Automatic mirror selection

0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.mirrors/311 [1] http://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/webwml/english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist [2] http://db.debian.org/doc-mail.html -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Automatic mirror selection

ains. But I'm no DNS specialist, so if you (or anyone) have a more specific way of making this work, I'm all ears! Thanks for the feedback! Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Automatic mirror selection

t the arch, in the name of maintained utility. > (Details sent privately). Too bad, I just learned it can possibly go down > somewhere in the near future... Thanks a lot anyway! > If not, we can always do a brief test on a random subdomain, and then toss a > working config to the DSA gu

Re: Automatic mirror selection

r admins and even if that was feasible, there are bound to be mirrors that are (technically, bureaucratically, etc) unable to perform the needed changes to integrate their infrastructure with anycast. Cheers [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.mirrors/311/focus=312 -- Leo "coste

Re: Automatic mirror selection

Guillem Jover wrote: > You might want you use «dpkg --print-architecture» instead, so you > avoid a dependency on dpkg-dev. Good point. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[update] Automatic mirror selection - feedback appreciated

ers [0] http://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/webwml/english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist [1] http://www.de.debian.org/dmc/today/ [2] git://git.debian.org/~costela/mirror_picker.git -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Automatic mirror selection

Check the announce I just made[0] and the git repo for the script[1] for more info. Feel free to send any feedback. Cheers [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/124340 [1] git://git.debian.org/~costela/mirror_picker.git -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty

Re: [update] Automatic mirror selection - feedback appreciated

PDNS, firstly because it doesn't seem to be caching anything (based on log output) and secondly because the answer is changing between requests inside a small time-frame. But I could be wrong. Can you hop on to IRC to coordinate some queries while I watch the log? Cheers -- Leo "cos

Re: [update] Automatic mirror selection - feedback appreciated

ly already changing it manually. But of course, I'm open for discussion if people think this is a worthy workaround (and you're also free get the script yourself and provide some patches ;) ). Cheers and thanks for the feedback! -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

Jonas Meurer wrote: > I: cryptsetup-udeb udeb: unknown-field-in-control homepage Quick guess: could this be a case-sensitivity issue? Should be "Homepage:"... Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [update] Automatic mirror selection - feedback appreciated

Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: > I don't think it's a cache problem on PDNS, firstly because it doesn't > seem to be caching anything (based on log output) and secondly because > the answer is changing between requests inside a small time-frame. But I > could be

Re: QUESTION: Debian Policy: Manual pages

uld solve the manpage issue. Cheers [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

ldn't find where you get this info from, and how. Is it in the SVN you supplied? Furthermore, why don't you guys use the info from the Mirrors.masterlist[0] file to generate your country/continent information? This way you can work closely with the mirror-admins to keep your info up

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

he automatic rotation they could change the virtual host, for instance, to adapt to a standard directory structure. But it's a problem, nonetheless. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

s no official trust relationship. If there is one that I'm unaware of, then by all means, file an RFP! Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Pkg-cups-devel] cupsddk - stolen WNPP - policy violation

's important to keep the distinction in mind. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Policy question - deleting files belonging to another package

? If I understood your question correctly, I guess you're looking for policy 7.6.1 [0]. Cheers [0]http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s7.6.1 -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Bug#544539: RFP: Linux Unified Kernel

t of problems and limitations. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

laimer: I have no idea how feasible this is. I never even looked at the BTS code. Cheers [0] http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20090910142150.ga15...@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de [1] http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20090910143253.ga11...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu -- Leo "coste

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

ith Christoph that we could draw the line on packages that perform automatic installations of binaries from external unchecked sources. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: gnokii stall

ad of simply requesting binNMUs. My bad. In the meantime gnome-phone-manager has been binNMUed, so kaddressbook seems to be the only missing piece. I'm sending an email to d-release requesting that, just in case. Cheers and sorry for the noise -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a w

Re: Include on first iso: m-a, build essential, kernel headers

f mail-list archive reading...). So neither of those are arguments have any relevance to the matter at hand. Cheers [0] http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-search.php [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00328.html -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

and create a way for maintainers to upload screenshots to it (via email, as you suggested, perhaps). This way we don't have to change anything in our infrastructure and still have a semi-official place to put this sort of information. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#502799: ITP: python-beepy -- implementation of the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Leo "costela" Antunes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-beepy Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Justin Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://beepy.sourceforge.net/ * License

RFH: who should get this bug?

Hey, I have no idea which package should get this minor bug[0] about some characters covering the underscore that marks an activation key. My best guess would be either libpango or libgtk2.0, but I'm at a loss here. Opinions? Cheers [0] http://bugs.debian.org/501864 -- Leo "costel

Re: RFH: who should get this bug?

sing Nimbus Sans, for instance. Anyway, I'll reassign the bug. Thanks! Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

case of new software), normal, etc ACK to all the rest. Cheers - -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHD2BbImLTb3rflGYRAhfNAKC/bJM9rbdU+D

Re: Compiz-fusion question

Sean Finney has started working on those > packages, but AIUI there's some work left. Is this the only problem barring compiz-fusion ? Could I help with anything ? Cheers - -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/

Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

hile idea. One of the possible advantages for a different paradigm would be for "reduced" CDDs, such as Emdebian, whose standard set of packages might divert considerably by having _less_ packages, in which case the current task system would fall short, AFAICT. Cheers -- Leo "

Re: Packages with httpd needs

ardly likely to generate any sort of positive outcome. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Packages with httpd needs

Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:57:44PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: >> THTTPD doesn't (AFAIK) support PHP > > Does THTTPD not support CGI or FastCGI? > Oops, you're right. But would the apps run "out of the box" with php-cgi? If s

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

l supports (which doesn't include greping for the package in a separate huge list of for files in the source ;-) ) Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

nk we could come up with a better place to put this information _before_ filling bugs. They may not be in the right place, but it's useful information that IMHO should be accessible somewhere so that our users don't have to go hunting for it on the web or are forced to install packages

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

on build-time by a dh script (which should support po files natively, but could also support regex based searching of translation files, for alternative translation schemes)? IMHO the debtags solution looks simpler and better, but it doesn't hurt to keep our options open! :-) Cheers -- Leo

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

rogram with 10 totally compatible alternatives... unfortunately! :-) Cheers. -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

sysadmin/2007/01/05/fingerprinting-mail-servers.html [2]http://cr.yp.to/surveys/smtpsoftware6.txt (not up-to-date, but perhaps interesting nonetheless) -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

really heard any native English speaker use it, though. Cheers [0] http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html [1] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_proverbs#O -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

he most important. Cheers [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s3.2.1 [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-update.en.html#s-orig-tar -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

[0], on this same thread. Cheers [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/12/msg00632.html -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Is archive this list?

Andrzej Borucki wrote: > Exists archive debian-devel@lists.debian.org ? I assume from your email that you are Polish, right? This page might be of interest to you: http://www.debian.org/international/Polish/index.pl.html Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort h

Re: Essentiality of Bash

t anytime soon. At least not in Debian, but that may be the case in some sub-projects, as Petter pointed-out. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: chromium-browser is taking over all URLs

be reported as a minor bug in gvfs-open, to respect gnome settings before falling back to mimeinfo.cache. Thoughts? Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

ITP: gnome-velocity -- A light file manager for GNOME2

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-30 Severity: wishlist * Package name: gnome-velocity Version : 0.1alpha Upstream Author : Kyle Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://velocity.sf.net * License : GPL Description : A light file manager

RE: ITP: gnome-velocity -- A light file manager for GNOME2

severity #191420 wishlist thanks I don't know why it was filled as Normal... it didn't recognize "wishlist" as a valid value for the Severity pseudo-header... Any hints? Cheers PS.: CC me, I'm not on d-devel -- Leo Costela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key

Bug#513846: ITP: pidgin-awayonlock -- pidgin plugin to set as away on screensaver activation

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leo "costela" Antunes * Package name: pidgin-awayonlock Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Leo "costela" Antunes * URL : http://costela.net/projects/awayonlock * License : GPL-3 Programming L

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

reshness of bugs vs. freshness of last non-binary upload, possibly weighted. This would let old but non-problematic packages off the radar. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Debian @Linuxtag 2009 - Last call for help

e to be a Linux/Debian expert, just a little bit > motivated :). Would a foreigner whose German's not exactly top notch help? I live in NRW, but could gladly spend a few days in Berlin if you think it would be of any assistance. I owe some friends a visit anyway... :) Cheers -- Leo &qu

Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts

as being discussed for dpkg or at least debhelper. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- 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/joogrv$go4$1...@dough.gmane.org

Bug#677750: RFH: gnokii -- Datasuite for mobile phone management

Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I haven't had the need to use gnokii for years and am currently a bit too swamped with Real Life™ to dedicate the necessary time to its packaging, even though it's relatively low-maintenance. If there's anyone out there who still uses gnokii and has the time to

Re: /var/lib/transmission-daemon directory ownership

r/lib/transmission-daemon/.config, which IMHO isn't a good idea). I am, however, open for suggestions. Cheers PS.: was it really necessary to include d-devel on this discussion? I hardly see it as a subject worthy of open discussion or as a point of contention. -- Leo "cost

Bug#660654: ITP: binwalk -- tool for searching binary images for embedded files and executable code

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Leo 'costela' Antunes" * Package name: binwalk Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Craig Heffner * URL : http://code.google.com/p/binwalk/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Bug#663017: ITP: transmission-remote-cli -- ncurses interface for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon

t its use of transmission-remote. Does it depend on specific input/output formats? Did upstream at some point declare a "stable API" for using transmission-remote in scripts? I'm just worried this might be a small nightmare to maintain in the long run... Cheers -- Leo "coste

RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

Hi, Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the problematic JSON license term "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil". From what I've seen, most - if not all - of the affected packages are using in-source libraries copyright JSON.org, which AFAIK means convincing a s

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

ars later and ask yourself where that user came from. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- 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/4da61068.8000...@debian.org

RFH with a couple of packages

rested... Cheers [0] http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/transmission.html [1] http://bugs.debian.org/491723 [2] git://git.debian.org/~costela/public_git/statusnet.git -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Bug#630789: ITP: transmission-remote-gtk -- GTK remote control for the Transmission BitTorrent client

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Leo 'costela' Antunes" * Package name: transmission-remote-gtk Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Alan Fitton * URL : http://code.google.com/p/transmission-remote-gtk/ * License : GPL-2+

Call for testing: libevent 2.* in experimental

maybe related to multiarch) More details about what's changed in the 2.* series and might cause problems can be seen in the whatsnew-2.0.txt file in libevent-dev's docs. Cheers [0] http://bugs.debian.org/631018 -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UN