Tracking differences between Ubuntu and Debian for a set of packages

2006-09-18 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hello, I've written a small-and-easy script to track the differences for a given set of packages between Debian and Ubuntu. We (as Debian/Ubuntu Zope Team) use it to coordinate syncs, but it could be useful to other developers too. http://people.debian.org/~kobold/ubuntu-diff/ If you'd lik

Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-18 Thread Miles Bader
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is also clear that this is how many maintainers have understood it, > because as you yourself have noticed, there are many packages that > assume they can ship directories in /var/run and have them remain > available after reboot. :) I think it's mor

Re: Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.

2006-09-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Charles Plessy wrote: Therefore, unless I am told not to do so, and of course unless I am wrong to thing that Brian Furry is MIA, I would like to put the package under the responsability of the "Debian-Med packaging team" (see http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med/ an

Internationalising kernel-package generated debconf templates

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Perrier
(attempt to move this to -i18n) > > But, this is currently not (yet) translatable... Manoj tried to work > > on this but the i18n was breaking something, IIRC, and he had to > > revert the change. At least, this is where I left in that story. > > Well, Steve had mentioned something about

Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.

2006-09-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I did not find a match for "mia" or "hijack" in the tables of content of the policy or of the developper's reference. If Brian R Furry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) were MIA, I would like to hijak his "seaview" package, for which the upstream author has made improvements that allow to move the pa

Bug#388176: ITP: graphthing -- a tool to create, manipulate, and study graphs

2006-09-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: graphthing Version : 1.3.1 Upstream Author : David Symonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://graph.seul.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description :

Re: Policy process

2006-09-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:43:18 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Well, policy-process is still shipped with the debian-policy > package, and my experience in the past is that when I follow that > process, the changes go into Policy fairly quickly. Certainly > seconding would show tha

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > >> On Aug 31, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Marco trolled again. FYI, no serious person disagrees with this >>> interpretation. >> Except every other distribution, which usually retain real lawyers >> t

Re: (proposed) Mass bug filing for debconf "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:23:31 +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> On Monday 18 September 2006 16:36, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> > Frankly, the kernel's "You NEED to restart your computer SOON" >> > message is a good example, if it's tellin

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:59:11 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > * sendemail -- does what it says. > -- Small and written in perl -- maybe the Debian Perl Group would like it? AFAIK at the moment the DPG only maintains Perl modules. > Meanwhile, I don't suppose I could convince the Debian Perl Grou

Re: (proposed) Mass bug fil ing for debcon f "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:36:11AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Christian Perrier wrote: > >> In short, a note should only be used for IMPORTANT stuff, so actually > >> all debconf notes should be priority highor should not exist! > > It's better to simply remove them all: If it's an er

Re: (proposed) Mass bug fi ling for debcon f "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Monday 18 September 2006 16:36, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Frankly, the kernel's "You NEED to restart your computer SOON" message > > is a good example, if it's telling the truth. But that cheats by not > > using debconf. > > Oh yes it does! > When hav

Re: (proposed) Mass bug filing for debconf "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 18 September 2006 16:36, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> Frankly, the kernel's "You NEED to restart your computer SOON" message >> is a good example, if it's telling the truth. But that cheats by not >> using debconf. > > Oh yes it does! > When have you last done a kernel

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
gregor herrmann wrote: > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:58:31 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >> (There are quite a few more -perl and -ruby packages, but I'm not quite >> sure which ones have been picked up.) > > The lib*-perl packages are all already in the Debian Perl Group's svn > repository and wi

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:13:23PM +0100, James Westby wrote: > > I'll take since it hasn't been claimed. > I claimes it via ITA straight away, perhaps I should have emailed the > list as well sorry. No problem, it was my fault for trusting the mail and not checking. > I'm always happ

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread James Westby
On (18/09/06 16:35), Steve Kemp wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:58:31AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > The ones which haven't been picked up either with ITAs or in this thread, > > and which aren't lib*-perl or lib*-ruby, are: > > > > * > > I'll take since it hasn't been cl

Re: Policy process (was: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?)

2006-09-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:43:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Copying the debian-policy list, since this conversation is basically about > that. > > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't think policy changes need to be seconded. We have a policy team > > that should decide on w

Re: Why not only support Sid and Testing?

2006-09-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-15 17:47:52, schrieb Hendrik Sattler: > Thus, you can install xorg without installing discover. > Do you always install with all recommends? That will pull in lots of useless > stuff... No, I use only apt-get because I prefer Lite-Systems. If I use recommends my system would not be D

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:58:31AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > The ones which haven't been picked up either with ITAs or in this thread, > and which aren't lib*-perl or lib*-ruby, are: > > * I'll take since it hasn't been claimed. Steve -- Debian GNU/Linux System Administratio

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:58:31 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > (There are quite a few more -perl and -ruby packages, but I'm not quite sure > which ones have been picked up.) The lib*-perl packages are all already in the Debian Perl Group's svn repository and will be uploaded soon. gregor --

Re: gnome 1 packages up for adoption

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: > Hmm, I've looked over the packages mentioned above, and none of the others > seem to be removable. I think someone's been sneaking new GNOME1 packages > into the archive when I wasn't looking. :) > > libcapplet is closest, only python-gnome-1.2 as a reverse-dep after the

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
David Moreno Garza wrote: > Hello, > > I'll be taking a long vacation of Debian and free software activity > for the next couple of months for personal reasons. Because of that, > I'm orphaning my non-comaintained packages. I really think those > packages shouldn't make it to Etch with a non atte

Re: (proposed) Mass bug filing for debconf "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 September 2006 16:36, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Frankly, the kernel's "You NEED to restart your computer SOON" message > is a good example, if it's telling the truth. But that cheats by not > using debconf. Oh yes it does! When have you last done a kernel upgrade in testing/unstable?

Re: Creating packages with debconf

2006-09-18 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:54:40 + (GMT) Rodrigo Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Tim, > > Yes I read this link, and i take a example of > changelog. After, the error messange was the same. > Then i try the below command. > > sky:~/script-gera-db-1.4# dh_gencontrol > dh_gencontrol: C

Re: Creating packages with debconf

2006-09-18 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:54:40 + (GMT) Rodrigo Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Tim, > > Yes I read this link, and i take a example of > changelog. After, the error messange was the same. > Then i try the below command. > > sky:~/script-gera-db-1.4# dh_gencontrol > dh_gencontrol: C

Re: (proposed) Mass bug filing for debconf "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote: > Christian Perrier wrote: >> In short, a note should only be used for IMPORTANT stuff, so actually >> all debconf notes should be priority highor should not exist! > > It's better to simply remove them all: If it's an error, use the new > error data type, which will always b

Re: Creating packages with debconf

2006-09-18 Thread Rodrigo Tavares
Hello Tim, Yes I read this link, and i take a example of changelog. After, the error messange was the same. Then i try the below command. sky:~/script-gera-db-1.4# dh_gencontrol dh_gencontrol: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. found eof where expected more change data or trailer at

Re: Common handling of browser plugins?

2006-09-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > - flashplugin-nonfree > - totem-mozilla > - java-gjc-compat-plugin > (1) As you can see, each of these packages follows a different naming > pattern which makes it difficult for the user to find the browser plugin > of his needs. I suggest to introdu

Re: ITP: btsco -- ALSA drivers and daemons for using bluetooth audio devices

2006-09-18 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:59:27PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: btsco you might want to have a look at pkg-bluetooth ( http://wiki.debian.org/Bluetooth ) as well. Eventually it might be

Re: Creating packages with debconf

2006-09-18 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:47:34 + (GMT) Rodrigo Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I just configured the tree with debconf, by create a > package, but when i try to build a package the > makefile is required. I choose single package. > > Skipping copying to script-gera-banco-1.4.o

Creating packages with debconf

2006-09-18 Thread Rodrigo Tavares
Hello, I just configured the tree with debconf, by create a package, but when i try to build a package the makefile is required. I choose single package. Skipping copying to script-gera-banco-1.4.orig since script-gera-dbar-1.4.orig exists. Currently there is no top level Makefile. This may requ

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Processed: Re: Bug#388052: mplayer-nogui: mplayer segfaults (ld at fault)

2006-09-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 388052 general Bug#388052: mplayer-nogui: mplayer segfaults (ld at fault) Warning: Unknown package 'mplayer-nogui' Bug reassigned from package `mplayer-nogui' to `general'. > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistan

Re: Common handling of browser plugins?

2006-09-18 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Montag 18 September 2006 11:00 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > (3) Another thing in which all those packages differ is the > recommendation and suggestion of compatible browsers: > > flashplugin-nonfree suggests: mozilla-browser (>= 2:1.1) | > mozilla-firefox | firefox > > totem-mozilla 

Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-18 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-16 19:42]: > It has been pointed out to me in http://bugs.debian.org/387699 > that syvinit is going to move /var/run to a tmpfs to solve a long-standing > issue, having some place to store state information before partitions > are checked and mounted

Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-18 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-16 20:20]: > etch requires a 2.6 kernel too. No. Debian won't provide a 2.4 kernel for etch but it works fine with self built ones. yours Martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal Operating System guess "lp0 on fire" finall

Common handling of browser plugins?

2006-09-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear Debian developers! At the time of this writing I have 3 packages installed that provide a plugin for Mozilla-compatible browsers. These are: - flashplugin-nonfree - totem-mozilla - java-gjc-compat-plugin (1) As you can see, each of these packages follows a different naming pattern which ma

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