Bug#113106: ITP: vdr -- Video Disk Recorder

2001-09-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-22 Severity: wishlist * Package name: vdr Version : 0.95 Upstream Author : Klaus.Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/index.htm * License : GPL Description : Video Disk Re

Re: OCELOT SQL DBMS is now free open source (fwd)

2001-09-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:23:01PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > - Source code for all the _development_tools_ from SAP (start with that) I have contacted SAP about it and they may release the sources, but it did not sound like this will happen in near future. Perhaps porting to nother devel-cha

Re: Bug#66135: libtool_1.3.5-1(unstable): wrapping of binaries fails with -D__LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__

2001-09-21 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:17:38PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > OK. Well why don't you explain, either here, or in bug 66135, how the > bug is still there and what should be done? The simple statement that > Brian's comment is 'False' doesn't really move us forward... Because I've already report

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 21, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >inside the jail... (unless bind9 does not need to have any libs and config >files such as resolv.conf inside its jail, in which case there is no need >for such a script). It does not. The only things needed are /var/run/, /var/

Re: madison

2001-09-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:52:37PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > madison seems to be what the debian.org webpage sports as the package > search over distributions. is it packaged? do you need someone to package > it? madison requires connectivity to a Debian database which is not publicly acces

Re: madison

2001-09-21 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:52:37PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > madison seems to be what the debian.org webpage sports as the package > search over distributions. is it packaged? do you need someone to > package it? > madison has to be run on ftp-master, thats why it is not packaged. If you wan

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > The social contract says "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software". > Such a win-port might indeed serve some users. But for my own part, I do > have some personal problems with making all free software win-compatible. > Does it serve Fre

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Martin F Krafft wrote: > how about this: i'll make the package (which will basically be a > postinst/prerm pair and nothing else, and then we can always integrate IMHO it would be better if you did it the way it is done in the postfix package. The initscript sets up the chroot

madison

2001-09-21 Thread Martin F Krafft
madison seems to be what the debian.org webpage sports as the package search over distributions. is it packaged? do you need someone to package it? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if god had meant fo

bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-21 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Bdale Garbee (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:00:59PM -0600): > > bind9-chroot -- convert a bind9 installation to a chroot'd one > > What does this package do? I have offered numerous times to accept a patch > for the bind9 package to optionally implement chroot installation and nobody > ha

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-21 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
Hi, On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, A Mennucc1 wrote: [...] > -why is the 'win' port important? [...] (Sorry for dropping in late to this thread, I was too busy lately to follow debian-devel tightly.) The social contract says "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software". Such a win-port might i

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-21 Thread Steve Greenland
On 20-Sep-01, 20:30 (CDT), Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made it a *.deb package, because that allows you to use apt-get to > automatically upgrade the package on a *nfs root* partition to the > latest version. (Brian, thanks for the explanation. That was a lot more useful than "you wa

Re: samba cvs debian packages?

2001-09-21 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Andreas, I don't have packages for recent CVS sources but I am working on it. I am a bit behind because winbind is new in the current CVS tree for what will become Samba 2.2.2 so I am making modifications to the Debian packages to accomodate for new binary packages (for winbind and friends.) Besid

Re: please test this lintian release

2001-09-21 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 21-Sep-2001 Adam Heath wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > >> http://people.debian.org/~shaleh/lintian. > > > > It's normally customary to include a brief list of things we should be > > testing. I meant you shoul

Why don't autoconf and autoconf2.13 go into testing?

2001-09-21 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, why don't autoconf and autoconf2.13 go into testing? update-excuses says: autoconf 2.52-2 (currently 2.13-27) (optional) (low) autoconf uploaded 21 days ago, out of date by 11 days! autoconf/[all archs]: Unsatisfiable Depends: autoconf2.13 (>= 2.13-34) valid

Re: Graphing Debian Lists

2001-09-21 Thread Nils Lohner
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:24:34 +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: >Dear Developers! > >I have taken the opportunity to create some nice (or not?) graphics of >the mailing lists that Debian serves on lists.debian.org. I have >analysed both the posting frequency and the total list of subscribers. Nicer loo

RE: please test this lintian release

2001-09-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Sep-2001 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~shaleh/lintian. > I have fixed the silly spelling error bug, lather, rinse and repeat.

Re: please test this lintian release

2001-09-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Sep-2001 Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:17:47PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> http://people.debian.org/~shaleh/lintian. >> >> > there is some problem with debian/Debian spell checking, it reports > "spelling-error-in-copyright debian Debian" even if it is (IMH

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Hasler wrote: > > I wrote: > > Surely there are locales for welsh and Scottish gaelic? > > Keith G. Murphy writes: > > I should think not. Those are two *very* different Celtic languages. > > Nor did I say otherwise. Read my sentence as "Surely there is a locale for > welsh and also a loc

Re: Excluding a binary package from Debian archives

2001-09-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Is Debian really that unpopular on Gibraltar? > > Why not simply include them, so that Debian users in Gibraltar can use it? > Gibraltar is Debian-based, a firewall distribution bootable from CD-ROM. Ah. That changes things a

Re: Excluding a binary package from Debian archives

2001-09-21 Thread Steffen Neumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wouter Verhelst) writes: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: [...] > Is Debian really that unpopular on Gibraltar? IIRC Gibraltar is the name of a debian based firewall... Yours, Steffen

Re: Excluding a binary package from Debian archives

2001-09-21 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Is Debian really that unpopular on Gibraltar? > Why not simply include them, so that Debian users in Gibraltar can use it? Gibraltar is Debian-based, a firewall distribution bootable from CD-ROM. But installing the gibraltar-bootsupport package on a Debian system that is in

Re: What is keeping new autoconf out of testing?

2001-09-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I do not understand this: > autoconf2.13 2.13-38 (new) (optional) (low) > Maintainer: Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > autoconf2.13 uploaded 15 days ago, out of date by 5 days! > autoconf2.13/alpha: Unsatisfiable Depends: autoconf (>= 2.50) > au

Re: Excluding a binary package from Debian archives

2001-09-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > Please CC me in replies, I am currently not subscribed to -devel. [...] > packages mkinitrd-cd and gibraltar-bootsupport. But only the package > mkinitrd-cd is interesting for Debian users / developers, the > gibraltar-bootsupport package is very Gibral

What is keeping new autoconf out of testing?

2001-09-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
I do not understand this: autoconf2.13 2.13-38 (new) (optional) (low) Maintainer: Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> autoconf2.13 uploaded 15 days ago, out of date by 5 days! autoconf2.13/alpha: Unsatisfiable Depends: autoconf (>= 2.50) autoconf2.13/arm: Unsatisfiable Depends: autoconf (>= 2.50)

Re: Bug#66135: libtool_1.3.5-1(unstable): wrapping of binaries fails with -D__LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__

2001-09-21 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:12:24PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Domenico" == Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Domenico> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:36:12AM -0700, Ossama Othman > Domenico> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:09:38PM +0200,

Re: why is gtk+extra out of date?

2001-09-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:01:31AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > > update_output.txt says: > > > gtk+extra: alpha: gpsim gpsim-dev gpsim-lcd gpsim-led gpsim-logic > > > quicklist > > > Perhaps all these packages need to be upgraded in testing > > > simultaneously? > I've posted to -devel or ma

samba cvs debian packages?

2001-09-21 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I am looking for a URL or apt-sources.list line where I can get up to date debian packages (cvs) of samba? I need the winbind tool to connect to a windows 2000 domain. I have allready founded and tested the samba-tng debian packages. that winbind does not work for me and I would like to try out the

Re: please test this lintian release

2001-09-21 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:17:47PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~shaleh/lintian. > > there is some problem with debian/Debian spell checking, it reports "spelling-error-in-copyright debian Debian" even if it is (IMHO) ok. lintian 1.20.14.1 says nothing about the s

Re: Bug#66135: libtool_1.3.5-1(unstable): wrapping of binaries fails with -D__LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__

2001-09-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:06:19PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This "bug" is only because of debian/rules which continue to use an > > obsolete (and no longer required) hack in order to remove unwanted > > -rpaths. > > > Just remove the hack, it is no lo

Re: why is gtk+extra out of date?

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:21:15AM -0700, Bradley Bell wrote: > Colin Watson Wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:39:15PM -0700, Bradley Bell wrote: > > > 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 > > >

Excluding a binary package from Debian archives

2001-09-21 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi all Please CC me in replies, I am currently not subscribed to -devel. I am the maintainer of the mkinitrd-cd package and have made many improvements since the last release so, I would like to update it. But because of a restructuring of the package, the source package has been renamed from mki

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-21 Thread Sulaiman Fahad Alhasawi
yeah RTL is true about arabic . And it could be solved by making an arabic keymap . Just for curiosity , do you have arabic developers who maintain arabic fonts/programs ? If yes , may i know who ? if no , can some one apply to do so ? Thanks all for your help -- On Fri, 21 Sep 2

Re: Preview of new Ghostscript packages - please test

2001-09-21 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please take a look at these packages and tell me about any problems > which are not obvious - there is a lot of stuff still lacking and I > only want to upload the packages to the archive when they are > feature complete. I really do not know much ab

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-21 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Surely there are locales for welsh and Scottish gaelic? Keith G. Murphy writes: > I should think not. Those are two *very* different Celtic languages. Nor did I say otherwise. Read my sentence as "Surely there is a locale for welsh and also a locale for Scottish gaelic". -- John Has

Re: Bug#66135: libtool_1.3.5-1(unstable): wrapping of binaries fails with -D__LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__

2001-09-21 Thread Herbert Xu
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This "bug" is only because of debian/rules which continue to use an > obsolete (and no longer required) hack in order to remove unwanted > -rpaths. > Just remove the hack, it is no longer required. It no longer serves > any useful function either. False.

Re: dpkg and /etc directories

2001-09-21 Thread Christian Marillat
"JG" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Were they empty when the package was removed, or only after it was > purged? If the latter, then at the moment, you'll have to remove them > manually in your postrm: > rmdir /etc/sound/events 2>/dev/null || true Or rmdir -p --ignor

Re: dpkg and /etc directories

2001-09-21 Thread Christian Marillat
"JG" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Were they empty when the package was removed, or only after it was > purged? If the latter, then at the moment, you'll have to remove them > manually in your postrm: > rmdir /etc/sound/events 2>/dev/null || true > etc. There is cu

Re: discrepancy in ISO 3166-1 country codes

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 09:42:09AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 06:40:32PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:51:26PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > Since your organization is the official authority for maitaining and > > > ISO country

Re: dpkg and /etc directories

2001-09-21 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:02:50AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > Hi, > > Why dpkg don't remove empty directories in /etc when purging ? > It is a dpkg bug ? > > I received these bugs : > > 112513 /etc/sound/events > > 112995 /

Re: why is gtk+extra out of date?

2001-09-21 Thread Bradley Bell
Colin Watson Wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:39:15PM -0700, Bradley Bell wrote: > > 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 s

Re: Bug#66135: libtool_1.3.5-1(unstable): wrapping of binaries fails with -D__LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__

2001-09-21 Thread Brian May
> "Domenico" == Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Domenico> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:36:12AM -0700, Ossama Othman Domenico> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:09:38PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: >> > ehm... this bug seems to be preventing

Re: Graphing Debian Lists

2001-09-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:38:48AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > subscriptions add and unsubscribes substract from there. A graph for a > statistic is worth nothing if it doesn't have the zero point in it. > First unit statistics lesson. Rubbish. The correct lesson is to learn to always look at

dpkg and /etc directories

2001-09-21 Thread Christian Marillat
Hi, Why dpkg don't remove empty directories in /etc when purging ? It is a dpkg bug ? I received these bugs : 112513 /etc/sound/events 112995 /etc/gnome 112994 /etc/gnome

Re: Graphing Debian Lists

2001-09-21 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi again. On Fri, Sep 21, 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: [zeropoint or not - that's the question] > That's not giving us anything. It doesn't draw a picture of the > subscribe frequency, nor does it provide a better view of the number > of subscribers. Well, it _does_ draw a picture of sub

Re: discrepancy in ISO 3166-1 country codes

2001-09-21 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 06:40:32PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:51:26PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > Since your organization is the official authority for maitaining and > > ISO country codes, I extensively used your page > > http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/is

Re: Bug#66135: libtool_1.3.5-1(unstable): wrapping of binaries fails with -D__LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__

2001-09-21 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:36:12AM -0700, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:09:38PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > ehm... this bug seems to be preventing lots of packages to make in > > testing, shouldn't it get some more attention? > > I was under the impression this

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-21 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:21:39AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic > Package: xfonts-intl-arabic Which are couple of fonts in an Emacs-only encoding, not useful outside of Emacs. > Please note that in general Linux distros have problems with Arabic

Re: Graphing Debian Lists

2001-09-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > [Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed] > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Gathering data happens all 30 minutes and I've let it run for a couple > > of days before making this annoncement, so there are some data to > > show. > > It looks

Re: please test this lintian release

2001-09-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Sep-2001 Adam Heath wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> http://people.debian.org/~shaleh/lintian. > > It's normally customary to include a brief list of things we should be > testing. It. The package. The thing I uploaded. Run lintian on your packages. Do you

Re: Graphing Debian Lists

2001-09-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > The graphs are indeed nice, what did you use to make them? > > The graphs say `rrdtool', which is a pretty good hint :) Indeed. Here's the source for the thing. http://cvs.infodrom.org/murphy/rrd-update?cvsroot=Infodrom-Tools

Re: Graphing Debian Lists

2001-09-21 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! [Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed] On Thu, Sep 20, 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: > Gathering data happens all 30 minutes and I've let it run for a couple > of days before making this annoncement, so there are some data to > show. It looks strange that it seems that debian-devel-an

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi there > > I dont find any packge that supports iso 8859-6 > -- that is arabic fonts . > [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic Package: xfonts-intl-arabic Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 62 Maintainer: Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Sou

Re: please test this lintian release

2001-09-21 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~shaleh/lintian. It's normally customary to include a brief list of things we should be testing.