Uploaded w3m 0.3.2.1-1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-11-27 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:32:44 +0900 Source: w3m Binary: w3m w3m-img Architecture: m68k Version: 0.3.2.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Fumitoshi UKAI [EMAIL

Uploaded zope 2.5.1-2.6 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-11-27 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:22:55 +0100 Source: zope Binary: zope Architecture: m68k Version: 2.5.1-2.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis

Uploaded gnome-games 2.1.3-1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-11-27 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:33:00 +0100 Source: gnome-games Binary: gnome-games Architecture: m68k Version: 2.1.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Noel Koethe [EMAIL

Uploaded devfsd 1.3.25-11 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-11-27 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:31:00 +0100 Source: devfsd Binary: devfsd Architecture: m68k Version: 1.3.25-11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Russell Coker [EMAIL

Uploaded gkrellmms2 2.1.5-1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-11-27 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:45:49 + Source: gkrellmms2 Binary: gkrellmms2 Architecture: m68k Version: 2.1.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Søren Boll Overgaard

Uploaded regexxer 0.4-1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-11-27 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:52:26 + Source: regexxer Binary: regexxer Architecture: m68k Version: 0.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded aria 0.10.2test6-2.1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-11-27 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 00:58:45 +0100 Source: aria Binary: aria Architecture: m68k Version: 0.10.2test6-2.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Rene Engelhard [EMAIL

Uploaded nte 2.3-3 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-11-27 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:26:26 -0800 Source: nte Binary: nte Architecture: m68k Version: 2.3-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded net-snmp 5.0.6-1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-11-27 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:20:11 -0500 Source: net-snmp Binary: libsnmp5 tkmib libsnmp5-dev snmp libsnmp-perl libsnmp-base snmpd Architecture: m68k Version: 5.0.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: buildd m68k user account

Uploaded samba 2.999+3.0.alpha20-4 (m68k) to ftp-master

2002-11-27 Thread buildd m68k user account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:53:00 -0500 Source: samba Binary: samba-doc libsmbclient libpam-smbpass swat winbind smbclient samba libsmbclient-dev samba-common smbfs Architecture: m68k Version: 2.999+3.0.alpha20-4 Distribution: unstable

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Colin Walters
[ Could you please not CC me? ] On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:05, John Goerzen wrote: Are you comparing released version to released version? (Debian stable to NetBSD -STABLE?) If so, I stand corrected. Yes. In any case, we surely have come a long way. Definitely!

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:36, Chris Lawrence wrote: The module should be: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gtk-2.0/bonobo/activationmodule.so It seems to be in the python2.2-gnome2 package, at least on my system. Hm, I seem to be suffering from the breakage in #169035. Maybe, although

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Joel Baker | (I can think of one trivial example--devfs makes it really easy to tell | which disks are available to the partitioning program. Can you describe | a simple method to do that, which is guaranteed to work on any kernel? | Likewise, can you describe a kernel-independent way of

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Bramer
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:54:21PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:21:28AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: You can download translated template files from http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/template_unstable/$PACKAGE (like

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:41:34AM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:54:21PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: We've started the translation of debconf templates some weeks ago. See http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/gnuplot/ddts-stat.png It seems that

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Michael Bramer wrote: We've started the translation of debconf templates some weeks ago. See http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/gnuplot/ddts-stat.png Great. If you are a package maintainer, you can obtain a package-related file from

Re: PostgreSQL 7.3 about to be released

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Birch
Sorry - I guess this is probably a newbie question. This posting says the new PostgreSQL pre-release was uploaded to experimental. Is that the same as uploading to unstable or is there another area beyond stable, testing, and unstable? Steve On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:21 pm, Oliver

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:05:31AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Joel Baker | (I can think of one trivial example--devfs makes it really easy to tell | which disks are available to the partitioning program. Can you describe | a simple method to do that, which is guaranteed to work on

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Michael Bramer wrote: But IMHO the best should be, if some dh_-script download the last translations from some web site. comments about this? Not bad. But I often build packages while beeing off-line ... (Sorry for my previous mail. I should check debian-devel before

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Michael Bramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-27 00:21]: We've started the translation of debconf templates some weeks ago. Good to see that those are coordinated now, too. If you are a package maintainer, you can obtain a package-related file from

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote: Are there plans to create a debian-desktop list? This group sure does have a lot of traffic, and as an official subproject, they should have their own list. I guess the Debian-Desktop people asked for those list. Moreover a mailing list for Debian

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Nov 27, Colin Walters wrote: Maybe, although GNOME System Tools is perl-based, so I'm not entirely sure it's a good idea from a dependency standpoint. True enough. I just wonder if there's a way you could somehow reuse some of the nice work they've done, like the root password prompt.

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:00:19AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: I might argue, in the case of APIs, that it is more a case of If you don't have time to do it right, how will you ever have time to do it over - it becomes *very* hard to un-entrench bad API choices, a lot of the time. You might

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:05:25PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Just waiting for Debian/VAX... ahem... I have a couple of 100+ MHz machines available for autobuilding when ready.. A 4000/600 and a 4000/700 from memory. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:58:25PM -0800, Jon Kent wrote: --- Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it doesn't. It shows that the most frequently viewed distribution pages on distrowatch.com are: I did say they were not great figures, just interesting, but I expect this sort

Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Roland Mas
Hi all, As some of you probably know, some people are in the process of installing a Sourceforge site on a Debian machine. It will consist of a slightly patched version of the 2.6 branch of the Debian package sourceforge, with a few scripts to help integration with existing infrastructure

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
Roland Mas wrote: Hi all, Hello, As some of you probably know, some people are in the process of installing a Sourceforge site on a Debian machine. It will consist of a slightly patched version of the 2.6 branch of the Debian package sourceforge, with a few scripts to help integration with

Re: orbit/evolution/linux2.5 bug #168188

2002-11-27 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:29:36PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: Jeff When I do this sort of thing on my local mirror, I usually pretend it's an NMU - so your package would be 0.5.17-4.1 or something. This prevents apt from preferring the Debian distributed pakage over yours. Either that or

Re: Multiple conflicts between firewall configuring packages (policy change? mass bug filing?)

2002-11-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: He can either: 1.- get the rules of the latest firewall script that runs from init (if it flushes the previous rules) 2.- get a mixed setup of rules. ¿Shouldn't there be a way for these firewalls to cooperate so as to not get

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Arjen Wiersma
Roland, Roland - Your idea here. What about 'meiinoar' which means 'together' in frisian (a language, some argue a dialect ;), in the Netherlands)... Regards, Arjen

Re: PostgreSQL 7.3 about to be released

2002-11-27 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:15:10AM +, Stephen Birch wrote: Sorry - I guess this is probably a newbie question. This posting says the new PostgreSQL pre-release was uploaded to experimental. Is that the same as uploading to unstable or is there another area beyond stable, testing, and

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:03:58 +0100 Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Your idea here. Trinity, re the Matrix Glenn

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
I like maintaining the idea of forge, so my proposal is VULCAN (from Roman mithology). He was the God of volcanic fire and of metal work. He was the son of Hera (and maybe Zeus).(Some say that Hera gave birth to Hephaestus alone because she was angry with Zeus, because Athena was born out of Zeus'

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Current candidates include: - Actarus: Actarus is the pilot of Goldorak/Grendizer/what's it called in your language. No particular reason except that it was a very famous cartoon here in France some ten-fifteen years ago. Alcor

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Hi all, As some of you probably know, some people are in the process of installing a Sourceforge site on a Debian machine. It will consist of a slightly patched version of the 2.6 branch of the Debian package

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On Nov/27, Emile van Bergen wrote: What about Avalon? Both a composer (well, hmm) and the place where Excalibur was forged. Being about forging, Orodruin comes also to mind ;-) -- Roberto Suarez Soto Alfa21 Outsourcing [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: On Nov/27, Emile van Bergen wrote: What about Avalon? Both a composer (well, hmm) and the place where Excalibur was forged. Being about forging, Orodruin comes also to mind ;-) Yes, although there's already

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew Lau
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:01:26AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: But what are you actually going to -do-? If I recall correctly, you've said on IRC that you aren't or don't want to be a coder (correct me if I'm wrong), and a previous attempt on your part to become a developer left NM with the

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: [snip] - Another idea I had was something along the lines of Debsmith or Iansmith, to keep both the idea of Debian and the idea of the forge. Unfortunately, plenty of people are called that way. Any idea to improve that line is

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:21:47 -0600, Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Yes, some sort of su to root prompt is probably a good idea; dunno if I can reuse the existing code or what. If not, something similar probably won't be hard to whip together (although I guess we probably have

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:07:45AM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: - Another idea I had was something along the lines of Debsmith or Iansmith, to keep both the idea of Debian and the idea of the forge. Unfortunately, plenty of people

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Joel Baker | I might argue, in the case of APIs, that it is more a case of If you don't | have time to do it right, how will you ever have time to do it over - it | becomes *very* hard to un-entrench bad API choices, a lot of the time. people seem to have the misconception that d-i is one big

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:01:13AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: I would like to recive the translation as bugs, so i hope you'll set it up in this way sooner or later. some other with this opinion? I believe most Debian Developers share this opinion. The BTS is the place to

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Michael Bramer | The ddtp will produce also po-debconf files in future. I must only write | some scripts for it... Would you please also nice your scripts on gluck? They are eating loads and loads of CPU time. Also rewriting them to keep state would be a good thing. (Or running them on

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Simon Richter
Javier/Michael, On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:04:28PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: some other with this opinion? I believe most Debian Developers share this opinion. The BTS is the place to keep track of package issues, I, personally, don't like to go to other places (or

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Theodore Reed
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:59:48 -0500 H. S. Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:41:21PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [snip] No, it doesn't. It shows that the most frequently viewed distribution pages on distrowatch.com are: 1) Mandrake 2) Red Hat 3) Gentoo 4)

Bug#170932: ITP: libpqxx -- C++ library for connecting to a PostgreSQL database

2002-11-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libpqxx Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Jeroen T. Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://gborg.postgresql.org/ * License : BSD Description : C++ library for

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:59:13AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:36, Chris Lawrence wrote: The module should be: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gtk-2.0/bonobo/activationmodule.so It seems to be in the python2.2-gnome2 package, at least on my system. Hm, I

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:21:47AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Nov 27, Colin Walters wrote: Maybe, although GNOME System Tools is perl-based, so I'm not entirely sure it's a good idea from a dependency standpoint. True enough. I just wonder if there's a way you could somehow reuse

gpg-agent?

2002-11-27 Thread martin f krafft
where can i find gpg-agent? is it packaged for debian? if not, then i'll file an ITP unless someone has valid things to say against that. -- .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-27 Thread Mikhail Sobolev
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:19:37PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: where can i find gpg-agent? is it packaged for debian? if not, then i'll file an ITP unless someone has valid things to say against that. I believe, the only one is available in newpg package (not Debian), which, I think, is the

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-27 Thread alex
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:19:37PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: where can i find gpg-agent? is it packaged for debian? if not, then i'll file an ITP unless someone has valid things to say against that. there are packages by Marcus Brinkmann on ftp.gnupg.org, and I'm working on adapting those

location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread Radovan Garabik
I am developping a (simple) application that needs to have UnicodeData.txt file available. Of course there are more applications that need this file. So far I found these two: perl-modules: /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/unicore/UnicodeData.txt console-data: /usr/share/unidata/UnicodeData-2.1.8.txt (way

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Simon Richter wrote: I believe that translations change so often that the real bugs would get lost in a pile of auto-generated bug reports. IMO it would be nice Rate-limit them to one per (week, month, maintainer-defined). And make them simple notifications that there are

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Furr
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 05:03, Roland Mas wrote: - Another idea I had was something along the lines of Debsmith or Iansmith, to keep both the idea of Debian and the idea of the forge. Unfortunately, plenty of people are called that way. Any idea to improve that line is welcome. Maybe

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Michael Furr wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 05:03, Roland Mas wrote: - Another idea I had was something along the lines of Debsmith or Iansmith, to keep both the idea of Debian and the idea of the forge. Unfortunately, plenty of people are called that way. Any idea

Bug#170945: ITP: therion -- Cave survey drawing software

2002-11-27 Thread Wookey
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-27 Severity: wishlist Package name: therion Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.therion.sk/ License : GPL Description : Cave survey drawing software Therion is a

Re: testing not getting updated?

2002-11-27 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:16:13AM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: Hi, Has any one else noticed that testing is not getting updated. According to http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz, the last run was on Nov 20th. If this is intentional, I don't remember seeing any mail

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:26:16PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: I must admit to some confusion, here. Should I take this as implying that there is no particular intent to try to make Debian-Installer play nicely on anything but Linux kernels? Intent on whose part? You would need to ask those

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Joel Baker | I might argue, in the case of APIs, that it is more a case of If you don't | have time to do it right, how will you ever have time to do it over - it | becomes *very* hard to un-entrench bad API choices, a lot of the time. people

Re: Discussion - non-free software removal

2002-11-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:20:06PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Indeed, one of the faculty here at UCI, Aldo Antonelli is a die-hard member of the Free Software community. When I told him about Debian's commitment to the principles free

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Radovan Garabik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am developping a (simple) application that needs to have UnicodeData.txt file available. Of course there are more applications that need this file. So far I found these two: perl-modules: /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/unicore/UnicodeData.txt console-data:

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:10:33PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Simon Richter wrote: I believe that translations change so often that the real bugs would get lost in a pile of auto-generated bug reports. IMO it would be nice Rate-limit them to one per

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-27 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:19, martin f krafft wrote: where can i find gpg-agent? is it packaged for debian? if not, then i'll file an ITP unless someone has valid things to say against that. Have you looked at quintuple-agent?

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.27.1754 +0100]: where can i find gpg-agent? is it packaged for debian? if not, then i'll file an ITP unless someone has valid things to say against that. Have you looked at quintuple-agent? it's a horrible security threat. i am not going

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-27 Thread Mikhail Sobolev
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:54:56AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:19, martin f krafft wrote: where can i find gpg-agent? is it packaged for debian? if not, then i'll file an ITP unless someone has valid things to say against that. Have you looked at quintuple-agent?

Planned mass-filing of bugs: java packages only depending on java-common

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Zander
There are a significant number of lib*-java packages whose only dependency is on java-common. While the java policy has condoned this behaviour in the past, it is non-sensical to do in the same way it is non-sensical of C libraries not to depend on libc. This is due to the use of standard

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:46:01AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: I suppose I had something like that misconception. Where can I read about the actaul construction of d-i? http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/doc/ -- - mdz

Re: new build system

2002-11-27 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
But unlike dpkg-source v2, you can start using CBS right now. Sound interesting? Here's the URL where you can download CBS: http://cvs.verbum.org/debian/rules Yes, it sounds interesting, but I had a problems with CBS and two packages (mainly GNU Gadu 2 from cvs and Kadu from kadu.net). It's

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:50:10AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Heh. There's another: miscfiles: /usr/share/misc/unicode.gz The current version is Unicode 3.1.1. According to http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.html there's a version 3.2. Hmm, is this file Free?

Re: testing not getting updated?

2002-11-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:27:00AM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:16:13AM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: Has any one else noticed that testing is not getting updated. According to http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz, the last run was on Nov 20th. If

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Steve Greenland
On 27-Nov-02, 11:04 (CST), Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [use the BTS to notify maintainers about debconf translation updates] What he said. An e-mail to the BTS (perhaps maint-only) with the attached po file would be exactly what I'd want. (The BTS suport MIME attachements now,

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:24:10AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: I like maintaining the idea of forge, so my proposal is VULCAN (from Roman mithology). He was the God of volcanic fire and of metal work. Maybe lemnos? This is where he used to work... Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: I like maintaining the idea of forge, so my proposal is VULCAN (from Roman mithology). i prefer greek: hephaistos then there is the Celtic mythos: brigid Irish (Bride in Scotland), great triple goddess. Fire goddess and crafts-smith. Christians turned her

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Mikael Olenfalk
Just for your statistics: I finally come back to beloved and wonderful Debian after having fought for a few weeks with a Gentoo-Desktop system. My conclusion was - or is - that even if Gentoo has newer packages sometimes and is using more modern techniques in some areas (the new dependancy-based

automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-27 Thread Thomas Lange
Is there a script, that can automaticly determine the best or correct name of the kernel-image that should be installed? I think something with grep and sed from /proc/cpuinfo should write k7, k6, 586tsc or someing else to stdout. Has someone created this script already ?

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Marcin Owsiany wrote: He was the God of volcanic fire and of metal work. Maybe lemnos? This is where he used to work... I thought the forge of Vulcan was Mt. Aetna in Sicily? The original volcano. Hey there's another Debian connection: we are also known for producing

Re: Debian 3.0

2002-11-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Herr Heisterkamp, dies ist eine englischsprachige Mailingliste... ;-) Am 15:44 2002-11-25 +0100 hat Jens Heisterkamp geschrieben: Guten Tag, Ich wolte einen Debian 3.0 ( woody ) aufsetzen mit einen 3ware Raid Controller und wolte mal nachfragen ob es von Ihnen Treiber für Diskette gibt

Re: Discussion - non-free software removal

2002-11-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 02:12 2002-11-25 -0800 hat Adam McKenna geschrieben: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:34:44AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:09:59PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: But I do not use contrib or non-free. Nobody had ask for non-free and contrib if I burn CD's for some

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:00:20PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: On 27-Nov-02, 11:04 (CST), Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [use the BTS to notify maintainers about debconf translation updates] What he said. An e-mail to the BTS (perhaps maint-only) with the attached po file would

Re: Discussion - non-free software removal

2002-11-27 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:21:41PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: I think, supporting (distributing) of non-free ist waste of bandwidth and money... and the same for contrib... i think the bandwidth taken and disk space taken up by non-free is exceptionally small compared to main. i haven't

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists
You might want to talk to the debian-installer people. They either might have some ideas about it or will certainly be interested... Grep the -devel list for debian-installer and Tollef Fog Heen. *t -- --- Tomas Pospisek

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:25:35PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: Is there a script, that can automaticly determine the best or correct name of the kernel-image that should be installed? I think something with grep and sed from /proc/cpuinfo should write k7, k6, 586tsc or someing else to

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-27 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:25:35PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: Is there a script, that can automaticly determine the best or correct name of the kernel-image that should be installed? I think something with grep and sed from /proc/cpuinfo should write k7, k6, 586tsc or someing else to stdout.

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Lynch
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:52:16 +1100 Andrew Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:01:26AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: But what are you actually going to -do-? If I recall correctly, you've said on IRC that you aren't or don't want to be a coder (correct me if I'm wrong), and a

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:03:59AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:41:34AM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:54:21PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: We've started the translation of debconf templates some weeks ago. See

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 27, Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where can i find gpg-agent? is it packaged for debian? if not, then i'll file an ITP unless someone has valid things to say against that. Have you looked at quintuple-agent? Yes, it does not work well. -- ciao, Marco pgpJEumUmpXWb.pgp

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-27 Thread Vonsur Kcin
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:22:12PM -0500, sean finney wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:25:35PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: Is there a script, that can automaticly determine the best or correct name of the kernel-image that should be installed? I think something with grep and sed from

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:59:00PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:50:10AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Heh. There's another: miscfiles: /usr/share/misc/unicode.gz The current version is Unicode 3.1.1. According to

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:46:20PM -0800, Vonsur Kcin wrote: case $cpuid in AMD Athlon*) echo k7 ;; AMD K6*) echo k6 ;; Celeron*) echo 686 ;; Pentium *) echo 586tsc ;; *) echo 386 esac :) Of course

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-27 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:21:40PM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: [SNIP] I was hoping you'd say that, but you still have growing up to do. Are you expecting me to prove myself to you in some way? Given some contradictory statements you've made... as a matter of fact, I am expecting you to

Bug#170988: ITP: libdbh1.0-1 -- Creates disk based hashtables

2002-11-27 Thread Martin Loschwitz
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libdbh1.0-1 Version : 1.0.11 Upstream Author : Edscott Wilson Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://dbh.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Creates

Bug#170987: ITP: gtk-xfce-engine -- A GTK+-2.0 theme engine for Xfce

2002-11-27 Thread Martin Loschwitz
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: gtk-xfce-engine Version : 2.0.10+cvs.20021127 Upstream Author : Olivier Fourdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.xfce.org/ * License : GPL Description : A GTK

Bug#170985: ITP: xffm4 -- File manager for the Xfce4 desktop environment

2002-11-27 Thread Martin Loschwitz
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xffm4 Version : 4.0.0+cvs.20021127 Upstream Author : Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.xfce.org/ * License : GPL Description : File manager

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:54:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:59:00PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:50:10AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Heh. There's another: miscfiles: /usr/share/misc/unicode.gz The current

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-27 Thread sean finney
excuse me for voicing up here, but this seems like something that didn't need to be sent to the entire debian-devel mailing list. granted, i'm not even a developer, but i get the impression this is more the result of you two not getting along and less having to do with his ability to be a

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-27 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:46:20PM -0800, Vonsur Kcin wrote: cpuid=sed -ne 's/^model name.*: //p' /proc/cpuinfo just don't forget the backticks :) case $cpuid in AMD Athlon*) echo k7 ;; snip yeah, even simpler than i was thinking! sean pgpVsp5bfIinX.pgp

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: I see no problem with this license as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. There is no permission granted to make modifications (and distribute modified versions). (DFSG 3) So, according to Branden, international

Bug#170990: ITP: pyslsk -- A client for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer sharing system

2002-11-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : pyslsk Version : 0.4.9b Upstream Author : Alexander Kanavin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.sensi.org/~ak/pyslsk/ * License : GPL Description : A client for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer sharing system PySoulSeek is

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Nov 27, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: And why not use GST backends instead of rewriting them? They can be get as an independent module from GNOME CVS. Perhaps I should package them separately to show that they're not stuck with GNOME System Tools, so they can also be used to write

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