Re: pbuilder and configure

2007-09-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I understand correctly it is recommended to use pbuilder for > packaging and I've done so when I updated packages recently. Then I got > a bug report that a nice feature was suddenly lost and I found that > configure script failed to find out very c

pbuilder and configure

2007-09-18 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi all, If I understand correctly it is recommended to use pbuilder for packaging and I've done so when I updated packages recently. Then I got a bug report that a nice feature was suddenly lost and I found that configure script failed to find out very common applications because pbuilder didn't

modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-18 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi all, Recently, perhaps mainly due to so many spams, it looks common to write email address like "foo at some.where" etc. and I wonder if it is acceptable to use such modified email address in Upstream Author field of debian/copyright file. I come to think this because when I updated one of m

Re: Building packages three times in a row

2007-09-18 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Dienstag, 18. September 2007 21:12:44 schrieb Julien Cristau: > > Hmmhh, what do you do about programs etc that encode the build-time in > > the binary? I mean they obviously will change between builds? > > Hopefully they don't encode the build-time in the file list? We checked not for files whi

Re: Interpreting testing excuses

2007-09-18 Thread frank
Hi Norbert, > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 22:02:41 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> we are wondering why texlive-base and texlive-bin don't enter testing, >> and I fail to understand the output of the update excuses at [...] > testing has texlive-base 2007-10, and texlive-bin 2007-12. > > P

Bug#443123: ITP: wired -- Music creation and production software

2007-09-18 Thread pj-leger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: wired Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/wired/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Music creation

Re: ML improvement proposition (Re: SMTP 550 on replies to bugs)

2007-09-18 Thread Oleg Verych (Gmane)
* 18-09-2007, Bernd Zeimetz * User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070828 Thunderbird/2.0.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 > >> * Allow messages, that have "In-reply-to" and "References" with valid >> message-id's (SHOULD in rfc2822) to pass to bts/ml freely. > > Why? This

Re: Building packages three times in a row

2007-09-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 20:49:03 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 22:34 +0200, Patrick Winnertz wrote: > > Hi, > [...] > > Furthermore we detect some issues with different package content (compared > > to the first build) after the second and third build. This bugs will hav

Re: Building packages three times in a row

2007-09-18 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 22:34 +0200, Patrick Winnertz wrote: > Hi, [...] > Furthermore we detect some issues with different package content (compared > to the first build) after the second and third build. This bugs will have > Severity: Serious. Hmmhh, what do you do about programs etc that encod

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-18 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag 18 September 2007 schrieb Ken Spath: > If after I install casu or netdiag, I type man casu or man netdiag > there is nothing. > > whereis / find / apt-cache search / apt-file search were necessary > > How many current debian users and users of forked distributions know > of apt-file o

Re: Packages with RFCs deleted

2007-09-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:24:21PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:35:15PM -0500, Peter Samuelson a ?crit : > I fully agree with what you write. Indeed what I support is not to ignore > the RFC or other similarly non-free, non-programmatic files, but to > document them in

Tr :Re: 2 servers available

2007-09-18 Thread Greiner, Dominique
Hello, In our factory we have 2 old but reliable servers. Is there any interest for them ? They are available near Strasbourg, in France. 2 Digital server series 5000 : each server has : - Dual CPU PII 333 MHZ - 512 MB - Adaptec SCSI Raid and 3 SCSI discs of 9 GB each. Tape backup ... See th

Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-18 Thread Ken Spath
Proposal regarding future packaging: Add an additional manual page to new/future/updated packages that is the same as the package name. IF and only IF there would NOT be a conflict with an existant necessary manual page AND IF there is no binary in a package that is the same as the package name.

Re: speed of COW directory copying: XFS 20x slower than ext3

2007-09-18 Thread Ondrej Certik
> > it turned out the problem is in the XFS filesystem, that is 20x slower, > > than the ext3 filesystem. I know that XFS is bad at handling small > > files, but 20x times? > > Try to play with parameters mentioned in laptop-mode.txt in the Linux > sources. > > Then, try to have XFS log area on sep

Re: Packages with RFCs deleted

2007-09-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:35:15PM -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > A lot of users appreciate our promise to read all the licenses so they > don't have to. > as I explain further, suddenly we have a user who notices, for the > first time, that the RFC (or Sun Java, or whatever) actually _does_

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom"): > I also argued (on IRC) about the fact that removing some non-free parts > of upstream source tarballs (like RFC) is not really worth it if we make > sure that it doesn't end up in binary packages. I agree wit

Re: How to start porting to a new ARCHITECTURE?

2007-09-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-09-17 12:16:18, schrieb Bastian Blank: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:32:06AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > since 2007-08-01 I am now jobless (yeah, the new French GOV do not like > > that I stay in the army as PMC) and today (Saturday) I was asked by an > > owner of a german Enterprise

Re: ML improvement proposition (Re: SMTP 550 on replies to bugs)

2007-09-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> * Allow messages, that have "In-reply-to" and "References" with valid > message-id's (SHOULD in rfc2822) to pass to bts/ml freely. Why? This can be faked easily, getting them together with a destination email address should be pretty easy for spammers. > * Opening new threads in MLs requires