Any alternative for snapshot.debian.net?

2008-06-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, the time travel device snapshot.debian.net has proven to be very useful. Unfortunately it seem to be not updated any more. Is there any alternative? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Steve Greenland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 12-Jun-08, 13:57 (CDT), "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bug was closed by maintainer with note "it is not a bug". Is he right? > > Banshee's maintainer isn't (and can't) be responsible for other packages > recommends. Not bl

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-12 Thread Brian May
Russ Allbery wrote: The text of the RFCs is copyrighted. The mapping tables in the RFCs cannot be under US copyright law, and I believe copyright law in other countries is similar. I'm guessing (I haven't looked closely) that what's happening here is that the build process is generating code fr

Work-needing packages report for Jun 13, 2008

2008-06-12 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: 453 (new: 9) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 111 (new: 6) Total number of packages request

Re: How to build only linux-image-2.6.18-6-686

2008-06-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (13/06/2008): > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (13/06/2008): > > Ideally the .config files used to build the standard Debian kernels > > would be available in a light-weight package. I think the only > > solution currently is to install that package and get t

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:31:22AM -0400, Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Frans Pop wrote: > > > Dependencies should in principle be "top down", not "bottom up". And > > defining dependencies from libs to apps is almost per definition "bottom > > up". > > As a nice experim

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Felipe Sateler
Frans Pop wrote: > Dependencies should in principle be "top down", not "bottom up". And > defining dependencies from libs to apps is almost per definition "bottom > up". As a nice experiment (you need testing or unstable's aptitude for this): % aptitude search '?section(^libs) ?recommends(!?sect

Re: How to build only linux-image-2.6.18-6-686

2008-06-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (13/06/2008): > Ideally the .config files used to build the standard Debian kernels > would be available in a light-weight package. I think the only > solution currently is to install that package and get the > configuration from /boot/config-. You may play aroun

virtual package 'editor' revisited

2008-06-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, I'd like to bring up that topic again[1][2][3], just in time for Lenny. Although there's been some talk about this time and again, I am still waiting for a final settlement... Summary: * Usage of virtual package 'editor' (taken from today's sid): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# for DEP in Provides Depe

Bug#486019: ITP: python-minimock -- simple library for Python mock objects with doctest

2008-06-12 Thread Ben Finney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-minimock Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MiniMock * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Des

Re: How to build only linux-image-2.6.18-6-686

2008-06-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I think the only solution currently is to install that package and > get the configuration from /boot/config-. Or just go to http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/ and download them. Don Armstrong -- One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and

Re: How to build only linux-image-2.6.18-6-686

2008-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:31:14AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > You should be installing the linux-source-x.x.x package instead and > using make-kpkg to build custom kernels. The source package (rather > than the linux-source-x.x.x binary package) is not meant to make custom > kernels. Ideall

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Frans Pop
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 is only suggests gnome-app-install. > I've found the actual chain: > > p libeel2-2.20 Recommends synaptic To me this definitely looks wrong. In general libs should be extremely careful about using Recommends for applications, especi

Re: Some packages blocked for the poppler, c-ares and ffmpeg transitions

2008-06-12 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:20:31PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Hello. Hi, > Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >curl latest upload of curl dropped c-ares support because of its problems with IPv6. why do you consider it for this transition? not that I plan to do many uploads more... ch

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Greenland wrote: > On 12-Jun-08, 13:57 (CDT), "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bug was closed by maintainer with note "it is not a bug". Is he right? > > Banshee's maintainer isn't (and can't) be responsible for other package

Re: Bug#485088: ITP: safe-rm -- wrapper around the rm command to prevent accidental deletions

2008-06-12 Thread Tino Keitel
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 20:38:17 +1200, Francois Marier wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: safe-rm > Version : 0.2 > Upstream Author : Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.nong

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:57:13PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Recently I've noticed that 'Recommends' chain for package 'banshee' leads to >> packages, >> non-related with media-playing at all, for example, 'synapti

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 12-Jun-08, 13:57 (CDT), "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bug was closed by maintainer with note "it is not a bug". Is he right? Banshee's maintainer isn't (and can't) be responsible for other packages recommends. It looks like the bug is in libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 wh

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:57:13PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Recently I've noticed that 'Recommends' chain for package 'banshee' leads to > packages, > non-related with media-playing at all, for example, 'synaptic'. Then I filed > the minor bug > [1]. > > Bug was closed by maintainer w

Re: Fwknop and no answer from a DD

2008-06-12 Thread Franck Joncourt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Hedderly wrote: [...] > Franck - I have not yet done anything with this, so if you have that's > great. Shout if you a tester or help in any way. > As a matter of fact, fwknop almost works. I have created two packages, fwknop-server and fwknop-

Re: Fwknop and no answer from a DD

2008-06-12 Thread Luciano Bello
El Jue 12 Jun 2008, Franck Joncourt escribió: > Hi, > > I was working on fwknop (forgot to mention it to the BTS), then I saw > Luciano Bello was interested as well. > > I sent an email to him and to the BTS in order to know how much work has > been achieved, but still no news. I handed over to pa

Re: Fwknop and no answer from a DD

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Hedderly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Franck Joncourt wrote: >> I was working on fwknop (forgot to mention it to the BTS), then I saw >> Luciano Bello was interested as well. >> >> I sent an email to him and to the BTS in order to know how much w

Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all. Recently I've noticed that 'Recommends' chain for package 'banshee' leads to packages, non-related with media-playing at all, for example, 'synaptic'. Then I filed the minor bug [1]. Bug was closed by maintainer with note "it is not a bu

Re: Fwknop and no answer from a DD

2008-06-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Franck Joncourt wrote: > I was working on fwknop (forgot to mention it to the BTS), then I saw > Luciano Bello was interested as well. > > I sent an email to him and to the BTS in order to know how much work has > been achieved, but still no news. You should actually double c

Fwknop and no answer from a DD

2008-06-12 Thread Franck Joncourt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was working on fwknop (forgot to mention it to the BTS), then I saw Luciano Bello was interested as well. I sent an email to him and to the BTS in order to know how much work has been achieved, but still no news. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: "cupsys" renamed to "cups", please adjust your (build-)depends

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 12-Jun-08, 11:23 (CDT), "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about using this transition to move some binaries between package > boundaries? Especially having some programs with generic names in -client and > some in -bsd seem to be a problem for some users (like #405827). > > I

Re: "cupsys" renamed to "cups", please adjust your (build-)depends

2008-06-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080612 18:04]: > after many years of calling our CUPS package "cupsys" it has finally > be renamed to the proper upstream name "cups", including init scripts, > library packages, etc. This makes us compatible again with all the > upstream documentation out there,

"cupsys" renamed to "cups", please adjust your (build-)depends

2008-06-12 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello all, after many years of calling our CUPS package "cupsys" it has finally be renamed to the proper upstream name "cups", including init scripts, library packages, etc. This makes us compatible again with all the upstream documentation out there, unbreaks the LSB printer driver packages from

Re: Bug#454313: status of bazaar

2008-06-12 Thread Ben Finney
James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Baz is unmaintained, and it would be great to remove it for lenny. It's also a necessary step in preparation to have the current, non-ancient Bazaar VCS http://bazaar-vcs.org/> installed by a package named "bazaar". -- \ "To label any subj

Re: status of bazaar

2008-06-12 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:20:25PM +, James Westby wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 10:56 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Bazaar currently suffers from #454313, but has reverse dependencies > > which prevent its sane removal from testing. It looks to me that bazaar > > is unmaintained upstream,