Bug#26612: anacron: the anacron script in init.d has an incorrect position for the daemon

1998-09-11 Thread Shaleh
The anacron script in the package does NOT specify /usr/bin. Do not know why yours does. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Package: anacron > Version: 2.0.1-2 > > -- System Information > Debian Release: 2.0 > Kernel Version: Linux ice 2.0.34 #1 sáb ago 29 16:07:22 CEST 1998 i586 unknown > > Version

Bug#29786: Two related Bugs: Early morning, slow computer.

1998-11-20 Thread Shaleh
This is an assumption that anacron makes about the time. I believe I have this fixed but was never able to find a user to guinea pig it. Looks like you just volunteered (-: When I get my computer working on Monday, please send me an e-mail reminding me to put my anacron package where you can get

Bug#34851: anacron: anacron still hangs on startup with anacron -s

1999-03-22 Thread shaleh
> > Package: anacron > Version: 2.0.1-2 > > When run with strace, it hangs directly after two calls to getpid. Just > sits there and does nothing. > This is the second report of this. I do not see it on either hamm, slink, or potato systems. Could you please try and recompile it, maybe it is

Bug#22597: Is this still valid?

1999-03-25 Thread shaleh
Is this bug still applicable?

Bug#35714: anacron and cron both run cron.daily !

1999-04-07 Thread shaleh
The problem is that anacron does not have the right to disable crontab. I have mailed the cron maint about this and am awaiting a solution. Simply commenting out the calls in crontab to daily,monthly,weekly fix the problem. If you can offer him and I a solution, we would be appreciative.

missed test case for potato

2000-08-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Partially my fault because I have not done this in a while. Several laptops come with pcmcia based cdroms and their floppies are USB. This means that you can not use the floppy. When you boot off of the cd all is well until you try to access the cd. Because there is no pcmcia and the needed inf

Re: automated Lintian check of all packages

2001-01-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Great, but what about lintian errors. For some of my packages lintian says > "postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link, prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link" and > this is not true (BTW, it depends of lintian version). > yes, lintian is not ready to actually be uaed for automated testing. lintian

Re: crafty: suggesting bugfixes

2001-01-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
es/crafty/books.bin 0664 != 0644 > > The second message looks like a lintian bug. Shaleh? > lintian expects files in general to be mode 0644 if plain files or 0755 for scripts/bins.

RE: only release packages that have maintainers?

2001-02-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Feb-2001 Matthew Vernon wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: > > Anyone have comments on the idea that the only packages we should release > are > > ones that have a maintainer, not Debian QA? > > How about asking the QA team? I think that "packages

Bug#92076: oidentd: upgrade: integer expression expected

2001-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:25:13PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > Package: oidentd > Version: 1.7.1-3 > Severity: normal > > While configuring, the following error occurred: > /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: [: upgrade: integer expression expected > This is another case of too many languages.

RE: Changing maintainer field for QA.

2001-04-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Apr-2001 Peter Palfrader wrote: > Currently the signal/noise ratio on this list is really bad (if you > consider bug reports and dinstall messages as noise). > > Maybe we should stop using <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as a Maintainer: > address for packages maintained by QA and use somthing like > <

RE: Changing maintainer field for QA.

2001-04-04 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
BTW we need to ensure the documentation in Debian explains the orphaning procedure and the correct email address to use.

Re: osh: changed maintainer to debian-qa

2001-04-05 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Apr-2001 Colin Watson wrote: > Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>i uploaded osh with a new maintainer, it is an NMU so i didn't >>modified anything other > > It's nice to update the Standards-Version to something that includes > build-dependencies. Since the package is maintain

woody upgrade results

2001-07-14 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
So, earlier today I installed Potato on 3 machines, configured them for X, run them for an hour or so and then upgraded to woody. Some issues: a) apt completely fails to handle the upgrade (even with dist-upgrade). It wants to remove xdm, x-fonts and several other non X packages, plus several ot

RE: Do we need a new Lintian maintainer ?

2001-07-20 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jul-2001 Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Hi, > > 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?). > Lintian is one of the most important tools in Debian allowing u

RE: lintian errors

2001-08-25 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Aug-2001 Andrew Suffield wrote: > The reports on lintian.debian.org have revealed some startling > figures: > > Warnings:10188 > Errors:6995 > > ancient-standards-version (158 packages, 158 tags) > > maybe be harmless, but... > > FSSTND-dir-in-usr (103 packages, 128 tags) > no-copyright-

RE: RC bugs in packages maintained by this list

2001-10-17 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
> > If you're working on a package whose maintainer is > debian-qa@lists.debian.org, please change the maintainer to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] while you're at it, so that we can eventually > look at just the one list. > Has policy been changed as well? - We have buried the putrid corpse of Libert

Re: RC bugs in packages maintained by this list

2001-10-17 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
> > Seems so: > > 2.3.2. The maintainer of a package > -- > > If the maintainer of a package quits from the Debian project, "Debian > QA Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> takes over the maintainership of > the package until someone else volunteers for that

Bug#119752: saydate: bashisms in supposedly /bin/sh script

2001-11-15 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Nov-2001 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Package: saydate > Version: 0.3.0-4 > Severity: normal > > kronstadt:/tmp$ saydate > saydate: cannot find /usr/share/saydate/$[2001-2000].raw > kronstadt:/tmp$ file /bin/sh > /bin/sh: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/sh > kronstadt:/tmp$ file /etc/alternati

Bug#119752: saydate: bashisms in supposedly /bin/sh script

2001-11-15 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Nov-2001 Adam Conrad wrote: > Try $((2001-2000)) instead. > > ... Adam Conrad > thanks Adam. I will send a patch to the bug shortly.

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

2001-12-15 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
Will you add i18n for jp? Or do they build special bf anyways? Just curious.

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

2001-12-15 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Dec-2001 Adam Di Carlo wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Will you add i18n for jp? Or do they build special bf anyways? Just >> curious. > > The i18n builds do include Japanese support. Is that what you w

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

2001-12-15 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
>> >> en pt de pl fr es ja sv it hu >> >> no jp there > > What do you think ja is ? > java? dunno

Bug#123538: python-gendoc: Fix for postinst

2001-12-19 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Dec-2001 Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Package: python-gendoc > Version: 0.73-5.1 > > Please include the following patch to make the postinst script more > robust. > all that does is turn on optimizations, how is that more robust?

Bug#123538: python-gendoc: Fix for postinst

2001-12-19 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Dec-2001 Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > * Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011219 22:05]: >> >> On 19-Dec-2001 Gregor Hoffleit wrote: >> > Package: python-gendoc >> > Version: 0.73-5.1 >> > >> > Please inclu

Re: Bringing back sarg

2002-04-25 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Apr-2002 Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:26:22AM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: >> sarg was no longer part of Debian (see bugs #143029 and #128283) so I >> didn't know if I had to ITA, ITP or... I know it won't go back to >> woody but since I started using it and feel it is w

RE: please orphan oo2c32 so I can adopt it

2002-07-17 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Jul-2002 Florian Weps wrote: > Hello > > Mike Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has not uploaded a package since Thu, > 4 Oct 2001 (the date of the last changelog entry for pm3, which ist the > latest changelog entry with his name in it I am aware of). Google > searches reveal no activity by him

RE: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-12 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Jan-2000 Thierry Laronde wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not a developer yet, but I'm looking for a package to adopt in order to > learn, with an actual example, how the work has to be done. > > I absolutely don't care about the package by itself, I'd just like to adopt > a package not too difficu

RE: Package cgi-scripts : bugs easy, but is it worth ?

2000-01-14 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
Make the package usable, meaning you would use it on your systems, would tell other people to use it, etc. I never touch a package I don't personally use. Beyond that, if a package is a collection of things from all over the net, feel free to add, change and manipulate them. If it comes from a s

Re: Debian Sarge BSP

2002-08-30 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:12, Gooble gooble wrote: > I have been running Debian for less than a year and > would like to help out with development. I am thinking > of starting off by trying to help out at the BSP > (maybe this is not the right place to start, I would > then appreciate any pointer

Re: Debian Sarge BSP

2002-08-30 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 30 August 2002 08:21, David Schmitt wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:19:04AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > You need at least a fully up to date Woody box. There is likely enough > > version skew that you will end up needing new packages from Sarge. O

Re: Duplicate packages?

2003-01-31 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 30 January 2003 20:05, H. S. Teoh wrote: > I just noticed that the archive contains two packages, lmarbles and > marbles, with identical descriptions and identical versions (except for > the Debian part). Is this deliberate, or is it just an oversight? > > > T lmarbles (1.0.6-1) unstab

Re: Intent to hijack findutils (was: Bug#200894: findutils: New upstream version 4.1.20)

2003-07-12 Thread Sean &#x27;Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 12 July 2003 03:55, Andreas Metzler wrote: > [1] I have not interacted with it a lot, is it possible to send mails > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't it use a modified version of source forge's BTS? If so, the ONLY access is via the web front-end. Mail goes out, not in.