Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
> We are running a service that automatically converts the 2300+ R packages
> from CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org) into Debian binaries for both amd64 and
> i386 on testing. This is joint work with Charles Blundell (CC'ed), which we
> started when it was his GSoC 2008 g
We are running a service that automatically converts the 2300+ R packages
from CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org) into Debian binaries for both amd64 and
i386 on testing. This is joint work with Charles Blundell (CC'ed), which we
started when it was his GSoC 2008 gig. We use a Xen instance which is
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Jon Dowland wrote:
> I have a package of bup - a git-based backup tool - sitting in the NEW
> queue. bup is 99% python, with a small .so module for some
> speed-critical code.
>
> I decided to have an architecture: all bup-common package for the
> majority of the
I demand that Ferenc Wagner may or may not have written...
[snip]
> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. It
> lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy would be
> easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on this.
Given an upload of a 4.00
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On 05/24/2010 10:07 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Could this also be eventually added as an alternative to grub2 in the
> installer?
i've talked with otavio about this already a year ago, as i'm much in
favour[0] of extlinux over grub2 anyway, but i didn't got arround to
finally push it. if anyone
Daniel Baumann writes:
> On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
>> It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy
>> would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on this.
>
> sometime ago
Le dimanche 23 mai 2010 à 15:55 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
> Josselin Mouette
>gdm (U)
> warning: script gdm/init.d/gdm possibly missing dependency on $syslog
>gdm3 (U)
> warning: script gdm3/init.d/gdm3 possibly missing dependency on $syslog
AFAICT gdm uses its own logging s
Le lundi 24 mai 2010 à 20:46 +0200, Daniel Baumann a écrit :
> On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> > You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
> > It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy
> > would be easy to adapt, and I actually
Le dimanche 23 mai 2010 à 20:48 -0400, Stephen Powell a écrit :
> I do understand why a Debian package maintainer does not wish to become
> "upstream". And I hope that someone who is both willing and able to do
> so steps up to the plate. But withdrawing it from the distribution seems
> like ove
[Ove Kaaven]
> Anyway, for me, the easiest way to be able to build an updated Wine
> package would be to NMU gcc-mingw32. Doing so seems to be just a
> matter of putting in a new gcc tarball in the source package, and
> I've confirmed that updating it to gcc 4.4.4 seems to work for what
> Wine nee
Stephen Powell writes:
> On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:55 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Stephen Powell writes:
>>> On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell writes:
> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
> the m
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:55 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
>> On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>> Stephen Powell writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
the master boot record [...]
>>>
>>>
On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
> It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy
> would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on this.
sometime ago i've added extliux-install and upd
[Kurt Roeckx]
> I think we're discussing 2 things here, while I was only thinking
> about one of them:
> - Move scripts from rcS.d to rc[1-5].d
> - Removing rc[016].d/K* scripts
Could be.
> As far as I know, the only daemon we currently start in rcS.d
> (that keeps running) is udev.
There are m
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:01:30 -0400 (EDT), Edward Allcutt wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> To the best of my knowledge, lilo is the *only* bootloader which supports
>> setting an initial text video mode *and* does not use any sectors outside
>> the master boot record and outsid
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 02:58:54PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Kurt Roeckx]
> > I don't see why you think that would be a problem. Either the
> > init script in runlevel 1 is going to stop the service, or it
> > gets killed. And going back to runlevel 2 should start the same
> > servi
Stephen Powell writes:
> On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Stephen Powell writes:
>>>
>>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
>>> the master boot record [...]
>>
>> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this re
Stephen Powell writes:
> On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:36:32 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
William Pitcock (22/05/2010):
> This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze
>
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, it is the *only* bootloader which supports
setting an initial text video mode *and* does not use any sectors outside
the master boot record and outside of a partition. If I'm wrong about
that, someone please correct me.
gr
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 06:13:13PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> Colin added himself to the Uploaders field when I requested him to do so,
> as he's been in charge of Ubuntu's switch to GRUB2 for Ubuntu and after
> the "disappearance" of Felix and Robert, he's the Debian person with more
> experien
Hi,
for the reasons I've outlined on -private, I'd like to give away my
packages:
apache2-redirtoservname
This package comes with upstream duties as well, since I wrote it. It
is unlikely that for the actual functionality bits you'll ever need to
do more than trigger a rebuild, but the packag
[Please Cc: replies, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel ]
Stephen Powell wrote:
> What about Jordi Mallach and Colin Watson? The package page for grub-pc
> lists them as maintainers too. Have they disappeared as well? Or are
> they no longer maintainers for this package? In which case their na
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
>>
>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
>> the master boot record [...] This breaks the design of the backup
>> software that my employer uses. This backup software backs up
On moandei 24 Maaie 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> yes, keeping lilo in the
> archive is a burden for some other people (security team,
I would like to correct the suggestion that the security team would oppose
keeping lilo in squeeze. There is currently no such objection, and in the past
the
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:36:32 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>>> William Pitcock (22/05/2010):
This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze
is released so that any issues c
Hi,
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 07:33:48PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 24/05/10 at 01:15 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Really, issue is "Debian does not have reasonable rule for hijacking or
> > automatic orphaning".
>
> I fully agree. There are many packages that are staying with totally
> outd
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I have a package of bup - a git-based backup tool - sitting in the NEW
queue. bup is 99% python, with a small .so module for some
speed-critical code.
I decided to have an architecture: all bup-common package for the
majority of the program, and
[Kurt Roeckx]
> I don't see why you think that would be a problem. Either the
> init script in runlevel 1 is going to stop the service, or it
> gets killed. And going back to runlevel 2 should start the same
> services as started otherwise in that runlevel.
The reason is that I remember some bu
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Stephen Powell writes:
> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
> the master boot record [...] This breaks the design of the backup
> software that my employer uses. This backup software backs up the
> master boot record and all partitions; but since the extra secto
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Kurt Roeckx writes:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> William Pitcock (22/05/2010):
>>> This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze
>>> is released so that any issues can be resolved now.
>>
>> There should also be some folks fixing t
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> warning: script watchdog/init.d/watchdog possibly missing dependency on
> $syslog
This one's a false positive because watchdog depends on $all.
Michael
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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Kurt Roeckx]
> > And they should probably also be removed from /etc/rc1.d/ in that
> > case because it also uses sendsigs. Lintian warns about this as far
> > as I know.
>
> Perhaps. I am not quite sure how that will inte
[Christian PERRIER]
> I wonder what in keymap.sh is triggerring this. TTBOMK,
> /etc/init.d/keymap.sh is meant to work without /usr being mounted
This part of the script matches the /usr/s?bin regex:
unicode_start_stop()
{
# Switch unicode mode by checking the locale.
# This
On 2010-05-24, Florian Zagler wrote:
> Don't drop lilo in squeeze but mark it orphaned. Leave it in Squeeze and
> schedule the removal for Squeeze+1.
Orphaned packages in a release are a pain if nobody steps up to fix RC bugs
suddenly popping up in stable.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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