Re: Alioth status update, take 3

Hi! On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 22:35:00 +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > We should now be in the phase where we pretend it's done, wait for the > complaints, and fix the problems as they are reported. The project web sites do not seem to work anymore, for example:

Re: double checking Debian's 686-pae vs. -486 probe

jida...@jidanni.org writes: >> "RC" == Russell Coker writes: > RC> Why not just install the other kernel and try booting it? > Maybe it will lead to subtle data loss. You never know. That's why I was > hoping to dig out of the .debs just how they determine which Thinkpads > are hip, and which

Re: Conditional Recommends

David Kalnischkies writes: > environment. I can already hear someone asking for > Package: libc6 > Recommends: libc6-686 {arch::supports:cmov} > which soon evolves to a complete language in which you really need > all the funky stuff like & and | and ! together with hard/soft constraints… That c

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

on a related note (although not as critical as restoration of git://git.d.o which I expect to impact thousands: $> grep git:// /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources | wc -l 3716 ) where previously available could be now? http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/

Re: double checking Debian's 686-pae vs. -486 probe

> "RC" == Russell Coker writes: RC> Why not just install the other kernel and try booting it? Maybe it will lead to subtle data loss. You never know. That's why I was hoping to dig out of the .debs just how they determine which Thinkpads are hip, and which to skip. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: double checking Debian's 686-pae vs. -486 probe

On Tue, 24 May 2011, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > But my Thinkpad isn't really very old... how can one double check to see > if the decision was correct? I can't figure it out even after probing > the .debs to find just where they probe the choice. Why not just install the other kernel and try boo

double checking Debian's 686-pae vs. -486 probe

Recently Debian sid split the kernel into these two packages, linux-image-2.6.39-1-486_2.6.39-1_i386.deb linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae_2.6.39-1_i386.deb My Thinkpad ended up being told by the installation scripts to use -486. But my Thinkpad isn't really very old... how can one double check to se

Bug#627731: ITP: ocaml-schroedinger -- OCaml bindings for the libschroedinger implementing the Dirac video encoding/decoding algorithm

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis * Package name: ocaml-schroedinger Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : The Savonet Team * URL : http://savonet.sf.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: OCaml Description : OCaml bindings for the libs

Bug#627729: ITP: ocaml-flac -- OCaml bindings for the FLAC audio decoding/encoding library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis * Package name: ocaml-flac Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : The Savonet Team * URL : http://savonet.sf.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: OCaml Description : OCaml bindings for the FLAC audio d

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

Stig Sandbeck Mathisen writes: > Francesco Poli writes: >> I hope that some appropriate re-directions may be set up real soon now, >> so that previous URLs can continue to work as before... > If you have a specific example of something that does not work, it can > be fixed. windlord:~/tmp> deb

Re: Anyone looking at darcs?

Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 00:10, Erik de Castro Lopo > wrote: > > Is anyone looking at getting the latest version of darcs into unstable? > > > > If not, I will have a crack at it. > > Why didn't you ask its maintainers (or at least cc them)? why didn't > you report a bug aga

Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

Am 23.05.2011 22:35, schrieb Roland Mas: > - anonymous read-only access to the repositories is available by HTTP > from wagner, at URLs that look like > http://anonscm.debian.org/$scm/$project for $scm in arch bzr darcs git > hg; > > - Git and Subversion also allow anonymous read-only access

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

Francesco Poli writes: > I hope that some appropriate re-directions may be set up real soon now, > so that previous URLs can continue to work as before... If you have a specific example of something that does not work, it can be fixed. -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen ooo, shiny

Re: Conditional Recommends

* Eugene V. Lyubimkin [2011-05-22 18:08 +0300]: > On 2011-05-22 16:07, Carsten Hey wrote: > > 'Enhances:', 'Provides', 'Conflicts' and 'Breaks' also require extensive > > scanning in the package database. > > Conflicts and Breaks do not. So, yes, partly true. I personally don't > want one more reve

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

On Mon, 23 May 2011 22:35:00 +0200 Roland Mas wrote: [...] > Status update for the Alioth situation: [...] > - read/write access to the repositories through SSH happen on > vasks.debian.org; the repositories have adresses that look like > $scm.debian.org/$scm/$project, for $scm in arch bzr c

Bug#627724: ITP: ocaml-voaacenc -- Voaacenc bindings for OCaml

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis * Package name: ocaml-voaacenc Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : The Savonet Team * URL : http://savonet.sf.net/ * License : CPL Programming Lang: OCaml Description : OCaml bindings for the voaacenc

Bug#627723: ITP: ocaml-mm -- Multimedia library for OCaml

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis * Package name: ocaml-mm Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : The Savonet Team * URL : http://savonet.sf.net/ * License : LGPL+link exception Programming Lang: OCaml Description : Multimedia library fo

Re: Conditional Recommends

* David Kalnischkies [2011-05-23 16:31 +0200]: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 16:07, Carsten Hey wrote: > >  * Conflicts, Breaks, ..., Enhances: > >   - satisfied if any of the clauses is true > > Uhm, a Conflicts/Breaks is satisfied if all clauses are false. This misunderstanding is caused by the unc

Re: Conditional Recommends

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 18:41, Simon McVittie wrote: > However, consider gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio: it's a plugin for GStreamer > applications to output audio through the PulseAudio daemon. Neither GStreamer > nor PulseAudio should depend on the other: GStreamer applications can equally > well use

Re: 'Alioth' status update

I would also really appreciate any information on the status/future of lists.a.d.o. With best regards, Yaroslav On Mon, 23 May 2011, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > One particular concern I can think of is that mail service > (for lists.alioth.debian.org, and does alioth.debian.org also have > a ma

mcs maintainership

Hello, Considering that Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) hasn't been doing much work on the package in question (mcs), and that I have prepared a packaging for the new and the last upstream version, I'd like to become a new maintainer for the package at least for the time this package is still in use by at l

Re: Anyone looking at darcs?

Sandro Tosi dijo [Thu, May 19, 2011 at 02:37:45PM +0200]: > >> and where was rudeness? > > > >> should I add flowers and kisses to emails? > > ^^^ > > This.  This is rudeness. > > oh really? thanks for letting me know. > > > Lose the sarcasm, if you wish to

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

schrieb Pedro Larroy am 2011-05-22 22:44: > Hi > > I think expecting having a working smtp on laptops, workstations, etc, > is unreasonable these days. > I suggest that we can make an HTTP based bug reporting method. >From my experience as a occasional bug reporter, some thoughts that came to my

Re: Conditional Recommends

On Mon, 23 May 2011 at 16:31:10 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > A plugin like xul-ext-firegpg (removed & discontinued upstream) enhances > iceweasel and depends on gpg. Still, i don't think it would be a good > idea to add something like 'Recommended-By: iceweasel & gpg' > as this promotes this

Re: Conditional Recommends

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:50, Miles Bader wrote: > I've noticed many cases where packages recommend a bunch of stuff that, > while it might be very nice for some users, really isn't of general > interest. So, because package maintainers don't read and understand the policy which defines clearly

Re: Conditional Recommends

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 16:07, Carsten Hey wrote: >  * Conflicts, Breaks, ..., Enhances: >   - satisfied if any of the clauses is true Uhm, a Conflicts/Breaks is satisfied if all clauses are false. That way you could say Conflicts = ! Pre-Depends. (regarding "…": Replaces doesn't fit to well in h

Re: Conditional Recommends

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 17:56, Carsten Hey wrote: > With above exclamation mark syntax, we could also express "weak > conflicts", e.g.: > >        Package: X >        Recommends: !Y > > Apt would remove Y by default if X gets installed, but users could > overwrite this. As a user i hate it then

Re: 'Alioth' status update

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:27:45AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hi everybody, > > The host we knew and loved as alioth.debian.org is no more. > > We are now running on two hosts, vasks.debian.org and wagner.debian.org. > > The writable SCM repositories are hosted on vasks.debian.org, and DNS > h

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > guarantee a return path for further bug processing Bugzilla and trac do this by allowing the user to register an account and to keep the email address associated with that account up to date. If somebody reopens an archived bug that I've reported a year ago t

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

On Mon, 23 May 2011, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: > > The only advantage of this would be for systems that firewall outgoing > > mail conections but allow http or have a http proxy but no smarthost. > > There are a *lot* of ISPs that do this.

Bug#627659: ITP: pythonwebkit -- Python DOM (HTML5) Bindings to Webkit

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: lkcl * Package name: pythonwebkit Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : GNU Project * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/pythonwebkit * License : GPLv2, LGPLv2, LGPLv2+, BSD, MIT, MPL-1.1 Programming Lang: C, C++, Perl, Pyt

Bug#627658: ITP: netzhack -- German-localized version of the game NetHack

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tony Crawford * Package name: netzhack Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Tony Crawford * URL : http://www.netzhack.de/ * License : Nethack General Public License Programming Lang: C Description : German-localize

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > Easier is to write a one-liner: > > #!/bin/sh > ssh your-favourite-host-with-sendmail-set-up /usr/sbin/sendmail -f \ >    y...@email.org -t "$@" > > and tell reportbug to use it. Aha, thanks. I'm now using something similar to dump rep

Re: Changed ssh key on git.debian.org

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:24:37 +0100 Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Now I got another problem. Well, it's not really a problem but a minor > bug. When I push to a git repository I get a warning that was not > there with alioth: "bash: warning: setloca

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

Hello, On Mon, 23 May 2011 11:58:06 +1000 Russell Coker wrote: > I often use the -o option of reportbug and scp the file to somewhere > I can send mail. > It would be nice if there was a program that could take the output of > reportbug -o and send it via email. Using cut/paste wastes a littl

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

sean finney writes: > HTTP would be able to provide a super-set of the features of SMTP > submission, would not prevent SMTP submission from remaining as an option, > and is more likely to work in diverse environments. HTTP could also provide faster feedback on syntax errors in control messages.

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:47:22AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > I suggest that we can make an HTTP based bug reporting method. > > The only advantage of this would be for systems that firewall outgoing > mail conections but allow http or have a http proxy but no smarthost. and that's a