Debian Installer team meeting of 20060429: log available

2006-04-29 Thread Christian Perrier
The wiki page of D-I team meetings (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings) now links the full log of the April 2006 meeting that took place yesterday from 16:00UTC to 17:30 UTC. http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/d-i/irc-meeting-20060429/log The meeting minutes will be published as soon

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29 Apr 2006, Marc Haber stated: >> Agreed. An accepted way to do this is to ship a shell script with the >> Debian source package which operates on an pristine upstream tarball >> obtained from upstream and delivers the Debian .orig.tar.gz for >> c

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 29 Apr 2006, Marc Haber stated: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:20:32 +0200, "Bernhard R. Link" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For me a changed .orig.tar.gz means I no longer can easily verify >> what exactly is changed. So I have to not only to download the >> original upstream version and unpack it

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seems to me that this should be at least a bug report on alsa-utils. > I'm surprised that there would be a need for a lintian check for it, but > I guess it's better than letting such bugs go unnoticed. I can add one; it's not a lot of overhead given t

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:16:20PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> The alsa-utils package depends on python-minimal. > >> As a result, I must now have two versions of pyth

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> The alsa-utils package depends on python-minimal. > >> As a result, I must now have two versions of python installed. That's >> a bug. > >> alsa-utils should depend on "python |

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > The alsa-utils package depends on python-minimal. > As a result, I must now have two versions of python installed. That's > a bug. > alsa-utils should depend on "python | python-minimal", or perhaps the > python packages sho

python-minimal

2006-04-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
The alsa-utils package depends on python-minimal. As a result, I must now have two versions of python installed. That's a bug. alsa-utils should depend on "python | python-minimal", or perhaps the python packages should Provide python-minimal. Does this seem right? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

2006-04-29 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 12:13:38PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Sa den 29. Apr 2006 um 12:08 schrieb Andrew Donnellan: > > >That whould be a catastrope. As 2.6 is miles from stable a 2.6 kernel is > > >no kernel for stable servers. (Well, my s

Bug#365425: ITP: haxe -- Web programming languge generating Flash SWF

2006-04-29 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: haxe Version : 0.b5 Upstream Author : Nicolas Cannasse * URL or Web page : http://haxe.org * License : GPL Description : Web programming languge generating Flash SWF haXe is a programming language similar to JavaScript

Bug#365427: RFH: apt-build -- Need new developer(s)

2006-04-29 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, apt-build really lacks of support right now. It works pretty well, but currently it is not capable to deal with every particular case that it might encounter. Many improvements could be done, mainly by using libapt-pkg-perl and enhancing it (like adding new bind

Re: Bug#364940: ITP: libkwiki-plugins-perl -- Plugins for Kwiki

2006-04-29 Thread Nick Phillips
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:54:47PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: libkwiki-plugins-perl > Version : 0.01 > Upstream Author : Various. Compiled by Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Debian BTS down ?

2006-04-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > This morning I reported two bugs (using reportbug), which have not been > acknowledged by BTS. Now I've just received an update on a bug which was > CC:'ed to my personal email. I've answered, but http//bugs.debian.org > has not been updated and the u

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

2006-04-29 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/29/06, Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sa den 29. Apr 2006 um 12:08 schrieb Andrew Donnellan: > >That whould be a catastrope. As 2.6 is miles from stable a 2.6 kernel is > >no kernel for stable servers. (Well, my system with sid is no

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
gustavo halperin wrote: > Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >>gustavo halperin dijo [Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:42PM +0300]: >> >> >I think that we have a problem when the common library between XFree and >/usr/lib are update in /usr/lib. >I currently have XFree 4.5, when the library libfontcon

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-29 Thread gustavo halperin
Gunnar Wolf wrote: gustavo halperin dijo [Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:42PM +0300]: I think that we have a problem when the common library between XFree and /usr/lib are update in /usr/lib. I currently have XFree 4.5, when the library libfontconfig1 was update to v

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:56:06AM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:43:47AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > That's because sometimes it takes that long to find out whether the > > failure is really the maintainer's problem rather than the buildd > > admin's. > > Ok,

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:26:38PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:13:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > So, with all that said, do you still believe it is normal that a perfectly > > running daily build was rejected in maybe a few minutes/hours after i sent > > that email,

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:13:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > So, with all that said, do you still believe it is normal that a perfectly > running daily build was rejected in maybe a few minutes/hours after i sent > that email, while i had offered to continue running it until a proper > replacemen

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:58:17AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:28:11PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Notice also that both you and Colin Watson, where donated pegasos machines, > > (and guess who arranged that), so the unavailability of a decent build > > machine > > is

Debian BTS down ?

2006-04-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
This morning I reported two bugs (using reportbug), which have not been acknowledged by BTS. Now I've just received an update on a bug which was CC:'ed to my personal email. I've answered, but http//bugs.debian.org has not been updated and the update wasn't ack'ed either. Is there a maintenance ru

Re: fonts prbl in sid

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:22:42AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > I use sid and Gnome ; I upgraded my box (after 3 weeks in which I did > not have time to) ; now I have serious problems with fonts. > > Symptoms: some programs fail to find and use the fonts ,and are then > almost unusable ; including '

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:51:08AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >- So the answer is right, why would you want to use XFree now? > I guess, he has unsupported hardware, ugly proprietary drivers, etc. I don't know of any hardware supported by XFree86 4.5 th

Bug#365344: ITP: kalign -- Global and progressive multiple sequence alignment

2006-04-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: kalign Version : 1.04 Upstream Author : Timo Lassmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://msa.cgb.ki.se/downloads/kalign-1.04.tgz License : GPL Description : Globa

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:28:11PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Notice also that both you and Colin Watson, where donated pegasos machines, > (and guess who arranged that), so the unavailability of a decent build machine > is no excuse. I can't speak for the other guys, but I have a Pegasos machine

Re: Apache 2 maintenance status?

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:58:58PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 10/29/05, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Does anyone know the Apache2 maintenance status? > > Lots of bug reports appear to be 'ignored'. > > > > Examples are: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bu

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

2006-04-29 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sa den 29. Apr 2006 um 12:08 schrieb Andrew Donnellan: > >That whould be a catastrope. As 2.6 is miles from stable a 2.6 kernel is > >no kernel for stable servers. (Well, my system with sid is not in this > > Not stable?!?! It's been around for sev

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

2006-04-29 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/29/06, Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Brian, Am Fr den 28. Apr 2006 um 23:28 schrieb Brian M. Carlson: > Don't ask here. Ask on debian-user (or debian-user-german, if it > exists), as this is where the question belongs. The people

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

2006-04-29 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Brian, Am Fr den 28. Apr 2006 um 23:28 schrieb Brian M. Carlson: > Don't ask here. Ask on debian-user (or debian-user-german, if it > exists), as this is where the question belongs. The people there can > help you with some tricks to determine wh

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:20:32 +0200, "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For me a changed .orig.tar.gz means I no longer can easily verify what >exactly is changed. So I have to not only to download the original >upstream version and unpack it and make sure the files do not differ, >I hav

Is -D_REENTRANT still important?

2006-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
There is a very long-standing wishlist bug against lintian (#47776) asking that lintian check to be sure shared libraries are built with -D_REENTRANT. Policy 10.2 indeed says: You must specify the gcc option -D_REENTRANT when building a library (either static or shared) to make the librar

Re: gpg

2006-04-29 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:14:12AM +0200, Tamas SZERB wrote: >So I would be more curious what could be the standard way to resolve >this issue asap. Please read http://keyring.debian.org/replacing_keys.html Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal signature.asc Description: Digital sig

Re: gpg

2006-04-29 Thread Tamas SZERB
all replies tries to tell me that I'm intend to crack the GPG. Believe me, If I could do it, I would not use it anymore since it's not safe enough. Anyway, at least, I resolved the upgrade from 1024 to more bits, but I loose my signatures unfortunately. :( So I would be more curious what could b

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:21:12PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:40:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:34:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:46:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > The maintainer is held respon