Re: Re: Arabic Linguist

2005-01-26 Thread Victorsigns
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Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:37:34AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > (We have plan to add NPTL support for alpha, ppc and ppc64 in the > next glibc update. However, currently NPTL is not supported even > in upstream cvs on arm (EABI update), mips (tls register > discussion), hppa (H

Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-26 Thread Joel Aelwyn
[ Not ignoring point 1 or 4, just nothing to say about them. ] On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:37:34AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > (2) Most architectures do not support NPTL currently. Debian > glibc-2.3.2.ds1-20 supports NPTL on i386, amd64, ia64 and s390. > So your package is available

Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-26 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:51:22 +0100, Martin Kittel wrote: > Recently upstream has converted the database kernel from > linuxthread-style threading to NPTL. While -at least for i386- > linuxthreads is still supported in MaxDB at this time, it will go away > in one of the next releases. > As far as

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 22:31 +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:32:13PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 03:38 +0100, Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger wrote: > > > Ron Johnson schrieb: > > > > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:34 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > > > > > > [-snip-

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-26 Thread Dale C. Scheetz
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:15:38 +0100 (CET) Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: > > > It might be better to reserve /usr/share/pixmaps specifically for menu > > icons in xpm format and create /usr/share/icons for png gif and jpeg > > icon images. >

rebooting, non-root raid, udev

2005-01-26 Thread Brian May
Hello, How is the boot process of RAID (using a Debian supplied kernel that doesn't have RAID autodetect compiled in) meant to work with udev? What seems to happen (at least with recent testing/sarge based system): 1. initrd script starts RAID for swap and /. No problems here. The initrd script

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-26 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:38:59 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:16:12AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Looking at the rate of hardware changes, we will ideally be wanting > > to add a new hwcap entry just about every year; > > which results roughly in x10 time penalty ever

Re: Bug#292105: ITP: libmusepack -- Musepack (MPC) format decoder library

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:16:08PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: libmusepack > Version : 1.1 > Upstream Author : The Musepack Development Team > * URL : http://www.musepack.net > * License : 3-clause BSD > D

Re: Slightly Off Topic: Laptops for Debian

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:32:18PM -0600, Jacob S said > pcmcia. For that matter though, I can't see that much difference in a > wireless usb stick and a pcmcia when the usb and iBook are both used > without modification. Having something flimsy stick two inches out the side of the iBook is very v

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Brossier
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:41 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > The icon I would prefer to use on the desktop/panel is 114x154 pixels > and gives a smoother lookeing icon. I'll have to experiment with violating > the menu spec and seeing how it works... i would say that could sound too large for an ic

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-26 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:32:13PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 03:38 +0100, Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger wrote: > > Ron Johnson schrieb: > > > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:34 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > > > > [-snip-] > > > > > And yes, I've already thought of that. However, I'd rath

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:21:38PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Joel Aelwyn writes: > > Because policy, unlike RFCs, does not use normative declarations such as > > SHOULD and MUST... > > >From debian-policy: >In the normative part of this manual, the words must, should and may, and >the ad

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:32:19AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> what is the reason why in the following sentence in Policy: >> >> , >> | The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or postrm >> | scripts require the packag

Re: Buildd howto

2005-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Soumyadip, > > On Thursday, 27 Jan 2005, Soumyadip Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However I couldn't find any documentation on how to setup buildds. Can >> anyone please provide pointers > > http://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/ > or > http://

Re: advice on a patch set

2005-01-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.01.26.2054 +0100]: > Improve kpatches to cope with multiple patches. Uh, yeah. When I get a free minute. > Just think of the hassle you have on updates when one of the > hundred files change and you have to remake the full patchfile > eac

Re: advice on a patch set

2005-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.01.26.1754 +0100]: >> Why not just put all the patches into >> /usr/src/kernel-patches/swsusp2 and apply them in order? > > Because I like reusing wheels (as in: dh-kpatches) and it does not >

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:21:38PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Joel Aelwyn writes: > > Because policy, unlike RFCs, does not use normative declarations such as > > SHOULD and MUST... > > From debian-policy: >In the normative part of this manual, the words must, should and may, and >the adj

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread John Hasler
Joel Aelwyn writes: > Because policy, unlike RFCs, does not use normative declarations such as > SHOULD and MUST... >From debian-policy: In the normative part of this manual, the words must, should and may, and the adjectives required, recommended and optional, are used to distinguish the

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-26 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Wed, Jan 26, 2005: > It is already linked from deveopers reference. It would be nice to have a package for this guide, for example to request fixes and to make something official out of it. The author seems to be Junichi Uekawa, dancer at deb

Re: Buildd howto

2005-01-26 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:20:35AM +0530, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > However I couldn't find any documentation on how to setup buildds. Can > anyone please provide pointers http://www.de.debian.org/devel/buildd/ Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To U

Re: Buildd howto

2005-01-26 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Soumyadip, On Thursday, 27 Jan 2005, Soumyadip Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However I couldn't find any documentation on how to setup buildds. Can > anyone please provide pointers http://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/ or http://people.debian.org/~aba/buildd/ Greetings Martin -- The human

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:32:19AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > what is the reason why in the following sentence in Policy: > > , > | The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or postrm > | scripts require the package to be present in order to run. > ` > > the

Re: NM queue and groups [Was: NEW queue and ftp-master approval]

2005-01-26 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:30:01AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:01:26PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:06:06AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:52:48AM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > > > > [1] Which is a separate ran

Buildd howto

2005-01-26 Thread Soumyadip Modak
Hello, I'm part of a team that is seeking to build a desktop oriented distro to support and showcase L10N efforts in the Indic languages, based on Componentized Linux. We think it is probably better if we setup a system based on Debian buildd, to receive source packages from uploaders, and then bui

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-26 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:52:13 +0100, Frank KÃster wrote: > By the way, what would be the difference between dosage and > dosage-comics? Can the package also download different stuff than comic > strips? Presumably 'dosage' would contain everything except the actual modules that download the va

Re: advice on a patch set

2005-01-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.01.26.1754 +0100]: > Why not just put all the patches into > /usr/src/kernel-patches/swsusp2 and apply them in order? Because I like reusing wheels (as in: dh-kpatches) and it does not really allow multiple patches, surely not one hundred

Re: advice on a patch set

2005-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I am trying to package the swsusp2 kernel patch, which comes in > hundred little files. My thought was to simply concat these files > into one large patch for use with kpatches... however, this does not > work because some files are created

Re: advice on a patch set

2005-01-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.01.26.1724 +0100]: > Any reason you can't just make a copy of the unpatched source, apply > all the patches, and then diff -urN the original with the patched > version to create a fresh patch? Test by applying the newly created > patch with the

Re: advice on a patch set

2005-01-26 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Il giorno mer, 26-01-2005 alle 17:17 +0100, martin f krafft ha scritto: > Hi all, > > I am trying to package the swsusp2 kernel patch, which comes in > hundred little files. Hi Martin, why don't you apply all the patches to a clean kernel source tree, and then diff that source tree from the orig

Re: advice on a patch set

2005-01-26 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to package the swsusp2 kernel patch, which comes in > hundred little files. My thought was to simply concat these files > into one large patch for use with kpatches... however, this does not > work because some files are created by early pa

Re: Bug#292150: ITP: phpauction -- PHP based auction site, you can submit and make offers for auctions

2005-01-26 Thread Alexander Reelsen
Hello On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:00:22PM +0100, Guglielmo Dapavo wrote: > * Package name: phpauctionGPL > Version : 2.5.0 > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.phpauction.org/ > * License : (GPL) > Description : PHP based auctio

advice on a patch set

2005-01-26 Thread martin f krafft
Hi all, I am trying to package the swsusp2 kernel patch, which comes in hundred little files. My thought was to simply concat these files into one large patch for use with kpatches... however, this does not work because some files are created by early patches and later modified. Since kpatches fir

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:20:34 +, Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:35 -0500, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: > > With regards to GNOME panel icons. The "add to panel" option now no > > longer offers "launcher from menu" so now with the "custom launcer" > > you have to hu

libxml2 and libxslt uploads to sid, soon

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi fellow developpers, I just want you to make you aware that I'm planning to upload new upstream versions of libxml2 and libxslt into sid soon. Since the number of reverse dependencies on them are quite significant, and since shlibs are going to be bumped, I'm posting this warning on -release and

Re: Debian MIA structure

2005-01-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-26 12:10]: > Should I send mail to him, and a copy to mia-@qa.d.o, or should I > just send a question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > And what is going to happen - is the event just logged in your mia > database, or is some

Re: Bug#292322: emacspeak: might be non-free

2005-01-26 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, It seems to me that the maintainer of emacspeak is not very much interested in this package currently, or at least didn't have time for a couple of months. Therefore I forward this bug report to -devel and -emacsen, in the hope to find somebody who is more interested. Personally, I only came

Re: acpi vs apm

2005-01-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
Cameron Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kind of userland support do you see as being missing? I use the > hibernate package for ACPI sleep and it works pretty well. Most of > the problems that I've seen with ACPI have been kernel or BIOS issues > (e.g. the screen not being switched on

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2005-01-26 Pierre Ancelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, i would point to this link : > http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html [...] It is already linked from deveopers reference. cu andreas PS: It is pretty useless to sign messages witho

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Tristan Seligmann | Where do you draw the line, though? Easy, maintainer's perogative, as usual. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' :

library packaging doc...

2005-01-26 Thread Pierre Ancelot
Hi everyone, i would point to this link : http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html which i think would fit very nicely in debian official documentation after maybe a few modifications if necessary... not sure where to propose this so i write here... thanks :)

Re: Debian MIA structure

2005-01-26 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-23 01:31]: >> > And finally, are there plans to update the Developer's Reference to >> > reflect this change in standard procedure? >> >> Yes, while this procedure hasn't really been discussed much,

Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, what is the reason why in the following sentence in Policy: , | The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or postrm | scripts require the package to be present in order to run. ` the word "should" is used, not "must"? I'm asking here (not on -policy) because I assu

Re: NM queue and groups [Was: NEW queue and ftp-master approval]

2005-01-26 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:01:26PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:06:06AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:52:48AM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > > > [1] Which is a separate rant, and frankly, I think Debian needs to be > > > clear about what we real

Re: Bug#292299: ITP: policyrcd -- policy-compliant interface from invoke-rc.d to local config files

2005-01-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:48:54AM +, David Pashley wrote: > On Jan 26, 2005 at 08:26, Marc Haber praised the llamas by saying: > > Since there are at least two packages containing their own version of > > invoke-rc.d, having a search path policy for policy-rc.d can be > > messy and is prone to

Re: Bug#292299: ITP: policyrcd -- policy-compliant interface from invoke-rc.d to local config files

2005-01-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, David Pashley wrote: > > The better fix IS to add an extra line to both incarnations of invoke-rc.d > > (sysv-rc's and file-rc's) to look under /usr/local/sbin first. Make that "later". I just noticed one has to run the system's /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d in preference to all else

Re: Bug#292299: ITP: policyrcd -- policy-compliant interface from invoke-rc.d to local config files

2005-01-26 Thread David Pashley
On Jan 26, 2005 at 09:59, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh praised the llamas by saying: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, David Pashley wrote: > > > Since there are at least two packages containing their own version of > > > invoke-rc.d, having a search path policy for policy-rc.d can be > > > messy and is prone

Re: Bug#292299: ITP: policyrcd -- policy-compliant interface from invoke-rc.d to local config files

2005-01-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, David Pashley wrote: > > Since there are at least two packages containing their own version of > > invoke-rc.d, having a search path policy for policy-rc.d can be > > messy and is prone to be unstructured and uncoordinated. No, it is not. invoke-rc.d *HAS* to be coordinated, a

Re: Bug#292299: ITP: policyrcd -- policy-compliant interface from invoke-rc.d to local config files

2005-01-26 Thread David Pashley
On Jan 26, 2005 at 08:26, Marc Haber praised the llamas by saying: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: policyrcd > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://wiki.debian.

Re: Bug#292183: ITP: gtkpizza -- Pizza takeaway managment program written in gtk

2005-01-26 Thread David Pashley
On Jan 25, 2005 at 16:08, Guglielmo Dapavo praised the llamas by saying: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Guglielmo Dapavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: gtkpizza > > Version : 0.1.0 > Upstream Author : Guglielmo Dapavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-26 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/25/2005 09:46 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>And yes, I've already thought of that. However, I'd rather some >>things (URLs, in this case) not be dropped my children's laps, >>even though they could be blocked further upstream. >> >>When the

Re: PostgreSQL-Problem and Problem on Alioth

2005-01-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Martin Pitt wrote: Well, this is not _exactly_ right since you can map system users to database users in pg_ident.conf, but that would mean yet another conffile to touch. ... which should probably be avoided. Moreover I had bad experiences while trying that some years ago. I t

Bug#292299: ITP: policyrcd -- policy-compliant interface from invoke-rc.d to local config files

2005-01-26 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: policyrcd Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ZugSchlus * License : GPL Description : policy-complian

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-26 Thread Frank Küster
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following fortune's model, this is what I'm thinking: > dosage > dosage-comics > dosage-comics-off > > See there's no censorship here... No, just st^W. What do you gain as a parent? Instead of having to look at one package (dosage) and deciding "No, not th

Re: policy-rc.d confusion (was: not starting packages at boot)

2005-01-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:03:16 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Marc Haber wrote: >> So policy-rc.d needs to be in /usr/local, or we have a FHS violation. > >Please request that we enhance invoke-rc.d to look on /usr/local first, >then (through a wis

Re: try to keep a watch file into your package

2005-01-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:28:16 +0100, Bluefuture <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Native packages are already not included in the dehs system. What do you do with packages that have uncooperative upstream and thus a watch file is not possible? apg's web host, for example, doesn't support directory listi

Re: PostgreSQL-Problem and Problem on Alioth

2005-01-26 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! sean finney [2005-01-25 18:38 -0500]: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:38:37AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > There are two common ways to achieve that: > > > > - Connect as "www-data". For this you need an appropriate PostgreSQL > > user ("createuser www-data" as user postgres). Then you either

Re: try to keep a watch file into your package

2005-01-26 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--==> bluefuture writes: b> The dehs system now is regular running again every two days on alioth b> (and so also on the info feed to developer.php on qa). b> Looking at no_watch page[1] there are: b> Total source packages without watch file: 6324 b> Total source packages: 8285

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-26 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--==> Paul Brossier writes: PB> On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:35 -0500, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: >>With regards to GNOME panel icons. The "add to panel" option now no >>longer offers "launcher from menu" so now with the "custom launcer" >>you have to hunt for your icon. PB> well yes, here i