How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: By the way, is there a way to install package with all the 'Suggest'ed dependancies, something like aptitude install bioperl --with-suggested ? I have not found anything in the manpage. Neither did I in man apt-get, man apt.conf, man apt-config, man a

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread LUK ShunTim
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> By the way, is there a way to install package with all the 'Suggest'ed >> dependancies, something like aptitude install bioperl --with-suggested >> ? I have >> not found anything in the manpage. > > Neither did I in man apt-ge

Re: source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > According to the changelog, substvars source:Version is added in > dpkg-dev 1.13.19. A package which uses source:Version in its > debian/control and doesn't set its value explicitly can't be built > with ancient dpkg-dev. The problem is that dpkg-dev in t

Re: Intent to hijack apt-file (and looking for co-maintainers)

2008-03-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 23:59, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > apt-file has quite a few open bugs. The maintainer of apt-file has > been inactive for over 1,5 years and has not responded to my offer to > adopt apt-file. Last maintainer upload was in April 2006 with two > NMUs since then. > > I intent to h

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Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, LUK ShunTim wrote: "man apt.conf" points you to /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. Maybe it has something you want. :-) Ahhh, nice place to hide some information. Users only have to $ find /usr/share/doc/apt -type f -exec zgrep -li suggest \{\} \; ./changelo

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-19 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Anthony Towns dijo [Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:39:05PM +1000]: > > (...) > > and the real question is where you say "if you really want the 23rd CD > > for mipsel, you're probably smart/dedicated enough to use jigdo". > > I completely agree with this. I

Re: Bug#471443: ITP: gnome-hdaps-applet -- HDAPS system applet for GNOME 2

2008-03-19 Thread Adam Sloboda
At Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:54:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Please add a definition of HDAPS to the long description. I've added more information about HDAPS, thanks. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with ia64 and lcd4linux

2008-03-19 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Fix the source to build again on ia64. This is fairly quick and it > will take 2-10 days to propagate into testing after it is done. At least version 0.10.1~rc2-1 did build without problem. The -2 upload did not introduce any ia64 specifi

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: > Moreover fixing this in a config file is hardly a practical thing if > I want to force installing Suggests only once I do not want to edit > a config file but override the setting inside the config file with a > command line option. So you do something l

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:15:22AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I'm sure there was such a method mentioned before and I can not imagine > that there is no way to force installation of Suggested packages. dselect can be used to install suggested packages, even if perhaps it cannot "automatically

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread LUK ShunTim
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, LUK ShunTim wrote: > >> "man apt.conf" points you to >> /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. Maybe it has something >> you want. :-) > > Ahhh, nice place to hide some information. Users only have to > > $ find /usr/share/doc/apt -type f -exe

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: So you do something like: apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar. [Though it probably should be an easier option, it is possible to do.] Well, this hint was given now in the initial thread on Debian-Med and well, this actually

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:46:54PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Bas Wijnen wrote: > > Ok, that makes sense. However, with +nmu1, there still is the problem > > of how to name security uploads. With +s1, they sort after +nmu1, which > > I think is wrong. > > > > But we're talking about uploads

Re: apt-get and SOCKS

2008-03-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Vincent Danjean [Mon, Mar 17 2008, 12:22:11PM]: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Patrick Matthäi] > >> is there any reason to encrypt your traffic on downloading packages? > >> I think this will only cause more traffic and cpu overhead on the > >> mirrors instead of help anything. > >

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Tille said: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, LUK ShunTim wrote: > > >"man apt.conf" points you to > >/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. Maybe it has something > >you want. :-) > > Ahhh, nice place to hide some information. Users only have to [EMAIL PROTEC

ITP: webgui -- Content management platform to maintain complex web sites

2008-03-19 Thread Ernesto Hernandez-Novich
Package: wnpp * Package name: webgui Version: 7.4.29 Upstream Author: JT Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL: http://www.webgui.org * License: GPL Description: WebGUI is a content management platform based on Apache, mod_perl and MySQL, built to allow average business users to build and maintain

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Stephen Gran wrote: Ahhh, nice place to hide some information. Users only have to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man apt.conf | grep /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz | wc -l 3 I think that's called hidden in plain sight. I would not call it intuitive that you shou

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) dijo [Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:28:03AM +0100]: > > BTW... 30 CDs are too many CDs. Just too fucking many. We could also > > cut down on them - i.e. produce only the first 8 CDs per arch, and > > have the rest only as DVDs. Yes, many people still do not have DVD > > drives

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:14:51AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > If someone were to write a general library that did this, it would be > trivial to wrap a apache handler around it that fed out iso images for > the less popular architectures too. Does someone who knows more about > iso9660 and torre

best package for windows Vista

2008-03-19 Thread Jonathan Smith
To whom this may concern, I want to load the Debian Linux OS on my Windows Vista Home Premium. Is Debian 4.0 the best software to use for these means? Does anyone recommend a particular dealer to use to order these? -- Jonathan Wynn Smith Doctoral Student in Howard University Program in Atmosp

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Re: best package for windows Vista

2008-03-19 Thread Jonathan Smith
Hello, I was not sure if the image for Debian 4.0 downloaded completely. This is why I feel obliged to order it. I will be using Debian for GrADS and for compiling FORTRAN code. Can I get some recommendations from anyone. Thank you On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Smith <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can base security uploads on NMUs, so I think you could get > +s1+nmu1+s1+nmu1, etc. Or should it go from +s1 to +s1+nmu1 to +s2 to > +s2+nmu1? I was assuming the latter. > I prefer the longer versions in this case. When a package gets too many > se

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Joe Smith
"Andreas Tille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: So you do something like: apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar. [Though it probably should be an easier option, it is possible to do.] Well, this

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:37:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can base security uploads on NMUs, so I think you could get > > +s1+nmu1+s1+nmu1, etc. Or should it go from +s1 to +s1+nmu1 to +s2 to > > +s2+nmu1? > > I was assuming the latter. > >

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread Luk Claes
Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:37:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We have other ways of tracking that information than the version, though. > > Yes, and I don't really care, I just think going from +s1+nmu1 to +s2 > seems to be doing th

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bas Wijnen wrote: >> Yes, sorry. I forgot that those exist as well. :-) > Why are we bothering to make something up if everyone is using etch > etc? 1.0-1sarge1 >> 1.0-1etch1. We don't have this problem currently because 1.0-1etch1 << 1.0-1lenny1, but we

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread James Vega
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:54:46PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Bas Wijnen wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:37:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> We have other ways of tracking that information than the version, though. > > > > Yes, and I don't re

Bug#471726: ITP: mpx -- library-oriented media player

2008-03-19 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mpx Version : 0.0 Upstream Author : Milosz Derezynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://hg.backtrace.info/mpx * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description :

Re: best package for windows Vista

2008-03-19 Thread Joe Smith
"Jonathan Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I was not sure if the image for Debian 4.0 downloaded completely. This is why I feel >obliged to order it. I will be using Debian for GrADS and for compiling FORTRAN >code. Can I get some recommendations f

BitTorrent and ISP interference (was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?)

2008-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) dijo [Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:28:03AM +0100]: > > er, you do realise torrent is used for way more then that right? > > I do know, and I do think the idea is a darn good one. Several ISPs, > however, only see you are sharing via

Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference (was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?)

2008-03-19 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 07:51 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > That is a problem that won't be solved by avoiding use of BitTorrent; > on the contrary, reducing legitimate use of BitTorrent can only result > in supporting those who would paint BitTorrent as a tool without > significant legitimate use.

autoconf AC_FUNC_MKTIME breaks with gcc 4.3

2008-03-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
I just tried compiling the emacs22 package from unstable with gcc 4.3, and ran into an issue similar to what Martin described back in May 2007 for another package in #425544, with the following differences: - it's not an infinite loop but a one minute hang (see the alarm() in conftest.c) - the b

Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference

2008-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
William, please follow the Debian mailing list code of conduct http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct>; specifically, don't send me individual messages that are also sent to the list, since I didn't ask for them. William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 07:51

Re: Intent to hijack apt-file (and looking for co-maintainers)

2008-03-19 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > I intent to hijack apt-file unless somebody objects within 1 > > week. > > > > If somebody wants to help maintaining it, feel free to contact > > me. > > I made a similar offer to the maintainer which also went without > response. I think it's

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Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:13:05PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:14:51AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >> If someone were to write a general library that did this, it would be >> trivial to wrap a apache handler around it that fed out iso images for >> the less popular ar

Re: Possibilities for change...

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Curtin
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Re: Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: So you do something like: apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar. [Though it probably should be an easier option, it is possible to do.] Well, this hint was given now in the initial thread on Debian-Me

Installation of suggested packages: recursive or not?

2008-03-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Joe Smith a écrit : > >On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> > >>apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar. > I will say the following. I fully agree that "--install-suggests" should > exist, and should do the right thing. H

Debian refpolicy and core SELinux package update

2008-03-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, As of this writing, all the core SELinux packages in Debian have been updated to the latest release earlier this month; and thus are fairly up to date. I have also merged SVN HEAD of refpolicy into the Debian package, and thus the refpolicy packages uploaded tonight will ha

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Russ Allbery dijo [Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:05:53PM -0700]: > >> Yes, sorry. I forgot that those exist as well. :-) > > > Why are we bothering to make something up if everyone is using etch > > etc? > > 1.0-1sarge1 >> 1.0-1etch1. We don't have this problem currently because > 1.0-1etch1 << 1.0-1

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery dijo [Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:05:53PM -0700]: >> 1.0-1sarge1 >> 1.0-1etch1. We don't have this problem currently >> because 1.0-1etch1 << 1.0-1lenny1, but we will again at some point in >> the future, and it would be nice to resolve it once a

Re: autoconf AC_FUNC_MKTIME breaks with gcc 4.3

2008-03-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just tried compiling the emacs22 package from unstable with gcc 4.3, > and ran into an issue similar to what Martin described back in > May 2007 for another package in #425544, with the following differences: > - it's not an infinite loop but a one minu

Re: Bug#471726: ITP: mpx -- library-oriented media player

2008-03-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer, 2008-03-19 at 14:17 -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > MPX guys are writing a successor to MPX now called mpx You mean BMPx? -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#471726: ITP: mpx -- library-oriented media player

2008-03-19 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 07:39 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On mer, 2008-03-19 at 14:17 -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > > MPX guys are writing a successor to MPX now called mpx > > You mean BMPx? Yes, yes I do. William signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part