Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-08 Thread Christian Kurz
[Hopefully my last mail to this list.] On 08/11/01, Grant Bowman wrote: > * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011104 15:08]: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:39:25PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > On 04/11/01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > > Indeed. Historically

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-05 Thread Christian Kurz
[ How often do I need to tell you that I don't need a Cc? I'm currently subscribed to thist list and read the answer here.] On 05/11/01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Christian Kurz writes: > > On 04/11/01, Mark Brown wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:39:25PM

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-05 Thread Christian Kurz
On 04/11/01, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:39:25PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > On 04/11/01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > Indeed. Historically, debian-qa have been the people who deal with > > > orphaned packages - there are moves to make the BTS-

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-04 Thread Christian Kurz
On 04/11/01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Christian Kurz writes: > > On 04/11/01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > than just dealing with orphaned packages. We don't have any more > > Which hopefully moves to an extra list and therefor an extra group > > taking care

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-04 Thread Christian Kurz
On 04/11/01, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 11:16:43AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Hi, > > while snooping through the package list, I noticed that we have an > > inconsistent spelling of those two words mentioned in the subject. > > 15 pack

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-04 Thread Christian Kurz
[If you really need to send people a Cc altough there header contains "Mail-Copies-To: never", then please at least mark it as copy.] On 04/11/01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Christian Kurz writes: > > On 04/11/01, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Sun, 04 No

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-04 Thread Christian Kurz
On 04/11/01, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 04 Nov 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 04 Nov 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > 15 packages are using QT, while 33 packages use Qt. And 93 packages are > > > using Gnome, while 127 are

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-04 Thread Christian Kurz
On 04/11/01, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 04 Nov 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Wrong, I'm not of any authority to make decision about inconsistent or > > consistent spelling of words in package descriptions. I can only write a > Only the maintainers thems

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-04 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-11-04 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 04 Nov 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > 15 packages are using QT, while 33 packages use Qt. And 93 packages are > > using Gnome, while 127 are using GNOME. This should be changed, since > > it's called QT and GNOME

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-04 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-11-04 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20011104 11:16]: > > it's called QT and GNOME and not Qt or Gnome. Since this issue effects > You surely meant to say that it's "Qt". At least http://www.trolltech.com/ > has

Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-04 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, while snooping through the package list, I noticed that we have an inconsistent spelling of those two words mentioned in the subject. 15 packages are using QT, while 33 packages use Qt. And 93 packages are using Gnome, while 127 are using GNOME. This should be changed, since it's called QT a

Re: RC bugs in packages maintained by this list

2001-10-21 Thread Christian Kurz
On 21/10/01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 05:44:32AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I can clean out some of the ssh2 stuff, but somebody who actually knows > > > about ssh should have a look at the ones that aren't just build > > > failures. > > O

Re: RFC: debian-qa-packages

2001-10-21 Thread Christian Kurz
On 21/10/01, Colin Watson wrote: > If there's consensus here then I'll request a new mailing list as > follows: [...] > Comments? Make it so. :-) Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853 pgpjyLq4Tr1D2.pgp

Re: RC bugs in packages maintained by this list

2001-10-19 Thread Christian Kurz
/01, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:26:06PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > On 18/10/01, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Are you willing to maintain it, > > No, since I'm currently happy with the number of packages that I > > maintain. Also I

Re: RC bugs in packages maintained by this list

2001-10-18 Thread Christian Kurz
On 18/10/01, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:26:19AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > If I remember correctly, then ssh2 offers some authentication and chroot > > options, that are not available with OpenSSH. And I'm not sure if all > > those feature

Re: RC bugs in packages maintained by this list

2001-10-18 Thread Christian Kurz
On 17/10/01, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 05:44:32AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > Grave functionality bugs - outstanding > > * #59031: ssh2: ssh2_2.0.13-5 sshd cannot create .Xauthority > >Package: ssh2; Severity: grave; Reported by: Ian Eure > ><[EMAIL P

Re: Remove nextaw, xaw-wrappers and ssh2 from unstable?

2001-09-19 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-08-25 Adrian Bunk wrote: > ssh2 > > - non-free > - free ssh seems to include the same functionality I don't agree with this one. If you take a closer look at ssh2 and openssh you'll notice that ssh2 contains some options and features which openssh doesn't support currently and won't as far

Re: new modutils needed to fix 106933

2001-08-16 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-08-16 Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:34:21AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > I quite understand that we'll need to get those bugs in the base > > packages fixed as soon as possible, but instead of contacting the > > maintainer _and_ Debian QA

Re: Registration to litoo's newsletter

2001-08-15 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-08-15 Registration to litoo newsletter wrote: > You just have been registered to Litoo newsletter > > Your email is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which idiot registered this address for this letter and with which purpose in mind? I would like to see [EMAIL PROTECTED] being unsubscribed from this list

Re: new modutils needed to fix 106933

2001-08-15 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-08-15 Anthony Towns wrote: > Could someone please upload a new modutils to fix Bug#106933? The > explanation in the report appears to answer Wichert's request for > moreinfo. I quite understand that we'll need to get those bugs in the base packages fixed as soon as possible, but instead of c

Re: Upload to fix #108285: Exim fails to start without ipv6.o loaded

2001-08-14 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-08-14 Anthony Towns wrote: > Can someone please upload an exim that fixes 108285? (exim in testing is > broken with upgrades from potato, exim in unstable is broken wrt ipv6) If I I remember correctly, Mark is already working on a fixed package that will be uploaded soon. So there's in my op

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-24 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-07-24 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:24:07AM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:00:36AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > Who has the authority to remove a package in this state, and forestall > > > angry complaints should the maintainer com

Re: Do we need a new Lintian maintainer ?

2001-07-19 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-07-19 J?r?me Marant wrote: > It has been a while since lintian has been updated and it seems > that Sean (shaleh) has not more time to work on it (Sean, can you > confirm?). According to my knowledge he was also working on a new lintian2 written in python. I don't know what the current

Bug#93820: Long and short description are identical

2001-04-13 Thread Christian Kurz
Package: kworldwatch Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-13 Severity: normal Hi, the short and long description of kworldwatch are identical. The long description should be used to describe the purpose and features of this program. A user is currently not able to decide if the wants to install the pac

Bug#93821: Long and short description are identical

2001-04-13 Thread Christian Kurz
Package: kteatime Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-13 Severity: normal Hi, the long description of this package is identical with the short one. The extended description should describe the purpose and features of this programm. Currently a user is unable to guess, what exactly this program is usef

Bug#93818: descriptions are identical

2001-04-13 Thread Christian Kurz
Package: kmoon Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-13 Severity: normal Hi, the short and long description of this package are identical. The long description should be an extended description about the purpose and the feature of this program. Please change the descriptions therefor in the next upload.

Bug#93817: Long and short descriptions are identical

2001-04-13 Thread Christian Kurz
Package: ktux Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-13 Severity: normal Hi, the short and long description of ktux are identical. The long description should be used to describe the purpose and features of this program. A user is currently not able to decide if the wants to install the package or not, b

Re: NMU prepared (regarding ascii now)

2001-04-08 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-04-07 Carlos Laviola wrote: > On 07-Apr-2001 Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > [Cc'ed to qa, so that nobody refixes this at the next bug party] > > Regarding the 'ascii' package, I'd also like to notify y'all publically that I > have a new version of ascii waiting for the maintainer's permission

Re: Changing maintainer field for QA.

2001-04-04 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-04-04 Peter Palfrader wrote: > Maybe we should stop using <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as a Maintainer: > address for packages maintained by QA and use somthing like > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > For now this should be setup to forward all mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > but when enough packages use the ne

Re: Need for a test suite

2001-02-02 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-02-01 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > up the release process? The answer is at least partially evident: we > need people actually doing QA. It looks like Raphael, whom, AFAIK, was > playing QA coodinator, got caught up in RL, and other people are in a > similar situation. Can we have an i

Bug#83401: german templates file [patch]

2001-01-24 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-01-24 Daniel Tschernatsch wrote: > Package: suck 4.2.5-2 > Template: suck/get-news/remoteserver > Type: string > Description: What default news server should be used by the get-news script? > (This server name will be put in /etc/suck/get-news.conf) > . > Enter the fully qualified domain n

Re: NMU of Mailx

2001-01-16 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-01-16 Edward Betts wrote: > Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 01-01-14 Edward Betts wrote: > > > I have created an NMU of mailx, it is at > > > http://people.debian.org/~edward/mailx > > > > > The NMU fixes all but 7 of the bu

Re: NMU of Mailx

2001-01-16 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-01-14 Edward Betts wrote: > I have created an NMU of mailx, it is at > http://people.debian.org/~edward/mailx > The NMU fixes all but 7 of the bugs open against mailx. > Do people want to take a look and see if they can see anything wrong > with it? I talked with Loic some time ago and I t

Bug#80573: should replace grafix

2000-12-27 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-27 Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > > On 00-12-27 Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > > > So does grafix-dev. > > > > > > > > But that is not

Bug#80573: should replace grafix

2000-12-27 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-27 Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > So does grafix-dev. > > > > But that is not fine. No package should contain any files that are in an > > other package already. So the correct solution is to put those > > co

Bug#80573: should replace grafix

2000-12-27 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-27 Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > grafix-dev should conflict with grafix, (at least this is what > > > I think currently :-). > > > > No, I think those files that are in both package, should only be in one >

Bug#80573: should replace grafix

2000-12-27 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-27 Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, James LewisMoss wrote: > > Package: grafix-dev > > Version: 1.6-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > or maybe conflict. dunno. anyway. here's log. > [Summary for people on -qa: > old package: grafix > new packages: grafix1 (Replaces: grafix

Re: qftp and bugs 71484, 53449

2000-12-20 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-19 Gordon Sadler wrote: > qftp has 2 outstanding important bugs listed above. One is almost a > year old the other is over 3 months. It appears the developer is rather > busy. I took the liberty of addressing 71484 with a patch to the BTS. > If one of the DD's here would apply it and recom

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Kurz
[Hey, I didn't Cc you, why do you Cc me know? I read -qa and -project, so I don't really need three copies of this mail.] On 00-12-17 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Well, what you propose here is an an removal of a debian developer and I &

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-17 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Cord Beermann wrote: > > >No, I don't intend to change this. My point is: Someone who has a Debian > > >account can do much harm (intentional or accidential). That's a reason why > > >I think we should have a severe look at the work of an applic

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-17 Colin Watson wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > >> more careful task&skill test would be helpful. > > > >Yes, and the main point of my proposal is: An applicant doesn't get his &g

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-17 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-17 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > >... > > > > > suggests to the NM team that he should become a Debian account. The NM > > > > > team (perhaps the current NM-Committee plus other interested Debian > > > &g

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-16 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-16 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > >... > > > package this is sometimes enough to pass the "Tasks & Skills" test (e.g. > > > > Well, do yo have some other examples too? I think one example is nice, > > but

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-16 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, On 00-12-16 Adrian Bunk wrote: > My impression is that currently maintainers are accepted too early. For > some AMs it's enough that they build one package (and thanks to debhelper > it's relatively easy to build a package) and even if they make a buggy Especially since people can build very

Re: jove Package - Maintainer does not respond.

2000-12-14 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-14 Martin Quinson wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > > On 00-12-12 Cord Beermann wrote: > > > > > He is also responsible for the mailx-package, which hasn't been > > > touched by him since mid-98, although there were appearing s

Re: jove Package - Maintainer does not respond.

2000-12-12 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-12 Cord Beermann wrote: > Hallo! Du (Martin Michlmayr) hast geschrieben: > >* Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20001211 20:56]: > >> If he doesn't answer till this date, you should take then his > >> package over, but that's only my suggestio

Re: jove Package - Maintainer does not respond.

2000-12-11 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-11 Cord Beermann wrote: > The current maintainer (Loic Prylli) doesn't respond and hasn't > touched the package since 11 Nov 1998 (he is also responsible for the > mailx-Package which isn't worked on since 1998 (besides some NMU > security fixes.)), but the package isn't orphaned, or given

Re: Orphaning of lockvc

2000-12-09 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-09 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20001209 00:15]: > > tbm's package seems to be on ftp-master, so I'll wait and see what > > happens (if there's a conflict use his instead of mine, since I just > > hacked it to build a non-rc version in a hurry, whereas he

Re: Orphaning of lockvc

2000-12-09 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-09 Gordon Sadler wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but the libpam-pwdb that this bug refers to not > being available seems to be in an odd position. It IS available, > however only on auric, testing. I track quite a few mirrors, to Well, maybe the maintainer of libpam-pwdb can comment on thi

Re: Orphaning of lockvc

2000-12-09 Thread Christian Kurz
[There's no need to Cc me, as I'm also on debian-qa, as you could assume from my signature. ;)] On 00-12-09 Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Wichert just orphaned lockvc in IRC when I talked with him about the > > release-critical-bug in it. I then tried to recompile lockvc here on > > woody and make

Orphaning of lockvc

2000-12-08 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, Wichert just orphaned lockvc in IRC when I talked with him about the release-critical-bug in it. I then tried to recompile lockvc here on woody and make an orphaning upload which failed for me. So Wichert and I would appreciate if someone of you could take this task over. Thanks. Ciao Ch

Re: AM report contents, was: Re: task & skills

2000-12-04 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-04 Dale Scheetz wrote: > OK, I've read all the postings on this thread, and I must first correct [...] > secondary. Don't stop just because someone else is doing it different. I have to admit that you wrote a great email, which describes very good my concerns and expose possible and good

Re: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-03 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20001203 17:39]: > > debian packages and fixing other bug packages. You can't only look at > > the bug reports of people and judge them. You also should take a look at > > how much th

Re: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-03 Andreas Schuldei wrote: > As a matter of fact he emphasised several times that I should take my time > to do my job properly and was very serious about the quality of debian > packages. He proved to be competent in all the aspects of packaging and > 'debianness' we encountered so far. H

Re: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-03 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20001203 17:39]: > > Well, I think that there are enough people to sponsor NMs. I currently > > fail to see that we are missing enough sponsors. > If there are so many sponsors, why haven

Re: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-03 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20001203 14:24]: > > > The Build-Depends: I didn't count but I guess about 80 - 90% get > > > > Also I wonder how you can guess that the number is so high? I think > > it would be

Re: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-03 Lenart Janos wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 02:01:24PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > On 00-12-03 Lenart Janos wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:17:37AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Gergely Risko wrote: > Hmm.

Re: sponsorship was: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-04 Anand Kumria wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 02:24:29PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > documented well at all). And I have them fix it. There are packages > > > > And that should be the part that the sponsor should do. We have the > > concept of s

Re: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-03 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20001203 00:01]: > > When I see that a package with missing build dependencies (except > > debhelper) that has in debian/copyright a "Copyright: not yet known" > > and 2 other bugs is enough to become a Debian maintainer > > (

Re: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi to all the readers of this mail, On 00-12-03 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > >... > > > do either use the high standards I want to use for my applicants and they > > > see that others with lower skills are already accepted by o

Re: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-03 Lenart Janos wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:17:37AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Gergely Risko wrote: > > Well, I can tell you, that if I see some really lazy Developers in the > > future, I will complaining about them, even on -

Re: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-03 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20001203 13:11]: > > Martin is only "an AM", but... > I forgot to mention one thing: I think I'm the AM who asks the _most_ > questions about Philosophy & Procedures. I think this area is in > particular important because th

Re: task & skills

2000-12-03 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, sorry to intercept here. I'm not subscribed to debian-newmaint-admin but to debian-qa, so please send a copy of your answer to this mailing-list. Thanks. On 00-12-03 Adrian Bunk wrote: > [Cc to debian-qa because this mail explains why I'll quit Debian QA] > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Gergely Risko

Bug#44329: this package is not native

2000-11-12 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi Adrian, On 00-11-11 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > > this bug report is now open for a long time without anyone taking care > > about this issue. Does someone know where we get the upstream package > > for this software or can we safe

Re: xwpe bugfix

2000-10-22 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-10-22 Mark Brown wrote: > I've prepared a new version of xwpe fixing the buffer overflow reported > in #68433. Should I just upload it or is there some other procedure to > be followed? For package that are maintained by the Debian QA Team, there's no special procedure. You only should be s

Bug#40719: python-xml parses badly, 8-bit data problem?

2000-10-21 Thread Christian Kurz
close 40719 thanks Hi, as no one answered to my qesstion about closing this report or not, I will now close it. Ciao Christian -- Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Team Member 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853 pgplJvi9a2NIP.pgp Descriptio

Re: NMU of slocate

2000-10-21 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-10-18 Christian Kurz wrote: > open for a long time. May I ask if you are very busy or why there's no > new package of slocate? In any case please send me an answer within a > week, as otherwise I will start preparing a NMU of slocat to get the new > source in woody. I

NMU of slocate

2000-10-18 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi Garth, I just heared that for about a month or two Kevin Lindays, the author of slocate, notified you about the new version, which contains a lot of bugfixes, will be available on ftp://ftp.mkintraweb.com/pub/linux/slocate/src/. Your last mail on one of the lists is dated to Aug 10 this year an

Bug#56283: (no subject)

2000-10-15 Thread Christian Kurz
severity #56283 fixed close 56283 thanks Hi, this bug report can be closed as netenv in woody has an Recommends dialog in it. So I therefor close this report now. Ciao Christian -- Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Team Member 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63E

Bug-Report 33299: License issue

2000-10-15 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, would some with a good knowledge about DSFG-free license please take care about this issue and try to figure out a solution for this bug report? It's now open for a year without any interaction and a solution should not be to hard to find. Ciao Christian -- Debian Developer an

metamail _not_ fixed

2000-10-13 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, I'm not able to fix metamail, because on my woody machine it bails out with the following error: cc -c -I../. -O2 -g metamail.c In file included from metamail.c:46: /usr/include/signal.h:117: parse error before `-' /usr/include/signal.h:117: parse error before `int' and because pandora has

two bugs in asmodem fixed

2000-10-13 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, I just fixed two bugs in asmodem and will upload the fixed package thise evening. Just to inform you. Ciao Christian -- Ein "Nein" ausgesprochen mit der tiefsten Überzeugung ist besser und größer als ein "Ja" um zu gefallen oder noch schlimmer, um Schwierigkeiten zu umgehen. -- Mahatm

Three small fixed bugs :)

2000-10-13 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, I have a fixed a bug in chimera, metamail and vchkpw now and will upload the fixed packages this evening. Also I plan to upload an orphaned debauch as nobody wanted to adopt it. Ciao Christian -- Ein "Nein" ausgesprochen mit der tiefsten Überzeugung ist besser und größer als ein "Ja"

Bug#44329: this package is not native

2000-10-13 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, this bug report is now open for a long time without anyone taking care about this issue. Does someone know where we get the upstream package for this software or can we safely remove the package from debian? Ciao Christian -- Ein "Nein" ausgesprochen mit der tiefsten Überzeugung ist bes

Bug#40719: temporary solution to #40719 (python-xml parses badly, 8-bit da ta problem?)

2000-10-13 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, should we follow the suggestion of Lars and close the bug report or let it stay open until a new version which contains a fix for this bug has been uploaded into the archive? Ciao Christian -- Ein "Nein" ausgesprochen mit der tiefsten Überzeugung ist besser und größer als ein "Ja" um z

Bug#74617: segmentation fault

2000-10-12 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-10-12 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Package: realplayer > Version: 7.0.3.1 > Severity: normal > realplayer segaults for me when I start it. Strangely it doesn't do it > when I start it with strace (like, ``strace realplayer''). I don't know > what information you need to track that bug down, if I

Re: vchkpw 4.9.4

2000-10-12 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-10-12 Konstantin Kubatkin wrote: > When it is possible to expect occurrence of the new version vchkpw in > Debian Woody? === http://www.inter7.com/vchkpw === A new version will appear in woody, when someone has enough free time to package it. This means transferring the debian-files and pat

Re: Bug#72738: Unnecessary changes to /etc/passwd

2000-09-30 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-09-29 Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Thus spake Christian Kurz on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 03:43:49PM CDT > > > My original post specified Debian 2.2. The numerals got stripped > > > somewhere along the way. Sorry if the usage on this field was out > > > of spec. I was

Re: Attitude!

2000-09-29 Thread Christian Kurz
no influence. I make judgements only on facts, that the people can affect for themselves. > Thus spake Christian Kurz on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:34:17AM CDT > > > My majordomo lists (one of which is commercial) have been down all day > > > until > > > one astute lis

Re: Bug#72738: Unnecessary changes to /etc/passwd

2000-09-29 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-09-29 Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Thus spake Christian Kurz on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:34:17AM CDT > > On 00-09-28 Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > Package: unknown > > > > Not corrct, should be general. > > > > > Version: Debian > > > >

Re: Always notify before making an upload for Debian QA?

2000-09-15 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-09-15 Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:39:49PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > I think this is the normal behaviour of the people from the QA Team > > already to first announce the upload and then do it really. So I would > > say that the ag

Re: Always notify before making an upload for Debian QA?

2000-09-15 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-09-15 Adrian Bunk wrote: > when I do an upload for Debian QA I do inform you before. I'm wondering if > it's possible to agree that everyone who wants to upload a package for > Debian QA sends a short note to this list before he starts working to > avoid duplicate work. > Could you agree to

Re: O: penguineyes(-gnome) -- a GTK+/GNOME version of Xeyes

2000-08-01 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-07-31 Debian QA Group wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: important > Submitted: 19991213 > The current maintainer of this package has orphaned it, but the package > itself is still on the distribution. If you are interested on the package > please send a short note to /this/ bug ([EMAIL PRO

Bug#63351: vchkpw: Change dependancy to qmail-src?

2000-05-01 Thread Christian Kurz
Package: vchkpw Version: N/A Severity: normal Hi, can we please change the dependacy of vchkpw from qmail and ucspi-tcp to qmail-src and ucspi-tcp-src? So this package would then have a satisfied dependancy. Thanks! Ciao Christian -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: L

Re: Migration of debian-qa-private and debian-qa

2000-04-02 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-04-01 Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:05:46PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Shorty raised that point yesterday on IRC... > > Additionally QA is nothing that needs to be done in private behind > > closed doors. > ... however he said he'd rather get it closed to match the nam

Bug#60694: vchkpw depends on nonexistent packages

2000-03-25 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-03-20 Brian Kimball wrote: > Christian Kurz wrote: > > > think something like "This package intentionally depends on two packages > > > not found in the Debian distribution because they are so non-free that > > > only their sources can be distribute

Bug#60694: vchkpw depends on nonexistent packages

2000-03-20 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-03-19 Brian Kimball wrote: > Christian Kurz wrote: > > You mean qmail and ucspi-tcp? No, this is then no bug as the source are > > available and debian-user can build binary-packages for themself. Debian > > can't distributed binary package for this software a

Bug#60694: vchkpw depends on nonexistent packages

2000-03-19 Thread Christian Kurz
close #60694 thanks -- On 00-03-18 Brian Kimball wrote: > Package: vchkpw > Version: 3.1.2-6 > Severity: grave > This package depends on two nonexistent packages. You mean qmail and ucspi-tcp? No, this is then no bug as the source are available and debian-user can build binary-packages for thems

Bug#53716: Fails on machines where chars are unsigned.

2000-03-15 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-03-14 Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Christian Kurz wrote: > > And how would suggest this could be fixed? > Change c to be an int? getc() is defined to return an int instead of > a char for that very same reason. Well, would this break the whole code? Couldn't we

Bug#53716: Fails on machines where chars are unsigned.

2000-03-13 Thread Christian Kurz
> Package: xpuzzles > Version: 5.4.4-4 > There are about 67 occurences of the line... > while ((c = getc(fp)) != EOF && c != SYMBOL); > ... where c is a char. > On architectures where char is unsigned (definately ARM and maybe PPC) > this comparison fails because the int from getc has be

Re: Quality Assurance for Potato needed

2000-03-07 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-03-06 Martin Schulze wrote: > Now that Bug Horizon has happened, the list of critical, grave and > important bugs are shrinking, let's spend some work on other things > that need to be done before potato can be released. > . Are all dependencies and recommends fulfilled within every >re

Re: Quality Assurance for Potato needed

2000-03-07 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-03-06 Martin Schulze wrote: > . Are all dependencies and recommends fulfilled within every >respective priority fulfilled? Huh, I figured out how to find out which dependancies are unment and I could work on this tomorrow. Then I will send out also some bugreports and ask the maintainer

Bug#20705: semi-fixed

2000-01-02 Thread Christian Kurz
On 99-12-30 Kwasniak Miroslaw wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 03:40:22PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > can you reproduce this problem with the new xinetd or not? > Yes, problem still exist (when REUSE flag disabled): Hm, so what should we use as a soluti

Bug#20705: semi-fixed

1999-12-25 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, can you reproduce this problem with the new xinetd or not? Ciao Christian -- * Christian Kurz Debian Developer/QA-Team * * Use Debian - a free Operating System *

Bug#53472: package tunnelv depends on old stdc++ library

1999-12-25 Thread Christian Kurz
an C++-Programmer should take a look at the source first and fix it. Ciao Christian -- **** * Christian Kurz Debian Developer/QA-Team * * Use Debian - a free Operating System *

Re: Release-critical bug inventory

1999-12-13 Thread Christian Kurz
time as he did the last uploads > of dotfile. Ehrm, I didn't talk about the dotfile-bug, I talked about the questions and the RCB list above. Ciao Christian -- * Christian Kurz Debian Developer/QA-Team * * Use Debian - a free Operating System *

Re: Release-critical bug inventory

1999-12-12 Thread Christian Kurz
still a lot of work for the QA-Team. Ciao Christian -- **** * Christian Kurz Debian Developer/QA-Team * * Use Debian - a free Operating System *

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999

1999-12-02 Thread Christian Kurz
I'll > fix that tonight. > Is it normal that the files are sitting here since a couple of days > and I did not get warned by dinstall ? I hope that this is not the normal case and that dinstall will get modified to send out a warning. Ciao Christian -- ***

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999

1999-12-01 Thread Christian Kurz
On 99-11-30 Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > Christian Kurz schrieb am Dienstag, den 30. November 1999: What does this mean? ;) > > Does netscape really needs libc5? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldd /opt/netscape/netscape > [...] > > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4015

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999

1999-12-01 Thread Christian Kurz
On 99-12-01 Fabrice Gautier wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 07:51:00PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > > > Package: gnomba (main) > > > > > Maintainer: Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > 50399 XFree eat all the memory when i

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