Re: [Debconf-discuss] list of valid documents for KSPs

2006-05-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 28 May 2006, Thomas Bushnell stated: > Perhaps my just-posted message has too many words to see my point. > > In the paragraph above, marked >>>, which was written by you, you > speak of deception and forgery. Nothing in the reports of the > recent incident involving Martin suggests any decept

Re: Bug#367853: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-30 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Have fun with updating the library, it won't affect depending packages. > :) Some times are that easy to solve, you know? Ok, will upload today :) pgpHAIvddyz9K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: libdb transition policy?

2006-05-30 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Sorry for late response. * "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-24 12:10]: >> However, contrary to what the NM templates suggest, symbol versioning >> is not a cure-all for all ABI incompatibilities. If libetpan returns >> a DB_ENV * in its API, you need to port[1] a

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Andreas Fester schrieb: > >> I create a new package with the new name which will >> get uploaded to the NEW queue. This package replaces the >> old package and conflicts with the old package: >> Replaces: oldPackage >> Conflicts: oldPackage (<< f

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-30 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Tue, 30 May 2006 11:22:51 +0200 Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Steve Langasek schrieb: > > >>Package: oldpkg > >>Depends: newpkg > >>Description: transitional dummy package > > > >>Package: newpkg > >>Replaces: oldpkg > >>Conflicts: oldpkg > >>Description: ... > > >

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:25:58AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Christoph Haas schrieb: > > >>* NTP server > >> (some work required; currently, not-really-maintained by the Debian > >> NTP Team, which consists of zero active members) > > >I'd take my chance on this one. There is a large number o

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Christoph Haas schrieb: * NTP server (some work required; currently, not-really-maintained by the Debian NTP Team, which consists of zero active members) I'd take my chance on this one. There is a large number of bugs open and I believe that this package is very important. Still I'd li

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Steve Langasek schrieb: Package: oldpkg Depends: newpkg Description: transitional dummy package Package: newpkg Replaces: oldpkg Conflicts: oldpkg Description: ... *NO* *NO* *NO* *NO* *NO*. Look closely at the package relationships you've specified. Why would you upload a package to

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-05-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Benjamin Seidenberg] > FYI: > 12:33 < Ganneff> and for all those impatient waiting for NEW: i will > clear that in my jetlag time, in those nights i > cant sleep (ie 1st -> 2nd june, 2-> 3) :) Sounds good, but do not really addresses the fundamental problem here

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Christoph Haas
Morning... Matthias, your "From:" line appears to be missing. Or my MUA is b0rked. On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:29:34PM +0200, wrote: > * NTP server > (some work required; currently, not-really-maintained by the Debian > NTP Team, which consists of zero active members) I'd take my chance on t

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
On 5/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am sorry (and not happy with myself) that I've been procrastinating about this for too long. This decision has not been easy. However, I need to focus more on (a) work that actually feeds my kids, and (b) time that is *not* spent hacking.

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Alexander Shishkin
On 5/30/06, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course, but I'm just talking about getting a basic environment set up from scratch. I realise slind removes the need for that now, but... I'm not insisting on you using slind, I just want to convince people to contribute to it. :) -- I am fr

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:23:44AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Andreas Fester schrieb: > >I create a new package with the new name which will > >get uploaded to the NEW queue. This package replaces the > >old package and conflicts with the old package: > >Replaces: oldPackage > >Conflicts: oldP

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Alexander Shishkin
On 5/30/06, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just make a list of everything you have installed and rebuild each package one-by-one until you've covered everything. I can't see where the problem is. In the real world (tm) building things by hand is not acceptable because of a) complicated bu

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, * NTP server (some work required; currently, not-really-maintained by the Debian NTP Team, which consists of zero active members) I'll take it. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Andreas Fester schrieb: I create a new package with the new name which will get uploaded to the NEW queue. This package replaces the old package and conflicts with the old package: Replaces: oldPackage Conflicts: oldPackage (<< firstVersionOfNewPackage) IIRC the correct way to do that is

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On 5/30/06, Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I do think it would be really nice is to have a "contrib-builds" SLIND repository (like backports do). This would make things easier for sharing this effort. Will be there Real Soon Now (tm). Hardware is already at the desk, I just need t

Re: Uploading packages built against testing?

2006-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> binNMU & recompilation: won't break if the app really works with this > >> older > >> version and the lib must be ABI-compatible anyway. > > ... and this one is plainly wrong. binNMUs for rebuild against > > dependency lib

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Alexander Shishkin
On 5/30/06, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29 May 2006, at 23:53, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Yes, I can see that could be handy. I'm guessing SLIND is based on woody? No, it is based on testing/unstable. Host part is mostly sarge (it was in the 0.1 prerelease, now most of it is sid). Well i

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Boot
On 30 May 2006, at 09:12, Alexander Shishkin wrote: On 5/30/06, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just make a list of everything you have installed and rebuild each package one-by-one until you've covered everything. I can't see where the problem is. In the real world (tm) building things

Re: Uploading packages built against testing?

2006-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hendrik Sattler wrote: >> Am Montag, 29. Mai 2006 21:16 schrieb Thomas Viehmann: >>> Hendrik Sattler wrote: No, but you could manually set all stuff in Depends to the needed versions. That would also work for the buildds, I guess. >>> And bre

Re: HOWTO rebuild the archive

2006-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:47:53PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Or just dump all packages into the buildds queue file (as > > That would be ~buildd/build/REDO > >> package_version, one per line) and start it. > > That would be > > package_vers

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Boot
On 30 May 2006, at 08:53, Alexander Shishkin wrote: On 5/30/06, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29 May 2006, at 23:53, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Yes, I can see that could be handy. I'm guessing SLIND is based on woody? No, it is based on testing/unstable. Host part is mostly sarge (it was

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Boot
On 29 May 2006, at 23:53, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2006-05-29 às 22:08 +0100, Chris Boot escreveu: SLIND sounds interesting indeed, I've been using a buildroot-built system for mine so it was difficult getting dpkg built in the first place, but I've got it mostly all going. All the arch-inde

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi! You wrote: > * videogen > (easy pickings) If no one else is interested, I'd like to take this one. It could take me a few weeks to find time to upload though, as Real Life is getting in the way atm. -- Kind regards, ++

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