the things twice? Eduard. -- OpenBSD fails miserably in this

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

2006-03-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Frank Küster [Mon, Mar 13 2006, 07:28:42PM]: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> dpkg-hook /usr/lib/man/update-manpages - run only once in total > >> dpkg-hook --on-depends foobar ldconfig - run once before depends of foobar > >

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

2006-03-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
nfigured, no matter which of the multiple (newly) installed packages > causes the bug. Okay people, visit http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgPostpone and complete the policy with your needs. Eduard. -- Holzschuhe: werden aus Latschenkiefern und Sandalholz hergestellt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

2006-03-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Bill Allombert [Tue, Mar 14 2006, 04:20:28AM]: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Hi people, > > > > I just wondered why exactly my laptop uses that much time for updates > > and I think that calling ldconfig is a main proble

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

2006-03-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
lem. And IMO we have some meta tasks that are not critical for the correct package installation but make the upgrades less stable. I believe to remember package upgrades where things like doc-base failed, and I always have the question: who t.f. cares about doc-base? If that command breaks after al

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
tructive way, definitely not by stupid expulsion process. Heck, even our current DPL may not be there if I would have acted like you few years ago (I did not forget comments like "Ah, Eduard Bloch joined the club of debian-legal experts, hahaha" and similar stupid rants found in IRC log

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
cooperatively, trying to find compromises. But you have been warned and you shall get another chance, therefore I do not support this expulsion process (yet). Eduard. -- Wahrlich, keiner ist weise, der nicht das Dunkel kennt. -- Hermann Hesse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

3rd party modules in the archive

2006-03-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
ved when the following package disappears: ... Maybe a new field? Eg. GenPkgBaseName: unionfs-module- Having the meaning: packages matching /^unionfs-module-(.*)/ and declaring the mentioned source package as source are installed automaticaly, and are removed automaticaly from the archive when the pa

Re: 3rd party modules in the archive

2006-03-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Bastian Blank [Thu, Mar 16 2006, 07:19:22PM]: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 03:51:05PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > WTF has this to do with Sven now? > > Maybe because Sven and I worked on a solution for this problem. Hoookay... > >

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
usr/bin/gettext.sh _without_ checking for its existance. Removal of this file would break them immediately. Therefore we should have a clear transition plan before changing the current locations (and this should be done after Sarge, of course). Regards, Eduard. -- we should have a button on every

Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
/Sourceforge/Berlios/...) - where is the repository and how can you get it, not too much, but enough information for average skilled maintainer to get it running I suggest debian/README.Debian.Maintainers as the filename. Regards, Eduard. -- Everything is illusion. Constructs of language, light

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Frank Küster [Tue, Mar 29 2005, 02:25:03PM]: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some people call that file MAINTAINERS, some README.svn or similar, and > > some do not do this at all, so someone needs to ask somebody or get a > > crystal ball to le

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
ed the difference between "upstream" versions. Not sure whether this hack still works, I have not beeing used it for months and changed a lot in the scripts. Regards, Eduard. -- Wie gut wäre es, wenn man die Stimmen, anstatt sie zu zählen, wägen könnte. -- Georg Chri

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Eduard Bloch
or good and worthy reasons. You need to > explain why those reasons somehow don't apply in the case of firmware. Because it does not RUN on anything inside of our scope (host machine). You try to extend it by cheating but IMHO most people will refuse to support that. Regards, Eduard. --

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Thomas Bushnell BSG [Thu, Mar 31 2005, 06:52:24PM]: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That is bullshit/lies/cheating (pick one). It should be worded: > > > > "We are not willing to support his hardware just because we (at least > &g

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
ad of what will run on their hardware. And I still cannot see the innovation in your idea. It is basically a second testing with stronger conditions - and the current one has already failed in respect of the original requirements. Regards, Eduard. -- Overfiend: why dont you flame him? you are

Re: dependency on base package adduser ?

2005-05-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
; priority (eg. libc6) which adduser does not belong to. Regards, Eduard. -- Lieber Kinder zuhause, bitte nicht poppen, da ist am ende alles kleiner als am Anfang :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dependency on base package adduser ?

2005-05-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Eduard Bloch [Tue, May 10 2005, 09:20:38AM]: > "base" is not a priority level or so, it is just a term for packages > that are installed by the original installer. And nothing forbids the > local administrator to remove one of these, unless they have "require

Hijacking apt-cacher (Jonathan Oxer MIA?)

2005-05-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
than a week, declaring myself as the new maintainer. Snapshot of the current changes file attached. Regards, Eduard. Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 23:07:38 +0200 Source: apt-cacher Binary: apt-cacher Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6.1+0.9beta1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low

Re: Hijacking apt-cacher (Jonathan Oxer MIA?)

2005-05-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Martin Michlmayr [Wed, May 11 2005, 10:45:47AM]: > * Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-11 10:55]: > > I do not get any answers from the maintainer of apt-cacher (Jonathan > > Oxer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) without any obvious reason, he has been &

Re: Hijacking apt-cacher (Jonathan Oxer MIA?)

2005-05-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
t; > Just to make it official: "go ahead" ;-) > > Eduard, I'm really sorry I haven't responded recently but I've been > following your work on apt-cacher and I certainly appreciate your > efforts. In recent times I've been even more of a path

Re: Inconsistent handling of sourceless packages in main

2005-05-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
me was as there is no problem with boot-floppies, beeing in Woody without the correct source. Nobody did care in the last 3 years). Regards, Eduard. -- In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
I think it is a fair demand asking all Ubuntu Developers to wear the Ubuntu hats when Ubuntu specific questions are beeing discussed. Read: I expect you to specify [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the From: field, otherwise reading the mail discussions and understanding people's position becomes h

What we can learn from Canonical/Ubuntu

2005-06-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
for the majority of users out there (and please do not come with "works for me on ...", it is not very representative). Regards, Eduard. -- Ein reicher Mann ist oft nur ein armer Mann mit sehr viel Geld. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
if the initrd is to be loaded before the kernel floppy, but it could work, IMO. Regards, Eduard. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
ppy, for example, and work with it). > contain the bootloader and any order should work. Let the bootloader > sort the chunks into the right place. The extra code needed for this > is minimal. Aha. Then do it, thank you. Regards, Eduard. -- Delenn: We are star stuff. We are the u

Re: SONAME and package version question

2005-06-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
omated way to do that? You are the maintainer? You need to check whether the SONAME still catches the compatibility issues or not and decide then. For further questions, refer to http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html and the debian-mentors list please. Regards, Ed

Re: Question about replacing obsolete packages.

2005-06-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
ease make symlinks (or whatever) to the icewmcp executable so the users still get the program when they run iceme/icepref. Regards, Eduard. -- So, your "solution" is to ask "Should I break your system now or after the next reboot?". Debconf is not an alternative to fixing

Re: mail all bug reporters

2005-06-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
it has unfortunately sent mails with __BUGNR__ (an obvious fix required) Regards, Eduard. -- Der Steuermann umgab sich gern mit Nullen. Er hielt sie für Rettungsringe. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (eig. S. J. de Tusch-Letz) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Drop the minor release number

2005-07-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
e release 2, 4.2a for etch stable release 2 with a minor CD mastering fix (for example), etc.pp. Does the release team agree with this change or do we need another consensus (or even a GR)? Regards, Eduard. -- Susan Ivanova: An expedition to Coronis space found Sheridan's ship a few days later,

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
parser (few LOC perl code). I would not create a separate package just for this purpose - better pass it over to apt maintainers. Regards, Eduard. -- Getty: Ja, ist teils echt witzig. Wir lösen grade nach und nach die gemultiplexten analogen Standleitungen ab... Ollfried: GRRR

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
9 install libaa1 1.4p5-28 > I think there is apt-history a better way. For doing what exactly? > No it isn't a wrapper around the dpkg.log it only uses /var/lib/dpkg/status > regards Nico No, it is an overengineered solution which reads the whole dpkg database for no real benefit. Re

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
ssential packages (you know, those installed on every system, like grep, bash, ...) or is there any other reason to justify a PYTHON installation for a tool without extra features? Regards, Eduard. -- Susan Ivanova: An expedition to Coronis space found Sheridan's ship a few days later, b

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
this purpose is not much more complicated than learning apt-history's usage. b) it is a problem for _everyone_ if you create a _new_ package, which eats up disk space with its meta data and kills apt's performance for no good reason Regards, Eduard. -- Schon wieder Telefon... Ein noier Juser

Re: Documentation of alioth?

2005-07-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
Did you ask for help at all (since there seem to be real problems, my last request for an obvious feature has been some months in the queue before beeing processed). Regards, Eduard. -- Sinclair: I'm still waiting for an explanation, gentlemen. Ambassador Londo Mollari: Yes, and I'm pre

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
an developer. This would decrease the probability for really broken uploads (because of stupid mistakes or beeing on drugs or whatever). The work itself can be automated well, I imagine an IRC channel #debian-uploads-looking-for-approval. Regards, Eduard. -- Emperor Turhan: How wil

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
IRC without posting a final diff. That sucks! Imagine you have a local version which is almost ready and which just needs 1-2 days more testing. Now you need to get the diff from the NMU somehow and integrate into the local version management, along with other changes which need to be moved to anoth

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Amaya [Sat, Jul 29 2006, 12:18:29AM]: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Have you set a proper ultimatum and have you made understandable that > > you are going to NMU? I usually do it this way so the terms are clear > > for both sides. And/or using delayed upload to

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
n useless and innovative, BTW. > > Could you please give your definition for `innovation' ? (If it is about to > distribute more and more non-free stuff, then I'm glad we have different > definitions for innovation.) Haha, now the thread reaches the point where every f

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
No, debootstrap is an important toy but but pbuilder is hyped too much. Eduard. -- Arzt: "Gegen ihre Platzangst hilft unter Umständen auch eine Diät!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building in chroots (was: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Frank Küster [Tue, Aug 01 2006, 01:55:14PM]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > > > On Aug 01, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > > Also, pbuilder and debootstrap are considered absolutely critical for > >

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
rom the beginning, sorry. Eduard. -- Halloechen, ihr Spinner, so frueh auf? nein, wir schlafen alle im kollektiv mein alkoven ist kaputt alkohol kaputt? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * John Goerzen [Wed, Aug 02 2006, 08:27:32AM]: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:41:02AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > * John Goerzen [Tue, Aug 01 2006, 04:47:13PM]: > > > > > I do use darcs to track patches against upstream. I really don

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
whole debian-specific thing. > > I am quite well aware of that and it is trivial to do. And if the user has more than one patch which needs to be maintained separately, is it still is still trivial FOR HIM? (or her) Eduard. -- Naja, Garbage Collector eben. Holt den Müll sogar vom Himmel.

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Matthew Palmer [Thu, Aug 03 2006, 08:03:21AM]: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:36:18PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > * John Goerzen [Wed, Aug 02 2006, 01:01:51PM]: > > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:47:01PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > > &

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