Re: Bug#312897: ITP: texlive -- The TeXlive system packaged for debian

2005-06-13 Thread frank
after a release, and then would stick to that upstream version no matter what happened until the next release. And the buildds and package maintainers would be happy. Regards, Frank P.S. please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed to -devel currently. -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-23 Thread Frank
WTF? 2008/11/23 Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi > > SmellyWerewolf.com are kindly offering every Debian Developer a discount > on their whole perfumes and make-up catalog[1]. If you apply under the > procedure outlined below, you will pay according to "Rate Eeencredible", > which at the

Re: Interpreting testing excuses

2007-09-18 Thread frank
Hi Norbert, > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 22:02:41 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> we are wondering why texlive-base and texlive-bin don't enter testing, >> and I fail to understand the output of the update excuses at [...] > testing has texlive

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

2004-10-26 Thread Frank Küster
t; - Tools keep MD5 sums for files installed. When a file in /usr > changes, it is usually an indication of something fishy; thus, > certain programmes will fire alarms. > > Lastly, the policy promises that /usr can be read-only and > guarantees software to be fully functional. Now

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

2004-10-26 Thread Frank Küster
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > also sprach Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.26.1916 +0200]: >> > Lastly, the policy promises that /usr can be read-only and >> > guarantees software to be fully functional. >> >> Now, where is

Re: Subversion / swig1.3

2004-10-26 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
is just a bug in the testing script and needs > manual hinting? Yes, it needs manual hinting and we're aware of this. But it needs to wait for libhid anyway (two days), so there is no hurry to install the necessary hint. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/

Versioned bugs in the BTS (was: Drop testing)

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
ense, and bugs > that are RC in the "keep this out of testing" sense. This sounds great, and I heard that it has been promised for after the sarge release, sounding as if it was implemented yet. Is the counterpart also implemented, namely testing scripts that take this information into ac

Re: Location of Type 1 fonts

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
follow the Berry scheme. The lmodern package is an example for making fonts available both to TeX applications and to defoma/X11. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

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

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > also sprach Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.26.2057 +0200]: >> You should probably tell us non-chatters what "The software" is... > > I believe the original post had the reference: apt-spy, pciutil

Re: RFS: kmenc15 - An advanced Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend.

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Are there any (inofficial) buildds for contrib? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

$HOME/.dotfiles and FHS 2.3 (was: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1)

2004-10-29 Thread Frank Küster
ays annoyed by this, and it's not easy to find the solution in the documentation (I only learned of the environment variable in this thread). Why not change the default, when everybody can get back the original buggy behavior by setting an environment variable? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for October 29, 2004

2004-10-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
fs [sparc] no tgetent - no screen > Where does the [U] come from? I do not see the upstream bug tag > set on U has two meanings there. If it appears in the left [], it means the upstream tag, if it appears in the right [], it means the sid tag. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/

Re: Debconf is not a registry

2004-11-01 Thread Frank Küster
restore them. This doesn't sound as if this was planned as usual business (although the "try" is understatement, of course it always works). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-01 Thread Frank Küster
what seemed to be a consensus on that, and submitted it as a wishlist bug (#278524) to the Developer's Reference. A new version of the added section, 6.1, is available (slightly updated compared to the original patch) at http://people.debian.org/~frank/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html There are s

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-01 Thread Frank Küster
Hello, thanks for the feedback. Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:58:55AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> 3. If you think a binary change is a reason for a new orig.tar.gz, do >>you think the sentence cited above should get

Re: Debconf is not a registry

2004-11-01 Thread Frank Küster
onvenience so that you don't have to waste time answering > questions again and again. But that could as well be achieved by parsing the configuration files: if mypackage_parseconfig; then db_set mypackage/item1 "$itemone" db_set mypackage/item2 "$itemtwo" d

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
ther installed at runtime to change the appearance of the program, or used as a build-dependency? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
e by me: Thanks, corrected. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
source, and the type of restriction is not grandfathered (at least not literally) by clause 4 of the DFSG. And if you take the combination of both: Upstream source that contains non-DFSG material and forbids to use the DFSG-free parts without explicitly referring to the removed non-DFSG-free parts, w

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] "Debian comes in three flavors: Stale, rusting, and broken, which > are renamed once or twice a decade. Actually, rusting is stale yet > currently, but it can't be officially released before 2004, because > Gnome2 and KDE3

Re: Documentation for upstream software authors

2004-11-09 Thread Frank Küster
, and which are for releases - Make clear which versions indicate a major release, and which only a bugfix release (if the project was first released with 0.1, and had 0.2, 0.3... afterwards, then 1.0 to 1.1 is probably a major release, not just a bugfix release of 1.0) Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

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

2004-12-01 Thread Frank Küster
tter not bring your daughter to Europe. I am sure she would see much more explicit drawings and photos in the advertisements by the side of the road or on TV. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

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

2004-12-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:30:24PM -0200, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: > It's VERY oppressive to force hot-babe out of > Debian because of personal feelings about nudity. > It's pure anti-speech insanity leading the way > to socialism. How is this related to soc

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

2004-12-03 Thread Frank Küster
don't think the cartoon is pornography. > > A lot of men don't think the cartoon is pornography. Do you really want me to ask my wife, a 27 year old german, catholic, academic graded, pretty woman, whether she thinks this is pornography? I am sure she'd laugh at you. Get real,

Re: Depending on Virtual Packages (Public Service Announcement)

2004-12-03 Thread Frank Küster
h different criteria for "reasonable", of course. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

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

2004-12-03 Thread Frank Lenaerts
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:27:25PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> If our goal is to advance the cause of a Free operating system, then why > >> should we be including, in our OPERATING SYSTEM, images that serve no > >> useful purpose, and instead alienate millions or billions of people > >> worldwi

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

2004-12-07 Thread Frank Küster
ownloads). Did this AVI really show dogs copulating with each other (not pervert humans with a dog)? And people downloaded this in masses? The world is strange. Bye, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Duelling banjos or how a sane community goes crazy

2004-12-08 Thread Frank Küster
ation) with the sole purpose of > ending a thread *does not* end it. And you are wrong, because in that posting nothing, nothing at all has any connection to Nazis (directly or by implication). Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Backups in maintainer scripts

2004-12-09 Thread Frank Küster
are removed, except that files that were conffiles in the old version and are nonexistant in the new one are kept. The .dpkg-old and .dpkg-new files come from conffile handling, see 10.7 in the Policy. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

"Why is package X not in testing yet" - where's the page

2004-12-09 Thread Frank Küster
Hello, I used to check testing migration with the link http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl but the host is no longer found. Does anybody know whether this is just a temporary problem? Or is there an alternative site? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tetex-base 2.0.2c-2.1

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Küster
t days. You have not posted anything to this bug, neither a patch nor an intent to NMU. And you won't stop me from uploading these packages this morning. I find this extremely annoying. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Removal of freeswan from sarge

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Küster
a package? I don't see any reasons for _not_ providing a smooth upgrade path. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tetex-base 2.0.2c-2.1

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:43:22AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Since then, I was testing the packages with the fixes that we had > prepared in the last days. You have not posted anything to this bug, > neither a patch nor an intent to NMU. And you won't stop me from > uploadi

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tetex-base 2.0.2c-2.1

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Küster
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You have not posted anything to this bug, >> neither a patch nor an intent to NMU. And you won't stop me from >> uploading these packages this morn

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tetex-base 2.0.2c-2.1

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi Frank, > >> Please calm down. Sure, it isn't usual to upload such a quick NMU, but >> (as Goswin already pointed out) such a bug that makes a package >> uninstallable that is a common build-depends can real

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tetex-base 2.0.2c-2.1

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Küster
ing, and make the upload of 2.0.2c-3 nearly at the same time as LaMonts NMU. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-13 Thread Frank Küster
en the "vendor" of the Software would be Debian, or somebody burning (custom) Debian CDs. Do you think it would be good for Debian if we have to support binary firmware, while it can as well be supported by the hardware manufacturer? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-14 Thread Frank Küster
ams are non-free (because modification of scientific information is generally not acceptable, and usage is often restricted). By the way, what about ftp, a program designed to upload arbitrary data - often non-free files - to a hardware device via a protocol based on TCP/IP? Regards, Frank P.S. Shouldn

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread Frank Küster
between them (at least not with the same keystrokes used to cycle between applications). But you can use Expose to get the right window. Regards, Frank -- Frank KÃster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. ZÃrich Debian Developer

Re: installing a source tree?

2004-12-15 Thread Frank Küster
Chasecreek Systemhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I have tried variations of - > apt-get install postgresql-source > > as well as variations of - > apt-get build-dep [package] > apt-get source --compile [package] What about apt-get source postgresql?

Re: installing a source tree?

2004-12-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
is-configured > Debian/Perl/PostgresSQL =/ =) But I doubt that however. I tried sql-ledger a while ago (version 2.0.9), and IIRC it did not need the postgresql source, or even the -dev package. However, it does need libpgperl or libdbd-pg-perl (I don't remember which, probably libpgp

Re: installing a source tree?

2004-12-16 Thread Frank Küster
Chasecreek Systemhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:35:40 +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What about apt-get source postgresql? > > Yes I did, but that doesn't place/install it into the proper places -- > what(wher

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-16 Thread Frank Küster
firmware loading code must be free. Why should analogous code, just in userland, be non-free? Or why isn't a firmware loading application analogous to kernel firmware loading code? Thanks in advance, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Default gcc for sarge, libunwind

2004-12-17 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The libunwind issue is newer, you > probably just have to read the corresponding bug reports. Which bugs? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Default gcc for sarge, libunwind

2004-12-17 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:13:31PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > >> [quoting me, Frank] > >> > Secondly, I'd like to learn what this libunwind is about and why >> > tetex-bin is linked against it on some (many

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-17 Thread Frank Küster
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:51:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> When the issue of binary blobs in the kernel was first discussed here, >> if I'm not mistaken the proposed solution was to rewrite the respective >> driver

Re: NEW queue and ftp-master approval

2005-01-31 Thread Frank Küster
"don't have to look closer" should be rather fast), but 5 might fit. Or they can configure it, depending on their workload and the number of packages entering NEW. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-01-31 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
day) and let it ftp it for you ;) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Frank Küster
" doesn't seem to be good idea I seem to remember that it actually worked this way... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: release criticl bugs

2005-02-02 Thread Frank Küster
of a > false license. Either the upstream changes the license or we > should remove or move the package to another section. Go ahead, communicate with upstream, and please do it gently. Before you mail to upstream, ask the maintainer - he might be in non-public conversation about it with

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Frank Küster
this myself. But I didn't, because the logical answer would be "check out http://cvs.debian.org/dak/?cvsroot=dak and start working", and I won't be able to do that... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Why didn't #290810 hold eximdoc4 from sarge?

2005-02-06 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
nstall run that installed the new package. Therefor britney was confused and thought the bug would apply to the package in sarge, too (as at the time it saw the bug the first time the version in sid and sarge were identical). So the package in sid wasn't more buggy than the one in sarge ...

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-10 Thread Frank Küster
confused and think that it is "something like" a symlink, I think that this is worth some better documentation. I would suggest: # If you don't like this, umount /.dev/ and remove the empty directory. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-10 Thread Frank Küster
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:29 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) schrieb: >> >> > On Feb 09, Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> File a bugrepo

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-10 Thread Frank Küster
like this, remove /.dev/. and thought: If I write a mail asking whether it's safe, people will ask back "Can't you read?". And just did it. Well, he did "rm -r", not "rm", but that's what you do when are told to "remove a directory", and believe that you should do it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Küster
in order to make life easier for people who sometimes dont't think straight? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Bug#295213: general: Upgrade removed /usr/local (symlink)

2005-02-14 Thread Frank Küster
> the proper /usr/local/ on another disk seem to be intact. Is any tetex package installed on the system, and can you give the version numbers currently installed and, ideally, of the old ones before the upgrade? We had a bug with /usr/local/ in tetex-base, and this might be connected. Regards, F

Bug#295213: general: Upgrade removed /usr/local (symlink)

2005-02-14 Thread Frank Küster
Please be so kind and keep the bug number address in the Cc Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:24:59PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Is any tetex package installed on the system, and can you give the >> version numbers currently installed

Bug#295213: general: Upgrade removed /usr/local (symlink)

2005-02-14 Thread Frank Küster
Hi Tuomo, Please be so kind and keep the bugnumber address in the Cc line. Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:54:22PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Could it have been after January 24st? > > Unlikely. Then it is probably not tetex

Re: Bug#295213: general: Upgrade removed /usr/local (symlink)

2005-02-14 Thread Frank Küster
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Please be so kind and keep the bug number address in the Cc >> >> Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:24:59PM +0

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
f a Debian source package, it doesn's say anything about pristine or repackaged. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
ng propagation i'ts "urgency" that matters, isn't it? And I've never read "ITO" as a tag for orphaning bug. Either one mails to -devel (or wherever) saying that they intend to give away or orphan some packages, but this isn't a bug, just conversation. In the

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
EXITCODE=0 fi echo "bla..." exit $EXITCODE } case "$1" in --help|-h|-help) usage;; --foo) ... *) usage STDERR;; esac Translation to Perl, Python, C, whatever, and to multiple arguments is left to the reader as an afternoon exercise. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-16 Thread Frank Küster
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:11:33PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > h. There are more rules as to when packages migrate from unstable to >> >testin

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-16 Thread Frank Küster
change the ITO to 'read about orphanded package on >> debian-devel'. > > Please compare [1], [2], and [3]. Basically: > > 1. maintainer writes -devel > 2. maintainer writes -devel and files RFAs > 3. maintainer submits O: bug against wnnp and CC's

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-16 Thread Frank Küster
, or buildd administration, or whatever), and a package maintainer need not be a Debian developer: They can have their packages uploaded by a developer who reviewed the package, but doesn't want to do all the work. Regards, Frank ¹others can subscribe to this, too, via the package tracking system

Re: mirror the Packages files _after_ the packages!

2005-02-16 Thread Frank Küster
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Does http://www.debian.org/mirror/ at least have the > two-phase-mirroring script? Why don't you go and look? And if you find the information too sparse, submit a bug report with a patch? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. B

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

2005-02-17 Thread Frank Küster
in the list when a package first entered new if there is more than one version. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: problem of savelog

2005-02-18 Thread Frank Küster
mple), or does one have to start anew? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Errors in RC-bug list (was: Release-critical Bugreport for February 18, 2005)

2005-02-18 Thread Frank Küster
agged sarge-ignore, but the package is being worked on, see [EMAIL PROTECTED]). What happened to the other RC bug? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space]

2005-02-18 Thread Frank Küster
ectures, instead of just on the > mipsen? Or because there might be a simple way to solve the problem? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Errors in RC-bug list

2005-02-18 Thread Frank Küster
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 04:09:31PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> BugScan reporter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Package: tex4ht (debian/main) >> > Maintainer: Debian QA Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>

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

2005-02-20 Thread Frank Küster
qually "bad" translated versions, over having a better english version, 10 better translated versions, and 30 working translated versions with formally one fuzzyness? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

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

2005-02-20 Thread Frank Küster
nk so far. But in fact in such case one could fake the translation and simply unfuzzy it without making a change, of course not before the unchanged file has been stored, and sent to the translators. No, it's not a good idea. Let's keep the change in mind for etch. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-23 Thread Frank Küster
e complete subdirectories from the temp tree to the package trees, is it in this case safe to use mv? It's much faster, and it would safe space (because dh_movefiles only removes the originals after the complete tarball has been extracted). TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-23 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uhh, who cares? dh_movefiles has been superseded by dh_install. Oh, thank you for pointing out the obvious. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-25 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> dh_movefiles internally uses tar to move file contents. I'm not sure why >> it doesn't use mv, is it because mv moves the file block-by-block and >>

Automatic building of (parts of) the archive

2005-02-25 Thread Frank Küster
packages that depend on packages that depend on mine, or...? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-25 Thread Frank Küster
program less robust (there's no direct way to delete >> the >> first block of a file, so you'd have to either copy from the back or shift >> the whole file back a block at a time and then truncate it). > > I doubt that any subdirs of a package build directory will ever be on > a different mount point than the directory itself ;-) Correct. So, why not use mv? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-25 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Well, fine. But the question remains: dh_install uses cp, not mv. What >> is the problem with using mv? And would it be safe to use mv if I only >> move complete di

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-25 Thread Frank Küster
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:54:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> > Re: Daniel Burrows in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> I'd imagine that it doesn&

dpkg: config file `foo' is a circular link

2005-02-25 Thread Frank Küster
llation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault) But I don't believe that this is the real problem. /bin/sh generally runs fine here, and those scripts contain a "set -x" as their first command. It's not the first time I get a segfault when trying to use dpkg's

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-26 Thread Frank Küster
Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 20:25 +0100, GOMBAS Gabor wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:54:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> > Correct. So, why not use mv? >> >> Add a new "--move" flag to dh_inst

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-26 Thread Frank Küster
h for dh_install, for an optional "--move" behavior, or just use it in a handcrafted way in my packaging script. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Automatic building of (parts of) the archive

2005-02-26 Thread Frank Küster
David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Friday 25 February 2005 18:43, Frank Küster wrote: >> in order to test whether packages that build-depend on tetex can still >> be built with the upcoming version 3.0, I would like to automatically >> build as many of thes

Re: Automatic building of (parts of) the archive

2005-02-26 Thread Frank Küster
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> in order to test whether packages that build-depend on tetex can still >> be built with the upcoming version 3.0, I would like to automatically &

Re: self-depending packages

2005-02-28 Thread Frank Küster
ier about > self-dependencies and circular dependencies. What's the bug number? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: self-depending packages

2005-03-01 Thread Frank Küster
possibly install a package that was never installed previously if it depends on itself? It seems to me as if a Conflicts with versions older than that depended-upon version would be the right thing to do, but not in the library, but in the packages depending upon it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster

Is NEW processing on hold? (was: Question for candidate Towns)

2005-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
ges/2005/03/msg00019.html Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

debootstrap-farm (was: Automatic building of (parts of) the archive)

2005-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, a while ago I wrote: >> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> in order to test whether packages that build-depend on tetex can still >>> be built with the upcoming version 3.0, I would like to automatically >>

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-03-07 Thread Frank Küster
is no "holes" in the dates when the > upload happened. I find all this information on > http://qa.debian.org/~anibal/debian-NEW-summary.html>. tetex-bin, with a new binary package name, and targetted at experimental, has been processed. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-03-07 Thread Frank Küster
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > [Frank Küster] >> tetex-bin, with a new binary package name, and targetted at >> experimental, has been processed. > > Good. :) > > I'm aware that a few packages have been able to get through the NEW &

Re: mipsel drop / buildd situation Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space]

2005-03-07 Thread Frank Küster
Clint Byrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:35 +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 07:20:42PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> > >> > If the build fails on sparc, arm, and s390, how should this be >> > indicative

Re: Who cares about NEW when there are bigger issues?

2005-03-08 Thread Frank Küster
nly to find that there is some infrastructure missing and that it takes more than half a year to fix this. While the fact itself is a big pain, the underlying reasons, the way communication and planning is done in the project, is the real big problem. Please note that I do not, and do not want

Re: Automatic building of (parts of) the archive

2005-03-08 Thread Frank Küster
root root 4096 Mar 5 22:03 sid The buildd is running as user buildd, not as root, but that is how it should be, isn't it? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

2005-03-10 Thread Frank Küster
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi folks > > It seems that Anthony Foka is missing in action. He does not respond to > bugs which removes his packages from the release. Have you asked [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der U

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-11 Thread Frank Küster
using. Printing using cups works, both >> with mozilla (suite) and OOo. > > Xprint works perfectly fine out of the box. > > I don't remember receiving a bug report from you. Take that one. Apparently the mozilla maintainer should have reassigned it to xprt, but there has b

Re: querying available package versions over the net

2005-03-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
than the current one. Patches and/or proposals in other forms welcome. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 11, 2005

2005-03-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
is also due to the non-free fonts mass bug filing. Lets just do something about it at the currently announced BSP! Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why are these packages in sarge?

2005-03-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
ed (as it is only in Sid). Just a question I had. I will remove these packages from testing and block them. Thanks for reporting. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

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