Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:57:54AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 09:52]: > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > * Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 04:34]: > > > > I also think volatile is precisely the wrong place

Re: katie complains about .changes not signed by PGP/GnuPG

2006-02-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:28:19PM +0100, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote: > I'm trying to upload auctex 11.82-1 since a few days, but I keep getting > the following answer from katie. > The .changes file look fine to me, it is signed by my GnuPG key, as > usual. > Does anyone know why katie does not f

Bug#351821: RFA: freetype -- FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files

2006-02-07 Thread Will Newton
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the freetype package. Due to a new job I haven't had any time to work on FreeType in the last few months. As such I would like someone to adopt it. A team would probably be best, there's lots of difficult issues with this package and it requ

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Daniel, On Monday, 06 Feb 2006, you wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:30:01PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > But that doesn't mean that we can issue an update to a stable package. > > > > Currently they are mainly done for security purposes -- but stable updates > > should not be confined t

Re: Automatic testing of .deb's

2006-02-07 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ian: I add my voice to what you already perceive: these tests would be > welcome, and I'd probably accept them to my few packages. A very short > (one screenfull or so) HOWTO/README about how the whole system works linked > from the bug would be

Re: DFSG4 and combined works [was: Anton's amendment]

2006-02-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously any patch that is automatically generated in this way is a > work based on A. The license of A permits to use "patch files" for > the purpose of modifying the sources of A at build time. However the > license of A doesn't explicitly permit us

Re: katie complains about .changes not signed by PGP/GnuPG

2006-02-07 Thread Frank Küster
"Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are willing to help, you can find all needed files on > people:~salve/pub/apt/. s/pub/public_html/ I didn't find the culprit, unfortunately. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Bioch

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katie complains about .changes not signed by PGP/GnuPG

2006-02-07 Thread Davide G. M. Salvetti
Hi all, I'm trying to upload auctex 11.82-1 since a few days, but I keep getting the following answer from katie. The .changes file look fine to me, it is signed by my GnuPG key, as usual. Does anyone know why katie does not find the signature? Am I doing something stupid? If you are willing t

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Ian Jackson wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout writes: > > The requirements for getting into a stable release update are not > > black magic, they're quite well known: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~joey/3.1r1/ > > 2. The package fixes a critical bug which can lead into data loss, > data corrup

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Martijn van Oosterhout writes ("Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?"): > The requirements for getting into a stable release update are not > black magic, they're quite well known: > > http://people.debian.org/~joey/3.1r1/ 2. The package fixes a critical bug which can lead int

python-xml up for adoption

2006-02-07 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
Hi, I'm no longer using python-xml[1] for my daily development, and as a consequence, I feel I'm not doing as good a job as I should on the python-xml package. I'm therefore considering passing maintenance to someone else, or co-maintaining the package. The packaging itself is pretty straightfor

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martijn van Oosterhout ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 14:09]: > ISTM the d-volatile is the right place for this. However, in the mean > time I think someone should send a message to debian-announce that > anyone running a debian machine with an Australian (or other affected) > timezone needs to get

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
2006/2/7, Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It's not us, but the stable maintainer, that you'd have to talk to; > > he has traditionally not been interested in these sorts of updates to > > stable as far as I know. > > Well, perhaps a first start is creating the package for stable-updates; > wo

Re: Automatic testing of .deb's

2006-02-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Adrian von Bidder writes ("Re: Automatic testing of .deb's"): > On Monday 06 February 2006 19:53, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > On 2/6/06, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ filing automatic package tests to the Debian bts ] > > > The Ubuntu maintainer should always open bugs with the test rel

Re: Tcl in Debian - volunteers needed

2006-02-07 Thread Ian Jackson
David N. Welton writes ("Tcl in Debian - volunteers needed"): > Apparently some of the packages I maintain were removed from Debian's > testing distribution this evening: rivet, tcldom, tclxml and tclsoap, > because of open bugs against them that I haven't found the time to > close. "My bad", as t

Re: SVN on alitoth for guest accounts

2006-02-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:51:29AM +0100, Philipp Meier wrote: > Could any of the admins please have a look on this or point my to the > right address? Why do you think alioth admins read this list, or that your question had anything to do with Debian development? The frontpage at http://alioth.d

SVN on alitoth for guest accounts

2006-02-07 Thread Philipp Meier
Hi all, the debian java maintainers migrated their CVS repository on alioth to a SVN repository. I used to have access to CVS for my account "llucifer-guest" with ssh and public key auth on alioth. Since the SVN migration I did not manage to get access to the SVN repository. SVN itself works out f

Re: Bug#204117: Help with installing sgml/xml catalogue stuff

2006-02-07 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Neil! On Mon, 06 Feb 2006, Neil Roeth wrote: > This web page: http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/ has a link to the > "Latest XML Policy Draft" which has info on where files should go. Have you > seen that? No, thanks for the link. I have still a question concerning the placement in s

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:52:15PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 04:34]: > > > I also think volatile is precisely the wrong place to put this kind of > > > data -- it isn't part of the defa

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 09:52]: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 04:34]: > > > I also think volatile is precisely the wrong place to put this kind of > > > data -- it isn't part of the default apt.sou

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Anand Kumria
[ debian-volatile dropped ] Hi Daniel, On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:41:26PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:30:01PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > But that doesn't mean that we can issue an update to a stable package. > > > > Currently they are mainly done for security

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 04:34]: > > I also think volatile is precisely the wrong place to put this kind of > > data -- it isn't part of the default apt.sources for one thing; and it > > places an extra burden on t

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anand Kumria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060207 04:34]: > I also think volatile is precisely the wrong place to put this kind of > data -- it isn't part of the default apt.sources for one thing; and it > places an extra burden on the maintainer(s) (who know have to track > three different upgrade path