Re: New project proposal: debian-lex

2003-04-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On 20 Apr 2003, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: OK, thanks. Here (http://people.debian.org/~terminus/debian-lex/) is a rough Web page which I have shamelessly plagiarised from your Debian-Med project. I just builded the Debian-med pages just for this purpose by shamelessly plagiarising from Debian-Jr.

Re: Bug#190038: libgtkdatabox_1:0.2.3.0-1(m68k/unstable/thing2): FTBFS on m68k

2003-04-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Stephen R Marenka wrote: Package: libgtkdatabox Version: 1:0.2.3.0-1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build on release candidate arch. Tags: sid libgtkdatabox fails to build from source on m68k. Here are selected excerpts from the buildd log. | Automatic

Re: Bug#190038: libgtkdatabox_1:0.2.3.0-1(m68k/unstable/thing2): FTBFS on m68k

2003-04-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, James Troup wrote: Which is just that the central src deps are out of date and happens on all architectures. It says (probably) for a reason; the central source deps are always guess work even when they're up-to-date. Thanks for the clarification. Checking for already

Bug#190174: ITP: zope-ttwtype -- Enables portal administrators to create new content types

2003-04-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-04-22 Severity: wishlist * Package name: zope-ttwtype Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Christian Scholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.zope.org/Members/comlounge/TTWType/ * License : see below Description :

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: What I was wondering is whether there is a way to do translations of the fortune data, without having to have 'fortunes-debian-hints-lang' packages. Granted, I probably won't be able to do much useful about translating them, myself, but I'd like to at

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: larger sense, is whether there is a way to have the translations available in some easily selectable format. I think the i18ned fortune makes this simple. I suppose that simply having multiple text/index files with a language designation as part of the

Re: Bug#190038: libgtkdatabox_1:0.2.3.0-1(m68k/unstable/thing2): FTBFS on m68k

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I tried to investigate the problem a little bit deeper. The problem seems to be hidden in the configure script and I have no idea how to fix that. This is from a build which I tried at crest.debian.org in an unstable chroot checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: That's more or less what I was hoping - however, checking /usr/share/doc/fortune-mod doesn't show any references to 'language', or any obvious references to i18n or l10n, at least on stable (my chroots are currently down due to one machine having some

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote: I thought this was a good idea. And since there was no such list yet I requested the creation of 'debian-x86-64'. It will take 72 hours to setup, I will reply to this thread when it's ready. While it is good that your problem of creating a list is

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: I meant in the meantime. I think that the list in lists.d.o must be created, but as this will take some time and seems that there are some people interested in this, I think that it's better this way. I perfectly understand your

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Michael Banck wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:27:34PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: A bug on the lack of a debian-x86-64 mailing list has been opened (162668). All that can be done has been done -- it's out of our hands now :) It's the same for the internal projects

Re: mailcap to mc.ext script

2003-05-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On 13 May 2003, mcINEK wrote: I think, it's very good to automate generating mc.ext file. Very good idea. Please, share with me with your opinions. If I would be you I would file a wishlist bug against mc package and tag it patch by providing your script. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: DebConf 3 for New Maintainers

2003-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On 14 May 2003, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, I tried this already on debian-mentors, but maybe the right persons are here: The best list for this kind of discussion is probably debian-events-eu. I am considering going to DebConf 3. Now Oslo is not really close (I live in southern germany),

Re: DebConf 3 for New Maintainers

2003-05-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On 14 May 2003, Joachim Breitner wrote: I would recommend this. When I was in Bordeaux in 2000 without my own Laptop it was much less fun. :-( The educational effect decreases drastically! Well, that sould definatly interesting. I just hope I manage to get a laptop 'till then. Or would

Re: Bug#190038: libgtkdatabox_1:0.2.3.0-1(m68k/unstable/thing2): FTBFS on m68k

2003-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 17 May 2003, Junichi Uekawa wrote: It's strange, because on my i386 system objdump -T /usr/lib/libgdk-X11-2.0.so gives 0002e71c gDF .text 0049 Base_gdk_display_x11_get_type 00045ebc gDF .text 014c Base_gdk_windowing_window_init

Re: [RFC] Chapter for the debian reference about l10n

2003-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Martin Quinson wrote: I repost this because I got no feedback at all. I guess it shows that my email was long enough for not being read :) Or there is no other comment from my side than: Go for it! It is an important topic! Kind regards Andreas.

Problems linking to libdb3++

2003-05-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm about to sponsor a program which uses libdb3++. I have to admit that I do not know anything about libdb3 and just try to foreward a problem which occures only on my box - not at the box from the maintainer. I just reduced the problem to a minimum. The configure script generated a C++

Looking for help of automake experts (Bug #190231)

2003-05-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just tried to follow the advise of Ryan Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] (see http://bugs.debian.org/190231 ) which did not solved the problem which was couased only on MIPS but added new trouble for (probably) all architectures. I'm no automake expert and I *really* do not know what

Help wanted for packaging postgresql application

2003-05-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I want to package GnuMed which is a Python application accessing PostgreSQL server. http://bugs.debian.org/166282 It comes with a Python bootstrap routine. That means the postinst script would need a working Python and PostgreSQL server installed. I think I would solve this by a

Re: Help wanted for packaging postgresql application

2003-05-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 25 May 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote: For python, you only need to declare Depends: python to ensure that python is installed and configured when your postinst runs. Are you sure that the python interpreter is working if python is just installed at the same time (apt-get run) in which

Re: Help wanted for packaging postgresql application

2003-05-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 26 May 2003, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Andreas Tille wrote: 1. How to change the postgresql configuration in a way which just adds minimum off additional rights? I'd say don't. The user should be able to set up a new postgresql user by themselves, or maybe they'd like

Re: [ANN] Quantian: A Knoppix remastering for Scientific Computing

2003-06-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: [ If there is sufficient interest, this may morph into a Debian subproject. Please contact me if you would want to be part of it. --edd ] Announcing the Quantian Scientific Computing Environment While I like any project which tries to

Re: [ANN] Quantian: A Knoppix remastering for Scientific Computing

2003-06-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: While I like any project which tries to connect Knoppix and Debian stronger I think the project you mentioned above is doing the second step. In several threads in the debian-knoppix mailing list especially Second step ? I don't get it? What

[Internal] Re: Infrastructure for meta-distribution projects

2003-06-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Ben Armstrong wrote: To elaborate: I considered building all junior-* packages from a single source, but instead opted to build them individually from a minimal package template. This allows me to de-couple the release cycle for each meta package from each other. You may

Re: Bug#199874: ITP: molmol -- Display and analyze structures of biological macromolecules

2003-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Frank Küster wrote: * License : non-free (academic type use me, but cite men in publications) The license has a statement: This package may only be bundled in other software packages with the explicit permission of the copyright holders. Please make sure

Re: Juridical prosecution

2003-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: And the cluelessness Oscar this year goes too... Mr Sobek! But the competition is always so fierce, and the year isn't over yet... But I wonder if some clever person might just fake cluelessness to grab the price. How to distinguish those

Re: [Debconf] Re: The slides for my talk

2003-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: Well, poor Joey Hess didn't notice it, and he's a native speaker. ;-) This does not necessarily help! In Germany we all know that best English is spoken by native German spaekars - at least we understand them best (because we do mostly the same

autoconf - make-kpkg problem

2003-12-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I try to build a kernel module (legousbtower to get Lego Mindstorm with USB working). I builded a module-source package and tried fakeroot make-kpkg modules_image This process stops by config.status: creating Makefile sed: file ./confstatnlBJkF/subs-1.sed line 47: Unterminated

Re: Bug#259400: How to a user can add menu entry for GNOME ?

2004-10-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Miles Bader wrote: Marc Dequ«²nes (Duck) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, if i'm not dead for GNOME 2.10, custom Debian menu is gonna die, as it is a bunch of unbrowseable nightmare stuff. IMHO this would be a very bad move to remove the menu which looks the same on all user

Re: Common set of debconf templates (was: Re: RFC: best practice creating database)

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: The only problem is that I'm damn unable to find a 25th hour in the day for working on this. Once I've read a childresn book where a damn bad guy had stolen the Wednesday. The good boy in this book reconstructed the day the following way: - the

Re: RFC: best practice creating database

2004-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote: I say, create the tables when the package starts for the first time. As an analogy, programs using Berkeley-type databases normally set up their databases automatically when they run and don't require postinst processing. Hmmm, I doubt I understand this

Re: RFC: best practice creating database

2004-10-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Stefan Hornburg wrote: First of all documentation. Definitely! Kind regards (and sorry for the ACK message - but it was so necessary) Andreas

Re: Bug#276057: ITP: mediawiki -- Wikipedia wiki engine

2004-10-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Evan Prodromou wrote: * Package name: mediawiki Version : 1.3.5 Upstream Author : Mediawiki developers [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Wikipedia wiki engine MediaWiki is the wiki

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for May 14, 2004

2004-10-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Did these reports stop, or is there something wrong with my email? The last one I could find in my debian-devel-announce mail folder is from 2004-05-14. This is what I wondered every week but was to lazy to ask. Either something is broken or our

Several X applications refuse to start

2004-10-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, asking Google for this problem just leaded to hints of some broken X resources but I have no real clue what might have caused the failure of at least three important applications which I'm running on a laptop with an up to date testing. I never faced similar problems with three other

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

2004-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Simon Huggins wrote: Is this a Transmeta Crusoe based laptop? No. It is centrono based and I guess this is rather a problem of some pure X applications, because Gnome and KDE applications and also Mozilla are behaving fine. The only thing is that sometimes fonts are not

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

2004-10-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Sean Perry wrote: 1) what locale? try C. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=C LC_IDENTIFICATION=C LC_ALL=C [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs X

Re: Bug#278914: ITP: dcmtk -- OFFIS DICOM ToolKit

2004-10-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Pablo Sau wrote: * Package name: dcmtk Version : 3.5.3 Upstream Author : Marco Eichelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://dicom.offis.de/ * License : BSD like Description : OFFIS DICOM ToolKit Freely available DICOM ToolKit (DCMTK) from

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

2004-11-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Sean Perry wrote: 2) this looks like a font issue (as you mentioned) try forcing the app to load 'fixed' as its font. Using emacs with fixed font works and I also found the problem which is descirbed in #279380. I think this bug is worth to be increased in severity but

Trouble to log in into s390 developer machines

2004-11-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, at http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi the hosts raptor and trex are listed as s390 developer machines. I wanted to build the package phylip which has to be builded manually because it is in non-free. $ ssh -i ~/.ssh/my_key [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by

Re: Debian menu and GNOME (request for help)

2004-11-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Sebastien Bacher wrote: The Debian menu is only a submenu in GNOME and I'm not sure this is worth spending time and efforts for something that's redesigned upstream right now. Perhaps we should let it in this state for Sarge and work on a menu improvement for sarge+1 with

Re: Request For Comments: Cycleroot-ng

2004-11-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Salva Peiró wrote: I've built a `little` bash script (its size is 29Kb) that controls/manages background images, it's easily configurable for any of the existing window-managers and I've included many features. Because the idea to publish this here was mine I'd

Debmirror - problem

2004-11-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, from time to time (about 1-2 time in three month) debmirror fails with the following error: --- $ /usr/bin/debmirror -v /tmp/debian --arch=i386 --host=debian.tu-bs.de --nosource --getcontents --dist=testing Mirroring to /home1/ftp/pub/debian/debian from

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, sean finney wrote: this sounds like a good plan, i'll upload this after i do the update and some final testing of the last set of changes i've made. I've found your stuff at http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/examples/ from today and I'm really impressed. My

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, sean finney wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:23:46PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: deb http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/examples/ ./ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/examples/ ./ More questions on your version 0.7: - I asked in previous mail what to do

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, sean finney wrote: most of the script stuff could be shared in between the two, yeah. i designed the system such that it could eventually handle supporting multiple database types, as well as packages that support multiple database types themselves. then, i proceeded to start

Duelling banjos or how a sane community goes crazy

2004-12-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi fellow developers, I failed in ending this thread when I posted http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/12/msg00016.html instead I caused two trolls making even more noise. I hope all you people are aware that you are causing a new duelling banjo case and helping out Google to connect

Re: menu-method for .desktop files?

2004-12-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Bill Allombert wrote: So we could: move kdm:/usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ to menu-xdg:/usr/share/xdg/sessions/ Perhaps a stupid question because I do not understand all this menu stuff: Would this (together with Gnome 2.8) fix the user menus in Gnome??? This would be reall

Re: menu-method for .desktop files?

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Christoffer Sawicki wrote: Perhaps a stupid question because I do not understand all this menu stuff: Would this (together with Gnome 2.8) fix the user menus in Gnome??? This would be reall great for Sarge release! No, this is about fixing the available session types in gdm

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, sean finney wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:36:19PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Do you have any hint for me how to help here and according to my previous mail on debian-devel how can I obtain debconf settings for the specific package ( db_get gnumed/pgsql/admin-pass

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Yes, but I do not want to store the password *anywhere* - it could even be removed from debconf database because it makes no sense to store it in case the local maintainer changes the database password the value is absolutely useless in any config file

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Because system passwords aren't 'needed' by any applications to authenticate themselves to the system, while database passwords are. No, they are not needed in the file system. They are needed inside the database and they are save there (assumed that

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Is that the majority or the minority of applications? Take for example a web application like a forum. It requires the password so it can connect to the database. It can't/won't ask the password from the user. Can you tell me any reason why I should

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, sean finney wrote: but something to point out: dbconfig-common already performs the administrative actions needed to set up the database and database user in the first place, so does your package even need the admin password? The applilcation I want to package comes with a

Problems to upload

2004-12-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, did something changed in the upload queue?: $ dput *.changes Uploading package to host ftp-master.debian.org ... Good signature on /home/tillea/debian-maintain/sponsor/dosbox/dosbox_0.63-2.dsc. Uploading via ftp dosbox_0.63-2.dsc: Error '553 Could not create file.' during ftp transfer of

Re: Problems to upload

2004-12-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: See the dcut command (or the README file in UploadQueue) for information on how to remove broken files from the ftp server. I do not find the string dcut in ftp://ftp-master.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/README but the *.commands file would probably help

Re: Problems to upload

2004-12-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote: But what me *really* concerns is why dput and dupload failed in the first place. Especially the hint to PASSIV MODE smells like something has changed to the situation before. [...] | dput (0.9.2.15) unstable; urgency=low | | * More verbose error

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Karsten Hilbert wrote: Well, see, the GnuMed bootstrapping does a lot more advanced things regarding the database user. There's users and groups with varying levels of access to the database. However, if dbconfig-common creates the admin account we just use it. We can also

Re: Bug#289043: ITP: perlprimer -- [Biology] Graphical design of primers for PCR

2005-01-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Andreas Rottmann wrote: Wouldn't the package be better named pcrprimer or something like this? The fact that it is written in perl seems not to be relevant to the user. The name perlprimer makes me rather think of a primer (tutorial) for perl. Hmm, that was my first thought,

Re: Bug#294506: zope-textindexng2: Package builds incorrectly on amd64: Python site-packages files do not install

2005-02-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Per Bojsen wrote: Package: zope-textindexng2 Version: 1:2.0.8-4 Severity: normal When this package is built on the amd64 architecture, the files that are to go in the /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/zope-textindexng2 directory fail to be installed. This is not obvious when

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: ... But then it doesn't matter anymore. These days, Debian is infrastructure. We no longer make releases. We provide the basis from which others make releases -- Ubuntu, Prodigy,

Any reason why I'm not CCed by bugs of my packages?

2005-02-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I have an open bug against dict-wn ~ apt-cache show dict-wn | grep Maint Maintainer: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] but got no mail notification about #296197 - just have seen it via web interface. Any idea what went wrong here. (If I'm not absolutely wrong this is not the first case

Re: Any reason why I'm not CCed by bugs of my packages?

2005-02-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: ~ apt-cache show dict-wn | grep Maint Maintainer: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] but got no mail notification about #296197 - just have seen it via web interface. Any idea what went wrong here. (If I'm not absolutely wrong this is not the first

Re: Any reason why I'm not CCed by bugs of my packages?

2005-02-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Joel Aelwyn wrote: I just make it a regular habit to scan my packages via the web interface, if only to remind myself about the wishlist bugs sitting on some of them. Sure, that's why I detected the bug just in time, but this personal habit is no excuse that a function of the

Re: Debian-Edu developer meeting in Nafplion, Greece

2005-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Andreas Schuldei wrote: Debian-Edu will hold a Developer Gathering in Nafplion, Greece, from the 15th to 17th of April. http://www.debian.gr/~bilbo/nafplion/CANON0216.jpeg It looks really nice, but any help how to get there would be great. I suspect that I did something wrong

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, sean finney wrote: you could easily extend the script i wrote to unencrypt/loop-mount a filesystem-in-a-file without too much effort. prod me enough and i might do it myself. Prodding. :) Moreover I'd suggest to send the result of it as patch to the gpg package for inclusion

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:10:12PM +0100, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ERROR: Removing 'trm290': Device or resource busy ERROR: Removing 'vis82cxxx': Device or resource busy pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jacob S wrote: Which version of the Debian-Installer did you use? We had similar symptoms on a new Dell recently at work and had to grab the latest daily build to get a working version. I can check on the exact date of the daily build we used, if you want. On my desk I see

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Thomas Schneller wrote: mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-2.6.x-x.img 2.6.x-x I guess you mean here s/-v/-o/, right? Well, I did so mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-1-686 2.6.10-1-686 (under # uname -a Linux wr-linux03 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Wed Dec 1 19:43:08 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jesús Roncero wrote: I've recently had those problems also on a Dell server, using SATA too. The fine guys from #gpul helped me a lot on this. Basically, what happened to me is that kernel 2.4 mapped the SATA drive as /dev/hdc and kernel 2.6 mapped it to /dev/sda Well, after

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Miros/law Baran wrote: it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just reinsert root=/dev/hda? into grub's menu.lst. Any idea

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 11, 2005

2005-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, BugScan reporter wrote: ... Number concerning the next release (excluding ignored and not-in-testing): 147 ... I'm quoting from previous bug reports: Bug stamp-out list for Feb 11 06:02 (CST) Number concerning the next release (excluding ignored and

Re: Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Michael Prokop wrote: I think replacing the prosper-package with ha-prosper wouldn't be a good choice. I'd like to provide ha-prosper in a separate package so when TeXciting is available there aren't any breakages with prosper. Recently I investigated some time in LaTeX based

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: - it must first be part of (or at the very least, meet the criteria for) scc.debian.org (see below) - the release architecture must be publicly available to buy new - the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the number required to keep

Re: d-i has 99% support for filesystem labels (was: Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware)

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Andrew Pollock wrote: Sorry, I do not know anything about partition labels but if this is the solution it should be done in the installer and if this works in Grub menu.lst this should be done here as well. I gave some of the relevant people in the d-i team an education on the

Re: Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Michael Prokop wrote: I do know many people who are used to ha-prosper and haven't switched to LaTeX-Beamer yet. As I said - there is a compatibility mode - but I did not tested it yet. ha-prosper needs less space than latex-beamer (not taking care of dependencies but ratio

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Sorry for using stupid, braindead and others. But there are no other words for crap like this, imho. Hmm, while I'm in principle share your point of keeping the architectures it does not sound very sane to be that harsh. If a group of volunteers faces

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Martin Michlmayr wrote: For some SSC arches, it *might* not make a difference (possibly m68k) but others (e.g. s390 and mipsel) are typically used for servers or gateways, and you don't really want to run unstable in such environments. testing+security updates might be a

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Andres Salomon wrote: Releasing a snapshot of unstable definitely seems like a step backwards. Of course, I understand the reason for suggesting it (and not wanting to support a testing distribution for SCC). Instead, I would suggest to porters that they base releases off

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Joey Hess wrote: Mark Howard wrote: galeon - GNOME web browser for advanced users Changes: galeon (1.3.7.20030825-1) experimental; urgency=low . * New CVS Checkout * Moved to experimental - galeon is not yet stable enough for a Debian stable

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Christian Marillat wrote: See the discussion on -gnome-gtk. Not shipping galeon in sarge is a big mistake. Users will be very happys. s/happys/unhappy/ I do not have to read any list to know very sure that any GNU/Linux distribution which lacks Galeon sucks. Kind regards

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Michael Meskes wrote: What does it miss? I'm running 1.3.5 and did not notice that. :-) Okay, probably because I don't use these features... In no special order I'm missing: - the brush clearing the URL field - the add bookmark to menu entry to put a certain bookmark

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:31:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Joey Hess wrote: Mark Howard wrote: galeon - GNOME web browser for advanced users Changes: galeon (1.3.7.20030825-1) experimental; urgency=low

Re: galeon in Debian stable

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Mark Howard wrote: It's great to see so many positive comments about galeon. Hopefully 1.3.8 will go into stable. [galeon developers - is this likely to be Would be great. Just ignore my vote for Galeon 1.2.x in the other thread in debian-devel. It was only thought as

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Michael Piefel wrote: Moreover I do not like the new hot keys because I was comfortable with Ctrl{Left,Right} to go {back,foreward} Revert to galeon 1.2 because you have to press Alt instead of Ctrl? Come on! This was intentionally not mentioned as missing

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Michael Piefel wrote: To answer you other questions after checking on a machine with Galeon 1.3 installed: Am 27.08.03 um 09:38:47 schrieb Andreas Tille: - the brush clearing the URL field ^L not working for you? ^L just marks the URL and thus removes the mouse

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Mark Howard wrote: right click-open with ... which is not as fast as Ctrl-U, isn't it? I don't think anyone is actually, there are other things which they're more interested in at the moment. Patches would really help speed things up - even if the code you submit isn't

Any chance to get Debian-Med added to tasksel?

2003-09-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, bug #186085 which asks for inclusion of Debian-Med into tasksel is now nearly half a year old. I wonder if there is any chance to get this fixed before Sarge will be released. While it is a wishlist bug per definition for the tasksel package it has quite an importance for the Debian-Med

Compile treetool on Alpha

2003-09-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I wanted to compile treetool on Alpha, because this is the last missing architecture: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=treetool (I uploaded Arm which I compiled on debussy some minutes ago) Unfortunately there is no dchroot Alpha host known at

Re: Debain-Edu and Skolelinux

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Andreas Schuldei wrote: better with Debian, and for that reason thankfully accepts Raphael Herzogs offer to continue its effords as the Debian-Edu subproject, taking it over. Congratulations! * To avoid the Knoppix-effect. This is a great wording! Good luck for your

Gcc 3.3 help needed

2003-10-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I seem to have a transition problem in a package of mine: The critical line is: FILE *yyin = {stdin}, *yyout = {stdout}; In the first line of the file in question #include stdio.h is included. The error is. gcc -I/usr/include -O -DUNIX -c -o wnlex.o wnlex.c wnlex.c:75:

The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:33:19 -0500 From: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LaMont Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-( Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Santiago Vila wrote: In general, Debian source packages should not need to build-depend on automake. In theory, the author should already care to create an original tarball with all the required things already created (in fact, it is part of GNU standards that packages

Re: [debian-devel] Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Josip Rodin wrote: You assign way too much value to the latest two revisions. Try reading upgrading-checklist.txt. In general, relying on automated tools to check packages, rather than inspecting them manually based on actual (*gasp*!) knowledge of policy, isn't

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Sam Hocevar wrote: See also /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz Thanks for the hint, which hopefully prevents me from any future automake caused frequent wordnet uploads. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: [debian-devel] Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: Not really; the people complaining about newer-standards-version serve to remind the lintian maintainer that he needs to update lintian for any changes in policy. :) Updating lintian is not just a matter of increasing the number. Well for sure. But

debian-postgresql list closed and postgresql problem

2003-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
--- And this is the problem I wanted to discuss. I hope this is the nect apropriate place for this kind of problems ... Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:39:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian PostgreSQL Liste [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems

Re: debian-postgresql list closed and postgresql problem

2003-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Oliver Elphick wrote: There is now (as of 2 days ago) an Alioth project for the Debian packaging, and it has a mailing list: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-postgresql-public Thanks - I'm going to subscribe this soon ... That shouldn't make any

Sarge Jigdo files incompatible with Debian mirror

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I wanted to try Sarge installer for a new box and thus I used jigdo with http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo Unfortunately one package seems to be removed from the mirrors (see the log below and search for

Bug#219942: ITP: zope-textindexng2 -- Fulltext index for Zope

2003-11-10 Thread Andreas Tille
index for Zope This is the new fulltext index for Zope and is the most feature-complete solution for fulltext indexing under Zope. Supported Formats: HTML, PDF, Postscript, WinWord, PowerPoint, OpenOffice This package was debianized by Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:43

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