Re: perlapi-5.6.1

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Mark Hedges wrote: > > I apologize for filing multiple bug reports about this > before seeking consensus on the list. > > Is someone going to put perlapi-5.6.1 back into sarge? > Lots of packages indirectly depend on this and cannot > be installed now. Should there be a dummy

Re: How to Avoid GPL Issue

2003-06-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:44:06PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Is there any approach that we can avoid publicizing the third party code > > while porting to Linux? Do we need to write some shim layer code in Linux > > kernel to interface the third party code? How can we do that? Is there a

Upstream requires forked Date::Manip

2003-06-29 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module. He says: Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to the Date::Manip module, most of them because of xmltv bug reports sent by users. Rather than wa

Attn: Mass bug filing: libtool requires updating

2003-06-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
Version 3.39-1 of the file utility changed the format of the output line for MIPS shared libraries again. Older versions of libtool.m4 use the file utility and a regular expression to determine if something is a shared library or not. This regular expression does not match the new file output for

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread Nathan Hawkins
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:24:23PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:44:30AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > ports - NetBSD gives us the potential to bring Debian to _many_ new > > > platforms. > > >

Re: How to Avoid GPL Issue

2003-06-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 27/06/2003 à 04:27, G. C. a écrit : > Dear Sir or Madam, > > Currently we are trying to port some third party code to Linux kernel. Some > modules of third party code need to be ported into Linux kernel and some > drivers need to be ported from Vxworks to Linux drivers. The problem we hav

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2003-06-29 Thread Duck

Bug#62878: Screen display problems with terminals.

2003-06-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:43:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello, > > It seems sthat changing the font have solved the problem > so we can close this bug report ? > > Cheers, I am very belatedly catching up with this question. It doesn't seem to me the bug should be closed. It appears th

perlapi-5.6.1

2003-06-29 Thread Mark Hedges
I apologize for filing multiple bug reports about this before seeking consensus on the list. Is someone going to put perlapi-5.6.1 back into sarge? Lots of packages indirectly depend on this and cannot be installed now. Should there be a dummy package for compatibility with perl 5.8.0? Thank yo

Re: [Stefano =)] Bug#198619: Could not perform configuration on libpam0g

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:15:37PM +0100, Esteban Manchado Vel?zquez wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:39:36PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > > > > [Please cc me; I'm very behind on -devel] > > > > > > > > > I'm very confused by this bug and am su

Re: Package Lists and Size

2003-06-29 Thread Bruno Rodrigues
Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So, i think if there .diff's exist, maybe apt-get can patch the >> Changes into the files on the client, or a small wrapper arround >> apt-get can do this.. > > Goodness, you are the second person to ask for this in a month. Diff is not > suitable

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Millis Miller
OK, let me see if I can address all the comments I've received so far. 1. Description too long. OK, I will change it to a shorter one, once I work out how to do that with an ITP. 2. Various questions along the line of "What does email do that a certain shell sequence doesn't". This from Upstream

Re: [Stefano =)] Bug#198619: Could not perform configuration on libpam0g

2003-06-29 Thread Sylvain LE GALL
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:15:37PM +0100, Esteban Manchado Vel?zquez wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:39:36PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > > [Please cc me; I'm very behind on -devel] > > > > > > I'm very confused by this bug and am sufficiently busy this week that > > I'm not going to be a

Re: Counter-Proposal: Architecture Versions and Architecture Features

2003-06-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julian Mehnle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030627 21:05]: > I understand that the your proposed extensions to the Debian package system > are based on the concepts of "sub-archs" and "meta-sub-archs" (I'd call > these "pseudo-sub-archs" or "alias-sub-archs", though). I have already > proposed a more gen

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:56:37AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://bugs.debian.org/188740 > That's a documentation issue. debian/changelog is not the place for > documenting random features. Messages that close bugs are, however, the place for docum

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:04:55AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > No it doesn't. I've yet to even hear of an architecture that NetBSD runs > on but which Linux doesn't. pc532 > They just have a different definition of > "architecture" than us. (ie: our "hppa" may be three or four arches to > the

Re: Garbled messages received from lists.d.o.

2003-06-29 Thread Mike Dresser
On 27 Jun 2003, Philippe Troin wrote: > I have been receiving bugs.d.o emails which are unrelated to my > package for the last two-three days. > > And their headers seem quite garbled: they include part of other > messages... > > Included five of them. > > Is there anything fishy going on? Or is t

Re: ximiam connector

2003-06-29 Thread Jim Mintha
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:27:36PM -0600, Thomas E. Vaughan wrote: > > Is there anyone else out there trying to run Connector on > Debian (sid)? > > Although Ximian strongly discourages a direct download of > Connector (because Ximian urges the use of Red Carpet), the > binaries are available at

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-29 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Sex, 2003-06-27 às 02:14, Adam Majer escreveu: > Then they should't delete anything with .* After all, shoudn't most > "user friendly" applications hide those directories in the first place? > Even ls does it unless you use -a But the question is: These files and directories uses a lot of disk

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-29 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Well, it may be included in the wishlist for cruft, the program I called userconfpurge may be a part of it. But before this would be necessary a change in the debian packages, to include which files are created in the user's home. Em Qui, 2003-06-26 às 14:31, Drew Scott Daniels escreveu: > Is conn

Counter-Proposal: Architecture Versions and Architecture Features

2003-06-29 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all, (I'm sending this message again, since the copy I sent yesterday seems not to have made it onto the list. If you receive it twice, please excuse.) Andreas Barth wrote: > DRAFT - Subarchitectures for debian [0.1] First, thanks for creating a prototype proposal. I understand that the you

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 27 June 2003 01:32, Millis Miller wrote: > Description : Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, > with optional encryption > Also, if gpg is installed, it can digitally sign and encrypt outgoing > emails. Just out of curiosity: inline PGP, or PGP/MIME cheers -- vb

Re: Bug#160074: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#160074: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#160074: Ok, can't be that important then))

2003-06-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 01:50, Ryan Murray wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:48:06PM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Don't reopen bugs just because you think it's not fixed, I've spent > > three or four hours testing libtool on mips this evening and I've not > > I'm not convinced it'

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> ports - NetBSD gives us the potential to bring Debian to _many_ new >> platforms. > >It's not that many actually. The only CPU that NetBSD claims to support >but Linux doesn't is the pc532. Also the (umerge

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:04:55AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:04:54 -0500 > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And not only 80386 needs this - There is the Sparc64 port which would > > also benefit from this (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#64bit). If we > > ha

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:33:16PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Millis Miller wrote: > > E) Email does binary attachments and uses MIME (mime types, base64 > > encoding) to "attach" and send them with the message. You can't do this > > by doing what is d

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-29 Thread Richard Braakman
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:19:14PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Are you proposing that we list important upstream changes regardless of > whether they fix bugs or not? > > If so then this may be worth considering. Hmm, I've always tried to do that, actually. And I appreciate it when other develope

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:02:04PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: >> What if the packages tells to dpkg which files or directories it will >> create on the user's home directory and when a package is purged the >> user could run a program to purge the fil

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-06-29 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Do I look in Packages.gz for Conflicts:, and then look in Description: > for "this is the GNU version of..."? No need for such a fastidious search. Use this instead: apt-get install `apt-cache search gnu | sed 's/ .*//'` Cheers, -- Sam.

Re: Mass bug filing: Build-Depends on libgdbmg1-dev and/or imlib-dev

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Daniel Schepler wrote: > I don't know why my previous message on this topic didn't get > through, so let me try again... murphy has been having load issues, amoung other things. > I'm planning to file bugs against source packages which currently > don't build in unstable bec

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread Joel Baker
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:04:55AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:04:54 -0500 > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And not only 80386 needs this - There is the Sparc64 port which would > > also benefit from this (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#64bit). If we > > ha

Mass bug filing: Build-Depends on libgdbmg1-dev and/or imlib-dev

2003-06-29 Thread Daniel Schepler
I don't know why my previous message on this topic didn't get through, so let me try again... I'm planning to file bugs against source packages which currently don't build in unstable because of build dependencies on libgdbmg1-dev or imlib-dev. Currently, the packages involved would be: For libg

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Millis Miller wrote: > This from Upstream: > A) Email users SMTP or Sendmail. (Main purpose!) Which would make it the only piece of mail-aware software on the system that doesn't depend on a working /usr/sbin/sendmail; so this is great as long as you nev

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Benj. Mako Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Millis Miller wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Version: N/A; reported 2003-06-27 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: email > > I understand that email is the name of the upstream client but I'd >

Re: How to Avoid GPL Issue

2003-06-29 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:27:40PM -0400, G. C. wrote: > Currently we are trying to port some third party code to Linux kernel. Some > modules of third party code need to be ported into Linux kernel and some > drivers need to be ported from Vxworks to Linux drivers. The problem we > have is that

Re: debootstrapping and sysvinit

2003-06-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've received several reports that debootstrap of sid has not been > possible recently due to sysvinit. > I guess the problem is that sysvinit related postinst > scripts are calling 'init' inside chroot, which fails, > failing the whole installation pro

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Millis Miller wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2003-06-27 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: email > Version : 1.9.0 > Upstream Author : Dean Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.cleancode.org/emai

Re: debootstrapping and sysvinit

2003-06-29 Thread Michael Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2003 04:09 schrieb Junichi Uekawa: > Hi, > > I've received several reports that debootstrap of sid has not been > possible recently due to sysvinit. > > I guess the problem is that sysvinit related postinst > scripts are calling 'i

Re: inews path question

2003-06-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:26:08AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Afaik the basic mode of operation and options are compatibel, > inews even diverts the inews from cnews. Using alternatives sounds > nice. and of course it must be installed in /usr/sbin/ in that case, just like /usr/sbin/sendmail.

Re: Garbled messages received from lists.d.o.

2003-06-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:54:30AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > I have been receiving bugs.d.o emails which are unrelated to my > package for the last two-three days. That would be because you're subscribed to debian-bugs-{dist,closed,forwarded}... > And their headers seem quite garbled: they i

Re: How to Avoid GPL Issue

2003-06-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
"G. C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > Dear Sir or Madam, > > Currently we are trying to port some third party code to Linux > kernel. Some modules of third party code need to be ported into Linux > kernel and some drivers need to be ported from Vxworks to Linux > drivers. The problem we have i

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > I have a better idea :) What if packages don't leave droppings in my > home directory in the first place? I have all sorts of dotfiles (and > even dot-directories) that I never asked for. It's reasonable for a > program to install a dotfile when

Re: inews path question

2003-06-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I maintain slrn, which can run inews to post news. We apparently have > three inews programs in debian; inewsinn puts it in /usr/bin/inews, > while inews and cnews put it in /usr/lib/news/inews. Actually inewsinn puts it in /usr/lib/news/bin/, /usr/bin/inews

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:44:11PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:21:22AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:49:54AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:23:01AM +020

but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-06-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
Gentlemen, after I installed "Debian GNU/Linux", I found I had to take extra steps to get the GNU version of a program installed, as some other leading brand alternative was in its stead. So what is the single command to apt-get install all the GNU versions of everything? Last year I discovered m

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2003-06-29 Thread spambody
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Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Millis Miller wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2003-06-27 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: email > Version : 1.9.0 > Upstream Author : Dean Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.cleancode.org/email > * License

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Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Millis Miller wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2003-06-27 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: email > Version : 1.9.0 > Upstream Author : Dean Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.cleancode.org/email > * License : Custom > De

Re: EPSON appreciates your feedback by June 30, '03 - Debian

2003-06-29 Thread Farideh Sherbaf
Hi Torsten,   Thank you for your feedback.  I have sent your email to Olaf Meeuwissen, the Lead Developer for Image Scan! for Linux at EPSON Kowa.    Please feel free to contact him if you have any related questions specific to iScan.  Otherwise, I am always here to help.   Best regards,  

Re: How to Avoid GPL Issue

2003-06-29 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
G. C. wrote: Is there any approach that we can avoid publicizing the third party code while porting to Linux? Do we need to write some shim layer code in Linux kernel to interface the third party code? How can we do that? Is there any document or samples? In general, this is not possible. It is

Re: Application

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Re: Application

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Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-29 Thread Herbert Xu
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Huh? The bug report was a feature request with a patch. The bug was > closed with the description of "New Upstream Release". No indication > was given whether the patch was integrated upstream, or implemented > differently (with a different interface)

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:04:55AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:04:54 -0500 > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And not only 80386 needs this - There is the Sparc64 port which would > > also benefit from this (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#64bit). If we

Re: Bug#189329: ITP: gnome-swallow - meta-applet to embed any application in the GNOME panel

2003-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:53:27PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The swallow applet can "eat" any X11 window into the GNOME 2 panel. The > application then displays inside the panel instead of being in a window. > > Its primary goal is to allow use of dockapps with the GNOME desktop. Just for

Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.

2003-06-29 Thread NAV for Microsoft Exchange-IVAEXMS
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Re: [proposal] subarchitectures (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:29:41PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Michael Banck wrote: > > > Also, please note that at least half of the dpkg-maintainers don't read > > -devel, you probably want to post this to -dpkg. Incidently, there is a > > proposal and patch by Gerhard Tonn f

Problem with advocating new prospective delevolper.

2003-06-29 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to advocate a developer, although my recomendation bounces from nm.debian.org, with following message: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more o

Re: Bug#198479: general: perlapi-5.6.1 missing in sarge since perl 5.8.0 rollout

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Mark Hedges wrote: > Package: general > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-28 > Followup-For: Bug #198479 > > There needs to be a backwards-compatible perlapi-5.6.1 module > which apt-file and other depend on to install. Since rolling > out perl 5.8.0, many packages that

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:08:46PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >* what opcodes need to be emulated? > > >* all 386->486 opcodes (there's just a few of them, right?) > This is the correct answer. :-) Then all programs can be compiled with > gcc --arch=i486 --tune=i686 (which should probab

Bug#199266: ITP: ffmpeg -- multimedia streaming system

2003-06-29 Thread Sam Hocevar
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-29 Severity: wishlist Since the ffmpeg ITP (#157719) was closed almost one year ago, I assume no one is interested anymore, thus this ITP. I use ffmpeg daily and I am not satisfied with the reasons given for closing the ITP. If anyone disagre