Re: File descriptor hard limit is now bumped to the kernel max

2024-06-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 06:39:15PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 06, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > I believe the change Luca describes is increasing rlim_max (hard limit) > > but not rlim_cur (soft limit), and the code touched by that patch is > > looking at rlim_cur, so it should be unaffect

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:14:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:23:48 +0900, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > And why not, instead of freezing unstable, make it build against > > testing, when er try to freeze testing ? > >

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:11:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [...] > If unstable is not a distribution, what the hell is the point > of having all the paraphernalia of unstable around? The whole point > of uploading to unstable is to have people test packages in > unstable. If peop

Re: non-free firmware: driver in main or contrib?

2004-10-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:41:13AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Is this the case even if the firmware is in a flash chip attached to the > device? If the total amount of non-free software on a user's system is > the same regardless, why are we concerned about how it's packaged? 'kay, this has a

Re: non-free firmware: driver in main or contrib?

2004-10-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 04:20:16AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Argh. Sorry, I shouldn't be allowed to post while drunk. That was meant > to go to -legal, not -devel. And i shouldn't have replied without looking at the To: field. Mike

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:53:27AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Err... experimental ABI changes are for experimental. Confirmed ABI > and API changes are for unstable (or whatever you want to call the > development branch). We must not hide those changes from the future > stable distribution s

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for May 14, 2004

2004-10-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:34:54PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > They are; I received one just last week. > > If they're not reaching you, I suggest you check your d-d-a subscription > and/or your spam filter. How did you receive a mail to d-d-a which is not even in the archive ? http://lists.d

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

2004-10-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:44:19PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Even if the file is updated only by the postinst, it is useful to know > that you can recover a broken system from scratch by having: > > * A backup copy of /etc, /var, /home, /usr/local, etc. (but not /usr). > * The list of installe

Re: An important lesson

2004-10-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Developers, do not allow > > http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg > > to happen to you. And it's better to repeat it three times: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/wanna-build/secring.gpg http://ftp.beln

ITP: mozilla-venkman - Javascript debugger for Mozilla and Firefox

2004-11-07 Thread Mike Hommey
reassign 230874 wnpp retitle 230874 ITP: mozilla-venkman - Javascript debugger for Mozilla and Firefox thanks Venkman being not really sync'ed in firefox or mozilla, I'm proposing to package the venkman package which will conflict with mozilla-js-debugger (venkman provided by the mozilla source p

Re: mozilla-firefox-locale package with all language translations

2004-11-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:47:15AM +0100, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > Hi! Sometimes a package with all the firefox translations has been proposed. > With the arrival of Firefox 1.0, localization has been normalized and now > this > package seems quite suitable. > > As a proof of concept, I

Re: mozilla-firefox-locale package with all language translations

2004-11-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:50:51PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > As for how to make the thing work with new firefox package, I'm working > on an HTML version of what I sent to extensions packages maintainers 2 > days ago about the new scheme. I'll send the URL here when it'

Re: How to handle libssl support?

2004-11-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:27:08AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thursday 11 November 2004 04:11 am, Juergen Salk wrote: > > It seems in Sarge at least some of the crypto crippled versions > > have just vanished into thin air. > > ...which is going to silently leave users running old version

Re: mozilla-firefox-locale package with all language translations

2004-11-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:56:27AM +0100, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > El Jueves 11 Noviembre 2004 07:50, Mike Hommey escribió: > > You're not lucky, with the 1.0 package that just got uploaded to > > unstable, your package is useless, 'cause support for > > /v

Re: Debian menu and GNOME (request for help)

2004-11-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:55:12PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:43:44AM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 00:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > 1) Current gnome-panel do *not* support XDG menus (only KDE does). > > > (Debian menu has XDG menu

Re: mozilla-firefox-locale package with all language translations

2004-11-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:52:35AM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:50:51PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Anyways, I'd suggest to make a multi-binary package so that it produces > > several mozilla-firefox-locale-* packages. > > A stu

Re: Accepted xmlstarlet 0.9.3-2 (i386 source)

2004-11-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:55:42AM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote: > xmlstarlet (0.9.3-2) unstable; urgency=low >Description: Command Line XML Toolkit >(...) > The toolkit's feature set includes options to: > Check or validate XML files (simple well-formedness check, DTD, XSD, RelaxNG) > Calculate values

Re: Accepted xmlstarlet 0.9.3-2 (i386 source)

2004-11-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:13:28PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > Out of curiosity, what is its advantage over libxml2-utils and xsltproc ? Okay, I found out by myself, it is built *on top* of libxml2 and xsltproc, but the package not depending on it i was wondering. And the fact is it is compi

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:34:06PM -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [... nonsense ...] Where did you see someone asking for inclusion of child porn ? Mike

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:53:41AM +0100, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As already written in -women, this is the point which saddens me the > most in this thread. I'm really disappointed by seeing most > contributors just not realize why this package, as proposed, is likely > to

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:18:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:01:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Then, Disk 1 (which is very full-featured, after all) can be > >> passed out where ever an

Re: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:06:13PM +, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that is the main issue here. I would like to believe that Debian > is capable of showing more respect for other people than including hotbabe > in the distribution would indicate. Yeah, i would like D

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:44:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "lewd exhibition of the genitals" genitals: A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definiti

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:03:18AM -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed, and this is also why Manoj's vi/KDE argument is not relevant. > > vi serves a useful purpose for an operating system. > > Porn/nudes/whatever don't. What about the bible, then ? Mike

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:28:20PM -0200, Fernanda Giroleti Weiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Em Qui, 2004-12-02 às 07:46, Tollef Fog Heen escreveu: > > * Helen Faulkner > > > > | Pornography is widely regarded as being demeaning and insulting to women. > > > > - A lot of people

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 01:26:50AM +0100, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2004-12-02 18:11:03, schrieb Manoj Srivastava: > > > The Bible is illegal to distribute in the most populous nation > > in the world. > > Not only this, because the "Old Testament" glorifies the genoc

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:29:53PM -0500, William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:28:11PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Because he's an idiot. Can we move on to something on-topic? > > Fuck you. You're being offensive, you should not be included in Debian. Mi

Bug#284189: ITP: xul-runner -- XUL/XPCOM application runner

2004-12-04 Thread Mike Hommey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: xul-runner Version : 0.0.0 Upstream Author : The Mozilla Project * URL : http://www.mozilla.org/ * License : GPL/LGPL/MPL Description : XUL/XPCOM application runner The goal of the XUL Runner application i

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:54:36AM +1100, Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't there a proposal around for > Description#en: > Description#ja: And you'd advocate to write the English text in latin1 and the japanese text in euc-jp ? Let's make it clear: 1 text file, 1 encoding. Mike

Re: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 08:50:25PM -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be real, man. Steve Greenland said it perfectly: "Choosing not > to distribute a given package is NOT censorship. ... This is not > a subtle difference." Allowing the package with the provision it doesn't contai

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:38:51PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For one, the Australian laws prohibite any web site in Australia to host > > pornographic material. > > > > See http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor

Re: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:13:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. "We" are not calling on the Morality Police to take the > particular web site down. "We" are not saying, "you can not > install that app on your computer". > > There's a *fundamental* difference between "don't

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:26:17AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Umm, only if it is indeed deemed to be illegal. So far, there > has been just FUD about this issue. I am not sure that artistic work > qualifies as porn, which seems to be the case here. Artistic or no

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 01:11:10AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems more like there is a more of a minority of uber right > wingers trying to batten down art that offends their sensibility. The > actual project members seem to be more or less taking the sensible >

Re: Duelling banjos or how a sane community goes crazy

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:12:50AM +0100, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi fellow developers, > > I failed in ending this thread when I posted > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/12/msg00016.html > > instead I caused two trolls making even more noise. > > I hope al

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:42:15PM -0800, Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > >But it seems that now you're telling me that you know better than the > >mirror operators which packages will violate their internal policies. > > > > > Certainly a good guess is b

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:24:29PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:34:54PM +1100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:06:23PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > >Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>It stri

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:42:05AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:13:54PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:26:17AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Umm, only

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:53:42PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But yes, non-ASCII Latin-1 chars should not be given special status over > the national chars found in other languages spoken by project members. > Debian should be using either ASCII, or Unicode; standardizing o

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:10:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:04:56PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:53:42PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But yes, n

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:49:49PM +0100, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The authoritative document is the menu _manual_: > (/usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz), section 3.7 > > An extract from that section: > > Debian package maintainers should ensure that any icons they include

Re: dpkg-reversion: how about debedit?

2004-12-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:56:23PM +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > retitle 284642 ITP: debedit -- script to edit DEB files with hooks or > interactively > thanks > > Together with Goswin, I have now given dpkg-reversion the ability to > invoke a hook on the unpacked binary pa

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:16:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note that's a "may" and a "should", not a "must". IIRC they only trigger > > lintian warnings, not errors. > > If I tell my son, "You may not go play in the rain.", he knows > that he can't go play in the rain.

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:56:23AM -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See RFC 2119. I think usages of may, should, must and stuff should > > follow these explanations. > > There's an RFC for words??? Yes, there is one, to make sure everybody use the words for the same thing, especi

Re: dpkg-reversion: how about debedit?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:29:57AM +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.09.0359 +0100]: > > Sounds good. > > Could it be used for dh_striping the content of a package ? > > It is an unpacked DEB

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:39:10PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its just not out of NEW atm. And now we're back to the original subject ;) Mike -- 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 Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:34:22PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previously Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:11:28AM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The default interface name of the ip

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:03:02PM +0900, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> That would be cool. At least one of the povray maintainers has a > >> giant stick up his butt about Debian, something along the lines of > >> "The version of povray in D

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:15:16PM -0600, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > And yes, it does belong there. It could easily add the something like: > >The single monolithic file is the normal upstream configuration, >while the other choice is a Debian innovation that works

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:46:22PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Considering you're talking about solutions that require updates to > kernel-image packages *anyway*, why has no one suggested adding the > necessary blacklist entries to these packages? Far better than removing

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:10:12PM +0100, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ERROR: Removing 'trm290': Device or resource busy > ERROR: Removing 'vis82cxxx': Device or resource busy > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file >

Bug#298941: ITP: ext3rminator -- recover deleted files from an ext3 filesystem

2005-03-10 Thread Mike Hommey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ext3rminator Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://glandium.org/debian/repository/experimental/ * License : GPL

Re: Bug#276871 acknowledged by developer (Bug#276871: fixed in gdm 2.8.0.6-1)

2005-11-17 Thread Mike Hommey
reopen 276871 309224 258934 327464 261979 290916 304027 314449 thanks On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:03:08AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #276871: Date shown in gdm is correctly localized, but only for a m

Re: Bug#276871 acknowledged by developer (Bug#276871: fixed in gdm 2.8.0.6-1)

2005-11-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:12:22AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked at all the bugs for gdm and the bugs you reopened were tagged > as upstream and/or fixed-upstream. And as the bug reporter, you never get the message that says that the bug has been tagged. *That* c

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:52:03PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:47:47PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > As you may or may not know, I'm currently working on packaging > > xulrunner, which is ought to be the central

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:28:36AM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:58:45AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > So my idea is the following : > > > > - First, I want to provide the libs with a correct soname. It won'

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
> > Yes, sonames can be more or less arbitrary strings. You can certainly use > > sonames with "debian" in them with a fairly high degree of confidence that > > upstream won't collide with them. > > THAT is cool. FWIW, FYI, I did some work on that and managed to build xulrunner with basic sonam

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:04:57PM +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mardi 06 décembre 2005 à 20:43 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > > THAT is cool. > > > > FWIW, FYI, I did some work on that and managed to build xulrunner with > &g

Re: Bug#345160: ITP: libgpod -- a library to read and write songs and artwork to an iPod

2005-12-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:54:25AM +0100, Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There is already a libgpod0 package on Christian Marillat's archive, so I > > guess there must be an issue regarding this package's relation with debian. >

Does it sometimes happen that people send mails before NMU ?

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Hommey
There have been 2 NMUs on libxml2 in a week and I never got a message beforehand. Now I wonder if that practice has disappeared somehow. I admit I've not spent enough time for libxml2 recently, but still, I wouldn't have been bothered by some poking beforehand. Moreover, I'm not exactly sure the

Re: Does it sometimes happen that people send mails before NMU ?

2006-01-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:31:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:47:52AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > There have been 2 NMUs on libxml2 in a week and I never got a message > > beforehand. Now I wonder if th

Re: Does it sometimes happen that people send mails before NMU ?

2006-01-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:34:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:41:12AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Well, no, but the fact that it's a longstanding release-critical bug, with > > > no maintainer response, means that it does warrant NMUer

Re: Does it sometimes happen that people send mails before NMU ?

2006-01-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:35:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > If you've got more information than is in the bug report, that's fine; add > it to the bug report, and do whatever else is appropriate to fix the problem. > > Closing reports without fixing real bugs isn't "fine", but there's no >

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:45:13PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > * for changes that are likely to be useful in Debian or generally, submit >the change upstream, by filing a bug with a minimal patch included to >bugs.debian.org, or by the appropriate mechanism further upstream. s/or/and/

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

2006-01-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:21:34PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python is the "official" language of Ubuntu. If we want to merge work > they're doing (Anthony Towns mentioned their work on boot speed, for > example) it's a good idea to structure our Python like theirs is. This

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:48:24AM -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right. The everything that you'd expect to go in to /usr/bin and /usr/lib > will install there, at least as far as Xorg goes. An example of that is > that the new xterm package installs to /usr/bin rather than /us

Re: Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:58:14PM +0100, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: gst-fluendo-mp3 > Version : 0.10.0 > Upstream Author : Jan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL

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

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:12:35PM +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 21 janvier 2006 à 21:52 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:21:34PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Python is t

Re: Bug#350982: ITP: slimscrobbler -- SlimServer plugin that submits listening data to Last.FM

2006-02-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:41:55PM -0500, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Josselin, > I have read many descriptions that made no sense to me and it was > mentioned that you either know what the jargon/terms are because they > are in your area of expertise or else if you dont know the ter

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow > The availability to do this is enough even if there are other > (possibly better) ways to do the same. One free driver _in_ Debian and > the package should stay in main. > > But does the cipe-source build or ship the windows driver f

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:11:32AM +0100, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:36:37PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow > > > The availability to do this is enough even if there a

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:51:51AM +0100, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > * Mike Hommey [Sun, Feb 19 2006, 11:07:33AM]: > > > I checked all these 141 packages (see attachment). > > There are 12 MSWord files out of 1022 .doc/.doc.gz files. > &

Re: Bug#355849: ITP: gcin -- a input method platform, supports GTK/QT immodule and XIM

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:22:57PM +0800, Tetralet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Tetralet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: gcin > Version : 1.1.7 > Upstream Author : Edward Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:36:12PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have recently received a patch which allows the blkid library to > properly handle device mapper partitions. The problem is in order to do > this, I have to link in libdevmapper, and by extension libselinux

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:05:24PM +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le jeudi 09 mars 2006 ? 16:39 +0100, Amaya a ?crit : > > > but when will we try to solve some of the real problems we have > > > > Hey! It's DPL election time! Lobby around. I really am biting my tongue, > > b

libxml2 and libxslt uploads to sid, soon

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi fellow developpers, I just want you to make you aware that I'm planning to upload new upstream versions of libxml2 and libxslt into sid soon. Since the number of reverse dependencies on them are quite significant, and since shlibs are going to be bumped, I'm posting this warning on -release and

Re: Bug#300993: ITP: nvu -- Nvu is a complete Web Authoring System based on the Mozilla Composer engine

2005-03-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:09:48PM -0600, Nick Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Nick Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: nvu > Version : 0.90 > Upstream Author : Linspire, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : htt

Re: Bug#300993: ITP: nvu -- Nvu is a complete Web Authoring System based on the Mozilla Composer engine

2005-03-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:26:53PM +0100, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:09:48PM -0600, Nick Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Nick Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 02:28:36PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > It seems there are only minimal checks, so developers can unwittingly > > upload broken packages. > > Any numbers where you can proof your claim? Developers are req

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:18:25AM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050403 14:55]: > > I think he's talking about mirrored Packages files being updated before > > all the packages get mirrored and/or arch all package

Re: What does dh_strip --dbg-package do if two binary packages contain the same file?

2006-07-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 06:23:46PM +0200, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to add a -dbg package to exim4. However, I doubt that > dh_strip is doing the right thing here. > > The Debian exim4 source package builds a number of binary packages. > Two of them are exim4-da

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:16:30PM -0500, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:31:29PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > Really, I think that getting patches in darcs from people that are using > > > "darcs send" is not only easier for me as a maintainer, but also ea

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:24:09AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the > installer's > defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer. > > I first thought of this when I noticed the change in the defa

[HELP] FTBFS on alpha for xulrunner

2006-08-07 Thread Mike Hommey
tag 381662 + help thanks Hi, xulrunner is failing to build on alpha, and with both escher and goedel being locked down, I have no access to an alpha machine to at least understand the issue. The error itself is make[5]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/xulrunner-1.8.0.4/extensions/python/xpcom

Re: Setting up pbuilder or sbuild like experimental buildds

2006-08-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:30:14PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to setup a pbuilder or sbuild (preferably pbuilder, but I'm > not sure it's possible) in the way I understand experimental buildds > are setup: to only pull experimental software wh

Re: [HELP] FTBFS on alpha for xulrunner

2006-08-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:11:15AM +0200, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:57:40AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > PyGBase.cpp: In member function 'nsresult > > PyG_Base::InvokeNativeGetViaPolicy(const char*, PyObject**)':

Re: Bug#382531: ITP: furl -- a small utility for displaying the HTTP headers returned by Web servers

2006-08-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 06:35:42PM +0200, Marco Bertorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Marco Bertorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: furl > Version : 2.1 > Upstream Author : Kidney Bingos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL

Re: dh_python and python policy analysis

2006-08-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:22:10PM +0200, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le vendredi 25 août 2006 à 13:01 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > > I can't speak for others, but python-support provides > > > pysupport-movemodules and pysupport-parseversions to separate the > > > debhel

Re: dh_python and python policy analysis

2006-08-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 11:34:51PM +0200, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le vendredi 25 août 2006 à 23:11 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > The problem with the python policy is that there is no policy as to > > where the modules are supposed to be installed.

Re: dh_python and python policy analysis

2006-08-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:21:26AM +0200, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 26 août 2006 à 00:16 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > > You can put them wherever you want as long as this complies with the FHS > > > and that a set of .rtupdate/.rtins

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree that it would be nice if ifplugd or laptop-net were installed > by default, but last I checked Debian didn't install either by > default, either. So what's your point? Aren't they part of the laptop task,

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:48:00PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > Debian needs to make a decision on how it will deal with this legal > > minefield. That is higher priority than the entire discussion goin

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:00:27AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:48:00PM -0400, Nathanael Nerod

Re: Bug#385793: -dev packages should not be architecture all

2006-09-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:27:27AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:21:36AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: xulrunner > > > Version: 1.8.0.5-3 >

Re: Bug#385793: -dev packages should not be architecture all

2006-09-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:24:22AM +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:27:27AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Mike Hommey writes: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:21:36AM +0200, Matthias Klose

Re: Bug#385793: -dev packages should not be architecture all

2006-09-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:24:22AM +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:27:27AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Mike Hommey writes: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:21:36AM +0200, Matthias Klose

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:45:06AM -0500, alfredo diega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/21/06, Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >- > >I can see you're frustrated. You've invested a lot of energy into > >writing this note to us about a problem you see in Debian. Now, if it > >real

Re: Media players in Debian

2006-09-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:12:02PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It would be great if upstream would actually care about legal issues, > > licenses and patents in particular. > > Upstream does care for legal issues, and

Starting daemons after install not always what the user wants, but what/how to do ?

2006-09-25 Thread Mike Hommey
Some programs may be used as system daemons, but can also be used by a user for some other purpose. For example, fetchmail can be used as a system-wide mail fetcher, but can be used and configured by a user to fetch his own mail, through his own setting. Now, let's say someone creates some gnome-f

Re: Starting daemons after install not always what the user wants, but what/how to do ?

2006-09-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 07:03:03PM +, Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO, packages where there is a need for this functionality should be > split as above. For example, fetchmail-daemon (containing the init script) > which depends on fetchmail; spamassassin-spamd depending on spamassas

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