On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:13:30AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Adrian Bunk
> |
> | Really? I'm often happy and I see other maintainers that are happy when
> | they get "new upstream version" wishlist bug reports - it does sometimes
> | happen that for any reason you did oversee a new versi
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:37:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > btw, as someone has mentioned privately, 'howto' is no more a word than
> > 'zonefile' is. perhaps there should be auto spelling-flame bug reports
> > on every package that use
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:15:40PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> any search on google or other search engines will reveal many thousands
> of uses of the word 'zonefile'. like i said, it's in common usage in
> the field and has been for years. but that couldn't possibly be
> evidence, could it?
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:34:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.1822 +0100]:
> > > fishbowl:..b/pantsfullofunix.net> print -l *
> > > adequacy.org_hacker.html
> > > index.html
> > > mirror/
> > > ms_white/
> > > www.unix-vs-nt.org/
> > > fi
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 02:07:31PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
>What exactly is the situation with regard to openoffice going into
>debian sid? I ask because OpenOffice 641C seems quite robust now (I've
>been doing some statistical data analysis in it this weekend and it
>works as w
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:11:06AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman
>
> | On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:13:30AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | > In addition, it shows that somebody besides yourself care about the
> | > software you are packaging. Which
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:28:47AM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> > > The EVMS Project uses a layered, plug-in model to provide unparalleled
> > > flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. This allows for
> > > easy expansion or customization of various levels of volume
> > > management.
> >
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Since it appears being actively maintained and distributed separately from
RRDtool, it would make most sense for someone to package it in its own
right.
* Package name: php4-rrdtool
Version : 1.03
Upstream Author : Joe Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:04:42PM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote:
> MoiN
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:44:19PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > - font, options for setting normalsize at 20pt (default), 17pt, 25pt or
>
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:33:26PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Friday 28 December 2001 23:48, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I have been using LVM for some time, and I am eager to start working
> > with EVMS. Once I have working packages, I will be migrating some of my
> >
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:33:26PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Friday 28 December 2001 23:48, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I have already grabbed the latest release and started work on evms
> > packages for Debian, though I haven't touched them for over a week since
>
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:57:40AM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Monday 31 December 2001 19:23, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > - Shared library versioning
>
> I thought libevms did have a version number. There ought to be a
> libevms-0.2.4.so, with libevms.so as a link to the sp
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:32:28AM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 January 2002 14:39, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I would recommend libevms-0.2.4.so, as you said above, over the current
> > libevms.0.2.4.so, since many other programs use that convention.
>
> I ha
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:18:07PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> What if we used libevms.so.x as the soname, and libevms-x.y.z.so as the
> filename for the library (where x is the version major number, y is minor,
> and z is patchlevel)? This seems to be common on many of the libraries on
> my syste
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:00:21PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 January 2002 14:35, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > It would sacrifice a little bit of bloat (libdlist.so on my i386 system is
> > about 10k) for not having to worry about shared library management for this
&
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:17:09PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Thomas Lange wrote:
> > my package fai will have a new location for its configuration file
> > /etc/fai.conf. The next version will use /etc/fai/fai.conf. How can I
> > handle this in a preinst script during an upgrade
(crossposted to debian-legal for input on the license; please direct
followups to -devel or -legal as appropriate)
Has anyone looked into packaging BitKeeper (www.bitkeeper.com)? The
license[0] is obviously non-free due to usage restrictions, but people seem
to like it, and some of the licensing
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:26:11PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> Sorry if that has been asked before. I mistakenly deleted quite a bit of
> Debian mail. I did check the archives for the past month though...
>
> Whilst building my package, I get (from dpkg-dev 1.9.18, debhelper 3.0.51):
What comma
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:59:55PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Marcus Brinkmann
>
> | Sure, evms seems only to be available on GNU/Linux, too. But just
> because | it happens to work by chance it is no excuse to do the wrong
> thing. People | might take it as an example and use it in the
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Michael De Nil wrote:
> I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get
> that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system.
> I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;)
> I think it's
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:04:53PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> > > Whilst building my package, I get (from dpkg-dev 1.9.18, debhelper
> > 3.0.51):
> >
> > What command did you run to do this? What you probably meant was
> > dpkg-buildpackage.
>
> I did use dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>
> Her
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:07:48PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by the run-
> time linker, ld.so) to the most recent shared libraries found in the
> directories specified on the command line, in the file
>
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:49:05PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > Since it was trying to tar up 'icu' (which is a symlink) for whatever
> > reason, it may be that dpkg-source tried to create a tarfile containing only
> &
Package: maint-guide
Severity: wishlist
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:45:17PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote:
>
> > > if test -d build -a build != source; then rm -f -r build; fi
> > > dpkg-source -b icu
> > > dpkg-source: warning: source directory `./icu' is not
> > > - `icu-2.0'
> > > dpkg-source: bu
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:03:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:35:20PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> > > A Debian native source package is one which has no .diff.gz, because the
> > > Debian source code and the upstream source code are the same thing. This
> > > means th
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:06:46PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:03:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
>
> > > So I guess that as long as the explanation in maint-guide says that a
> > > native
> > > Debian package is a package that builds with no modifications, not just a
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Currently /dev/plex86 defaults to mode 666 on devfs. Is this really desired?
>
> Perhaps we should have a plex86 group and make the device node default to
> mode 660 and group plex86?
I would say that it should default to 600 and
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:46:47PM -0600, DvB wrote:
> I ran a search for dbf (xbase) packages in debian and came up with the
> 'dbf' package which is in non-free.
> If it's in non-free because of licensing issues with the Xbase format,
> I'd like to know since I'm currently finishing up a dbf lib
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:57:59PM +0100, Christian Banik wrote:
> I would like to install GNU Debian Linux on my computer, actually my PC is
> running with SuSE Linux 7.3. My question: I have a 32 MB NVIDIA Riva TNT 2
> Modell 64 / Modell 64 PRO Graphic Card, which is full supported by SuSE
> Lin
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:28:58AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 22:07:02 Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I would say that it should default to 600 and be adjusted by the local
> > admin. Or is it possible for plex86 to set things up correctly at
> > installati
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:50:27PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> That said, *please* make mention of whether you're using AA or not in
> your bug reports, because it makes my life easier.
You might be able to make this happen more often by installing a hook for
bug (does reportbug support somethin
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:09:14PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:37, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > Have you ever seen that silly perl script that Mandrake passes as an
> > "apt like" package fetcher + installer? "urpmi". Hahah.
>
> What makes Debian's package management
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:02:26AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I've already discussed several times why this it is bad to package
> programs as native packages although they aren't written specifically for
> Debian. Consider e.g. the following examples:
> - To fix a missing build dependency you ha
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:18:09AM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> > Policy only mentions them in two places, and doesn't explain the term
> > anywhere. Under 'dates in version numbers':
> >
> > Native Debian packages (i.e., packages which have been written
> > especially for Debian) whos
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:13:48PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Pete Ryland wrote:
> > So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap when
>
> Grave bug against mime-support IF it is the package that generates
> /etc/mailcap. It must be
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:27:51PM +, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > quake2-data should prompt the admin where to download the files, since
> > TMPDIR is not expected to have such large amounts of space, wherever i
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-10
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: aris-extractor
Version : 1.6
Upstream Author : SecurityFocus
* URL : http://aris.securityfocus.com/
* License : See below (PLEASE COMMENT on freeness)
Description : Log pars
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:51:53PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> Brainfood is scheduling downtime for murphy.debian.org(which is also
> lists.debian.org, and runs all the mailing lists), to do a disk upgrade. This
> is just the addition of a new drive, with no copying of the existing data. We
> exp
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:11:53PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> pkgDepCache cache = *cachefile;
> for (pkgCache::PkgIterator it = cache.PkgBegin(); !it.end(); it++)
> {
> if (it->CurrentState == pkgCache::State::Installed)
> {
> std::cout << it.Name() << ' ' << it.CurrentVer
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:10:14PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> The ones that could use it, are the ones that can't take it :) I seriously
> doubt the m68k can hold 4 disks. I'm pretty sure the m68k's run scsi too.
Perhaps architectures which are slow enough to really benefit would still
benefit i
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:20:31PM -0500, Doug Porter wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyone out there who actually appreciates the storms
> > of "Information received" acks that debbugs generates? If not,
> > it is fairly simple to turn them off - we just
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:34:45AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:17:02PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > Yes, of course. It only says a newer version is in sid, and that it will
> > be considered tomorrow.
>
> It also says:
>
> Depends: galeon mozilla
>
> galeon 1.
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:28:11PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> I've had no reply so far. Is anyone willing to NMU this? The fixes are all
> straightforward.
You might try debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:36:23AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > > I guess that the package will have to predepend on python, right?
> > > So, unlike the current debconf usage, a debconf dependency is no
> > > lo
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:06:44AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> release is coming soon ... and we need a bit of feedback about
> a new feature we plan to use on CD1 of Debian woody for i386.
On CD *1*? Surely you don't plan to introduce new features in such a core
compon
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:33:00PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 10:45:35AM:
>
> > On CD *1*? Surely you don't plan to introduce new features in such a core
> > component mere weeks before the scheduled release? There is no w
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:23:26PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 04:45:08PM:
> > 10 days != long enough to test a completely different _primary_ way of
> > booting the installation system.
>
> a) isolinux is n
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:07:04PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> Other distros (such as slackware and mandrake) are already using isolinux
> in their installers. I don't hear too many people complaining that those
> distro fail to boot from CD...
Do you follow those distributions' user and suppo
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:39:36PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 04:45:08PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > It seems to work for a large number of users, and that is its only job, is
> > it not?
>
> Well, no. :) idepci is known to fail for people
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:15:08AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 09:31:12PM:
> > I have installed many SCSI systems (including the one that I'm using right
> > now) with potato CD #1, which I assume has a simil
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 04:55:03PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:45:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman écrivait:
> > On CD *1*? Surely you don't plan to introduce new features in such a
> > core component mere weeks before the scheduled release? There i
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:12:28AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Did YOU help introducing ANY new features in boot-floppies? I18n? Kernel
> 2.4, other filesystems, RAID support, lots of bugfixes in the existing
> code, etc. etc.? Either you can continue your mission of distruction, or
> you stop c
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:30:08PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The byte compilation should be done when the package is built, not
> > at runtime, not at install time.
>
> So you're saying that the maintainer should need to either create
> separate pac
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:18:42PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> What's the status of newer imp packages for woody/sid?
The first place to check when you have questions about the status of a
package is http://bugs.debian.org/. In this case, you would have
found:
* #92698: IMP3 yes it is a
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:20:27PM +0200, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
> At the current pace 3.0 may be out right around May 1St 2002.
> At that time it will have been more than 1 year and 6 months since
> the previous point release, which by then contains packages more than
> 1 year and 6 months
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:52:54PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:20, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > And build-depend on all available versions of emacs...
>
> That'd be silly. Instead, we should just add them to build-essential.
Adding them to build-es
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:19:07PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> What I'd really like is to have access to one of these machines and be
> able to attach debuggers to rsync and see what it's doing. (In this case,
> that would mean being able to ssh in as 'nobody', or something
> equivalent.) I real
I tested the isolinux boot image on 3 random workstations (Dell and HP) as
well as an IBM ThinkPad T21. All of them worked fine with both idepci and
bf24 kernels.
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:49:03PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> I tested the isolinux boot image on 3 random workstations (Dell and HP) as
> well as an IBM ThinkPad T21. All of them worked fine with both idepci and
> bf24 kernels.
Also tried a Compaq Deskpro, both idepci and bf
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:15:23PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> I intent to package libsocket++, a small C++ library that abstracts
> network sockets. It provides buffered reads/writes and address family
> independent handling of sockets.
>
> I am the upstream author, this is basically split out
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:22:04PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > > I intent to package libsocket++, a small C++ library that abstracts
> > > network sockets. It provides buffered reads/writes and address family
>
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:01:54PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > What sort of problems did you have with [Common C++]?
>
> Well, it adds too many dependencies, doesn't compile too well on
> architectures other than GNU/L
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:11:51AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > Hallo?
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:20:32AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > Over six months ago, on 2001-11-14, [...]
> ^^
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:54:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Iain Lane writes ("Re: Uploading to multiple distros"):
> > For "normal" syncs we generally advise not using syncpackage, but it
> > might make sense when doing simultaneous uploads.
>
> Hrm. So syncpackage generates a .changes for u
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:17:09PM -0700, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hmm...a lot of this discussion seems to be getting caught up in the
> ubuntu-devel moderation queue, but I'll try to guess context as best
> as I can...
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