Bug#463069: ITP: refcard -- printable reference card for the Debian system

2008-01-29 Thread W. Borgert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: W. Martin Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package name: refcard Version : 3.2 Upstream Author : W. Martin Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/ License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: XML

Accepted xmlroff 0.5.1-1 (source amd64)

2007-07-11 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:52:27 + Source: xmlroff Binary: xmlroff Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.5.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL

Accepted xmlroff 0.5.0-1 (source i386)

2007-07-09 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:03:12 + Source: xmlroff Binary: xmlroff Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.5.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Official presentation template

2007-06-26 Thread W. Borgert
not like LaTeX (I'm not one of them :) I like LaTeX, but I use DocBook XML slides as source and S5-HTML as output for presentations. I have a simple debianesque CSS, I can share. Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Accepted asn1c 0.9.21.dfsg-2 (source i386)

2007-06-22 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:29:21 + Source: asn1c Binary: asn1c Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.21.dfsg-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL

Accepted asn1c 0.9.21.dfsg-3 (source i386)

2007-06-22 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:01:04 + Source: asn1c Binary: asn1c Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.21.dfsg-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL

Accepted asn1c 0.9.21.dfsg-1 (source i386)

2007-06-21 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:12:30 + Source: asn1c Binary: asn1c Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.21.dfsg-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL

Accepted asn1c 0.9.21-1 (source i386)

2006-09-24 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:27:12 + Source: asn1c Binary: asn1c Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.21-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted asn1c 0.9.21-2 (source i386)

2006-09-24 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:50:05 + Source: asn1c Binary: asn1c Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.21-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted ttcn3parser 20060801-1 (source all)

2006-08-01 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:53:10 + Source: ttcn3parser Binary: ttcn3parser Architecture: source all Version: 20060801-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert

Multiple package variants with CDBS?

2006-01-28 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, I have a package that is configured and compiled two times, so that two binary packages are built in one dpkg-buildpackage run: One with --enable-gnome, the second without. Is this supported by CDBS somehow? Is there a package, that already does such a thing using CDBS? Any hint or example

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-28 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arabic is ar, IIRC. For groups of languages like cjk or indic it might make sense to split the packages further, or, if that's not feasible, use e.g. texlive-cjk-lang (but make sure the abbreviation is not ISO-style two-character). ISO-style can be

Re: Uploading amd64 packages

2005-11-20 Thread W. Borgert
couldn't agree more: source uploads are a good idea. It seems to work for Ubuntu. However, we have discussed this issue before and there was no consensus and worse, no implementation. Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place

2005-11-20 Thread W. Borgert
. no crash or a different one :-( So, unfortunately you're right. Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CDBS and other build systems

2005-11-14 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Ivan S. Dubrov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is I can't find thorough documentation or some kind of How To there I can find how to write these extensions. Although they just simply pieces of make-files, I find it difficult to start understanding them. For example, the diffirence

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread W. Borgert
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:10:05PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: I am a little bit confused. Does Via/C3 need strict 386-instructions or does it play nicely with the current status, i.e. 486 instruction set? A standard sarge install works perfectly on my brand-new VIA C3. Cheers, WB -- To

Re: old question with new status? Sun-Java in Debian non-free?

2005-10-27 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Jason Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If so, what can I do to take the initiative to package it up for Debian non-free? I apologize in advance if this brings up an old flame war... I don't expect one about this issue. Just don't expect Debian to join any Partner Programme, which seems to

Re: i386-uclibc debian

2005-09-28 Thread W. Borgert
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:12:33PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: What do you think? I would like to see a d-i port to that architecture! (not volunteering, sorry) Did you contact the emdebian people? Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread W. Borgert
on all kind of political issues, or other private stuff? (I would prefer to get all the technical information on debian-devel, but of course this is up to the posters.) TIA! -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for this hint - I just skipped this thread because I regarded it relevant for blogs (and thus not for me). But I do not really want a new list - I just want technical information neither spread to debian-devel and planetdebian nor debian-devel

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Use rss2email. It makes blogs almost as useful as maillists. Sounds OK, but it would be more convenient to just have all relevant (= technical) information in debian-devel. Right, that's a real disadvantage. Everyone knows that debian-devel has

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that this is part of the essence of blogging. When you write a mail to debian-devel you risk being flamed about whatever you are saying. When you blog about it, it's your right to say what you think and feel like. People managed to

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread W. Borgert
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:35:36PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: I generally don't see any value in cluttering up -devel with the stuff I post on my blog. I hope people who read it will find it interesting, but it's not broadly important and I don't think there's any need to annoy large

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-21 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Ingo Juergensmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050921 16:53]: What about such ports like m32r? Some embedded devices might run that port, but the user doesn't even know about which arch he's using nor that he's using Debian and certainly not that he is

Re: Announcing an intention to produce an armeb port of Debian

2005-09-19 Thread W. Borgert
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:45:26AM +0930, Debonaras Project Lead wrote: The Debonaras project (http://www.debonaras.org) is a group of Linux developers who have created the beginnings of a big-endian ARM (armeb) port of Debian. We have built 2500+ stable packages so far (see

Re: Announcing an intention to produce an armeb port of Debian

2005-09-19 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -EL/-EB/-el/-eb are commonly used gcc switches to select endianness. OK, thanks. Another mystery solved :-) Cheers, WB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Announcing an intention to produce an armeb port of Debian

2005-09-19 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wrong is endian little that knows everyone but. Thgir yltcaxe! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why does vbetool dpms off work and xset dpms * not?

2005-09-07 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi devels, I'm trying to get my backlight powered off in order to save power. It does ... This question should probably go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck! Cheers, WB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-26 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a [EMAIL PROTECTED]: presents themselves and suggest meeting for a beer. They don't walk to your house, knock on your door and say Hi! I just got your coordinates from db.debian.org, wanna meet and keysign?. And I wouldn't want that. I do not understand

Bug#325164: ITP: docbook-css -- Cascading Stylesheet for DocBook/XML

2005-08-26 Thread W. Borgert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package name: docbook-css Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : David Holroyd dave at badgers-in-foil.co.uk URL : http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/docbook-css/ License : free to use/modify

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-25 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Robert Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. just make it public (after a warning period), anybody who doesn't want that can delete his information from the database. my preferred option! I don't like opt-out. Better opt-in: 4. Invent a new field public location info and developers

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-25 Thread W. Borgert
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:39:08PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: anyway, i did get your point: you would very much wish for that information to stay non-public unless one explicitely makes it public. Yes, please. Cheers, WB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-24 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Several translation teams (including mine) still use Latin-1 as their default...but this is not a reason to still use Latin-1 as an overall default...:-) Btw. I looked into the d-i manuals in SVN and some Western European languages, e.g. German, are

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-24 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Peter 'p2' De Schrijver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Most packages are not tested automatically at all. Unfortunately not. Most cross compiled software also runs 24/7. I have yet to see problems produced by cross compiling the code. ... I don't think the risk is real considering the amount of

WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
is in svn.debian.org? TIA! [1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/ddp/refcard/trunk/entries-ru.dbk?op=file (If WebSVN does not know about encodings, UTF-8 might be a more sensible default than ISO-8859-1 nowadays.) Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: WebSVN does not know about the contents of files in the repository period. OK. As it is just a frontend to svn, you cannot expect it to know about every weird file format and encoding around. OK. IMO, the main purpose of websvn is to be able to view

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For that you should enable the svn keyword Id (using 'svn propset svn:keywords Id') and add a comment in your English files containing $Id:. I will do that, thanks for the hint! (However, my original plea for using UTF-8 in WebSVN remains.) Cheers, WB --

Re: update of (several) config files

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Hello Tomas, this question should better go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Tomas Davidek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying to set up a tool for easy update of several computers in our institute. For example, I would like to create a package that updates several config files, e.g.

Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All packages should be built by official debian buildds anyway, not on developper machines with random cruft and unsecure packages installed, or even possibly experimental or home-modified stuff. That would be very good, indeed. I am very much in favour

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: code that's not portable, then I don't see any point at all in treating these as release architectures to begin with, because at that point they're *not* shipping the same OS that the other architectures are. Agreed, however, I would see optional

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: According to stories I've heard from people from Ubuntu (that does it this way), it quite clearly isn't, because of the pretty high number of people who upload packages without even testing the build themselves. Of course, DDs will do better :-)

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At doing stupid things, you mean :-( Our demographics do not allow source-only uploads unfortunately. I don't really get this sentence, could you please re-word? (Sorry, I'm not a native speaker of English) Which doesn't mean we can't

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I dislike this idea: it is way overengineered. For starters I don't understand why you would want to run both lintian and linda, since those I really don't care whether one has to run either lintian or linda or both. That's an implementation detail.

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, W. Borgert wrote: I don't really get this sentence, could you please re-word? The current set of DDs will do unverified source uploads immediately if given half a chance. Unverified binary uploads are rather common

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I used to think that too. I took a wander through queue/reject on merkel. I don't think that any more. I'm curious as to how Ubuntu is going to sustain source-only uploads, honestly. Mandatory, signed build and test logs? I've no idea... Cheers, WB

Re: Bug#324296: ITP: ldapscripts -- Add and remove user and groups stored (using ldap)

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Because the user is (99% chance) an admin. We should use debtags for this kind of information, IMHO. Because the user may not want extraneous or extra Perl modules installed on his system. If you are building a production box, you may want to

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is the possibility that developer builds get extra features enabled due to other installed libraries etc. This could be checked for by analysing the packages files for different architectures or similar. This is a really nice idea: A DD with a

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Indeed. Why would those checks be done client-side instead of server-side anyway? To prevent overload from the buildds. But maybe Martin Pitt is right, and we should just do it like Ubuntu (source-only uploads) and invent measures, if the need

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-22 Thread W. Borgert
like the idea. Any port should have to have essential and standard, optional is - optional. Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Be sure you pack your bags yourself (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-21 Thread W. Borgert
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 07:28:55PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Currently, sponsored packages are only signed, not built, by official Debian Developers. Be sure you pack your bags yourself. Keep your bags under your control at all times. Never carry a package with unknown contents for any

Re: Bug#323923: ITP: base -- Basic Analysis and Security Engine

2005-08-19 Thread W. Borgert
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:59:49PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.1747 +0200]: I suggest base-security-engine, even though it's quite verbose and the latter two words redundant after the acronym. `base-engine' is better than just base,

Re: Bug#323923: ITP: base -- Basic Analysis and Security Engine

2005-08-19 Thread W. Borgert
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:05:51AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.2049 +0200]: How about acid-base? This sounds less confusing than base-{,security-}engine. For the latter I would assume an important security package of the Debian

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-16 Thread W. Borgert
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:38:01PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Do you realy think you can enforce teamwork? I don't think so. Either some people will work together as a team or individuals will do it their One cannot enforce teamwork. Dogma #10 suggests team meetings in sauna as

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread W. Borgert
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:18:39AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: ...a lot of wise things... I have to agree. So how to proceed? File minor bugs against README files, that contain predominantly useless information? Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-15 Thread W. Borgert
, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread W. Borgert
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:55:20AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Idea 1: lintian: W: /usr/share/doc/README contains installation instructions I like that one. Cheers, -- Wolfgang Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread W. Borgert
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:53:37AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Go ahead and file bugs. With patches. And perhaps an explanation of why a README in the .deb is not required and, if it exists, is not required to equal upstream's. When a few dozen of your patches have made it to sid, condense

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread W. Borgert
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:42:27PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Yes - but how should Lintian detect it? Of course one could look for lines that start with whitespace plus ./configure , but how reliable is that? Attached test found some culprits: aptitude autofs dbus-1 dbus-glib-1 deborphan

README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-14 Thread W. Borgert
invent a README file artificially, if you don't have to say anything. 4. File minor bugs about such README files. Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, as a conclusion of many discussions at DebConf5, I propose to maintain all packages by teams. A fine way to do this, is by having a pkg- project at alioth.debian.org. It is useful to invite non-DDs, esp. upstream developers and people from Debian derivatives to participate in such teams.

Re: Bug#323076: ITP: dealer -- bridge hand generator

2005-08-14 Thread W. Borgert
no clue whatsoever what the program is for. Hopefuly in the final package it will be reworded... A bridge works on OSI layer 2 (data link layer), unlike a router. So it must be a dll network traffic generator, you have to manually (hand) pay for (dealer). Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-14 Thread W. Borgert
:-) Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#323076: ITP: dealer -- bridge hand generator

2005-08-14 Thread W. Borgert
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 07:51:47PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: (Maybe ITPs should include the proposed section (games in this case) to resolve confusions like these.) Or better, as sections become obsolete, the proposed debtags. Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-14 Thread W. Borgert
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 08:17:53PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:02:36PM +, W. Borgert wrote: - Readme file for package. Really? Well, you want to know which package a README belongs to when you get a README without any other information... right? Nice

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread W. Borgert
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 08:45:43PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 14, W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as a conclusion of many discussions at DebConf5, I propose to maintain all packages by teams. A fine way to do this, is by One size fits all methods are a bad idea. Different

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-14 Thread W. Borgert
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:10:42PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: their files. Or do you suggest to tag all files in Debian with such an information? :-) Open a man page. Because it has a NAME section? OK, you won :-) Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread W. Borgert
. Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread W. Borgert
. Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New appearance of bugs on BTS web pages

2005-08-13 Thread W. Borgert
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 04:26:00PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: However, I am wondering if it is a bug that the pages are not even valid HTML 4.01. Is this a bug? Should I file a bug agains the b.d.o psuedo Shouldn't it be XHTML nowadays? Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Timo Aaltonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there will to change the current policy regarding runlevels in Debian? I'd propose to use the recommendation made by LSB: IIRC, there were discussions about that issue. I don't remember the outcome and would like to see Debian more LSBish here.

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've pushed the rename it upstream idea on the upstream maintainers twice now and it gets shut down by both Linus (the original author) and Junio (the current maintainer). [2] There is still the option to rename it for Debian only, without

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Conflicting is Not An Option. So policy says, for good reasons. OK, bad idea. There is precedence to consider. Sarge already contains a git package that provides /usr/bin/git. Users who update from sarge to etch would not be served well if the

Accepted ttthreeparser 1.4-6 (source all)

2005-08-08 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:24:16 + Source: ttthreeparser Binary: ttthreeparser Architecture: source all Version: 1.4-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL

Accepted ttcn3parser 20050130-2 (source all)

2005-08-05 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:10:39 + Source: ttcn3parser Binary: ttcn3parser Architecture: source all Version: 20050130-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert

Accepted snacc 1.3bbn-9 (source all i386)

2005-08-04 Thread W. Borgert
] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libsnacc-dev - ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler, development files libsnacc0c2 - ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler, shared libraries snacc - ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler snacc-doc - ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler, documentation

Accepted devel-protocols 1.5 (source all)

2005-08-04 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:04:08 + Source: devel-protocols Binary: devel-protocols Architecture: source all Version: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert

Accepted ttcn-el 0.6.8 (source all)

2005-08-04 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:53:42 + Source: ttcn-el Binary: ttcn-el Architecture: source all Version: 0.6.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to use svn(-buildpackage) with pbuilder?

2005-08-03 Thread W. Borgert
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:49:54PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Look down the thread -- your question was answered: Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:03:03 +0200 From: Arjan Oosting [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is, the orig.tar.gz is created if you do a FORCEEXPORT=yes svn-buildpackage Works OK,

Accepted asn1c 0.9.16-1 (source i386)

2005-08-03 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:27:57 + Source: asn1c Binary: asn1c Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.16-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to use svn(-buildpackage) with pbuilder?

2005-08-02 Thread W. Borgert
more question, I could not answer myself from reading the man page: If I have the complete upstream source in SVN, but not the .tar.gz, how do I create the .orig.tar.gz, when I have a new upstream version? Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle

Accepted snacc 1.3bbn-8 (source all i386)

2005-08-02 Thread W. Borgert
] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libsnacc-dev - ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler, development files libsnacc0c2 - ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler, shared libraries snacc - ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler snacc-doc - ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler, documentation

Accepted asn1-mode 2.7-5 (source all)

2005-08-02 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:07:28 + Source: asn1-mode Binary: asn1-mode Architecture: source all Version: 2.7-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way to fix security issues.

2005-08-01 Thread W. Borgert
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:07:10PM +, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: But how do you push the users to remove the package from their systems? In reality they will keep the broken version installed and so you have (1) again :-( Empty package with a higher version number? Cheers, WB -- To

Accepted msc 1.1.1-2 (source all)

2005-08-01 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:56:02 + Source: msc Binary: msc Architecture: source all Version: 1.1.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian FDT tools team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED

How to use svn(-buildpackage) with pbuilder?

2005-07-31 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, what is the right/best way to build packages from SVN using pbuilder? I am new to both, please be patient. Suppose, I have a package with complete upstream sources (no tarballs) under svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-greetings/hello/ with the subdirectories branches/, tags/, and trunk/. - How

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way to fix security issues.

2005-07-31 Thread W. Borgert
) is second best. At least typical server installations are not affected (we use w3m, don't we?) and desktop users are used to frustration anyway. (1) is not an option. Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-20 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, what do you think about the usefulness of technical (and other strange) details in package description? I think, those are annoying and should be avoided, but maybe I can learn, why they are useful. Examples: Foo is a Perl-based program that... libBar is written in C... libBang is

Re: Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-27 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do we really need this in the archive? Can we not add this to another package under games? It is rather small and doesn't serve a significant amount of functionality. Yes. Please suggest a package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-26 Thread W. Borgert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package name: evilfinder Version : 666(?) Upstream Author : Michal Zalewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/evilfinder/ef.shtml License : under clarification, hopefully GPL

Accepted asn1c 0.9.14-1 (i386 source)

2005-05-31 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 12:36:42 + Source: asn1c Binary: asn1c Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.14-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted omnievents 2.6.2.pre2-1 (i386 source)

2005-05-07 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 11:12:02 + Source: omnievents Binary: omnievents libomnievents-dbg libomnievents-dev libomnievents Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.6.2.pre2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: W. Borgert

Provide a DocBook/XML version

2005-04-14 Thread W. Borgert
Package: vera Version: 1.12-1 Please provide a dbk version of vera, as this can be used by document authors (automatic inclusion of used glossary entries is supported by docbook-xsl!). [Note: Maybe it's easier to use dbk as source format and generate info than the other way around.] Btw.: You

Re: Bug#304401: ITP: libstatgrab -- library providing interface to system statistics

2005-04-13 Thread W. Borgert
Webpage: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/ not www.example.org :-) It would be great, if you package pystatgrab (http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/) as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is there a serious NPTL problem with sarge?

2005-04-07 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, a colleague observed crashes in some heavily multi-threaded Python applications. He is running Debian sarge with stock kernel 2.6.8-2-686. Using LD_ASSUME_KERNEL fixes the crash, so it seems to be an NPTL issue. (Maybe stupid) questions: - Is it relevant, whether Python is compiled on a

Accepted msc 1.1.1-1 (all source)

2005-03-30 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:07:23 + Source: msc Binary: msc Architecture: source all Version: 1.1.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Re: Example for use of dh_strip --dbg-package=... and CDBS?

2005-03-03 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm using it with fontconfig, just have a look at the rules file. Thanks to Aaron and Josselin! My fault was to set --dbg-package=libfoo-dbg instead of --dbg-package=libfoo :-) Both fltk1.1 and fontconfig are fine examples. Cheers! -- To

Example for use of dh_strip --dbg-package=... and CDBS?

2005-03-02 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, are there any CDBS based packages using dh_strip with the --dbg-package option? I tried, but no /usr/lib/debug/ directory is created. I'm using debhelper 4.2.30 with cdbs 0.4.26-1.1. Many thanks in advance! Cheers, WB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Accepted ttcn3parser 20050130-1 (all source)

2005-02-02 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:32:52 + Source: ttcn3parser Binary: ttcn3parser Architecture: source all Version: 20050130-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL

dh_installinit and update-rc.d start vs. restart

2005-01-29 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, for some kind of CDD I have created a package X that changes another packages Y config file (using cfengine) and restarts the respective daemon. That works well, if I upgrade package X only or Y only. Problem: If I upgrade both package X and Y at the same time the daemon of package Y will

Re: dh_installinit and update-rc.d start vs. restart

2005-01-29 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: File a serious bug against package Y. initscripts have to exit with a successfull status if the daemon is already running. OK. As this package Y is not (yet) part of Debian, I just changed it: I added --oknodo to start-stop-daemon and

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