Re: pulseaudio enabled on dist-upgrades?

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 13:31 -0700, Matt Price wrote: > i notice on my hardy upgrade that pulseaudio, though installed, is not > active by default. is there a standard way to enable it on upgrades? > the wiki lists this for gutsy: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio > but that looks dated. happy

Re: SPARC architecture moved to ports.ubuntu.com for 8.04 and beyond

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:54 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: > Colin Watson pisze: > > In accordance with the technical board decision documented in > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-March/000400.html, > > the SPARC architecture has been moved to ports.ubuntu.com fo

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 11:21 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Hi all. > > The new firefox start page in hardy: > > http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/ > > is aesthetically pleasing, and I like it, however the google search > gives me concerns: Hi, The website also uses launchpad for bug tracking, yo

Re: Problem with libcupsys2

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 19:58 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:51 PM, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you see 403 errors it is one of the rare cases that > > an upload severely breaks many users systems, and it is > > a safety measure to

MOTU School sessions for Developer week wanted

Hi all, Next month we have another Ubuntu Developer Week. It's still in the planning stage, and there will be a proper announcement later, so if you are interested in attending wait for that. This post is for those who are in a position to give sessions. I want to get several MOTU School sessions

Re: Bugs marked incomplete

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 23:32 +0200, Wouter Stomp wrote: > Hello, > > Bugs that are marked incomplete and subsequently get a reply from the > original reporter often stay in the incomplete status. This means they > automatically get closed even though the needed info was provided. I > think it would

Re: how can it be more popular then popcon?

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:54 +0200, Viktor Nagy wrote: > Hi! > > this is an excerpt from the actual popcon dataset sorted by vote > > 1 perl-base 150701 > 2 debianutils 150375 > ... > 10popularity-contest145894 > > this means that popula

Re: Gtk+ problems with recent API change of GtkAdjustment

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 17:42 +0200, Milosz Derezynski wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to bring the GtkAdjustment regression bug to the attention of > Ubuntu developers. > The problem is described very well by the commenters in this bug: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551740 > Please take

Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu & Proposal to improve it

On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 12:26 +0200, David MENTRE wrote: > [ Bcc: to Erik and Stefano for information. ] > > Hello, > > == Current situation == > > I am a user of the OCaml programming language and I switched from Debian > to Ubuntu a few years ago. > > While I'm very satisfied by Ubuntu for the

Re: Pointer to explanation of Ubuntu package naming?

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 18:50 +0200, David MENTRE wrote: > Oops, one remaining question: what does mean the "-3build1" part in a > package version (e.g. liblablgtkmathview-ocaml[1])? A rebuild of the > package without touching the corresponding source package, like Debian's > "-bN" packages? It's si

Re: System->Administration cleanup

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 12:54 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > The Control Center makes scanning the available settings easier, and > avoids the increasingly-meaningless distinction between Preferences and > Administration. And it saves two clicks (or one drag), compared with the > Preferences/Adm

Re: System->Administration cleanup

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:12 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 12:54 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > However, the Control Center adds an extra click whenever you access any > > settings from it, because you need to close the Control Center once > > you've finished. And the

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:06 +, Matthew East wrote: > This is the second time I've been bitten by a problem like this... it > seems that people tracking intrepid frequently end up with a desktop > that is different to that which is finally released. No doubt this > policy has been considered and

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:34 +, Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/11/3 James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Perhaps we need some sort of tool installed by default that removes > > packages that are no longer needed, and may be considered cruft :-) > > > > I'd agre

Re: Reportbug's behaviour now that bts=ubuntu is dropped

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:30 +, Iain Lane wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a quick mail to solicit some kind of general consensus on this > issue, which came up when I merged reportbug 3.48 from Debian[0]. > > Previous versions of reportbug in Ubuntu were configured to mail bug > reports to the ubunt

Re: Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 01:26 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > Hello all, > > in an attempt to get some insight about > > > > I tried to build the packages myself. However, the results are > totally different from what I see in th

Re: Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 17:17 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > Am 09.01.2009 um 02:22 schrieb James Westby: > > > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 01:26 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> in an attempt to get some insight about > >> > >>

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 11:19 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > Hi all, > > Ubuntu developers tend to complain about the ratio of signal to noise on > this list - that is, the percentage of posts that take up their time > without helping them to improve Ubuntu. Many developers have apparently > unsubsc

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 07:27 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > Maybe delaying upgrades until shutdown *is* the right > solution? There are a couple of other issues with that. 1. The upgrades may need some feedback from the user, but the user has just declared that they would like to leave the com

Jaunty python upgrade prevents pygtk apps from working

This morning python2.6 version 2.6.1-1ubuntu5 made it in to Jaunty after being held for a few days for the freeze. Unfortunately this package contained an ABI break that meant some python extensions no longer worked, most notably pygtk. In other words if you installed this version you would see som

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:58 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > More usefully would be to assess the bit-rot, number of bugs, any > critical or security issues which makes it dangerous. [...] > baring any security issues I see no reason why it should be removed. > (although I'm sure these things are asses

Re: Rebuild gnutls to fix linking error in gcrypt11 build dependency

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 14:26 -0400, eye zak wrote: > Hi, > > There is a bug when linking against gnutls because of a bug that was > in gcrypt11. The bug is now fixed, but gnutls needs to be rebuilt to > reflect the changes. Downloading current gnutls source and rebuilding > worked for me. Hi, W

Re: Massive sync and rebuild of packages? The case of OCaml

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 16:12 +0200, David MENTRE wrote: > Debian developers are doing such transition in two steps: > 1. upload of some modified source package (mainly the OCaml compiler > itself) and rebuild of them; > 2. massive rebuild of all other packages through a binNMU[2]. > > Thus my que

Re: Massive sync and rebuild of packages? The case of OCaml

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 18:14 +0200, David MENTRE wrote: > Hello James, > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 16:55, James Westby wrote: > >> * Is Ubuntu infrastructure is providing capabilities for doing such > >> massive rebuild of packages, in several rounds? > > > &

Re: python-zopeinterface - apparent dependency resolution error

On Sat Sep 05 19:18:37 +0100 2009 Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Did anyone else see this recently in Karmic? python-apport wouldn't upgrade > automatically due to a chain of dependency weirdness which led to > python-zopeinterface and python-zope.interface. I was just looking at this. The issue is the

Re: ubuntu-releases package

On Sun Nov 22 19:16:57 -0500 2009 Benjamin Drung wrote: > Introduce a ubuntu-releases package. This package will have a list of > all known Ubuntu releases. A small script will give you the needed > information, based on the releases list and the current date. Examples: I have often thought this w

Re: Install Wizard 'Looks Too Complicated'

On Mon Nov 30 13:47:34 -0500 2009 John Moser wrote: > List some not-silly reasons. You're serious? Ok. * Takes a long time to crack any password that's not in the dictionary and more than a few characters long. * Rainbow tables would be too large to fit on the CD. * We can't know up-fro

Re: ubuntu-releases package

On Mon Nov 23 18:22:55 -0500 2009 Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 16:28 -0500 schrieb James Westby: > > Have you considered making something similar for Debian (though > > it's a problem that bites less there)? > > No. unstable will stay unstable

Re: libuser1 was removed from Universe .. but "usermode" wasn't and it's broken

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:04:53 -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > Hey, > Quick question. libuser1 was removed from universe as it was > said to > not be building under Lucid. Though the program "usermode" requires it. > Anyway to get it back in so usermode can be used again? Last build was > in M

Re: Ubuntu Branch reviewers

On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:47:46 +0300, Bilal Akhtar wrote: > Hi all, > I think it would be a *lot* better to set the reviewer of all ubuntu > branches to ubuntu-sponsors. This would prevent confusion among people > who wish to fix bugs in Ubuntu or merge packages. Such people propose a > merge and

Re: [Oneiric-Foundations-Topic] networked client app updates

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:23:52 +0100, John Rowland Lenton wrote: > * if our projects switch to, say, python 4, then we'd be looking at > shipping python 4 to all supported ubuntus, including LTS'es. I can see why you would want to do this for ease of support, but it's common for projects to supp

Re: Hardware Database and Client - Dohickey

On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 12:59 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: > Hi all, > > http://dohickey.parsed.net/ > https://launchpad.net/dohickey Hi, Can I ask how this differs from the smolt project? http://smolts.org/ Is there a benefit of having all of these clients available, or should we try and coverg