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Subject: Re: Packages not making it into testing
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Daniel Kobras wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:41:46PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes:
+ mpg123 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days!
mpg123-alsa
Quoting Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au:
+ roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by
+ roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by
These are fonts. Why should they be 'out of date'?!
Reason why these haven't made it into testing is the same as for:
+
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:35:03PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Quoting Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au:
+ roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by
+ roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by
These are fonts. Why should they be 'out of date'?!
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
any news one getting php4 into testing? pretty please :))
And here was me thinking you already knew all about this...
Okay. First, php3 and apache. The apache in testing is old, old, old.
Getting the apache from unstable into testing,
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes:
+ mpg123 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days!
mpg123-alsa is uninstallable (needs alsa-base 0.4, which is no
longer available?)
mpg123 won't work with the newer ALSA, and there seems to be
no real mpg123
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:41:46PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes:
+ mpg123 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days!
mpg123-alsa is uninstallable (needs alsa-base 0.4, which is no
longer available?)
mpg123 won't work with
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:49:24PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Doesn't the user have to belong to the relevant group anyway?
We already control access to things like floppy drives, sound
cards etc through groups, so cd burning is
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
Hello world,
ciao
+ gdb uploaded 250 days ago, out of date by 240 days!
doesn't build on sparc, see 86882
i'd like to adopt this, i'll mail to the maintainer.
-[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok
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Domenico Andreoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
+ gdb uploaded 250 days ago, out of date by 240 days! doesn't
build on sparc, see 86882
i'd like to adopt this, i'll mail to the maintainer.
Do you have the resources to try and
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:52:39PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
Domenico Andreoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
+ gdb uploaded 250 days ago, out of date by 240 days! doesn't
build on sparc, see 86882
i'd like to adopt
Hello world,
The following packages haven't been uploaded this year, and also haven't
made it into testing for a while. If people could go through and make
sure the maintainer knows about the issues, or do NMUs as appropriate, or
work out what the problem actually is, or similar, that'd be pretty
+ libch uploaded 288 days ago, out of date by 278 days!
m68k package depends on libmysqlclient9, needs to be rebuilt against
libmysqlclient10, presumably
It needs the build dependencies updating too, see #93850 (which has been closed
but I think is still applicable).
p.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000 , Anthony Towns wrote:
Hello world,
+ mysql-gpl uploaded 307 days ago, out of date by 297 days!
has an RC bug related to php4-mysql in testing (although php4-mysql
isn't in testing..)
is mysql-gpl really still needed? shouldn't it be
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
+ xcdroast uploaded 152 days ago, out of date by 142 days!
gtk/setgid problems, see 92230 etc
that's new change in gtk 1.2.9 to disallow suid applications, which I find
silly
Why does xcdroast need to be setgid? I think it's
Previously Petr Cech wrote:
that's new change in gtk 1.2.9 to disallow suid applications, which I find
silly
It's not silly, it is an extremely good idea. I'm very pleasantly
surprised to hear that they did that. It is basically not possible to
write safe suid X programs.
Wichert.
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
It's not silly, it is an extremely good idea. I'm very pleasantly
surprised to hear that they did that. It is basically not possible to
write safe suid X programs.
IIRC it also disallows SGID, which breaks some games that only
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote:
The following packages haven't been uploaded this year, and also haven't
made it into testing for a while. If people could go through and make
sure the maintainer knows about the issues, or do NMUs as appropriate, or
work out what the problem actually
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:24:38AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
Incidentally, could I request one change to the format of
update_output.txt that would make problems in testing easier to debug
(unless there's some other set of information I don't know about)? I'd
like to see the reports of
* Anthony Towns
| + xitalk uploaded 397 days ago, out of date by 387 days!
| xitalk on arm needs to be rebuilt against X4
Also missing standards-version !? (bug filed)
Anyhow, rebuilt and uploaded on arm.
| + xacc uploaded 397 days ago, out of date by 387 days!
| xacc on arm,
Previously Aaron Lehmann wrote:
IIRC it also disallows SGID, which breaks some games that only want to
write to hi-score files.
Guess that will force them to get a clue and write a sgid helper
then.
Wichert.
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/ Generally
+ atari800 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days!
depends on svgalibg1 on m68k; svgalib isn't supported on anything
but i386 (aiui)
I've been working on the newest upstream source for this package for
several weeks (actual working time is much smaller ;-) and will have
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Petr Cech wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000 , Anthony Towns wrote:
Hello world,
+ netscape4.7 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days!
depends on X3 libs, should remove?
yes, iff it's not needed for !=i386
It is for powerpc - the last
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
I'm not sure what the solution is for m68k...
Simply use an Architecture line that does not include m68k.
Wichert.
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
The following packages haven't been uploaded this year, and also haven't
made it into testing for a while. If people could go through and make
sure the maintainer knows about the issues, or do NMUs as appropriate, or
work out what
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:46:55AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
+ xcdroast uploaded 152 days ago, out of date by 142 days!
gtk/setgid problems, see 92230 etc
that's new change in gtk 1.2.9 to disallow suid applications, which I
On Apr 25, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote:
+ diablo uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days!
doesn't build on sparc, no bug filed
It's an obsolete version which should be removed anyway.
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ciao,
Marco
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:46:55AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
Why does xcdroast need to be setgid? I think it's terrible to have any user
able to burn or screw up a burn... why can't they use sudo or su?
Doesn't the user have to
Previously Daniel Kobras wrote:
Isn't the xcdroast/cdrecord suid/sgid stuff about grabbing realtime
scheduling priority? You can't control this via group ownership.
You could start a suid helper that passes you a new capability though.
Wichert.
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:22:36PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Do I have to check all dependencies in all 54 python packages in the pool
(10 architectures, 4 arch-dependent packages, 4 arch-independent packages),
to see what's the reason that keeps the packages out of testing ?
All I can
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:07:58AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
[...]
task-python-dev just depends on -imaging-tk.
So this means python can't be updated without also updating palm-doctoolkit
and python-imaging, and those can't be updated without updating python.
Further some of the binary
Anthony Towns schrieb:
+ libvoxel uploaded 357 days ago, out of date by 347 days!
has a year old doesn't build bug, 60985
I hacked at it at BSP#3, nothing depends on it, and the bug is
_really_ obscure (that's not only me saying this). I asked the
maintainer wheter it would be OK to
On 25-Apr-2001 Aaron Lehmann wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
It's not silly, it is an extremely good idea. I'm very pleasantly
surprised to hear that they did that. It is basically not possible to
write safe suid X programs.
IIRC it also disallows
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
+ locale-vi uploaded 202 days ago, out of date by 192 days!
+ locale-zh uploaded 190 days ago, out of date by 188 days!
probably should be removed from the archive as of glibc 2.2.x
(conflicts with glibc 2.1.94, except
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:52:24PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Aaron Lehmann wrote:
IIRC it also disallows SGID, which breaks some games that only want to
write to hi-score files.
Guess that will force them to get a clue and write a sgid helper
then.
... and over time we
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:46:55AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
+ xcdroast uploaded 152 days ago, out of date by 142 days!
gtk/setgid problems, see 92230 etc
that's new change in gtk 1.2.9 to disallow suid applications, which I find
silly
Why does xcdroast need to be setgid? I think
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Doesn't the user have to belong to the relevant group anyway?
We already control access to things like floppy drives, sound
cards etc through groups, so cd burning is another good example.
-rwxr-sr-x1 root cdrom
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