Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Jarno Elonen wrote: > Since stable base packages (in addition to effective developmen tools!) are > the most important factor in making a stable OS, it would be good to have > more work concentrated on them. As Colin has already pointed out, bugs.qa.debian.org can give list

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-13 02:25]: > The fact that pkgreport.cgi doesn't display them is a bug in > debbugs, not Well, then we can still blame you. :-P -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:02:05AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:44:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Have you tried http://bugs.qa.debian.org/? > > http://bugs.qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/standard.cgi says that bison has 3 > serious bugs. > > Page discarded as useless du

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-13 02:25]: > The fact that pkgreport.cgi doesn't display them is a bug in > debbugs, not Well, then we can still blame you. :-P -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:44:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 04:56:46PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > > I.e. aside from trying to convince someone that Debian would benefit from > > having you around (I, for one, have an advocate already) or fixing bugs > > from > > pac

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:02:05AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:44:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Have you tried http://bugs.qa.debian.org/? > > http://bugs.qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/standard.cgi says that bison has 3 > serious bugs. > > Page discarded as useless du

RFS: eli -- compiler cunstruction kit

2003-04-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Package(s): eli, eli-doc Version:4.4.0 Upstream: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://eli-project.sourceforge.net/ Licence:GPL eli is a set of tools for compiler construction (lexer, parser generators, handling of semantic analysis with AGs, commandline parser generator, debugging tools

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:44:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 04:56:46PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > > I.e. aside from trying to convince someone that Debian would benefit from > > having you around (I, for one, have an advocate already) or fixing bugs from > > packages

RFS: eli -- compiler cunstruction kit

2003-04-12 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Package(s): eli, eli-doc Version:4.4.0 Upstream: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://eli-project.sourceforge.net/ Licence:GPL eli is a set of tools for compiler construction (lexer, parser generators, handling of semantic analysis with AGs, commandline parser generator, debugging tools

Re: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker) ...

2003-04-12 Thread Richard A. Hecker
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 01:22:03PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Daniel Pecos wrote: > > > Well, I ask for an advocate because of debian web page says this: > > .. > > > It's really hard to do the process to be a DD, so please, don't talk > > so hardly to pe

Authentifizieren gegen eine SQL Datenbank

2003-04-12 Thread Kjer Andresen
Hallo ! Ich wuste nicht so recht zu welcher MAiling List ich posten sollte, deswegn habe ich erstmal die hier genommen Kann mir jemand bei der Konfiguration von PAM helfen ? Ich möchte nicht nur das sich die normalen UNIX user an mein System anmelden können, sonder AUCH die user, die ich

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 04:56:46PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > I.e. aside from trying to convince someone that Debian would benefit from > having you around (I, for one, have an advocate already) or fixing bugs from > packages you are interested in: > >which bugs (and more importantly) _in_

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Jarno Elonen
> > + There are so many packages and so many bugs that it's really hard to > >say where to start. > > this is an upstream bug I wont fix anytime soon, so here is something > to start with: > http://bugs.debian.org/71419 > webcheck: Could it be internationalized? Tips like this are good of cou

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:41:53PM +0200, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 11:36:15AM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > >I've been playing around with an idea of making a nice local > >frontend for BTS by adding a procmail filter that would intercept > >incoming mail. But:

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 11:36:15AM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > > unless they can give some demonstration that they're into more than just > > making packages. Fixing bugs, for instance. > > This advice is quite usual on this list. I think there are

Re: debian native and CVS

2003-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Allombert wrote: > What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS? > The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball. The clean way is build from an exported tree using cvs-buildpackage. AFAIK it works the same for native as for non-native packages. The quic

Re: Is redirecting stdout/stderr in postinst allowed?

2003-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > the developers' reference says in 6.4: > > | Standard input and output may be redirected (e.g. into pipes) for > | logging purposes, so don't rely on them being a tty. > > So far, so good. But is it o.k. if the script itself performs > redirections? For example some

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030412 13:05]: > You've got the release-critical bug list, which is a good place to > start. Not really. Most bugs need much knowledge of debian (or the policy), or work on non-i386-platforms, or a recompilation, or mixed. For the last two things it's very much

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Jarno Elonen
> Pointing someone at a package they're not interested in won't work, either, > though. Dunno what the solution is, but surely every prospective DD can > find enough packages they use on a regular basis and find bugs in them? I currently have 1104 packages installed maybe 15 on which I'm even som

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 11:36:15AM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > This advice is quite usual on this list. I think there are a few reasons why > it's not as common thing for non-DDs to do as it maybe could be: > > + There are so many packages and so many bugs that it's really hard to >say wher

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jarno Elonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030412 11:20]: > > unless they can give some demonstration that they're into more than just > > making packages. Fixing bugs, for instance. > This advice is quite usual on this list. I think there are a few reasons why > it's not as common thing for non-DDs to

Re: NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Jarno Elonen wrote: > > unless they can give some demonstration that they're into more than just > > making packages. Fixing bugs, for instance. > > This advice is quite usual on this list. I think there are a few reasons why > it's not as common thing for non-DDs to do as

Re: NM-wannabe: dpkg hangs on launching daemon

2003-04-12 Thread José Luis Tallón
At 00:55 12/04/2003 +0200, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 12:24:33AM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: > - Debconfig-fied installation > When the postinst script launches the daemon ( by means of > /etc/init.d/webcdwriter ), dpkg just

NM's to fix bugs? (Was: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker))

2003-04-12 Thread Jarno Elonen
> unless they can give some demonstration that they're into more than just > making packages. Fixing bugs, for instance. This advice is quite usual on this list. I think there are a few reasons why it's not as common thing for non-DDs to do as it maybe could be: + There are so many packages an

Re: Looking for Mentor for Packet 'dvdauthor'

2003-04-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Rene Tschirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Now I hope to get an experienced advocate. :-) >> Can you make the .dsc and .diff.gz files available publicly somewhere? > > Sure. Both files are availabe at > http://lava.cs.tu-berlin.de/~pooh/debian/dvdauth