Re: please unblock debian-edu-install (udeb not used by debians d-i)

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
me. A solution to provide automatic migration of udebs would be most welcome (and various folks have been working on this, though I don't know the current status). Until such a solution is available, time has to be wasted in order to keep the archive in a consistent state. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-09-30 Thread Steve Langasek
endencies. Does it need to have a dependency to grub at all? Quite agreed. If there were a clearer reason for having such a recommends, I'm not sure it would be RC (but I'd have to see such a case to know for sure); here, it seems the relationship should definitely be dropped. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#311188: debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ing people who aren't installing debian-edu explicitly, so it doesn't seem to make much difference to their net experience whether deiban-edu-config is allowed in sarge or not. So unless someone else on the release team objects, I think I'm going to tag this bug sarge-ignore. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#311188: debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
; sysklogd > webmin Well, this list is overbroad, at least; samba doesn't provide any conffiles. (samba-common provides /etc/samba/gdbcommands as a conffile, but I doubt that's the one that's being replaced here.) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#311188: debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:56:22PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 30-05-2005 10:17, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I realize that debian-edu-config is something of a special case, because of > > its narrow application. I don't think that Debian-Edu should get a free > >

Bug#311188: debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
g deal. > > What other packages does Skolelinux depend on for sarge that are not in > > Debian? > ltsp > j2re1.4 So, precisely one package not in Debian that is actually eligible for inclusion in Debian. :) Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Re: the .org proposal or "join forces"

2005-12-22 Thread Steve Langasek
#x27;t completely tested it yet) Well, I thought it *was* team maintained, which made Torsten's comment that you wanted to "take it over" rather surprising to me given that I haven't seen you post to the alioth list about it... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever l

Re: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Re: the .org proposal or "join forces"

2005-12-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 02:54:03PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hi Steve, > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:17:51AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > I would really like to see this package team maintained. It is a pretty > > > complex package, with upgrade path fro

Re: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Re: the .org proposal or "join forces"

2005-12-25 Thread Steve Langasek
ave made a start with the move > to dh_install. Ugh, dpatch is *such* a pain. Quilt is definitely better, though all patch management systems interact irritatingly with SCMs, AFAICT. :/ -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Bug#370197: italc: FTBFS: build-depends on removed libxaw8-dev

2006-06-03 Thread Steve Langasek
rg6.9). Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#311188: debian-edu-config release critical bug

2006-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
nffiles based on debconf values. Is this no longer what happens? If not, if instead debian-edu-config is only supplying configuration for cfengine, then I agree with you that this bug should no longer be considered RC. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Bug#399754: FTBFS: Can not require network during build

2006-11-21 Thread Steve Langasek
be possible to rebuild packages in an off-line environment. This package appears to fail on both counts. I'm lowering the severity of this particular bug strictly on the grounds that I can't foresee the security team ever having to do an update for the package. Still, it would be apprec

Re: Bug#370343: Worked out a patch in order to make default file preseedable

2008-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
, the text of the debconf templates contains a number of English errors that would need to be addressed prior to inclusion. I'm sympathetic to your desire to have the slapd package usable out-of-the-box for your environment, but I think there needs to be a clearer rationale for the par

Bug#709758: Replacing a binary package by another one(was: Communication issue?)

2013-09-04 Thread Steve Langasek
rter recently (which is not out of the question), no. It's a common misconception that apt will care about Provides/Replaces for selecting new packages on dist-upgrade, but while it seems like a nice idea, TTBOMK it's never been implemented. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#867361: sitesummary: Fix autopkgtest to work in environments with http_proxy set

2017-07-05 Thread Steve Langasek
ebian as well. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubunt

Bug#867361: sitesummary: Fix autopkgtest to work in environments with http_proxy set

2017-07-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 05:02:43PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Package: sitesummary > Version: 0.1.28 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > Usertags: origin-ubuntu artful ubuntu-patch > Dear maintainers, > Thanks for the work on impro

Bug#867361: sitesummary: Fix autopkgtest to work in environments with http_proxy set

2017-07-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 07:26:19AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Thank you Steve, for looking into autopkgtest failures. :) > [Steve Langasek] > > FWIW this does fix the problem with the test talking to the wrong server, > > but the test still fails as s

Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Langasek
main, not just to avoid contamination by non-free. If this is the case, I don't think it would be appropriate for us to ignore the bug; but I also wouldn't object if someone else (e.g., the tech ctte or the policy editors) were to clarify that this is not policy's intention and downg

Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-03 Thread Steve Langasek
7;s phrasing, I'm content to ignore such per-arch Recommends for sarge. I think the grub recommendation should still be dropped; since this is now the default boot loader, I think pulling in a second bootloader when the default has been overridden is likely to do more harm than good. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please (temporarily) remove debian-edu meta packages from testing

2004-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
dated versions in sid. This seems rather suboptimal, not least of all because it's an unnecessary hassle for the maintainer to keep track of the package's status. I'd think it at least ought to have its dependencies built against unstable, so that it isn't constantly uninstallable i

Re: Please (temporarily) remove debian-edu meta packages from testing

2004-05-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:07:56PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Steve Langasek] > >> Currently education-standalone-extras blocks kdemultimedia. > >> education-standalone-extras depends on kmix because the old version of > >> kdemultimedia provides kmix. See