Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2001-01-06 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 01:05:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Happy new year from this side of the world, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:06:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Three packages (w3mir, webmin, and fancylogin) that were definitely available in Debian main some time ago, and that

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2001-01-04 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:09:07PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: Peter Palfrader wrote: There is a further weird package disappearance in unstable: all mgetty packages (execept mgetty-doc) are gone! [...] Hey, these are important packages.

rsync'ing pools (Was: Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!)

2001-01-01 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Tinguaro Barreno Delgado [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello again. On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:22:45PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Yes. The structure of the archive has changed because of 'package pools'. You need to mirror 'pool' as well.

Re: rsync'ing pools (Was: Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!)

2001-01-01 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin Brederlow wrote: Joey, can you put that where it originally came from? or next to the original script? Any changes to the script from your side? This is much more complicated than anything I want to maintain. I'm looking forward to making my mirror script simpler as the pool situations

DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread GBechly
Hi, I am very sorry for the loud subject of my mail (I know it is bad netiquette), but since I got no satisfying answer on my first mail concerning disappeared packages and because the issue is important I decided to try it again with shouting ;-). Here is the problem: Three packages (w3mir,

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi GBechly! SCHREI NICHT SO! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very sorry for the loud subject of my mail (I know it is bad netiquette), but since I got no satisfying answer on my first mail concerning disappeared packages and because the issue is important I decided to try

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
Peter Palfrader wrote: There is a further weird package disappearance in unstable: all mgetty packages (execept mgetty-doc) are gone! http://bugs.debian.org/80640 Hey, these are important packages. mgetty is not important, it's

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:46:20PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: SCHREI NICHT SO! German personal answer Vielen Dank für Deine prompte und ausführliche Antwort. Wenn Du auf mein erstes (ungeschriehenes) Mail zum selben Thema so geantwortet hättest, dann hätte ich jetzt nicht schreien

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Tinguaro Barreno Delgado
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:06:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am very sorry for the loud subject of my mail (I know it is bad netiquette), but since I got no satisfying answer on my first mail concerning disappeared packages and because the issue is important I decided to try it

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tinguaro Barreno Delgado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I maintain a rsync mirror of potato and woody (i386) and this week the distribution has lost +50 packages. They aren't in ftp.debian.org (I'm rsyncing from ftp.de.debian.org). Can anyone explain this? Yes. The

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:06:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very sorry for the loud subject of my mail (I know it is bad netiquette), but since I got no satisfying answer on my first mail concerning disappeared packages and because the issue is important I decided to try it again

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Tinguaro! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Tinguaro Barreno Delgado wrote: Hello all. I maintain a rsync mirror of potato and woody (i386) and this week the distribution has lost +50 packages. They aren't in ftp.debian.org (I'm rsyncing from ftp.de.debian.org). Can anyone explain this? Have you

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Oliver! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: Peter Palfrader wrote: There is a further weird package disappearance in unstable: all mgetty packages (execept mgetty-doc) are gone! http://bugs.debian.org/80640 Hey, these

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Guenter, On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote: I suggest that the intent to remove a package should always be filed as a bug to this package or even better as a bug to wnpp-peudopackage, so that the information can be traced with

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Anthony Towns
Happy new year from this side of the world, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:06:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Three packages (w3mir, webmin, and fancylogin) that were definitely available in Debian main some time ago, and that are still present in the BTS (all have outstanding bugs),

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi GBechly! Fancylogin is reported to be in unstable and there also is a package page, but the package is not found from the download page and is also not present in any of the mirrors. marvin:~# apt-get install

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:40:41PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: Again there is a pointer from packages.debian.org, but the deb is not in the directory pointed to. Seems like packages.debian.org is broken then. If it's not reportet yet, maybe someone should do. It is! Several times! --

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Guenter Bechly
Hello again, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: FWIF I'ld really like to see removal of packages beeing announced to debian-devel-changes and debian-changes repectivly. Maybe we could bug the ftp admins to send such mails? Agree. Will you do it, or shall I ?

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Josip! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:40:41PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: Again there is a pointer from packages.debian.org, but the deb is not in the directory pointed to. Seems like packages.debian.org is broken then. If it's not reportet

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Guenter! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Guenter Bechly wrote: Hello again, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: FWIF I'ld really like to see removal of packages beeing announced to debian-devel-changes and debian-changes repectivly. Maybe we could bug the ftp

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi Peter, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 05:01:13PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: You file the wishlistbug against ftp. and I bug the admins, deal? Deal is deal! Best wishes, Guenter -- Linux: Who needs GATES in a world without fences?

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Tinguaro Barreno Delgado
Hello again. On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:22:45PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Yes. The structure of the archive has changed because of 'package pools'. You need to mirror 'pool' as well. Also, woody is no longer unstable. sid is. woody is testing. Mike. Ok. Thanks to Peter