Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-22 Thread Ben Collins
I don't know why you're asking me; I've already said that I would consider this configuration acceptable for a release architecture, but that I wouldn't recommend it to the Sparc porters. What do you mean wouldn't recommend it to the sparc porters? And what does your recommendation count for

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-21 Thread Ben Collins
It's also not something that would totally destroy an architecture's ability to release. Yes, it would be bad, but not the end of the world. On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 02:36:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think they are designed too stringently

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-21 Thread Ben Collins
For sparc, a second buildd was brought on-line on auric this year because (IIRC) vore was not keeping up with the upload volume at the time; this required effort on DSA's part to clear enough disk space to be able to run a buildd, until which time sparc was holding some RC bugfixes out of

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-20 Thread Ben Collins
handle these kinds of things? On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:31:14AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Ben, On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:32:37PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:11:39PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The requirement

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-20 Thread Ben Collins
recall some (m68k) having problems simply because of lack of processing power. The guidelines are aimed at the wrong thing is my point. On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:23:58PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why does everyone have a sudden interest

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
Vore isn't down. On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:54:18AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050317 03:25]: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:31:19PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:44:49PM -0800, Blars

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
Read my previous replies. On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:01:07AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050317 10:54]: Ah, so why is vore down now for some time now? If it's so easy to that should read as auric of course. Cheers, Andi --

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:44:49PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I have an e3500 to replace both auric and vore (and the raid), but I haven't gotten an ok from James to do so yet. That would cut the number of sparc buildds down to one, when two are

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:31:19PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:44:49PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I have an e3500 to replace both auric and vore (and the raid), but I

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:11:39PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The requirement sucks, lets leave it at that. If the machine dies, I can have two to replace it within a day or two. The point being, there's no reason to have two seperate

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Collins
herrings, and just get back to work. Sparc has always been and always will be a maintained architecture. On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:17:42PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I can guarantee that it never dies. The hardrives are raid 5 configuration

Accepted silo 1.4.9-1 (sparc source)

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:06:46 -0500 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.4.9-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
As I understand it, the plan was to convert auric into a buildd but the RAID needs to be fixed. Ben Collins was looking into this but I don't know about the status. I've also heard discussions several months ago about using one of Ben's really fast machines. This is based on what I've

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:04:42AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: * Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Also, this will make two ultrasparc machines available for some of our new sparc developers. I can't pay to ship them, but if Debian foots the bill, I'll get them to the right ppl. I'd

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:10:49PM +, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: * Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 11:04]: Also, this will make two ultrasparc machines available for some of our new sparc developers. I can't pay to ship them, but if Debian foots the

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:17:54AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: * Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 11:04]: Also, this will make two ultrasparc machines available for some of our new sparc developers. I

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:20:07AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We can move services to supported architectures, but there is of course one major problem: DSA is only willing to host stable .d.o boxes but if many architectures don't have

Accepted silo 1.4.8-1 (sparc source)

2004-07-14 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:35:40 -0400 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.4.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted silo 1.4.6-1 (sparc source)

2004-06-20 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:11:48 -0400 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.4.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted silo 1.4.5-1 (sparc source)

2004-05-13 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:58:53 -0400 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.4.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted silo-installer 0.0.1 (sparc source)

2004-02-26 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:23:18 -0500 Source: silo-installer Binary: silo-installer Architecture: source sparc Version: 0.0.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL

Accepted sxid 4.0.5 (sparc source)

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:12:46 -0500 Source: sxid Binary: sxid Architecture: source sparc Version: 4.0.5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted kernel-image-sparc-2.4 35 (sparc source)

2004-02-03 Thread Ben Collins
Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc32 - Linux kernel binary image for sun4c, sun4m and sun4d. kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc32-smp - Linux kernel binary image for SMP sun4m

Accepted silo 1.4.4-1 (sparc source)

2004-01-30 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:18:24 -0500 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.4.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted silo 1.4.1-2 (sparc source)

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:31:04 -0500 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.4.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted silo 1.4.2-1 (sparc source)

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:34:01 -0500 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.4.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted silo 1.4.3-1 (sparc source)

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:09:59 -0500 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.4.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted silo 1.4.1-1 (sparc source)

2004-01-28 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:24:28 -0500 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.4.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted silo 1.3.2-1 (sparc source)

2003-12-29 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:13:53 -0500 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.3.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Re: kernel-patch-acl

2003-12-04 Thread Ben Collins
This problem has already bitten several skilled Debian developers at various times. Given the problems that are caused for such skilled people as a result of this I hate to imagine the consequences for typical users! But typical users wont be building custom kernels with ACL patches, will

Accepted sparc-utils 1.9-2.2 (sparc source)

2003-11-13 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:51:36 -0500 Source: sparc-utils Binary: sparc-utils Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.9-2.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL

Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:42:22PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: Hello. Could someone tell me which package uses jam instead make for building? I am trying to package netpanzer and it uses jam... I'd like to see any examples how to connect debian/rules with jam. I hope there are

Re: perm of etc/zorp/ is 0700

2003-10-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:51:14PM +0200, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote: Hi! I am asking your advice per policy section 10.9. [*] /etc/zorp is mode 0700 in upstream. In a typical setup, almost every single file under this directory contains sensitive information: firewall rules, cryptographic

Re: chroot on debian hosts?

2003-10-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:20:15PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: (I thought I sent this, but now I cannot find it to be sure.) I'd like to build against sid on a machine (ia64) I don't own but which Debian does have available. I tried the recipe from the developer's manual using fakeroot. It

Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:25, Daniel Ruoso wrote: I think this should be clearly discussed. Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that the rant you quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural. Thanks, you saved me from reading

Re: libssl0.9.7 restarts services after security update

2003-10-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:29:38PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote: Hi folks, as of the latest update of libssl0.9.7 the postinst is able to restart certain services which use the ssl or crypto library, so that they don't use the faulty libraries any longer. I used part of the code from

Re: libssl0.9.7 restarts services after security update

2003-10-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:29:38PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote: Hi folks, as of the latest update of libssl0.9.7 the postinst is able to restart certain services which use the ssl or crypto library, so that they don't use the faulty libraries any longer. I used part of the code from

Accepted silo 1.3.1-2 (sparc source)

2003-09-29 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:48:07 -0400 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.3.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted libraw1394 0.10.1-1 (sparc source)

2003-09-26 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:33:52 -0400 Source: libraw1394 Binary: libraw1394-5 libraw1394-dev Architecture: source sparc Version: 0.10.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins

Re: Latest gcc-3.3 and kernel compilation

2003-08-21 Thread Ben Collins
__u8 short slot_tablelen; Isn't it just a plain error? Either it's a char, or it's a short. It can't be both, right? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/

Accepted kernel-image-sparc-2.4 33 (sparc source all)

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Collins
: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ide-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb - IDE drivers (udeb) ieee1394-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb - IEEE1394 drivers (udeb) kernel-headers-2.4.21-sparc - Kernel header files for all sparc sub architectures

Accepted silo 1.3.1-1 (sparc source)

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:59:38 -0400 Source: silo Binary: silo Architecture: source sparc Version: 1.3.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted sxid 4.0.4 (sparc source)

2003-08-12 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:36:16 -0400 Source: sxid Binary: sxid Architecture: source sparc Version: 4.0.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted kernel-image-sparc-2.4 32 (sparc source all)

2003-07-28 Thread Ben Collins
: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ide-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb - IDE drivers (udeb) ieee1394-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb - IEEE1394 drivers (udeb) kernel-headers-2.4.21-sparc - Kernel header files for all sparc sub architectures

Accepted libraw1394 0.10.0-1 (sparc source)

2003-07-12 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:39:39 -0400 Source: libraw1394 Binary: libraw1394-5 libraw1394-dev Architecture: source sparc Version: 0.10.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins

Re: Package signatures tools

2003-07-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:47:10PM +0200, J?rgen A.Erhard wrote: I'm releasing these things now... have them in development and use for a couple weeks/months now. A Python module for doing debsigs-type package signatures and verification thereof. Uses and included module for GnuPG file

Re: Package signatures tools

2003-07-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:47:10PM +0200, J?rgen A.Erhard wrote: I'm releasing these things now... have them in development and use for a couple weeks/months now. A Python module for doing debsigs-type package signatures and verification thereof. Uses and included module for GnuPG file

Re: gcc on a biarch system

2003-07-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:44:31PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: On amd64, we currently have a biarch-gcc that builds 32bit binaries by default, and 64bit ones with a -m64 option. Coding debian/rules for this is pretty trivial but still requires some ugly architecture specific hacks in each

Accepted kernel-image-sparc-2.4 30 (sparc source all)

2003-06-18 Thread Ben Collins
: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ide-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb - IDE drivers (udeb) ieee1394-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb - IEEE1394 drivers (udeb) kernel-headers-2.4.21-sparc - Kernel header files for all sparc sub architectures

Accepted kernel-image-sparc-2.4 31 (sparc source all)

2003-06-18 Thread Ben Collins
: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ide-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb - IDE drivers (udeb) ieee1394-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb - IEEE1394 drivers (udeb) kernel-headers-2.4.21-sparc - Kernel header files for all sparc sub architectures

Accepted kernel-image-sparc-2.4 29 (sparc source all)

2003-06-06 Thread Ben Collins
-smp kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc32 ieee1394-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb kernel-headers-2.4.21-sparc kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 ppp-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb Architecture: source sparc all Version: 29 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted gcc-defaults 1.7 (sparc source)

2003-06-05 Thread Ben Collins
] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: chill - The GNU CHILL compiler. cpp- The GNU C preprocessor. g++- The GNU C++ compiler. g77- The GNU Fortran 77 compiler. gcc- The GNU C compiler. gcj- The GNU Java compiler. gij- The GNU

Accepted kernel-image-sparc-2.4 28 (sparc source all)

2003-06-05 Thread Ben Collins
kernel-headers-2.4.21-sparc kernel-image-2.4.21-sun4u-smp Architecture: source sparc all Version: 28 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ieee1394-modules-2.4.21-sparc64-udeb - IDE drivers (udeb

Accepted gcc-3.2 1:3.2.3ds9-4 (sparc source all)

2003-06-05 Thread Ben Collins
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: cpp-3.2- The GNU C preprocessor cpp-3.2-doc - Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor (cpp) g++-3.2- The GNU C++ compiler g77-3.2- The GNU Fortran 77 compiler g77-3.2-doc

Re: appropriate use of /etc/alternatives

2003-05-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 02:29:42PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: I intend to package the xplot utility from xplot.org. This tool is useful with the tcptrace package, which I maintain. However, there's already an xplot package that installs /usr/bin/xplot. It's not compatible with xplot.org,

Re: Cross-compiler for sparc64

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:17:05PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Hi to all! Kernel 2.6 is to be released soon (hopefully), thus I tried to compile 2.5.69 on sparc64 recently. For those not knowing this arch: kernel is 64 bit, userland is 32 bit, thus you need a cross-compiler with host sparc32

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 11:25:03PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: On Sat, 24 May 2003 22:15, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Because in Debian there is a few people with high load in debian, and many with less load. People with high load are more likely to burn out and disappear. It is thus

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:53:05PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I just ran some stats on my APT sources (mostly Woody), and discovered that the distribution of number of packages per developer is very uneven. This is the histogram of developers with the specific number of packages they

Re: alioth.debian.org down

2003-05-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:23:51AM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: En r?ponse ? Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alioth seems to be down, pings seems to stop at gatekeeper.terena.nl ... Was this expected? Yes, and no. No, because it is a connection failure. Yes, because the

Re: Executable /lib/ld-linux.so breaks noexec

2003-05-20 Thread Ben Collins
That behavior always struck me as fairly evil -- it's never fun when one single bit flip can take down a system, and I'd like to see the number of bits that can do so be as small as possible. Now that you point out the actual code I wish we could do away with that check. Does it really buy

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-18 Thread Ben Collins
What are other developers' feelings on the matter these days? If we're doing let's have a conf where we normally don't how about we have it on the US's east coast aswell. I'd personally argue for the nothern Virginia are myself. Too many conferences are held on the US's West coast, and if

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Ben Collins
== PROPOSAL __ Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying:

Re: Debian MIA check

2003-05-13 Thread Ben Collins
On the 12th March I sent out a maintainer ping to 191 possibly inactive Debian developers. The list of developers was generated by looking first at all maintainers who didn't have a source package signed by (one of) their key(s) in unstable and then excluding from that anyone who had been

Re: i386 compatibility libstdc++

2003-04-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:13:08PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On pe, 2003-04-25 at 11:09, Martin v. L?wis wrote: They just don't support i386 anymore. http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/i386/system_requirements.html http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 08:07:03PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: Please explain your reasons for removing the credits and attributions from the reiserfs utilities in violation of our copyright. You'll note that ReiserFS anticipated the GNU GPL V3 by including clauses that forbid removal of

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Ben Collins
all that was removed was *code* that gets compiled. If the maintainer cannot arbitrarily change any code he wants, then it is not clear that the program is DFSG-free. Amen. Making part of the code immutable is not what I call free software. What if I want to use parts of the code and I

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 08:24:21PM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote: Now I hope you stop with your trolling and consider speaking respectfully to us. I am pretty sure that if you emailed the maintainer of the package and pointed out the facts to him, he would revert the change. Dude, You

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 11:13:59PM +0200, Anders Widman wrote: all that was removed was *code* that gets compiled. If the maintainer cannot arbitrarily change any code he wants, then it is not clear that the program is DFSG-free. Amen. Making part of the code immutable is not what I

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-08 Thread Ben Collins
1/ we don't want to have to know the technical details of how to get to the step4/ above (in the given table above). 2/we want one of the following:- A/ to be able to insert a floppy disk into our a drive , turn on the computer, the computer

Re: bug#152736 X doesn't start due to no cursor font!

2002-08-19 Thread Ben Collins
But I do have a cursor font, even though I don't have xfonts-gimpers 1.8 installed (it refuses to install anyway). But I do have xfonts-artwiz installed. I purged xfonts-gimpers from my system and now X has a brain tumor. This is a critical bug and should have been fixed by now. apt-get

Re: Are libtool .la files in non-dev library packages bugs?

2002-08-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 01:50:22AM +0200, Luca Barbieri wrote: According to Junichi's manual they should be in -dev packages (that makes sense, since they are only used by libtool builds). Yes, it's a bug. Consider that the .la file is usually without soname (e.g. libfoo.la) it will clash when

Re: Are libtool .la files in non-dev library packages bugs?

2002-08-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 07:29:23PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ben Collins wrote: Not only that, it's only useful for linking, so has no reason being in the primary runtime. ltdl needs them at runtime. Then ltdl is broken. How does one install libfoo.so.1 and libfoo.so

Re: Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody

2002-04-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:01:06AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: A couple of people on a recent thread in debian-devel linked to a message I recently posted on Slashdot on this subject. I had thought about posting this information to Debian's lists as well, but at the time, didn't see a

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:14:51AM +0300, Lasse Karkkainen wrote: Hi! (it's my first post here) Fucking idiot. Yes, I can say that now. I'll only be DPL for another ~20 hours. Here, let me say it again. Fucking idiot. Man that felt good. Ben (not the DPL for much longer) Collins --

Re: Faster Release Cycle = More Up to date Packages...

2002-04-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:44:36PM +0200, Rune B. Broberg wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:13:49PM +0200, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: Thank you Joey for being so obliging to a constructive proposal, and thank you for your polite way of replying to my proposal. Do you think you could

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:27:04PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: This problem is very common for non-free software. ... which really doesn't seem all that relevant apart from sounding good; hell, the change in nice()'s return value appears to be a

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:43:32PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ben Collins wrote: ...to bring in other fixes that aren't so easy to seperate from smaller ones. Lose the tone, it wont get you what you want. Nice is being fixed. I've said this in several of the bug

Re: xfree86 unbuildable on ppc

2002-04-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:22:00AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: It's because of this that I continue to feel that kernel interfaces are best defined by the kernel. If the kernel headers aren't an interface, why do they exist? There appears to be a very large philosophical gulf here.

Re: xfree86 unbuildable on ppc

2002-04-03 Thread Ben Collins
What we really should have is a nice low-level C library that encapsulates such things and lets anyone use it... All we really need is a master ioctl header that defines the numbers. It would be Debian specific, but what the hell. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 -

Re: ccache for the autobuilders?

2002-04-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:17:45AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 23:17, Ben Collins wrote: Looking at my testing PPC box with grep-available, we have only about 8GB total Installed-Size. glibc packages total installed size is only a few dozen megs. However

Re: ccache for the autobuilders?

2002-04-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:30:03PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: That's all of three 100GB IDE disks running in RAID 0. Four disks if for some reason you want redundancy on your cache. Surely you don't presume that a) All of our autobuilders have enough bays for 3 IDE disks and b)

Re: ccache for the autobuilders?

2002-04-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:48:49AM +0200, Paul Russell wrote: On Monday 01 April 2002 18:23, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: The same package: almost never the same file: often, with every new compile. Just take into account that a

Re: Build problem on sparc [ogle, assembler error]

2002-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
in Debian packages! IOW, remove the -mcpu=ultrasparc line. It is not fully supported in gcc, and not to mention that if it did work, it would break the package on sparc32 platforms. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins

Re: mindi fails on Linux Debian system

2002-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
is that it creates a rootfs (I believe) and copies /sbin/lilo blindly to the new rootfs. Thus, you just have a broken shell script. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL

Re: 232432-B22

2002-01-13 Thread Ben Collins
. When can we expect shipment? -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Bug#126441: [security] What's being done?

2002-01-12 Thread Ben Collins
Ben is merely behind with updating the BTS, by the looks of it... Can't close it till I fix woody/sid too. Which will be when 2.2.5 is released (days). -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

2002-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
on it. That's the whole reason for having them there. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

2002-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:15:07PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:05:02PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: binary of the newest package of each build dep available in unstable before building the package. If that is not the case I would have to depend on at least

Re: Bug#122342: directory-administrator: Not installable

2002-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
doubt that everything in 2.0.18's API works with 2.0.14. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Call for translation for locales package

2002-01-07 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:01:25AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:49:33PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:57:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But quake2-engine does not depend on anything

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:32:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that's rediculous. Education is not a smokescreen, and you can't argue that there will never be free data available for quake2 (or know for sure that there isn't already

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:45:14PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:42:45AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: But you do agree that it requires having *some* data, no matter what game it's for? Which means having a Depends: quake2-data? And if you wish to argue

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:50:00PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that's rediculous. Education is not a smokescreen, and you can't argue that there will never be free data available for quake2 (or know for sure that there isn't already

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 12:22:27AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I'm going to upload libgaming. Nothing yet has been created for it, but it is possible. Should I upload it to contrib? Can you give me an example of *anything* you think

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
for it (else we'll have to start judging script interpreters and libraries the same way). Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 04:08:30PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 12:22:27AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I'm going to upload libgaming. Nothing yet has been

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:57:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But quake2-engine does not depend on anything to fulfill it's purpose. It is a gaming engine, not a game. This is the same logic that applies to libraries and interpreters. Huh

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 07:56:26PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The purpose of the sources released is a gaming engine. They did not release quale2 the game, which is what the data files consist of. Notice that lots of games from Id are based

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 08:08:56PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Second, your example seems totally fabricated. If there were a plausible enterprise--ANYONE--who was seriously planning on using this engine to make free levels that don't

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