Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread James Vega
signatures are. Care to send URL to pages explaining the > topic? As per 'apt-cache show dpkg-sig': Website is http://dpkg-sig.turmzimmer.net/ James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpEBswLX1uTA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ITP: ladder.app -- GNU Go frontend for GNUstep

2005-11-30 Thread James Vega
nugo need be installed is not. In fact, that part of the description could become invalid depending on the development of both gnugo and ladder.app. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpOCDBYDPUI7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Mail headers (was Re: sarge uninstallable !?!)

2005-12-02 Thread James Vega
James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpDtLxYbln99.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: not getting CCs from the bugs I reported

2006-01-03 Thread James Vega
es in handy. You could send the email to the bug via that alias and then CC the person you're discussing the patch with. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpkbE3C7W7hx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-06 Thread James Vega
;it does not work". I thought it > more as a feature request (or idea) than bug report. I was asking about > how is aptitude supposed to solve such situations, beacuse it isn't clear > if it really should try to guess the correct packages to install. The aptitude in unstable and tes

Bug#350231: ITP: libsocket++ -- a family of C++ classes for Socket Operations

2006-01-27 Thread James Vega
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libsocket++ Version : 1.12.12 Upstream Author : Herbert Straub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.linuxhacker.at/socketxx/download * License : Description : a family of C++ cla

Re: Bug#350231: ITP: libsocket++ -- a family of C++ classes for Socket Operations

2006-01-28 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:52:35PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Copyright Notice: > > - > > Copyright (C) 1992-1996 Gnanasekaran Swaminathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Permission is grante

Bug#310019: ITP: fish -- a friendly interactive shell

2005-05-20 Thread James Vega
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fish Version : 1.9.1 Upstream Author : Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://roo.no-ip.org/fish/ * License : GPL Description : a friendly

Mail headers (was Re: Centralized darcs)

2006-08-02 Thread James Vega
t. There's no need for Mail-Followup-To. I agree that the list manager shouldn't set it, but there's nothing wrong with it being privately set. If you want your reply sent somewhere other than where the sender thinks it should be going, then you should be cognizant enough to change

Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists

2006-08-04 Thread James Vega
o because it actually meets the need > described above. Reply-To specifically meets this need. It is even addressed in the actual description of the field. If you want to send a private reply, the From field gives you plenty of information. Otherwise, the Reply-To field provides all the info

Re: Please comment the license of vim manual and reference

2006-08-21 Thread James Vega
ng up the inconsistency with Bram and add his response to the bug report. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: transitioning config files between two packages

2006-09-12 Thread James Vega
" mv -f "$CONFFILE" "$CONFFILE.dpkg-bak" else # conffile isn't modified and will be restored in nagios-plugins-* rm -f "$CONFFILE" fi fi } case "$1" in install|upgrade) if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le "$OLDVERSION"; then rm_conffile "/etc/file1" fi esac James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#389598: ITP: xpbiff -- animated mail monitor on X with popup notification

2006-09-26 Thread James Vega
harge' bit violate DFSG #1? James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: locales broken?

2006-04-20 Thread James Vega
y you instead of everyone that uses the computer. HTH, James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-21 Thread James Vega
is in the same directory (/usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/macros) as less.vim. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: fonts prbl in sid

2006-04-24 Thread James Vega
ectories the fonts reside in have moved. Your xorg.conf may still be pointing to the old directories. Refer to <http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7> for other side-effects you may experience from the upgrade. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> s

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread James Vega
ne being shipped by upstream. Hence Manoj's desire to use a different source package name to correctly convey the fact that the source package is not what is being shipped by upstream, but a modified version that meets the requirements of the DFSG. How is it deceptive to rename the source package when it is _not_ the same as the upstream source? James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-10 Thread James Vega
output variant or an alsaplayer-interface variant. As a user, if I just want to look at the common files for some reason, I sholudn't need to install alsaplayer-(output|gtk). Those would be fine as Recommends. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-10 Thread James Vega
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:41:56PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2006 09:04:14 -0400, James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:32:53AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > >> Hmm... alsaplayer-common Depends: on "alsaplayer-al

Re: apt-get wants to remove hotplug?

2005-10-10 Thread James Vega
): * Added support for coldplug and merged the hotplug scripts left. Switched from udevstart to udevsynthesize. (Closes: #329226) * Added conflicts with hotplug and with module-init-tools releases without support for /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 200

Re: Automated mailing to all maintainers of packages depending on X?

2005-10-14 Thread James Vega
sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (ldm) Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (xfree86-driver-synaptics) Debian X Strike Force (xdmx xserver-common xserver-xorg-dbg x-window-system-core) HTH, James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpsH8yIrP7fG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-20 Thread James Vega
ce, changes against the pristine upstream source. The merging of different feature branches is done in some integration branch. Quilt patches are a dependent series where the merging of changes is inherent in the patch ordering. Thus it's easier to get an "upstream ready" patc

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-21 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:23:10PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.21.0020 +0100]: > > The difference here being that feature branches are, in my experience, > > changes against the pristine upstream source. The merging of

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread James Vega
s a MU unlike a security upload. One can expect that a decision was made about including (or not) the NMU in the next MU upload. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-backports-keyring in official debian repository?

2008-04-07 Thread James Vega
eyring. Backports.org even gives you explicit instructions on how to do that. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Are Sha* checksums accepted by dak ?

2008-04-14 Thread James Vega
as previous versions didn't handle the newer changes Format properly. Other situations to be careful of are using debrsign (remote debsign must be updated) and building packages in a sid chroot on a non-sid system. Basically, make sure you're aware of which package versions you're actually

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-16 Thread James Vega
he package. In either case, debsign is being invoked outside of the chroot in your native environment. Therefore you need to make sure you have devscripts 2.10.25 (or your own backport if you aren't running sid) in that environment. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[E

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-17 Thread James Vega
ether it happens at all. Hopefully other tools which parse the .changes file have also learned from this experience and taken similar steps to prevent operating on Formats they don't understand. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed

2008-04-17 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:56:01PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:34:06AM -0400, James Vega wrote: > > On the plus side, debsign is now more resilient to future changes in the > > Format of .changes files (as will mergechanges in the next upload).

NMU versioning (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-25 Thread James Vega
that format for native NMUs as per the earlier discussion on -devel[0]. Is this an intended change to usk +nmuX for all NMUs or should the wording be updated to reflect current behavior? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA (was: Alioth and SSH: restored)

2008-05-16 Thread James Vega
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:26 AM, nicolas vigier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >> No. Any key who had a single DSA signature created by the flawed version of >> OpenSSL should be considered compromised. DSA requires a secret, random >> number as part

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-29 Thread James Vega
titude will now list packages that are newly obsolete. This doesn't work when a source is removed and all its packages become obsolete, for technical reasons. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Triggers in menu

2008-06-04 Thread James Vega
ipts as well as having the triggered call to update-menus occur. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bashism question

2008-06-23 Thread James Vega
ian.org/477240 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bashism question

2008-06-23 Thread James Vega
not POSIX. The "local" keyword is an explicitly supported extension. These are discussed in Section 10.4 of policy. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-25 Thread James Vega
Even better would be programs using a library like enchant which provides a front-end to the myriad other spell libraries. This allows the user/application to use the library backend that works best for their use case/language. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Veg

Re: [security] Incorrect file permissions due to (now fixed) perl 5.10 issue

2008-06-26 Thread James Vega
t, you could go to threads.html and easily find the post about the perl vulnerability. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-27 Thread James Vega
or specific circumstances and the diverted/diverting packages should be closely related (if not from the source). Alternatives are the better solution when there are myriad, non-conflicting sources which may provide the same file. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-27 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 07:34:53PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > James Vega writes ("Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives > handling"): > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 06:40:23PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > What should happen when severa

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-28 Thread James Vega
ove scenarios is the use of alternatives. There is the problem which brian brought up[0] about using diversions when you can't rely on having alternatives setup already but that would be obviated if dpkg internally handled both diversions and alternatives. [0] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James GP

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread James Vega
t; it seems to work for most packages, though > [...] > > "patch" indeded is the standard way nowadays. See policy 4.9. I think you mean “recommended”, although not using that could be a reason to have a README.source explaining how the package is handled. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Should we improve our (internal) communication?

2009-07-16 Thread James Vega
might be appropriate in some cases). But there > was no announcement in this case. Which Sandro mentioned in his email. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread James Vega
ner/p/pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org.html -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:08:26PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > Hi James: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM, James Vega wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:44:07AM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > >> Better yet, if we could periodically run it on all of the modules in >

RFC: Providing vi when /usr isn't mounted

2009-09-09 Thread James Vega
iners vim Pierre Habouzit vim (U) Teruyuki Morimura jvim Jan Christoph Nordholz nvi Brendan O'Dea vile (U) Miquel van Smoornburg elvis-tiny Paul van Tilburg vile James Vega vim (U) Colin Watson vigor Paweł Więcek e3 [1] - See debi

Re: RFC: Providing vi when /usr isn't mounted

2009-09-10 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:19:25AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:02 -0400, James Vega wrote: > > tag 528494 help > > thanks > > > > #528494 raised the idea of having vim-tiny (the default vi-like editor > > on a base install) pr

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-21 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: >> And people know that the package is built automatically. All users I >> know especially opted in to using the package instead of freshclam for >> some-or-other reason. > > WHERE is that

Re: lintian error weak-library-dev-dependency

2009-09-24 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: > Now we have >        libkpathsea-dev depends libkpathsea4 (= 2007.dfsg.2-7) > and I still get these errors. libkpathsea-dev is at version 2007.dfsg.2-7. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547773 Fixed in Lintian 2.2.17 -

Re: Fields used in packages

2009-09-25 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:55 PM, George Danchev wrote: > I've recently done a little survey about the fields used in our control files > (*_Release files excluded). Currently there are ~80 different fields [1] used > in > testing and unstable, which basically fall into these groups: > > 1) listed

Re: Bug#550860: ITP: gnaughty -- downloader for adult content

2009-10-14 Thread James Vega
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:27:25 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >> On mer, 2009-10-14 at 16:23 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> > the key litmus test is: does the application depend solely on non-free >> > information to function properly. th

Re: perl and perl-modules; reflexive dependencies vs. archive bloat

2009-10-23 Thread James Vega
by another arch-dependent package. Many of those either Recommend the relevant package or declare no relationship at all. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Switch on compiler hardening defaults

2009-10-25 Thread James Vega
tch for #346409, but there appears to be issues with it as noted in the bug log. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ReBuild-Depends?

2009-10-29 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > Could we add 'ReBuild-Depends' statement into debian/control to > rebuild like packages when depends rebuild? But such kind of depends > require some changes in buildd system. This is only needed when the dependencies change something

Re: dep3 nit-picks

2009-11-05 Thread James Vega
's comments were (always a good idea). Right. I'd think that if there were a negative review, the proposer of the patch would go back to work on it further before resubmitting. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

2009-11-09 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:12 AM, John Goerzen wrote: > It would be *great* if this could be fixed before sarge comes out. Sarge shipped with firefox, so no worries there. ;) Squeeze, on the other hand, might need some work. SCNR. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James V

Re: SoundJuicer Package Adoption

2009-11-12 Thread James Vega
gt; RFA'd?  In fact it just had an upload on 10/31. I'd guess that was a misinterpretation of Ross Burton's idle request for someone to adopt it upstream. http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/postr/new-maintainer-2009-11-12-10-49 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-24 Thread James Vega
e zack meant debsign, given some extra context that got snipped, "Still the check for unsigned .changes is in dput and it's pretty damn useful." -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: >> I think it *is* material in this instance: >> >> Versions of python-defaults in Debian: >> unstable: 2.5.4-2 >> experimental: 2.5.4-3 >> >> Version of package in Ubuntu: >> Version: 2.6.4-0ubuntu1 (karmic) >> Uploaded by: Matth

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-17 Thread James Vega
figuration file is left as is. > > # testing perl is required to avoid problem in embedded environments > if [[ -e /usr/bin/perl ]] '[[' for testing is a bashism. This should be if [ -e /usr/bin/perl ] or more accurately if [ -x /usr/bin/perl ] -- James GPG Key: 1024D/6132

Re: QA pages and epochs: problem?

2009-12-23 Thread James Vega
Julien is correct. See #559863 and merged bugs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#545782: imagemagick-dbg: missing README.Debian to explain how programs are used

2009-12-28 Thread James Vega
DME.source is supposed to refer back to the patch system's documentation instead of duplicating it. [0] - http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: gnome, kde, xfce use non-policy main menu

2008-07-06 Thread James Vega
those had "NoDisplay=true" as one of the fields[0]. While there may be a drive to add .desktop files to packaging, there's a similar (sometimes overzealous, IME) drive to have them not displayed by default. [0] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPackagingChanges?highlight=%28NoDisplay

Re: Kernel 2.6.25 broke iPod support for me, but who to bug?

2008-07-11 Thread James Vega
kernel config? I brought up what seems to be the same (or at least closely related) problem 4 years ago on lkml[0]. [0] - http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/4/5/209 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread James Vega
as little involvement as you like. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: "glib too old" OR "Lenny broken by default?"

2008-07-23 Thread James Vega
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Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-25 Thread James Vega
;t find that thread in the list archives... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> were the two previous discussions. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-27 Thread James Vega
ment but both seem to be dead in the water. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

2008-10-06 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:28:51PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >vim (U) Working on a tpu upload to fix issues for Lenny. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Correct way to move /etc config files

2008-10-21 Thread James Vega
ki [4]. > > Use Replaces:, just as for other files that move between packages. As I understand it, you should also remove the conffile[0] from the original package according. If you do not, you'll run into bugs like #499451. [0] - http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling -

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread James Vega
he energy of finalizing the proposal > > (most likely via a DEP), so that is stops being an ever changing wiki > > page. > > Well, not exactly, you cannot easily see the copyright file before > installing the package, can you? It's linked from the packages.d.o and PTS page for the package. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-05 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 07:06:26PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Jon Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >e16menuedit > => we don’t ship E16 anymore packages.debian.org says otherwise. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> s

Re: Problem with bts2ldap and therefore bts.turmzimmer.net ?

2008-12-11 Thread James Vega
hings in Debian, not really missing it for a > specific need. Looks like that wasn't moved to ravel when people.debian.org changed hosts. It's still accessible, for now, if you use oldpeople.d.o instead. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#508644: general: installing mdadm pulls in citadel-server as depedency

2008-12-13 Thread James Vega
(U) Gerrit Pape bcron raccess4vbox3 KELEMEN Péter arpwatch Nick Rusnov nmh Santiago Vila smartlist -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-15 Thread James Vega
has been discussed various times in the past on this list, is difficult to determine. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Pbuilder loads a lot of texlive fonts

2007-11-07 Thread James Vega
ugh. James [0] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2007/11/msg6.html [1] - http://nchip.livejournal.com/11175.html -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

2008-01-02 Thread James Vega
shi Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> shishi-dbg Paul van Tilburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libdaemons-ruby1.8 (U) Marcela Tiznado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> when Juan Esteban Monsalve Tobon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libgii1-target-x (U) liblpsolve55-dev Gerhard Tonn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gcc-3.3-base (U) gcc-3.4-base (U) Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libpthread-stubs0 (U) Theodore Y. Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> e2fsck-static Utopia Maintenance Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libavahi-common-data Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libantlr-dev (U) Andrea Veri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libagg-dev Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libqt3-headers (U) mga-vid-source Neal H. Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnumach (U) gnumach-dev (U) Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> os-prober (U) Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libmrss0-dbg (U) libnxml0-dbg (U) paintlib2c2a-dbg (U) Ian Wienand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libatomic-ops-dev Patrick Winnertz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libitalc Alexander Wirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iproute-dev iproute-doc Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> etl-dev (U) Paweł Więcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> e3 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dballe-common libcnf-dev libdballe-bufrex-doc libdballe-core-doc libdballe-db-doc libdballe-msg-doc -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

2008-01-02 Thread James Vega
dbg package contains debugging symbols for. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: desktop-command-not-in-package: link to an arch-dependent package in a arch-independent package

2010-01-10 Thread James Vega
, will update B later > - remove A > - installing new A, but already exist > ==> FAIL Package: A Depends: B Conflicts: B (<< newversion) Replaces: B (<< newversion) -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: iceweasel and facebook photos

2010-01-15 Thread James Vega
being affected by Java's brokenness with bindv6only (c.f., http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560056)? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Uploads without the architecture-dependant binary packages.

2010-01-26 Thread James Vega
ke ftp-master didn't take to that. Or they're waiting for other items to be implemented before moving forward, just like the text you quoted says. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team

2010-02-01 Thread James Vega
gh the current package forces icedove usage. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-03 Thread James Vega
Lintian tags that you don't consider useful if you use this option.” In other words, if you think the tag is useful then fix it, otherwise ignore it. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread James Vega
MOAOLTDR, by which I mean > "simply a matter of adding one line to debian/rules". You make the mistake of assuming everyone use debhelper. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2010-03-18 Thread James Vega
time, I can add it to my list of things to look at when I next have some time to work on devscripts. I'm hoping to get some soon, but things have been a bit hectic lately. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.deb

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-31 Thread James Vega
y this: it > > generates a "3.0 (quilt)" source package using a VCS repository as input. > > I guess what we should have is additional line in it or additional file > to record vcs used for packaging which will not interface with the basic > operation of other tools.

Re: How does lintian detect embedded-zlib?

2010-04-13 Thread James Vega
From /usr/share/lintian/checks/binaries: if ($info->field('source') ne 'zlib' and $info->field('source') ne 'klibc' and $strings =~ /(?:in|de)flate (?:\d[ \w.\-]{1,20}[\w.\-])/m) { tag "embedded-zlib", $file; } -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins

2010-04-26 Thread James Vega
Therefore, there is no reason to have a specific browser name in the package name and should instead use a common naming convention. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: /usr/bin/mail policy

2010-05-07 Thread James Vega
header and the User-Agent header was only added in response to #493884. While the User-Agent header is useful, I could see backing out this change so bts doesn't require the non-standard -a flag. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: /usr/bin/mail policy

2010-05-07 Thread James Vega
to require $DEBEMAIL or $EMAIL to be set, then I have no problem removing our use of the mail command. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-19 Thread James Vega
the only member, then you do a "newgrp > bar" for foo, foo is no longer in a UPG situation, so his umask should > be 0022 at that point. Except /etc/profile won't be sourced again unless "newgrp - " is used, right? -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 Jam

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread James Vega
source version in Lenny and Squeeze. 746 when comparing Etch and Squeeze. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-29 Thread James Vega
urce format. That's not going to change overnight and the Dpkg developers have already stated that the deprecation of an implied source format is a long term goal (likely Squeeze+2). -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A Look In the Mirror: Attacks on Package Managers

2010-06-05 Thread James Vega
s.debian.org/487753dc.5020...@cox.net -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: vim transition to python 2.6

2010-06-14 Thread James Vega
version. If you want to help achieve that, take a look at the bug list for that transition: http://tinyurl.com/Py26Transition -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread James Vega
rovide a standard implementation of actions like this. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikux_6xkwud9ppo8h-_w7zn_nxnypx63gqox...@mail.gmail.com

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-29 Thread James Vega
of a stable release. This is not the case with the Mozilla-related packages, as new version updates (other than the security fixes already being handled) are a nicety, not a requirement. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-r

vim-tiny in base (was Re: Priority dependence)

2010-07-19 Thread James Vega
change among my fellow Vim maintainers. I think the vim-tiny package has ended up being more work than it's worth. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread James Vega
release needs to be configured first. 3.5 is an overview. 7.2 has the details: Depends This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be configured unless all of the packages listed in its Depends field have been correctly configured. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 20

Re: question: startscripts

2010-07-21 Thread James Vega
http://bugs.debian.org/583336 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktilzor8zd1o9z0skwucltbcsctfyxxlxyt6i4...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread James Vega
oad. > > That gives a 404. source.debian.net doesn't, but gives you a page with > as full contents the eight characters 'hallo...' According to <http://wiki.debian.org/source.debian.org> it's still in the idea/planning phase. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D

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