Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-09-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, BALLABIO GERARDO schrieb: > People remove packages from experimental only once in a while, thus > always asking for confirmation shouldn't be too much of a hassle, and > actually may be desirable. At least for those like me who redefine rm as > "rm -i" in their .bashrc. Maybe it would hel

new passwd

2006-09-06 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi all, yesterday, I failed to login svn.debian.org with ssh. I was asked Passwd and input the correct passwd (as far as I remembered) three times but failed. I was given my first passwd in 2001/01 and it was changed in 2003/12/16 (perhaps because of compromise of Debian servers). I seldom use p

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-09-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:02:04PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > - X ran with the wrong resolution (typical i915 problem) and with the wrong > > dpi setting > > Can't speak to that; my ATI Firegl video worked automatically out of

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-09-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:44:59PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Then lets look at how stable ubuntu stable is or is not. I know I've > seen posts on these lists suggesting that ubuntu stable tends to pull > in things from debian unstable[1] and is therefore less stable. Ubuntu does not pull p

Bug#386317: ITP: libtest-unit-perl -- a unit testing framework for Perl

2006-09-06 Thread Andreas Fester
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Fester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtest-unit-perl Version : 0.25 Upstream Author : Christian Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Descri

Re: debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": could not sync

2006-09-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:29:13PM +0200, Udo Mueller wrote: > fsck.ext3 runs without any error message. Did you do "fsck -f", or just "fsck"? In case you did the latter, please run it with -f again. -- Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To

Re: debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": could not sync

2006-09-06 Thread Joey Hess
Udo Mueller wrote: > DbDriver "templatedb": could not sync /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-new: > Input-/Output error This looks very likely to be a disk problem. FWIW, it's calling fsync(2) on that file. > The filesystem on this partition is LVM with ext3. > fsck.ext3 runs without any error me

[Fwd: xemacs-21.4.19-gnome-canna-wnn crashes]

2006-09-06 Thread edwardsa
Just to let you know that the 32-bit version of xemacs-21.4.19-gnome-canna-wnn doesn't crash in a 32-bit etch chroot. Things like this make amd64 seem to be in need of a lot of work. -- Arthur H. Edwards Senior Research Physicist Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL/VSSE Bldg. 914 3550 Aberdeen A

debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": could not sync

2006-09-06 Thread Udo Mueller
Hello debian-devel, please CC because i am not subscribed! Yesterday i did a dist-upgrade on an etch system. Most of the packages were installed and configured correct but some failed with this error: DbDriver "templatedb": could not sync /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-new: Input-/Output err

wierd dpk package message Solved.

2006-09-06 Thread edwardsa
FYI. I was able to fix this problem. The statoverride file resides in /var/lib/dpkg For some reason, it had the following entry: hplip root 755 /var/run/hplip The file statoverride-old was empty I performed radical surgery and made statoverride-old into statoverride. So, the maintainer of h

! Bank Courrier Job Don't Miss

2006-09-06 Thread Nola Carlton
Yo Debian-devel!!! We are small new firm engaged in export of goods to overseas outside my country .We have won various small exports contract at one time or the other, recently we were (engaged) contracted to supply financial programs for market analyzing, management project software in Germ

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:30:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > This may be a good time to remind maintainers that often a versioned > conflict may be more appropriate than a versioned dependency. This seems natural to me, but the policy contains this discouraging language: A Conflicts entry sh

Bug#386269: RFH: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext

2006-09-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the tex4ht and tex4ht-common packages (which are generated out of the same source package). The package description is: TeX4ht is a highly configurable TeX-based authoring system for producing hypertext. It interacts with TeX-

Re: Linking a static library with -fPIC for flex

2006-09-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Manoj Srivastava writes ("Linking a static library with -fPIC for flex"): > I was initially going to just provide libfl.a with position > independent code, which would have prevented the FTBS breakage for > scanner containing shared libraries, at the expense of a register > lost for bina

Re: Install packages automatically based on the detected hardware

2006-09-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 01 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> Would you like to have gtkpod installed automatically if an ipod is in >> the machine? Or 915resolution if your video card is supported by it? >> Or perhaps mpt-status if your RAID controller uses the

RE: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-09-06 Thread BALLABIO GERARDO
From: Wouter Verhelst,,, [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is there any sensible reason for ever uploading a package in unstable > > with a higher version than in experimental? If not, such uploads can > > simply be forbidden altogether. > > The documented and preferred way to remove packages from >

Bug#386255: ITP: python-plistlib -- handle .plist files in python

2006-09-06 Thread Guido Guenther
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-plistlib Version : svn 969 * URL : http://honk.sigxcpu.org/git/plistlib/ Programming Lang: Python Description : handle MacOSX plist files in python License will have

Bug#386256: ITP: python-dateutil -- powerful extensions to python's standard datetime module

2006-09-06 Thread Guido Guenther
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-dateutil Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Gustavo Niemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://labix.org/python-dateutil * License : as shipped with python Programm

Bug#386254: ITP: python-vobject -- parse iCalendar and VCards in python

2006-09-06 Thread Guido Guenther
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-vobject Version : svn 154 Upstream Author : Jeffrey Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://svn.osafoundation.org/vobject/trunk/ * License : apache 1.1 Programm

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-09-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:34:31AM +0200, BALLABIO GERARDO wrote: > Is there any sensible reason for ever uploading a package in unstable > with a higher version than in experimental? If not, such uploads can > simply be forbidden altogether. The documented and preferred way to remove packages fro

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-09-06 Thread BALLABIO GERARDO
Anthony Towns wrote: > Yesterday, glibc 2.3.999.2-10 was accidently uploaded to unstable instead of experimental [...] Would anyone like to contribute their thoughts, so we can do an "air crash" style failure analysis to work out how we can avoid this class of problem in future, given the safety ne