Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:03:55PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Unfortunately, the queue ordering policy is unclear. I was guessing > that the priority of the upload would have something to do with > queueing policy. > > Since the all but one of the other arch buildd's have empty > needs-b

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:19:23PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > [Probably going a bit off track for -release; MFT to -devel] > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:14:35PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) > > sorted by: > > - target

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

Torsten wrote: > Why doesn't that option default to 600dpi anyway? Don't think there are > many people out there who can see the difference between 600 and 1200 > dpi... It does default to 600dpi. There are certain printers however which cannot handle data designed for their specific designated

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

[Probably going a bit off track for -release; MFT to -devel] On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:14:35PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) > sorted by: > > - target suite > - package priority > - package section > - package

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) > sorted by: > > - target suite > - package priority > - package section > - package name > > I personally believe it would be beneficial to prioritize by upload urge

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:41:48AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > hi everybody > > thanks to help of many people > (both on debian-legal , debian-devel , and privately), > I have prepared a new debugged improved version of mplayer > for the Debian archive : namely version 1.0pre6-4 > > Simon McVitt

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:03:55PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Re-uploading a package to provoke a buildd response is counterproductive, > > *particularly* when the package is already in Needs-Build on the missing > > architectures. Re-upload

Bug#299146: RFA: phpwiki: An informal collaborative website manager

Package: wnpp,phpwiki Version: 1.3.7-3 Severity: wishlist I no longer use PHPWiki myself, and don't have time to do the necessary work to keep PHPWiki as sharp as it needs to be. Personally, I don't think it's suitable for release as-is, so anyone who wants to see PHPWiki in Sarge should probably

Re: On dpkg support for binary recompilations

Scott James Remnant wrote: Source: banana Package: banana Architecture: any Depends: libbanana0 (= ${Source-Version}) Package: libbanana0 Architecture: any Depends: libbanana-common (= ${Source-Version}) Package: libbanana-com

Re: Stateless linux in Debian

On Mar 12, Josh Lauricha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you figure a system that requires [nearly] all packages to be > modified, non-specific to that project? Every Debian package that might No, it does not. What about you read the white paper instead of speculating? -- ciao, Marco signa

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:03:55PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > If, perhaps, there was a clear indication of the buildd ordering > > policy, then it could be properly used. Until then, I go on the basis > > of guesswork. > > You were

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:03:55PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > If, perhaps, there was a clear indication of the buildd ordering > policy, then it could be properly used. Until then, I go on the basis > of guesswork. You were *told*[1] to wait. Do not fall back to guesswork when someone

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Re-uploading a package to provoke a buildd response is counterproductive, > *particularly* when the package is already in Needs-Build on the missing > architectures. Re-uploading doesn't change its position in the queue, but > it *does* force buildds f

Re: Stateless linux in Debian

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:14:37PM -0500, linux romeo wrote: > Hello, > State Linux looks like a good project to ease management of > enterprise desktops > http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/ > > is debian planning for incorporating it or is there some substitute > project for it

gconf, kde: cleanup tmp after X logout

Hi, are there any X login manager independent scripts they were run after the X session is closed? Is there a possibility for gconf, artsd and alike to register to get called when the X session ends to bring down there service? I admin a linux pool for nearly 500 people. After two weeks uptime th

Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

Changelog entry from a package that has just arrived in incoming: gnucash (1.8.10-8) unstable; urgency=high . * high urgency upload because the fix for critical bug 291632 didn't get into testing because of recompilation bugs, those later fixes were uploaded with urgency low, and th

Re: Stateless linux in Debian

On Fri 03/11/05 22:58, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 11, Josh Lauricha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, from a very cursory glance this really just seems to be barely > > more advanced that a cron job that runs "rsync goldserver:/ /" > Look again then. I did, and became even less impressed.

Re: Privileged Port Puzzle

Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However, this is obviously not the way imagectn is >> supposed to work. > Uh, why not? > If (uid==0) { > bind to specified port; > setuid("imagectn"); /* or "nobody" */ > setgid("imagectn"); > } else { > bind to specified n

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

* Torsten Landschoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050311 22:55]: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:18:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Like I said at the head of this thread I explicitly added xprt-xprintorg > > to the deaktop task on user request. However, nothing I've seen so far > > seems to be a solid reaso

Re: Stateless linux in Debian

On Mar 11, Josh Lauricha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, from a very cursory glance this really just seems to be barely > more advanced that a cron job that runs "rsync goldserver:/ /" Look again then. > FAI is probably a better route to go than trying to port a > Fedora-specific management sy

debconf in while read foo; ... loop?

Hi there, I am having a problem with using debconf in a maintainer script. Namely I am iterating over the list of directories configured for the ldap server and in the loop I am using db_get to query debconf. Problem: The answer from debconf never arrives since stdin is reading the pipe of the

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:18:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Like I said at the head of this thread I explicitly added xprt-xprintorg > to the deaktop task on user request. However, nothing I've seen so far > seems to be a solid reason to keep it. OTOH, if the high priority > debconf question goes

Re: Stateless linux in Debian

On Fri 03/11/05 14:14, linux romeo wrote: > Hello, > State Linux looks like a good project to ease management of > enterprise desktops > http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/ > > is debian planning for incorporating it or is there some substitute > project for it Well, from a very

dehs-devel mailinglist

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Re: Stateless linux in Debian

|| On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:27:49 -0500 || linux romeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: lr> Hello Marco/List, lr>I am willing . lr> I wish to work on a project which incorporates lr> 1) State linux (http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/) lr> 2)Meets most of OSDL Desktop Linux

Re: Stateless linux in Debian

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Bug#299107: ITP: xiron -- ruby interface for xine-library for displaying video

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: xiron Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : guenter at users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://xiron.sf.net * License : GPL Description : ruby interface for xine-library for displaying video This is an extension

Re: Privileged Port Puzzle

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:40:49PM +0100, Juergen Salk wrote: > > Most services (like apache, e.g.) follow a different approach: > They have to be run by root initially, and drop privileges as > soon as they have done binding their privileged ports. However, > this is obviously not the way image

Re: Where are the files of tetex-bin_3.0-1?

Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > * Frank Küster [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:45:23 +0100]: > >> on Tuesday I got a mail from katie that tetex-bin_3.0-1 was accepted, >> but the files don't seem to be in the archive. > >> but the files are not in the pool at > >> ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian

Re: Bug#299023: ITP: zope-common -- common settings and scripts for zope installations

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:05:56AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Fabio Tranchitella ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * Package name: zope-common > > Version : 0.5 > > Upstream Author

Re: Stateless linux in Debian

Hello Marco/List, I am willing . I wish to work on a project which incorporates 1) State linux (http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/) 2)Meets most of OSDL Desktop Linux specification anybody else who is willing/ interested pl let me know Regards, lr ps: also have a lo

Re: Stateless linux in Debian

On Mar 11, linux romeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > State Linux looks like a good project to ease management of > enterprise desktops > http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/ > > is debian planning for incorporating it or is there some substitute > project for it Debian will "incor

Stateless linux in Debian

Hello, State Linux looks like a good project to ease management of enterprise desktops http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/ is debian planning for incorporating it or is there some substitute project for it Regards, lr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Where are the files of tetex-bin_3.0-1?

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:45:23PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > (Cc to -devel, because this might be of general interest). > > Hello, > > on Tuesday I got a mail from katie that tetex-bin_3.0-1 was accepted, > but the files don't seem to be in the archive. There was a problem with katie stopping

Re: Where are the files of tetex-bin_3.0-1?

* Frank Küster [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:45:23 +0100]: > on Tuesday I got a mail from katie that tetex-bin_3.0-1 was accepted, > but the files don't seem to be in the archive. > but the files are not in the pool at > ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tetex-bin/ > Is this an isolated accide

Where are the files of tetex-bin_3.0-1?

(Cc to -devel, because this might be of general interest). Hello, on Tuesday I got a mail from katie that tetex-bin_3.0-1 was accepted, but the files don't seem to be in the archive. The mail with Subject: Accepted tetex-bin 3.0-1 (i386 source) can be viewed at http://lists.debian.org/debian

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:18:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Like I said at the head of this thread I explicitly added xprt-xprintorg > to the deaktop task on user request. However, nothing I've seen so far > seems to be a solid reason to keep it. OTOH, if the high priority > debconf question goe

Re: Why are these packages in sarge?

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I noticed that kernel-patch-2.6.10-hppa and kernel-patch-2.6.10-s390 > are now in Sarge. Should they be there? There is no corresponding > kernel-source-2.6.10 package in Sarge to which these patches could be > applied (as it is o

Which .debconfrc is actually used?

Hi, I am currently experimenting with debconf database overloading. I am working as user "mh", and my ~mh/.debconfrc is the following: Config: configdb Templates: templatedb Name: config Driver: File Mode: 644 Reject-Type: password Filename: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat Name: passwords Driver:

Virus ricevuto -- Virus received

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Re: Privileged Port Puzzle

On 11-Mar-05, 06:40 (CST), Juergen Salk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most services (like apache, e.g.) follow a different approach: > They have to be run by root initially, and drop privileges as > soon as they have done binding their privileged ports. However, > this is obviously not the way im

Re: querying available package versions over the net

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:17:25 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Perhaps the best solution would be if I would offer a interface to > packages.debian.org that is easier parsable than the current one. Yes, that would be great. Especially if the data also told you the source pack

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 11, 2005

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:25:48PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, BugScan reporter wrote: > > ... > >Number concerning the next release (excluding ignored and not-in-testing): > >147 > ... [...] > The question is: can we increase the pressure on maintainers of packages > wi

Re: [marcov@stack.nl: (debian-devel related) FPC static/dynamic]

Hi Bill, On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 16:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > >Hello Roland, I know nothing about fpc, but does it really need to > >produce binaries statically linked with glibc ? > > It doesn't. Not all statically linked binaries are statically linked with > glibc. > > FPC is no GCC de

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 11, 2005

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, BugScan reporter wrote: ... Number concerning the next release (excluding ignored and not-in-testing): 147 ... I'm quoting from previous bug reports: Bug stamp-out list for Feb 11 06:02 (CST) Number concerning the next release (excluding ignored and not-in-test

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:51:16PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jesús Roncero wrote: > > >I've recently had those problems also on a Dell server, using SATA too. The > >fine guys from #gpul helped me a lot on this. Basically, what happened to > >me > >is that kernel 2.4 mapp

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

On Fre, 11 Mär 2005, Jim Gettys wrote: > Note that while my opinion matches Keith Packard's (we'd like to see > xprint go away, but there are also dependencies on it), Roland Maintz So what is the recommended way for sarge (I myself use sid for my private stuff, but for our institutes diskless mac

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

Note that while my opinion matches Keith Packard's (we'd like to see xprint go away, but there are also dependencies on it), Roland Maintz has done much work to improve its behavior in the recent X.org X releases. Of course, Debian is still stuck in the past, while pretty much the rest of the worl

Re: Bug#299024: ITP: dh-zope -- debhelper script for zope packaging

Le Vendredi 11 Mars 2005 14:03, Gustavo Noronha Silva a ÃcritÂ: > Em Sex, 2005-03-11 Ãs 09:48 +0100, Fabio Tranchitella escreveu: > > The package contains the dh_installzope debhelper script used > > for zope packaging tasks. > > Any specific reason to not include this script in debhelper instead?

Privileged Port Puzzle

Hi all. I am working on the imagectn DICOM image archive application. imagectn opens a port and waits for remote applications to connect to this address. The dedicated port number is 104 (see /etc/services) but any user should be allowed to run a private imagectn process on unprivileged ports.

Re: Bug#299024: ITP: dh-zope -- debhelper script for zope packaging

Em Sex, 2005-03-11 Ãs 09:48 +0100, Fabio Tranchitella escreveu: > The package contains the dh_installzope debhelper script used > for zope packaging tasks. Any specific reason to not include this script in debhelper instead? Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

Joerg Friedrich schrieb am Freitag, 11. März 2005 um 13:01:58 +0100: > Miros/law Baran schrieb am Freitag, 11. März 2005 um 12:55:09 +0100: > > 11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it > > > probably leaves people

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

11.03.2005 pisze Joerg Friedrich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Miros/law Baran schrieb am Freitag, 11. März 2005 um 12:55:09 +0100: > > 11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it > > > probably leaves people with SATA hardware

802.11e for Linux Kernel

Hello everyone!   I am new in this list and I'll thank you all in advance for any help you could give to me.   I am investigating about 802.11e Draft (future Standard). I have been looking in the internet and I've found a lot of articles comparing 802.11 and 802.11e. In addition I've re

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 13:01 +0100, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > Miros/law Baran schrieb am Freitag, 11. März 2005 um 12:55:09 +0100: > > 11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it > > > probably leaves people with SATA h

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

On Fre, 11 Mär 2005, Drew Parsons wrote: > Xprint works perfectly fine out of the box. There are several bug reports, some of them I have contributed to, but I guess some of them are filed against mozilla and not xprint, which in fact was an error: 263558 and then there are some more problems ab

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Miros/law Baran wrote: it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just reinsert "root=/dev/hda?" into grub's menu.lst. Any idea

Re: querying available package versions over the net

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:53:20AM -0500, Roderick Schertler wrote: > Another approach is to parse the info from packages.debian.org. This > is what reportbug does, using its own code (checkversions.py). Does > anybody know of code to do this from Perl, or the shell? If not my > current idea is

querying available package versions over the net

In order to fix debget to work with package pools (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=84368) I need to know what versions of a package are available, without relying on apt's cache. (The main point of the program is to fetch versions of a package for distributions which aren't in you

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

Miros/law Baran schrieb am Freitag, 11. März 2005 um 12:55:09 +0100: > 11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it > > probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system > > after kernel-image updates, be

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it > probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system > after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just > reinsert "root=/dev/hda?" into grub's me

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jesús Roncero wrote: I've recently had those problems also on a Dell server, using SATA too. The fine guys from #gpul helped me a lot on this. Basically, what happened to me is that kernel 2.4 mapped the SATA drive as /dev/hdc and kernel 2.6 mapped it to /dev/sda Well, after do

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

Martin Michlmayr writes: > I had dinner with Anthony last night. I'll follow up with more > information on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where is that, is that public? We are a bit concerned with old LilyPond packages, and a potential new maintainer (Pedro Kroger) with his sponsor going mia. Jan. -- Jan

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

reassign 296565 xprt-xprintorg retitle 296565 Xprt: Does not work at all in mozilla thanks Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: >> I removed the xprint dependencies in debian-edu, cause it does not work >> out of the box, and it's confusing. Printing using cups work

On dpkg support for binary recompilations

Unfortunately, this problem turns out to be not as trivial to solve as first thought. Not from a code point of view, but from an acceptable implementation point of view. Having dpkg notice a certain style of postfix (I prefer the "+b1" form) in the Version of a package and strip that before assi

Re: Bug#299024: ITP: dh-zope -- debhelper script for zope packaging

Il giorno ven, 11-03-2005 alle 10:57 +0100, Igor Stroh ha scritto: > > * URL : http://people.ubuntu.org/~doko/zope/ > I'm pretty sure you mean people.ubuntu.com :) Yes, I've mistyped it. Thanks for pointing this out, Fabio signature.asc Description: Questa parte del messaggio =?ISO-

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hoi, I think, xprt is another boring unnecesary daemon. It only eat up resources most of the time. Wy the hell should it be necesary to run two daemons for one job? Also (on my environment) all printing works fine without it. If there are several lan

Bug#299024: ITP: dh-zope -- debhelper script for zope packaging

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-debhelper Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.ubuntu.org/~doko/zope/ * License : GPL Description : debh

Re: Bug#299023: ITP: zope-common -- common settings and scripts for zope installations

Quoting Fabio Tranchitella ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: zope-common > Version : 0.5 > Upstream Author : Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://people.ubuntu.com

Bug#299023: ITP: zope-common -- common settings and scripts for zope installations

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-common Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/zope/ * License : GPL Description : common

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

Drew Parsons wrote: Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: I removed the xprint dependencies in debian-edu, cause it does not work out of the box, and it's confusing. Printing using cups works, both with mozilla (suite) and OOo. Xprint works perfectly fine out of the box. Well I'm sure it does, But when I set