Re: locales broken?

2006-04-20 Thread Bastian Venthur
Michael Biebl wrote: > Bastian Venthur wrote: >> James Vega wrote: > > [..] > >> So should I file a bug against KDE(M) for not respecting >> /etc/default/locale? > > Known bug [1]. A corresponding bug report for gdm has been filed too > already. Thanks for the pointer! Best regards, Bastian

Re: locales broken?

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Bastian Venthur wrote: > James Vega wrote: [..] > So should I file a bug against KDE(M) for not respecting > /etc/default/locale? Known bug [1]. A corresponding bug report for gdm has been filed too already. Cheers, Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361089 signatu

Re: locales broken?

2006-04-20 Thread Christian Perrier
(CC'ing Denis Barbier to get his attention, not sure he reads -devel) > Shouldn't the system take care of it when I do a dpkg-reconfigure locales? > > > $ cat /etc/default/locale > # File generated by update-locale > LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en > $ cat /etc/environment > #LANG

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:37, you wrote: >> The stable version installed so easily and well I just >> couldn't believe it. It is now far easier to install Debian than >> Windows XP - yes - really. And I'm not a regular Linux user. Agreed. Tho I had to use the Etch

Re: locales broken?

2006-04-20 Thread Bastian Venthur
James Vega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:28:11PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Hi Devs, >> >> I know some weeks ago we had some major change in some package (I don't >> remember) which broke my locales. I am using UTF-8 (German) but my >> system is acting quite strange after the upgrade of

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:27:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No, this has never been the case. The maintainer gets the bug reports > > from the BTS directly and the PTS is useful for people who are not the > > maintainer but

Re: Marking BTS spam

2006-04-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:06:17PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Just saw this thread mentioned on DWN. > > Do you know about "bts reportspam NN" or "bts spamreport NN" > in the devscripts package? Might do just what you want :) > >Julian Hi Julian, thanks for the update! It seems th

Re: ip access pemit

2006-04-20 Thread sbisbee
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Murilo Bernardes wrote: hello, i've got a email server and i'd like to permit access only to a few ip numbers. can anyone help with this? Greetings, With a simple Google query I found: http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.postfix.users/browse_thread/thread/6fed867f3684

Re: Common Position on RubyGems, stupid? what about /usr/local/ ?

2006-04-20 Thread Antony Lesuisse
I think this thread should move to debian-ruby list. My further posts will be debian-ruby only. If the build-depends are corrects, gem install could be used. (Disallowing any kind of remote access) But that's a minor issue. The _REAL_ issue is how to allow local administrator (and local user

Bug#363685: ITP: libclass-mop-perl -- A Meta Object Protocol for Perl 5

2006-04-20 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libclass-mop-perl Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Pro

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:12:58AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Result: programs run after ifrename (like ifupdown...) will get the old name. So what? The user deliberately asked for it. Also it seems easy to write an udev rule to replace persistent-net-g

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, this has never been the case. The maintainer gets the bug reports > from the BTS directly and the PTS is useful for people who are not the > maintainer but which do want to receive all the information that the > maintainer usually receives. In fac

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:25:14AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > The pkg-games project has discussed in the past that "Arcade" is a poor > category, and yet it is preserved in this new menu proposal. > > The thread starts here: > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/2006-Jan

Re: locales broken?

2006-04-20 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:28:11PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Hi Devs, > > I know some weeks ago we had some major change in some package (I don't > remember) which broke my locales. I am using UTF-8 (German) but my > system is acting quite strange after the upgrade of the (unknown) package:

locales broken?

2006-04-20 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi Devs, I know some weeks ago we had some major change in some package (I don't remember) which broke my locales. I am using UTF-8 (German) but my system is acting quite strange after the upgrade of the (unknown) package: - amarok refuses to play files with umlauts in the filename - firefox and

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/21/06, Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:37, you wrote: > > The stable version installed so easily and well I just > > couldn't believe it. It is now far easier to install Debian than > > Windows XP - yes - really. And I'm not a regular Linux user.

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread David A.
I agree. I recently installed Unstable via minimal net-install-CD on a Dell lattitude laptop. I was impressed with how good it worked to resize the NTFS-partition during installation. Nice to se that GRUB took care of the multi-boot-stuff without any strange questions. Default workstation install w

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:37, you wrote: > The stable version installed so easily and well I just > couldn't believe it. It is now far easier to install Debian than > Windows XP - yes - really. And I'm not a regular Linux user. What praise. Thank you very much! I just had to laugh out loud

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 20, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This looks like a bug in udev. It should not try to identify devices > based on names a user can and will change. I think I missed which alternative design you are proposing. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marco d'Itri: > udev receives the hotplug event for eth0 > udev starts dispatching the event for eth0 > udev runs ifrename which renames eth0 to eth1 > udev cannot detect this and continues dispatching the event for eth0 This looks like a bug in udev. It should not try to identify devices base

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Meanwhile, which is the PTS keyword that will control the receipt of svn > commit notifications? Looking at [1] the only one I can figure out is > "cvs". Can that be generalized and/or "svn" added? I know, it's a really > minor point, but why not sig

Re: Debian From Scratch 0.99.0

2006-04-20 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 20 April 2006 18:18, John Goerzen wrote: John, Thank you very much for the nice work you have done. I remember the earlier versions of dfsbuild with the clean and easy to follow ocaml code ! > Debian From Scratch (DFS) is a single, full rescue CD capable of > working with all major

Debian From Scratch 0.99.0

2006-04-20 Thread John Goerzen
Debian From Scratch (DFS) is a single, full rescue CD capable of working with all major filesystems, LVM, software RAID, and even compiling a new kernel. The DFS ISO images also contain a small Debian mirror subset that lets you use cdebootstrap, along with the other utilities on the CD, to perfor

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:13:14AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Furthermore, the PTS has a very fine-grained mechanism to select which > messages one wants to receive. Thus you can always work around any problem > by enabling or disabling a specific keyword on a specific subscription. Thanks fo

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:01:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 20, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > will be closed with (at most) a pointer to that file; but I don't see > > why you shoul _forbid_ people to use it after being duly warned. > Because *it does not work*. So?

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:52:14PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > This does not make it less broken. Why? Care to point out just one single feature that is broken, provided that the interface is _not_ configured to be automatically brought up in /etc/network/interfaces? > But it's not. That's ifr

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 20 Apr 2006, Steve Langasek spake thusly: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:05:16AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I expect to be able to pipe stuff to $PAGER, or invoke $PAGER on a text file, like so: > % cat~/.bash_profile | $PAGER % $PAGER ~/.bash_profile > >>> That seems

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 20, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > will be closed with (at most) a pointer to that file; but I don't see > why you shoul _forbid_ people to use it after being duly warned. Because *it does not work*. I am not sure how I could express this concept in other ways. -- ciao, Marc

Re: Bug#363685: ITP: libclass-mop-perl -- A Meta Object Protocol for Perl 5

2006-04-20 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak
Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) wrote: Hmm, something happen with reportbug, should be: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libclass-mop-perl Version : 0.24 Upstream Author : Stevan Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:52:14PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 20, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Result: programs run after ifrename (like ifupdown...) will get the old > > > name. > > So what? The user deliberately asked for it. Also it seems easy to write > This does no

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 20, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Result: programs run after ifrename (like ifupdown...) will get the old > > name. > So what? The user deliberately asked for it. Also it seems easy to write This does not make it less broken. > an udev rule to replace persistent-net-generator

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:12:58AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Result: programs run after ifrename (like ifupdown...) will get the old > name. So what? The user deliberately asked for it. Also it seems easy to write an udev rule to replace persistent-net-generator.rules using ifrename so udev wi

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Steve Langasek wrote: > What's the sense of pointing this out when that field isn't implemented (or > standardized)? Scott may object to how Conflicts: is used, but until Breaks > exists and is available for use in Debian, it's the correct field to use. Well, TBH, I'm still a bit confused about t

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:01:40AM +, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Are there any file conflicts between udev and ifrename? If not, then > according to the old dpkg maintainer, Scott Remnant, a Conflicts is not > warranted. He mentioned this in the context of xscreensaver breaking > gnomescreensave

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > > I even documented that configuration in the sample configuration file. > > That's what I've done with python-modules recently. Some people subscribe > > to the -commits list because they are very involved in the team and other > > just use the PTS to fol

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 20, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, ifrename cannot be used with udev because it cannot know that the > > name of an interface has changed and will not be able to correctly > > deliver the hotplug events. > I do not understand how hotplug events enter the picture. I do not u

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:01:40AM +, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Marco d'Itri wrote: > > If you have not noticed yet, the latest udev release by default > > automatically generates rules to have persistent names for network > > interfaces. > > I am inclined to agree with the bug reporter, but I

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Marco d'Itri wrote: > If you have not noticed yet, the latest udev release by default > automatically generates rules to have persistent names for network > interfaces. > > I am inclined to agree with the bug reporter, but I want to double check > and ask if anybody has other arguments. > > On Apr

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:10:18AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > No, ifrename cannot be used with udev because it cannot know that the > name of an interface has changed and will not be able to correctly > deliver the hotplug events. I do not understand how hotplug events enter the picture. I do n

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Frank Küster
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I even documented that configuration in the sample configuration file. > That's what I've done with python-modules recently. Some people subscribe > to the -commits list because they are very involved in the team and other > just use the PTS to follow t

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 20, Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use ifrename to give useful names to interfaces and just because udev > may be able to do this now as well does not mean they should conflict. No, ifrename cannot be used with udev because it cannot know that the name of an interface has ch