Re: Bug#473998: ITP: debian-faq -- The Debian FAQ

2008-04-03 Thread Christian Perrier
(usual dilemna: who to put in answer to an ITP...using the bug number and -devel to avoid too many CC) Quoting Cyril Brulebois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 02/04/2008, Joost van Baal wrote: > > In this package you will find the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ, which gives > > frequently asked questions (with

Re: dm-crypt and boot process

2008-04-03 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, April 2, 2008 22:13, John Goerzen wrote: > I've been very happy that the Etch installer supports dm-crypt out of the > box. This is a wonderfully nice feature. > > Here's my gripe: it gets in the way of unattended boots. ... > So I haven't submitted a bug anywhere because I don't know wher

Re: waste of time (Re: file path length in .deb package.)

2008-04-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Bart, On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 20:43 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:46 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wro

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 03 April 2008 07:19, Anibal Avelar wrote: > Totally I agree. Testing is fine for a personal Desktop machine. I disagree. It's fine for some persons desktops, yes. But it is neither "feature"-supported nor security supported, if users have problems they'll get "use stable if y

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But it is ... nor security supported Correction, it is supported by the testing security team, and rather well IMO. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:57:31 +0100 Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 03 April 2008 07:19, Anibal Avelar wrote: > > Totally I agree. Testing is fine for a personal Desktop machine. > > I disagree. > > It's fine for some persons desktops, yes. > > But it is neither

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu Apr 03 11:54, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > And stable is not fine for a desktop in general, because it has outdated > packages which are not what a desktop user wants. _you_ may want more up to date packages, but a lot of people are entirely happy with etch on their desktop. For example, both

Bug#474095: RFP: snmpmon -- Qt tool to monitor snmp devices, output graphics

2008-04-03 Thread Tourneur Henry-Nicolas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: snmpmon Version: 0.5 Upstream Author: Christof Musik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://snmpmon.sourceforge.net/ License: GPL v2 Programming Lang: C++ Description: Qt

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Holger Levsen] > But it is neither "feature"-supported nor security supported, The testing security team is actually doing a very good job at supporting testing, so this is not completely accurate. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Bug#473998: ITP: debian-faq -- The Debian FAQ

2008-04-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > The document is supplied in HTML, PDF, PostScript and plain ascii. >^ ASCII? No, _plain text_. ASCII is just an encoding. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Bug#474050: RFP: jaxer -- headless iceweasel

2008-04-03 Thread Alessandro Ogier
Il giorno gio, 03/04/2008 alle 01.58 +0200, Loic Dachary ha scritto: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: jaxer > Version : 0.9.6 > Upstream Author : Aptana > * URL or Web page : http://www.aptana.com/jaxer/download > * License : GPL > Description

Re: Bug#474036: ITP: xnetcardconfig -- tool to configure your network cards using an easy wizard

2008-04-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
> Upstream Author : Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Benedikt Meurer is an Xfce developper. If this is/will be part of Xfce, you may want to talk with pkg-xfce maintainers about this and see it may be suitable for the pkg-xfce repository. (that said with my pkg-xfce hat) -- Yves-Alexis --

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:16 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:38:36 -0300 > Joel Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that the testing or above releases may be suitable for the > > desktop of a EXPERT linux user. I need a stable release because my > > desktop must

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu April 3 2008 03:03:51 Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Thu Apr 03 11:54, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > And stable is not fine for a desktop in general, because it has outdated > > packages which are not what a desktop user wants. > > _you_ may want more up to date packages, but a lot of people are

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:03:51AM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > _you_ may want more up to date packages, but a lot of people are > entirely happy with etch on their desktop. For example, both me and my > mother. > > I'd also go as far to say that most corporate Linux desktops, to pick > another

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
On mer, 2008-04-02 at 21:07 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > How expensive is running gtk-update-ican-cache? I mean, it would be easy > enough to have a script run > that runs "gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/$subdir" for each of the > subdirectories. Then the /usr/share/icons > trigger would jus

Bug#474134: ITP/ITA: sn -- Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2008-04-03 Thread Hilko Bengen
Package: wnpp Owner: Hilko Bengen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist Package name: sn Version : 0.3.8-8 Upstream Author : Patrik Rådman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> License : GPL2 Description : Small NNTP server for leaf sites I am still using sn for locally storing n

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:55:40AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I run unstable on my home machines, and stable on my work machines. At > work I am trying to get things done, not play with my software. At home > is different. I don't need to spend 4 hours figuring out why X no > longer works

Re: Bug#471094: RFH: mantis

2008-04-03 Thread Hilko Bengen
Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > as upstream is considering some changes in the upgrade path that will > make upgrading with pure sql files quiet hard and they never really > supported upgrading through pure sql files (and therefore dbconfig-common) > I could need someone to help w

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: triggers wishlist"): > On mer, 2008-04-02 at 21:07 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > > How expensive is running gtk-update-ican-cache? I mean, it would be easy > > enough to have a script run > > that runs "gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/$subdir" for each of the > >

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 04:13:19PM +0100, Dave Holland wrote: > Strange; I run stable at home, because if I spent 4 hours figuring out > why X no longer works, my wife would kill me (a) for breaking X, and (b) > for wasting 4 hours. ;-) My wife would only be upset if I messed with her machine, or

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu April 3 2008 9:55:40 am Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:03:51AM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > > _you_ may want more up to date packages, but a lot of people are > > entirely happy with etch on their desktop. For example, both me and my > > mother. > > > > I'd also go a

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu April 3 2008 9:17:54 am Mike Bird wrote: > On Thu April 3 2008 03:03:51 Matthew Johnson wrote: > > On Thu Apr 03 11:54, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > And stable is not fine for a desktop in general, because it has > > > outdated packages which are not what a desktop user wants. > > > > _you_

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2008-04-03, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu April 3 2008 03:03:51 Matthew Johnson wrote: >> On Thu Apr 03 11:54, Andrea Bolognani wrote: >> > And stable is not fine for a desktop in general, because it has outdated >> > packages which are not what a desktop user wants. >> >> _you_

Re: Bug#471094: RFH: mantis

2008-04-03 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2008-04-03, Hilko Bengen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> as upstream is considering some changes in the upgrade path that will >> make upgrading with pure sql files quiet hard and they never really >> supported upgrading through pure sql files (an

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu April 3 2008 14:38:14 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On 2008-04-03, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stable is a poor solution for desktops because it doesn't support > > recent hardware. For a long time now we've had to run Testing > > mixed with the Unstable versions of xserver-xorg.

Bug#453954: marked as done (general: Lenny release goal: UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control)

2008-04-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:55:40AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen a écrit : > > Given how much uproar there is about Microsoft's desire to retire > Windows XP while many people would rather stick with it that go to > Vista, perhaps the idea that everyone wants the latest and greatest is > no longer true.

Processed (with 8 errors): unblock done bugs

2008-04-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > unblock 438885 by 341413 Bug number 341413 not found. (Is it archived?) Unknown blocking bug/s: 341413. Bug#438885: Mass bug filing: must use invoke-rc.d Was blocked by: 341413 341415 348259 348263 367722 367725 367729 367730 367731 367732 367733 3677

Bug#412940: marked as done (general: every other OS can receive an HTTP response, but not etch)

2008-04-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#202888: marked as done (unstable x86 rrdtool installation segfault)

2008-04-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#268709: marked as done (Architecture names should have a "${kernel}-" prefix)

2008-04-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: reassign 448274 to kde

2008-04-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Work-needing packages report for Apr 4, 2008

2008-04-03 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 419 (new: 12) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 101 (new: 3) Total number of packages reques