Huge cache dirs in $HOME

2007-03-13 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Hi, I just discovered today that some packages can store pretty huge cache data in my $HOME, and found that rather problematic. When I backup my home, I don't want to waste backup space or time to do it, because I have to check what eats space and tell if it's cache data. Couldn't such packages,

Bug#414844: ITP: tweak -- an efficient hex editor

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tweak Version : 3.01 Upstream Author : Simon Tatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/tweak/ * License : MIT Programming Lang

Free laptop...? Here is how.....

2007-03-13 Thread John Hamel
Quote: "Notebooks4free is a way for you to get totally FREE stuff! We have partnered with large online advertisers looking to acquire new customers. In exchange for trying cool online offers, you can receive free products. Our company, Notebooks4free, started over 5 years ago and has quickly b

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Ben Finney
Roman Müllenschläder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb The Fungi: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > > > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running > > > Edgy ;) > > > > If you're developing packages for

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb The Fungi: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > [...] > > > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running > > Edgy ;) > > [...] > > If you're developing packages for Debian, not Ubuntu, I would > suggest at

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: [...] > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running > Edgy ;) [...] If you're developing packages for Debian, not Ubuntu, I would suggest at a minimum that you do your builds in a Sid chroot (pbuilder and/o

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb Margarita Manterola: > On 3/13/07, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:23 +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > > > > If you use that number, the upstream version should be 1.0.8~rc1. Is > > > > that the upstream number? If you wan

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > [Roman Müllenschläder] > > > > So, why are you using a version that's not the one in testing, nor the > > > one in stable? > > > > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running Edgy ;) > > I know I'm stating the obvious here

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roman Müllenschläder] > > So, why are you using a version that's not the one in testing, nor the > > one in stable? > > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running Edgy ;) I know I'm stating the obvious here ... but you shouldn't try to develop packages for Debian exclusiv

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 3/13/07, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:23 +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > > If you use that number, the upstream version should be 1.0.8~rc1. Is > > that the upstream number? If you want to have release candidates of > > your _own_ package, you should d

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread sean finney
hi roman, On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:23 +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb Margarita Manterola: > > On 3/13/07, Roman Müllenschläder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm packaging for debian right now and wanted to now if I may use a > > > version number like: 1.

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb Margarita Manterola: > On 3/13/07, Roman Müllenschläder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm packaging for debian right now and wanted to now if I may use a > > version number like: 1.0.8~rc1-1 ? > > If you use that number, the upstream version should be 1.0.8~rc1.

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 3/13/07, Roman Müllenschläder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm packaging for debian right now and wanted to now if I may use a version number like: 1.0.8~rc1-1 ? If you use that number, the upstream version should be 1.0.8~rc1. Is that the upstream number? If you want to have release candid

May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Hi there ... I'm packaging for debian right now and wanted to now if I may use a version number like: 1.0.8~rc1-1 ? Reason is the following: I have this packages on my repository for making it available to users for testing puposes. I know that the initial release should be 1.0.8-1. So if I do

Bug#414737: ITP: scratchbox2 -- Transparent cross compiling environment

2007-03-13 Thread Riku Voipio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: scratchbox2 Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Lauri Leukkunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rahina.org/sb2/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, lua Description

Re: dpkg-genchanges: warning: package XYZ in control file but not in files list

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Roman, Am 2007-03-08 22:01:25, schrieb Roman Müllenschläder: > Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2007 schrieb Roman Müllenschläder: > > Hi there ... > > > > I've got a little problem ;) > > Sorry .. will never user reply for a new message anymore ;) Things happen! I create a new debian/control on th

Re: What happened to Agnula.org (DeMuDi)?

2007-03-13 Thread Tomas Nykung
RalfGesellensetter wrote: > > Maybe I'd rather go for the Suse Multimedia Live CD. > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/live-cd-9.2/SUSE-Linux-9.2-LiveCD-Audio.iso This is OT for this mailinglist, but... DeMuDi is dead, SUSE 9.2 is antique and AFAIK not security supported anymore. I would recomm

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-03-13 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Russ Allbery 2007-01-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is what I'd do. Yes, it's a bunch of extra packages, but it clearly > expresses the actual dependency structure, rather than an approximation of > it, and that's usually a good thing in the long run. As a very late follow up, here's what the

Re: Bug#414534: ITP: sucrack -- multithreaded su bruteforcer

2007-03-13 Thread Tim Brown
On Monday 12 March 2007 18:25, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10956 March 1977, Tim Brown wrote: > > Why package it? Other than the practical uses outlined above, because > > having binaries on a system outside of the package management system is a > > PITA to keep track of / update and it makes buildi