Re: Preparing -8

2004-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 06:30:23AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Well, the scope of this discussion is a pair of manpages, xdm.options(5) > > and xfs.options(5). > > > > Do you object to me documenting invoke-rc.d there instead of > > /et

Re: Preparing -8

2004-04-23 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Branden Robinson wrote: > Well, the scope of this discussion is a pair of manpages, xdm.options(5) > and xfs.options(5). > > Do you object to me documenting invoke-rc.d there instead of > /etc/init.d? Both arguments are valid imho and perhaps we can document both underlining

Re: Preparing -8

2004-04-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:48:36AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > IIRC, you generally want to use invoke-rc.d because it is cognizant of > > runlevel policy (i.e., start service $FOO in runlevel 3 but not runlevel > > 2, and so forth). > > That's true of maintainer scripts,

Re: Preparing -8

2004-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:07:14AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > > People shouldn't run "/etc/init.d/$SCRIPT" anymore; they should use > > > "invoke-rc.d $SCRIPT" instead. > > > > > > There have been many threads on -devel about this. > > > > if they were insid

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2004-04-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 145746 xlibs Bug#145746: libx11-6: select() hangs in XDrawString16() when using TrueType with Xinerama Bug#147898: xlibs: select() hangs in XDrawString16() when using TrueType with Xinerama Bug reassigned from package `libx11-6' to `xlibs'.

Re: Preparing -8

2004-04-21 Thread Branden Robinson
reassign 145746 xlibs reassign 147898 xlibs close 145746 close 147898 merge 145746 147898 191463 thanks On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:25:44AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:27:17AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > >From the TODO list, the following fixes should be

Re: Preparing -8

2004-04-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:07:14AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > People shouldn't run "/etc/init.d/$SCRIPT" anymore; they should use > > "invoke-rc.d $SCRIPT" instead. > > > > There have been many threads on -devel about this. > > if they were inside flamewars than i didn't read it for

Re: Preparing -8

2004-04-21 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Branden Robinson wrote: > Well, no, the idea is simply that we take advantage of defoma if it is > installed, since we can trust it to run fc-cache. If it's not, we run > fc-cache ourselves. > > This is not intended as a workaround. If there's anything else defoma > wants do

Re: Preparing -8

2004-04-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:27:17AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > I have only a few changes that i am not fully convinced about and that i > would like to discuss with the team. From debian/changelog: > > * If defoma-app and fontconfig's defoma script are available, invoke > "defoma-

Preparing -8

2004-04-19 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi XSF, it is time to get ready to release -8. I have been working yesterday reviewing all the svn changes (from 1170 to 1284) that have been basically done in trunk since -7 was released. I have only a few changes that i am not fully convinced about and that i would like to discuss with