Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread Jonathan Oxer
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 13:04 +1000, Brian May wrote: > * No thought put into the file deletion algorithm. IMHO, deleting > files based on age is wrong (consider how long stable files > last). Deleting files based on number of different copies is also > wrong (consider if you have some systems setup

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-20 Thread Brian May
> "Joel" == Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joel> It strikes me that this problem is actually similar to a Joel> couple of others, and all of them could be reasonably Joel> resolved by a new concept in the BTS - bug dependancies. Joel> All it really says is "Some part o

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-20 Thread Matthew Currington
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: If not (and I'm assuming that's the right answer) then what about adding some txt files alongside isos? Simple list of packages shouldn't (and won't) take much space and will be very helpful for newbies which still ask what are all of those CDs for. Do you think a si

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-20 Thread Brian May
> "Wouter" == Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wouter> Simple. When merging a bug, you claim that the two bugs Wouter> are really the same. They're not just related, nor are Ok, so what we need is a method of saying two bugs are related, but not the same. > "Colin" ==

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread Brian May
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> 1. apt-proxy: While I love the concept of apt-proxy, it martin> works very unreliably. Frequently, the proxy fails to martin> download the package or imposes very long delays (#272217, martin> and others). apt-

Bug#277582: ITP: kwin-baghira -- A MacOSX-like theme for Apple junkies ;)

2004-10-20 Thread Jose Luis Tallon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kwin-baghira Version : 0.5h Upstream Author : Thomas Lübking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://baghira.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : A MacOSX-like theme for Apple junkies ;) Baghira is a

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-20 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:56:43PM +0200, Maciej Dems wrote: >> > Of course this won't be created online, but such images could be put >> > on web after some time and could be identified with some session id. >> > (in addition user would be fo

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Bug#277567: ITP: python-pyggy -- Lexer and GLR parser generator for Python

2004-10-20 Thread Magnus Therning
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-pyggy Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Tim Newsham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.lava.net/~newsham/pyggy/ * License : Public domain Description : Lexer and GLR parser generator for Python P

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-20 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:56:43PM +0200, Maciej Dems wrote: > > Of course this won't be created online, but such images could be put > > on web after some time and could be identified with some session id. > > (in addition user would be forced to confirm such creation by > > email/whatever to not

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-20 Thread Maciej Dems
Patrzę w ekran, a to Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo pisze do mnie: > Of course this won't be created online, but such images could be put > on web after some time and could be identified with some session id. > (in addition user would be forced to confirm such creation by > email/whatever to not overloa

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-20 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:27:26PM -0500, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > > Is there *any* way to check what packages are available on particular CD > > without downloading iso and mounting it locally? > > > > If not (and I'm assuming that's the right answer) then what about adding > > some txt files alon

Bug#277550: ITP: patcher -- perl script useful for managing patches

2004-10-20 Thread Alejandro Rios P.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: patcher Version : 0.0.20040521 Upstream Author : Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.holgerschurig.de/patcher.html * License : GNU General Public License or Artistic License Description : p

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-20 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there *any* way to check what packages are available on particular CD > without downloading iso and mounting it locally? > > If not (and I'm assuming that's the right answer) then what about adding > some txt files alongside isos? I think

Re: Bugzilla package in need of help

2004-10-20 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors, you wrote: > - I did not verify that the new .orig.tar.gz is indeed genuine md5sums are identical with upstream's tarball, I just double checked. > - the following duplicates the call to fix_www_data_perm for > /var/cache/bugzilla, and in addition, this chan

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-20 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 October 2004 21:48, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > Is there *any* way to check what packages are available on particular > CD without downloading iso and mounting it locally? > > If not (and I'm assuming that's the right answer) then

Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-20 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. Since sarge (and everything later) will contain at least 14 CDs I would like to ask simple question: Is there *any* way to check what packages are available on particular CD without downloading iso and mounting it locally? If not (and I'm assuming that's the right answer) then what about

Bug#277538: ITP: ac++ -- An Aspect Weaver for C/C++

2004-10-20 Thread Antonio S. de A. Terceiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ac++ Version : 0.9.x Upstream Author : Olaf Spinczyk, Matthias Urban, Andreas Gal, Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.aspectc.org * License : GPL Description : AspectC++, an aspect weaver

OpenCASCADE - SALOME

2004-10-20 Thread Thiago Siqueira
O Debian possui os programas Open Source de CAD/CAE/CAM, OpecCASCADE e SALOME? http://www.salome-platform.org/ www.opencascade.org Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador agora!

Re: Bug#276306: dpkg -P backuppc fails (debconf problem ?)

2004-10-20 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Frank Küster wrote: > Ludovic Drolez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > >>The postinst script seems to be stuck in db_purge, a line which was >>added automatically: > > > The postinst script is not executed upon purging a package. Probably you > mean the postrm script? Yes. > >>... >># Autom

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-20 Thread paddy
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:29:37PM +0100, paddy wrote: > Virus definition updates fit in the 'undesirable' category. Thats not > to say some database can't be packaged. Here's a couple of references: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (I'll post a reply with the ml archive web urls,

Bug#277525: ITP: torrentocracy -- RSS (real simple syndication) plugin for MythTV

2004-10-20 Thread Shaun Jackman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: torrentocracy Version : 0.0.9 Upstream Author : Gary Lerhaupt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.torrentocracy.com/ * License : GPL Description : RSS (real simple syndication) plugin for MythTV Torrento

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-20 Thread paddy
Marc, On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:23:34PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:47:30 +0100, paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >While this solution may be preferable for some uses, I think what bothers > >me is the lack of a simpler solution. Is there really compelling reason > >why

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-20 Thread Josh Triplett
Joel Baker wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:59:37PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > >>Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: >> >>>True enough, but as processors get faster, so does bandwidth. >>>I expect that ultimately, it will always need to be as fast as possible. >> >>Possibly; however, I think bandwidth

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-20 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:59:37PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > > True enough, but as processors get faster, so does bandwidth. > > I expect that ultimately, it will always need to be as fast as possible. > > Possibly; however, I think bandwidth grows far slower than C

Bug#277514: ITP: geos -- geometry engine for geographic information systems

2004-10-20 Thread Steve Halasz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: geos Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Yury Bychkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://geos.refractions.net/ * License : LGPL Description : geometry engine for geographic information systems GEOS provides a

Bug#277511: ITP: fet -- Timetable generator

2004-10-20 Thread Radu Spineanu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: fet Version : 3.9.16 Upstream Author : Liviu Lalescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.lalescu.ro/liviu/fet * License : GPL Description : Timetable generator FET is an evolutionary program (using a g

Re: problem to import images inkscape

2004-10-20 Thread Andre Luis Lopes
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:24:02AM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote: > > As I'm from Brazil too, just a correction. > > debian-l10n-portuguese is used to translation and localization > efforts; to support debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org (a.k.a. d-u-p) > should be used

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-20 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
> > - further amendments to the "best practices" document based on developer > > feedback. > > still accepting input! You probably want to change this: - leave data after purge? -> only ask during purge. - back up database before upgrade? -> only ask during upgrades. user should be notified w

Re: membership and question

2004-10-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-10-20 12:05:56, schrieb Samuel Ferrer: > > Hi guys > > I am very interested in the Debian project. You are welcome. > I need to install de developer package because many product require "make" > in order to be installed. > > my questions are: > > - How to install the developer packag

Re: membership and question

2004-10-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 14.05, Samuel Ferrer wrote: > Hi guys > > I am very interested in the Debian project. great! > - How to install the developer package and thus be abe to use the "make" Such user questions are properly addressed at the debian-user mailing list instead of the develope

Re: problem to import images inkscape

2004-10-20 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:01:07AM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: :: This list is specific for Debian developers to discuss development :: related issues. You should send your message to :: debian-user@lists.debian.org or, as I see you are coming from Brazil :: (like me), to debian-l10n-portuguese@

Bug#277498: ITP: libdate-simple-perl -- a simple date object

2004-10-20 Thread Edward Betts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : libdate-simple-perl Version : 3.01 Upstream authors : Marty Pauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Tobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yves Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cp

Re: problem to import images inkscape

2004-10-20 Thread Andre Luis Lopes
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:36:28AM -0300, Faculdades Eseei wrote: > Hello guys! Hello, > I've been problems with the Inkscape 0.39 version, > since I upgrade it I can't insert any image > format like: gif, jpg, svg, etc... the Inkscape > "crash" and the msg bellow appear. > > Emergency save

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread Tobias Hertkorn
Hi, I did an advanced programming project on Debian mirroring called apt-got. It is a standalone java server with mirroring capability. As a part of speeding up delivery, I programmed an apache module called mirror_mod. For documentation look here: http://hacktor.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/apt-got/docs/m

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-20 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:06:46PM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:59:37PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Possibly; however, I think bandwidth grows far slower than CPU speed and > > overall system power. I do understand your concern, though. > > I intend to find out

problem to import images inkscape

2004-10-20 Thread Faculdades Eseei
Hello guys! I've been problems with the Inkscape 0.39 version, since I upgrade it I can't insert any image format like: gif, jpg, svg, etc... the Inkscape "crash" and the msg bellow appear. Emergency save document locations: /root/.inkscape/Novo desenho 1.2004_10_19_08_06_24.0 Emergency

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-20 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:59:37PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > True enough, but as processors get faster, so does bandwidth. > > I expect that ultimately, it will always need to be as fast as possible. > > Possibly; however, I think bandwidth grows far slower than CPU speed and > overall syste

membership and question

2004-10-20 Thread Samuel Ferrer
Hi guys I am very interested in the Debian project. I am just came back to Lunix after some years out of this field, an dthis is the first time I get a completly empty Linux machine. I need to install de developer package because many product require "make" in order to be installed. my question

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 12.11, martin f krafft wrote: > 2. apt-cacher: > Also a very nice concept, I have found it rather unusable. Clients > would time out as the streaming does not work reliably. Also, > after using it for a day or two, I found 30 or more Perl zombies > on the syste

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread paddy
Martin, On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:11:12PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > 3. squid: > Squid works reliably, but it has no concept of the APT repository > and thus it is impossible to control what is cached and for how > long. I've long wondered whether the best answer might not be to teac

Re: Bugzilla package in need of help

2004-10-20 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:05:45AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > In linux.debian.devel, you wrote: > > It came to my attention that the 'bugzilla' Debian package is currently > > not in Sarge, due to several RC bugs. > > > > If you consider this package worthy of inclusion in Sarge (note that

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.20.0211 +0200]: > Here's an idea I just had about apt-proxy/apt-cacher NG. Maybe this > could be interesting, maybe it's just crap. Your call. Some people asked how this differs from existing methods. Here are my experiences: 1. apt-proxy:

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.20.1155 +0200]: > #!/bin/sh -e > > echo 200 OK > echo Content-type: application/x-debian-package > echo > > exec wget -O - $MIRROR/$RPATH | tee $LPATH one might want to parse wget's error output and return 404 as before if it returns 404.

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.20.1107 +0200]: > Because in Apache you can manipulate Error-Messages, it is > possibel. The problem is only the TimeOut of 'apt-get' if the > requested Server is not fast enough. That's why there should be streaming going on. This has been

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Martin, Am 2004-10-20 02:11:44, schrieb martin f krafft: > Here's an idea I just had about apt-proxy/apt-cacher NG. Maybe this > could be interesting, maybe it's just crap. Your call. :-) > Based on a normal mirror layout, the idea is to use apache's 404 > hook for packages. When an exist

Re: Bugzilla package in need of help

2004-10-20 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In linux.debian.devel, you wrote: > It came to my attention that the 'bugzilla' Debian package is currently > not in Sarge, due to several RC bugs. > > If you consider this package worthy of inclusion in Sarge (note that is > is in woody, so not shipping it in Sarge would be a regression, and > le

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