Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 13:59 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > > > Nope, it's not :-), just add: > > > > BINDMOUNTS="/var/cache/pbuilder/result" > > > > and put hook script somewhere: > > > > # cat /var/cache/pbuilder/hooks/D70results > > #!/bin/sh > > cd /var/cache/pbuilder/result/ > >

gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
I have just uploaded gnucash 1.9.6, the first beta release of the new gnome 2 gnucash. Since this is now in beta, I judged it opportune to upload it to unstable. The final 2.0 release is expected in a short number of weeks. Many thanks to the fabulous upstream gnucash team! Is there any partic

Re: Mime Support -- Please somebody reply this

2006-05-14 Thread Indraveni
Indraveni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, we are working for a distro. For that we are using a debian installer for installing the deb packages with a double click on a deb package and also incorporated into our distro. But the problem is: At the first time when we try to install we need

Buffer Image

2006-05-14 Thread Indraveni
Hi,  I am using debian and I am findng a bug in this. Whenever I am rebooting my system an image is being displayed on my screen, which is the last logout screen of the system.  At which ever state I am logging out that same image is being displayed before i login my OS.  ahy this image is displ

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-05-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 14 May 2006 20:49:46 +0200, David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:27:50AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Localepurge is a bad hack which tries to compensate for a shortcoming >> in dpkg, one that I have been waiting to be fixed since I started >> using Debian n

Re: pbuilder, and why not...

2006-05-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > d) Need lots of disk space > > Yeah, but disk space is cheap. > > > e) Take ages to unpack > > Take a look at sbuild, which can work with lvm snapshots. Theoretically pbuilder can work with lvm snapshots, if you use pbuilder with --no-targz option. That's how pbuilder-uml works (or us

Re: pbuilder, and why not...

2006-05-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > While chrooted buildds make the generated binaries much more reliable, > > it removes an important test case for the source packages. Debian source > > packages are supposed to also work correctly when run in an unclean > > build environment. > > Because tools like sbuild need a dsc, I al

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > Nope, it's not :-), just add: > > BINDMOUNTS="/var/cache/pbuilder/result" > > and put hook script somewhere: > > # cat /var/cache/pbuilder/hooks/D70results > #!/bin/sh > cd /var/cache/pbuilder/result/ > /usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null >> /var/cache/pbuilder/result/Packages > /us

Re: renewing broken debconf database?

2006-05-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 22:20 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Drew Parsons wrote: > > I haven't filed a bug against debconf yet since I'm not certain it is a bug > > in debconf. I hope you can provide useful clues. > > Just run /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl Thanks for the tip. It didn't help, however. T

Re: renewing broken debconf database?

2006-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: > I haven't filed a bug against debconf yet since I'm not certain it is a bug > in debconf. I hope you can provide useful clues. Just run /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-14 Thread Lars Wirzenius
The latest version of the Debian Policy Manual has made the use of invoke-rc.d mandatory, if that command exists. Directly calling an /etc/init.d script in maintainer scripts is no longer allowed, unless invoke-rc.d doesn't exist on the system. See section 9.3.3.2.[1] [1] http://www.us.debian.

renewing broken debconf database?

2006-05-14 Thread Drew Parsons
I had a system crash which hosed some files in /var. I've been trying to reapply "apt-get upgrade" to restore the record of what's installed where. Unfortunately debconf is not cooperating. It seems to be unable to re-ask its questions in order to restore the ones which got lost during the crash.

Re: Laptop support: acpi-support

2006-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Since I want Debian etch to work "out of the box" on most laptops, I > uploaded acpi-support to Debian. It's right now in NEW, but the sources > are in collab-maint SVN repository: > svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/deb-maint/acpi-support/trunk > > I would like th

Laptop support: acpi-support

2006-05-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello everybody, Ubuntu has made some efforts to better support a wide range of laptops and this resulted in some changes that are still not completely integrated in Debian. One of the changes is that they install automatically a package called "acpi-support" which provides lots of laptop-specif

Re: pbuilder, and why not...

2006-05-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Dirk Eddelbuettel [Sun, May 14 2006, 04:52:17PM]: > Eduard Bloch gmx.de> writes: > > > Right solution is to use pbuilder, which will: > > > > > > a) always ensure that package can be built using unstable > > > b) keep your build environment clean > > > c) keep your local system clean

Re: For those who care about Debconf but couldn't make it

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060513 01:38]: > At the appropriate time, point your media player at > http://video.debconf.org:8000/tower.ogg or > http://video.debconf.org:8000/hacklab.ogg depending on the session > venue. We have multiple servers so you can also use > us.video.debconf

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote: ... e) it's difficult to install versions of packages not available from your regular sources.list. For example if you build a new (version of a) library package and then an application that uses

Bug#367283: ITP: python-turbokid -- TurboGears template plugin that supports Kid templates

2006-05-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-turbokid Version : 0.9.6 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/docs/plugins/template.html * License : MIT Programming Lang: Py

Bug#367285: ITP: python-turbojson -- TurboGears template plugin that supports json

2006-05-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-turbojson Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Elvelind Grandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/docs/plugins/template.html * License : MI

Re: pbuilder, and why not...

2006-05-14 Thread Roger Leigh
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060514 18:54]: >> e) yes, it may add a minute here or there, but pbuilder _dramatically_ >> increases your build reliability and saves you and the admins time as it >> prevents (build) bugs from propagating

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-14 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> Usually, when I get problems with xpdf on a PDF, it is a PDF > 1.5. Either it simply doesn't work, or very slowly, or text search > doesn't work in the PDF. Lionel, In my experience, the Xpdf upstream author is very responsive to bugs. If you provide him with a suitable test case, I have no dou

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scripsit "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Email::Send provides a very simple, very clean, very specific interface >> to multiple Email mailers. The goal if this software is to be small >> and simple, easy to use, and easy to exte

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-14 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak
Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email::Send provides a very simple, very clean, very specific interface to multiple Email mailers. The goal if this software is to be small and simple, easy to use, and easy to extend. What's wrong with the l

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-14 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/14/06, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/14/06, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/13/06, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sense if one considers a #! program to be something that should have > > predictable behavior no matter what the user

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-14 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 01:20:20PM +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) wrote: > Email::Send provides a very simple, very clean, very specific interface > to multiple Email mailers. The goal if this software is to be small ^ > and simple, easy to use, and easy to extend.

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 5/14/06, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/13/06, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sense if one considers a #! program to be something that should have > predictable behavior no matter what the user happens to have in his > $PATH. If the independence is a requireme

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-05-14 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:27:50AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2006 01:10:17 +0200, Eugen Paiuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >I'd add localepurge - witch save my >25 % disk space on 6-700 mb > >installation. > > Localepurge is a bad hack which tries to compensate for a shortcoming

Re: pbuilder, and why not...

2006-05-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060514 18:54]: > e) yes, it may add a minute here or there, but pbuilder _dramatically_ > increases your build reliability and saves you and the admins time as it > prevents (build) bugs from propagating. Also, with proper uses of LVM and > snapshotting,

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-14 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/14/06, Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Linux kernel requires a full path for #! scripts. This makes > > One option would be to improve the Linux kernel. :) And make scripts incompatible with any other unix kernel? No and that's not what I said. I'm quite sure there is a s

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-14 Thread Jari Aalto
José Luis Tallón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hijacking a package without contacting the maintainer first is against > the Developers' Reference and can only be considered a personal attack. > > > I still don't know what is John Goerzen trying to achieve with this. > More on this later. This th

Re: pbuilder, and why not...

2006-05-14 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Ondrej Sury [Sun, May 14 2006, 10:00:25AM]: > > Right solution is to use pbuilder, which will: > > > > a) always ensure that package can be built using unstable > > b) keep your build environment clean > > c) keep your local system clean > > d) Need lots of disk space Y

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote: ... > > e) it's difficult to install versions of packages not available from > > your regular sources.list. For example if you build a new (version of a) > > library package and then an application that uses it and want to upload > > both

Re: pbuilder, and why not...

2006-05-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Eduard Bloch gmx.de> writes: > > Right solution is to use pbuilder, which will: > > > > a) always ensure that package can be built using unstable > > b) keep your build environment clean > > c) keep your local system clean > > d) Need lots of disk space > e) Take ages to unpack > f) Add more com

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-14 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Sun, 14 May 2006 18:32:00 +0200 "Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/13/06, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Linux kernel requires a full path for #! scripts. This makes > > One option would be to improve the Linux kernel. :) And make scripts incompatib

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-14 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/13/06, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scripsit "Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That would be total insanity. Just think about the number of scripts >> with "#!/usr/bin/python" in it that would have to be changed. And h

Bug#367240: ITP: libtest-html-content-perl -- Perl extension for testing HTML output

2006-05-14 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtest-html-content-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Max Maischein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-HTML-Content/ * License : Dual GP

Re: Testing security archive move

2006-05-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Neil McGovern wrote: deb http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib non-free Errr... apt-get says: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release Unable to find expected entry main/b

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:08 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:47:41AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:00:25AM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote: > > > Right solution is to use pbuilder, which will: > > > > > > a) always ensure that package can be built u

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (extra archive source set up)

2006-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:08:09PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:47:41AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: ... > Without wishing to join the mob, > > e) it's difficult to install versions of packages not available from > your regular sources.list. For example if you build a

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:47:41AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:00:25AM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote: > > Right solution is to use pbuilder, which will: > > > > a) always ensure that package can be built using unstable > > b) keep your build environment clean > > c) keep

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 14 mai 2006 à 11:47 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > d) take much longer to build your package; the exact factor depends on >the size of the package, but a factor 3 isn't too uncommon for >smaller packages, which isn't very interesting in cases where you >need to do a lot

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Email::Send provides a very simple, very clean, very specific interface > to multiple Email mailers. The goal if this software is to be small > and simple, easy to use, and easy to extend. What's wrong with the legacy /usr/sbin/sendm

Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-14 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libemail-send-perl Version : 2.0.5 Upstream Author : Casey West, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/modules/by-module/Email/Email-Send-2.05

pbuilder, and why not...

2006-05-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Ondrej Sury [Sun, May 14 2006, 10:00:25AM]: > Yes, don't clutter your system, because it will end in sorrow :-). > Your system will have mix of your local packages and at the end of the > day you will build package which will be: > > a) unbuildable > b) uninstallable Only in the hand

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 11:47 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:00:25AM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 14:54 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > > > Is there a way to tell deborphan to follow the build-dependencies > > > of a set of source packages? I know about

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:00:25AM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote: > On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 14:54 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > > Is there a way to tell deborphan to follow the build-dependencies > > of a set of source packages? I know about deborphan's keep file, > > but that's too tedious to keep up-to-d

Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 14:54 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > Is there a way to tell deborphan to follow the build-dependencies > of a set of source packages? I know about deborphan's keep file, > but that's too tedious to keep up-to-date by hand. > Is there another tool I should be using? Yes, don't c