Re: Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - October 10-13 2024

2024-06-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
already generate audio and video that convincingly imitate real people. Why not the same with email? Though, the implications are rather serious. Perhaps our policies need to evolve to expect (or require?) cryptographic signatures from DDs in mailing list discussion. We may eventually reach a poin

Re: Bug#462027: ITP: libactiverecord-ruby -- library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby

2008-01-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
olved checking for current/previous WNPP bugs about them and then checking for packages already in Debian with similar names. Let's just say that I am still in the "getting started" phase with Ruby. However, I will contact them before I do anything else. Thanks for the info. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

2008-01-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ssuming the package has a watch file, you can just use uscan with the --force-download switch. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

2008-01-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
s it > is indeed implemented and retrieve the .orig.tar.gz. > According to Debian Policy [0], the get-orig-source is optional. Regards, -Roberto [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto h

Re: Backport of debhelper

2008-02-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
/debhelper/debhelper_6.0.5/changelog#versionversion6.0.0 -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Backport of debhelper

2008-02-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:49:19PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11286 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > In any event, perhaps the advice you provide in your other mail in > > this thread should be included in the Debian developer reference. > > Want to writ

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
e I am investigating and hope to have an upload ready soon. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
y of the source code (1 to 5) > 3. Your other comments I do not have time to review the code right now. However, the abuse of XML that you call a configuration file really needs to be fixed. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ted version control systems (and even some of the newer ones that follow a more traditional model). Now, not everyone likes CVS or Subversion, but most everyone is conversant enough with them that the tools don't present an added barrier to entry. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sá

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:19:50PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez, 2008-02-22 08:33:17 -0500 : > > [...] > > > Now, if I could run an 'apt-get source -t unstable foo' and create > > my patch against the resulting source package, and be sure that

Re: DD in Antarctic Continent?

2008-03-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
really is not all that different from very-northern Finland/Sweden/Norway/Russia :-) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DD in Antarctic Continent?

2008-03-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:21:19PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:17:04PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:13:14PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > >>> So he's really in very-no

Re: Bug#470621: ITP: nxcl -- NX X compression client library

2008-03-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the pkg-nx group on Alioth. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ending an epoch be less drastic? Doesn't sound like the > mistake was upstream's... In the Debian Perl Group, the practice has been to append +pristine to the upstream version number. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.conne

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

2008-03-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
#x27; along. > Also, what you would do is dpkg-divert /bin/rm, and then > call /bin/rm.coreutils or whatever. > This is only reasonable if it won't break things like 'make uninstall' or other scripts that expect that rm will be well behaved and do what it is told. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
necessary changes. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:20:00PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Roberto C. Sánchez] > > > Alternatively, since Debian is an all-volunteer project you can feel > > free to volunteer to contribute the necessary changes. > > We definitely need more hands to

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:51AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed March 26 2008 05:51:32 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:32:33PM +0530, Unni wrote: > > > Why the debian can be more interesting? More graphics, more drivers etc. > > > I think thi

Re: Bug#474036: ITP: xnetcardconfig -- tool to configure your network cards using an easy wizard

2008-04-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
along sudo. > > Note that I am about to upload the package to debian mentors > and start looking for a sponsor. > If it us "just a ruby script", is it sensible to use an entire package for it? What about trying to get it included in another package that ha

Re: Bug#474279: ITP: libdevel-profile-perl -- tell me why my perl program runs so slowly

2008-04-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
x27;s the difference to Devel::DProf, bundled with the Perl core? > The fact that the output file is human-readable? > That and that it works with XS modules, which DProf does not. Incidentally, Joey Hess already packaged this and it is in NEW, so I have closed the ITP. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ftware based on libbar, it is > not obvious that foo's build dependencies are required. > Except that a -dev package can be perfectly functional without pkg-config. So, in that case it should not be a dependency, but a recommends. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://peopl

Re: python-sphinx or sphinx?

2008-04-10 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
and not just modules. That is just one example. Personally, I am ambivalent on the matter. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Misc development news (#6)

2008-04-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
vanish > now it is stored somewhere ... > This is something that I propsed on January 3, 2007, on debian-devel. There was a fairly lengthy thread that resulted and Thomas Viehmann even offered to help. Of course, he and I both became very busy and so it sort of fell by the wayside. H

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

2008-04-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
s to update the sha > checks as well. The latest devscripts does. > Will the devscripts in stable be updated to handle this? If so, when? If not, why not? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2008-04-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:48:21AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote, Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:24 AM > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > >>do you have updated devscripts? debsign signs the dsc then updates th

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

2008-04-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 02:25:02PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Le 17 avr. 08 à 13:04, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > >> IMO, that sort of misses the point. While I maintain quite a few > >> packa

Re: DDs using stable (Re: Rejected: epcr_2.3.9-1.dsc: sha1 check failed)

2008-04-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 05:27:35PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Roberto C. Sánchez [Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:04:39 -0400]: > > > IMO, that sort of misses the point. While I maintain quite a few > > packages in Debian, the only places I run unstable/testing are in one V

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

2008-04-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
y. It is just a suggestion. I am living with the situation for now, because I still need to work on my packages and my groups' packages and upload them. However, I think that the whole thing was gone about in a rather uncoordinated fashion. To me, that is what looks bad. Regards, -Roberto -

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

2008-04-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:06:52PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:56:01 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > This certainly good. However, perhaps dak should have been changed to > > accept both format versions (1.7 and 1.8), instead of just rejecti

Re: Bug#479238: ITP: res -- OCaml library for automatically resizing contiguous data structure

2008-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
like language libraries, especially when they originate from some sort of common language repository like CPAN or CRAN or whatever if OCaml has something similar, it is probably good to have some sort of common naming scheme. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~r

Re: Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
27;s orig.tar.gz, untar it and then apply the Ra > sources to it? Or is that too fragile? > I believe that the package build should be able to succeed even in the absence of a network connection. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Split a package, rename an init file

2008-05-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ept the files named /etc/init.d/shorewall and /etc/default/shorewall. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: db.debian.org/password.html : Why ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to setup OpenSSH for RSA

2008-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
list but do not want to subscribe, the list archives are always available: http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian-installer: driver disk compatibility

2008-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
B requirement of the regular installer) that would be imposed to be able to do that. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
XML by hand is even a remotely sane thing to do. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
pository keyrings? Will those be allowed or disallowed? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Resigning from Debian

2009-07-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 05:12:44PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > > electricsheep[1] deserves a prioritary adoption: a major upstream > version has been released and Debian's is now deprecated. > I'd like to adopt electricsheep. Regards, -Roberto -- R

Moving init script from one package to another

2009-09-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
there some magic I can put into a prerm/postrm script that will handle that? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Seeking advice on packaging of pion-net

2009-09-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
rk or is appropriate for this package. Any advice/insights on this would be appreciated. Regards, -Roberto [0] http://bugs.debian.org/547607 [1] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer

Re: Moving binary packages between source packages, and closing bugs

2009-10-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
plicated, the first upload of the new > packages would be to experimental... > This I do not know about. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

-fPIC, libraries, and overriding a lintian error

2009-11-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
mean that I am permitted to override the lintian error? Regards, -Roberto [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-libraries -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: -fPIC, libraries, and overriding a lintian error

2009-11-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:43:12PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Does that mean that I am permitted to override the lintian error? > Please disregard. It turns out that the proposed fix causes a FTBFS on amd64, which is not acceptable. Overriding the lintian error will clearly

Re: "Mozilla" plugins to depend upon virtual "mozilla-plugin-browser"?

2007-03-23 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
n browsers would not be kept out. > What is the point? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
g bug triage in there would be a good thing. > People should be given assistance and encouragement in > doing it. I actually like doing it, but I have unfortunately relatively > little time (sick family members). > I like doing bug triage as well. I guess it is because I am a neat f

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 08:12:07AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:38:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > People should be given assistance and encouragement in > > > doing it. I actually like doing it, but I

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:47:38AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2007-03-27, Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In fact, yes. More so, even. The higher the bug count the *greater* > > the reward for triaging everything properly. It helps to prevent > >

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
t happens in the case (that was already pointed out) where a bug languishes without attention for a year or more, someone NMUs to fix the bug and the mainainer immediately uploads to revert the NMU? It seems that there needs to be some way to handle situations like that. Regards, -Roberto

Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
been reported to work on mutt, and it failed here with kmail. > Is the crypt+sign mail format standard ? > The last vote (on the package upload rules) worked for me sending encrypted from mutt. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.c

Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

2007-03-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
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Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
; > >just a willingness to help should the current maintainer be unable to > > >continue for some reason. > > an "understudy" or "standby" ? > Could we call it "co-maintainer" or something like that? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
way to optimize it? > Interesting. I have ~1600 packages installed on my development machine and I do not experience the slowness you talk about. It was installed about 3.5 years ago. How much RAM/CPU does the machine have? How fast are the disks? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:11:46PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2007 15:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database > > &g

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
mecases those are transparent to > the end users) > I think that is the principal problem. I use apt-proxy and have about a dozen machines (counting virtual machines) that all hit that one apt-proxy. I am not sure how best to solve that problem. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez htt

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

2007-04-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
r even slower ISDN link) with an opteron, xeon, athlon64 or the like. I'm not saying that your situation is not possible, simply that trading size for compression/decompression time would benefit far more people than it would "hurt." Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánche

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
kes sense. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

2007-04-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 01:09:50PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:12:33AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le jeudi 12 avril 2007 à 21:15 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : > > >

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

2007-04-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:24:53AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20.51:16 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > > man procmailrc > > On gmail? > gmail does support POP. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http:

PAM config and LDAP [WAS: Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)]

2007-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
d via SSL. However, this causes other really annoying problems: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-openldap-devel/2007-April/001140.html Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PAM config and LDAP [WAS: Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)]

2007-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ct? > "good or bad" depends on your goals for the configuration. > My goal is that it is secure. -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)

2007-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the > LDAP server decide if the password is correct or not. > You mean that the passwords go in the clear? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PAM config and LDAP [WAS: Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)]

2007-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:39:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:19:34PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:49:40PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > It means that pam_unix is able to access your shadow hash on beh

Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)

2007-05-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the password. It is passing the > > > password over to the LDAP server (using an LDAP bind), and letting the > > > LDAP server decide if the password is correct or not. > > [Roberto C. Sánchez] > > You mean that the passwords go in the clear? > > Yes, unless you are

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
nobody forces you. > What if you are a one-time sponsor for a dozen packages? It seems like Nico's original gripe is valid. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
gt; > This would need a new field defined in some sane way and then get > enforced to use to make sense. And then the scripts can start using it. > > So the simple(r) option is "subscribe to pts". > Doesn't the key used to sign the upload tell you? Regards, -Robe

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:18:11AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11013 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > >> This would need a new field defined in some sane way and then get > >> enforced to use to make sense. And then the scripts can start using it. > &g

Re: Bug#422423: ITP: libtool-cvs -- Generic library support script - CVS snapshot

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
d then requires a security update, it would not be buildable in stable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: LDAP mail gateway and subkeys, RT ticket #70

2007-05-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ile the RT bug. However, I have experienced this problem. What can I do to help? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ething like (>= 1.0.1-1) and (<< 1.0.1-2) be more correct? That way the package is still binNMU safe and also safe from breaking if incompatibilities are introduced in the next source upload? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > Your case is probably better handled with a simple higher-or-equal > > > dependency. > > > > Maybe I misunderstand, but wouldn't something

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:49:07PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:24:35AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Maybe I misunderstand, but wouldn't something like (>= 1.0.1-1) and

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
that the testing/unstable version will also increase when the new package is introduced to fix the problem there as well. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > Well, the ~ character is stated to be evaluated to be less than the > > empty string. If a package is the target of a security upload in > > stable, you can be certain t

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:54:09PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >> > >> > Well, the ~ character is stated to be evaluat

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
case, it is becoming apparent that the continued OT discussions are becoming increasingly unpopular. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
rsing > programmatically. > Something like /^Justify-\([^:]+\):/ should do it, right? Then $1 becomes the package name. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature (v2, repost)

2007-05-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
vating > event. For example, file triggers do not inform the package of the > filename. In the future this might be added as an additional feature, > but there are some problems with this. > I'd be interested to know in what problems there are with this. Regards, -Roberto --

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
that the release team is already covered well on release.debian.org, via > regular mails to d-d-a and in the developers reference. > I think that having a centrally located list of teams within Debian and where someone can go to learn more/get involved is a good thing. Regards, -Roberto --

Re: BoF: Supporting 15,000 packages - How much support do we mean?

2007-05-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
opment. Of course, since the security team can't possibly monitor upstream development for every package (even just those which don't have active maintainers), we can't really know. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Filing FTBFS bugs and packages in NEW

2007-06-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
d by the maintainer of the package. Especially in the case of mass filings resulting from things like rebuilding the archive or other cases (like the bug reporter not knowing/being able to access the stuff in NEW), I think there should be a bit of leniency. Regards, -Roberto -

Re: Bug#427216: ITP: gtkol-ldap -- GtkOL-LDAP is a LDAP client based on GtkOL.

2007-06-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
GtkOL. > > What about author and url? :) > Also, a more descriptive short description. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Touching a file in another package

2007-06-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
s.so file in libgnomevfs2-extra's postinst (and > the same for other packages providing GnomeVFS methods), so that its > timestamp changes. > This might be a really impetus and test case for the new dpkg triggers that have been proposed. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C.

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
; mail the sysadmin when a new kernel is installed. Because reboot cannot > be automated ... or let the sysadmin install only the kernel manually > (or have an option do that) but inform the sysadmin mail command is our > friend) for the existence of new kernel.. How is what you describe diff

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:26:50PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:21:03AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > How is what you describe different from what cron-apt already does? > > That's precisely why I asked for details about this feature :

Re: Bug#428212: ITP: linky -- an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ected by the ftp-masters as too generic. Arnaud renamed it to mozilla-noscript and that was accepted. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
server-class disks. > That may be true when it comes to breakdowns. However, I challenge you to show me a "cheap" desktop disk that is also SCSI or SAS *and* hotpluggable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
kilo to mean exactly 1000 in the context of computing was a marketing gimmick. Besides, there are other units of measure which carry the same name and have different numerical values based on context (think statute miles and nautical miles), though I don't think any such examples can be fo

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
lowing rigorous standards. > It has never been anything more than people defaulting to a close approximation. Language is imperfect. People make do. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:36:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 03:29 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > > > It has never been anything but a gross imprecision introduced by people > > > incapable of following rigorous standards. > > >

Re: Bug#429801: ITP: libclass-accessor-grouped-perl -- build groups of accessors

2007-06-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
l these weird and whacky new Perl module packages in aid of > something, ie are they about to become reverse dependencies of some new > package? > Do they have to be? I know that I would personally prefer to apt-get install some Perl module, rather than install it myself from CPAN or some

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ion installed. > > It looks like rpmstrap could build you a suitable chroot (like > debootstap for Debian), but from the description it appears to be > somewhat outdated (eg Fedora Core 2). > Also, based on my experience trying to build a CentOS 3 chroot (CentOS 3 being fairly

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ultiple Linux distros (or even with other operating systems, now that Solaris ships with GNOME). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
t for Xen in a stable release is not suitable, I would have to consider migrating those servers to some other distro. I would really hate to have to do that. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:01:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:05:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > I think the first question to resolve is to establish that it *is* > > > supported... > > > I think that the prudent thing for

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
/srv (or all of it). Such is not the case for /var. That is, people know better than NFS mount /var. That guarantee does not exist, since by nature /srv should mountable by NFS (e.g., for a web cluster, or something like that). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.co

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ready working on something like that. > > This time we will really do it. :) > I know I have really wanted to get started on this, but keep lacking the time. I feel like we can probably get something substantial started this time. Perhaps a meeting on IRC would be a good idea. Maybe on a

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
s, -Roberto [0] http://bugs.debian.org/314571 -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
einst had actually been reached, it > would've caused the package to fail to unpack. > In case you missed my other mail in this thread, I think this is the same issue I reported in #314571. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www

Re: Please test syslinux 3.71+dfsg-1

2008-08-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
> > | plz test my pkgs so I can has leverage against the release > team, kthxbye > I don't get it. Isn't the amount of testing received one of the points the release team considers when deciding whether or not grant an exception? If it were not, I would be quite surpri

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the failure). It would have eventually manifested itself on the main architectures when they switched. As it was, I was able to get upstream to fix the package will ahead of the switch in Debian. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cipux-storage_3.4~svn2489-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2008-08-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ing), > and waiting a month for each of them, well, is quite a drag. > You can upload to NEW packages that Build-Depend on one another. I have done it without issue. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc De

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