Re: Bug#142818: Menu icon policy (Was: Bug#142818: xteddy: Icons missing from menu entries)

2002-04-22 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Mark Purcell wrote: > Sorry for the delay in replying. But I didn't receive your response directly > (by default the BTS doesn't send followup messages to the bug submitter) . Sorry, hope you get it directly now ... > I'm running KDE. icewm also appears to need the full path

Re: CUPS

2001-09-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Michael Meskes wrote: > I used to tell everyone we need no fancy GUI for configuration as our > postinst scripts take care of all that. All you need to know is > dpkg-reconfigure if you want to change anything. > > That probably won't work with cups. I´m really sure that debcon

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Ari Makela wrote: > Just about anyone who's not from English speaking countries. For > example, we Finns need 'åäö' and their capital versions. They just > don't work if you don't set locales right. If you take a look at even > just European languages you can see that most of

Re: ddts: notification about pt_BR-translation of the hello-debhe lper description

2001-09-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Michael Bramer wrote: > OH, this is now the second 'remove me' request. > > Now the server can only mail notifications to all packages or to no > packages. Should I stop it? > > Comments? Example for a procmail rule in the information part? Kind regards Andreas.

Re: ddts: notification about pt_BR-translation of the hello-debhelper description

2001-09-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Since this should probably be by-package and not by-maintainer, how > about a field in debian/control? (I'm not sure it really belongs > there, but there were some advantages if it were there; e.g. it can > easily be controlled by the maintainer.) If t

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: > I have yet to meet a person who would ever need a slovak locale. > Nobody cares at all (collate order? who needs that? Different > format of numbers? This is not only unneeded, but even harmful. > Different format of date? Who cares.. Gettext? Maybe, bu

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Santiago Vila wrote: > I never asked for a debconf interface (I explained in the bug report But why not following Grisus suggestion? In my opinion the problem is an obvious target for a debconf solution. The user has just to press one times: Do you want locales [y/N]

Re: CUPS

2001-09-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:04:10PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > By the way: That lpadmin does not work seems to be a bug but a feature - > > at least I had the same result as you. :-(( > > The web frontend worked for me after

root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-11 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Corrupted filesystem, unlink that file and try again. Hmmm, I have also a relict of older ReiserFS (from 2.4.4 or so) on my HD (I´m so happy that I didn´t used it on a critical box and perhaps never will do so ...): /var/lug# whoami root /var/lug# un

Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/ man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-12 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > i would suggest the immutable flag, but AFAIK reiserfs has no such > thing. Even if it would have - I do not use such nifty things on a testing box ... > sure someone isn't playing a joke on you and replaced /bin/su with > fakeroot ;-) :) But I can rm an

Re: Orphaning all packages

2001-09-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On 14 Sep 2001, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > #92294: sysadmin-guide; Missing Build-Depends-Indep I´m ready to upload a fixed package with the following changes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:54:54 +0200 Source: sysadmin-guide Binary: sysadmin-guid

Re: root rm: Permission denied - solution found

2001-09-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Edward Betts wrote: > I had the same problem, just worked out how to fix it, I used the chattr > program, see the chattr man page for more details. Could you please be a little bit more detailed? # chattr -V -i postgres.log.7.gz chattr 1.22, 22-Jun-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/0

Re: Orphaning all packages

2001-09-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Tille, Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010914 13:06]: > > Maintainer: Debian QA team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >* changed maintainer field to > > Maintainer: Debian QA team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: root rm: Permission denied - solution found

2001-09-17 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Edward Betts wrote: > > # chattr -V -i postgres.log.7.gz > > chattr 1.22, 22-Jun-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > > chattr: Permission denied while trying to stat postgres.log.7.gz > > chattr -V -ai postgres.log.7.gz maybe? It´s the same as above (and I expect it to stay so u

Interbase status (ITP #83098)

2001-09-17 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, any news from the Interbase Debian packages? Kind regards Andreas.

wxgtk python2 bindings

2001-09-27 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, I had a short e-mail exchange with the maintainer of the wxgtk packages Ron Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> because I asked him, whether he would plan a package for python2 because a program I want to pack depends from it. Ron isn´t actually a big user of wxPython himself and he said hi is quite p

New project: Debian-Med

2002-01-07 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, a new year seems to be the right starting point for a new project :). So here we are: _ _ __ ___ | _ \ ___ | |__ (_) __ _ _ __ | \/ | ___ __| | | | | | / _ \| '_ \ | | / _` || '_ \ _ | |\/| | / _

Re: maintainer for cervisia is MIA

2002-01-08 Thread Tille, Andreas
On 6 Jan 2002, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The same is the situation for pingus. I tried to email the maintainer > 2001-12-23, no reply yet. No changes in > 260 days. Last upload was > NMU. I've tried to email the one doing NMU after a bug squashing > party in April 2001. Not sure what more

Re: New project: Debian-Med

2002-01-08 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > In the "research" category -- how about medical imaging? I have considered > packaging the MINC tools from our lab (www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca) that are used > in brain research. And someone else previously packaged (or at least sent > an ITP) other tools

LVM + XFS/Ext3 (Was no space left on device: LVM, Gnus --> dpkg, apt-get ?)

2002-01-08 Thread Tille, Andreas
On 4 Jan 2002, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > I'm using LVM and XFS filesystems on my computer at home. This > morning, after I pushed "g" from the Gnus *Group* buffer (to get new > mail), it stopped part way through with an error message. Gnus > prompted me in the XEmacs minibuffer saying "no sp

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > So, dear co-developers, please join debian-mentors@lists.debian.org and > respond to future maintainers, and sponsor those who are asking it. > Also check out the sponsor page that is listing about 30 future > maintainers who are looking for a sponsor :

Re: linux.conf.au and Debian conference

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, James Bromberger wrote: [at debian-private - but of course it can be also discussed open and so I move here ...] > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:35:47AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > there were some rumors that there would be the Debian Conference 2 > &g

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Sounds good. Maybe we should provide a description of this technique > somewhere within webml or ddp. > > WWW/doc folks: any hint about sponsorship uploading practices? At least an FAQ would be apropriate in my opinion. A better solution would be

Musixtex not going into testing?

2002-01-10 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, some time ago I did an NMU of MusixTex which was accepted by the maintainer. I can't see any reason why this did not entered testing: ~> madison musixtex musixtex | 1:0.98-1 |stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc musixtex | 1:0.99-1 | testing | sou

Re: Musixtex not going into testing?

2002-01-11 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > I have just uploaded for powerpc. Thanks. Hamish wrote me he did it for hppa and I just did for sparc. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Will Lowe wrote: > > Is there any deb available for it? > > Not currently. If there's a lot of demand I'll package it, but it > seemed silly to bloat the Packages file further by making a .deb > containing 139 lines of perl. Why not fileing a wishlist bug against an apropriat

Re: Internationalization of apt

2002-01-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Michael Piefel wrote: > Now that you got my suggested patches for the last part of i18n for apt, > I wonder (once again): Are you going to try to get this into woody? At least a test-suite would be great. > If not, I plan to do something, I'm not sure what. I could NMU, but I

MusixTex for arm and sh architecture

2002-01-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, second call for help to compile MusixTex on all architectures: auric:~> madison musixtex musixtex | 1:0.98-1 |stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc musixtex | 1:0.99-1 | testing | source, arm, ia64, m68k, powerpc, sparc musixtex | 1:0.99-1 |

Re: Will woody ever become stable?

2002-01-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > Unfortunately I'm excuriatingly busy with other things [0] until > mid-February, so I just don't have time to pester three or four > dozen people personally on a daily basis to get the release out. That > *shouldn't* be necessary; just getting rid of the

Re: MusixTex for arm and sh architecture

2002-01-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: > sh is somewhat deprecated at the moment due to a required > decision wrt. sh3/sh4 and big/little endianess. No buildd > is currently running for binary-sh because of this. Just > stay tuned, the port will eventually continue. I really do not care abou

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I am happy to take it. But a question: with the more actively > maintained dput now being quite mature, do we still need both dupload > and dput? IMHO two tools with the same functionality are 1. confusing for users 2. waste of time for developers. T

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jérôme Marant wrote: > Welcome to the Free Software world. Hmm, I've thought I would just be here. :) > There are plenty of editors, MUA, MTA and so on because people > want to have fun doing something (and often learning from this > experience), even if i

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > IMHO two tools with the same functionality are > > 1. confusing for users > > 2. waste of time for developers. They should spend their time > > to make one better tool instead of two good tools. > > The implementation language really does make a

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jérôme Marant wrote: > Stop talking about one's time. I won't repeat myself. The discussion started because someone stated that he has not enough time. Moreover I talked about a second aspect: Confusing users. I'll now save my time and stop posting to this thre

Re: Description to man pages

2002-04-10 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, in general I like the idea of descriptions of manpages. I would like it even more if it would regard i18n descriptions which are produced by the ddtp server. Kind regards Andreas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Please compile treetool for ia64

2002-04-10 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, it would be nice if treetool could be available for all released architectures. Cureently only ia64 is missing. auric:~> madison treetool treetool |2.0.2-1 |stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, powerpc, sparc treetool |2.0.2-2 | testing | source, alpha, arm, i386, m

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-10 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > I just tried it, and it seems to work very well. I had no problems > booting whatsoever. I did just a quick look (no real install just booted and selected the language) and I really like the i18n stuff!!! Great job! Many thanks! Kind regards

Re: Request for gnuchess packaging change

2002-04-11 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Lukas Geyer wrote: > after unsuccessful attempts to contact the maintainer of gnuchess, Martin > Mitchell (he did not answer at all to my emails), I would like to propose > a change to the packaging of gnuchess. Andreas Tille did at least do an > NMU to update to version 5.03

Clustalw update_excuses

2002-04-12 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, in the package clustal[wx]_1.82-3 I fixed a buffer overflow and sended the fix upstream. I do not think that the problem is a real security risk but in many cases clustalw does not perform correctly so that I think the latest packages should go into testing. I wonder why it is sticked to

PostgreSQL update_excuses

2002-04-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, auric:~> madison postgresql postgresql | 6.5.3-27 |stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc postgresql |7.2.1-2 | unstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excu

Menu icon policy (Was: Bug#142818: xteddy: Icons missing from menu entries)

2002-04-15 Thread Tille, Andreas
Thanks for the bug report. I just want to know which window manager you are using. I did not found any policy statement about default icon locations. The documentation of menu states: ... please put all icon files in the directory `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/{bitmaps,pixmaps}' and I

Re: Intent to hijack: gnuchess

2002-04-19 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > Speak now or hold your peace forever :) Thanks for caring about this package! Have a nice weekend Andreas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]