Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-17 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> $ cat /usr/bin/update-locate.findutils > [...] >> $ cat /etc/cron.daily/update-locate >> #!/bin/sh >> if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-locate ]; then >>/usr/sbin/update-locate >> fi >> Or am I missing something? > The fact that people m

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:26:55AM +, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/17/07 20:33, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: > >> > > That got me thinking. I figure that since MI -> Michigan, it meant that > > MI was the first state to start with those letters. Logically, I would > > think, always use the first t

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/07 20:33, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:03PM +, Matt Brown wrote: >> On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter state ident

Re: Bug#377392: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > .IX is probably from pod2man, which does: > .\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr > for > .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and index > .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of cou

Re: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:05:39AM +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > $ lintian --root="$PWD"/../lintian-root-2007-11-15 \ > *.deb \ > | grep -F has-errors > W: libdirectfb-dev: manpage-has-errors-from-man > usr/share/man/man1/directfb-config.1.gz 24: warning: `l' not defined > W: dvidvi: ma

Re: Is Lars Bahner MIA?

2007-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 17 novembre 2007 à 21:13 +0100, Fabio Tranchitella a écrit : > I'm trying to get in touch with Lars Bahner: he is the maintainer of > varnish, but the last upload is from February 2007 and several new upstream > releases were available since then. I guess he should maintain "vanish" inst

Re: Bug#377392: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:32:26AM +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > In a recent thread in debian-devel, it was suggested that > lintian could call man(1) in such a way that the groff(1), > called by `man', will emit warnings for every undefined macro, > which is useful in catchi

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ron Johnson may or may not have written... [snip] > What would be much more useful (still simple, but with much more > data) is a world-wide hash table of countries and states/provinces. Are you equating states with provinces there? If so, think again... :-) [snip] -- | Darren Sal

[help] brltty: Java behaves strangely on different archs?

2007-11-17 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. One of my packages (brltty) recently gained Java bindings for its API. Now since I added the usage of gcj to brltty, I see that the java toolchain seems to be quite out of sync on different archs in different ways. At first everything worked here on amd64, but when I uploaded I saw the i386 b

Re: pbuilder build with passing -sa option

2007-11-17 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Piotr, "Piotr Roszatycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > sudo pbuilder build --debbuildopts="-sa" *.dsc use: sudo pbuilder build --debbuildopts "-sa" *.dsc Kindly regards, Erik -- www.ErikSchanze.de * Bitte keine HTML-E-Mails! No HTML mails, please!

Re: pbuilder build with passing -sa option

2007-11-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 09:15:20PM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > I give up. I really don't know how to pass "-sa" option to > dpkg-buildpackage when I use > > pbuilder build *.dsc > > command. I'm trying: > > sudo pbuilder build --debbuildopts="-sa" *.dsc > > and it doesn't work. Could you h

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:03PM +, Matt Brown wrote: > On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter > > > state identification parsing from state code to state name and vice > > > versa. > > > > Is a package re

pbuilder build with passing -sa option

2007-11-17 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
I give up. I really don't know how to pass "-sa" option to dpkg-buildpackage when I use pbuilder build *.dsc command. I'm trying: sudo pbuilder build --debbuildopts="-sa" *.dsc and it doesn't work. Could you help me, please? -- .''`.Piotr Roszatycki : :' :mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] `.

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/07 18:51, Matt Brown wrote: > On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter >>> state identification parsing from state code to state name and vice >>> versa. >> Is

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

2007-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:59:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 13 novembre 2007 à 11:01 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > The current packages install the dynamic libraries simply to /usr/lib > > > which I want to fix now. They should go to > > > ${ARB_HOME}/lib > > FWIW,

Re: FW: Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to

2007-11-17 Thread devzero
thanks - i have found linux-2.6_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch4.diff.gz via your link - seems this is what i was looking for. regards roland List: debian-devel Subject:Re: FW: Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to From: "Francesco P. Lovergine" Date: 2007-11-17 1

Is Lars Bahner MIA?

2007-11-17 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Dear fellow developers, I'm trying to get in touch with Lars Bahner: he is the maintainer of varnish, but the last upload is from February 2007 and several new upstream releases were available since then. I offered help for the packaging several times by e-mail, but I haven't received any answer

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

2007-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 04:24:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries"): > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:51:05AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > FWIW, I don't agree that this is a fix. In one sense it makes /usr/lib > > "cleaner" by moving p

Re: FW: Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare among each other

2007-11-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 04:08:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i don`t know how debian build system works - but is this handled differently > there? > > i searched for some time and all i found was some large diff which i can turn > into a broken-out version, but a patch-collection with

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Matt Brown
On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter > > state identification parsing from state code to state name and vice > > versa. > > Is a package really needed for something this simple? It might be obvious to a US nati

Bug#451664: ITP: decibel -- real time communication framework

2007-11-17 Thread Sune Vuorela
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: decibel Version : svn snapshot Upstream Author : Tobias Hunger * URL : http://decibel.kde.org * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : real time communi

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/07 09:56, Ernesto Hernandez-Novich wrote: > Package: wnpp > > * Package name: liblocale-us-perl > Version: 1.02 > Upstream Author: T. M. Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-US/ > * License: GPL or Perl

Bug#451651: ITP: tapioca-qt -- tapioca qt library

2007-11-17 Thread Sune Vuorela
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tapioca-qt Version : svn snapshot Upstream Author : various authors * URL : https://tapioca-voip.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tapioca-voip/trunk/tapioca-qt * License : LGPL

Re: Mass bug filing: non-UTF8 debian/{control.changelog}

2007-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Bas Zoetekouw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi! > > I'm planning to file bugs for packages that use non-UTF-8 encodings in > debian/control and/or debian/copyright. copyright or changelog? Or both? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#451636: ITP: telepathy-qt -- base classes for telepathy in qt

2007-11-17 Thread Sune Vuorela
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: telepathy-qt Version : svn snapshot Upstream Author : various authors * URL : https://tapioca-voip.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tapioca-voip/trunk/telepathy-qt * License :

Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)

2007-11-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)"): > I think you mean that Ian Jackson always recommends upgrading apt and > aptitude prior to performing dist-upgrade. :) The release notes haven't > always recommended

Re: debian archive integrity check tool?

2007-11-17 Thread Ian Jackson
=?iso-8859-2?Q?V=E1clav_Ovs=EDk?= writes ("debian archive integrity check tool?"): > please, is there any utility/script, that can verify integrity of Debian > archive? A maintainer of the ftp mirror ftp.linux.cz asks for this in > a national mailling list about Linux systems. He needs this for n

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

2007-11-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries"): > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:51:05AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > FWIW, I don't agree that this is a fix. In one sense it makes /usr/lib > "cleaner" by moving private libs into a private directory; however: There is at least one

Re: buildds: "Authentication warning overridden."

2007-11-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Florian Weimer writes ("Re: buildds: "Authentication warning overridden.""): > In this case, HTTPS should be used to download the packages, together > with proper certificate validation. This has got the added benefit that > passwords aren't sent in the clear (well, unless an error occurs, but > t

ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Ernesto Hernandez-Novich
Package: wnpp * Package name: liblocale-us-perl Version: 1.02 Upstream Author: T. M. Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-US/ * License: GPL or Perl Artistic Description: This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter state identificatio

Re: XS-Vcs-*, XS-X-Vcs-* and friends

2007-11-17 Thread Thomas Girard
Hello, Le mardi 30 octobre 2007 à 19:39 +0100, Romain Francoise a écrit : [...] > BUT! you may be interested in the following packages, which use > XS-X-Vcs-* headers and are also easy to catch: [...] > Thomas Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >stlport5.1 (U) Fixed in svn, thanks! Regards, Thomas

FW: Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare among each other

2007-11-17 Thread devzero
hi ! i`m thinking of starting a small project to compare distro-specific kernel changes (see below) before starting i wanted to take a first look at how different distro`s kernel-source looks like and how patches being handled there. it was easy for me to get suse/fedora kernel and both have a

Mass bug filing: non-UTF8 debian/{control.changelog}

2007-11-17 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi! I'm planning to file bugs for packages that use non-UTF-8 encodings in debian/control and/or debian/copyright. Fixing this is a release goal for Lenny [1], so the bugs will be filed with severity important. They will be tracked by the "utf8-control" BTS tag. Below is a list of packages that

Contents-source.gz

2007-11-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, I'm wondering whether having a Contents-source.gz file on the mirrors would be interesting. p.d.o could also be updated so as to support the search through the “Source” architecture. apt-file could also use such data. Use case: when discovering a bug in a given file (e.g. a header, an m4 or a

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-17 Thread Florian Weimer
* MJ Ray: >> I believe http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README.html >> details the facility you're looking for. > > I don't believe it does. I don't want to verify the recipient address > - I want to try delivering the redirected mail and avoid being left > holding the baby if the dest

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
Ivan Shmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > $ cat /usr/bin/update-locate.findutils [...] > $ cat /etc/cron.daily/update-locate > #!/bin/sh > if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-locate ]; then >/usr/sbin/update-locate > fi >Or am I missing something? The fact that people might want to change

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andreas Metzler [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:43:57 +0100]: >> I would propose to simply have the GNU locate package >> use find-daily.defaults instead of /etc/updatedb.conf. > Sounds good. How will you handle the migration from /etc/updatedb.conf? > How about r

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:53:47 +0100, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:57:56 + (UTC), Robert Edmonds ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Anyway, here's a (compile-tested only) patch: > >Which I have submitted upstream (Debian #451472). Thanks! And which Upstream has alreay