Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Adam M.
Tyler MacDonald wrote: I moved the server because wedohosting.com's bandwidth fees were getting prohibitive (i'm with iweb.ca now).. otherwise I would have been happy to have it continue running for another few thousand days. :-) I find that Tera-Byte.com in Edmonton has nice colo rates.

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-16 Thread Adam M.
Ken Bloom wrote: I noticed that glabels is broken on i386 because it's not binary NMU safe, and someone did a binary NMU. After poking around a bit, I found http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2005/11/msg0.html, which discussed a possible solution to this problem. Since then, we have

Re: Bug#308725: ITP: dhcpv6 -- a stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for IPv6

2005-05-12 Thread Adam M
On 5/12/05, Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Adam M.] Description : a stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for IPv6 DHCPv6 is a stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for IPv6, a counterpart to IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration protocol. Please

Re: mrtg package problems

2005-05-11 Thread Adam M.
Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 12:23 -0500, Adam Majer wrote: Currently there are two packages that he maintains, Yup. I would like to maintain mrtg since I do use it. As to the other package, it probably should be orphaned. OK, please check the bugs, review

Re: mrtg package problems

2005-05-11 Thread Adam M.
Gunnar Wolf wrote: Adam Majer dijo [Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:23:10PM -0500]: Currently there are two packages that he maintains, http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] *libnet**-easytcp-perl **mrtg I would like to maintain mrtg since I do use it. As to the other package, it probably should be

Bug#308725: ITP: dhcpv6 -- a stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for IPv6

2005-05-11 Thread Adam M.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: dhcpv6 Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : ?? Not a single one - many... * URL : http://dhcpv6.sourceforge.net/ * License : Mostly BSD, some LGPL and MIT/X Description

Re: [Baghira] :: Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-11 Thread Adam M.
Vadim Petrunin wrote: Sorry, but looks like there is no rc bugs in the baghira package. There was only one bug Serious policy violations but it is resolved now. Why it is out of release? http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/baghira.html Ask the maintainer. It was not in Sarge because of that one

Debian AMD64 is Debian

2005-05-08 Thread Adam M.
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Friday 06 May 2005 11:22am, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Hi Note: non-free is NOT provided yet. We need to decide what we do with it, as we may be forbidden to distribute some of the software in it (we aren't Debian). Not necessary. For 'sattrack' for example, I got

Re: Debian AMD64 is Debian

2005-05-08 Thread Adam M.
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Adam M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are not part of Debian. We are not allowed to use certain Debian resources such as buildd.d.o for buildd logs, access to the incoming queue for buildds or wanna-build and several other things. So if Debian itself does not think

Re: www.debian.org and users information

2005-05-06 Thread Adam M.
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi DD folks, Sarge is now approaching zero kelvin and folks are scrambing to get the last few bugs squashed. I was recently thinking about why the non-clued folks bash Debian with incomplete or inaccurate facts and a way to address that. I think there should be a section on the

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-04 Thread Adam M
On 5/4/05, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:54:46PM -0500, Adam M. wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: grave - serious isn't worth a discussion since there's not a big difference between them (both are RC) You are 100% wrong here. Why do we have bug severities

Re: Bug#307570: please provide releasenotes (Re: Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts)

2005-05-04 Thread Adam M.
Holger Levsen wrote: btw, google has no (good) hits for sarge releasenotes, but for sarge release notes they have... maybe this helps. Try sarge release notes - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Adam M.
Adrian Bunk wrote: grave - serious isn't worth a discussion since there's not a big difference between them (both are RC) You are 100% wrong here. Why do we have bug severities then? Severities are there to inform the developer and the rest of the Debian world about the seriousness of the

Re: Upcoming removals

2005-05-03 Thread Adam M.
François-Denis Gonthier wrote: On May 3, 2005 09:54 am, Martin Michlmayr wrote: #297426: O: langband -- The langband Common lisp game Reported by: Kevin M. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 63 days old. #297427: O: langband-data -- The Langband sound/image/etc files for langband engine Reported

Re: launchd and lookupd

2005-05-02 Thread Adam M.
martin f krafft wrote: Apple has just released launchd, a init/cron/watchdog/etc. replacement. Has anyone looked at it? It seems like a bit of work to It is not a good idea to replace multiple system utilities with one. Right now I can install a different cron or inetd or atd, or I can remove

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Adam M.
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Klaus Ethgen wrote: The according bug is #306608. This is a bug, though possibly not in the libwxgtk2.4-python package. If the relevant maintainers (libwxgtk2.4-python, wxpython2.5.3) and bug sumitters can't work out a solution, then ask the Technical

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-29 Thread Adam M.
Steve Langasek wrote: Ideally, we would have agreement to update all of the following packages to libmysqlclient12 at the same time: I would suggest that libmysqlclient14 should be used if possible. MySQL has changed the way passwords are stored in the database and this prevents clients from

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-20 Thread Adam M
Isn't the process: 1) make a patch 2) give it to the apache developers 3) new packaged apache versions have the patch 4) patch makes it upstream 5) patch no longer needed in debian package You know, there are security updates for stable releases. You have to patch those. If there are 15

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-20 Thread Adam M
On 4/20/05, Jeff Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam M wrote: ? I guess I don't understand enough about how the build process works for the packages in debian but that sounds funny to me. Or I just don't understand what you mean. To build security patches, you need the same libraries

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-18 Thread Adam M
On 4/16/05, Patrick Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 21:48 -0500, Adam M. wrote: Unfortunately this totally changes the purpose of stable. Stable is Yes and no. It changes the concept of stable in that stable evolves. You still have the static release as long

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-15 Thread Adam M.
Patrick A. Ouellette wrote: The progression I see is: unstable - testing - candidate - stable Unfortunately this totally changes the purpose of stable. Stable is there not to provide bug free, up-to-date software releases. Stable is to provide environmental stability. When someone installs

Re: Making new packages

2005-04-12 Thread Adam M.
Nico Golde wrote: Hi, if we would drop some archs now, what is the best way of making new packages. Should we just fill in the archs which are supported in the future too to hold the load on the archs buildds which will be dropped low? No. Just leave it as any unless there is a good reason

Re: gluck (cvs, people, planet, etc.) downtime - ongoing raid problems

2005-04-04 Thread Adam M.
Christian Storch wrote: Strange: Could there be any correlation with my observed problems about resolving anything of debian.org during exactly that time? (http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2005/04/msg00023.html) Name Server:SAENS.DEBIAN.ORG Name Server:KLECKER.DEBIAN.ORG Name

Re: gluck (cvs, people, planet, etc.) downtime - ongoing raid problems

2005-04-04 Thread Adam M.
Blars Blarson wrote: Name Server:SAENS.DEBIAN.ORG Name Server:KLECKER.DEBIAN.ORG Name Server:SPOHR.DEBIAN.ORG spohr changed IP addresses last week, and the glue record returned by the .org nameservers still had the old address when I checked a few hours ago. This has been reported to

Re: watch file for SourceForge packages

2005-04-04 Thread Adam M.
Shaun Jackman wrote: This doesn't work for me: $ cat debian/watch version=2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/n/ne/neutrino/neutrino-(.*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate $ uscan neutrino: Newer version (0.8.2) available on remote site (local version is 0.7.3) neutrino: Successfully downloaded updated

Re: Getting openswan 2.2.0 back into sarge

2005-03-24 Thread Adam M.
Rene Mayrhofer wrote: Hi all, [Please CC me in replies, I am currently not subscribed to this list.] As some have already noticed, openswan has been removed from testing a while ago, most probably because of bug #291274, which did not apply to package version 2.2.0-4 (the one that has been

Re: Bug#301083: ITP: libevolution-ruby -- revolution, ruby binding for the evolution mail client

2005-03-24 Thread Adam M.
David Moreno Garza wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 17:31 +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit David Moreno Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Revolution is a little Ruby binding to the excellent Evolution email client. Is it so little that it would be better to include it with the