Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-08 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:06:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Personal communication is how development works in the entire rest of > > the free software world, I really don't see why Ubuntu is different. > > This strikes me as ironic, considering that you are attemptin

Planet Debian and Akregator

2005-06-08 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, as we all know, Planet Debian generates RSS feeds that Akregator doesn't grok, and both packages point at the other one for being at fault. Does Debian have something like an "xmltidy" program which can convert the Planet Debian RSS feeds into something that Akregator can actually read? Gree

Re: Where to put XML Application Files in UNIX File Hierarchy?

2005-06-08 Thread Alban Browaeys
Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 à 12:12 +0200, Christian Heller a écrit : > In other words, CYBOL files are the source + executable + configuration If they are configuration /var/lib looks appropriate. Though it is for transient files or data only ( http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-5.1.html ) /usr is

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Nigel Jones
On 09/06/05, Manoj Srivastava va, manoj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:44:30 +1200, Nigel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > It's been implied that people will be basicly *forced* to use > > selinux, > > Where on earth did you get that idea? The goal is to make it >

Re: hijacking libhtml-mason-perl

2005-06-08 Thread Eric Dorland
* Charles Fry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am an active user of the libhtml-mason-perl package, and am quite > interested in seeing it continue to progress in Debian. > > Unfortunately, as outlined in my [1]message to debian-qa in January, the > package appears to have been abandoned, a

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 09:25 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:13:16AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > wrote: > > to find their own (sometimes flawed) solution to a very common problem. > > Years using Linux: 10. > > Times I've absolutely needed an X-less boot whe

hijacking libhtml-mason-perl

2005-06-08 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, I am an active user of the libhtml-mason-perl package, and am quite interested in seeing it continue to progress in Debian. Unfortunately, as outlined in my [1]message to debian-qa in January, the package appears to have been abandoned, and all attempts to contact the package maintainer have

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 17:25, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:13:16AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > to find their own (sometimes flawed) solution to a very common problem. > > Years using Linux: 10. > Times I've absolutely needed an X-less boot when an XDM

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Rich Walker
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How common was that problem you were trying to solve, again? Presumably, you never used an S3 video card. (Locks up on leaving X in many card/X permutations). Or maybe you inhabit the "Windows is stable" parallel Usenet-propagating universe :-> ch

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Blars Blarson
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:00:54AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > What do you mean with the "not-for-us" errors? I think what > you're refering too is that quinn-diff tells you to build > packages you really shouldn't. I filed a bug with a patch that > works for me: > http://bugs.debian.org/275835

Bug#312580: ITP: sdparm -- Display or change SCSI device parameters

2005-06-08 Thread Tomas Fasth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tomas Fasth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sdparm Version : 0.93 Upstream Author : Douglas Gilbert * URL : http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html * License : GPL / FreeBSD Description : Change and display SCSI dev

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:04:45PM +0200, Christian Aichinger wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:09:35PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Woah, it's not okay for sourceful uploads either. You *cannot* change > > anything that goes into the source package at build time. This > > includes the top e

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:13:16AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > to find their own (sometimes flawed) solution to a very common problem. Years using Linux: 10. Times I've absolutely needed an X-less boot when an XDM was installed: 0. How common was that problem you were trying

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 à 20:06 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > On Jun 08, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > FFS! When will people learn to not mess with other cultures they know > > > nothing about? > > > Feel free to advocate a different default charset for *your* locale, but

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-08 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:03:50PM -0400, Anonymous wrote: > > >>Can't the remainder of the third DVD be filled up with multimedia > >>propoganda files or other fluff? > > > >Or 3vil planz for world domination? > If all elve fails fill it up with pr0n. ;) We already have hot-babe there, maybe add

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:43:24PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Yes, most people with Debian experience could work around this but > > it's way beyond most desktop users that don't know what init.d is. > > These people probably won't be able to operate the console anyway, so > a non-X startup i

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-08 Thread Anonymous
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Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-08 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 04:34 -0700, Kenneth Stailey wrote: > Can't the remainder of the third DVD be filled up with multimedia > propoganda files or other fluff? Or 3vil planz for world domination? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.seigan.org PGP Key fingerprint = 4309 1C58 5143 AFAC F69E 11CD 76FD 56D

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:17:46PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Is that not the purpose of single user mode or run level 1? > > Consider this ficticious scenario: if the "frozen system due to X > misconfiguration" had been my par

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:44:30 +1200, Nigel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It's been implied that people will be basicly *forced* to use > selinux, Where on earth did you get that idea? The goal is to make it _feasible_ for people to run SELinux on Etch by configuring boot > so couldn

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Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:10:32 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:24:31PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: >> * Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > any progress on making libselinux1 a "Required" package? >> > >> > the pos

Bug#312563: ITP: klibc -- minimal libc subset

2005-06-08 Thread maximilian attems
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: klibc Version : 1.0.14 Upstream Author : H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc/ * License : GPL/BSD Description :

Bug#312561: ITP: initramfs -- tools to create an initramfs

2005-06-08 Thread maximilian attems
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: initramfs Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Initramfs * License : PUBLIC DOMAIN Description

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:57:31PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Because Ubuntu makes a lot of noise about being a good community member > and contributing back as much as possible, while most other derivatives > just take what they want quietly and disappear into the mist. > > Between some sligh

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:11:46PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > > > > >4) buildd software issues(pbuild,sbuild,wanna-build,etc) > > > > It looks like this software could use some redesign to put less work > > > on the buildd maintainers and scale better to more buildds. > > > Do you have some

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Jun 08, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Wrong. The problem is packages which need to interact with text files, >> > mail and usenet messages generated by broken software, and for which >> > a

Re: Why apt-get is not a proper software search engine (was Re: And now for something completely different... etch!)

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Aichinger
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:44:53PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > - use package dependancies to ponder if this is an end-user package or > something pulled in by other packages (users typically look for end-user > programs) I do not think will work very well. Where do you set the

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Jesus Climent
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:28:28PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > I fail to understand why there's so much resistance to this feature when > others find it very useful Fedora Core / RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake in the > Linux distributions area and in all the different (gasp) Windows v

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 08, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wrong. The problem is packages which need to interact with text files, > > mail and usenet messages generated by broken software, and for which > > assuming UTF-8 would be totally wrong. > This is completely orthogonal to making UTF-8 the defau

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:17:46PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Is that not the purpose of single user mode or run level 1? Pray tell me how can run level 1 be enough to solve the problem I described if you need to have networking capabitilies to: a) find a solution to your plight throu

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:28:37PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Eh? You can't change that around just like that, it will break in the >> > cases where people

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Jun 08, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As we have hundreds of broken packages assuming e.g. that the filenames >> on disk are encoded in the current locale's character set, the only way >

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:09:35PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:01:52AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Adding changes would be ok for an upload which includes source > > (i.e., .dsc and .diff), but it's simply the *wrong* thing to do when > > an upload does not includ

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Aichinger
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:09:35PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Woah, it's not okay for sourceful uploads either. You *cannot* change > anything that goes into the source package at build time. This > includes the top entry in changelog and the source section of the > control file. Trying to do

Re: Vancouver prpopsal (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:23:57AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:08:23PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >[Josselin Mouette] > > >> However that won't help the architecture make it to a Vancouver-like > > >> rele

Re: Bug#311997: ITP: gaim-latex -- gaim plugin wich translate LaTeX code into image in conversation

2005-06-08 Thread Nicolas Schoonbroodt
Bill Allombert wrote: > When I spoke of security nightmare, this was exactly what I had in mind. > You will never find a blacklist of command that prevent abuse, and the > current certainly does not. For example \usepackage and \documentclass > are not blacklisted so the attacker can load add-on pa

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:58:32PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:34:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > Nobody. However, you're assuming that xdm et al will keep trying to > > start an X server, even if it fails. Luckily, the respective initscript

Re: PostgreSQL transition ahead

2005-06-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler [2005-06-07 20:03 +0200]: >> Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [...] >> > I will upload the new packages to unstable very soon. This has a >> > reasonably big impact to all packages that depend/build-depend on >> > PostgreSQL since t

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 08, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FFS! When will people learn to not mess with other cultures they know > > nothing about? > > Feel free to advocate a different default charset for *your* locale, but > > do not pretend to know what's better for other locales. > As we have

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:01:52AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Ok, this is already the second time I have to report a bug like this, > so I will warn everybody before I find more of them. > > There seems to be a bunch of packages who try to update the changelog > in this way: > >dch

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:34:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Nobody. However, you're assuming that xdm et al will keep trying to > start an X server, even if it fails. Luckily, the respective initscripts > are far more clever than that. I've had a laptop that froze because of X starting u

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:33:05AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:40:48PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > Why on earth would you? It's just more administrative overhead, and > > yet another package you didn't need. > > What made you _think_ i dont need it? Histori

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:18:28PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:25:22PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:23:33AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > To begin with we can all go back and review: > > > http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ReleasePro

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-08 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Benj. Mako Hill may or may not have written... > >> If you're going to complain about a cabal, please do try to get the facts >> straight: The DPL team consists of only one Canonical employee, who was >> even later, after the election, added (Benjamin "Mako" Hill) > And for the rec

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Birch
Benj. Mako Hill([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-08 12:41: > I have no desire to spin things in a way that makes everyone throw > their arms up and love Ubuntu but rather to find constructive ways > that these two projects (both of which I care about) can work together > in mutually beneficial ways. The

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 à 10:13 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > On Jun 07, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - - The locale codeset should be UTF-8 for all new installs by default. > FFS! When will people learn to not mess with other cultures they know > nothing about? > Feel free to a

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Perrier
> Nowadays, the recommended way to update config.sub/guess is transparent, > Debian-specific (but friendly to any sort of upstream config.sub/guess > usage pattern), version-control friendly, and also non-.diff-bloating. Could you develop on that topic (or point me to some good reference, of cou

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-08 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:19:06AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > The fact is that Ubuntu has proactively contributed a lot of code > > back to Debian, much more than most Debian derivatives have. I > > see no reason why claims that Ubuntu is not doing _enough_, or > > making it easy _enough_

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-08 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 16:06: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:03:24PM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > > > > > Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 13:35: > > > > If the diff were zero bytes, Debian and Ubuntu would be identical. I > > > > hope > > > > that you can u

Re: Where to put XML Application Files in UNIX File Hierarchy?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Johnson
Christian Heller wrote: Dear Debian Developers, we are planning to update our CYBOP Debian packages. CYBOP contains the XML-based language CYBOL and its interpreter CYBOI, written in C: CYBOL applications are pure XML; binaries do not exist. They are run "live" by CYBOI, which interprets them. I

Re: Where to put XML Application Files in UNIX File Hierarchy?

2005-06-08 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Christian! You wrote: > 1 Where best to place CYBOL application files in the UNIX file hierarchy? > I thought about /usr/share, but may be /usr/lib suits better or what else? If the applications are to be executed by normal users, they should be put in /usr/bin. If thy are only called intern

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:10:43PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:31:24PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > * Julien BLACHE > > | A bug is a bug, whether it triggers or not. > > It's not RC and therefore not a priority if it has no effect. > The primary question, I t

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-08 Thread Brian Teeman
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:21:15PM +0100, Brian Teeman wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Josh Lauricha wrote: > > > > > On Tue 06/07/05 18:17, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > Dropping a source package might get you into legal trouble (some of the > > > > l

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-08 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:55:39PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > both because the overhead of > training and coordinating with inexperienced (or, well, inept) coordinators > is often higher than just doing all the work yourself, In the short term this is true, but if the amount of work is incr

Re: Vancouver prpopsal (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:08:23PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >[Josselin Mouette] > >> However that won't help the architecture make it to a Vancouver-like > >> release. > > > >I suspect you have misunderstood the content and intention o

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-08 Thread Julien BLACHE
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > Similarly, I'd expect Debian maintainers to care less about bugs which > | > only affects OpenBSD or Windows than those which affect Linux on i386. > | > | Would you mind explaining why this sentence is at all relevant in this > | context ? > > Bug

Re: Where to put XML Application Files in UNIX File Hierarchy?

2005-06-08 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Christian Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > we are planning to update our CYBOP Debian packages. CYBOP contains > the XML-based language CYBOL and its interpreter CYBOI, written in C: > CYBOL applications are pure XML; binaries do not exist. OK, it's like pure Perl, so you can do the same as pe

Bug#312490: ITP: exiv2 -- EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation library and tools

2005-06-08 Thread KELEMEN Peter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: KELEMEN Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: exiv2 Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Andreas HUGGEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://home.arcor.de/ahuggel/exiv2/ * License : GPL Description : EXIF/IPTC metadat

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:21:15PM +0100, Brian Teeman wrote: >> >> As Steve has stated that the source on DVD 3 is only for IA64 > >No, Steve did not state that. > >Matthew stated that there is a source package which could reasonably >well be put on the last image and whic

Re: Packaging of freenx

2005-06-08 Thread Alexander Wirt
Roberto C. Sanchez schrieb am Mittwoch, den 08. Juni 2005: > [offlist] > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:25:23AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > yeah, I offered to sponsor them a year ago and created the repo. I planned > > to > > hijack the ITP in the next days to get freenx into debian. > > Bu

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:19:06AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The fact is that Ubuntu has proactively contributed a lot of code back to > Debian, much more than most Debian derivatives have. I see no reason why > claims that Ubuntu is not doing _enough_, or making it easy _enough_ for > Debian

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:15:18PM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > > > If your X configuration is broken and your X won't start then that is > > effectively the same thing as the proposed run level 3 anyway. So > > what is the point? > Well, I used to have problems with my graphiccard that hard l

Re: Packaging of freenx

2005-06-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[offlist] On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:25:23AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > yeah, I offered to sponsor them a year ago and created the repo. I planned to > hijack the ITP in the next days to get freenx into debian. > But I'm also happy to Co-Maintain the package. I'm the admin of the pkg-nx > re

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:21:15PM +0100, Brian Teeman wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Josh Lauricha wrote: > > > On Tue 06/07/05 18:17, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Dropping a source package might get you into legal trouble (some of the > > > licenses for software in Debian require you distribute th

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-08 Thread Kenneth Stailey
--- Brian Teeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Is there any way that the source can be remastered so that it fits on 2 > dvd. Seems kind of daft that it stretches to three dvd for the sake of > 212mb. Can't the remainder of the third DVD be filled

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thijs Kinkhorst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, June 8, 2005 12:50, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > In RedHat, using selinux is a run time option. If one don't want to use > it, > > all one need to do is update a config file and reboot. I'm sure can get > > something similar working in Debi

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:10:15AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:27:42PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > > > It looks like this software could use some redesign to put less work > > on the buildd maintainers and scale better to more buildds. > > There was one in the m

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:25:22PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:23:33AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > To begin with we can all go back and review: > > http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ReleaseProposals > I reviewed it and it still all falls into two groups: > - Vot

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, June 8, 2005 12:50, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > In RedHat, using selinux is a run time option. If one don't want to use it, > all one need to do is update a config file and reboot. I'm sure can get > something similar working in Debian. If it's not necessary for basic operation of the p

Re: problems with public keys

2005-06-08 Thread Igor Genibel
* Adam D. Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-08 10:25:44 +0100]: > developer.php is currently configured not to check against any external > keyservers. > > See #307461 and http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/05/msg2.html I will try to fix this (and some other issues) soon. Cheers. --

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:11:46PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > Almost all of the dep-wait and many of the not-for-us errors could be > detected by the software. Yeah that would be useful. > wanna-build could probably be turned into a distributed process if it > can't be handled on a single box,

Re: Is Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis MIA?

2005-06-08 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Recalling his packages in the past, I get a different opinion. I can't define your email polite, and I have to admin that this list is often far from being friendly. I really don't know what you could get sending this type of email on this *development

RE: Information

2005-06-08 Thread PACDG/BLIF
COMMUNICATION DU SECTEUR INFORMATIQUE DU CHARLES DE GAULLE L'objet de votre mail ne nous permet pas de le distribuer... En effet, celui-ci doit impérativement contenir dans l'objet du message "SERVICE - GRADE - NOM" de votre correspondant. Merci de bien vouloir renvoyer votre mail correctement re

Bug#312491: ITP: chalow -- weblog tool that converts ChangeLog to HTML

2005-06-08 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: chalow Version : 1.0rc4 Upstream Author : YAMASHITA Tatsuo * URL : http://nais.to/~yto/tools/chalow/ * License : Public Domain Description : weblog tool that converts ChangeLog to HTML `chalow' (CHAngeLog

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:31:24PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Julien BLACHE > > | A bug is a bug, whether it triggers or not. > > It's not RC and therefore not a priority if it has no effect. The primary question, I think, is whether one can be 100% sure whether a bug that results in an

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Nigel Jones | Hmmm, I can see your point, BUT, if a user is not going to use selinux | at all, then what is the use of downloading extra dependencies that | you don't need. I thought that a feature of APT was that it makes you | only download the libraries that you need/use. Yes, and coreutil

Where to put XML Application Files in UNIX File Hierarchy?

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Heller
Dear Debian Developers, we are planning to update our CYBOP Debian packages. CYBOP contains the XML-based language CYBOL and its interpreter CYBOI, written in C: CYBOL applications are pure XML; binaries do not exist. They are run "live" by CYBOI, which interprets them. In other words, CYBOL files

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Julien BLACHE | Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > Similarly, I'd expect Debian maintainers to care less about bugs which | > only affects OpenBSD or Windows than those which affect Linux on i386. | | Would you mind explaining why this sentence is at all relevant in this | conte

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Benjamin Mesing
> If your X configuration is broken and your X won't start then that is > effectively the same thing as the proposed run level 3 anyway. So > what is the point? Well, I used to have problems with my graphiccard that hard locked the system on startup. Being able to do boot into runlevel (RL) 3 wit

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:56:44PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > "Thaddeus H. Black" writes: > > However, past character-set discussions on debian-devel > > have also established how maddening it is to see a '-' > > in a man page, unsearchable because it is not really a > > '-'; > > The simple fac

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Nigel Jones
On 08/06/05, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Nigel Jones] > > if "coreutils" is made absolutely dependant on libselinux1, then the > > user gets no choice... > > One think is depending on the library, another is actually using > selinux. Your objection to use selinux might have

Re: Is Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis MIA?

2005-06-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:48:49AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: I do not know why you doubt that Luca will come back but as far as I know him from conferences I'm pretty sure that his main interest were good quality Debian packages Recalling his packag

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Nigel Jones] > if "coreutils" is made absolutely dependant on libselinux1, then the > user gets no choice... One think is depending on the library, another is actually using selinux. Your objection to use selinux might have some merit, but your objection to have a package depend on libselinux1 d

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Birch
Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 16:06: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:03:24PM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > > > Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 13:35: > > > If the diff were zero bytes, Debian and Ubuntu would be identical. I hope > > > that you can understand my hesitatio

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Nigel Jones
It's been implied that people will be basicly *forced* to use selinux, so couldn't it be easier to have a coreutils-selinux package on the side? just like how the kernel team maintain a couple different branches of the kernel at the same time. There are people that *REFUSE* to use selinux (persona

Re: problems with public keys

2005-06-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, June 8, 2005 11:18, René van Bevern wrote: > On 8.06.05, Nico Golde wrote: >> GPG key id not found! (key id was not found neither in the >> Debian keyring nor on a public keyserver) > I have the same problem. This is a known bug: http://bugs.debian.org/307461 Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:09:01PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez writes: > > Where, pray tell, is a newbie going to learn about [runlevels]? > > a) By having used Red Hat. > b) By reading up on Linux before trying to use it (yes, some people _do_ >that). Yup. They'll also ha

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:56:17PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > last time i spoke to him [name forgotten] the maintainer > > of coreutils would not accept the coreutils patches - > > already completed and demonstrated as working and

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote on 7-06-2005 1:03: [snip] [ Admin improvements ] - Possibility to startup the OS in "control" mode: select which init scripts will run, this provides a way to work-around hardware issues after d-i has installed the base system (personal example: #301112

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Jesus Climent wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > Jesus, meet policy-rc.d. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man policy-rc.d > No manual entry for policy-rc.d Look here: /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d.gz http://people.debian.org/~hmh/invokerc.d-policyrc.d-specification.txt Bob -- To UN

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Petri Latvala wrote: 1) divert the other? what's the use of another package version then That depends on system-wide vs per-user vs per-environment. If you want something done per-user/per-environment, you can always use

Re: Is Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis MIA?

2005-06-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:48:49AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I do not know why you doubt that Luca will come back but as far as I know > him from conferences I'm pretty sure that his main interest were good > quality Debian packages Recalling his packages in the past, I get a different opinion

Re: Arch-specific bugs [was: Canonical and Debian]

2005-06-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:11:05PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 07 juin 2005 à 02:12 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > Oh, you'll also note that the traditional "slow" architectures (mips, > > mipsel, m68k, arm) aren't on this "problems" list. That's because a *lot* > > of effort ha

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:19:06AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The fact is that Ubuntu has proactively contributed a lot of code back to > Debian, much more than most Debian derivatives have. I see no reason why > claims that Ubuntu is not doing _enough_, or making it easy _enough_ for > Debian

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:31:33AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > > > - Separate runlevels: 2 for multi, no net, 3 for multi no X, 4 for X, 4=5 > > > > No way. Debian has always avoided mindlessly dictating what runlevels > > must be used for. There's no reason to destroy this feature now. And > >

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Jesus Climent
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:03:56PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > Add to the list of daemon related features the "not start daemons by > > default" > > and wait for the admin to define which ones to start from /etc/defaults or > > whatever. > > Jesus, meet policy-rc.d. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man

[Help] Tipptrainer bug tagged help

2005-06-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as bug #310817 shows there is a problem in the TippTrainer code which I tagged upstream. Unfortunately currently there is a (hopefully temporary) problem with upstream maintainance. I just asked interested parties in Debian and found out that we have no real replcaement for this program whi

Re: Running daemons without root access?

2005-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Guillermo Gutierrez Herrera wrote: > El mar, 07-06-2005 a las 11:41 +0200, Olaf van der Spek escribió: > > Is it possible for a user to ensure that a certain app is (always) > > started after system start (and stopped before shutdown) without using > > root access? > > If so, how? > > sudo - users

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