Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:18:00AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10469 March 1977, Josselin Mouette wrote: I can't see the rationale for rejecting source uploads, and they used to be accepted in the past. Because people then fuck up their packages even more. No, they havent been

Re: Debconf problem

2005-11-11 Thread Frank Küster
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster wrote: Because it isn't true that the previous version didn't use debconf. It just asked the questions totally differently and took an approach that I now would call flawed. But still it gave the users the impression that their ls-R files'

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
It's not all that unusual for conferences to require that the material submitted for the conference be licensed in a specific manner; if you plan on presenting, some DFSG free license of the material you present should be expected so portions of the work can be utilized in main or otherwise

Re: Resignation and orphan list

2005-11-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Chip Salzenberg] I see no point in trying to force my way (back) into a project that shows no interest in allowing me to keep participating. Therefore, I hereby resign from the Debian Project. Please, do not do this. The project is to large and fuzzy to have any interest, but there are

Re: Bug#338503: ITP: cvssuck -- inefficient cvs repository grabber using cvs command

2005-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.11.10.1908 +0100]: CVSsuck is a mirroring tool for CVS repositories. Unlike other tools such as CVSup or rsync, it uses cvs command to access the repository. So, it works well with remote repositories without a special server or shell

Re: Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:14:39PM +0100, Nicolas Fran?ois wrote: Hi, In #276419, the bug submitter complained that when a command and some arguments were passed to su, all these arguments were concatenated, and provided to the shell -c option. This behavior differs from su on other

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-11-11 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:51:30 +1000 Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Anyway, if it's recompressing like I think, there's no way to get the same compressed md5sum -- even if the information could be transferred, there's no guarantee the local gzip _can_ produce the same output as the

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 11 novembre 2005 à 00:55 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels a écrit : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Why is this the case ? I'm running with experimental GNOME packages; if I upload a binary package depending on them, it will be uninstallable on unstable systems. How can you

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 11/10/05, Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Josselin Mouette] I can't see the rationale for rejecting source uploads, and they used to be accepted in the past. It's the first line of defense against people uploading things that don't build, wasting various infrastructure

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:22:39PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are around 1000 developers out there. At the very least I am sure you would find several of them willing to sponsor your upload. That's not a fix, it's a bad workaround. I was a

Re: Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: Whatever you choose to do, you need to take care of partial upgrade. Not across released stable versions! Since when do we support stable/stable+1 mixed systems? Besides, depends/pre-depends and conflicts should be more than enough if done right. New

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Brian Nelson] Oh, so Ubuntu packages are fucked up more by their maintainers more than Debian packages are? Yes, or so it's been alleged. Not being a user of ubuntu unstable, I can't confirm or deny. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-11-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:54:09AM -0500, Michael Vogt wrote: A problem is that zsync needs to teached to deal with deb files (that is, that it needs to unpack the data.tar and use that for the syncs). [Anthony Towns] That seems kinda awkward -- you'd need to start by downloading the ar

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:26:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Why fight at all? If having a free license is so obviously correct, why force people to do it? If some people are uncomfortable with it, why fight that? Even within Debian, it's become clear to me that, if we want DFSG-free things,

Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, We would now like to get rid of this bug. What do you recommend: * keep a Debian specific implementation and tag this bug wontfix * reapply the patch to fix this bug, and report bugs on the packages that uses this feature Could you document and wait until etch release?

Re: Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
The ideal way to approach this is to announce a change, Which is what we are doing now. We neglected to do so the first time (mostly because we didn't anticipate this would break pbuilder so much) and this is why we reverted the change very quickly. document that change, provide some

Re: altzone

2005-11-11 Thread lars
I never got an answer, and when upstream was presented with the problem OpenSCEP more or less died. Go figure. I lost interest in the packageing due to this. Lars, If you ever got an answer to your question below could you share it with me. I'm trying to compile a mixed fortran C code that

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op do, 10-11-2005 te 16:22 -0800, schreef Chip Salzenberg: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are around 1000 developers out there. At the very least I am sure you would find several of them willing to sponsor your upload. That's not a fix, it's a bad workaround. Yes, but

Re: due1ing b4nj0s sheet music

2005-11-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for the sheet music to the song due1ing b4nj0s from the movie deliverance. It's for guitar. Can you tell me where I can find it? Please see (for instance) http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/flatt-and-scruggs/due%6cing-b%61nj%6fs-6185.html

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-11 Thread alexander kemalov
Hi, I tried to download and run Live CD but without success. I think that collaboration of enterprise forces of Solaris-security,stable,expandableand usability of Debian platform is great idea. I'm a sys admin in Institute of Computer and Comm. Systems - Bulg. Academy of Science. Ourefforts

Re: Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, support for that change (like POSIXLY_CORRECT) Then change. We've got quite a bit of tools in sarge that doesn't work with this change, right? From what Nicolas investigated, not that much. He only found dchroot and pbuilder up to now. Nicolas does not pretend to have a

getting unstable lintian linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, It seems that not every new maintainer is building a package on an unstable system which is recommended (or at least a version with the current policy version). So there are errors in packages which come to debian-mentors which are checked with an old version of the debian policy. So what

Re: getting unstable lintian linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Nico Golde in [EMAIL PROTECTED] So what about a special exception which provides updated lintian linda packages for the stable distribution? Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be fixed. This doesn't make sense. You need unstable to build on unstable, and only updating

Re: Bug#338503: ITP: cvssuck -- inefficient cvs repository grabber using cvs command

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, CVSsuck is a mirroring tool for CVS repositories. Unlike other tools such as CVSup or rsync, it uses cvs command to access the repository. So, it works well with remote repositories without a special server or shell account. However it is inefficient and not perfect because CVS

Re: Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
FWIW, pbuilder in sid is fixed since 0.129 (17 August 2005), and I am hoping that will probagate into some stable backports, so that practically, pbuilder side is ready for the new su. Well, this is actually great news as pbuilder was by far the main blocker for this change. Sorry for

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it can be unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no open critical bug was seen. After Boot the system was completely broken as of the libpcre dependency. So please do not close bugs bevore it is available on

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Gatliff
Anthony: Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:56:32PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: And, I mean, seriously: using the threat of legal action to make people remove free software from the Internet? Whose side are we on here? No. The threat of legal action to stop the theft of

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread David Schmitt
On Friday 11 November 2005 06:48, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:07:33PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: [0] Presuming the FSF's claims about dynamic linking hold up in this case, anyway. I consider a Debian-derived distribution a derived work of the contained Debian

Re: Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
e.g. you cannot fix Sarge pbuilder anyway, so etch su must work with sarge pbuilder. That why it would have been better to announce the change before Sarge release. Maybe, but unfortunately, this bug was properly analysed a few weeks *after* sarge release. Remember, there were over 150

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Poole
Bill Gatliff writes: With all due respect, and a certain unwillingness to get distracted from the main thread of discussion or to further inflame an already pretty volatile situation, I think that theft may in fact be the appropriate term to use here. Theft, n.: 1. (Law) The act of

Re: getting unstable lintian linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:28:31PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: So what about a special exception which provides updated lintian linda packages for the stable distribution? Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be fixed. It might not be necessary as an exception: perhaps the rule

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-11-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:16:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: David Weinehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh scripts should work with dash too. That's incorrect. A correctly written /bin/sh script is allowed to use

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Oh, and here's something else to ponder: Maybe, just maybe, James has more time to go to Ubuntu below zero than he has to handle keyring updates because he prioritizes by what gets the bills paid. As most of us do, I suppose. Yep, this is something I was about to add. Most of us have

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread John Hasler
Bill Gatliff writes: Taking something you're not entitled to ~= theft. Nothing is being taken. A copyright may be being infringed, but the owner is not being deprived of any property. Whether Erast did so with malicious intent, that's another question entirely. It is not. Theft requires

Bug#338635: ITP: kde-style-polymer -- Polymer widget style and kwin decoration for KDE3

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: kde-style-polymer Version : 0.5.5 Upstream Author : Marco Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=27968 * License : GPL

Re: getting unstable lintian linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05 15:28]: So what about a special exception which provides updated lintian linda packages for the stable distribution? Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be fixed. Curently it's quite easy to run unstables lintian, debootstrap and

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:11:24AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Bill Gatliff writes: Taking something you're not entitled to ~= theft. Nothing is being taken. A copyright may be being infringed, but the owner is not being deprived of any property. There's something darkly amusing about

Bug#338634: ITP: libcommandline-ruby -- Ruby library to building a command

2005-11-11 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Esteban Manchado Velázquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libcommandline-ruby Version : 0.7.10 Upstream Author : Jim Freeze * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/optionparser/ * License : BSD-style Description :

Re: getting unstable lintian linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vr, 11-11-2005 te 15:28 +0100, schreef Nico Golde: So what about a special exception which provides updated lintian linda packages for the stable distribution? Doesn't sound like a particularly good idea to me. You need no just unstable's linda/lintian; you also need unstable's libraries

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Gatliff
Glenn: Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:11:24AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Bill Gatliff writes: Taking something you're not entitled to ~= theft. Nothing is being taken. A copyright may be being infringed, but the owner is not being deprived of any property.

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-11 Thread Chip Salzenberg
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:09:22PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Op do, 10-11-2005 te 16:22 -0800, schreef Chip Salzenberg: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are around 1000 developers out there. At the very least I am sure you would find several of them willing to sponsor

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Klaus Ethgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it can be unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no open critical bug was seen. After Boot the system was completely broken as of the libpcre dependency. So please do not close bugs

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] Oh, and here's something else to ponder: Maybe, just maybe, James has more time to go to Ubuntu below zero than he has to handle keyring updates because he prioritizes by what gets the bills paid. As most of us do, I suppose. Yes, most of us have changing priorities, and am

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Hubert Chan
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:10:06 -0600, Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] No, the owner hasn't been deprived. But the rights said owner conveyed via the GPL (which amount to some level of ownership, at least philosophically) have been deprived from the GNU/Solaris end users. It's the

RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, while my regular clean up RC-bugs-work I noticed that the package krb4 is RC-buggy in more than one way. On further investigation, I also noticed that kerberos 4 is dying right now, and also that the bugs are not as easy to fix. Also, upstream doesn't look too active according to

Re: Resignation and orphan list

2005-11-11 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Over the past five weeks And guess how long will take to get your account removed. -- David Moreno Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.damog.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GPG: C671257D Este no es un

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-11-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, David Weinehall wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:16:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: David Weinehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh scripts should work with dash too. That's incorrect. A

testing migration: wtf?

2005-11-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
What is happening with testing migration of my package, sork-passwd? The various testing migration pages seem to be all confused: - http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?package=sork-passwd doesn't give me the excuses link anymore - http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=sork-passwd

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-11 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 00:53, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:50:01PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote: Here's the 2nd part of the answer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is, are you going to pursue a legal action against Sun Microsystems? To which my answer was

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, my question is simple: should I push packages to go away from kerberos-4-support? Unless there is a good reason to do not, I would start to push into that direction. And of course, feel free to send me things that need to be changed. As usual, the

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
Andreas == Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Hi, while my regular clean up RC-bugs-work I noticed Andreas that the package krb4 is RC-buggy in more than one Andreas way. On further investigation, I also noticed that Andreas kerberos 4 is dying right now, and also

Bug#338657: ITP: Buoh -- Buoh is a reader for online strips comics, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop

2005-11-11 Thread borg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: Buoh Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : * URL : http://buoh.steve-o.org/ * License : GPL Description : Buoh is a reader for online strips comics, designed to work well under

Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-11 Thread Christopher Crammond
Suppose you have a repository stuffed full of binary packages, in this case Debian Packages. If you were unlucky enough to have them in a rather un-organized fashion, I was just wondering if the package file itself would provide said information to allow me to write a program to sort them out.

Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi, Christopher Crammond Christopher Crammond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Suppose you have a repository stuffed full of binary packages, in this case Debian Packages. If you were unlucky enough to have them in a rather un-organized fashion, I was just wondering if the package file itself would

Re: getting unstable lintian linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:28:31PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: [...] So what about a special exception which provides updated lintian linda packages for the stable distribution? Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be fixed. That's imho wrong idea because of at least one very

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 05:18:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:40:27PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:53:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:55:41PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: many of Erast's responses

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Find out what is required to keep AFS support working (assuming I don't already have it). Well, what sort of AFS environment? The answer is different if you mean AFS using kaserver than if you mean AFS using krb524 or native K5. -- Russ Allbery

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05 21:47]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, my question is simple: should I push packages to go away from kerberos-4-support? Unless there is a good reason to do not, I would start to push into that direction. And of course, feel free to

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El jue, 10-11-2005 a las 23:43 +0100, Josselin Mouette escribió: Le jeudi 10 novembre 2005 à 23:00 +0100, Adeodato Simó a écrit : * Josselin Mouette [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:45:20 +0100]: (And don't tell me to use pbuilder, I don't have the disk space nor the bandwidth for it.) Why

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You think that December 2006 (the expected release time of etch) is too early to drop Kerberos 4? I'm not sure. I think it's going to be tight for some people, but on the other hand not shipping etch with MIT Kerberos 1.5 is not exactly appealing. I

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05 23:26]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You think that December 2006 (the expected release time of etch) is too early to drop Kerberos 4? I'm not sure. I think it's going to be tight for some people, but on the other hand not shipping

Re: getting unstable lintian linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-11 23:41]: Op vr, 11-11-2005 te 15:28 +0100, schreef Nico Golde: So what about a special exception which provides updated lintian linda packages for the stable distribution? Doesn't sound like a particularly good idea to me. You need no

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-11 Thread David Schmitt
On Friday 11 November 2005 21:19, George Danchev wrote: On Tuesday 08 November 2005 00:53, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:50:01PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote: Here's the 2nd part of the answer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is, are you going to pursue a legal

Re: Resignation and orphan list

2005-11-11 Thread Joe Smith
David Moreno Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Over the past five weeks And guess how long will take to get your account removed. Hmm... Doesn't a resignation require a message signed with a key on the

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread David Schmitt
On Friday 11 November 2005 19:36, Erast Benson wrote: On Friday 11 November 2005 06:48, Anthony Towns wrote: Let's consider this dpkg binary from the GNU/Solaris LiveCD, which I have loop mounted: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/gnusolaris/livecd-mnt/usr/bin$ ./dpkg bash: ./dpkg: No such file or

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
Peter == Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter [Miles Bader] I'd say so. Or fix the bug. Peter Kind of quick and dirty, and not particularly tested, since Peter I don't actually know how to use ttysnoop. Peter But it's a proof of concept of how easy it is to add

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
Junichi == Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Junichi Hi, Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it can be unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no open critical bug was seen. After Boot the system was completely broken as of the

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:19:07PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05 21:47]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, my question is simple: should I push packages to go away from kerberos-4-support? Unless there is a good reason to do not, I

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:26:58 +1000 Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:49:36PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: FYI, a possible response might be: we care about freeness, but we pick our battle, and our battle is Debian main. I care about starving children, but I don't donate the

Re: testing migration: wtf?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:58:35PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: What is happening with testing migration of my package, sork-passwd? The various testing migration pages seem to be all confused: - http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?package=sork-passwd doesn't give me the excuses link

Bug#338678: ITP: italc -- teaching tool

2005-11-11 Thread Steffen Joeris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Joeris [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: italc Version : 0.9.6.2 Upstream Author : Tobias Doerffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://italc.sourceforge.net/download.php * License : GPL Description : teaching

Bug#338676: ITP: python-turbogears -- front-to-back rapid web development

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: python-turbogears Version : 0.8a3 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/ * License :

[RFH] Test of new grub package

2005-11-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello folks, I prepared a new package of grub for upload in next days. It still needs some work but looks like a good improvement. Would be good if you could do a brief test of it and provide feedback directly to me. If it solve any previous bug that you had before, would be good if you could

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:43:23AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:11:24AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Bill Gatliff writes: Taking something you're not entitled to ~= theft. Nothing is being taken. A copyright may be being infringed, but the owner is not being

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:49:21AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: It's not all that unusual for conferences to require that the material submitted for the conference be licensed in a specific manner; OTOH, conferences usually ask for the minimal permission they actually need to do their job. if

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:00:55AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:26:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Why fight at all? If having a free license is so obviously correct, why force people to do it? If some people are uncomfortable with it, why fight that? Even within

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Today I did a update of the system (yes, sid and yes I know it can be unstable but...) and the update includes grep where no open critical bug was seen. After Boot the system was completely broken as of the libpcre dependency. So please do not close bugs

Re: testing migration: wtf?

2005-11-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:58:35PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: What is happening with testing migration of my package, sork-passwd? sork-passwd |2.2.2-2 | testing | source, all sork-passwd |2.2.2-2 | unstable | source, all It migrated already... Cheers, aj

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Josselin Mouette dies 10/11/2005 hora 22:45: Le jeudi 10 novembre 2005 à 13:32 -0800, Debian Installer a écrit : Rejected: source only uploads are not supported. I can't see the rationale for rejecting source uploads, and they used to be accepted in the past. And I see a rationale

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:49:21AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: It's not all that unusual for conferences to require that the material submitted for the conference be licensed in a specific manner; OTOH, conferences usually ask for the minimal

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:36:46AM +1100, Brian May wrote: Andreas == Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Hi, while my regular clean up RC-bugs-work I noticed Andreas that the package krb4 is RC-buggy in more than one Andreas way. On further investigation, I also

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:46:24AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Of course, within Debian DFSG-freeness isn't mandatory or enforced: you can upload to non-free instead of main just by tweaking your control file. The response is predictable, but here it is anyway: non-free isn't within Debian;

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Anthony Towns dies 11/11/2005 hora 16:43: The problem is a technicality, not a moral or practical difference from the GPL's expectations: you still have the source to OpenSolaris libc, and you still have permission to modify it, redistribute it, sell it, etc. Didn't someone ask for

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:48:20 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:07:33PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: [0] Presuming the FSF's claims about dynamic linking hold up in this case, anyway. I consider a Debian-derived distribution a derived work of

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:26:52 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:49:21AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: [If this poses a problem,[1] you always have the option of not presenting, or presenting your work in an informal session.] *sigh* Does this

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:26:58 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:49:36PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: FYI, a possible response might be: we care about freeness, but we pick our battle, and our battle is Debian main. I care about starving children,

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:29:56 +0100, Pierre THIERRY [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Scribit Josselin Mouette dies 10/11/2005 hora 22:45: Le jeudi 10 novembre 2005 à 13:32 -0800, Debian Installer a écrit : Rejected: source only uploads are not supported. I can't see the rationale for rejecting source

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:46:24 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:00:55AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:26:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Why fight at all? If having a free license is so obviously correct, why force people

Bug#338692: ITP: python-pyprotocols -- Open Protocols and Component Adaptation for Python

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: python-pyprotocols Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Phillip J. Eby [EMAIL PROTECTED] com * URL : http://peak.telecommunity.com/PyProtocols.html * License :

Bug#338698: ITP: python-ruledispatch -- Rule-based Dispatching and Generic Functions

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: python-ruledispatch Version : 0.5a0dev Upstream Author : Phillip J. Eby [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/download/eggs/RuleDispatch-0.5a0dev_r2097.zip * License

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Bug#338701: ITP: python-testgears -- TestGears extensions to unittest

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: python-testgears Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor dangoor+testgears at gmail com * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/testgears/ * License :

Accepted drift 2.1.2-1 (source i386)

2005-11-11 Thread ijones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:37:51 +0200 Source: drift Binary: drift Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.1.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Arjan Oosting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: drift

Accepted ksubtile 1.2-2 (source i386)

2005-11-11 Thread Isaac Clerencia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:32:15 +0100 Source: ksubtile Binary: ksubtile Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.2-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Isaac Clerencia

Accepted gnome-python 2.10.0-4 (source i386 all)

2005-11-11 Thread Loic Minier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:02:16 +0100 Source: gnome-python Binary: python-gnome2-dev python2.4-gnome2 python2.3-gnome2 python-gnome2 Architecture: source i386 all Version: 2.10.0-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Sebastien

Accepted gnome-swallow 1.2-2 (source i386)

2005-11-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:12:20 +0100 Source: gnome-swallow Binary: gnome-swallow-applet Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.2-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josselin

Accepted spca5xx 20051105-1 (source all)

2005-11-11 Thread Kel Modderman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:25:52 +1000 Source: spca5xx Binary: spca5xx-source Architecture: source all Version: 20051105-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian spca5xx Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Kel

Accepted abuse-lib 2.00-17 (source all)

2005-11-11 Thread Debian packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:27:27 +0100 Source: abuse-lib Binary: abuse-lib Architecture: source all Version: 2.00-17 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Sam Hocevar

Accepted geneweb 4.10-16 (source i386)

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:04:29 +0100 Source: geneweb Binary: geneweb gwtp Architecture: source i386 Version: 4.10-16 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Christian Perrier [EMAIL

Accepted mozilla-firefox 1.4.99+1.5rc2.dfsg-1 (source i386)

2005-11-11 Thread Mike Hommey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:07:05 +0100 Source: mozilla-firefox Binary: mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-gnome-support mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.4.99+1.5rc2.dfsg-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency:

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