Re: Signature de cle GPG

2003-05-19 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 03:54:02AM +0200, Eric Heintzmann wrote:
 Bonjour a tous, 
 Je ne sais pas trop si c est le bon endroit pour poster ce message mais
 je n en vois pas d autre. 
 Voila je cherche un developpeur Debian pour signer ma cle GPG.
 Et je cherche cet animal rare dans la region toulousaine de preference.
 
 Vous l aurez compris, il s agit pour moi de presenter ma candidature
 pour devenir developpeur Debian.
 J ai deja un paquet, un sponsor en la personne de Matthias Klose,j ai lu
 toutes les doc requises (et plus), il ne me manque plus qu une cle
 signee.

Salut, j'emménage à Toulouse dans 2 semaines. Si ta clé n'est toujours
pas signée, tu n'auras qu'à me contacter.

Denis




Re: Signature de cle GPG

2003-05-19 Thread Igor Genibel
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:14:33AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
  Voila je cherche un developpeur Debian pour signer ma cle GPG.
  Et je cherche cet animal rare dans la region toulousaine de preference.

Je suis disponible pour une signature. Tu peux donc me contacter.

 Salut, j'emménage à Toulouse dans 2 semaines. Si ta clé n'est toujours
 pas signée, tu n'auras qu'à me contacter.

Haa ;) ça fait plaisir à entendre ;)

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Re: Signature de cle GPG et SSTIC

2003-05-19 Thread LAMBERT Olivier URS TOULOUSE
[snip]
 Et je cherche cet animal rare dans la region
toulousaine de preference.
 
 Je suis disponible pour une signature. Tu peux donc
me contacter.
 
 Salut, j'emménage à Toulouse dans 2 semaines. Si ta 
clé n'est toujours pas signée, tu n'auras qu'à me 
contacter.

Si vous organisez une petite signature autour d'un verre, je suis aussi
partant... meme si je ne suis pas encore dans la démarche DD... Disons
que j'attends de me stabiliser géographiquement...

Autre sujet :

Y a-t-il des personnes dans le sud-Ouest qui envisagent d'aller au SSTIC
(http://www.stic.org) à Rennes ? Peut-être je peux covoiturer avec
certains, mais je dois le savoir suffisament à l'avance pour pouvoir
m'organiser...

Olivier


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Re: NM, un peu d'aide s'il vous plait

2003-05-19 Thread Eric
Nicolas Bertolissio wrote:
Bonjour,
Je suis en train de répondre aux questions de mon responsable de
candidature. Et je bloque un peu sur deux questions, similaires donc je
n'en exposerai qu'une seule ici:

10. What does version 3.4-2.1 mean?
upsteam version is 3.4
maintainer version is 2
NMU version is 1

   What Debian control file would you put this in?
changelog
Please be more specific (hint: you may need to consider a lower level of
the package-building process).
Juste une idee comme ca. Et si il voulait que tu repondes 
debian/changelog et non changelog tout court ?
Ben ouais, y a souvent des fichiers changelog ailleurs, donc il veut, 
peut etre, etre sur que tu confondes pas.





L'oeuf et la poule, version Build-Depends

2003-05-19 Thread Jeremie Koenig
Salut,

Je suis en train d'empaqueter DJGPP, qui comme chacun sait est une
version de GCC pour DOS. Pour être plus precis, c'est une libc spéciale
et une architecture cible du toolchain GNU.

J'ai trois paquets source :
- (gcc|binutils)-i386-msdosdjgpp : paquets crées avec
  toolchain-source, qui pondent le cross-gcc kifo.
- djgpp, qui compile la libc.

Évidemment, pour compiler la libc, j'ai besoin du cross-compilo. Donc je
Build-Depends: c-compiler-i386-msdosdjgpp. Seulement, pour compiler gcc,
j'ai besoin des headers de la libc, donc je Build-Depends: djgpp.
Et hop, une build-dépendence circulaire.

Ça pourrait être pire. En fait, mon paquet djgpp est Arch: all. Si je ne
m'abuse, quand un DD uploadera la chose, le paquet djgpp n'aura pas
besoin de passer par les autobuilders. (confirmation?)

Ca me tracasse quand même.
Est-ce un problème ?
Comment je peux éviter ça, d'après vous ?
(et tant qu'on y est, un volontaire pour sponsoriser ?)

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Re: Warning: python-apt in testing broken, aptitude users DO NOT UPGRADE

2003-05-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:01:31PM -0500, Taral wrote:
 Looks like the python2.2 stuff migrated into testing without noticing
 that it breaks python-apt. Anyone using python-apt (e.g. aptitude users)
 are advised not to upgrade.

Huh? What's aptitude got to do with python-apt?

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.11.1-3
Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2, libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5 (= 
5.2.20020112a-1), libsigc++0, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (= 1:2.95.4-0.010810)

 Anyone know how exactly the testing scripts managed to miss this
 breakage?

They didn't, I told them to ignore it, since finally getting python,
perl, qt, postgresql, etc up to date in testing is far more important.

Cheers,
aj

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Re: Warning: python-apt in testing broken, aptitude users DO NOT UPGRADE

2003-05-19 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:01:31PM -0500, Taral wrote:
 Looks like the python2.2 stuff migrated into testing without noticing
 that it breaks python-apt. Anyone using python-apt (e.g. aptitude users)
 are advised not to upgrade.
 
 Anyone know how exactly the testing scripts managed to miss this
 breakage?

I'm just guessing here (didn't check yet), but isn't it more likely that
people just didn't file a bug against python2.2?

- Adam




Re: Warning: python-apt in testing broken, ** apt-listchanges ** users DO NOT UPGRADE

2003-05-19 Thread Taral
 Huh? What's aptitude got to do with python-apt?
 
 Package: aptitude
 Version: 0.2.11.1-3
 Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2, libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5 (= 
 5.2.20020112a-1), libsigc++0, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (= 1:2.95.4-0.010810)

Okay, I feel like an idiot. It's supposed to be apt-listchanges, not
aptitude.

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Re: Warning: python-apt in testing broken, aptitude users DO NOT UPGRADE

2003-05-19 Thread Taral
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 11:29:14PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
 On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:01:31PM -0500, Taral wrote:
  Looks like the python2.2 stuff migrated into testing without noticing
  that it breaks python-apt. Anyone using python-apt (e.g. aptitude users)
  are advised not to upgrade.
  
  Anyone know how exactly the testing scripts managed to miss this
  breakage?
 
 I'm just guessing here (didn't check yet), but isn't it more likely that
 people just didn't file a bug against python2.2?

python-apt has a very clear set of deps:

Depends: python (= 2.1), python ( 2.2), ...

That's NOT satisfied anymore in the current testing.

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Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 What are other developers' feelings on the matter these days?

 If we're doing let's have a conf where we normally don't how about we
 have it on the US's east coast aswell. I'd personally argue for the
 nothern Virginia are myself.

 Too many conferences are held on the US's West coast, and if conferences
 do get to the East coast, they are always in New York. That leaves the
 south eastern US folks out in the cold.

Wrong.  It doesn't get cold out in the southeastern US.  :P

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Re: Do not touch l10n files (was Re: DDTP issue)

2003-05-19 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 18 May 2003, Denis Barbier wrote:

 [All Cc's removed]

 On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 07:54:55AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
 [...]
  I don't believe that there is not an estestic layout that can satisfy
  all the languages we have in Debian.

 What is the rationale for having a single layout for all languages?

since we are talking about estetic, i believe that it looks nicer keeping
the layout coherent across translation.

 How do developers check how translations are rendered?

sorry but i don't understand what you mean.

  Don't forget that most of the text we use in descriptions (or
  templates, or whatever) are based on technical language and terms,
  imho most of them farly new i would say and only recently adopted by
  common languages.

 Could you please be more explicit?  I do not understand how this sentence
 is related to the issue discussed here.

I will make a couple of example so we can understand each other better but
they are just examples that i don't mind to discuss, but out of the
mailing list since it will become too much off-topic imho.

When you translate old literature, for instance, it is extremely difficult
since you have to stick to tons of rules (ancient and new ones) and
probably you will have to use some obsolete terms in your language that
correspond to the same one in the other. In a case like this you need to
apply atleast 3 grammatic rule sets. the old one in the other language,
the old one in your language and the new one in your langauge, and if you
don't do that in a really pedantic way you will loose everything of the
meaning of the original text.

Now evaluate computer related terms. They are not older than 20 years,
only some of them have been accepted in common languages (read
dictionaries), and in most cases we inveted new terms that will probably
never flow in laguages other than computer ones. Think to something like:
I've debianized X4.3! ;-) (an exagerate example but just to get the
idea) in italian i would translate in something like: Ho debianizato
X4.3! ;-). The verb to debianize doesn't exist in any dictionary other
than the Debian one but somehow we imported it and adapted to out
language. Keeping the same meaning and a very close layout. Point is that
this is a shorcut to a more long and possibly boring translation that will
look like: Io ho creato un pacchetto Debian che contiene i binari di
X4.3  (exagerated a bit in the other way but still just to get the idea).
Somehow the language evolves and since computer related language is farly
new i don't see any problem in adapting it a bit for our targets. Of
course you might argue that is not clean but afaik noone has ever really
set rules for cases like this one.

The point is that using a farly new language gives us a bit more freedom
than using a normal language in a strict way. Can you see my point?

Fabio

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Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-19 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Aaron M. Ucko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030519 04:26]:
 * As mentioned, we have an enthusiastic sponsor lined up, which is a
   definite plus.

What do we get from that sponsor? Conference rooms, network, accomodation,
food, flights and tshirts?




Re: Bug#190038: libgtkdatabox_1:0.2.3.0-1(m68k/unstable/thing2): FTBFS on m68k

2003-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 17 May 2003, Junichi Uekawa wrote:

   It's strange, because on my i386 system
   objdump -T /usr/lib/libgdk-X11-2.0.so gives
  
   0002e71c gDF .text  0049  Base_gdk_display_x11_get_type
   00045ebc gDF .text  014c  Base_gdk_windowing_window_init
   0005017c gDF .text  0106  BaseXineramaIsActive
   00010a20 gDF .init    Base_init
   0002b8b0 gDF .text  0041  Basegdk_image_type_get_type
   00050284 gDF .text  01ba  BaseXineramaQueryScreens
     DF *UND*  00c3  g_get_charset
   00026e3c gDF .text  0097  Base_gdk_screen_close
  
   and that probably means the symbol should be defined within that library.
 
  On crest (m68k) this results in:
 
    D  *UND*    XineramaIsActive
  00016970 gDF .init    Base_init
  0002ffd4 gDF .text  004c  Basegdk_image_type_get_type
    D  *UND*    XineramaQueryScreens
    DF *UND*  00c6  g_get_charset
  0002b8fa gDF .text  009a  Base_gdk_screen_close
    DF *UND*  0148  XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat
 
  Any idea why it seems to be undefined (*UND*) on m68k?

 Noone seems to have replied to this mail yet, but
 for this kind of thing to happen, a possible cause would be
 a XineramaQueryScreens function that is expected to be
 defined in a static library (and linked into the
 shared library) was once provided as a shared library.

 libXinerama.a is only provided as a static library,
 but apparently, on m68k, I suspect some symbols were provided
 through some shared library, at some time.
Thanks for having a look at problem.  I have to admit that I have no idea
what to do to fix the problem.

Kind regards

Andreas.




Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-19 Thread Martin Quinson
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:02:18PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
 On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote:
 
  On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
   On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote:
 more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less
 than 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically also the minimal
 installation has to be tight.. then rm doc and man and after install
 the minimum sets of pkgs to provide the services.
   
Please do not try to force this methodology upon the standard Debian 
base
system.  Administrators of embedded systems have many tools to deal with
these problems already, that do not require ever unpacking the full base
onto the target.
  
   sorry but i can hardly read from the previous post that i am trying to
   force something to someone. I guess this is just a misunderstanding.
 
  Perhaps the word 'force' was a bit harsh, but it's essentially how it works
  for an end-user.  It seemed to me that you were suggesting that the standard
  installer should be optimized for embedded systems, which does not sound 
  like
  a very good idea.  These systems have many specialized needs which cannot be
  easily accounted for.
 
 No i was not suggesting either. I was just explaining why i would like to
 avoid to get a bigger base system and giving out one of the reason. it was
 an example, no more no less. anyway no big deal ;)

Ok, so, it wouldn't hurt anyone if all translated man pages were along the
original one, or did I miss something again ?

Thanks, Mt.

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[RFC] Chapter for the debian reference about l10n

2003-05-19 Thread Martin Quinson
Hello,

I repost this because I got no feedback at all. I guess it shows that my
email was long enough for not being read :)

Thanks, Mt.

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:29:00PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:

 In order to help the current discution to find an usefull conclusion, I
 would like to propose you the following blahblah for inclusion in the debian
 reference Managing packages chapter, for example after the one on porting
 and geting ported. This is very far from being perfect, and I would be more
 than happy to discuss it before the actual inclusion. But, please, do
 respect the reply-to to debian-i18n, so that we discuss it on the right ML.
 
 Friendly, Mt.
 
 
 
Internationalizing, translating and being internationalized and translated

Debian supports an ever-increasing number of natural language. Even if you
are native english speaker and do not speak any other language, it is part
of your duty as a maintainer to be aware of issues of internationalization
(abbreviated i18n because there is 18 letters between the 'i' and the 'n' in
internationalization). Therefore, even if you are ok with english only
programs, you should read most of this chapter.

According to Introduction to i18n from Tomohiro KUBOTA,
(http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/), I18N
(internationalization) means modification of a software or related
technologies so that a software can potentially handle multiple languages,
customs, and so on in the world. while L10N (localization) means
implementation of a specific language for an already internationalized
software.

l10n and i18n are tied, but the difficulties related to each of them are
very different. It's not really difficult to allow the program to change the
language in which texts are displayed based on user settings, but it is very
time consuming to actually translate the messages. On the other hand,
setting the character encoding is trivial, but adapting the code to use
several character encodings is a really hard problem.

Letting alone the i18n problems, where no general receipt exist, there is
actually no central infrastructure for l10n within Debian which could be
compared to the dbuild mecanism for porting. So, most of the work have to be
done manually

How are handled translations within Debian?
===
Handling translation of the texts contained in a package is still a manual
task, and the process depends on the kind of text you want to see
translated.

For program messages, the gettext infrastructure is used most of the time.
Most of the time, the translation is handled upstream within projects like
the Free Translation Project (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/),
the Gnome translation Project (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/) or
the KDE one (http://i18n.kde.org/). The only centralized resource within
Debian is the Central Debian translation statistics
(http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/), where you can find some statistics about
the translation files found in the actual package, but no real infrastucture
to ease the translation process. 

An effort to translate the package descriptions started long ago even very
few support is offered by the tools to actually use them (ie, only APT can
use them, when configured correctly). There is nothing to do for the
maintainers, and the translators should use the DDTP
(http://ddtp.debian.org/).

For debconf templates, maintainer should use the po-debconf package to ease the
work of your translators, which should use the DDTP to do their work. Some
statistics can be found both on the DDTP site (about what is actually
translated), and on the Central Debian translation statistics site
(http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/ -- about what is integrated in the
packages). 

For webpages, each l10n team have access to the relevant CVS, and the
statistics are available from the Central Debian translation statistics site.

For general documentation about debian, the process is more or less the same
than for the webpages (the translators have an access to the CVS), but there
is no statistics pages.

For package specific documentation (man pages, info document, other
formats), almost everything have yet to be done. Most notably, the KDE
project handles translation of its documentation in the same way than its
program messages. Debian specific man pages begin to be handled within a
specific CVS repository (http://cvs.debian.org/manpages/?cvsroot=debian-doc). 

I18N  L10N FAQ for maintainers
===

This is a list of problems that maintainers may face concerning i18n and
l10n. While reading this, keep in mind that there is no real consensus on
those points within Debian, and that they are only advices. If you have a
better idea for a given problem, or if you disagree on some points, feel
free to provide your feedback, so that this document can be enhanced.

How to get a given text translated?
---
To translate package description 

Re: [RFC] Chapter for the debian reference about l10n

2003-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Martin Quinson wrote:

 I repost this because I got no feedback at all. I guess it shows that my
 email was long enough for not being read :)
Or there is no other comment from my side than: Go for it! It is an important
topic!

Kind regards

Andreas.




Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-19 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 04:52:54PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
*SNIP*
 Removing one kernel version and including another without rebuilding
 all modules packages will break several installations.  Not removing
 the old packages will make the archive grow through time which will
 cause problems with CD build scripts.
 
 Hence, it is important that when a new kernel is added (e.g. for
 security reasons) an older package is removed *and* all relevant
 modules packages are rebuilt and included as well.

Rebuilding module pacakges is not always trivial. I hope that code
can help some. The reason is that most of them depend on a kernel-tree
that is already compiled. The following code fixes that (at least for my 
situations).
I use it to compile modules for custom kernels. If you want me to make a command
line tool, just tell me. :)

Modify it as you wish.



# This file should be sourced by a file that sets the following variables. 
#revision=01
#kernver=2.4.19
#arch=686
#append=freeswan+vlan+mppe+ctx+netboot+raid
#clean=no
#prepmods=

# Reasonable defaults
#E=${revision:=01}

# Some other settings.
srcdir=/usr/src
kernbdir=kernel-source-$kernver
curdir=`pwd`
modsrcdir=modules
kernsrcdir=$curdir/$kernbdir

FAKE=
if [ $UID != 0 ] ; then
FAKE=fakeroot
fi

if [ -z $maint ] ; then
I=[^:][^:]*
maint=$(grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd | \
sed s|$I:$I:$I:$I:||;s|[,:].*||;)
fi
if [ -z $email ] ; then
email=$EMAIL
fi

if [ $cleanall = yes -a -d $modsrcdir ] ; then
for d in $(find $modsrcdir -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1) ; do
rm -Rf $d
done
fi

if [ ! -d $kernbdir ] ; then
echo Unpacking source kernel-source-$kernver.tar.bz2
tar xfj $srcdir/kernel-source-$kernver.tar.bz2
else
echo CD $kernbdir
cd $kernbdir
if [ -d debian ] ; then
$FAKE debian/rules clean EOF
n
n
n
EOF
elif [ -f Makefile ] ; then
$FAKE make clean
fi
echo CD ..
cd ..
fi

if [ -n $prepmods ] ; then
if ! echo $prepmods | grep -q pcmcia-cs ; then
prepmods=$prepmods pcmcia-cs
fi
fi

for p in $prepmods ; do
echo PREPARE $p.
echo CD $curdir
cd $curdir
if [ $clean = yes -a -d $modsrcdir/$p ] ; then
rm -Rf $modsrcdir/$p
fi
if [ ! -d $modsrcdir/$p ] ; then
echo Uncompressing $p module.
if [ -r $p.tar.gz ] ; then
tar xfz $p.tar.gz
elif [ -r $p.tar.bz2 ] ; then
tar xfj $p.tar.bz2
elif [ -r $srcdir/$p.tar.gz ] ; then
tar xfz $srcdir/$p.tar.gz
elif [ -r $srcdir/$p.tar.bz2 ] ; then
tar xfj $srcdir/$p.tar.bz2
else
echo ERROR no source for preparing $p in '$srcdir' or '.'.
exit 1
fi
MODNAME=$(echo $d | sed -e s|.*/||;)
echo CD $modsrcdir/$p
cd $modsrcdir/$p

if [ -r ../$p.patch ] ; then
echo PATCHING $p source using ../$p.patch.
patch --forward -p1 --force  ../$p.patch
fi
fi
done

echo CD $curdir
cd $curdir

if [ ! -d $modsrcdir ] ; then
echo A modules source directory is required! A directory for each modules 
source.
exit 1
fi

compilemods=$(find $modsrcdir -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1)

if [ -z $compilemods ] ; then
echo No modules to create in $modsrcdir dir.
exit 1
fi

for arch in $archs ; do
VNAME=$kernver-$append-$arch
KERNSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-$VNAME
echo COPY kernel headers to kernel build tree.
cp -a $KERNSRC/* $kernsrcdir
for d in $compilemods ; do
MODNAME=$(echo $d | sed -e s|.*/||;)
echo CD $curdir
cd $curdir
echo CD $modsrcdir
cd $modsrcdir
echo CD $MODNAME
cd $MODNAME

#OPTS=KSRC=$KERNSRC KVERS=$VNAME
#OPTS=KSRC=$KERNSRC KVERS=$VNAME
OPTS=KSRC=$kernsrcdir KVERS=$VNAME
echo CLEAN before build.
$FAKE debian/rules clean $OPTS
echo BUILD
$FAKE debian/rules kdist $OPTS \
#$FAKE debian/rules binary-modules $OPTS \
KMAINT=$maint KEMAIL=$email DEST=../..
#KPATH=$KERNSRC:$kernsrcdir
done

done



Regards

// Ola

 I would be glad if somebody could investigate the modules situation
 and describe which modules packages require which kernel versions
 (and/or depend on which other packages).
 
 I also wonder if there are efforts in progress to unify the kernel
 source through more than two architectures?  This would require a
 group or architecture maintainers (current kernel package mantainers)
 to work collaboratively towards this goal.

A policy for kernel, kernel-patcha and kernel-module packages should be
great.

I'll start here:

Kernel package policy:
--

* It should only exist one kernel-source package.
* Every modification to the kernel should be added as a patch package.
* Modifications may be separated to make it easier to administrate and
  for other people/packages to use it.

Kernel module 

DSA's via rsync

2003-05-19 Thread Andrew Pollock
As previously mentioned on this list, where I work, we have a sizeable 
chunk of infrastructure that can't connect out to a Debian mirror[1]

One of my colleages has written a script, which works on the 
/var/lib/dpkg/status file on a host that may require updating comparing it 
against the 
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_stable_updates_*Packages
 
files and then generating a list along with the appropriate DSAs, of the 
packages that require updating.

This would be made easier if the DSA's were obtainable in a more parseable 
format. Currently they're being retrieved from 
http://www.debian.org/security/ via a recursive wget. Would it be 
possible, and would it be beneficial to anyone else, if they were made 
available individually via rsync?

Andrew

[1] 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg00468.html




Re: DSA's via rsync

2003-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:28:19PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
 This would be made easier if the DSA's were obtainable in a more parseable 
 format. Currently they're being retrieved from 
 http://www.debian.org/security/ via a recursive wget.

Perhaps CVS would be easier?
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/cvs/webwml, module webwml,
/english/security. You may need some extra bits to build the WML files.

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steambox ripper

2003-05-19 Thread RedaComputer



Hi,

Could you please help me to find the website from 
where I am able to download steambox ripper.

Thanks,
Reda.


Re: Bug#190038: libgtkdatabox_1:0.2.3.0-1(m68k/unstable/thing2): FTBFS on m68k

2003-05-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:30:52AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
 On Sat, 17 May 2003, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
It's strange, because on my i386 system
objdump -T /usr/lib/libgdk-X11-2.0.so gives
   
0002e71c gDF .text  0049  Base_gdk_display_x11_get_type
00045ebc gDF .text  014c  Base_gdk_windowing_window_init
0005017c gDF .text  0106  BaseXineramaIsActive
00010a20 gDF .init    Base_init
0002b8b0 gDF .text  0041  Basegdk_image_type_get_type
00050284 gDF .text  01ba  BaseXineramaQueryScreens
  DF *UND*  00c3  g_get_charset
00026e3c gDF .text  0097  Base_gdk_screen_close
   
and that probably means the symbol should be defined within that 
library.
  
   On crest (m68k) this results in:
  
     D  *UND*    XineramaIsActive
   00016970 gDF .init    Base_init
   0002ffd4 gDF .text  004c  Basegdk_image_type_get_type
     D  *UND*    XineramaQueryScreens
     DF *UND*  00c6  g_get_charset
   0002b8fa gDF .text  009a  Base_gdk_screen_close
     DF *UND*  0148  XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat
  
   Any idea why it seems to be undefined (*UND*) on m68k?
 
  Noone seems to have replied to this mail yet, but
  for this kind of thing to happen, a possible cause would be
  a XineramaQueryScreens function that is expected to be
  defined in a static library (and linked into the
  shared library) was once provided as a shared library.
 
  libXinerama.a is only provided as a static library,
  but apparently, on m68k, I suspect some symbols were provided
  through some shared library, at some time.
 Thanks for having a look at problem.  I have to admit that I have no idea
 what to do to fix the problem.

Sorry, should've replied to this thread a bit earlier.

The exact problem you're quoting (the Xinerama thing), being a bug in
libgtk2.0 on m68k only, was of course known to us m68k porters. It
turned out to be a problem with logtool, which has now been fixed. The
new libgtk2.0 package is linked correctly again.

However, that's not why the bug was filed. There are a lot of undefined
references to other functions in the bugreport, that have nothing to do
with the (now fixed) Xinerama-problem. You may want to check them out.

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Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Aaron M. Ucko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 What are other developers' feelings on the matter these days?

I'm all for it, and GWU would be most excellent in my view.  Of course,
I live just outside DC... ;)

Stephen


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Re: DSA's via rsync

2003-05-19 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
 On Mon, 19 May 2003 18:28:19 +1000
 AP == Andrew Pollock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AP 
AP 
AP This would be made easier if the DSA's were obtainable in a more parseable 
AP format. 

DSA'a are available in RDF. There exists a link on the bottom of
www.debian.org/security to it.

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Saint-Petersburg, Russia




Evolution 1.2.4. mailto: attachments

2003-05-19 Thread Valentijn Sessink
Hello Debian-devel, hello Takuo,

I patched Evolution 1.2.4 to be able to send attachments with a mailto:;
URL. Simply use

evolution 'mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   subject=attachmentbody=Hello%20listattach=/path/to/file'

Please note that this functionality is enclosed in Evolution 1.3 beta, but
not in 1.2.4, the current stable version (AFAIK).

Patching is simple:

--- e-msg-composer.cSat Dec  7 07:09:39 2002
+++ 
/mnt/images/evolutionchroot/tmp/evolution-1.2.4/build-tree/evolution/composer/e-msg-composer.c
  Fri May 16 15:35:27 2003
@@ -3719,7 +3719,9 @@
} else if (!g_strncasecmp (header, body, len)) {
g_free (body);
body = g_strdup (content);
-   } else {
+   } else if (!strncasecmp (header, attach, len)) {
+e_msg_composer_attachment_bar_attach 
(E_MSG_COMPOSER_ATTACHMENT_BAR (composer-attachment_bar), content);
+} else {
/* add an arbitrary header */
e_msg_composer_add_header (composer, header, 
content);
}

That's all. Recompile and off you go. You will need additional patches in
debian/control: the libnss3, libnss-dev and libnspr4 dependencies are all
=2:1.2 here.

.deb-files are to be found at
http://olivier.sessink.nl/~valentyn/evolution-1.2.4/

Use at own risk!

Best regards,

Valentijn
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Re: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version

2003-05-19 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Agustin Martin Domingo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 13:50:39 +0200

 I am cc'ing this message to the debian-tetex-maint list. I think they 
 would also like to know about this and will have a much better knowledge 
 than I have about how possible it is and the incompatibilities that 
 might arise.

Even in the latest teTeX 2.0.2, there are settings in texmf.cnf
as follows;

TEXINPUTS.latex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}//
TEXINPUTS.latex209 = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex209,generic,latex,}//

that is, there is basically no problem to provide latex209 
macros under $TEXMF/tex/latex209 if the command was called 
latex209.

Thanks, 2003-5-19(Mon)

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Re: Warning: python-apt in testing broken, aptitude users DO NOT UPGRADE

2003-05-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:01:31PM -0500, Taral [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard 
to say:
 Looks like the python2.2 stuff migrated into testing without noticing
 that it breaks python-apt. Anyone using python-apt (e.g. aptitude users)
 are advised not to upgrade.

  aptitude has nothing to do with python-apt.  You may be thinking of
apt-listchanges.

  Daniel

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Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 06:55:37PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
 Highly technical packages like zebra, netfilter-related stuff and
 linux-atm are most likely to be used by people who know English. Not
 speaking English will make running routers and/or internet security
 systems almost impossible anyway.

I've done most of the work to internationalize e2fsprogs (at least as
far as gettext is concerned; I haven't done the framework to
internationalize man pages yet), and while it was done mostly for my
own edification, to learn about gettext, I have had some concerns
about whether or not Internationalization is actually a *good* thing.

The main problem here is support.  If uses e2fsck with NLS support
enabled, and with a non-US locale, the messages will come out in their
native language.  Which is all very well-and-good until they run into
problems and they start asking me for help.  If it's in some language
I don't speak, such as Swahili, I'm going to be very hard pressed to
actually help them.

E2fsprogs may be a special case in that why I get these cries for help
(which mainly are of the form, help me, I'm a loser, I didn't make
backups, can you help me recover my 10 years of thesis research),
time is of the essence.  So waiting for a translation team to
translate output back into English is not an option.

Furthermore, when you're dealing with a filesystem which may have been
modified by e2fsck during its initial run, the possibility of
resetting the locale back to C to defeat the translation may not help,
as the second e2fsck run may not have same messages as the first
e2fsck run.

I suppose that I could try to look at the Swahili's .po file, and try
to match the output and turn it back into English, but that will be
very, very tedious, and so I won't be able to help as many people when
they give me their sad stories of years of research being lost.

There are a couple of possible solutions:

1) Someone could write a program which takes output, and a .po file,
and tries to undo the translation.  This is a lot harder than it might
first appear, since the strings may have printf expansions (i.e., %d,
%x, and %s, with the last being particularly hard to deal with).

2) Use VMS or VM style message prefixes to make it easier for someone
who doesn't under-stand the internationalization to figure out what's
going on.  (i.e., SYS-EXT2-YOURFUCKED-14326: Stupid summer intern who
shouldn't have been given root access ran mke2fs on half of a MD
device, where SYS-EXT2-YOURFUCKED-14326 is the same regardless
of the translation, so it can be easily looked up).

3) Tell users to either not use the NLS support at all for e2fsprogs,
or resign themselves to a second-class citizen level of support,
simply because the developer can't provide free support in a language
he (unfortunately) doesn't understand.

Right now the default answer is #3, but that's not very satisfying.
Among other things, it calls into question whether or not the
internationalization of e2fsprogs was actually a good idea or not, or
just a complete waste of time.  As for the other possible solutions, I
don't have time to write #1, but if someone is looking for a good
summer project, I think it would be very useful.

- Ted




Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:02:58AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:

 I'll start here:
 
 Kernel package policy:
  kernel image to avoid confusion between kernel source, kernel headers,
kernel modules, etc.
 --
 
 * It should only exist one kernel-source package.
 * Every modification to the kernel should be added as a patch package.
 * Modifications may be separated to make it easier to administrate and
   for other people/packages to use it.

Kernel image packages must include a list of patches which have been
applied, and the packages from which they came.

 Kernel module policy:
 -
 
 * Kernel modules must be provided as a binary source package.
 * Module source packages should provide a debian/rules file.
 * The debian/rules file must compile the module if KSRC=kernelsourcedir
   and KVERS=versionname is priovided.
 * The debian/rules file may fail if an unsupported version of the kernel is
   provided by the environment.
 * The debian/rules file may fail if no kernel-headers is in that location.
 * The debian/rules file should handke KMAINT and KEMAIL env variables.

It would be a significant gain if kernel modules could always be built
against kernel-headers, without requiring full kernel-source.  Is there any
situation where this is not feasible, or could it be made a requirement?

-- 
 - mdz




Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:38:47AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

 The main problem here is support.  If uses e2fsck with NLS support
 enabled, and with a non-US locale, the messages will come out in their
 native language.  Which is all very well-and-good until they run into
 problems and they start asking me for help.  If it's in some language
 I don't speak, such as Swahili, I'm going to be very hard pressed to
 actually help them.

 E2fsprogs may be a special case in that why I get these cries for help
 (which mainly are of the form, help me, I'm a loser, I didn't make
 backups, can you help me recover my 10 years of thesis research),
 time is of the essence.  So waiting for a translation team to
 translate output back into English is not an option.

It seems to me this would be mitigated by two factors: 1) if they know
enough to realize they should be emailing you in English, they probably
realize they need to send the error messages in English too (by running
e2fsprogs in English if possible, or providing an impromptu translation
if not); 2) in single user mode, where I would expect most of the
time-critical support requests to originate, it requires a significant
amount of dedication to get a locale other than the C locale.

In practice, are you running into support requests where there is a
language barrier because of l10n of the e2fsprogs?

The VMS-style error codes occurred to me as well.  Though if one goes
that route, I wonder if gettext any longer has advantages over msgcat.
:)

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Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:06:16AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

  Kernel module policy:
  -

  * Kernel modules must be provided as a binary source package.
  * Module source packages should provide a debian/rules file.
  * The debian/rules file must compile the module if KSRC=kernelsourcedir
and KVERS=versionname is priovided.
  * The debian/rules file may fail if an unsupported version of the kernel is
provided by the environment.
  * The debian/rules file may fail if no kernel-headers is in that location.
  * The debian/rules file should handke KMAINT and KEMAIL env variables.

 It would be a significant gain if kernel modules could always be built
 against kernel-headers, without requiring full kernel-source.  Is there any
 situation where this is not feasible, or could it be made a requirement?

I think it's safe to say that if a kernel module package requires
something not present in the kernel-headers package for building,
there's a bug somewhere.  Which is not to say there aren't bugs, of
course.

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Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-19 Thread David Z Maze
Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Kernel module policy:
 -

 * Kernel modules must be provided as a binary source package.
 * Module source packages should provide a debian/rules file.
 * The debian/rules file must compile the module if KSRC=kernelsourcedir
   and KVERS=versionname is priovided.

I'd be slightly happier if the targets kernel-package used were
supported here, 'debian/rules kdist-image' and such.  (This is to
accomodate binary source packages that have a single debian/rules
file that's copied verbatim from the source package to the binary
package; both lm-sensors and i2c work this way, don't know about other
packages.)

 * The debian/rules file may fail if an unsupported version of the kernel is
   provided by the environment.
 * The debian/rules file may fail if no kernel-headers is in that location.
 * The debian/rules file should handke KMAINT and KEMAIL env variables.

...in fact, this looks a lot like what kernel-package currently
documents.  Is a separate policy from the kernel-package documentation
needed?

(FWIW, i2c and lm-sensors both successfully build against only the
kernel headers, via the kernel-build-* packages.)

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Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-19 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:06:16AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
 On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:02:58AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
 
  I'll start here:
  
  Kernel package policy:
   kernel image to avoid confusion between kernel source, kernel headers,

Agreed.

 kernel modules, etc.
  --
  
  * It should only exist one kernel-source package.
  * Every modification to the kernel should be added as a patch package.
  * Modifications may be separated to make it easier to administrate and
for other people/packages to use it.
 
 Kernel image packages must include a list of patches which have been
 applied, and the packages from which they came.

Agreed.

  Kernel module policy:
  -
  
  * Kernel modules must be provided as a binary source package.
  * Module source packages should provide a debian/rules file.
  * The debian/rules file must compile the module if KSRC=kernelsourcedir
and KVERS=versionname is priovided.
  * The debian/rules file may fail if an unsupported version of the kernel is
provided by the environment.
  * The debian/rules file may fail if no kernel-headers is in that location.
  * The debian/rules file should handke KMAINT and KEMAIL env variables.
 
 It would be a significant gain if kernel modules could always be built
 against kernel-headers, without requiring full kernel-source.  Is there any
 situation where this is not feasible, or could it be made a requirement?

At least the pcmcia and freeswan needs some parts of kernel source to build.
At least last time I tried. I have been bitten by this a lot of times.

But yes that would be really great if they just have to depend on the
kernel source.

Regards,

// Ola

PS. I accidentily deleted two other mails in this thread. Was they
just for me or has they not yet been delivered to the mailinglist?
DS.

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Re: steambox ripper

2003-05-19 Thread Richard Atterer
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:06:20PM +1000, RedaComputer wrote:
 Could you please help me to find the website from where I am able to
 download steambox ripper.

No, sorry - I'm afraid we'll first have to complete our search for the 
sheets of dueling banjos before we can work on your request.

  Richard

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Re: steambox ripper

2003-05-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:19:31PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:

 No, sorry - I'm afraid we'll first have to complete our search for the
 sheets of ...that which shall not be named... before we can work on
 your request.

Do you realize that every time this is mentioned in the list archives, it
gets worse?

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Re: Bug#193838: libgcc1: installation of libgcc1:3.3-2 causes failure of massive number of programs

2003-05-19 Thread Matthias Klose
[CC to debian-devel, did anybody see this behaviour on an update?]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
 On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:52:51PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
  Never seen this upgrade behaviour. Was libgcc1 installed before
  libstdc++5? If not, please could you explictely install libgcc1 and
  then libstdc++5?
  
  i have tried that.
 
  it says already at latest version.
 
  then i tried installing gcc 3.3.
 
  that failed to fix the problem.
 
  when i manually installed the OLD version of libstdc++:
 
   514  dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a3.2.3-0pre6_i386.deb 
   515  dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++5_1%3a3.2.3-0pre6_i386.deb 
 
  then it fixed the problem
 
  ** BUT **
 
  i now cannot install gcc 3.3 or anything else that depends on gcc 3.3
  including groff, kernel-package, dselect, dpkg and a WHOLE boat load
  of critical packages.
 
  the only way that i can recover my system back to a useable state is:
 
  - remove unstable from sources.list
 
  - deinstall gcc ()
 
  - deinstall python2.2 (!!!) and all of its dependent modules,
python-mysql, htmltmpl, crypto,  python-postgres just
to name a few
 
  - reinstall python2.2
 
  - re-add unstable back into sources.list
 
  - reinstall all of my python modules including python2.2-dev
 
 
  if i do NOT follow this procedure i end up with being either
  unable to reinstall or unable to run python.
 
 
  trust me when i say that this is a SERIOUS problem with the
  present debian unstable and i guarantee that you will see
  more people get into difficulties if they have python2.2 or
  any of the other programs that depend on libstdc++5 compiled
  with gcc3.2, and gcc3.3 on their system.
 
  l.
 
 
  Adding a pre-dpends on libgcc1 in libstdc++5 may help here, but this
  would not catch binaries depending on new symbols in libgcc1, and not
  depending on libstdc++5.
 
  there are a LOT of broken programs that have exactly this dependency
  problem.
 
  python2.2, update-menus were only two that i noticed and started to
  freak out over.
 
  Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
   Package: libgcc1
   Version: 1:3.2.3-0pre6
   Severity: critical
   
   
   actions taken:
 apt-get remove jade
   
   this required, at this time, the installation / upgrade of libgcc1
   and the installation / upgrade of tetex.
   
   gcc 3.3 and cpp 3.3 was NOT required as part of that installation / 
   upgrade.
   
   once actioned, python2.2, update-menus, and scores of other programs,
   failed to operate, with the following error:
   
   /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version 'GCC_3.3' not found (required by
   /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5).
 
 -- 
 -- 
 expecting email to be received and understood is a bit like
 picking up the telephone and immediately dialing without
 checking for a dial-tone; speaking immediately without listening
 for either an answer or ring-tone; hanging up immediately and
 then expecting someone to call you (and to be able to call you).
 --
 every day, people send out email expecting it to be received
 without being tampered with, read by other people, delayed or
 simply - without prejudice but lots of incompetence - destroyed.
 --
 please therefore treat email more like you would a CB radio
 to communicate across the world (via relaying stations):
 ask and expect people to confirm receipt; send nothing that
 you don't mind everyone in the world knowing about...
 
 
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Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-19 Thread Matt Ryan
Josip Rodin wrote:
 Well, yeah, sure, but the highway analogy doesn't apply. There isn't a
 single technical reason why I as a random person need to ever be in any
 sort of contact with a spammer to keep the system running.

There was no mention of spammers in the thread! While they are prone to
sending HTML emails its a general comment on people usage of the Internet.
If you can limit yourself to contacts who are technical enough to understand
the arguments why you don't like it then you can maintain the pretence that
it doesn't exist. Those who have to communicate on a wider basis (perhaps
for work?) cannot afford to drop mail to /dev/null and so will have to get
used to it I think.


Matt.




Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-19 Thread Matt Ryan
Emile van Bergen wrote
I also don't understand the phrase today's Internet world. You mean
with the hordes running Outlook and shopping on the clickable amazing
discoveries / quantum shopping / tell sell channel that's the WWW?

Yes. If you have to interact with them to any great extent then its hard to
cut yourself off from those that don't follow the 'rules'.

How does that make sane email communication standards less relevant?

It doesn't, but then those hordes may not agree with your view of which
standard to follow if they don't know of the RFC (in this case) and just go
with the MUA default settings.

Again, I ask: what's the alternative you are proposing? What do you
want?

I'm putting forward the viewpoint that the 'rules' are archaic and quoting
them may not get the response you want/expect. If you can then drop email to
NULL: for those people then thats fine but others may not be so lucky. I
find it hard to get worked up with any of the anti-social behaviour that
goes on (yes, even spam) because its more useful to have access to the
Internet with all its warts than to avoid some of the interaction that
acompanies it.

It seems you just want to send HTML mail, and not feel sorry for it.

Never said I wanted to and the thread was wider scoped than just HTML email.


Matt.




stunnel

2003-05-19 Thread Julien LEMOINE
Hello,

I saw stunnel has not been uploaded since december 2001, so unstable 
version 
of stunnel is very old.
I use stunnel on all my computers, and I would like to take over the 
package.
Is there any objection ? ( I sent a mail to current maintainer Paolo 
Molaro 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] three weeks ago without answer).

Best Regards.
-- 
Julien LEMOINE / SpeedBlue





Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-19 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi,

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 07:14:07PM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote:

 Josip Rodin wrote:
  Well, yeah, sure, but the highway analogy doesn't apply. There isn't a
  single technical reason why I as a random person need to ever be in any
  sort of contact with a spammer to keep the system running.
 
 There was no mention of spammers in the thread! While they are prone to
 sending HTML emails its a general comment on people usage of the Internet.
 If you can limit yourself to contacts who are technical enough to understand
 the arguments why you don't like it then you can maintain the pretence that
 it doesn't exist. Those who have to communicate on a wider basis (perhaps
 for work?) cannot afford to drop mail to /dev/null and so will have to get
 used to it I think.

Few people are advocating to send every non-netiquette compliant mail to
the bitbucket.

However, I fail to understand why you want people to refrain from
bringing the netiquette under the attention of the people they are
receiving email from.

It's not that receivers of email have a /right/ or that they can enforce
compliance, but that was never the case anyway, in case you didn't
notice. You can't demand anything, but of course you can filter whatever
you like. It's your loss, nobody elses.

IOW, if everybody just tries to accomodate some reasonable wishes as
stated by the other party as far as is possible without effort (and
including a text/plain part is no effort, not forwarding virus hoaxes is
no effort, but proving to a robot that you are not *is*), there is no
need to drop any netiquette rules.

In short, I still fail to see your point.

Cheers,


Emile.

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Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-19 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:43:02PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
 Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Kernel module policy:
  -
 
  * Kernel modules must be provided as a binary source package.
  * Module source packages should provide a debian/rules file.
  * The debian/rules file must compile the module if KSRC=kernelsourcedir
and KVERS=versionname is priovided.
 
 I'd be slightly happier if the targets kernel-package used were
 supported here, 'debian/rules kdist-image' and such.  (This is to
 accomodate binary source packages that have a single debian/rules
 file that's copied verbatim from the source package to the binary
 package; both lm-sensors and i2c work this way, don't know about other
 packages.)

Hmm, that was what I wanted too. It was just too long time ago I fiddled
with the real options. I use my scripts too much I think.

  * The debian/rules file may fail if an unsupported version of the kernel is
provided by the environment.
  * The debian/rules file may fail if no kernel-headers is in that location.
  * The debian/rules file should handke KMAINT and KEMAIL env variables.
 
 ...in fact, this looks a lot like what kernel-package currently
 documents.  Is a separate policy from the kernel-package documentation
 needed?

Well the kernel-package documentation is what I want to be highlighted.
But they are not at mandatory (or similar) and some packages do not follow
them. They are also not complete (in my opinion at least).

 (FWIW, i2c and lm-sensors both successfully build against only the
 kernel headers, via the kernel-build-* packages.)

The kernel build-packages is a good step.

Regards,

// Ola

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Bug#193888: ITP: openoffice.org-thesaurus-de -- German Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org

2003-05-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-19
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: openoffice.org-thesaurus-de
  Version : 20030512
  Upstream Author : Daniel Naber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://thesaurus.kdenews.org/lang.php?lang=en
* License : GPL
  Description : German Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org

 This package contains a German Thesaurus for the OpenOffice.org
 office suite.

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Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 07:14:07PM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote:
  Well, yeah, sure, but the highway analogy doesn't apply. There isn't a
  single technical reason why I as a random person need to ever be in any
  sort of contact with a spammer to keep the system running.
 
 There was no mention of spammers in the thread! While they are prone to
 sending HTML emails its a general comment on people usage of the Internet.

Spammers are only the bottom-most layer, but it's the same pile.

(I'd quote a proverb about how small things lead to big things, but I can't
currently think of any of those in English. :)

 If you can limit yourself to contacts who are technical enough to
 understand the arguments why you don't like it then you can maintain the
 pretence that it doesn't exist. Those who have to communicate on a wider
 basis (perhaps for work?) cannot afford to drop mail to /dev/null and so
 will have to get used to it I think.

You started the subthread by saying the rules are archaic and irrelevant;
whether the law-abiding people get used to other people breaking the
laws or not is not the real issue -- that's a reality. But in principle,
rejecting these laws based on the number of offenders, discarding the other
realities such as the fact there's no official legislation enforcing them,
doesn't strike me as particularly logical.

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Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:17:40PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
 (I'd quote a proverb about how small things lead to big things, but I
 can't currently think of any of those in English. :)

Look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Cheers,

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Re: Accepted pointless 0.3-3 (i386 source)

2003-05-19 Thread Brian Nelson
reopen 193287
reopen 193286
thanks

Marco Presi (Zufus) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Format: 1.7
 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:30:39 +0200
 Source: pointless
 Binary: pointless
 Architecture: source i386
 Version: 0.3-3
 Distribution: unstable
 Urgency: low
 Maintainer: Marco Presi (Zufus) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Changed-By: Marco Presi (Zufus) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Description: 
  pointless  - A presentation tool based on OpenGL
 Closes: 193286 193287
 Changes: 
  pointless (0.3-3) unstable; urgency=low
  .
* Closes: #193287
* Closes: #193286

Uhhh, nope, sorry.  Close them correctly or don't close them at all.

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RE: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-19 Thread Michael Tindal
-Original Message-
From: Brian Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 1:05 AM
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 What are other developers' feelings on the matter these days?

 If we're doing let's have a conf where we normally don't how about we
 have it on the US's east coast aswell. I'd personally argue for the
 nothern Virginia are myself.

 Too many conferences are held on the US's West coast, and if conferences
 do get to the East coast, they are always in New York. That leaves the
 south eastern US folks out in the cold.

 Wrong.  It doesn't get cold out in the southeastern US.  :P

Wrong.  It DOES get cold.  Just not AS cold as the northern US.  :P

Mike




Re: Bug#193838: libgcc1: installation of libgcc1:3.3-2 causes failure of massive number of programs

2003-05-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
p.s. the version of python 2.2 is back at 2.2.1 compiled with gcc 2.95.4
 (stable version)

the version that got into trouble was the python 2.2 that was compiled
with gcc 3.2 (unstable latest version?)

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 07:40:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
 [CC to debian-devel, did anybody see this behaviour on an update?]
 
 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
  On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:52:51PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
   Never seen this upgrade behaviour. Was libgcc1 installed before
   libstdc++5? If not, please could you explictely install libgcc1 and
   then libstdc++5?
   
   i have tried that.
  
   it says already at latest version.
  
   then i tried installing gcc 3.3.
  
   that failed to fix the problem.
  
   when i manually installed the OLD version of libstdc++:
  
514  dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a3.2.3-0pre6_i386.deb 
515  dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++5_1%3a3.2.3-0pre6_i386.deb 
  
   then it fixed the problem
  

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picking up the telephone and immediately dialing without
checking for a dial-tone; speaking immediately without listening
for either an answer or ring-tone; hanging up immediately and
then expecting someone to call you (and to be able to call you).
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every day, people send out email expecting it to be received
without being tampered with, read by other people, delayed or
simply - without prejudice but lots of incompetence - destroyed.
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to communicate across the world (via relaying stations):
ask and expect people to confirm receipt; send nothing that
you don't mind everyone in the world knowing about...




Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-19 Thread Steve Greenland
On 19-May-03, 11:03 (CDT), Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 The VMS-style error codes occurred to me as well.  Though if one goes
 that route, I wonder if gettext any longer has advantages over msgcat.
 :)

I realize you're being (at least somewhat) facetious, but if you
start with a message like

fprint(stderr, SYS-YOURFSCKED-1334 Stupid summer intern error);

used it consistently, and added Please don't attempt to translate
anything that looks like SYS-BLAHBLAH-CODE to the docs, you might get
much of what Ted wants and still get the advantages of gettext(). Of
course, you don't get the full advantages of VMS system then, but you
won't anyway on a Unix system.

Steve


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Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-19 Thread Miles Bader
Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 sending HTML emails its a general comment on people usage of the Internet.
 If you can limit yourself to contacts who are technical enough to understand
 the arguments why you don't like it then you can maintain the pretence that
 it doesn't exist. Those who have to communicate on a wider basis (perhaps
 for work?) cannot afford to drop mail to /dev/null and so will have to get
 used to it I think.

Is html-only email really all that widespread?  I keep very close track
of whether mail is in html form or not, for spam killing reasons, and I
don't think I've _ever_ gotten an email from someone that didn't at
least have a text/plain version of the contents along with the text/html.

Of course most of my email is from technical people, but I certainly get
a reasonable amount from non-technical people as well.

On the other hand, spammers invariably -- so far! -- seem to send _pure_
html (no non-blank text/plain parts).  [The big exception is nigerian
419-scammers, who for the most part don't even seem to have discovered
lower-case...]

-Miles
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Re: DSA's via rsync

2003-05-19 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:25:20PM +0400, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote:
  On Mon, 19 May 2003 18:28:19 +1000
  AP == Andrew Pollock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 AP 
 AP 
 AP This would be made easier if the DSA's were obtainable in a more 
 parseable 
 AP format. 
 
 DSA'a are available in RDF. There exists a link on the bottom of
 www.debian.org/security to it.

Doh. I wish the person who'd asked me had looked harder :-(

Andrew




Re: [fwd] Debian.cl

2003-05-19 Thread Amaya
Gunnar Wolf dijo:
 A ver... Prefiero traer esto acá, entre cuates, antes de pasarlo al
 foro grandote. ¿Se lo enviamos a debian-legal? ¿Hay algo que se pueda
 hacer al respecto? ¿Algún chileno a la mano, ocnocen la política de
 resolución de disputas en .cl?

Yo después de lo de hispalinux.com tengo el umbral de tolerancia
bastante alto ;-)

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Re: [fwd] Debian.cl

2003-05-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Amaya dijo [Mon, May 19, 2003 at 03:55:32PM +0200]:
  A ver... Prefiero traer esto acá, entre cuates, antes de pasarlo al
  foro grandote. ¿Se lo enviamos a debian-legal? ¿Hay algo que se pueda
  hacer al respecto? ¿Algún chileno a la mano, ocnocen la política de
  resolución de disputas en .cl?
 
 Yo después de lo de hispalinux.com tengo el umbral de tolerancia
 bastante alto ;-)

...UGH. Nuevo para mí :-/

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Re: [fwd] Debian.cl

2003-05-19 Thread Xavier Andrade
Gunnar Wolf dijo:
 A ver... Prefiero traer esto acá, entre cuates, antes de pasarlo al
 foro grandote. ¿Se lo enviamos a debian-legal? ¿Hay algo que se pueda
 hacer al respecto? ¿Algún chileno a la mano, ocnocen la política de
 resolución de disputas en .cl?

La reglamentacion de NIC Chile esta en http://www.nic.cl/reglamentacion.html
bajo el titulo

De las Revocaciones de Dominios

aparecen las condiciones segun las cuales se puede pedir la revocacion de
un dominio, y las causas son:

a.  Que el nombre de dominio sea identico o enganosamente similar
a una marca de producto o de servicio sobre la que tiene derechos el
reclamante, o a un nombre por el cual el reclamante es reconocido.

b. Que el asignatario del nombre de dominio no tenga derechos o
intereses legitimos con respecto del nombre de dominio, y

c. Que el nombre de dominio haya sido inscrito y se utilice de
mala fe.

Y dentro de las evidencias de mala fe aparece:

d. Que usando el nombre de dominio, el asignatario de este, haya
intentado atraer con fines de lucro a usuarios de Internet a su sitio web
o a cualquier otro lugar en linea, creando confusion con la marca del
reclamante.

Segun esto creo que se puede pedir la revocacion del dominio, pero no se
cuales serian los pasos a seguir, probablemente sea necesaria la asesoria
de un abogado local y seguramente debe ser debian com institucion quien
pida la revocacion.

Xavier




Re: [fwd] Debian.cl (from: ek3k0@vtr.net)

2003-05-19 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 07:53:05PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
 A ver... Prefiero traer esto acá, entre cuates, antes de pasarlo al foro
 grandote. ¿Se lo enviamos a debian-legal? ¿Hay algo que se pueda hacer
 al respecto? ¿Algún chileno a la mano, ocnocen la política de resolución
 de disputas en .cl?

  Si hay alguien que ha de resolver esto es SPI a petición de Debian, en
  caso de que estén interesados.

  Dado que la empresa se dedica entre otras cosas a la administración de
  sistemas Debian, quizá sería bueno preguntarles a ellos primero tb.

  Un saludo

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