Re: Tcl in Debian - volunteers needed

2006-02-11 Thread David N. Welton
Ian Jackson wrote:
> David N. Welton writes ("Tcl in Debian - volunteers needed"):
> 
>>Apparently some of the packages I maintain were removed from Debian's
>>testing distribution this evening: rivet, tcldom, tclxml and tclsoap,
>>because of open bugs against them that I haven't found the time to
>>close.  "My bad", as they say.
> 
> 
> I would like to volunteer to take:
>   tclparser, tclvfs, libtk-img

Cool, have at it - thanks!

> If you can't find anyone else then I could also take:
>   gdtclft, tclthread

Looks like these are yours too.  gdtclft is pretty inactive, tclthread
does need an eye kept on it, though.

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Tcl in Debian - volunteers needed

2006-02-04 Thread David N. Welton
[Apologies if this went out more than once.  Thunderbird is being
weird...  Please CC replies to me.  Thanks!]

Hi Debian developers and Tcl users,

Apparently some of the packages I maintain were removed from Debian's
testing distribution this evening: rivet, tcldom, tclxml and tclsoap,
because of open bugs against them that I haven't found the time to
close.  "My bad", as they say.

I will hopefully find the time to fix and upload new versions next week,
however, realistically in the long term I don't see myself as having
much time for maintaining most of the Tcl packages I currently have:

tclparser, tclxml, mysqltcl, tkcon, tclsoap, tclthread, tcldom, tdom,
tclvfs, gdtclft, tclexpat, and libtk-img (Img)

I would like someone else to take these over.  Those that aren't, may be
removed from Debian (and consequently, Ubuntu).

I intend to keep looking after rivet, tclmagick, being part of the
upstream teams for each.  Indeed, I'll have a bit more time for them if
someone can give the other packages a good home.

It's probably easiest if someone already in Debian can do this, because
a newcomer will have to face a fair amount of bureaucracy to deal with
Debian, and I do not have the time to assist with that, nor am I really
all that familiar with the procedures(*) involved - my involvement in
Debian began in 1997, prior to many of the rules and regulations that
have subsequently been put in place.

That said, it *would* be nice to get some Tcl people interested in
Debian and Ubuntu, because they are extremely well done Linux
distributions whose popularity is on the rise (there were rumors, since
denied, that Google was going to distribute a desktop Linux based on
Ubuntu).  I just wanted to warn you up front that it will require some
real commitment that at times goes beyond the technical abilities
strictly necessary to maintain the aforementioned packages.

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Re: For those who care about the GR

2006-01-22 Thread David N. Welton
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 13:59:15 +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:  
> 
> 
>>1. debian-legal is wrong, the GFDL is compatable with the DFSG and
>>   thus should be included in main.
> 
> 
>   Looking over the arguments for and against it in -legal, I am
>  trying to ascertain if this stance has a leg to stand on.

... and ?

I am still trying to ascertain whether debian-legal has a leg to stand on.

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Re: perl and libtk-img

2003-04-25 Thread David N. Welton
Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Em Qui, 2003-03-27 às 19:38, David N. Welton escreveu:
> > [ Please CC me in replies ]

> > Hi, I have emailed the guy who submitted this bug, with no answer.
> > Any Perl people want to have a look at it and see if the problem
> > behavior is still there?

> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=142998

> The trouble with this bug is that Tk::JPEG is not in debian, you
> must get it from CPAN.  I use it on instable after debianizing and
> have no troubles.

> The message showed in this bug is same on Windows with ActivePerl
> packages. Seems to be a problem with an old version of Tk::JPEG

Ah, ok, thankyou very much for the clarification!

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Re: Recommending non-free software

2002-04-17 Thread David N. Welton

Hiding information is bad.  If that's what the upstream author thinks,
then so be it.

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Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-08 Thread David N. Welton
Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Of course it's nice of them that they help, but I still think it's
> wrong that the registration page is hosted on a server with non-free
> software and with a link to a site trying to sell non-free
> products. Certainly because we can make the registration form with
> free software without any links to non-free stuff.

You're not too far off the mark, but the missing ingredient here is
you getting off your ass and making it happen (i.e. writing code,
finding someone to host the machine) instead of just complaining and
telling other people what they should and shouldn't do.

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Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-06 Thread David N. Welton
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> "we can tell that a Debian release is about to happen".  Or
> something.

"I sense a disturbance in the force" ?

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Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)

2002-01-14 Thread David N. Welton

And what's more, it only indents two at a time.  Heretics!

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Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

2002-01-07 Thread David N. Welton
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Previously David N. Welton wrote:

> > Right, so how do we fix this?  It is our problem, in that we need
> > to make the software we distribute work together.  But are you
> > also saying that upstream shouldn't be setting that bit in their
> > header file?

> As long as the API (and ABI) never exports things like struct stat
> and offset_t (ie things that are affected by enabling LFS) it should
> not matter if you link things that are compiled with LFS with things
> that are not.

It wouldn't cause problems if you did stat64(&foo) where foo is a
regular 'struct stat'?

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Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

2002-01-06 Thread David N. Welton
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > The Problem here is, that some header files define the LFS. This
> > should not be done.

> Indeed, doing that is broken behaviour.

Grepping about on my system, I see that mysql does it too, in
my_config.h:

#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64

> > One good Idea would be to include the define in stat.h :)

> No way, that would break lots of things.

Right, so how do we fix this?  It is our problem, in that we need to
make the software we distribute work together.  But are you also
saying that upstream shouldn't be setting that bit in their header
file?

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Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

2002-01-06 Thread David N. Welton
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Previously David N. Welton wrote:

> > I don't think it's right that two pieces of software can declare
> > the same struct and have them come out different things... there's
> > something wrong.
 
> Bogus, if you compile them with the same options then will the the
> same. If you compile one with LFS and one without you can expect
> problems as you have demonstrated.

Well then that's a problem, because we need to make sure everything in
Debian that could be combined is compiled with the these same things,
otherwise, there is a lot of room for nasty bugs.

In any case, changing the order of two header files doesn't seem
offhand like the sort of thing that would go about changing the system
definitions.  That's poor modularity, in my opinion, because neither
Apache nor Python, Tcl or anything else but libc6 owns the stuff in
include/sys/.

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Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

2002-01-06 Thread David N. Welton
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Previously David N. Welton wrote:

> > I'm not sure exactly what problems this may cause, but I don't
> > like the looks of it...  Interestingly (... or not) enough, that
> > define isn't created when building locally (version 1.3.23-dev)...
 
> It doesn't cause any problems at all, it is by design.

Actually it caused me a great deal of problems - hours spent tracking
down a bug in mod_dtcl, that as far as I can tell, is caused by this
mismatch.

I don't think it's right that two pieces of software can declare the
same struct and have them come out different things... there's
something wrong.  You can convince me that it's Apache, libc, Tcl,
mod_dtcl, or whatever else, but something doesn't seem right to me.

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stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

2002-01-06 Thread David N. Welton

FILE 1

#include "httpd.h"
#include 

int main() {
struct stat foo;
printf("size of stat __pad1 is %d\n", sizeof(foo.__pad1));
}

FILE 2

#include 
#include "httpd.h"

int main() {
struct stat foo;
printf("size of stat __pad1 is %d\n", sizeof(foo.__pad1));
}

These produce different code, because of #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
in /usr/include/apache-1.3/ap_config_auto.h.

I'm not sure exactly what problems this may cause, but I don't like
the looks of it...  Interestingly (... or not) enough, that define
isn't created when building locally (version 1.3.23-dev)...

Hrm...
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Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-05 Thread David N. Welton
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Yes, of course we want them all to use Debian; we claim to be the
> Universal Operating System.
 
> What the exact steps should be to accomplish this goal aren't
> completely clear to me, and I doubt they are to anyone else either.

How about a universal configuration system, using, say, Scheme or
something similar.  That way we can configure everything either
programmatically *or* 'by hand' without any of those crappy config
programs!  Power for power users, GUI for those who don't want to
delve into the guts of stuff.

Then, when we're done with that (he he) we can rename things to be
more informative.  "etc"?  It should be "config", of course! etc...

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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 4, 2002

2002-01-04 Thread David N. Welton
BugScan reporter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Package: erlang-slang (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Mark Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   121460 erlang-slang doesn't build from source on powerpc (at least)

Fixed, and patch sent directly to the maintainer.  Will NMU if I don't
hear back from said maintainer...

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Re: Debian Weekly News - December 27th, 2001

2001-12-28 Thread David N. Welton
Christer Gundersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Tried FreeBSD? Seen the ports? Take a look at www.freshports.org,
> what about something like that? that will help people a lot. at
> leased me :)

I made an attempt to create a 'Debian Package of the Week' page, but I
don't have time to maintain it and come up with new ones each week.
It's available at http://people.debian.org/~davidw/pow/

Maybe the DebianPlanet people would be interested in a feature like
that?

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Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread David N. Welton
Anthony Towns  writes:

> On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:07:57PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote:

> > As was stated elsewhere, the best way you can make a meaningful
> > contribution is to file bugs that are "higher level" than
> > "normal", in order to draw attention to broken packages.

> Oh god no. Please no. Inflating bug severeties just makes it harder
> to do releases; if there's a problem with normal bugs being ignored
> (and, IMO, there is), it needs to be addressed directly, not worked
> around by filing everything as important or higher.

If the software is broken enough that people find it really doesn't
work for its intended purpose, I agree with Henrique's idea that a bug
should be filed that will block the software from getting released.

> Hrm. At least tell me that I'm misreading this, and what you meant
> to say was `` "higher quality" than "average" '' or something.

If it's going to be a bug that blocks the package from getting into
Debian releases, it better be well thought out, and high-quality, and
certainly not something used lightly.

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Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread David N. Welton

Brian, I understand your complaints.  It bugs me, too, to find
software not maintained well.  We are volunteers, though, and as you
realize, it takes a lot of time to do this, and so it happens, on
occasion that someone just can't keep up.  I don't think it's really
fair of people to tell you "hey, see if you can do it better", as you
may not have the free time to work on something, let alone jump
through the beaurocratic hoops that Debian places in the way of people
who want to help.  If you don't have the time, you'll probably end up
not maintaining it well either;-)

As was stated elsewhere, the best way you can make a meaningful
contribution is to file bugs that are "higher level" than "normal", in
order to draw attention to broken packages.  Even this will take you
some time to do properly, as you should read through the existing
reports in order to avoid duplicates.  However, it's a very valuable
service.  I know I appreciate finding that someone has already
reported a problem, and by doing so, possibly blocking buggy software
from going into 'testing' or being released.

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Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread David N. Welton
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> So if I create a game with _no_ levels, but the tools to create
> them, then is it none-free?

Can it be used for its intended purpose without the data files?  For
anything?

If these tools are out there, then presumably someone will use them to
create a minimal set of free data files.  At that time, then the whole
thing can go into main.

By the way, isn't "contrib" a silly and misleading name?

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Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-27 Thread David N. Welton
Martijn van Oosterhout  writes:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:44:05AM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:

> > Maybe we should just use Debian English or Internet English, wich
> > means: produce something legible by other inhabitants of the
> > Internet and/or Debian, and who cares about the details.
 
> Now there's a definition I can live with. 

> English == Debian English == Legible English

> As long as it's readable, it's fine.

> Doesn't solve the problem of the default charset though...

iso8859-1 covers most people, doesn't it?  I mean, as a default.  I
admit I don't know a lot about charsets - iso8859-1 is enough for me
to comunicate in Italian and English.

Or the default programming language: I would recommend elastiC.

;-)

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Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-27 Thread David N. Welton
Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Seems to me that "American English", "Australian English", "British
> English", "Singaporese(?) English", "Hong Kong English", "Canadian
> English", etc. are most appropriate; there is no reason for one
> particular variant to be called "English."

As per my original suggestion.

We are going to get nowhere trying to force something down people's
throats.

We should not force anyone to write in American or British or whatever
English, or have either one be The English that we use.  Otherwise, we
will just go on with this stupid debate.

Oh, and as someon from the US, the language I speak is English.  Got
that?  All of you(*) making snide remarks that it's not "really"
English can "jolly well fuck off", to turn a phrase:-) I don't speak
American - I speak English.  American English, if you want to qualify
it, is fine, but the language is English.  It's quite real.  If it
weren't, you wouldn't be able to read this.

(*) Especially those of you who don't even speak English as your
native language - where do you get off on telling me what I speak?!

Maybe we should just use Debian English or Internet English, wich
means: produce something legible by other inhabitants of the Internet
and/or Debian, and who cares about the details.

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Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread David N. Welton
Ari Makela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Andres Seco Hernandez writes:

>  > Well, Apache and its related stuff is big enough to require an special
>  > work.

> I've been very unhappy in the /etc/init.d/apache script - I'd like
> if it would check the configuration before stop or restart and if it
> would be possible to start Apache with option -X for testing
> purposes.

If you need to start it with -X, just do it by hand.  That's what I do
when I'm hacking on mod_dtcl.  I'm not really sure that modes of
operation belong in init.d scripts...

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Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-13 Thread David N. Welton

Sounds like a good idea.  I would also be willing to help out if
anything is needed from the ASF, although I'm not involved with the
server project itself.

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Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread David N. Welton
"Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Some e-books are available also under Open Publication License.
> What do you think of a pseudo package `ebooks-dev' which collects as
> many guides, faqs and e-books as possible (in HTML format whenever
> possible)? Is this a well-known question? What are your comments
> about this argument?

Books are big.  Something that pulls in a lot of them is likely to be
quite heavy.  I think a package called 'books index' would make more
sense.  This would provide an index to all the book packages that are
available in Debian, instructing the user on how to go about
downloading it.  Does something like this make sense?

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Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread David N. Welton
Nick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 2 aliases, "english" for the English, "american" for the Americans.

I don't speak 'american', though, I speak 'english', and will look for
that, as will the rest of my compatriots, when asked to select the
language I speak.  Nice try for a compromise, but it won't work.
"British English" and "American English" is ok, though, and is
probably the only fair way to do this (or use English(American) and
English(British) so they sort next to one another?).

Before we go off on too much of a flame war here, *please* note that
Marcelo says that Ben wants a consensus.  Does anyone believe that a
*consensus* is possible?

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Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread David N. Welton
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  My bug was triggered by the fact that gdm offers a long selection
>  of languages, among them English (without bells and whistles, just
>  plain old "English") and in case you select that, it sets the
>  environment variable LANG to that, "english".

Maybe it should ask if you want british or american english.

Trying to decide which one is 'the' English is probably a good recipe
for a flame war with no result.

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ifupdown needs help?

2001-09-05 Thread David N. Welton

I see that there are a lot of old bugs in ifupdown, some of which
include patches.  Are you having trouble working on this package?
Could you use some help?

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Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-04-28 Thread David N. Welton
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Previously Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

> > OK, but who have choose that nslookup is deprecated in favour of
> > the other two tools ?

> It's authors.

> > Why we have to remove nsllokup from debian ?

> You are free to take an old bind source and create a nslookup
> package based on those.

Adding readline support, while you're at it, would be really nice:-)

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Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-26 Thread David N. Welton
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 follow it on non-intel
architectures as well?  Gdb is a hairy package...

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Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread David N. Welton
"Carl B. Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to
> that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel
> and other such lists that "should" be closed. I don't think
> trademark domains is doing anything for debian development.

Before you go starting another flame war, did you go back and look
through the list history for 'closed list' et similae?  Maybe you
could do that, and respond to the concerns raised in *those* flame
wars...

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End of the line for Epic?

2000-09-07 Thread David N. Welton

I'm wondering if anyone still uses this package anymore.  It has been
superceded by epic4 for hrmmm it must be several years.

Is it time for it to go?  It's not like it's broken or it has any
hideous bugs, but it's not going anyplace, either.

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Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread David N. Welton
Is there any kind of database to filter out time-wasting, vitriolic
arguments full of personal attacks, about things that have nothing to
do with Debian?

I guess there is, but come on people, enough is enough.  Just hit the
delete key and get over it.  There are tons of things to do to make
Debian better, go do those instead of wasting your time with this
drivel.

(rant 'off)
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Random idea: packages with lots of bugs on WNPP

1998-05-03 Thread David N. Welton
Sitting around thinking about nothing in particular, and it occurred
to me that it might be useful to include some of the buggier packages
on the WNPP.  This might be a good way to get people to work on fixing
these packages, instead of seeking out new things to package.  Maybe
we could include all packages with more than X bugs.. the top X
percent.. 

Maybe we could have some means of excluding several of the bigger ones
such as X, that do have active maintainers, but naturally, due to
their size, have lots of bugs.

Anyway.. just thought I'd toss this out for consideration.
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