The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, regarding to bug #215554 I would like to ask for my personal clarification: Which sens makes automake if the resulting output depends from every new subsubversion? I've thought that I would do the wordnet program some good if I would add automake stuff. Since I switched to auotmake1.7 I have

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Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lun 13/10/2003 à 22:19, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > You're right as for static linking, I thought pkg-config supported > > --static while it doesn't. Well, maybe it is better that way; I > > personally feel we should deprecate the whole static linking stuff. > > In which case, we could easily

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:52:28AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I really feel we should get rid of all these static libraries. Who uses > static linking now that even our glibc doesn't support it correctly > across versions? People who want their binaries to run across different Linux machines

Re: faster boot

2003-10-14 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:05:24PM +0200, Andrea Mennucc wrote: > there has been a lot of interest lately on tecniques to obtain a faster > boot; for example [...] > http://www.fefe.de/minit/ [...] > is anyone trying to implement the above in Debian? I've implemented the runit package, somewhat s

which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Magosányi Árpád
Hi! Which policy checker should I use? Lintian apparently does not know about the new policy version. #194257: lintian: Policy version 3.6.1.0 has been released Package: lintian; Reported by: Jay Bonci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 145 days old. Linda apparently does not know about the new policy version

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Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
Magosányi Árpád <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which policy checker should I use? > Lintian apparently does not know about the new policy version. > #194257: lintian: Policy version 3.6.1.0 has been released > Package: lintian; Reported by: Jay Bonci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 145 days old. > Linda appar

Re: Re: Virus emails

2003-10-14 Thread Steve Saks
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Re: Packaging sysfsutils: static library?

2003-10-14 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! On 2003-10-13 21:08 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > I sent a mail to upstream two days ago, but didn't receive an answer > yet. I will wait with uploading (or rather, looking for a sponsor) > until I get an answer or run out of patience (maybe after a week of > silence). FYI: I just got an answer

Re: Simplicity Pattern Co. AutoReply

2003-10-14 Thread Andrew Lau
Dear Cindy/Robert On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:32:23PM -0400, Robert Bulick wrote: > I purchased "NEW LOOK HIS & HERS" Pattern # 6307. The front pattern > piece for all of the fronts for the tops was missing. I'm going to > Wal Mart to get another one, but thought I should let you know what > happ

Bug#215728: ITP: gngeogui -- GTK GUI-frontend for gngeo

2003-10-14 Thread Julien Delange
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gngeogui Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Julien Delange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gunnm.org/~soda/softwares/gngeogui * License : GPL Description : GTK GUI-frontend for gngeo gngeogui is a GUI-Front

Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 6:46 pm, Tuesday, October 14 2003, Magos?nyi ?rp?d mumbled: > Linda apparently does not know about the new policy version. > It isn't even reported as a bug (filing it right now). > It does! Stop spreading lies, Linda 0.2.21 deals with Policy 3.6.1 correctly, but does not drop to testing immed

Re: Bug#202244 Speak-freely Removed from Debian

2003-10-14 Thread Hamish
> This package has been removed from Debian unstable because it is > orphaned upstream and has reached its end-of-life. Speak-freely is not abandoned and should remain in Debian. It was orphaned upstream, but it has NOT reached its end-of-life. Development has moved to http://speak-freely.sour

Re: Anyone interested in libical?

2003-10-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > >>Mozilla builds fine without libical. > >What does happen, then? Will it still be able to read iCalendar events? > I just uninstalled libical and mozilla calendar still seems > to work fine for me. Sounds like it is okay to remove the build-dependency on libical, then. I just wanted to p

Re: [debian-devel] Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Magosányi Árpád
Hi! Please take my apologies for "spreading lies". Linda in sid does check against policy version 3.6.1 . Which road will you take to make linda fall into testing? Wait until python2.3 provides python (>= 2.3), or change the dependencies of linda? Anyway I feel it is a pity that the almost-stabl

Re: [debian-devel] Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 10:05 pm, Tuesday, October 14 2003, Magos?nyi ?rp?d mumbled: > Which road will you take to make linda fall into testing? > Wait until python2.3 provides python (>= 2.3), or change > the dependencies of linda? > I'm going to wait. Like I usually do. > Anyway I feel it is a pity that the almost-

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Oct-03, 03:38 (CDT), Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:52:28AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I really feel we should get rid of all these static libraries. Who uses > > static linking now that even our glibc doesn't support it correctly > > across ver

Re: [debian-devel] Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Oct-03, 07:00 (CDT), Magos?nyi ?rp?d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which road will you take to make linda fall into testing? Why do you need it in testing? The whole point of it is to run against packages you are building, and you should be building in unstable. Steve -- Steve Greenland

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Andreas Tille wrote: > regarding to bug #215554 I would like to ask for my personal clarification: > Which sens makes automake if the resulting output depends from every new > subsubversion? > > I've thought that I would do the wordnet program some good if I would add > automa

Re: How come X seems insistent on managing my XF86Config now?

2003-10-14 Thread Greg Stark
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [CCing debian-x because if I get hit by a bus or arrested by Secretary > Ashcroft today, the following will be important for the inheritor of our > XFree86 packages to know.] Ah, for some reason I had trouble finding this mailing list. I poked aroun

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Joel Baker writes: > Many places do hosting of DNS domains (only; no web or mail, etc) for > absurdly cheap rates ($5/mo in some cases), and allow either DDNS or an > automateable webpage to do updates with. I'm aware of these. While interesting should they start supporting SPF they are not reall

Re: Uploader field in debian/control?

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Magosányi Árpád <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In the policy manual there is no mention of the Uploader field of >> debian/control. (version 3.6.1.0) [...] > the package control files. However Uploaders ends up in the dsc file > and is not unsupported. Af

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
I hate to jump in but I really feel the need to correct the below. You have a good number of points wrong. On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:38:49AM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:52:28AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I really feel we should get rid of all these static lib

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:09:32AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Which doesn't, in any way, promote the idea that we should keep the .la > files. People who need/want a statically linked binary often want to > control exactly *which* libraries are statically linked, and will build > the link comm

Alioth services down?

2003-10-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Alioth is not accepting ssh connections and mail to a mailing list is neither arriving nor bouncing. I have mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it occurs to me that if mail is not getting through to the lists, it may not have got to that address either. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:57:40AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:38:49AM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:52:28AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > I really feel we should get rid of all these static libraries. Who uses > > > static linkin

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:35:38PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:57:40AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:38:49AM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:52:28AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > I really feel we sho

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 04:38, Daniel Kobras wrote: > To name but a few. Just because there's little incentive to use static > linkage when building Debian packages doesn't mean that we should > deprecate it. Unless you're willing to convince the admin of the > beowulf cluster next door to install li

Bug#215778: ITP: libphysfs -- A filesystem abstraction for game programmers

2003-10-14 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libphysfs Version : 0.1.9 Upstream Author : Ryan Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.icculus.org/physfs/downloads/ * License : zlib Description : A filesystem abstraction for game programmers Phy

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Daniel Kobras | If you ever tried to get, say, ten static libs in the right order | for a medium-sized application, you know what tedious task I'm | taking about. From my personal point of view, removal of .la files | would significantly degrade Debian's usability as a build platform. You can

Bug#215783: ITP: netpanzer -- An online multiplayer tactical warfare game

2003-10-14 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: netpanzer Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Authors: Matthias Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ivo Danihelka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tyler Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:48:28PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Often worse, due to the dramatically increased amount of data which > must be loaded from disk in a cold-cache situation. Another 800K of > glibc you've got to read in. The memory usage sucks too. That's glibc. It's already in

Re: Bug#215778: ITP: libphysfs -- A filesystem abstraction for game programmers

2003-10-14 Thread Joe Drew
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 13:06, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > * Package name: libphysfs > Version : 0.1.9 > Upstream Author : Ryan Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.icculus.org/physfs/downloads/ > * License : zlib > Description : A filesystem

Re: Bug#215728: ITP: gngeogui -- GTK GUI-frontend for gngeo

2003-10-14 Thread Joe Drew
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 06:48, Julien Delange wrote: > Description : GTK GUI-frontend for gngeo "graphical frontend for gngeo" > gngeogui is a GUI-Frontend to gngeo writed in Perl language. So, it > works on many computers. It can configure gngeo, and show all roms, > which are stored in a d

Re: Bug#215783: ITP: netpanzer -- An online multiplayer tactical warfare game

2003-10-14 Thread Joe Drew
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 13:30, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > Description : An online multiplayer tactical warfare game Drop the "An." > netPanzer is an online multiplayer tactical warfare game designed for > play across the Internet and over LAN systems. One on one games are > possible

Re: Bug#215728: ITP: gngeogui -- GTK GUI-frontend for gngeo

2003-10-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Joe Drew [...] | "gngeogui is a graphical frontend to gngeo which can configure gngeo as | well as show all ROM game files stored in a directory. It also shows | screenshots of each game. | | gngeogui uses GTK for its graphical interface." It should also describe (in one sentence) what gnge

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:09:32AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: >> Which doesn't, in any way, promote the idea that we should keep the .la >> files. People who need/want a statically linked binary often want to >> control exactly *which* libraries are sta

Re: [debian-devel] Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:00:31PM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote: > Anyway I feel it is a pity that the almost-stable distribution > does not contain a checker for the current policy which is > in effect since at least two months. You assign way too much value to the latest two revisions. Try readi

Re: faster boot

2003-10-14 Thread Bartosz Zapalowski
> there has been a lot of interest lately on tecniques to obtain a faster > boot It depends of what is machine meant to do. If it's just a X workstation with some services run just for testing purposes you can start just after syslog and xfs-xtt and X server. I managed to lower the start time to

Re: Uploader field in debian/control?

2003-10-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:52:37PM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote: > It seemed to me that only the fields explicitly mentioned and those > starting with X should be in the control files, but I cannot find > it explicitly stated. > > Did I miss something? Exactly what you wrote. The list of fields i

perm of etc/zorp/ is 0700

2003-10-14 Thread Magosányi Árpád
Hi! I am asking your advice per policy section 10.9. [*] /etc/zorp is mode 0700 in upstream. In a typical setup, almost every single file under this directory contains sensitive information: firewall rules, cryptographic keys, etc. I think it justifies a lintian override. What do you think? [*

Re: perm of etc/zorp/ is 0700

2003-10-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:51:14PM +0200, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote: > Hi! > > I am asking your advice per policy section 10.9. [*] > > /etc/zorp is mode 0700 in upstream. In a typical setup, almost > every single file under this directory contains sensitive information: > firewall rules, cryptograph

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:21:23 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I understand all that, which is why I found statements such as those > in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> confusing. The fact is I can add SPF > records for any IP numbers I want to domains I control. Thus if I > want to be able

Re: Bug#215728: ITP: gngeogui -- GTK GUI-frontend for gngeo

2003-10-14 Thread Julien Delange
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:14:55PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > It should also describe (in one sentence) what gngeo is. Yes, you're right. So, I take your ideas and I will change the description when I will package gngeogui. Please excuse me, but I'm french, and my english is maybe poor. But,

Re: Bug#215728: ITP: gngeogui -- GTK GUI-frontend for gngeo

2003-10-14 Thread Julien Delange
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:45:15PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > I will correct some poor english and make some editing changes too: > > "gngeogui is a graphical frontend to gngeo which can configure gngeo as > well as show all ROM game files stored in a directory. It also shows > screenshots of each

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I do not know, a priori, what the IP address is likely to be, > and getting DNS changed for datasync.com would take days, not hours, > by which time I would no longer be at the IP. You'd just need something akin to the ddns services... but in

Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files

2003-10-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:44:05PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:48:28PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Often worse, due to the dramatically increased amount of data which > > must be loaded from disk in a cold-cache situation. Another 800K of > > glibc you've got t

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Manoj Srivastava said on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:40:15PM -0500: > Consider this use case: I travel a lot, and stay in hotels > with network connections. Unfortunately, these nigtly billed domains > have very poor mail gateways; I've been burned before. I now connect > directly and deliver

Bug#215827: ITP: lartc -- Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO

2003-10-14 Thread Pedro Larroy
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-10-15 Severity: wishlist * Package name: lartc Version : 1.41-1 Upstream Author : Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.lartc.org * License : (Free) Description : Linux Advanced Routing and Tr

Re: Bug#215728: ITP: gngeogui -- GTK GUI-frontend for gngeo

2003-10-14 Thread Joe Drew
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 18:30, Julien Delange wrote: > Please excuse me, but I'm french, and my english is maybe poor. But, I > try to write sentences, which can be understand. Which is exactly why we send friendly corrections :) -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My weblog doesn

chroot on debian hosts?

2003-10-14 Thread Marc Singer
(I thought I sent this, but now I cannot find it to be sure.) I'd like to build against sid on a machine (ia64) I don't own but which Debian does have available. I tried the recipe from the developer's manual using fakeroot. It failed because it could not find a package. Perhaps, this is a bug

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Manoj writes: > Consider this use case: I travel a lot, and stay in hotels with network > connections. Unfortunately, these nigtly billed domains have very poor > mail gateways; I've been burned before. I now connect directly and > deliver mail from the MTA on my laptop. > I do not know, a priori,

Re: [debian-devel] Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Try reading upgrading-checklist.txt. Where do I get a copy of this document? A summery of what to check for when updating a package would be very useful. (I've just agreed to take over a few more packages, two which havn't been updated since woody.) -

Re: Alioth services down?

2003-10-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Oliver Elphick wrote: > Alioth is not accepting ssh connections and mail to a mailing list is > neither arriving nor bouncing. I noticed the same from work earlier today, and the same from home now. :-(

Re: chroot on debian hosts?

2003-10-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:20:15PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > (I thought I sent this, but now I cannot find it to be sure.) > > I'd like to build against sid on a machine (ia64) I don't own but > which Debian does have available. > > I tried the recipe from the developer's manual using fakeroot.

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-14 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:40:15PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:21:23 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I understand all that, which is why I found statements such as those > > in > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> confusing. The fact is I can add SPF > > records

Re: [debian-devel] Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:31:01PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Try reading upgrading-checklist.txt. > > Where do I get a copy of this document? A summery of what to check > for when updating a package would be very useful. (I've just agreed > to ta

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Tille wrote: > regarding to bug #215554 I would like to ask for my personal clarification: > Which sens makes automake if the resulting output depends from every new > subsubversion? > > I've thought that I would do the wordnet program some good if I would add > automake stuff. Since I sw

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Re: Bug#215728: ITP: gngeogui -- GTK GUI-frontend for gngeo

2003-10-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:45:15PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > gngeogui uses GTK for its graphical interface." Don't forget that (I believe) the official spelling of the library's name is "GTK+". -- G. Branden Robinson|It's like I have a shotgun in my Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#215827: ITP: lartc -- Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO

2003-10-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:05:40AM +0200, Pedro Larroy wrote: > * Package name: lartc > Version : 1.41-1 > Upstream Author : Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.lartc.org > * License : (Free) Uh, that's not specific enough. What actual license