Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: If the service is important to you, there is a mailing list to follow for commits and discussions somewhere. Could you please specify this "somewhere" a little bit more in Detail? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Re: .tdeb format (DEP-4: The TDeb specification.)

2009-04-08 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Neil Williams wrote: On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:23:37 -0400 Filipus Klutiero wrote: > > In a similar way to udebs. The .tdeb needs to be handled differently by > > package management tools (things like reprepro and dak) so that uploads > > of TDebs can be made by translation teams, so that the exis

Re: Re: tdiff (DEP-4: The TDeb specification.)

2009-04-08 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:57:30 -0400 Filipus Klutiero wrote: (Could you add a blank line between the quoted reply and your content? It makes the content easier for me to read. Thanks.) I'll try to. > Neil Williams wrot

Re: bdb versions for squeeze

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I guess you're aware of the thread started with [1]. Clint seemed to > have some sort of plans back then. > > 1. <4714ddb6.8020...@debian.org> Yeah, that was 1.5 years ago and as it looks, the situation has not really improved since then. Michael -- Why is it that al

Re: bdb versions for squeeze

2009-04-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Not sure if you need to To+Cc d...@…) Michael Biebl (09/04/2009): > Sorry for hijacking the thread, but what are the plans for bdb in > squeeze, I'm counting 5 atm: > libdb4.2 > libdb4.4 > libdb4.5 > libdb4.6 > libdb4.7 > > Are there plans to reduce this? I guess you're aware of the thread sta

Re: bdb versions for squeeze

2009-04-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:04:38AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Sorry for hijacking the thread, but what are the plans for bdb in squeeze, I'm > counting 5 atm: > libdb4.2 > libdb4.4 > libdb4.5 > libdb4.6 > libdb4.7 > Are there plans to reduce this? I believe the reverse-deps of db4.2 have all h

bdb versions for squeeze

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Steffen Joeris wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:10:12 pm Romain Beauxis wrote: >> Le Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:59:00 Sebastien Delafond, vous avez écrit : >>> On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is important for jruby... >>> to have

Re[2]: Multi-instance startup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Pasztor Janos
Ben Pfaff, 2009. április 8. 23:34:56: > Pasztor Janos writes: >> I would like to address an issue which has been a thorn in my side for >> a long time. Recently I made multi-instance scripts for some server >> packages like Apache, etc. I also noticed, that the PowerDNS package >> has a m.i. scri

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Tille said: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > >Yes. It made no sense to ship the others and the uncompressed files too, > >no known utility made use of them. > > That's fine - no problem with this (except that it should > have communicated better)

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Yes. It made no sense to ship the others and the uncompressed files too, no known utility made use of them. That's fine - no problem with this (except that it should have communicated better). Adaption to use bzip2 was easy to me - but learning about t

Re: Multi-instance startup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
Pasztor Janos writes: > I would like to address an issue which has been a thorn in my side for > a long time. Recently I made multi-instance scripts for some server > packages like Apache, etc. I also noticed, that the PowerDNS package > has a m.i. script provided. Perhaps you should define "mul

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giacomo Catenazzi, le Wed 08 Apr 2009 19:47:55 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> I installed grub (and Debian). Trying the Windows hidden partition > >> (to install windows), grub stopped working (it was rescue mode, but > >> without capability to rescue something). Also rescue disk +

Multi-instance startup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Pasztor Janos
Dear fellow Linux users, I would like to address an issue which has been a thorn in my side for a long time. Recently I made multi-instance scripts for some server packages like Apache, etc. I also noticed, that the PowerDNS package has a m.i. script provided. I, however, do not have the capacity

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:05:43AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 08:53 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:13:32AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > > > I agree here too. I think these install paths could be replaced by > > > ext2linux as well, if that

Upcoming point releases for oldstable (Etch) and stable (Lenny)

2009-04-08 Thread Luk Claes
Hi This is just to inform you that there will be soon a point release of Etch: 4.0r8 tomorrow and Lenny: 5.0.1 on Saturday. In a point release packages in oldstable or stable will get updated. Most of these packages will already be in the security archive, though some of them are fixes for major

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11714 March 1977, Andreas Tille wrote: > Moreover I noticed that the translation files I obtained from >http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/ > are not available as gz any more but only as bz2. Yes. It made no sense to ship the others and the uncompressed files too, no known

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11714 March 1977, Martin Bagge wrote: >>This FTP server belongs to Academic Computer Club, Umeå >> University. Technical information is available here. > because that's true. ACC is the sponsor of ftp.debian.org. No its not. It is one site that hosts a Debian mirror. And it is one site tha

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:30:30PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > > If there's a problem, we'll get it sorted out, but I need more specific > > info on your findings; the example you pasted shows a file with nor > > copyright statement neither license information (from tomboy) and one > > with bo

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 21:05 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Hi Jo, > > Nice to see your newly found interest in C++ packages (though, not > completely unexpected) :-) Nothing wrong with C++ in moderation. My last ITP was a C++ browser plugin. > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:26:18PM +0100, Jo Shields

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:21:12AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > Does this mean that you will become lilo upstream as well? Are you > *qualified* to become lilo upstream? Do you know assembly language? > (tip: most of the important parts are assembly language.) > If not, then stop talking now. A

How to configure for specific busybox applets to use in the busybox-initramfs image for Debian

2009-04-08 Thread Henrik Bach
Hi! Can someone tell me how I configure/choose, or give me some hints how to do it, for specific busybox applets to use in the busybox-initramfs image for Debian. I know how to include programs via initramfs-tools. Thank you. -- Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards Henrik Bach Civilingeniør/Cand. Po

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Jo, Nice to see your newly found interest in C++ packages (though, not completely unexpected) :-) On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:26:18PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > Please note that this project in its current form contains swathes of > major copyright violations and cannot be uploaded to Debian -

Re: Writing symbols files for C++ libraries.

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Kobras
Hi! On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:42:16AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Daniel Kobras schrieb: > > Have you used this option successfully with a C++ library? In this case, > > libtool creates input for the linker option "-retain-symbols-file" > > rather than a version script like it does with C libs.

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Samuel Thibault wrote: >> I installed grub (and Debian). Trying the Windows hidden partition >> (to install windows), grub stopped working (it was rescue mode, but >> without capability to rescue something). Also rescue disk + >> reconfiguring + update-grub did nothing. > > Err, did you re-run i

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:41 -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > No this means I take over the package try to cou ntact upstream etc ^^ THERE IS NO UPSTREAM ANYMORE. If you're not willing to become upstream and wish to take it over, then we gai

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
> I installed grub (and Debian). Trying the Windows hidden partition > (to install windows), grub stopped working (it was rescue mode, but > without capability to rescue something). Also rescue disk + > reconfiguring + update-grub did nothing. Err, did you re-run install-grub? Samuel -- To UNS

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Matt Arnold
No this means I take over the package try to cou ntact upstream etc and fyi i do know Intel X86 ASM (not well) but i learn fast as you know. I just think a "This package is deprecated and may be removed at any time" clause in the package desc is the best way to go here that way the people who use i

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 16:22 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Nenolod: sorry for the other mail. > > William Pitcock wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:06 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, William Pitcock > >> wrote: > >>> Lilo upstream is dead (no release in

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 11:05 -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > As the silent co-maintainer of lilo I believe I should now voice my > thoughts on this > > I too believe that lilo should belive that lilo should be remove *at > some point* but now is not the time. So I restate my willingness to > take over

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Matt Arnold
As the silent co-maintainer of lilo I believe I should now voice my thoughts on this I too believe that lilo should belive that lilo should be remove *at some point* but now is not the time. So I restate my willingness to take over fully publicly. Upstream made a release of a bootloader in 2007 a

Bug#523103: ITP: libhash-flatten-perl -- flatten/unflatten complex data hashes

2009-04-08 Thread eloy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyżaniak (eloy)" * Package name: libhash-flatten-perl Version : 1.16 Upstream Author : John Alden amp P Kent * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Hash-Flatten/ * License : GPL-1+ | Artistic Programming Lan

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > as grub was not really maintained. Also grub2 doesn't seems so fast in > development. > I think these kind of project have difficult to maintain motivated > maintainer. I would really love to own a computer that used coreboot, Linux a

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Nenolod: sorry for the other mail. William Pitcock wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:06 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, William Pitcock wrote: Lilo upstream is dead (no release in quite a while), but the lilo maintainer has also been seen as saying in various maili

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009, Darren Salt wrote: > For me, lilo works fine as it is. If I see something which affects me, I'll > at least have a look at it; no guarantees, though, since there's a lot of > stuff here with which I'm not familiar. >From memory, lilo doesn't support partitioned md arrays. Sin

Re: alioth.debian.org / blends.debian.net: different behaviour of Option MultiViews

2009-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Brett Parker wrote: Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews # AllowOverride Options -> enable options in .htaccess files AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit FileInfo Options ^ - .htaccess is an override file... so, to get it to work you need to change thi

Re: alioth.debian.org / blends.debian.net: different behaviour of Option MultiViews

2009-04-08 Thread Brett Parker
On 08 Apr 14:44, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > probably this is off topic here - so I beg your pardon for missusing this list > but I had no idea where else I could get quick help. The problem: > Apache2 configuration on alioth.debian.org does not support MultiView > option to enable > differen

alioth.debian.org / blends.debian.net: different behaviour of Option MultiViews

2009-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, probably this is off topic here - so I beg your pardon for missusing this list but I had no idea where else I could get quick help. The problem: Apache2 configuration on alioth.debian.org does not support MultiView option to enable different languages of website. So the solution was to us

Re: grouping of alternative depends

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 30. März 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The solution to this and similar problems are always, as pointed out > by specific solutions in this thread by others, to turn your > dependency formula into conjunctive normal form (CNF) [1], which is > always possible, though possibly ugl

Re: Improvements to ‘debian /watch’ for fetching from VCS

2009-04-08 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:53:07PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > The Debian archive is *not* the canonical location for the upstream's > > original source. The upstream's repository (whether VCS or static > > files or whatever they make available) is the canonical location. > > Debian's archiv

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Andreas Tille (Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:59:32 +0200): > Hi, > while building Blends tasks pages I used to parse the packages file >http://ftp.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > this does not exist any more and I have to add a directory 'debian' >http://ftp.debian.org/de

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
Andreas Tille wrote: http://ftp.debian.org/ says: This FTP server belongs to Academic Computer Club, Umeå University. Technical information is available here. because that's true. ACC is the sponsor of ftp.debian.org. on the other hand ftp.d.o is not a good place to get accurate status

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 08 Apr 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > this does not exist any more and I have to add a directory 'debian' > >http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz This is the only official URL that works across all official mirrors. You only had luck that the form

Bug#523069: ITP: libparallel-useragent-perl -- Extension for LWP to allow parallel HTTP and FTP access

2009-04-08 Thread Taku YASUI
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Taku YASUI * Package name: libparallel-useragent-perl Version : 2.57 Upstream Author : Marc Langheinrich * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~marclang/ParallelUserAgent/ * License : same as Perl 5 (GPL or Artistic) Program

Bug#523067: ITP: libhtml-popuptreeselect-perl -- Perl module for HTML popup tree widget

2009-04-08 Thread Taku YASUI
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Taku YASUI * Package name: libhtml-popuptreeselect-perl Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Sam Tregar * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~samtregar/HTML-PopupTreeSelect/ * License : same as Perl 5 (GPL or Artistic) Programmi

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-08 Thread Steffen Joeris
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:10:12 pm Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:59:00 Sebastien Delafond, vous avez écrit : > > On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is > > > important for jruby... > > > > to have 2 versions of jrub

Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, while building Blends tasks pages I used to parse the packages file http://ftp.debian.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz this does not exist any more and I have to add a directory 'debian' http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz to acces

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 07/04/09 at 23:44 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Sebastien Delafond dijo [Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:59:00PM -0700]: > > On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is > > > important for jruby... > > > > to have 2 versions of jruby available

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-08 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:59:00 Sebastien Delafond, vous avez écrit : > On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: > > While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is > > important for jruby... > > to have 2 versions of jruby available ? I guess so you can at least, for > instance, try th

Re: "Team uploads"

2009-04-08 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue Apr 07 23:21, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > In the pkg-perl group, at least, it is not at all uncommon that a team > member (usually not a DD) works on a package and tags it as ready for > upload. And then a DD just comes along, checks it, builds and uploads > - without having worked with it. It is n