Accepted postgrey 1.27-4 (source all)

2006-12-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:08:37 +0100 Source: postgrey Binary: postgrey Architecture: source all Version: 1.27-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL

Re: Bug#401157: ITP: ingres -- Ingres 2006 Business Open Source Database

2006-12-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 01 December 2006 11:10, Paul J Stevens wrote: The Ingres 2006 DBMS can support a wide range of applications, from ad hoc queries to large-scale, mission-critical production applications which require 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week service. The Ingres 2006 Intelligent DBMS features a

Re: Fwd: FC6 downloads and installs

2006-11-25 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 25 November 2006 00:50, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 11:52:36PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: I *guess* that Debian has a much higher percentage of downloads through mirrors where we don't have the log files compared to FC, so this obviously doesn't change

Re: Fwd: FC6 downloads and installs

2006-11-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 19 November 2006 01:35, Michelle Konzack wrote: [FC core download stats] Blahblah! ... So the download statistics would be false anyway. It's not necessary to be so arrogant. In their email, they acknowledge that proxies etc. have influenced their stats. Their numbers are a lower

Re: [RFC] new virtual package names for optical discs burning applications

2006-11-18 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 17 November 2006 15:22, George Danchev wrote: * `cd-burner' -- could be provided by wodim, cdrskin, (cdrdao ?) * `dvd-burner' -- could be provided by wodim, dvd+rw-tools and dvdrecord I don't know the programs in question exactly, but how likely is it that even wodim

Re: Request for Help/Comments: fvwm95

2006-11-09 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 16:10, Daniel Martin wrote: [killing off fvwm95] Now, what do people think of this idea? Anything that lessens the number of different window managers in Debian is a Good Thing(tm) ;-) popularity contest says this about the various fvwm packages: #rank name

Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yodel! Since I hate having tons of configuration files lying around from my various tests (and build-dep installing orgies), I do dpkg -l | grep ^rc | cut -f 3 -d \ | xargs dpkg -P every now and then. Actually, I first look at the list, and this proved very important here... What happened:

Re: ITP: libauthen-simple-perl -- Simple and consistent framework for authentication

2006-11-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 03 November 2006 11:12, Xavier Oswald wrote: Description : Simple and consistent framework for authentication This is the basis package for various authentication methods. This description should be a bit extended. Authentication in what context? Do I need this when I want

Accepted postgrey 1.27-2 (source all)

2006-09-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:29:20 +0200 Source: postgrey Binary: postgrey Architecture: source all Version: 1.27-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL

Accepted postgrey 1.27-3 (source all)

2006-09-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:49:17 +0200 Source: postgrey Binary: postgrey Architecture: source all Version: 1.27-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL

bts behaviour - versioning issue?

2006-09-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yodel! When I look at http://bugs.debian.org/postgrey, I'm confused at the information for #309511, which is listed as outstanding (wishlist), but Done and Archived. Can anybody tell me why? cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys pgpdhdKKN92N8.pgp Description: PGP

Re: bts behaviour - versioning issue?

2006-09-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 23 September 2006 11:17, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] Ok, thanks everybody. (Steve, I hope you do something today besides explaining things to me ;-) cheers -- vbi -- Protect your privacy - encrypt your email: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro pgpBWHkmganv2.pgp Description: PGP

I want one of those!

2006-08-18 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Now I'm not a buildd operator nor do I have any experience on non-x86 arches, but a 16 core MIPS 1U server that only pulls 50W power and that ships with Debian preinstalled just has a very high coolness factor :-) http://www.movidis.com/products/rev.asp

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-13 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 13 August 2006 02:25, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le dim 13 août 2006 02:06, Peter Collingbourne a écrit : Dear all, I found there were no VMware-related packages in the official repository, nor any way of creating them. Thus I propose to create a tool that will build (for example

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 03 August 2006 06:24, Nathanael Nerode wrote: So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the installer's defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer. http://wiki.debian.org/Sarge2EtchUpgrade Anyobdy (Marco d'Itri?) can add some comments regarding

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-08-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 31 July 2006 08:18, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I believe there are a large percentage of machines without popularity-contest installed for all the architectures, and that this do not skew the result significantly for any of the architecture. I'd be prepared to believe *some* bias

Re: New Naming Convention

2006-07-25 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 19:22, Jeremy Herndon wrote: We have used 10 toy stoy names over a period of 10 years. That is a good round number and would be a logical place to start anew. Logical? Hmm, well, as far as I know logic has something to do with causes and effects, which I can't see

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 00:13, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can we get greylisting now? We have it, duh. Have you not been paying attention? We don't have it yet. Have you not been paying

Greylisting: discussion should stop here, for now (Re: greylisting on debian.org?)

2006-07-18 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Apart from the fact that the opinions seem to be set (and haven't really changed since the last time the discussion came up IIRC, so we really can stop arguing - nothing new for quite some time...): am I correct in my observation that nobody who has participated in this discussion up to now is

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-17 Thread Adrian von Bidder
[sending systems that don't deal with greylisting] On Monday 17 July 2006 17:36, Magnus Holmgren wrote: [...] Also, this kind of information can be shared so that not every mail admin has to find it out himself by users complaining. Some data points: * the default greylist shipped by

NFSv4

2006-07-17 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 17 July 2006 17:00, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:18:41PM +, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: There was a new request for another approved release goal, that is NFS v4 support. We approved that goal. AFAICS, that goal has been completed for a while. Small

Accepted postgrey 1.27-1 (source all)

2006-07-17 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:17:34 +0200 Source: postgrey Binary: postgrey Architecture: source all Version: 1.27-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 09 July 2006 15:48, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: [greylisting] The point was about mailers sending mail to debian. If they receive a 4xx they have to queue the mail and retry later. It's cheap for debian, but expensive for everyone else. Does anybody have sensible numbers about

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 10 July 2006 02:17, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:02:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Another problem is with hosts that do not accept a message from an MTA unless that MTA is willing to accept replies. This is a common spam prevention measure. It

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 10 July 2006 06:58, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Doing sender verification and graylisting are both violations of the RFCs. Which rfcs and where, exactly? Specific filename, version and line numbers, as Kimball would say it. AFAICT, the protocol allows the receiving end to

Accepted postgrey 1.25-1 (source all)

2006-07-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 21:46:42 +0200 Source: postgrey Binary: postgrey Architecture: source all Version: 1.25-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL

Re: Bug#376521: ITP: kwlan -- wpasupplicant frontend for KDE

2006-07-09 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 03 July 2006 17:16, Fathi Boudra wrote: Hi Reinhard, Perhaps you are interested in joining the pkg-wpa team on alioth [1]? [...] There's many K wireless tools but none really perfect maybe we can cooperate to have only one good tool nicely integrated with wpa_supplicant. Yodel!

Re: Bug#359073: Net/RBLClient.pm (postgreyreport)

2006-07-09 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:51, Adrian von Bidder wrote: ^ [... package doesn't exist, perhaps somebody on [EMAIL PROTECTED] has time to do the package? ... ] On Sunday 09 July 2006 22:17, you wrote: ^ Done. Now that is what I call response

Re: some Debian Apache Maintainer here ?

2006-06-18 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:51, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: [...] Without knowing or having asked Adam, this seems like help might be welcome. Useful patches and comments are always welcome. Threats of NMUs and similar aren't. Tollef, you realise that neither me nor Marc (who has started this

Re: some Debian Apache Maintainer here ?

2006-06-17 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:06, Marc Chantreux wrote: Is there a way to help/join/have news from the apache team ? Have you tried contacting the apache maintainers directly? (I'd cc such mails to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, just for the record) The changelog.Debian.gz of apache2 and apache

Re: egroupware upgrade drops several applications -- suggestions?

2006-06-17 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 16 June 2006 13:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote: The upgrade to the new egroupware upstream drops several applications [...] On the other hand, if a sarge-etch upgrade potentially throws away a bunch of functionality and data, users won't be happy. What to do? Rename the package,

Re: some Debian Apache Maintainer here ?

2006-06-15 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Marc cc:ed, not sure if you're on the list. On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:06, Marc Chantreux wrote: I've posted a patch to fix #350119, #342008, #350119 139 days ago and have no news about it. I tried to contact the apache team to know if i was able to help but i have no news. There is the

Re: debian/ search

2006-06-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 05 June 2006 18:18, Eto Yasuo wrote: hi I just a thought search debian/ include package. I'd try the idea out, use gonzui. http://debian-src.devel.jp Nice idea. What exactly is included in the search? All source packages? All binary source packages? Debian mailing list

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-13 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:21, Daniel Schepler wrote: Le Mardi 09 Mai 2006 22:49, Bill Allombert a écrit : Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org ... libkcal2b libkdepim1a It looks like these two have circular dependencies because libkdepim depends on

Re: Bug#365087: ITP: debcheck -- Checks whether dependencies of debian packages can be satisfied

2006-04-28 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 27 April 2006 21:53, Ralf Treinen wrote: The constraint solving algorithm is complete, that is it finds a solution whenever there exists one, even for multiple disjunctive dependencies and deep package conflicts. This problem is computationally intractable in theory (that is,

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:37, you wrote: The stable version installed so easily and well I just couldn't believe it. It is now far easier to install Debian than Windows XP - yes - really. And I'm not a regular Linux user. What praise. Thank you very much! I just had to laugh out loud,

Re: Bug#362040: ITP: rt2x00 -- RT2400/2500/2570 wireless network drivers

2006-04-14 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:23, Ben Hutchings wrote: * Package name: rt2x00 This package would contain version 2 of the rt2x00 drivers that are currently distributed as separate rt2400 and rt2500 packages (and a proposed rt2570 package). Did you talk with Aurelien (maintainer of

Re: RFS: libuninameslist -- a library of Unicode annotation data

2006-04-09 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 09 April 2006 10:45, Michael Banck wrote: Hi, [libuninameslist] On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:26:15AM +0300, K?stutis Bili?nas wrote: I'd be very glad if someone of you could sponsor them for me. Thanks for your contribution to Debian, but sponsorship requests should go to

Re: problem with packaging

2006-04-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 07 April 2006 15:43, jean wrote: hi, i'm trying to create a package for sarge (it is my first experience in packet creation ), i tried to do this from an existing packet, i have decompacted the packet, i modified some things, and i re-packaged the folder. As others have said: you'd

MIA: Thomas Fasth? (was: Re: About the maintainance of monotone)

2006-04-06 Thread Adrian von Bidder
QA/MIA people: are you reading this (below)? Or Thomas - perhaps you have time to dropa a quick note yourself? cheers -- vbi On Tuesday 04 April 2006 23:46, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: Hello, I wonder if there's a way to figure out what the status of the monotone package is. The

Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog

2006-03-30 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 18:15, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 28, Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about restarting syslog (or it's equivalent) after relocating the old /dev? glibc already has infrastructure for restarting services on upgrade, maybe udev can borrow that. Harder than

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-27 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 26 March 2006 20:18, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, what would be the appropriate way to handle large and old debian changelog files. Rather arbitrarily, just feels more or less safe: cut everything from before oldstable release. Based on the assumption that oldstable - stable updates

Re: Уникальные семинары!

2006-03-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:06, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: [challenge response email systems] Would I be wrong in deciding not to make this confirmation? Easy enough: if you receive a confirmation request identifying the message far enough for you to decide that it was spam with your email

Re: We want to honestly apoligize to the whole Debian Community

2006-03-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 23 March 2006 00:56, Frans Pop wrote: Myself, I'm a KDE user currently, so why do I not propose to sync Debian's release to their release schedule? Or why not MySQL, or Apache or ...? Because I happen to know that releasing Debian involves a bit more than waiting for random

Re: freetype package

2006-03-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! No idea what this [below] is about exactly, but are you aware of the newly formed Debian fonts task-force? Mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings -- vbi On Friday 24 March 2006 19:19, Anthony Fok wrote: Will Newton wrote: This package hasn't had a maintainer upload in 12 months.

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-11 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 11 March 2006 09:10, Kevin Mark wrote: -- vbi: Kevin: [mediation] After the meeting everyone would agree to not discuss anything in public and only redress further problems by arranging another private irc session. Hmm.  I agree with you that solving these problems is

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 02 March 2006 04:46, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Package: libacme-brainfck-perl Provides: libacme-brainfuck-perl Ah, and back to the time when some words where magic and caused burn marks on the paper around the ink. I never have and probably never will see why some people find 'f*ck'

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
ObIntro: I add my thanks to all the others' On Thursday 09 March 2006 14:38, Gustavo Franco wrote: What's wrong with us ? I just read some messages with a no Martin, can we revert it?, it seems that the default reply is ok Martin, see you, thanks.. It's volunteer work, he's free to do

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 09 March 2006 18:41, Amaya wrote: ... focus on attacking Ubuntu Ah, yes, we need an enemy so we can unite against it. Old-fashioned tactics, proved to work. -- vbi /me is trying to imagine the Debian project's members trying to agree on an enemy... -- One picture is worth 128K

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:27, Kevin Mark wrote: [DPL as mediator] The DPL already could do that. The DPL probably in the past *did* step in in some cases behind the scenese. There's no reason for the technical overhead of a mediator@ email alias - there's leader, and people who trust the

Re: TrueType fonts packages maintenance team proposal

2006-02-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 20 February 2006 07:40, Christian Perrier wrote: So, I hereby propose to think about a possible TTF fonts packaging team. A comment as a pure user insofar as fonts are concerned: I don't care if what I see comes from a ttf, metafont, ps, bdf or PEX font. I just want the font to be

Re: Automatic testing of .deb's

2006-02-06 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 06 February 2006 19:53, Gustavo Franco wrote: On 2/6/06, Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ filing automatic package tests to the Debian bts ] The Ubuntu maintainer should always open bugs with the test related stuff and see if the Debian maintainer judge it's valuable or not.

Re: Bug#351470: ITP: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG

2006-02-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
this should be mentioned in the description. (And I'm just wondering: does it handle both PGP/MIME signed + encrypted as separate layers, S/MIME style, and also as signed+encrypted OpenPGP blob in one multipart/encrypted container?) cheers -- vbi -- pub 1024D/92082481 2002-02-22 Adrian von Bidder

Re: Bug#351470: ITP: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG

2006-02-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 05 February 2006 03:58, gregor herrmann wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libmail-gnupg-perl GnuPG::Interface can process or create PGP signed or encrypted email. Oh, and: either it's Mail::GnuPG here or the

Re: For those who care about debian-devel-announce

2006-01-18 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:07, Martin Schulze wrote: Posting permissions to debian-devel-announce revoked after making a point. [public announcmement of the above on d-d-a] Thank you very much. Very well written. -- vbi -- The early bird gets the coffee left over from the night

Accepted postgrey 1.24-1 (source all)

2006-01-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:17:19 +0100 Source: postgrey Binary: postgrey Architecture: source all Version: 1.24-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL

Andrew Suffield

2006-01-15 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Do you think your constant bitching is funny? Do you think it achieves anything? There are other DDs who are also involved in intense debates and flamewars very often, but you're the only one where I constantly get the impression that you're just being childish, insulting and annoying for

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-15 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 15 January 2006 10:27, Sami Haahtinen wrote: What do you want? Bugs filed in Debian's bts, with the patches attached and the rationale why this patch is done. Just like many DD work with upstream, by pushing non-Debian changes back actively, and not just saying 'all are changes are

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-15 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 14 January 2006 18:16, Mike Bird wrote: There was nothing offensive about Andrew's message. Context. This debate is not at all about the content of Andrew's message. Somebody tried to increase the cooperation between Debian and Ubunut in a well-meant effort (personally, while I

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-15 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 15 January 2006 09:31, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:44:06 +0100, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sunday 15 January 2006 00:47, Adam Heath wrote: In fact, both of the last 2 emails to d-d-a go against the AUP. Procedures should be started to punish the

Re: Apology for MIA, Retiring, RFA: x-symbol, xmix, oneko

2006-01-15 Thread Adrian von Bidder
[ retiring ] Just in case you missed that part: if you want your account to be closed etc, please inform the keyring maintainer as per http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-developer-duties.en.html#s3.7 (and with a gpg-signed email, bug on dev-reference being filed.) cheers --

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-13 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 13 January 2006 16:53, you wrote: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From a graph algorithm point of view, if I'm not very mistaken, dependencies being guaranteed to be a directed graph instead of a generic graph should allow some simplifications/efficiency improvements

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-11 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 09 January 2006 19:20, Bill Allombert wrote: Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by maintainers. Just wondering why this wasn't mentioned yet: aren't circular dependencies causing more work for RM's, too, because the testing migration script can't

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:44, Miles Bader wrote: Juergen Salk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, mined, ne, nedit and zed. Emacs, vim and many others do not belong to

Re: Request for Replacement Packager for Ampache

2006-01-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 06 January 2006 19.47, Karl Vollmer wrote: Hello All, I apologize if this is the incorrect list to use for this purpose, however a few months back I posted an ITP as I thought I would actually have time to package up Ampache (http://www.ampache.org) However that hasn't happened.

Re: ITP vexim2

2006-01-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Daniel: is there anybody - preferred German speakers - who is willing and able to package this OR to give assistance to me (i would try packaging when there is somone helping me)??? Hi Daniel! An 'ITP' is supposed to be filed in the Debian bug tracking system. Best just use the 'reportbug'

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 00.43, Brian Nelson wrote: Why don't we use RHEL's kernel, or collaborate with them to maintain a stable kernel tree, or something? The real nice thing would be a central mailing list where all kernel development were coordinated. Perhaps some sort of

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 09.53, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Better to use a tested and stable kernel in stable whenever it is released rather than trying to synch to current kernels sometime too close to release time just for the sake of releasing a semi-current kernel. Well sarge's

Re: Maintaining a debian package

2006-01-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 22.59, Andi Drebes wrote: Hi there! [...] As I'm using debian and like it pretty much, I'd like to add it to the list of packages that debian oficially provides. The first problem is, that I don't know how to create debian-packages. Start here:

Re: ITP

2006-01-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 05 January 2006 00.29, campanoni simone wrote: ~ - i'd like to try to mantain the wss packet (to learn to mantein a debian packet) Start here: http://www.debian.org/devel/ Especially at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ Then, for all the details, there is

Re: udev event completion order

2006-01-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 02 January 2006 14.48, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:29:16PM +, Darren Salt wrote: I'd call that broken, just as I consider udev (076) to be broken given that it breaks expectations wrt device naming. (Here, it swapped the names of the DVD drives (drivers are

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 02 January 2006 16.21, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: [...] I could support or maintain some packages if I could be teached once, and if the mentoring process to get ownership of one package wouldn't be a pain. I once wanted to make a package for the ieee80211 stack or another small

Re: ITK: debmake

2006-01-01 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 31 December 2005 18.48, Osamu Aoki wrote: [debmake] As I see in debian-reference: --- A.3.2 debmake [...] However, it's not a bug to use debmake. --- I should remove last sentence from all translations. Or just drop mention of debmake alltogether? The description of the

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

2005-12-30 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 30 December 2005 01.19, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 05:55:03PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 14.45, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: Would it not be enough for apt if d-i created an fstab that linked /dev/hdX - /media/cdrom ? Won't

Re: ITK: debmake

2005-12-30 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 30 December 2005 03.18, Anthony Towns wrote: Santiago: As a realistic goal, I estimate that etch will be the last release containing debmake, but of course, I would be deligthed to see it happen sooner. It would be pretty lame if we couldn't do this in less than a year... I

Re: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

2005-12-29 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi Milan, Jon, As discussed, 'the Debian project' as such has huge difficulties accepting hardware donations - offers are often turned down. (tangent - in my opinion donations should be accepted more liberally and if the Debian administrators can not be bothered to administer yet another

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

2005-12-29 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 29 December 2005 14.45, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: Would it not be enough for apt if d-i created an fstab that linked /dev/hdX - /media/cdrom ? Won't work because the problem at hand is exactly that /dev/hdX won't necessarily be stable anymore. (and, once more, and much worse:

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 22 December 2005 09.38, Andrew Suffield wrote: On the other hand, I think there might be some benefit to requiring that the Maintainer field must always denote one single Debian developer, who would be the buck stops here guy for that package. Not an applicant, not a mailing list,

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Thomas, sorry for continuing the debate still on this single aspect of Lars' mail :-) On Thursday 22 December 2005 10.02, Thomas Hood wrote: C) Fix bugs that have been reported For C, Lars discussed different degrees of shift from solitary toward collective maintainership. In the sequel

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 22 December 2005 10.55, Frank Küster wrote: - how many bugs does a package have - how many have not been dealt with for n months (or days/weeks for RC bugs) Changing the default ordering on the bts web pages from bug age to 'last action age' might already show some effect.

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
[lots of snippage] I fear I don't see your point - and I feel you don't see mine. Here's why I feel *forced* comaintainership is not a solution: Maintainers divide in (i) those who already work in teams on their packages (ii) those who don't. Ignore (i). (ii) divides in (a) those who do a

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 23 December 2005 01.40, Linas Zvirblis wrote: Thomas Hood wrote: No-login mode at boot until boot complete: DELAYLOGIN=yes No-login mode never: rm -f /var/lib/initscripts/nologin ; DELAYLOGIN=no No-login mode always: touch /var/lib/initscripts/nologin ;

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12.23, Thomas Hood wrote: I don't think that it is ridiculous to require that every package have a team behind it---i.e., at least two maintainers. First, if someone can't find ONE other person willing to be named as a co-maintainer of a given package then I

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 19.24, Russ Allbery wrote: [mandatory comaintainers] I think that the energy used to define these sorts of procedures is probably better used finding a package with a large bug count and volunteering to work with the maintainer to try to get the bug count down.

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 20.10, Thomas Hood wrote: It turns out that there is no need for them to be hurt at all.  Lone can carry on working as before and find a co-maintainer who won't get in his way.  But when Lone falls off his horse he'll be glad that Tonto is nearby.   Except that

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 18.32, David Nusinow wrote: [teams like gnome, kde, d-i, kernel, ...] It's pretty simple to found such a team too. All it takes is some interested people and an alioth project. And here you say the most important thing: it takes *interested* people. People

Re: I got a new address!

2005-12-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10.33, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:05 -0500, Joey DePeter wrote: Hey, can you send me dueling banjos sheet music for the viola, I met someone and they play the viola and they love it. Regards, Martin This really looks like it's a

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 17 December 2005 09.30, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 17, Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is currently very likely that systems with two network interfaces will end up with both switched on the installed system after the reboot. This is of course a blocker. This

Re: Removing gtksee package

2005-12-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 12 December 2005 14.48, Nico Golde wrote: So what do you think should I request a removal or wait for an adopter? Upstream dead, a few annoying bugs, replacements available in Debian. I think quite a clear case. Since it still works, I would not do the wrapper thing Goswin

Re: AgSync

2005-12-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 16 December 2005 16.49, Robin wrote: Is AgSync still being actively developed for Debian ? I have searched for info and this is the only place I have seem an info for AgSync... Looking at the changelog of the Debian package

Re: Unstable status

2005-12-14 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 23.31, Kai Hendry wrote: http://natalian.org/archives/2005/12/14/unstable-is-just-that/ Well, the topic of #debian-devel is quite a standard place to look for up to the minute information - and is a place developers actually update as they fix things or notice

New postgrey Debian package uploaded - please test

2005-12-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi, (postgrey mailing list: this is totally irrelevant if you're not using Debian.) I've just uploaded a new version of the postgrey Debian package - 1.23-2 (really *just* uploaded it. You can get it from http://fortytwo.ch/debian/postgrey until it appears in unstable.) postgrey 1.23 has

Accepted postgrey 1.23-2 (source all)

2005-12-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:22:00 +0100 Source: postgrey Binary: postgrey Architecture: source all Version: 1.23-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL

Accepted latex-svninfo 0.4-1 (source all)

2005-12-06 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:49:14 +0100 Source: latex-svninfo Binary: latex-svninfo Architecture: source all Version: 0.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder

Re: Announcement: Common Power-Management Framework

2005-12-03 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 02 December 2005 14.13, Kevin Locke wrote: Would it be better to spend our time adding features to the Gnome Power Manager and equivalents instead of creating a separate program? The problem here is the *Gnome and equivalents*. IMHO any work spent to extend the functionality of the

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 01 December 2005 15.32, Manoj Srivastava wrote: +   - If the author indicates he does not wish to be associated with a +     post, any identifying information is redacted from that post, +     and any quotes in subsequent posts, but the rest of the material +     is published.

Accepted rapple 1.0-1 (source i386)

2005-11-27 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:04:53 +0100 Source: rapple Binary: rapple Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted postgrey 1.23-1 (source all)

2005-11-25 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:20:49 +0100 Source: postgrey Binary: postgrey Architecture: source all Version: 1.23-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL

Accepted rapple 0.99cvs20051120-1 (source i386)

2005-11-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:28:26 +0100 Source: rapple Binary: rapple Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.99cvs20051120-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder

Accepted postgrey 1.22-1 (source all)

2005-11-12 Thread Adrian von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:38:42 +0100 Source: postgrey Binary: postgrey Architecture: source all Version: 1.22-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL

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