Re: Uploaded printfilters-ppd 2.12-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-09-15 Thread Nicolas Fillon
El Vie 14 Sep 2001 21:00, Debian/SPARC Build Daemon escribió: UNSUBSCRIBE

Problème avec debconf sou potato

2001-09-15 Thread Christian Marillat
Salut, J'aéi un petit problème de scripts debconf qui marche avec sid mais pas avec potato. Le message d'erreur en potato est : Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 118, GEN0 chunk 1. Si quelqu'un à une idée ? Christian

Maintainers needing help closing bugs

2001-09-15 Thread Chris Tillman
I've been perusing the bug catalogs, and I thought it might be useful for others who want to help closing bugs, to see which maintainers need the most help. Here's a list of the oldest bugs (also see the list of bugs more than 2 years old at master.debian.org/~ajt/oldbugs.html). Following that is

sendmail 8.12.0 problem

2001-09-15 Thread J. R. Westmoreland
I installed sendmail 8.12.0 and had problems delivering mail to local users. I get a Service Unavailable. If I send from the local machine root gets a message indicating that setreuid got a Operation not permitted. What am I doing wrong? Please reply to me direct since I have not yet resubscribed

Re: problems with binary NMU and apt

2001-09-15 Thread Gerhard Tonn
Which packages are these? It's probably a bug in the package source, in that it's coded in such a way that bin-nmu's aren't possible. There're a bunch of packages like that. (ie, a Depends: otherpkg (= myver) line) In my case it's esound-common, which in turn makes the entire gnome tree not

Re: problems with binary NMU and apt

2001-09-15 Thread Gerhard Tonn
On Saturday 15 September 2001 07:29, you wrote: In my case it's esound-common, which in turn makes the entire gnome tree not installable. Most of the esound packages have a 'esound-common (= ${Source-Version})' dependency in debian/control. Is there any generic solution for the problem?

Re: Orphaning all packages

2001-09-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On 14 Sep 2001 16:37:20 +0200, Martin Albert wrote: I'm about to take an extended vacation from being a Debian developer, Think i would miss you, but to take your word: how about prototyping co-maintenance on publib-dev? With a good upstream ... ;) Some pkg i happen to have to compile

Re: root rm: Permission denied - solution found

2001-09-15 Thread Edward Betts
Tille, Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Edward Betts wrote: I had the same problem, just worked out how to fix it, I used the chattr program, see the chattr man page for more details. Could you please be a little bit more detailed? # chattr -V -i postgres.log.7.gz

RMMODing a console font

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Debian was easily installed on my Gateway Solo 3500 laptop, with ATI Mach64 Rage Mobility graphics card The best VGA console fonts are obtained by # insmod atyfb providing slim 80x30 fonts. However Xwindows does not stabilize subsequently with this driver active, AND # rmmod atyfb fails because

Re: New update_excuses output

2001-09-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sat 15 Sep 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: As of the next dinstall/testing run (a few hours away yet) there'll be a new set of lines in the update_excuses output [0] (NB: it's now over a MB so it's quite long and tedious). They look like: Would it be possible to also offer a compressed version

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

2001-09-15 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Ardo van Rangelrooij (on Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:06:52PM -0500): Please do. Something like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or so? I'm still gonna file against lists.debian.org. Once that is created we can move over. Do you also support archiving? That would be really great. alright. doing so

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:37:08PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: ...and the new prerm remove it, and future versions of these scripts until the end of ti^W^W^Wrelease after next... Actually, if you'd also ship the symlink in the new .deb, dpkg would remove it. Or am I missing your

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Edward Betts
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13-Sep-01, 18:37 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debconf question: do you want a symlink. Please, no. The fact that debconf provides an easy, consistent way to interact with the user does not mean that every possible choice that a

Debugging help for dhelp needed

2001-09-15 Thread Stefan Hornburg Racke
Hello, fellow Debian developers ! dhelp was recently orphaned. IMHO a online help is quite a good idea, but the code hasn't touched quite a while. I ported the source code from db1 to db2, which is definitely needed to make it work for woody. Unfortunately dhelp_parse -r get stucked in the

Re: New update_excuses output

2001-09-15 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Paul Slootman uttered: Would it be possible to also offer a compressed version of these files (update_excuses.html, update_output.txt, etc)? Most browsers can handle uncompressing these on the fly and it makes accessing these lists MUCH faster. As a

Re: Debugging help for dhelp needed

2001-09-15 Thread Christian Marillat
SH == Stefan Hornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, fellow Debian developers ! Hi, dhelp was recently orphaned. IMHO a online help is quite a good idea, but the code hasn't touched quite a while. I ported the source code from db1 to db2, which is definitely needed to make it work for

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Sep-01, 09:14 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13-Sep-01, 18:37 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your scheme works, but at least tell the sys admin what is going on with a debconf note. If you don't want to be

Re: New update_excuses output

2001-09-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Would it be possible to also offer a compressed version of these files (update_excuses.html, update_output.txt, etc)? Most browsers can handle uncompressing these on the fly and it makes accessing these lists MUCH faster. As a porter I often use update_excuses for tracking down packages

Re: problems with binary NMU and apt

2001-09-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 07:41:21AM +0200, Gerhard Tonn wrote: On Saturday 15 September 2001 07:29, you wrote: In my case it's esound-common, which in turn makes the entire gnome tree not installable. Most of the esound packages have a 'esound-common (= ${Source-Version})' dependency in

Re: [woodm@equire.com: XFree86 common]

2001-09-15 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Roland == Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a comment... Roland Branden Robinson (2001-08-30 21:26:18 -0500) : On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:40:03PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for

Re: problems with binary NMU and apt

2001-09-15 Thread Simon Richter
Package: debhelper Version: 3.0.44 Severity: normal On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Most of the esound packages have a 'esound-common (= ${Source-Version})' dependency in debian/control. Is there any generic solution for the problem? You could manually tweak debian/substvars

why is gtk+extra out of date?

2001-09-15 Thread Bradley Bell
help! I'm the maintainer of gtk+extra (libgtkextra16, libgtkextra-dev) which is quite out of date in testing, and I have no idea why. It has no RC bugs and the dependencies are satisfied. Maybe I'm missing something that someone can clue me into? gtkmm (day 10) sorely needs to make it in as

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:11:20AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: Your scheme works, but at least tell the sys admin what is going on with a debconf note. If you don't want to be bugged change the debconf priority. I've got it set to high. Apparently a number of maintainers think that

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 08:24:32PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: We can't really expect the admins to parse through hundreds of changelogs; README.Debian would be a good place, though. OTOH, apt-listchanges displays the changelog upon upgrade, whereas there's no automated way to display changes to

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:34:38PM -0500, David Starner wrote: We can't really expect the admins to parse through hundreds of changelogs; README.Debian would be a good place, though. OTOH, apt-listchanges displays the changelog upon upgrade, whereas there's no automated way to display

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:34:38PM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 08:24:32PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: We can't really expect the admins to parse through hundreds of changelogs; README.Debian would be a good place, though. OTOH, apt-listchanges displays the changelog

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Sep-01, 13:24 (CDT), Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:11:20AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: There is already a standard, reliable way of communicating package changes to the admin. Amazingly enough, it's called a changelog. I usually find them under

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation

2001-09-15 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Bramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.) notification mails This is already fixed. Verybody can stop the server to send this mails. And I send a No it's not. You have to send an email for every package that you maintain. This is simply unacceptable. If I don't stop receiving these

apache-debian going live

2001-09-15 Thread Martin F Krafft
whatever the call is on how we should proceed in terms of Debian apache package task force, i have created a mailing list, webpage, and cvs repository for the crew. you can subscribe at https://lists.madduck.net/mailman/listinfo/debian-apache you can post with debian-apache at

Problem with resolv.conf and search list

2001-09-15 Thread Bruno BEAUFILS
There is something I do not understand about resolving hostnames. It seems the search primitive of resolv.conf does not work properly in sid, nor in woody. Let's see some of my configuration files : resolv.conf search lifl.fr univ-lille1.fr iut-info.univ-lille1.fr

Re: Problem with resolv.conf and search list

2001-09-15 Thread Philippe Troin
[moving the discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruno BEAUFILS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is something I do not understand about resolving hostnames. It seems the search primitive of resolv.conf does not work properly in sid, nor in woody. Let's see some of my configuration files :

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 01:49:34AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: People shouldn't have to sift through a bunch of entries of boring and meaningless text (to them, at least :) to get such information... The same being true of README.Debian. I like to know what changes on my box, so I can anticipate

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 07:46:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Currently, most users probably don't read README.Debian unless they have a good reason, so while it's the correct place to put things like this, they aren't always seen. In the future, though, package management frontends should

Re: problems with binary NMU and apt

2001-09-15 Thread Joey Hess
Simon Richter wrote: Hrm, I just tried to build a package using DH_OPTIONS=--dpkg-gencontrol-params=-v0.1-1.0.1 dpkg-buildpackage -B In principle this could work, however current debhelper treats --dpkg-gencontrol-params as equivalent to -u in Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Getopt, so the -v

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:18:39PM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 07:46:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Currently, most users probably don't read README.Debian unless they have a good reason, so while it's the correct place to put things like this, they aren't always

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:30:21PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: It's not that hard to do this for a single package, but it is a completely different matter to do it by hand for every newly-installed package. This is something that frontends should simplify. I have over a thousand packages

how to install from local mirror?

2001-09-15 Thread Lindsay Allen
I'm trying to do a fresh sid install using my local partial mirror and I get stuck with a debootstrap error 2. The problem is with dists/sid/Release. Is there a script which creates this file? I have tried to create a valid version to match my mirror but had no success. TIA Lindsay --

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:44:23PM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:30:21PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: It's not that hard to do this for a single package, but it is a completely different matter to do it by hand for every newly-installed package. This is something