Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
continued I found that you had already come up them and that I just had to read on. In short, it seems well thought out. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
? As the target user for this sort of package is a sysadmin type, I would saw it is an important enough detail that it should be in the short description. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
are seeking, either in Debian proper, a derivative or in an effort that you lead yourself. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
are simply ignorant or selectively ignoring reality. If you hear someone make that complaint, kindly keep him (or her) from sticking his (or her) foot too far down the throat and point them to unstable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
because of RC bugs. So, if you want packages moving into testing quicker, get the unstable version, test and file bug reports when you find a bug and also try and submit patches to the bugs that are already keeping it out of testing. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
), but from the description it appears to be somewhat outdated (eg Fedora Core 2). Also, based on my experience trying to build a CentOS 3 chroot (CentOS 3 being fairly old at this point), it just doesn't work. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http

Re: Bug#429801: ITP: libclass-accessor-grouped-perl -- build groups of accessors

2007-06-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
would personally prefer to apt-get install some Perl module, rather than install it myself from CPAN or some other source. It makes life much easier when one manages many machines. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
was a marketing gimmick. Besides, there are other units of measure which carry the same name and have different numerical values based on context (think statute miles and nautical miles), though I don't think any such examples can be found in the SI. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
defaulting to a close approximation. Language is imperfect. People make do. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:36:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 03:29 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : It has never been anything but a gross imprecision introduced by people incapable of following rigorous standards. It has never been anything more than

Re: Bug#428212: ITP: linky -- an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
: iceweasel-linky I was thinking something similar. I am sponsoring Arnaud Renevier for his noscript package. Initially, he called it just noscript. It was rejected by the ftp-masters as too generic. Arnaud renamed it to mozilla-noscript and that was accepted. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
friend) for the existence of new kernel.. How is what you describe different from what cron-apt already does? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:26:50PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:21:03AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: How is what you describe different from what cron-apt already does? That's precisely why I asked for details about this feature :-) Anyhow, what I'm

Re: Touching a file in another package

2007-06-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
for other packages providing GnomeVFS methods), so that its timestamp changes. This might be a really impetus and test case for the new dpkg triggers that have been proposed. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc

Re: Bug#427216: ITP: gtkol-ldap -- GtkOL-LDAP is a LDAP client based on GtkOL.

2007-06-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
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Re: Filing FTBFS bugs and packages in NEW

2007-06-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
of the package. Especially in the case of mass filings resulting from things like rebuilding the archive or other cases (like the bug reporter not knowing/being able to access the stuff in NEW), I think there should be a bit of leniency. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com

Re: BoF: Supporting 15,000 packages - How much support do we mean?

2007-05-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
possibly monitor upstream development for every package (even just those which don't have active maintainers), we can't really know. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Draft spec for new dpkg triggers feature (v2, repost)

2007-05-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
of the filename. In the future this might be added as an additional feature, but there are some problems with this. I'd be interested to know in what problems there are with this. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
, via regular mails to d-d-a and in the developers reference. I think that having a centrally located list of teams within Debian and where someone can go to learn more/get involved is a good thing. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
it, right? Then $1 becomes the package name. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
are becoming increasingly unpopular. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Well, the ~ character is stated to be evaluated to be less than the empty string. If a package is the target of a security upload in stable, you can be certain that the testing/unstable version

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:54:09PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Well, the ~ character is stated to be evaluated to be less than the empty string. If a package

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:49:07PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:24:35AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Maybe I misunderstand, but wouldn't something like (= 1.0.1-1) and ( 1.0.1-2) be more correct? That way

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
there as well. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
in the next source upload? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Your case is probably better handled with a simple higher-or-equal dependency. Maybe I misunderstand, but wouldn't something like (= 1.0.1-1) and ( 1.0.1-2) be more correct

Re: LDAP mail gateway and subkeys, RT ticket #70

2007-05-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
packages? It seems like Nico's original gripe is valid. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
defined in some sane way and then get enforced to use to make sense. And then the scripts can start using it. So the simple(r) option is subscribe to pts. Doesn't the key used to sign the upload tell you? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:18:11AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11013 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: This would need a new field defined in some sane way and then get enforced to use to make sense. And then the scripts can start using it. So the simple(r) option is subscribe

Re: Bug#422423: ITP: libtool-cvs -- Generic library support script - CVS snapshot

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
and then requires a security update, it would not be buildable in stable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PAM config and LDAP [WAS: Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)]

2007-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
for the configuration. My goal is that it is secure. -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)

2007-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
if the password is correct or not. You mean that the passwords go in the clear? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

2007-04-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:24:53AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20.51:16 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: man procmailrc On gmail? gmail does support POP. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

2007-04-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
or the like. I'm not saying that your situation is not possible, simply that trading size for compression/decompression time would benefit far more people than it would hurt. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

2007-04-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 01:09:50PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:12:33AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 12 avril 2007 à 21:15 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : I think compression ratio is better

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
to the end users) I think that is the principal problem. I use apt-proxy and have about a dozen machines (counting virtual machines) that all hit that one apt-proxy. I am not sure how best to solve that problem. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
. an understudy or standby ? Could we call it co-maintainer or something like that? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
installed on my development machine and I do not experience the slowness you talk about. It was installed about 3.5 years ago. How much RAM/CPU does the machine have? How fast are the disks? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:11:46PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: On Friday 30 March 2007 15:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database of installed packages is terribly

Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

2007-03-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
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Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
, and it failed here with kmail. Is the crypt+sign mail format standard ? The last vote (on the package upload rules) worked for me sending encrypted from mutt. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 08:12:07AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:38:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People should be given assistance and encouragement in doing it. I actually like doing it, but I have unfortunately relatively little time

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:47:38AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2007-03-27, Roberto C Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, yes. More so, even. The higher the bug count the *greater* the reward for triaging everything properly. It helps to prevent getting mired in a sea of bugs

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
, someone NMUs to fix the bug and the mainainer immediately uploads to revert the NMU? It seems that there needs to be some way to handle situations like that. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
in doing it. I actually like doing it, but I have unfortunately relatively little time (sick family members). I like doing bug triage as well. I guess it is because I am a neat freak and anal about organization. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto

Re: Mozilla plugins to depend upon virtual mozilla-plugin-browser?

2007-03-23 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
. What is the point? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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