Bug stamp-out list for Sep 8 05:1 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 424
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 0
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Package: afterstep (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steven R. Baker
Gregor == Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Gregor 1) Ignore Python 1.6 and up, as long as the license is not
compatible
Gregorwith the GPL. That's probably the easiest way to go, but is it
Gregorjustified ? Looks like a deliberate discrimination against a
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:37:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce
their mail until then.
Are you willing to pay the difference between the cost of that
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:52:33PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
[puzzled]
For some reason the .dsc file was the old one. I've uploaded the correct
one, so everything should be OK now. Thanks for the warning.
No problem. I see they have been installed now.
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:20:19PM -0400, Steve Robbins wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every
single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never
versions on hand). Also, it makes completely empty
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every
single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never
versions on hand). Also, it makes completely empty Packages.gz
How about a bug report then? You did run apt-move fsck
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:16:28PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
In Wed, 6 Sep 2000 23:10:32 +1100 Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum
veritate scripsit :
I looked at that configuration file. It appeared to me that
there was enough info in there for reportbug just to use
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:20:19PM -0400, Steve Robbins wrote:
I dunno about the first, but I have seen the second problem. In my case,
it was caused by a bug in dpk-scanpackages (from dpkg-dev); see bug #51479
in BTS.
apt-move does not use
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:41:30PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
Perhaps it's from being too geeky myself, but Branden's explanation
(the recipient of the error message is not welcome on *THEIR* Internet
under the reasoning that they're ... refusing connections from machines
It was the bit
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:33:09PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only
They don't need to match. Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and
that something needs to resolve back to your IP. This has no effect on what
From:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:47:01AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
I don't see us making this kind of check for code written in perl, or
code wirtten in C, or any other language.
Perl is available under two licenses: GPL + Artistic. Not much room
for a reasonable person to introduce conflict there.
C
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce
their mail until then.
Are you willing to pay the difference between the cost of that user's
current ISP and one which meets your standard?
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
Complete bullshit. Show me the RFC that says you may only have one DNS
name attached to an IP at a time. You can't do it because it doesn't
exist. Several Debian developers have debian.net subdomains which do not
reverse because
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only
They don't need to match. Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and
that something needs to resolve back to your IP. This has no effect on what
From:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:16:23PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only
They don't need to match. Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and
that something needs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
A server on the 'net without matching forward/reverse DNS is broken.
Period.
Complete bullshit. Show me the RFC that says you may only have one DNS
name
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:19:06PM -0300, Ben Woodhead wrote:
First I would like to give my appologies, I was not aware of the incomming
directory and I have been told that kde will be included. I would also like
to say that I personally do not use kde nor am a developer for them, my
consern
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
Fortunately, my part of it is done - KDE is being uploaded to Debian
now to join Qt in main. Unfortunately, not by any action of KDE. Troll
Tech made the decision. KDE and Debian both benefit. I can speak
for a sizable portion of
Dale Scheetz wrote:
Is there any better way to pick a useful ftp site for upgrading?
Automatically or by hand?
By hand I run the list of mirrors
(http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors) thru netselect to get the
best one for the machine I'm on, then stick that in sources.list.
HTH,
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At 10:13 PM 09/07/2000 +, you wrote:
I don't object to a web-browser, personally. I do object to having to
install and configure a Web server (!!) to set up the machine, for the same
reason I object to needing a Web server to view documentation (eg, doc-central
depends on apache).
Webmin
On Sep 07 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
It's a bug in bash. You may work around it by setting ash as
your /bin/sh shell instead of bash.
I'm using two boxes here, one with potato and another (my
guinea pig) with woody.
I'm seeing the problem above on the machine with
I need to work with Gwydion Dylan, and noticed we don't currently
have a package for it.
I vaguely remember someone talking about it long ago, but don't
remember what became of it.
I intend to package this Dylan implementation unless someone else
is already doing so. I don't see any mention in
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
A server on the 'net without matching forward/reverse DNS is broken.
Period.
Complete bullshit. Show me the RFC that says you may only have one
DNS name
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:10:12AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
[snip, snip, snippety-snip]
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I just joined the debian-devel list
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:20:53PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Duplicated events needs to be removed from the yearly calendar.judaic
files.
I don't understand what you mean by this. Please could you be a
little more specific? Has the format of the files changed or
something? Perhaps you can
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:05:02PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
I need to work with Gwydion Dylan, and noticed we don't currently
have a package for it.
I vaguely remember someone talking about it long ago, but don't
remember what became of it.
I intend to package this Dylan implementation
I believe someone's already packaged Gwydion Dylan.
ii gwydion-dylan 2.3.1-1A Dylan-to-C batch compiler.
ii gwydion-dylan- 2.3.1-1Tools used for recompiling
Gwydion Dylan.
ii mindy 2.3.1-1A Dylan interpreter.
But hey, I'm glad someone else is
A calendar.wicca-n and calendar.wicca-s file would also be appreciated.
Note that the sabbats and esbats are reversed between northern and
southern hemispheres due to being agriculturaly-based.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote:
A calendar.hindu file is needed for 2000/2001 and the yearly
Looks like i spoke too soon. The qt2.2-2.2.0-2906 package that was
installed into master today dies during compile (despite working around
the optimiser bug...there's something going wrong with the build procedure
I believe). I'll be filing a bug against qt2.2 once I figure out what's
going
At some point in the past, I wrote:
I believe someone's already packaged Gwydion Dylan.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:43:05PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
I believe these are old libc5 packages. The Gwydion team is
certainly not aware of any current Debian packaging activities,
certainly since
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:09AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
apt-move does not use dpkg-scanpackages (it used to, but not any more.)
Actually apt-move does use dpkg-scanpackages (and dpkg-scansources), but
it caches their results so they're never run twice on the same package.
This
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:16:23PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only
They don't need to match. Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and
that something needs
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:09AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
This occurs when apt-move first moves the packages in, which is why you m=
ust
never move packages in by hand (at least not without doing an fsck later).
my apologies.. I was under the
# potato bugs for next point release
retitle 58389 [POTATO] Potato has no sdr
retitle 48238 [POTATO] package priorities for potato
retitle 56936 [POTATO] Wrong package priorities in potato.
retitle 70661 [POTATO] pcmcia-cs (= 3.1.19) for potato?
# miscellaneous bug cleanup
# (something has been
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:04:29PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
my apologies.. I was under the impression that the new method used dpkg -I
magic.
dpkg-scanpackages actually calls dpkg-deb -I :)
bah.. the bug was said to be in dpkg-scanpackages
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Michael Beattie
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:20:46PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
So? Anyone who asked for that would be unreasonable. Besides, nobody's mail
server is telneting to your port 25 to see what your SMTP greeting says --
that would be insane. It's a simple double-lookup. The PTR record is
wasnt closed, the bug doesnt apply anymore, or it is a feature
request for dinstall) (Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
er... the feature requests for dinstall were in the control stuff at the
top.. sorry, I didnt close them :P
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Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:20:02PM -0700, Michael S. Fischer wrote:
I just joined the debian-devel list yesterday, all excited
[...]
I am now very turned off because instead of seeing a bunch
of bright developers, I'm seeing a voluminous amount of off-topic
flaming.
Welcome to Debian.
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G.
Until these basic packaging paradigms are mastered, I don't think
this package is fit for uploading yet. Perhaps you should ask for
more help in debian-mentors (which is for helping new maintainers)?
Besides, there's the little fact that the package is totally useless =).
$ grep ^AR
Um, sorry if I'm missing something, but I can do apt-get source pkg
as any user, and it downloads and unpacks the source for me nicely.
This is something a common user must be able to do:
- download a source package.
- change some file inside the package (a Makefile? change a define in a
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote:
That was ~250M before ... oops. Time to use http and squid
May be you are more lucky than me with http and squid.
It tokk me several month to find out, why apt-get has problems
with MD5 checksums on all my packages. Yesterday I found out
that I have to
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:52:51PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone still uses this package anymore. It has been
superceded by epic4 for hrmmm it must be several years.
Is it time for it to go? It's not like it's broken or it has any
hideous bugs, but it's not going
reopen 70870
# On 05 Sep 2000, Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# Subject: Fixed in CVS
#
# This has been fixed in the development tree.
# The patch will be in the next release.
#
# ... then please close it with the next release - the bug is still in
# the packages on our
Micheal == Michael S Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Micheal I just joined the debian-devel list yesterday, all excited about being
Micheal able to possibly contribute code and insights to the installation
Micheal system to make it more palatable to those who would like to install
Micheal
It seems that trying to compile designer without having qt2.2 already
installed causes uic not to be able to find libqutil (since it hasn't been
installed yet and isn't preloaded). Designer really should be a different
source package anyway, IMO, which I'm going to recommend, especially since
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:34:07AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
It seems that trying to compile designer without having qt2.2 already
installed causes uic not to be able to find libqutil (since it hasn't been
installed yet and isn't preloaded). Designer really should be a
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:47:01AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Still, if 1.6 were to replace 1.5.2, we had to check all packages that
depend on Python, if we think their license is still compatible with the
new Python license, and remove them if it's not. I'd opt
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
Yup...I hosed the rules script and had a $(QTDIR)/libs instead of a
$(QTDIR)/lib
Yeah, that'll do it :-P I'll double-check this on my end and see if
changing that will fix compilation here. If so, I'll upload this version
since you'll be
Quoting David N. Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm wondering if anyone still uses this package anymore. It has been
superceded by epic4 for hrmmm it must be several years.
Is it time for it to go? It's not like it's broken or it has any
hideous bugs, but it's not going anyplace, either.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
Richard's comment was apparently on the order of It's about time, which
apparently managed to peeve the KDE people who felt they needed to flame
him publicly over it.. *sigh*
It was not the harmless about time part those people
I will be in Boston for a week beginning today with some email access.
Anyone in the area interested in getting together for a keysigning or just
some general geekiness, feel free to email me :). Note, however, that my
transportation is very limited.
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Mike Markley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP:
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:01:37AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
Richard's comment was apparently on the order of It's about time,
which apparently managed to peeve the KDE people who felt they
needed to flame him publicly over
On Fri 08 Sep 2000, Paul Seelig wrote:
about. They IMHO righfully complained about RMS' forgiving talk
which is more like religious speech from a church or something.
If the catholic pope would utter such words it could be silently
ignored, though it would be appropriate speech in his
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
biew is licensed under the GPL.
Available from
deb http://alfredsson.org debian/
deb-src http://alfredsson.org debian/
Source can be found at http://biew.sourceforge.net
I'm being sponsored by Rick Younie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: biew
Version: 5.1.2-1
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:29:37AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
On Fri 08 Sep 2000, Paul Seelig wrote:
RMS should IMHO publically apologize with the KDE people for this
condescending part of his otherwise correct article. He should be
So now _you_ are telling someone to ask for
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:30PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
[ just more of the same ]
because of the long and bitter public debates, RMS had to say something
and he had to make a public statement that it was now OK for KDE to use
any FSF owned code. if he had just ignored the fact that the
Someone wrote this:
I am disappointed that RMS is fighting over something as trivial as a
company asking that legal issues be settled in their home state
(country). This is common practice.
I am not fighting, I am pointing out the situation as it exists. I
don't believe the CNRI
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:01:37AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
Richard's comment was apparently on the order of It's about time, which
apparently managed to peeve the KDE people who felt they needed to flame
him publicly over it.. *sigh*
It was not the harmless about time part those
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:56:06AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
Without being a KDE/Qt user myself, this is what makes me understand
the anger of the KDE developers.
The problem with that is that the KDE developers have chosen to assume
that because Richard has been an ass to them (and quite
On Sep 07, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some very big ISP here have mailservers with no reverse mapping...
Well, they are badly broken, you know?
I do, but refusing mail is quite an extreme act.
The IANA mandate is that /all/ machines on public IP address have
I really don't think so.
I've fixed a couple of problems that were detected with the first
version. Today's version is available from the www.murphy.nl site.
Line for sources.list:
http://www.murphy.nl/~paul/debian isdnutils/
This is the changelog extract:
* I've taken the newest upstream CVS version again, which
On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Duplicated events needs to be removed from the yearly calendar.judaic
files.
I don't understand what you mean by this. Please could you be a
little more specific? Has the format of the files changed or
something? Perhaps you can give me
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:54:31PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Duplicated events needs to be removed from the yearly calendar.judaic
files.
I don't understand what you mean by this. Please could you be a
little more specific? Has the
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:35:44AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote:
'explorer' also depends on it (using the old qt1g package name)
Explorer also has nine bugs, some important, six over two years old.
Note especially:
#29053: package explorer depends on obsolete library libstdc++2.8 (1y, 308d)
8.09.2000 pisze Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I am now very turned off because instead of seeing a bunch of
bright developers, I'm seeing a voluminous amount of off-topic
flaming.
Welcome to Debian.
``What is Debian. How do you define Debian? If you're talking about what
you
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But RMS speaking like *this* is rather unappropriate and IMHO quite
insulting. I wonder if the author of ncftp who was hurting the GPL by
using readline and who subsequently put ncftp under GPL as consequence
of complaints was asked to beg for being
At 10:14 AM 9/8/00 -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But RMS speaking like *this* is rather unappropriate and IMHO quite
insulting. I wonder if the author of ncftp who was hurting the GPL by
using readline and who subsequently put ncftp under GPL as
hi everybody,
- like last year Debian will have a booth to the next Linux Expo in
PARIS. volunteers are welcome. debian people who wants free ticket
entrance email to me.
- a special issue of a french magazine about Debian POTATO will be sell
in FRANCE on 14th september. (with 4 CDs potato (3
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 09:57:41AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
I don't think explorer is sufficient justification to keep qt1 in woody.
I wasn't implying it was. I was just saying it needs to be fixed, or
removed.
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Brian M. Almeida
Linux Systems Engineer | http://www.winstar.com | [EMAIL
KK == Ken Kinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
KK I'm a little worried about Debian not packaging Python 1.6
KK because RMS feels so strongly (it's RMS) that it isn't
KK compatible with GPL. I release Python GPL code and don't feel
KK it's incompatible, but it could be damaging to
Herbert Xu wrote:
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every
single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never
versions on hand). Also, it makes completely empty Packages.gz
How about a bug report then?
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
as Maintainer of KDE for Debian I'd like to chime in. kdelibs, kdesupport,
and kdoc all are sitting in incoming. We had to wait till yesterday for qt2.2
to come out so that I could build it, then compile kde against it since
the GPL'd status
Seth Cohn wrote :
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Frederic Peters wrote:
- webmin: I think it is useful (and nice) not to have to launch mozilla
to add an user or change a password.
Excuse me? if you don't want to launch a browser (and NOT mozilla thank
you... ANY browser, even lynx will (mostly)
hi
what is happening in «new mantainer» ?!?
look (in http://nm.debian.org )
at how long the people have been waiting
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Awaiting
6.09.2000 pisze Renaud Gurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Is there something obvious I missed or is it really unfeasible ?
I looked at it and... (didn't do that before, because I used my own
keymap, which doesn't need to include anything) and yes, setting keymap
before mounting /usr is rather not the
I would be happy to take over korganizer again for starters (from the status
information of the package on the tdyc site I believe that no-one else has
more interest in it than me).
Ivan, if you're managing the KDE Debianizing stuff then perhaps you could
assign 2 or 3 other significant KDE
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:19:58PM +0200, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote:
6.09.2000 pisze Renaud Guérin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Is there something obvious I missed or is it really unfeasible ?
I looked at it and... (didn't do that before, because I used my own
keymap, which doesn't need to
Previously A Mennucc1 wrote:
what is happening in «new mantainer» ?!?
A lot.
look (in http://nm.debian.org )
at how long the people have been waiting
Since nm reopened 150 people have been processed or are being
pocessed looking at the stats you mention, I would consider
that a lot of good
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