Re: Bits from the DAMs ( & Co)

2005-03-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On 1 Apr 2005, at 08:31, Joerg Jaspert wrote: - a NM must pay both DAMs a sum of money, randomly choosen at the time he applies. This ensures that we always have enough money to process the request of NMs, you know it needs time to create accounts! I still think it's just to finance you your me

Re: Bug#302419: ITP: nzb -- A binary news grabber using nzb files

2005-03-31 Thread Mattias Nordstrom
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> What the heck is an nzb file? I checked out the listed web site, >> but it didn't enlighten. > > > FYI, I think it is a seperate file that is sometimes posted along with a > multi-part binary that contains details about the posts that make up

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is bullshit/lies/cheating (pick one). It should be worded: > > "We are not willing to support his hardware just because we (at least > some of us) decided to demonstrate how can we can strike against the > non-freeness of the hardware development ass

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Thomas Bushnell BSG [Sat, Mar 26 2005, 11:49:37PM]: > This is like saying that people will use star office whether it's DFSG > free or not, so there is no reason to say "we won't distribute this > until it's DFSG free". In fact, people can and do make things free. > > > Please explai

Re: Bug#250202: Standardizing make target for 'patch' and 'upstream-source'

2005-03-31 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 11:37 +0200, David Schmitt wrote: > To prepare the sourcecode for inspection and/or minor modifications an > additional argument for debian/rules would fit well into the current model. > > Calling "debian/rules prepare" should leave the tree in a state where the > source

Re: unixODBC vs. iODBC

2005-03-31 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:53:57PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Debian currently ships two ODBC driver managers, unixODBC (source > package "unixodbc") and iODBC (source package "libiodbc2"). These > basically do the same thing. Every package that wants to provide > database access through

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:09:21AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:50:46AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> >> What I meant is that if the firmware is truly burned i

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Why? How does it benefit Debian if our users have to obtain firmware >> > from somewhere else to make their hardware work? How does it benefit >> > freedom if we imply that hardware with on-chip firmware is preferable? >> >> The DFSG says that's the

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-31 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:49 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Thursday 31 March 2005 15:14, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > * Steve Kowalik > > > > | On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:01 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen uttered > > | > > | > TTBOMK, he hasn't discussed this with the dpkg maintainer, nor has he > > | > m

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:09:21AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:50:46AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> What I meant is that if the firmware is truly burned into the chup, > >> then I couldn't change it even

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:10:03AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Regardless, the point is what we distribute, not what is on my > >> computer. > > > > Why? How does it benefit Debian if our users have to obtain firmware > > from somewhere

Re: unixODBC vs. iODBC

2005-03-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:53:57PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >That in turn forces the user to set up each ODBC drivers twice, once for > each driver manager. Not true; the driver managers are supposed to share config files. > Well, the above is mostly true because you can build the program

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-31 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 17:40 +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:01 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen uttered > > TTBOMK, he hasn't discussed this with the dpkg maintainer, nor has he > > made his code public. > > > Er, Adam Heath has made plenty of uploads of dpkg, > Hasn't made any in

Re: unixODBC vs. iODBC

2005-03-31 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Qt in Debian must build against libiodbc2-dev because otherwise it would > have a circular build-dependency with unixodbc. Circular build-deps aren't necessairly a real problem. There's a fair amount of other stuff which have them and in general I think

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Distribute the non-free firmware. Our users are happy. > 2) Don't distribute the non-free firmware. Our users either download the > non-free firmware from elsewhere (bad) or replace their hardware with > parts that have the non-free firmware in flas

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/issue is meant for the sysadmin to edit. It is free form > text. /etc/lsb-release is not. All conffiles are there for the sysadmin to edit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: unixODBC vs. iODBC

2005-03-31 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:53:57PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Debian currently ships two ODBC driver managers, unixODBC (source > package "unixodbc") and iODBC (source package "libiodbc2"). These > basically do the same thing. Every package that wants to provide > database access through

unixODBC vs. iODBC

2005-03-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Debian currently ships two ODBC driver managers, unixODBC (source package "unixodbc") and iODBC (source package "libiodbc2"). These basically do the same thing. Every package that wants to provide database access through ODBC has to pick at build time which driver manager to use. That in tur

Re: Bug#302419: ITP: nzb -- A binary news grabber using nzb files

2005-03-31 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Ron Johnson wrote: What the heck is an nzb file? I checked out the listed web site, but it didn't enlighten. FYI, I think it is a seperate file that is sometimes posted along with a multi-part binary that contains details about the posts that make up that binary and their order. Might even be XM

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lars Wirzenius: > /etc/issue is meant for the sysadmin to edit. It is free form > text. /etc/lsb-release is not. Why is it in /etc and marked as a conffile? 8-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2005-03-31 kello 21:07 +, Michael Ablassmeier kirjoitti: > On 2005-03-31, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Given that the sysadmin can and does edit it as they wish, that is > > pretty useless. > > yes, but this might happen to `/etc/lsb-release' too. That would be classified

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
hi again, On 2005-03-31, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to, 2005-03-31 kello 20:45 +, Michael Ablassmeier kirjoitti: >> On 2005-03-31, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Any package that uses it is going to have to build-depend on the >> > lsb-release package, which ha

Re: Bug#302419: ITP: nzb -- A binary news grabber using nzb files

2005-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 20:28 +0300, Mattias Nordstrom wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mattias Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: nzb > Version : 0.0.20050328 > Upstream Author : Mattias Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http:/

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2005-03-31 kello 20:45 +, Michael Ablassmeier kirjoitti: > On 2005-03-31, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any package that uses it is going to have to build-depend on the > > lsb-release package, which has no dependencies (it is a bash shell > > script and bash is required, so

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
hi, On 2005-03-31, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any package that uses it is going to have to build-depend on the > lsb-release package, which has no dependencies (it is a bash shell > script and bash is required, so no explicit dependency needed) and is 88 > kilobytes installed. Not

Virus ricevuto -- Virus received

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Bug#302414: RFP: stopmotion -- Excellent program for creating stop motion animations

2005-03-31 Thread Bjoern Erik Nilsen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: stopmotion Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Bjoern Erik Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/studentgrupper/2005-hig-stopmotion/ * License : GPL Description : Excellent p

Bug#302397: ITP: libmath-spline-perl -- Cubic spline interpolation of data

2005-03-31 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-spline-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : John A.R. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JA/JARW/ * License : GPL/Artistic D

Bug#302432: ITP: libnzb -- A library for binary news grabbing using nzb files

2005-03-31 Thread Mattias Nordstrom
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mattias Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnzb Version : 0.0.20050328 Upstream Author : Mattias Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://nzb.sf.net/ * License : GPL Description : A library for bina

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:46:21PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Huh? I'm not saying I pretend it isn't there. Do I want to modify > > the source code? No, because there's nothing I could do with it if I > > could. > > I had to modify my

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When people actually get around to a decent "Free firmware" campaign, > then I think we'll have a stronger argument for not distributing > firmware. At the moment, the non-freeness of firmware isn't something > that seems to bother most people (even if

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Regardless, the point is what we distribute, not what is on my >> computer. > > Why? How does it benefit Debian if our users have to obtain firmware > from somewhere else to make their hardware work? How does it benefit > freedom if we imply that ha

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:50:46AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> What I meant is that if the firmware is truly burned into the chup, >> then I couldn't change it even if I had the source code. It was wrong >> to say that I don't *want* to modify

Bug#302419: ITP: nzb -- A binary news grabber using nzb files

2005-03-31 Thread Mattias Nordstrom
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mattias Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nzb Version : 0.0.20050328 Upstream Author : Mattias Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://nzb.sf.net/ * License : GPL Description : A binary news grabber

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:31:19AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > martin f. krafft writes: > > > also sprach Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.31.0906 +0200]: > >> DISTRIB := $(shell something-that-prints-DEBIAN-or-UBUNTU) > > > > Rene told me about lsb-release. > > Sounds cool.

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Huh? I'm not saying I pretend it isn't there. Do I want to modify > the source code? No, because there's nothing I could do with it if I > could. I had to modify my BIOS in order to get my laptop to work with my wireless card. This would have b

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I meant is that if the firmware is truly burned into the chup, > then I couldn't change it even if I had the source code. It was wrong > to say that I don't *want* to modify it, but rather, that I *cannot* > do so. This is, by and large, not

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op do, 31-03-2005 te 09:07 +0200, schreef Tollef Fog Heen: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG > > | Huh? I'm not saying I pretend it isn't there. Do I want to modify > | the source code? No, because there's nothing I could do with it if I > | could. > > Sure there is, like, reprogramming the image show

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:50:46AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > What I meant is that if the firmware is truly burned into the chup, > then I couldn't change it even if I had the source code. It was wrong > to say that I don't *want* to modify it, but rather, that I *cannot* > do so. That's

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-31 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 31 March 2005 15:14, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Steve Kowalik > > | On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:01 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen uttered > | > | > TTBOMK, he hasn't discussed this with the dpkg maintainer, nor has he > | > made his code public. > | > | Er, Adam Heath has made plenty of uploads o

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Steve Kowalik | On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:01 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen uttered | > TTBOMK, he hasn't discussed this with the dpkg maintainer, nor has he | > made his code public. | | Er, Adam Heath has made plenty of uploads of dpkg, and is listed as an | Uploader. Yes, but (again, TTBOMK) he sti

Re: Bug#302242: ITP: php4-dbase -- dBase module for php4

2005-03-31 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
On Wednesday 30 of March 2005 22:55, Kim Lundgren wrote: > * Package name: php4-dbase > Version : 4.3.10 > Upstream Author : The PHP Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.php.net/ > * License : (PHP License, libdbf) > Description : dBase module for

Bug#302312: ITP: libuser -- a user and group account administration library.

2005-03-31 Thread Ghe Rivero
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ghe Rivero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libuser Version : 0.53.3 Upstream Author : Nalin Dahyabhai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/ * Licens

Re: start-stop-daemon ulimit

2005-03-31 Thread Carlo Contavalli
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:11:36AM +0200, Carlo Contavalli wrote: > > [...] > as usual, I forgot the attachment. Here it is.. Cheers, Carlo -- GPG Fingerprint: 2383 7B14 4D08 53A4 2C1A CA29 9E98 5431 1A68 6975 - Old mail has arrived. diff -x configure -x co

start-stop-daemon ulimit

2005-03-31 Thread Carlo Contavalli
Hello, I've worked out a trivial patch for start-stop-daemon to enable it to set per-process ulimits before starting up daemons. It looks for a file called /etc/limits/name_of_daemon, containing something like: # This is a comment coresoft2048 corehard4096 nofile soft1

Re: Bug#302242: ITP: php4-dbase -- dBase module for php4

2005-03-31 Thread Kim Lundgren
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 10:46 +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > What is the real license for this module? The copyright info is very unclear. Sorry about that. I wasn't sure about the level of detail an ITP should contain. The package will end up in non-free, unfortunately. While the parts of the

Re: CALL WwAVE cANCELATION

2005-03-31 Thread David Schmitt
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 19:00, ERNRDT PODLUVKY wrote: > PLEASE UNSUBSUBSCRIBE ME AS OF TODAY---THANK YOU Please read and follow the instructions on http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01444.html Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott se

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG > > | Huh? I'm not saying I pretend it isn't there. Do I want to modify > | the source code? No, because there's nothing I could do with it if I > | could. > > Sure there is, like, reprogramming the image shown when your comp

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.31.1031 +0200]: >$ lsb_release >LSB Version:n/a > > Hmm. Is n/a an abbreviation for debiaN/unstAble? lsb_release -is read the manpage. n/a means your system is not LSB conformant. -- Please do not send copies of list mail

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2005-03-31 kello 10:31 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen kirjoitti: > Sounds cool. > >$ sudo apt-get install lsb-release >$ lsb-release >bash: lsb-release: command not found >$ lsb_release >LSB Version:n/a > > Hmm. Is n/a an abbreviation for debiaN/unstAble? $ lsb_release -a

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
martin f. krafft writes: > also sprach Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.31.0906 +0200]: >> DISTRIB := $(shell something-that-prints-DEBIAN-or-UBUNTU) > > Rene told me about lsb-release. Sounds cool. $ sudo apt-get install lsb-release $ lsb-release bash: lsb-release: comman

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-31 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2005-03-31 kello 01:06 -0600, Peter Samuelson kirjoitti: > [martin f krafft] > > Parts of debian/rules are Ubuntu-specific (e.g. mv README.Debian > > README.Ubuntu) and we would love to have that removed. > > The DISTRIB thing can be implemented quite easily without include files > or anything