Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:57:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:09:37AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:29:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > But folding it into shlibdeps at least would remove all those warnings > >

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Christian Perrier wrote: > > >"tasks=kde-desktop" is a bit rude to type (try it on a non US > >keyboard...). > > The hint to non US keyboard is *very* important. I would love if > *every* s

Re: Entering parameters at the boot prompt

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:15:39PM +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (from a discussion in -devel) > > > The hint to non US keyboard is *very* important. I would love if > > *every* string a user (not a hacker) has to type at the boot prompt > > would work on *any* keybord ac

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:48:49PM +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > >"tasks=kde-deskto

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:20:18PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/06, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Note that Requires.private is used for cflags since the last version > >of pkg-config. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/340904 > > Well, then somet

Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:40:43PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/06, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> vali:/usr/lib/pkgconfig# pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 > >> -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include &

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:10:01PM -0500, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Loïc Minier] > > Can't we just tell people to not use *.la files for static linking? > > The problem is that .la files provide a way to pull in all the > dependent libraries for static linking, and unless

Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:50:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:07:02 +0700, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > >> Some of us are partial to apt-get and would appreciate > > >> ap

Re: Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:55:54AM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that's the ideal solution. In the real world, my suggestion may > improve the situation faster. > > Just got an other idea, slower too, but makes the "ideal solution" more > realistic: Someone writes a tool

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:10:33PM -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Why *shouldn't* KDE, GNOME, Firefox/Iceweasel, Tbird, and anything > > that requires Mesa/OpenGL, and all of Charles Plessy's scientific > > packages be marked do_not_build on 68k/Coldfire & ARM

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:27:32AM +0200, Jacobo Tarrio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El lunes, 16 de octubre de 2006 a las 00:22:53 +0200, Lech Karol Paw?aszek > escribía: > > > > The fact that GNU chose the name "Iceweasel" for their own fork of > > > Firefox > > > is extremely unfortunate :-

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:36:27PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doesn't policy violation warrant Critical severity? > > No. Please see the top of http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt > for which bugs are critical, grave and serious. That is irrelevant for the sever

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:29:38AM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:51:19PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:36:27PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > Doesn'

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:06:42PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061019 20:42]: > > Note how subtly the Etch RC policy removes the first alternative of the > > serious bug description... > > Which do you mean? Ple

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:17:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061019 21:14]: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:06:42PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROT

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:35:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I need to admit that I get sick, seriously sick. If someone doesn't > agree with something, he just says "you do it wrong just for release of > etch on $date". I really hate that. Especially when it's about th

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:53:56PM -0400, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061019 21:14]: > > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:06:42PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL > > &g

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:56:37PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Aurelien Jarno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061019 21:31]: > > Andreas Barth a écrit : > > >A violation of the parts of the debian policy as listed on > > >http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt is serious level (

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:15:16PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061019 22:06]: > > That was not a link before it was changed before sarge release, in July > > 2004. > > The link was added later because peop

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:20:46PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061019 22:09]: > > Where does it say the scope for 4. Autobuilding is "buildds must not > > fail" ? > > There are always bugs in any docume

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:37:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061019 22:29]: > > [another agression] Waw, actually, i was trying to be less aggressive... Anyways, since I'm too pissed and since I see no reason to put

Re: Is something wrong to XGL, Compiz, Cgwd be packaged?

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:50:13PM -0400, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 02:30:19PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > If we're going to ship xorg with aiglx and composite enabled by > > default (actually i dunno really), beryl in etch and in default > > desktop e

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

2006-10-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:32:49PM +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.10.31.2016 +0100]: > > In all of these cases the files pointed to are not intended to be > > modified but what file is used can be configured. > > How are cer

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:32:39PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I've just upgraded #393913 from minor to important. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393913 > > Somebody just mailed me that this bug is release critical since it > allows to read/

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:16:46PM +0100, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 19:20 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Auto-indexes are enabled only in /var/www/apache2-default and > > /usr/share/apache2/icons by default, so it is not likely to leak an

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:05:08PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:32:39PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DirectoryIndex tells apache which file(s) it may use when

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:50:09PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > >>> The default value for DirectoryIndex is index.html, which > >>> obviously forgets index.php. But that doesn't mean index.php will be > >&

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:39:39PM +0100, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:05:08PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:32:39PM +0100, Bastian Venthur

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:08:46PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > There has never been index.php in the DirectoryIndex configuration from > > apache. Adding it is part of the php installation procedure. > > Maybe I'm

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 07:43:36AM +0100, Jean-Christophe Dubacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember that since the change, I had to make changes to several php > applications, because at the same time the default configuration did not > include any configuration in the case where php is not i

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:38:21PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02.11.2006 20:16 schrieb sean finney: > > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 19:20 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> Auto-indexes are enabled only in /var/www/apache2-default and > >> /usr/s

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is what I've installed: > # dpkg --list | grep php | cut -d " " -f -3 > ii libapache2-mod-php5 > ii php5 > ii php5-common > > and: > > # cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/wiki > > ServerName wiki.loc

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:48:10PM +0100, Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:13:14 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > But the DirectoryIndex problem should be fixed nevertheless. > > FWIW, I've the following for apache2.2 on my sid: > = > [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy (was: First draft of review of policy must usage)

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:41:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + the -a and -o test operators > + must be supported Why is that needed ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:01:27AM -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> + the -a and -o test operators > >> +must be supported >

Re: Accepted update-manager 0.42.2ubuntu22-6 (source all)

2006-11-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 06:33:10AM -0800, Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version: 0.42.2ubuntu22-6 Why do we need ubuntu version numbers in debian ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:10:52PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So why not just specify all maintainer scripts just use > /bin/bash? I am not sure. Perhaps because allowing scripts to specify > /bin/sh would allow then to be sped up a trifle when /bin/sh is a > n

Re: ITP: vala -- Compiler for the GObject type system

2006-11-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 01:09:48PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: "Marc-Andre Lureau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: vala > Version : 0.0.5 > Upstream Author : Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini > sa at g

Re: ITP: vala -- Compiler for the GObject type system

2006-11-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 05:15:42PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > It's my first debian packet submission and I will be looking for help /a > mentor. Are you willing to help me? > So far, I still get one error with lintian: > > http://www.paldo.org/pipermail/va

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:03:27AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:44 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061116 09:35]: > > > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:30 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:42:45PM +0100, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:15:28AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > > I would drop that "special" case and always require explicit > > requirement for the shell. It's more clear to see which packages > > "need" bash to

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 09:51:37AM +0200, Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And this is only possible if scripts use > > /bin/sh > > The /bin/sh could be any valid shell that provided the standard set > of features. > > The installation system ("Essential") which sets /bin/sh to poin

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:20:07AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 09:51 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 23:55 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > > > > > Instead of focusing and hamm

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:02:45PM +0100, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:22:06AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > This is an excellent example of doing the wrong thing, in my opinion. > > > > Why not fix the bash bug instead?? > > Because it is _NOT_

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 12:20:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Because it is _NOT_ a bug in bash, it is a feature. AFAIR (it was some > >

Mass closing of bugs ?

2006-12-03 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, Now that iceape replaces mozilla and provides mozilla packages for transition, the BTS now show all old mozilla bugs in the iceape reports. These may or may not include bugs that don't exist anymore, and considering how mozilla used to be maintained, it may also include bugs that were not even

Re: symlinks replaced by directories and vice versa

2006-12-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 01:34:51PM +0100, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > > However, since this is such a frequent source of bugs and since so many > > package maintainers seem not to be able to deal well with it, I'm asking > > myself

Re: Dropping GStreamer 0.8 for etch

2006-12-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:23:47PM +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 09 décembre 2006 à 15:36 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff a écrit : > > 2. If the GNOME maintainers come to an agreement that linking dynamically > >is possible it would be _much_ appreciated, if not we

Re: Dropping GStreamer 0.8 for etch

2006-12-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:31:47PM +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 09 décembre 2006 à 17:28 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > > Well, totem-xine is still the default in etch, which means > > > gstreamer-ffmpeg is only important for p

Re: Bug#402650: ITP: mozilla-foxyproxy -- advanced proxy management tool for iceweasel

2006-12-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:19:22AM +0100, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:56:12PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: mozilla-foxyproxy > > >

Re: Bug#402650: ITP: mozilla-foxyproxy -- advanced proxy management tool for iceweasel

2006-12-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:55:59PM +0100, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:41:30PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:19:22AM +0100, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 11

Re: Iceweasel extensions lacking links migrating from firefox. Mass bug?

2006-12-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:02:07PM +0100, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > Here is the list of packages which have smth under firefox/extensions > > but no iceweasel/extensions > > You can remove all the locales (all, including uk), because > iceweasel-l10

Re: Iceweasel extensions lacking links migrating from firefox. Mass bug?

2006-12-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:37:15PM +, Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I demand that Yaroslav Halchenko may or may not have written... > > > Unfortunately I didn't spot this problem when I was closing #400168. > > Iceweasel after transition doesn't care about extensions listed under >

Re: Bug#402650: ITP: mozilla-foxyproxy -- advanced proxy management tool for iceweasel

2006-12-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:37:18AM +0100, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, for me the most consistent practice for packaging ice* extensions > post etch would be to use the extension name as package name and put > info about its relation to our ice-apps into (short) description and

Re: please let mplayer into testing

2006-12-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:15:49PM +, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:09:09PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > > anyway, shortly after I wrote that email, the situation reverted again > > (for worse); so currently there is no agreement between me and Aurelien, >

Re: java-package will be updated for jdk6 ?

2006-12-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 06:01:39PM +0100, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > j2se 6.0 is free software Since when ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dynamic linking to /usr/lib/xxxxx directory.

2006-12-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:54:20PM +, Paul Cager wrote: > > I'm packaging AFNIX which provides four or five executables and a bunch > > of shared objects that the executables use. Since the SOs are not likely

Re: Explications needed...

2006-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 07:58:34AM +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't you find it a bit hypocrit to have x86 uploads go directly to the > archive, and not allowing even a single day delay which would allow to stop > unclean DD-build-boxes breakage and a clean state, and on the ot

Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:13:27PM +0100, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please add a technical overview to your introduction. As a techie, I > would like to read what is so special about zerotools what I cannot do > with: > rm crapfiles && cat /dev/zero > bigfile && sync && rm bigfile

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:37:56PM +0100, Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm packaging a database wrapper library (http://oss.devit.com/yada/). > Its purpose is to provide one single API to a program and let the user > configure if the database used is actually postgres/mysql

x86 buildd for experimental ?

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, As a lot of gnome 2.16 currently in experimental has been uploaded for amd64, there's a lot of it not built for x86 yet. I heard several times people claim experimental was autobuilt, but are there any x86 autobuilder set up for experimental ? Cheers Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:33:56PM +0100, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could move the plugin's additional dependencies into Recommends, > using "dpkg-shlibdeps -vRecommends" (...) By the way, what is it supposed to happen in such a case ? What kind of Recommends will dpkg-shli

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:53:35PM +0100, Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Re: Andreas Metzler 2007-01-05 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Which does not seem to be properly translateable into a valid single > > fasel|(foo | bar, blah) Depends relation[1]. > > It won't work if a plugin needs m

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 08:03:06PM +0100, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-01-05 Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:33:56PM +0100, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You could move

Re: one binary package created by different source packages, will the old source package disappear?

2006-03-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:03:13PM +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > assume the following scenario: > > - Source package foo creates binary packages libfoo1 and libfoo-dev > - source package foo2 creates binary packages libfoo2 and libfoo2-dev > > Since both versions are

buildd disk space and debug symbols

2006-03-21 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi fellow developpers, I'm considering building xulrunner with debugging symbols enabled (and putting them in a separate -dbg package), but if I recall correctly, it has been disabled from firefox and mozilla builds because of the time and disk space required (something like 2GB) that could be a b

Re: buildd disk space and debug symbols

2006-03-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:56:36AM +, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-21 09:46]: > > So I'm wondering if building xulrunner with debugging symbols is > > possible considering the buildd infrastructure

Re: buildd disk space and debug symbols

2006-03-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:08:11PM +, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-21 10:34]: > > > get this in. I can confirm that the patch in our firefox works - > > > at least firefox starts and loads the Debian homepage. I'll play > > > some

Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog

2006-03-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:51:03PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote: > > Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > That much is easy, but how do you turn a process ID into a script that > > > can be invoke

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:17:50AM +0900, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Any particular reason for not just using xpdf? > > > > Evince have more resources and combine with the Xfce interface. > > In the reality I would like

Re: libgtk2.0-0: changelog.Debian.gz is not an upstream changelog

2006-04-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 12:22:14PM +0300, Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 12:02:42PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Christian Marillat: > > >> Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [...] > > >

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:27:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No, this has never been the case. The maintainer gets the bug reports > > from the BTS directly and the PTS is useful for people who are not the > > maintainer but

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Mike Hommey
; > subscribing to the PTS to get those even for packages where I'm the only > > > maintainer. > > I subscribe to debian-devel-changes for that. :-) > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > ... and maintainers should be subscribed to that by default. >

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:43:07AM +0200, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have not noticed yet, the latest udev release by default > automatically generates rules to have persistent names for network > interfaces. > > I am inclined to agree with the bug reporter, but I want to do

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:38:53AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > - when the maintainer changes, we logically need to unsubcribe the > > > previous. So this must be recorded somewhere. (it's n

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:29:06PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > We would still need a way to reset the set of keyword of this > > > email when the maintainer changes. > > > > Or have sim

Re: Missing firefox source and unofficial debian-amd64 breakage

2006-04-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 02:46:47PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > as some might have noticed the Debian archive is missing > > /debian/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2.orig.tar.gz > > The missing file has a sideeffect for the debian-amd64 archive be

Re: Missing firefox source and unofficial debian-amd64 breakage

2006-04-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:49:29PM +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 02:46:47PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as some might have noticed the Debian archive is missing > > &

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was going to fix it, maybe it would have been fixed already, but no, > the d-i team decided this otherwise. You can't *commit*, but you still can send patches, can't you ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Mike Hommey
Sven, When will you learn you don't have to reply to every single message in a thread ? Frank's and my message were the exact same. Why do you feel you have to answer twice to the same thing ? And please stop this "Friendly" signature, it's pathetic and actually sounds stupid. Mike On Thu, Apr

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:07:36PM +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:27:35PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Sven Luther > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was going to fi

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:56:32AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This tool lists every BTS bug that is forwarded to a remote Bug > Tracker. If it knows how to get a Status and possibly a Resolution (if > the Status is a closing Status), it gets them, and: > * sets upstrea

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Hi, > > hi, > > > there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release team > > whether we could switch gcc to 4.1 or not for e

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:34:50AM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:59:27AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On W

Re: The necessity of running depmod at boot time

2006-05-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 07:21:33PM -0300, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Continuing on the goal of optimizing boot time, quite a number of > seconds (specially in old machines) can be saved by not running depmod > at boot time. (...) > It looks like it's quite safe to stop runnin

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:16:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The KSP was cracked, People signed a key without ever looking > at proper, official ID. You can try and save face by calling it > whatever you want, but that does not change the reality. Manoj, how

Re: Bug#368985: ITP: mod-bt -- BitTorrent tracker for the Apache2 web server

2006-05-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:32:06PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ondrej Sury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 08:07 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > > * Package name: mod-bt > > > > I suggest to name your package (you can name just binary package, bu

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:26:41PM +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.29.2122 +0200]: > > I think the usual way is to provide the dummy binary package > > immediately from the new source package and file a bug for removal >

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:12:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm, that used to be a "magic" combination that would let dpkg do the > > right thing. > > I've heard this stated before, but if it was ever true, it's definitely not > the case with apt (or with britney), and

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:41:52AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 02:48:33PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Then there's the issue of tracing who did an actual upload into the real > > world. A name on a GPG key is not, by any means, a

Re: Hidden files

2006-06-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:47:10AM +0200, Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > more and more packages use hidden files in /usr. I see this as an error. > But before making a bug report for such packages I wish to ask if this > is intended or really a bug? Some of the files are in

Re: Hidden files

2006-06-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:32:34PM +0200, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:05:31AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > It flags alarms, it is obscure, and generally it is bad form to have hidden > > files anywhere but under user homes anyway. T

Re: Hidden files

2006-06-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:51:02PM +0300, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > It'd be easier to take your claim into account if you actually brought > > better facts than "I don't like it" or "stupid tools give fal

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-07 Thread Mike Hommey
wrong code may be generated. > > These warnings can be found in 1600 packages [4]; they are: > > [4] http://people.debian.org/~tbm/logs/pointer/ > > Here is a list of maintainers and their packages which exhibit such > warnings: > > Mike Hommey > xulrunner 1.8.0.1-11 Wh

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:46:06AM +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:28:29AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-07 02:20]: > > > We did pick two

Re: CDBS and dh_install

2006-06-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 03:00:12AM +0200, Marc Dequènes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past some mistakes were done in debhelper too, even if i don't > recall a specific case to mention. Probably because a change in debhelper is done with a change of compatibility level. And you still can u

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:49:26AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - The current pythonX.Y-foo packages having modules in the python >library path are collapsed into one package python-foo. Binary >independent modules are made available for the python versions >curr

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:17:17AM +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:49:26AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > - The current pythonX.Y-foo packages having modules in the python > >library path are col

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:09:15AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > Anyways, there would be a problem with python native extensions linked > > against libpython. They would get the shlib dependencies on python2.x > > packages. &

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:33:50PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It's nice that people spend extra time in taking care of the packages > of others, for example when they upload a NMU to fix serious or > important issues, however this is not always desired or re

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