Work-needing packages report for Nov 18, 2005

2005-11-17 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 197 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 90 (new: 0) Total number of packages requeste

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-17 Thread Anthony Towns
Bcc'ed to -project; followups to -devel. On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:43:32PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Note that the point is to be able to test the _actual package_, _as > installed_ (eg on a testbed system). This is much better than testing > the package from the source treeu during build time

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
[let's get this over to a technical list like it was supposed to be ;)] On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:43:34PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:43:32PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > This means execute debian/tests/fred, debian/tests/bill, etc., > > each with no argumen

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:23:43PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > I wouldn't recommend to compile new code with 2.95 just because it is > faster. It doesn't do standard C and misses many broken constructs which > are caught by newer compilers. The real advantage of gcc-2.95 is that we start to know

Re: Bug#276871 acknowledged by developer (Bug#276871: fixed in gdm 2.8.0.6-1)

2005-11-17 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Qui, 2005-11-17 às 17:46 -0200, Guilherme de S. Pastore escreveu: > I also suggest you look for discussions about this on the debian-devel > archives... It's already been exhaustingly discussed several times > before. I apologize for not giving any pointers, as I thought they would be too diffi

Re: Bug#276871 acknowledged by developer (Bug#276871: fixed in gdm 2.8.0.6-1)

2005-11-17 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Qui, 2005-11-17 às 11:12 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez escreveu: > Personally, I will list multiple bugs in the new upstream release line > in my changelog, if they are actually fixed. And I surely hope you figure out it's a bad thing and stop doing that. I suggest you take a look at the gnome-appl

Re: Bug#276871: acknowledged by developer (Bug#276871: fixed in gdm 2.8.0.6-1)

2005-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Why didn't you keep debian-devel as Cc ? Le jeudi 17 novembre 2005 à 09:31 -0800, Ryan Murray a écrit : > The debian/changelog file documents the changes _I_ made. And the change I > made was "new upstream release". The list of bugs that fixes is listed. > If you want to see details of changes u

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:41:31PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > No: there is nothing "proper" about rejecting mail from a host that you > >> > have > >> > configured to forward mail for you. > >> Nearly all of this mail flow is invalid in one way

Re: Bug#276871 acknowledged by developer (Bug#276871: fixed in gdm 2.8.0.6-1)

2005-11-17 Thread Frank Küster
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I will list multiple bugs in the new upstream release line > in my changelog, if they are actually fixed. Personally, I will reopen the bug should you do so on a bug I reported, without prior explanations sent to me. BTW, a message to

Bug#339619: ITP: xchat-xsys -- x-chat plugin that can display your current system statistics

2005-11-17 Thread Ricardo Markiewicz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ricardo Markiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xchat-xsys Version : 2.0.9 Upstream Author : Michael Shoup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dev.gentoo.org/~chainsaw/xsys/ * License : GPL Description : x-cha

Re: Bug#276871 acknowledged by developer (Bug#276871: fixed in gdm 2.8.0.6-1)

2005-11-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:12:22AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked at all the bugs for gdm and the bugs you reopened were tagged > as upstream and/or fixed-upstream. And as the bug reporter, you never get the message that says that the bug has been tagged. *That* c

Re: Bug#276871 acknowledged by developer (Bug#276871: fixed in gdm 2.8.0.6-1)

2005-11-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:17:44PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > reopen 276871 309224 258934 327464 261979 290916 304027 314449 > thanks > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:03:08AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug rep

Re: Ihre Anfrage an das Hood.de Support-Team

2005-11-17 Thread Pierrehinio
Vielen Dank für Ihr Mail vom   23.10.2005 Wieder fragen wir nach, haben   Sie   Interesse, bei  u n s   ( IKF )   mitzuarbeiten ??? Folgenden Wortlaut haben wir den zuständigen Adressen gesendet. Mit  Ihrer  Unterstützung, können wir die " A r m u t "   abschaffen. Wenn  ja  unsere

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-17 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > No: there is nothing "proper" about rejecting mail from a host that you >> > have >> > configured to forward mail for you. > >> Nearly all of this mail flow is invalid in one way or another. > > Of course it is. That doesn't make it "proper" to reje

Re: Bug#276871 acknowledged by developer (Bug#276871: fixed in gdm 2.8.0.6-1)

2005-11-17 Thread Mike Hommey
reopen 276871 309224 258934 327464 261979 290916 304027 314449 thanks On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:03:08AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #276871: Date shown in gdm is correctly localized, but only for a m

Re: [RFH] Test of new grub package

2005-11-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On November 11, 2005 19:53, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> I prepared a new package of grub for upload in next days. It still >> needs some work but looks like a good improvement. >> >> Would be good if you could do a brief test of it and provide feedba

Bug#339580: ITP: libdigest-sha-perl -- Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512

2005-11-17 Thread Allard Hoeve
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Allard Hoeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdigest-sha-perl Version : 5.31 Upstream Author : Mark Shelor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Digest/ * License : GPL, Artistic Descri

Re: bts2ldap down?

2005-11-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Henry Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051117 10:13]: > This morning I cannot reach the LDAP server - again. > Has something changed again or is bts2ldap.debian.net just down? it was just down, and is restarted right now. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

bts2ldap down?

2005-11-17 Thread Henry Jensen
Hi, Just yesterday I learned that bts2ldap is now on bts2ldap.debian.net - http://people.debian.org/~aba/bts2ldap/ still says that it is on master. Anyway, I changed my scripts to access bts2ldap.debian.net and it worked, at least yesterday evening. This morning I cannot reach the LDAP server -

BTS down?

2005-11-17 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi, yesterday I've written two bugreports with reportbug. The bugs have been sent to bugs.debian.org and reportbug said, I'd receive an answer within the next hour. This was like 15h ago and I still did not receive an answer. Maybe this has something to do with #338900 (smtp connection direct to

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-17 Thread Christian Fromme
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > while preparing an upload of gcc-2.95 which fixes its worst problems > I wondered how many users of it are actually left. 9 packages in > unstable still declare a build dependency on gcc-2.95 or g++-2.95, > this makes it IMHO a plausible release goal to