Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-11-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:11:41PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: It would be nice, if there would be the manpower to enable Linux installs on iThingies. I've seen a proof-of-concept Linux running on (I think) a first gen iPad, but I don't think it's got beyond the cool this is possible stage. I

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 release

2012-11-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 05:33:40PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: IOW, is there a rush? Perhaps not a rush but I'd *really* like to have a predictable release schedule. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: debian mate

2012-11-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On 22 Nov 2012, at 15:57, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: So if you don't like that decision it should be escalated to the Technical Committee. I'm surprised that *anyone* can refer issues to tech ctte. Has a non DD ever submitted something worthwhile? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Re: debian mate

2012-11-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:51:06PM +0100, Stefano Karapetsas wrote: GNOME Classic is just as featureful and usable as GNOME Shell, which makes it very suitable for a default desktop on non-3D machines. But GNOME Fallback is going to be dropped soon. I'm surprised nobody has talked about

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

2012-11-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:52:44AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: If I type encfs vs into Google I get: Honestly, doing a basic google search and splurging the results into a mailing list post helps nobody. If you don't have personal experience of solving the problem, don't post. -- To

systemd (was Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi - please change the Subject: of the thread if the topic of conversation has moved on. (We're all guilty of not doing this enough…) On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:07:29AM -0600, Kevin Toppins wrote: snip 32 line preamble I realise your intentions are good, here, but please, it is not much help.

Re: debian mate

2012-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:03:33AM +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote: So much for the general rules... but exceptions ARE possible! And I just try to make a case here about how important it might be! IF you had a set of MATE packages all ready to go and you were asking for a freeze exception for

Re: Packaging MATE for Debian

2012-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:22:52AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I'd therefore like to ask if anyone here would be willing to help me to get MATE into Debian for Jessie. As you know, there is already an effort to package MATE ongoing (at least #658783). The purpose of ITPs is to

Re: debian mate

2012-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
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Re: debian mate

2012-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:48:08PM +, Neil Williams wrote: MATE will not be in Wheezy and staying on Squeeze until Jessie is released is probably not suitable for most users. It's quite likely that if MATE packages make it into Debian at all, they will be provided in backports, so some

Re: New virtual packages: lv2-plugin and lv2-host

2012-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On 21 Nov 2012, at 17:27, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: don't know if Ian is, but I certainly would. We have a bunch of existing virtual packages that aren't really useful because they don't offer any sort of guaranteed interface, and therefore cannot be meaningfully used in package

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:25:38PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: The core components are always built (which includes systemd itself, as well as udevd and journald). For some uses the configure switches do not provide sufficient modularity. For example, they cannot be used to build

Re: Fwd: procenv_0.9-1_source.changes REJECTED

2012-11-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:10:37AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: I currently do not have facilities to build the package in question with the host running Debian's kernel. So how can you prove that the package builds? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: debian mate

2012-11-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:37:48PM +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote: And whatever they or anybody else does in that regard, it will come to late for wheezy. All of MATE will come too late for Wheezy. It's already too late for Wheezy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:07:17AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 15:07 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Is this the best place for systemd assistance? The best place to get assistance are the insane people who try to force this into every Linux distribution, with LP leading

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:07:54PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Is this the best place for systemd assistance? For systemd-in-Debian, most likely, yes. First, systemd worked. Now it hangs on bootup, with the following messages: What has changed? Have you upgraded systemd or other packages?

Re: Not OT: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:54:57AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: why not warn people to use something that's known for issues only? It isn't known for issues only. There's a lot of heat and noise about problems with systemd, that is true, but a substantial amount of that heat and noise is posts

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:44:39AM -0500, Tom H wrote: The problem is that it's no longer possible for recent versions of udev to compile it without compiling systemd too. The truth is a bit more complicated. You can build just udev from the systemd sources: make udevd rather than the default

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi - please trim your quotes. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:05:55PM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: If I am not wrong, there IS such a warning if you do the switch. At least, if you remove the package sysvinit (or whatever name) with aptitude, it will ask you to write an entire sentance which

Re: Bug#693475: unblock: evince/3.4.0-3.1

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
Sorry if it doesn't make sense for me to ask this here, but: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:50:59PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: -Uploaders: Frederic Peters fpet...@debian.org, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org +Uploaders: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org Was that meant to be in there? -- To

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil)

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
+ good-not-evil usertags 692613 + good-not-evil usertags 692615 + good-not-evil usertags 692626 + good-not-evil usertags 692621 + good-not-evil thanks On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:25:43PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: I've found one of these - #692614 - is the whole set collected together under a common

Bug#690905: freedoom: Prboom Plus should be used instead of Prboom

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: I'd like to move forward with packaging prboom-plus, but I find it unacceptable to maintain two forks of such similarity in Debian... Long term I think I probably agree with you. We should probably not have both in jessie. But,

Bug#690905: freedoom: Prboom Plus should be used instead of Prboom

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:01:24PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 16.11.2012 11:32, schrieb Jon Dowland: Long term I think I probably agree with you. We should probably not have both in jessie. But, I'd like to give prboom+ a proper evaluation before I'd consider dropping prboom - so I

Bug#690905: freedoom: Prboom Plus should be used instead of Prboom

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: I'd like to move forward with packaging prboom-plus, but I find it unacceptable to maintain two forks of such similarity in Debian... Long term I think I probably agree with you. We should probably not have both in jessie. But,

Bug#690905: freedoom: Prboom Plus should be used instead of Prboom

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:01:24PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 16.11.2012 11:32, schrieb Jon Dowland: Long term I think I probably agree with you. We should probably not have both in jessie. But, I'd like to give prboom+ a proper evaluation before I'd consider dropping prboom - so I

Re: sid is not for newbies.

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
The trouble is that testing is very variable: pretty good from freeze onwards, terrible immediately after freeze, etc. - not consistent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: sid is not for newbies.

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:59:29AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: The trouble is that testing is very variable: pretty good from freeze onwards, terrible immediately after freeze, etc. - not consistent. Neither is Sid

Re: Bug#693138: severity of 693138 is grave

2012-11-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:33:02PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: 12:28 taffit The Debian website wishes to display the most up to date debian-reference It's absolutely clear that ther are different needs for the -reference on the web and the -reference package in a given

Re: A good GUI MUA? - Was: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I made less good experiences when using IMAP, e.g. thousands of mails once were loaded 2 times. That sounds more likely to be a problem with your MUA than with the imapd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:04:10PM +, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote: I have poor eye-sight, and make much use of CTRL shift + to magnify that which I need to see, and CTRL - to reverse. This was not possible in many GNOME3 cases. GNOME3 has an accessibility icon (silhouette of a human over a circle)

Re: vim

2012-11-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:18:52AM -0800, james gray wrote: which vim /usr/bin/vim ls -l /usr/bin/vim lrwxrwxrwx - etc/alternatives/vim ls -l etc/alternatives/vim lrwxrwxrwx - /usr/bin/vim.basic the name /usr/bin/vim is managed by the alternatives system (see update-alternatives(8)) in

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:00:41PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: So since I don't have 'aptitude or aptitude-common' installed, why is apt-get trying to remove all my non-free programs? Does it need to remove the non-free stuff before it can upgrade ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk? I suspect what

please change subject / trim accordingly (was Re: major linux problems summary 2012)

2012-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
Every post to this thread makes my heart that little bit heavier. Can participants please a) consider whether this is on topic to -devel and move to -user if not; b) trim quotes appropriately; c) change Subject: when the subject under discussion changes Thanks in advance. -- To

Accepted vavoom 1.33-5 (source amd64)

2012-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
Dowland j...@debian.org Description: vavoom - Advanced Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife engine Closes: 676580 691741 Changes: vavoom (1.33-5) experimental; urgency=low . [ Jon Dowland ] * Reword the long description a bit. Thanks Filipus Klutiero. Closes: #676580. . [ Fabian

Bug#692570: systemd: network icon in gnome-shell does not appear when using systemd

2012-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:27:19PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Another idea could be to change /lib/udev/rules.d/70-udev-acl.rules from consolekit. It currently has # systemd replaces udev-acl entirely, skip if active TEST==/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd, TAG==uaccess, GOTO=acl_end

Bug#691741: Provides: boom-engine, but does not supply /usr/games/boom

2012-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:18:14AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: I have taken the liberty to fix this myself in GIT master. The vavoom executable now registeres itself as an alternative for doom and boom and works perfectly with the freedoom wrapper script. Furthermore, I have fixed what I

OT - PCI vs external sound cards for professional audio (was Re: What professional PCIe audio cards do work with Linux?)

2012-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:25:51AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I use an M-Audio Delta 1010LT on Debian Squeeze. Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing! I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 which I use for some very amateur messing around. I occasionally hook an Alesis Micron up to it, both MIDI and the

Bug#692570: systemd: network icon in gnome-shell does not appear when using systemd

2012-11-12 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi Michael, On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:43:46AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: Any news? Could you try installing libpam-systemd and report back. Might require a reboot (or at least a relogin). Sorry for the delay - I'm in the middle of nowhere at the moment relying on WWAN for connectivity.

Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 03:51:53PM +, Neil Williams wrote: lucie-uboot lucie-uboot-netconsole If upstream refer to it as 'plum', then eradicating plum from the package name entirely isn't sensible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:06:57PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I don't think it is currently a sensible decision to introduce duplicate GNOME3 packages into Debian. Nautilus 3.4 is currently available through GNOME3, so this would introduce redundancy. wheezy will have 3.4 but 3.6

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil)

2012-11-09 Thread Jon Dowland
CCing Ansgar On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the problematic JSON license term The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. I've found one of these - #692614 - is the whole set collected

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:27:03PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Yes, that's correct. But that's only one of the points of my criticism. I am in general not very much convinced by the quality of the packages in Linux Mint. Neither am I. I did look at cinnamon and muffin briefly, saw

Re: Visualization of directory tree of my machine

2012-11-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 06:52:35AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Debian 6.0.5 with the default gnome desktop. The default file browser (Nautilus?) does not give the view/perspective I need. If you are planning to upgrade to Wheezy, these are the steps required for nautilus

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:40:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Which policy applies to #685913 (and all the other open unblocks)? The policy announced at the beginning of the freeze or the current policy? …or the time the unblock was filed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil)

2012-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:13:45PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: On Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote: As far as I can see Mr Crockford _enjoys_ being asked to change his license. So no, please don't feed the troll. As much as I think this licence is stupid (from my free

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 08:29:02PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Hm, I filed two unblock requests after that deadline, but before reading the announce mail about it. You don't state whether the decision impacts them or not, but so it goes… -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:21:30PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: Apologies for the lack of clarity in the d-d-a posting - the new acceptance criteria are for unblocks filed after 11:54:49 + today. No problem - thanks for the clarification! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to set display resolution manually?

2012-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 06:26:02AM -0800, houkensjtu wrote: Basically I don't use any desktop system, instead I use the windows manager: ratpoison. So unfortunately I don't have those utilities come with gnome... The correct answer is probably then xrandr, a command-line tool. -- To

Re: Bug#692506: unblock: chocolate-doom/1.7.0-2 (but please see inside!)

2012-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi folks, On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:53:38PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: 1.7.0-1 has no humans in Maintainer and no Uploaders which is a policy violation. ^^ I believe this is ≥ important and so qualifies for the release policy update on November 8th, I could fix, if the release team would

Re: Bug#692506: unblock: chocolate-doom/1.7.0-2 (but please see inside!)

2012-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
Neil clarified on -devel. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121108203612.GD11858@debian

Bug#691741: Provides: boom-engine, but does not supply /usr/games/boom

2012-11-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:51:07AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: since revision 1.33-4, vavoom provides the virtual boom-engine package. However, it does not supply an alternative for the corresponding binary in /usr/games/boom. This means, vavoom satisfies freedoom's depends on a boom-

Bug#689128: iucode-tool: Package name and the binary installed are not coherent (iucode-tool vs iucode_tool and man page)

2012-11-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:28:40AM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: I would personnaly rrename the package as iucode_tool. YMMV... Debian packages cannot have underscores in their names. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#692535: iucode-tool: did not load modprobe/update microcode after installation

2012-11-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: iucode-tool Version: 0.8.3-1 Severity: minor Hi, This is report following my post https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00113.html Summary of situation: • I have APT::Install-Recommends set to false • I installed intel-microcode • I noticed iucode-tool was not installed,

Bug#692570: systemd: network icon in gnome-shell does not appear when using systemd

2012-11-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: systemd Version: 44-5 Severity: normal Hello, As briefly mentioned on IRC - when I boot with init=/bin/systemd, the network icon does not appear in the task bar in GNOME 3. In addition, if I try to access network settings in the GNOME System Settings app, I get a message The

Re: mjg59's blog on planet.d.o

2012-11-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 01:38:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Would people like me to push my entire blog to Planet Debian, including all my book reviews and software release announcements? I saw this post after I saw your subsequent blog post but FWIW I welcome your non-technical content on

Re: How to set display resolution manually?

2012-11-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:37:06AM -0800, houkensjtu wrote: I installed debian-wheezy on my lenovo x121e laptop, and since it comes with a only 11.6 inch display, I plugged in a monitor through VGA port. Fortunately without any configuration I could got the same content display on both my

Re: How to detect what file was installed?

2012-11-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Karl's answer is very thorough for your other questions, On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:25:52AM -0800, houkensjtu wrote: I know I can use the which command to detect where a executable file reside in, but how about all the other stuff? Take a look at locate. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:12:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Microcode updates will be applied immediately when the microcode packages are installed or updated: you don't have to reboot. You will have to keep the packages installed, though: as explained above, the microcode

Accepted chocolate-doom 1.7.0-2 (source amd64)

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
Changed-By: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org Description: chocolate-doom - Doom engine closely-compatible with vanilla doom Changes: chocolate-doom (1.7.0-2) unstable; urgency=low . * Add myself back to uploaders. Checksums-Sha1: e14463afa028d9155655e1b1e51386730ee68af4 2114 chocolate-doom_1.7.0-2

Accepted bup 0.25~git2011.11.04-6 (source amd64)

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:50:59 + Source: bup Binary: bup Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.25~git2011.11.04-6 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org Changed-By: Jon Dowland j

Accepted prboom 2:2.5.0+dfsg2-1 (source amd64)

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
-By: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org Description: prboom - clone of the legendary first person shooter Doom Closes: 579749 Changes: prboom (2:2.5.0+dfsg2-1) experimental; urgency=low . * Fix a bashism in fix_upstream.sh and use the URW-Bookman-Demi-Bold font for menu graphics

Bug#594902: vinagre: Please provide vncviewer alternative

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 10:38:08PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: I could email some of them if you like? Did you get anywhere? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#692506: unblock: chocolate-doom/1.7.0-2 (but please see inside!)

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Hi, I've just uploaded chocolate-doom/1.7.0-2, with one fix, a documentation fix only: * Add myself back to uploaders. 1.7.0-1 has no humans in Maintainer and no Uploaders which is a

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:23:40PM -0300, Dr Beco wrote: Hoping to add some 'reference', so we can compare actual microcode versions, I find myself with $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep microcode microcode 0x1b ... Slighly faster to type and run $ grep microcode /proc/cpuinfo

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:12:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Microcode updates will be applied immediately when the microcode packages are installed or updated: you don't have to reboot. You will have to keep the packages installed, though: as explained above, the microcode

Bug#692506: unblock: chocolate-doom/1.7.0-2 (but please see inside!)

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Hi, I've just uploaded chocolate-doom/1.7.0-2, with one fix, a documentation fix only: * Add myself back to uploaders. 1.7.0-1 has no humans in Maintainer and no Uploaders which is a

Re: Bug#692327: libotr: Please provide libotr2

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 02:17:05PM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote: Noted. The package was in experimental for several weeks and got zero attention. My general understanding is that nobody looks at experimental anyway. I have a lot of sympathy with this point, personally. OTOH I've just made an

Re: Bug#692327: libotr: Please provide libotr2

2012-11-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 01:43:58PM +, Neil Williams wrote: Hopefully because people are working on the release so that uploads to unstable can be opened again. The quicker we release Wheezy, the quicker this and other packages get into unstable. It's much better to work on RC bugs than to

Bug#691772: game-data-packager: Inconsistent from game to game

2012-11-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:45:05AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 01.11.2012 23:26, schrieb Jon Dowland: I'd be in favour of changing rott, lgeneral and wolf3d to not require '-f' and treat a single argument as a path if supplied, in line with the other targets. It's

Bug#692009: bup: should Recommend python-pyxattr and python-pylibacl

2012-11-01 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, Thanks for the report! On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:11:19AM +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: bup meta requires python-pyxattr and python-pylibacl in order to back up and restore extended attributes resp. ACLs, so they should be listed in Recommends or at least Suggests. I think they should

Bug#691772: game-data-packager: Inconsistent from game to game

2012-11-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 04:31:30PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: with its current behavious, game-data-packager is inconsistent from game to game. Take for example rott or wolf3d: Demo versions exist for these two games and they are freely available on the net. There are also commercial

w.d.o/devel/debian-installer references daily images but doesn't contain any

2012-11-01 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ In the notes, reference is made to daily images twice: * Before you download the daily built images, we suggest you check for known issues. ^ * An architecture can be (temporarily) omitted from the overview of

Re: Trojan Detected by Kaspersky in One Debian DVD

2012-11-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 08:17:52PM -0400, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: A couple of weeks ago I downloaded to my Windows 7 machine 10 DVD iso files for debian-6.0.6-amd64. I have not yet installed Debian to this machine. Last night Kaspersky anti-virus detected a Trojan in one of the files:

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-10-30)

2012-10-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 04:53:24PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: does it make sense to establish a list of candidates for reintroduction to testing ? Is this not something best managed on a case-by-case basis? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: screensaver occasionally stops running (squeeze, gnome)

2012-10-30 Thread Jon Dowland
Argh. I recall having similar problems. It might be the screensaver process segfaulting. Is there anything useful in ~/.xsession-errors? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Bug#691624: ITP: dput-ng -- next generation Debian package upload tool

2012-10-29 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 03:53:42PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Wrong. It will be a new thing, not related to the previous thing. It's evidently related: if not in terms of actual reused code but in terms of who is expected to use it and what it is to be used for. On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at

Re: Bug#691624: ITP: dput-ng -- next generation Debian package upload tool

2012-10-29 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 08:03:02AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: I'd prefer if such a tool could replace an existing one. Why not aim at replacing dput if there's a reason for it? I must concur. I can't see the reason for dput, dupload and dput-ng to co-exist. If dput-ng has the momentum and is a

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
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Re: Bugs filed in unexpected places

2012-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 07:39:52PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 26 oct 12, 15:38:03, Thibaut Paumard wrote: it is currently showed in the PTS: e.g. http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/alevt.html: problems How many non-DDs/DMs do you think are aware of the PTS? My guess is: not

Accepted freedoom 0.8~beta1-1 (source all)

2012-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Changed-By: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org Description: freedm - multiplayer-oriented maps for Doom freedoom - free game files for the 3D game DOOM Closes: 691399 Changes: freedoom (0.8~beta1-1) unstable; urgency=low . [ Fabian Greffrath ] * Add myself to Uploaders. * Imported Upstream

Bug#691399: Acknowledgement (freedoom: New upstream (beta) release)

2012-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:06:40AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: please consider uploading the new freedoom beta release. Would you mind if I took care of that myself? No problem - please go ahead! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#691399: Acknowledgement (freedoom: New upstream (beta) release)

2012-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:13:45AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 26.10.2012 10:16, schrieb Jon Dowland: No problem - please go ahead! Done. Great stuff! One question: why 1.8~beta1 for the upstream release? Why not 1.8-beta1 (matching the upstream tarball more closely) I've seen you

Bug#691399: Acknowledgement (freedoom: New upstream (beta) release)

2012-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:00:16PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 26.10.2012 11:41, schrieb Jon Dowland: One question: why 1.8~beta1 for the upstream release? Why not 1.8-beta1 (matching the upstream tarball more closely) Because that's recommended by Policy: http://www.debian.org/doc

Bug#579749: prboom: Screenshots in png?

2012-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
tags 579749 +pending thanks On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:37:04PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: I can confirm that prboom is built with support for PNG screenshots and that it saves in this format by default. Regarding the build, libpng12-dev is currently pulled in by libdirectfb-dev, which is

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
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Bug#691152: deutex ignores freedoom.wad

2012-10-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 09:19:05AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: I have no strong opinion about this, as I simply lack the experience with such tools. Do you already have a candidate to replace deutex in mind or are you going to fork it and develop it into the desired direction? I might

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:23:27AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix

Bug#691152: deutex ignores freedoom.wad

2012-10-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:34:13AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: I don't think it's such a severe issue. First, as you stated, it isn't technically an FTBFS; it does not keep you from building binary packages from the sources we provide. It just keeps you from creating *our* sources from

Bug#691360: please update to new upstream version 1.1.0 (on disk layout change)

2012-10-24 Thread Jon Dowland
Source: f2fs-tools Version: 1.0.0-1 Severity: wishlist According to [1], the on-disk layout has changed and so the packaged version is no longer usable with the most recent patchsets floating around. Thanks! [1]https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/22/664 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix, but could it be reproduced/triaged in a virtual machine? It might be much quicker/easier to

Accepted deutex 4.4.902-14 (source amd64)

2012-10-23 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:09:33 +0100 Source: deutex Binary: deutex Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.4.902-14 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Games Team pkg-games-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Jon

Bug#690905: freedoom: Prboom Plus should be used instead of Prboom

2012-10-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 05:47:18PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: It seems that prboom has incorporated some features of MBF, including support for a player-friendly dog that follows the player through the levels (yes, WTF). The sprites for that dog have apparently been taken from the wolf3d

Bug#691152: deutex ignores freedoom.wad

2012-10-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:59:54PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 22.10.2012 11:58, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: We could simply state that we require freedom for the rebuild and add that symlink - just as we require imagemagick, sng and deutex. Apart from that, freedoom is the only iwad

Bug#690905: freedoom: Prboom Plus should be used instead of Prboom

2012-10-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 05:47:18PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: It seems that prboom has incorporated some features of MBF, including support for a player-friendly dog that follows the player through the levels (yes, WTF). The sprites for that dog have apparently been taken from the wolf3d

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2563-1] viewvc security update

2012-10-23 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, This DSA was signed with key 0x401DAC04, which is not in any debian-keyring package I can find, nor on pgp.mit.edu. Is this a mistake? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 02:53:43AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Then again,... I wonder why Ubuntu exists, if they allegedly anyway want their changes into Debian. And still sounds like a fork in a respect that forks usually don't change everything. But I mean that discussion

Bug#691152: deutex ignores freedoom.wad

2012-10-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:43:30AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: since version 0.6.4-4 the freedoom package does not provide a doom2.wad file anymore for compatibility issues. However, deutex expects a file of that name and does not consider freedoom.wad as a valid replacement. The attached

Bug#690905: freedoom: Prboom Plus should be used instead of Prboom

2012-10-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:44:38AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Is prboom-plus considered the successor of prboom or is it just a more actively developed fork? In Debian words Should prboom-plus have Replaces: prboom? It was originally a fork of prboom maintained by someone completely

Bug#690905: freedoom: Prboom Plus should be used instead of Prboom

2012-10-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:44:38AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Is prboom-plus considered the successor of prboom or is it just a more actively developed fork? In Debian words Should prboom-plus have Replaces: prboom? It was originally a fork of prboom maintained by someone completely

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-21 Thread Jon Dowland
In my experience, preseeding is pretty awkward. My advice: start from scratch, try to guess the right thing to put in in order to answer the first couple of questions, try it. Did those questions get answered? Then add a few more for the next few questions. Repeat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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