Bug#71097: Why is it hard to download the Realplayer RPM?

2000-09-12 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:05:51PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hm, I found out why I didn't have any problems: The German pages let > you still download the old version... > > Argl! > > That means you get different versions dependant on the "preferred > language" setting in your browser. *urgl

dinstall does not know about QA

2000-09-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, Whenever I am uploading some package for our QA team dinstall marks the bug as fixed. Somebody always has to come back and close them by hand which is just stupid work I would like to skip. Attached is a simple patch to dinstall which should fix th

Re: dinstall does not know about QA

2000-09-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:11:02PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Attached is a simple patch to dinstall which should fix that problem. This time for real :) cu Torsten Index: dinstall === RCS file: /cvs/ftpma

Re: Bug#55943: marked as done (Should depend on libungif3g-dev | giflib3g-dev | libungif4g-dev)

2000-09-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Adrian, On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:23:47PM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >* Upload sponsored by Tony Mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Do you want to take over the package once you are an official maintainer? In that case I would suggest you change the maintainer field in the contro

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

2000-09-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:32:06AM +0200, 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 duplicat

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

2000-09-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
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 agreement is already there. :) I have to admit that I forgot to announce t

Re: My current QA works and some suggestions

2000-09-16 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 12:57:40PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Remove chimera completely from Debian > chimera is an old nonfree browser and it's (DFSG-free) successor is > already packaged as chimera2. Seconded. > Move xmap-[d|s]motif to project/orphaned > xmap-[d|s]motif are nonfree packages th

Bug#71881: realplayer: The voice stops while player operates

2000-09-18 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:55:14PM +0200, Pavel V.Epifanov wrote: > The symptoms are: > [...] Exactly the same here. Apart from real player sometimes sucking all my memory etc. No idea what's going on. Happens without the installer as well :( cu Torsten

Re: thanks i.e. for update slink -> potato

2000-09-24 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:31:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > while I'm not new on www.debian.org it's the first time I send something > back to Debian's people. So excuse me, if I took the wrong addressees for > this mail and give me an advice I can follow next time ... OK? This probably b

Re: Need for a test suite

2001-02-03 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi m2-, On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:50:35PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I was just watching a discussion on #debian-devel and the subject of QA > has come up yet again. Seems like that happens from time to time :) > The questions that pop up are basically the same as always, namely, h

Bug#84130: iputils: cannot build from source with latest debhelper

2001-02-03 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:29:29PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > I have the latest debhelper installed... > The build fails with the error below: I am fixing this right now. Greetings Torsten pgpIr0TJ0Ww1q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#61448: sipp: Can this package be removed?

2001-02-03 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:50:53PM -0800, Ryan Murray wrote: > severity 61448 serious > thanks > > sipp fails to build due to attempting to use an egcc compiler, which doesn't > exist on i386 or mips, and probably most other architectures. This should > be changed to gcc. Question: Did anybody u

Bug#61448: sipp: Can this package be removed?

2001-02-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 10:44:56AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Question: Did anybody use this package at all? Seems like it exists in > > Debian since 1998 but there was only a single bugreport in that time > > (in case the archive lasts long enough). Can we agree that this package > > can be rem

Re: svga_drv

2001-02-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi, On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 04:20:12AM -0500, Mettedraq wrote: > I wanted know what package contains the file svga_drv.o I don't know of a package including that file. None of our current versions does contain that file. > nonetheless what happened is I would use xf86config to configure my sys

NMU prepared

2001-04-07 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Jeff, [Cc'ed to qa, so that nobody refixes this at the next bug party] Just wanted to tell you that I prepared an upload for htmldoc fixing this bug. You can find it at http://people.debian.org/~torsten/htmldoc/ Changelog entry: htmldoc (1.8.4-1.1) unstable; urgency=low * Non

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-26 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Martin, On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > As some of you may know, there is a "QA committee". See > http://qa.debian.org/people.html It currently consists of: > > * Raphaël Hertzog > * Christian Kurz > * Torste

Re: When should the BTS help tag be used?

2002-01-12 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:02:26AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > Absolutely. The 'help' tag can only really be useful if it's widely > known which bugs are tagged with it. Unfortunately it's not quite as > easy as I thought to harvest them automatically using the LDAP interface > to the BTS, as it d

Re: When should the BTS help tag be used?

2002-01-12 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:39:22AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldapsearch -P2 -x -H ldap://bugs.debian.org:35568 -b > > 'ou=Bugs,o=Debian Project,c=US' keywords=*help* subject > > That's almost exactly what I was trying earlier. Thanks for implementing > this! Frustrating

Re: When should the BTS help tag be used?

2002-01-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:51:59PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:30:28AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > Frustrating. There are 1001 bugs tagged "patch"... > > Hey, that's better than 1001 bugs tagged "wontfix" :) >

Re: QA logbook

2002-01-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Colin, On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 06:13:28PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Martin (Joey) Schulze and I were talking on IRC about how to make QA > work more public. Joey was looking for something he could report in DWN > about QA's progress and the progress of the release, partly because good > QA

Re: ITP->RFP

2002-01-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Bas, On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:35:11PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > mosml#111560, filed: 129, changed 129 I can't believe it. This was the software I ITP'ed when I joined Debian. It is actually quite nice but it uses GPL parts and links non-free parts to i

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-11 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:02AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > # 87431: O: ilu -- Inter Language Unification system I doubt anybody is really using this. It is a big mess and there are better alternatives. And the potato version did not really work iirc (I was the maintainer for a while but n

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-21 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:18:24PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > * #143030: smupsd should not release with woody > ---> I did my statement according to this package which was introduced > and orphaned by myself. It is not a target for woody but I would > love to see it in Debian

Working at tkman

1999-03-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Folks, I took a look at Anthonys oldbugs.txt (http://master.debian.org/~ajt/oldbugs.txt) and decided to have a go at tkman. Expect a new upload sometime this week. It might happen that I don't have the time this week and I am on vacation next week but thereafter I will have something ready I

How to upload a package with maintainer debian-qa?

1999-03-31 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Anthony, On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:14:42AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >Package: tkman >Maintainer: Debian QA Group >[ADOPT] Adopted by Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >2884 tkman doesn't use /var/catman Sorry, you got me wrong there. As I

Re: Bug#35288: ispell: use termios instead of termio

1999-04-01 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 09:05:09PM +0100, Nikita Schmidt wrote: > Package: ispell > Version: 3.1.20-0.6 > [...] > The patch below works around this problem by detecting glibc and choosing > termios instead of termio. It may not be an optimal solution, but at least it > fixes the problem on Linux/A

Status of my work on tkman

1999-04-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi *, Today I had some time so I decided to investigate the problems with tkman and learned that it does not work correctly on my system :( It might be normal for this tool to resize the vertical slider all the time but I do not expect that. I looked at the homepage of the author and realized th

Re: Another job for the QA team

1999-04-17 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 07:09:44AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > . Maybe re-use /etc/X11/config? > > Eeks, no! That would be far too confusing. We only just got rid > of it. I am being dumb but - really: Why was this file removed? I liked the scheme... I really can't understand what

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

1999-04-24 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 02:46:16PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > I don't see whay intent to NMU is neccessary to be sent to -qa, but okay. > A message to the BTS counts as a personal e-mail to the maintainer. I think it is nice for every member of QA what the others are doing. Apart from that some

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

1999-04-25 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 12:12:22AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > I think it is no excuse if the maintainer says he will soon have the > > time to make a new upload. > > I think that is a good thing when we give maintainers time to do sth, > since that way we reduce our workload and 'force' maint

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

1999-04-27 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 11:00:42PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > So I would like to ask, if the members of the QA-Team should have the > right to close bug-reports if they are fixed or they fix them? Maybe we > should limit this to bugs older than x month and I would suggest x=3. > What do the o

QA responsible for help in fixing bugs?

1999-04-27 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi again Just another thought about qa: Should we make it the official address to send help requests from developers? I did not see many of this on -devel so I think it would be a good thing because a) This messages often stay unanswered on -devel and b) we have the people with the knowledge to

Re: QA responsible for help in fixing bugs?

1999-05-02 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 02:13:42AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Just another thought about qa: Should we make it the official address > > to send help requests from developers? I did not see many of this on > > -devel so I think it would be a good thing because > > NO! That's what debian-me

Re: QA responsible for help in fixing bugs?

1999-05-02 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 12:46:05PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > I don't understand the people from QA to be better, but I think that if > a developer needs help to fix a bug and sends an email to debian-devel > the chance of answer seems less than if he would write to debian-qa. I > think so, b

Re: CD-Rom mounting problem

1999-05-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 10:56:28PM -0400, JS Bournival wrote: I am sorry but this is not the forum for this kind of help. Please post any further questions to debian-user where it belongs (debian-user@lists.debian.org). Thanks. > [...] > How can it be? I installed the rest of it with this same C

cdwrite 2.1 is not out there

1999-05-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
> From: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Package: cdwrite > > I've been playing around with xcdroast and it has cdwrite 2.1 in it's > sources. Debian still has version 2.0. AFAIR xcdroast had cdwrite in its sources and extended it. So they bumped the version number. I do not know about cdw

login reconfigures serial port

1999-05-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
severity 3439 fixed thanks On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 03:33:05PM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > From: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [...] > > Could you confirm if bug 3439 is present in the new shadow login? I looked into the sources. There is no call to tcsetattr or ioctl in login.c

[PROPOSAL] Official QA-Section on Debian-Homepage?

1999-05-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi there, As the quality assurance slowly gains speed I think we should make a "real" section for it on our homepage and make a link there. Currently there are some resources for QA but this is only known to few people. For example there is a list of bugs older than 2 years (sic!) generated and

Re: cdwrite 2.1 is not out there

1999-05-06 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 06:41:20PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Possibly a new candidate for project/orphaned, and getting withdrawn? I would say so, yes. But somebody had a problem with cdrecord while cdwrite was working (it's with the other bugs of cdwrite). As long as it works - leave it alone

Re: Bug#36203: sed does not check for failure of write()

1999-05-09 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 04:32:15PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > So it is. Thanks for the response! No problem :) I was just looking for some old bugs to fix. Hmm, I think we need a filter in the BTS to select packages where current version and the version the bug is reported against does

Release critical bugs and QA

1999-05-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi *, As we are moving towards release of potato and we have a bunch of release critical bugs I think we (the qa-team) should put some work into it. I think, the best way to coordinate this, is a weekly meating on irc.debian.org. I propose we open a new channel #debian-qa for this. The problem

QA more visible to users...

1999-05-27 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hiho! Today I again worked on some minor quirks (currently working on a patch) and noticed that my patch against mawk still did not make it into the package. I do not like working without any effect! It should at least help some Debian user! I think we need a standard place for packages fixed by

Re: QA more visible to users...

1999-05-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 07:34:57PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > Maybe James is a little bit busy and forgot to apply and make a new > release to fix this bug? Have you asked him, why he didn't applied your > patch? I asked him on irc. He told me he would look at it at the weekend (that was 3 m

Re: QA more visible to users...

1999-06-01 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hello James, This is a really late answer but I was sick on Saturday and decided to let the computer switched off on Sunday... On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:58:59PM +0100, James Troup wrote: First of all: I am sorry for my previous mails on this thread. I really sounded like an idiot in those mail

Re: Web Page

1999-06-03 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 11:52:04PM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: > What's the difference between Q&A and -testing? Simple. The Q&A team is fixing bugs while the -testing team tries to uncover hidden bugs :-) We wade through all the old bugs and sometimes clean up a package (ppp for example). c

Re: Xwpe deletes files on mounted DOS drives

1999-06-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 08:58:10PM -0400, Dennis Payne wrote: > Since I maintain xwpe (not the debian package but the program itself), I > decided to check the bug reports on it. The deleting of files from > mounted DOS drives is caused by a bug in the cleanup routine for autosave > and emergency

This is already fixed

1999-06-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi there, > Package: gnotes > Version: 1.10-1 > Severity: important > > The gnotes package needs some adaptions for libgtk1.2 and glib1.2 -- > it doesn't compile anymore with them. This is already fixed in the version in potato. I am just uploading the next upstream release (1.61) but it was fix

Re: Xwpe deletes files on mounted DOS drives

1999-06-08 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Dennis Payne wrote: > The new version of xwpe is available on the xwpe web site: > http://www.rpi.edu/~payned/xwpe/ > That should fix the delete problem. (The version number is 1.5.18a) Just a note: Where did you get this library? AC_CHECK_LIB(mytinfo

Re: Xwpe deletes files on mounted DOS drives

1999-06-08 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Dennis Payne wrote: > The new version of xwpe is available on the xwpe web site: > http://www.rpi.edu/~payned/xwpe/ > That should fix the delete problem. (The version number is 1.5.18a) I am just compiling the new package. Expect an upload in the next h

Re: Xwpe deletes files on mounted DOS drives

1999-06-08 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 01:24:02PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Not needed - Matej Vela already done it :) Yep - I noticed when my upload failed ;) cu Torsten

Re: Release critical bugs and QA

1999-06-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 04:12:17PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > This thread sucks in a very special way. Instead of *doing* QA it > is discussed about not very important meeting techniques. Hehe - I did not put very much time into this thread. There was very little discussion. I don't think i

Re: Debian QA Group and orphaned

1999-06-21 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:19:27AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > [please respect the Reply-To: header] Done :) > Though I have not yet witnessed any other type of withdrawal, > I think the QA Group manager can do this with several packages, too. Hmm - so who is our QA group manager? cu Torst

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU libapache-asp-perl 0.11-2

1999-07-06 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:24:36PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It has been closed (i've done it) but the severity fixed comes from the > automatic job that dinstall does. It has detected that it was a NMU so it > changed the severity instead of closing it. :-) Who is maintaining dinstall?

Bug#35288: ispell bug 35288

1999-07-23 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi David, Thanks for working on ispell - according to the qa list you are doing a great job. On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:28:14AM +, David Coe wrote: > I received the following comment from the upstream author. I haven't > decided yet what to do about this, but will do so soon. If you have

Bug#42411: cucipop: should conflict/provide virtual package 'pop3-server'

1999-08-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:00:50PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > The virtual package is on the official virtual packages list, so this > should be added to cucipop's control file: > > Conflicts: pop3-server > Provides: pop3-server > > TIA! Working on it. Torsten

Bug#41840: cucipop: virtual domains DONT WORK!

1999-08-07 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 10:46:23AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > They need to be able to read and write the files in > /var/spool/mail/$VIRTUAL_DOMAIN/, but the best way to do that is to make > the files owned by group mail, and make them group writable (like the > normal system mailboxes). > >

Bug#41840: cucipop: virtual domains DONT WORK!

1999-08-08 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 10:20:15AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > The main problem was cucipop's group for virtual mail spools. Whatever > _user_ it used before should have been fine -- I don't know what that > was though :-) It was vpop... cucipop tried to get the uid of "vpop" which failed of

Re: Asking for NMU

1999-09-28 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 02:32:03PM +0900, Masayuki Hatta wrote: > Christophe(thanks!) expressed his intention to orphan the mmm package. > I've already made packages based on the latest MMM and OCamlTK > experimentally, but since I'm not an official maintainer, I can't > upload it by myself.

Bugs in textutils

1999-09-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Galen, When going through the release critical bugs list I noticed that your "textutils" package has a lot of open bugs. As it is part of the base system I think we should get that straightened out. There are many bugs which are very old on the list so it seems you do not currently have the

Unexpected behaviour of tsort

1999-09-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
tion > Debian Release: potato > Kernel Version: Linux jcn206a 2.2.12-int2.2.11.2 #3 Fri Aug 27 > 10:02:05 CEST 19 99 i586 unknown > > Versions of the packages textutils depends on: > ii libc6 2.1.2-0pre11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone Torsten Landschoff for the Debian QA Group pgp3PM5jVrYIv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Asking for NMU

1999-09-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
> Hi there, Hi Masayuki, > Christophe(thanks!) expressed his intention to orphan the mmm package. > I've already made packages based on the latest MMM and OCamlTK > experimentally, but since I'm not an official maintainer, I can't > upload it by myself. So I'd like to ask someone to NMU it

release critical bugs of grace

1999-09-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Torsten :-) > I have debianized the newest available version of grace which should fix > most of the bugs mentioned in the BTS. I have contacted the maintainer > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but he did not respond. Since I am > not an official developer I cannot upload the package. Can

Your offer regarding bug #28704

1999-09-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Adam, Quoting your bugreport at http://bugs.debian.org/28704: > I volunteer to do NMUs for SGML packages to help the transition... Would you indeed do this? I would like to do it but I have no knowledge of SGML and do not use the packages. I think it should be done by somebody how uses it. I

Your NMU of diald

1999-09-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
so I had to install it on a machine with modem, configure it and so on. It seems that is another problem of Debian - we have a lot uploads without proper handling of the bug reports so the bug list is growing all the time. Please help us to fix that. Thanks Torsten Landschoff for the Debian QA Group

Please update the BTS

1999-09-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
thing like closes: #12345, #35002 to your changelog and use a current dpkg-dev. This will tell dinstall to close those bugs when processing your upload. Please help us improving the quality of Debian. Thanks Torsten Landschoff for the Debian QA Group

Re: gpg-rsaidea NMU?

1999-09-29 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:10:53PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > I have version 2.1 of gpg-rsaidea package ready, which fixes all > outstanding bugs against gpg-rsa and gpg-idea packages, making them > actually usable, and completely Policy compliant. > > The ("Severity: grave", IMHO) bug about unr

I am leaving again...

1999-10-01 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi *, I am leaving for another week of vacation today. I will not be able to read my mail or do any work related to Debian. Please feel free to NMU all my packages in case that is needed. Also I want to say that a new ILU version is out and I did not yet have the time to package it. I am going

Re: Bug#45852: colortail: colortail can't read /etc/clortail or $HOME/.colortail

1999-10-01 Thread Torsten Landschoff
} Hope this helps. As I often heard that the patches did not come through, you can also get this patch at http://pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de/~torsten/colortail.diff Hope this helps Torsten Landschoff for the Debian QA Group

Re: mmm and ocamltk80 (Re: Debian sponsor)

1999-10-11 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 09:26:58PM +0900, Masayuki Hatta wrote: > Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> also said he was willing to > maintain it, but we met some difficulties and now he's gone for vacation... Did I say that? Sorry, but I am currently quite busy and as I inves

Re: mmm and ocamltk80 (Re: Debian sponsor)

1999-10-12 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:36:35PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I do not speak french also. Perhaps Raphael could help? > > What should I precisely do to help ? We need to evaluate the license of ocamltk (right?). The english translation seems to be non-free but perhaps the translation if wr

Re: mmm and ocamltk80 (Re: Debian sponsor)

1999-10-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:47:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Where (precisely) can I find this license ? I rapidly looked at > www.inria.fr and didn't find it Don't know - the last time I looked there the page was in french and I did not understand anything. I am buried with work curr

Re: NMU for sitecopy ok ?

1999-10-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 05:31:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In fact there are four bug reports on sitecopy in the BTS; three of them > complain about the ancient version (175 and 77 days old). There was no > reaction by the maintainer nor did he merge the similar reports. I think if a m

Re: Multiple NMU requests

1999-10-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:51:19AM +, Lazarus Long wrote: > Renaming w.1.gz slave link from /usr/man/man1/w.1.gz to > /usr/share/man/man1/w.1.gz. > update-alternatives: unable to rename /usr/man/man1/w.1.gz to > /usr/share/man/man1/w.1.gz: Invalid cross-device link For me this sounds like a

Re: mmm and ocamltk80 (Re: Debian sponsor)

1999-10-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 07:19:51PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote: > Free > This isn't exactly "free software" in the GNU sense, nevertheless: > the source is available for free > (binary versions are available for some platforms) > anyone can use MMM for free > a

NMU of bb

1999-10-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Michael, I just did an NMU of bb to fix the slang dependency. As I did not change anything apart from the changelog I think this should not be a problem since it is merely a recompile. cu Torsten for Debian Quality Assurance

Do you need help?

1999-10-17 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Jim, I was just looking through the release critical bug list and noticed that 6 of them are in your packages. As it seems you did not have the time to work on them in the last weeks I offer you my help. In case you do not even have time to answer this mail I assume that an upload in the ne

Re: Multiple NMU requests

1999-10-18 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 10:20:36AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > This is a problem of update-alternatives and your personal > configuration. It seems like you put /usr/share/man on an other No, only update-alternatives. > partition then /usr/man and so it fails to create the symlink. Would you

Re: Long task to do.

1999-10-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:07:19PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > Hm, if somethings just needs a recompilation, then contact the > maintainer about this problem and offer your help to him. We don't need > to open a task for jµst recompilation. In fact I would suggest to just recompile and NMU if

Re: Long task to do.

1999-10-21 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:55:16AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > It it still an NMU as you are not the maintainer of the package itself. > If somebody does this with one of my packages without sending a notify > to me before, I would be angry about it. If it's not your package, it's > definitely

Re: Long task to do.

1999-10-21 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:05:23PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > You can't make an upload with unchanged source since you have to increase > the version number. There is a difference between changed source and changed source ;) cu Torsten

Re: Long task to do.

1999-10-21 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:47:28AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > Maybe, but it' still an NMU, only if it's for one architecture. Please > kepp this in mind. And if you make a NMU, it doesn't matter what kind > of, you first have to contact the maintainer about this. I always contact the maintai

Re: New version of display-dhammapada

1999-10-25 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:29:36AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote: >=20 > Can I ask if anyone took this up? I am just downloading it. Will upload tonight. Thanks Torsten pgpRZkbzKDKxw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Hey, what is this!?

1999-11-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Wichert, Vincent, I was just working on the util-linux package to get the rc bugs fixed. I was also looking at some old bugs when I stumbled across this: > Observe: > > bash-2.02# hwclock --utc --set --date='Sun May 2 16:20:49 CEST 1999' > bash-2.02# hwclock --utc --show > Sun May 2 17:20:

Shouldn't yagirc be removed?

1999-11-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Ole, *, I know there are a few upstream bugs in yagirc and another release critical bug against the current package. As I wanted to fix that I went to the yagirc homepage recorded at freshmeat and found the following: 05.09.99 OK, so it's been 6 months since the last update. Here's

Re: Bug#49305: cucipop is not installable

1999-11-08 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:00:20AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Torsten has done the most recent work on this package -- will you > look after this Torsten? Otherwise I am happy to. Also I noticed that > your README.Debian says it uses user "man" not user "mail". Just uploaded the new package.

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU cucipop 1.31-11

1999-11-11 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:50:53PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Closing it would be fine, since it's a debian-qa package. Did that after getting the installed message. cu Torsten

Re: bugs.debian.org: database never seems to update

1999-11-11 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:00:03PM +, Lazarus Long wrote: > Submitting a bug doesn't seem to take, bouncing the message generated > (and cc'd to me) by the bug package doesn't seem to take, nothing > seems to update the database. I'm not referring to the lack of a email > acknowledgement, I'

Re: Intent to upgrade bash and readline

1999-11-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:52:16PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > I personally think it should have been done long ago. (#34077) > > BTW someone should go through the bug list for bash and clean it up. Matthias did great work. I have the new bash package compiled and will try if an upgrade from sl

Re: Intent to upgrade bash and readline

1999-11-16 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 11:50:36PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > I think we should perhaps wait some days longer before finally uploading > > it but an announcement to -devel(-announce) referencing a download > > location might give the new bash a better testing before prime time. > > pleas

Re: Bug#50830: cucipop: Why does cucipop use libdb2?

1999-11-21 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 12:04:25AM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since libdb2 is builtin in libc6, there is no need to depend on or even use > it. Compile with latest libc and remove that dependency. Just made a new release. cu Torsten

Re: NMU wanted for geg and iptraf

1999-11-23 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:51:39PM +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > I am unable to package geg 1.0.1 and iptraf 1.2.1 because my hard disk > died (a _physical_ death). I don't know exactly when I'll be able to > buy a new one (I may have to wait until xmas) therefore NMU are > welcome. > > There a

Re: NMU wanted for geg and iptraf

1999-11-23 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:51:39PM +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > Hello. Hi Frederic, > I am unable to package geg 1.0.1 and iptraf 1.2.1 because my hard disk > died (a _physical_ death). I don't know exactly when I'll be able to > buy a new one (I may have to wait until xmas) therefore NMU are

Bug#51093: dangling symlink in snns

1999-11-24 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:00:35PM +0100, laurent bonnaud wrote: > here is the dangling symlink: > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 23 Nov 3 10:09 > /usr/lib/snns/default.cfg -> debian/tmp/etc/snns.cfg Okay - I am working on this. cu Torsten (for Debian Quality Assurance)

Bug#51181: libcgic breakage on non-libc5 arches

1999-11-25 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 09:38:27PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > I'm on it (as a member of QA core team :) > > Expect bugfix upload by tomorrow. Oops, sorry, I already took care of it. I wanted to post the answer to the bugreport and this list but remembered that debian-qa will get the mail as

Bug#51305: Including some good patches

1999-11-26 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 09:38:46AM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > Please read the URL http://www.us.vergenet.net/linux/cucipop/ > and think about including the segfault patch (I do not think > it is included already) and the PAM patch. I am working on it. cu Torsten

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999

1999-11-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:00:47AM +0100, Marcelo Magallon wrote: > > > Package: gltt2 (main) > > > Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 50596 gltt2: current version needs recompile. > > > > Can someone please recompile the package with the new libc? > > Please NMU,

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999

1999-11-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:45:34PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > bash will be ready when we release I am sure. He did another set of > > packages and I will test them as soon as possible. > > Can any of us others test it, too? You know, you're not the only one > with a machine which may be trash

Re: Release-critical bug inventory

1999-12-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 10:48:13PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: > Did that bot ever get written? I remember work being done on it > during the last bug-squashing party. In fact Robo101 (who is he in real life anyway?) wanted to finish the bot while I would have done it as well. I never heard

Please read: Re: HELP needed for lavaps bugs.

1999-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
does not exhibit the memory leak on my system and I don't expect Xerox to adjust the license of tcl2cc. Perhaps upstream could use another tool for it? Anyway, I am now requesting the bug logs from the BTS and trying to do something about them... Thanks Torsten -- Torsten Land

Re: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
m > the old to the new page. I would suggest doing all this stuff after potato is out. We have to get the freeze done ;) cu Torsten -- Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member

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