On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:06:41PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
I'm interested in writing the How Software Producers can distribute
their products directly in .deb format manual, as listed on
http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals. I thought to write the
following, more or less:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:37:53PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
Because $host is not initialized. I wonder where it should come from.
IIRC, it was set in the script.
It must have gone down the drain when I removed another chunk of code that
relied on the hostname without any need.
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:49:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
I started to make the changelog and copyright file of the Debian
packages online available at:
http://changelogs.credativ.org/
We should be able to start using the lintian lab on gluck for this again
now that lintian is
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:51:03AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
It is a bad practice to repeat the package name as the first word in the
long description.
Actually it's bad in the short description, not necessarily in the long one.
Also the URL does not belong into the description but
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:04:40AM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl may fail to
understand that GPL is only mentioned in the copyright notice, and is not
the type of the license
Ehm. If GPL isn't used, don't mention it. How much
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:59:31AM +, James Troup wrote:
copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl may fail to
understand that GPL is only mentioned in the copyright notice, and is not
the type of the license
Ehm. If GPL isn't used, don't mention it. How much simpler
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:23:33PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
One question I have is why DDTP does not use webwml. This is now part
of the Debian project (as it's under ddtp.debian.org), but it's
completely incoherent with Debian www style, and it also is the part
of the
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:47:52AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
But I use the website. Here's a questions. Go to eh redhat site and
see if you can figure out where to get a complete RedHat CD downloaded
from the net?
Uhm, should that have been a statement pro or contra to our page? I
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:09:42AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
Or else include a precompiled version of the docs into your diff
file.
Hm, I don't think I like this. The gif images aren't the preferred form
of modification. Would we accept it if someone had a program written in
a
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:55:50PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
Hm, I don't think I like this. The gif images aren't the preferred form
of modification. Would we accept it if someone had a program written in
a language which only had a non-free compiler, then uploaded source
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:19:47PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I just noticed that 'heyu' is non-free, at least according to bug #149128.
Shouldn't this bug be upgraded to serious, at least?
What are you waiting for? :)
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On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:58:56PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
I'm with Joey on this; last time I tried to find Debian .iso images, it
was a nightmare. In fact I couldn't find an official woody iso anywhere.
This is the way of mirror operators to tell you that you should really
use jigdo
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:13:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Maybe the one in Austria, because it's the top of that list of mirrors.
(I thought it would be clear that Austria is at the top because the list is
sorted alphabetically... I am aware of the problem with people who click the
first link
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 09:41:23PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
(I thought it would be clear that Austria is at the top because the list is
sorted alphabetically...
...in English. The list is still sorted with Austria first in all the
other pages, even when it makes little or no sense at
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:23:23PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
Joy (or any of the rest of the www team) - where do you get the data
to put into the mirror pages on www.d.o?
Well, we get it from the Internet :) Please rephrase the question, I don't
understand.
I'd suggest that a simple method
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:20:10AM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
Joy (or any of the rest of the www team) - where do you get the data
to put into the mirror pages on www.d.o?
Well, we get it from the Internet :) Please rephrase the question, I don't
understand.
Well, do the admins
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:44:17AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote:
- Another idea I had was something along the lines of Debsmith or
Iansmith, to keep both the idea of Debian and the idea of the forge.
Unfortunately, plenty of people are called that way. Any idea to
improve
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:25:28PM +0100, Peter Mathiasson wrote:
And there's already a Sibelius as a commercial software project; stay
away from things that could raise trademark issues that way.
This isn't about our sourceforge fork package name, it's about the machine
name.
I
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:54:52AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
Why does Debian host the Sourceforge site? I don't see anything
between sf.net and debian.org .
You misunderstand. Debian will host _its_own_ sourforge-like
environment, for developers.
Not just for developers, for everyone
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:13:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
People report this to the web team all the time.
And every time they get a negative response, because we cannot fix something
that other people broke: the CD images distribution system. When woody was
released, the CD images were not
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:39:04PM +, Steve Kemp wrote:
I was wondering if there was a definitive list of all the setuid/setgid
binaries which may be installed from the Debian archives.
(Such a list would be very useful in prioritizing any examination of
source code).
I've
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins
(non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to
/bin/false.
Why do you want to use FTP with a system user?
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:32:47PM -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote:
Why not http://www.debian.org/devel, under Projects?
You're right! D-I is (I think?) official, and important project, and it
should have homepage in debian.org, not in something people on
people.d.o. Am I right?
So
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:23:09PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
(1) Why are you blatently insulting people on the lists??
Why are you blatanly misspelling blatant?
Best example for the difference between you and most other top
developers - stupid personal attacks when running out of
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:59:32AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Making noise about spelling errors is extremely unpolite
(with few exceptions).
Please go away, learn something about tolerancy and come back when you can
discuss sanely.
Interesting conflicting viewpoints.
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:03:06PM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote:
Binary packages (excluding those in source packages listed above):
wmmoonclock, xaw3dg-dev, xcin2.3, xdigger, xdkcal, xgraph, xsol,
I'm not sure how you gather that
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:31:03PM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote:
Binary packages (excluding those in source packages listed above):
wmmoonclock, xaw3dg-dev, xcin2.3, xdigger, xdkcal, xgraph, xsol,
I'm not sure how you
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:18:30PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
This package:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/the.html
never shows up when you search for the in
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
I assume it's because the search engine ignores common words
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On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:43:04PM -0400, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
The strict minimum is :
- create a patch for the NMU
- make the patch available to the maintainer (via direct mail or bts)
DELAYED is fine. Not submitting a bug is not fine.
I think he would have been within the guidelines
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 12:57:10PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
I agree, filing bugs and direct mails are much better than -devel-announce
posts, much less likely for one to skip by accident IMHO.
That depends on your mail-setup. IMHO it's reasonable to expect from DDs
to follow
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:25:34PM +0200, Peter Mathiasson wrote:
Therefore the NMU. When you have finally understood the problem and
solved it, either through incorporating the NMU or in your own way, you
(the maintainer) can upload a new version.
How about we start from the simple issue of
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:58:57PM +0200, Peter Mathiasson wrote:
What I'm trying to say is, does it really matter? Why not just make a
maintainer upload when you have time, be it before or after the NMU
enters the pool.
For you the NMU seems like a waste of time, but it was not a waste of
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:13:07PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:19:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
A NMU is a waste of effort if the same thing can be done by the maintainer
after just one quick email message -- primarily a waste of effort for the
NMUer who has
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 07:38:08PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
I am wondering if we aren't violating the spirit if not the letter of
LSB by using a non-standard version of install-info.
While of course the LSB says nothing about install-info, the fact that
Debian distributes a program
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:40:02PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
As it has been pointed out hundreds of times, it is GNU that distributes a
program under then name 'install-info' which is incompatible with the dpkg
version. :)
(The version in dpkg has seniority.)
It's not a matter
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 05:47:23PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
Anyway, this discussion is superfluous too, as the dpkg maintainers have
already decided to move over to the C, GNU version in the future. (See
debian-dpkg list archives for details.)
We have?
I remember you saying so yourself
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On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 06:44:24AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
Don't upload binaries at all.
The autobuilder will check the build-process of your package. It will
build in a clean chroot with proper build-depends. With proper
versions of all tools.
If you upload binaries
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:51:32PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
The autobuilder will check the build-process of your package. It will
build in a clean chroot with proper build-depends. With proper
versions of all tools.
If you upload binaries you get the usual bugs of
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 11:45:56PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
System Administration:Ryan Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Er, Phil has been one of the four admins almost everywhere, before Ryan
joined. Arguably he isn't
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:09:04PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
I looked at a Yellow Dog Linux machine and noticed, however, that they had
a texinfo 4.2 source package that builds an info package with a binary
/usr/sbin/install-info instead of the perl version we have. Why is that
and why don't
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:44:18PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
So here is the list of the new nominations:
FTP Archive Maintenance: Ryan Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You forgot Randall Donald there.
System Administration:Ryan Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:26:17PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
What amazes me here the most is that the first thing that pops into your
head as a solution is a non-maintainer upload.
My god, sometimes I really think we need to raise the bar even higher.
As long as people are only
Hi,
For the record, http://lintian.debian.org/ now has reports for the current
contents of sid, i.e. unstable.
Knock yourself out, or something. :)
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On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 03:09:52PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Since I have access to both Intel and Sparc hardware, it would be possible
for me to upload both the i386 version and the Sparc version of the binary
packages when I build a new release.
Several people do this. It's not exactly
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 12:17:01AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
Don't upload binaries at all.
The autobuilder will check the build-process of your package. It will
build in a clean chroot with proper build-depends. With proper
versions of all tools.
If you upload binaries you get the
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:34:35AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-29
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: oggasm
Upstream: Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://oggasm.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:08:53PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
Hi
I just wonder if this lintian error is still applicable?
W: harden-tools: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link
W: harden-tools: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link
No, for new distros it's not.
Or should I simply ignore it.
This is not for -devel!
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:32:40PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
It appears that Sharp Systems systematically spammed writers to the
Debian-Laptop list, which certainly is an abuse of the debian lists.
While your message seems perfectly valid per se, why are you spamming
debian-devel with it? :/
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:24:57PM +0200, Igor Genibel wrote:
I have enhanced the ddpo (http://people.debian.org/~igenibel/index.php)
following all the request you made me (especially Yann Dirson).
Now you, developers, can track all the informations about all your
packages such as:
-
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:51:11AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
Although, I have one request -- please skip the ampersand in URLs like
'build.php?pkg=foo', they are redundant and they waste bytes :)
On the same note, please add the missing / in pool URLs, to skip the
redirect and follow the spec
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 04:49:21PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
I just took a close look at the machine usage policies at
http://www.debian.org/devel/dmup
1. Section 1 says the document contains both policies and guidelines.
There is a section headed policies, but none headed guidelines. I
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:34:45AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
There was a bug filed on www.debian.org but I can't recall what happened to
it. We certainly couldn't just change it, because that's not a random web
page, it's owned by debian-admin etc.
Change it, then send it to -admin with
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:14:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
We've _finally_ got lintian running over the archive again, and it looks like
we'll have some chance of keeping it working. The URL is
http://people.debian.org/~joy/
until lintian.debian.org gets updated to point at the
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:08:19AM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
This is a problem when using make-kpkg because it can't find the
architecture. dpkg complains about i386-none not being in it's mapping
table.
By using HOSTCC=gcc make-kpkg it works fine.
kernel-package version
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:32:00PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
I'm confused by the behavior of apt-get install --reinstall. I found
out yesterday that the /etc/bind/db.root file was missing on my name
server. I was able to recover by linking to an old copy and
restarting bind9.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:49:19PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
Sounds like you want dpkg --force-confmiss.
I wouldn't expect that since the documentation states:
confmiss: Always install a missing configuration
file. This is dangerous, since it means not
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:14:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it
instead?
He filed a bug about Upstream Author(s), I fixed it, and then shaleh and
others reverted it :)
We've _finally_ got lintian running over the archive again,
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:23:29AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Rather than mass filing bugs, can you write a lintian check for it
instead?
He filed a bug about Upstream Author(s), I fixed it, and then shaleh and
others reverted it :)
I think we have better things to be nitpicky
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:42:55PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
Actually, Michel Danzer says he thinks in may be related to
100 dpi fonts. In any case, does xmms display its playlist in
sid for you? Here I get nothing although xmms doesn't crash.
I just rebuilt it against current sid and
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 05:19:38PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
Changing the font didn't help, but deleting my .xmms
directory in my account seemed to have cured it. Odd.
And there goes another opportunity to trace the bug... sigh
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:44:13PM +0100, Björn Johansson wrote:
I want to know where I can get KDE packages for my Debian system.
I'm currently running Debian2.2r5. This is quite important since
I really lack a good mail client, I miss Kmail! :(
If you upgraded your Debian system to 3.0, you
Hi,
This note is primarily meant to alleviate the concerns about woody being
released. Please read on if you care about the release.
To reiterate the main point from the April 30th mail by Anthony Towns, the
release of woody is being held back because there is no systematic way to
build packages
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:40:19PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
[debiandoc-sgml] now builds PDF and PS output in a bi-stable loop
(so various Makefiles can now be cleaned up and bug #134701 is closed).
I've no idea about code or what you mean by bi-stable, so excuse me if I'm
asking a
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:02:07AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
It's really ok at all that a preinst depends on debconf?
It's mentioned in debconf-devel(8), so ...
I think the real question is -- why does a package need to ask a question
(via debconf) in preinst? I can't imagine but a few
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:59:07PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
Some coordinated rebuild activity may be a good idea for document created
with known problematic version (1.1.59).
So far I've only heard about the broken installation documentation in
disks-* directory of the FTP archive, and seen it
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 12:19:45PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
i guess antigen didn't specify any @ in From:, and the other mta's
filled in their own name for some reason...
That's the default behavior of all MTA's I'm familiar with.
Some MTAs do indeed qualify random
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:32:59PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote:
The guide recommends to install a new kernel with:
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686}
The old kernel was handcrafted.
Okay, so this person had a nice tailored kernel done, and instead of simply
upgrading the
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:49:13AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Upstream doesn't support lesstif anymore.
It sounds like upstream basically doesn't want a free software
package.
Maybe they simply don't care? In any event, we are here to care, about both
free software and the users. So
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:14:39PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
ObPleaseDon'tFeedTheTroll
http://www.bofhlet.net/trolls.txt :)
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:14:51AM +0300, Lasse Karkkainen wrote:
So, I suggest that anyone, with enough knowledge and TIME, reading this,
would volunteer as XFree package maintainer.
Doesn't the fact that nobody has openly volunteered to do so indicate to you
that there just aren't many (any?)
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:32:44PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
bleeding software. Brandon has added functionality to our X packages
Run, Scott :)
He also misspelled yet emphasized definitely, so I think the fiend will be
able to let it slip ;)
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:21:05AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
That's ~9MB per binary package, * 2 for the two versions in the
pool. Looking more closely at the current i386 package, unpacked:
sledge:~/debian/evolution$ du -s usr/*
14548 usr/share
Over half of the installed package is
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:19:20PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote:
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your problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are people working on the dutch translation of the installation? If not,
I could do it.
We still don't have
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:47:05AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
I am happy to take it. But a question: with the more actively
maintained dput now being quite mature, do we still need both dupload
and dput?
Dumb question, but what dput, and why is one better then the other?
(please
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:15:24PM -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote:
No. This is directed at the people who would mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
mesages like Go home proprietary l0s0rz! j00 are l4m3! Debian doesn't
need you! Signed, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, it seems to me like you're implying
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:02:28PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
10 days != long enough to test a completely different _primary_ way of
booting the installation system.
a) isolinux is not completely new. It is syslinux, extended with ability
of reading iso9660. Show me one failure
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:57:26PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
These packages have not needed any updates.
[...]
Is it really necessary to make a new upload, rather
than copying or linking these packages to the pool?
I will make a new upload before the woody release if it is
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:14:36PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
If you have troubles during the installation process, please report your
problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are people working on the dutch translation of the installation? If not,
I could do it.
We still don't have anyone to
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:13:45PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
I have not closed the bug since point 2) is not fixed yet (will
be rather quickly). Gee, I do not like people who submit
zillions of unrelated bugs in one bugreport :-)
You now have the clone command to fix this.
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