Re: rmadison vs. dak ls

Hi! Am 2013-07-24 08:51, schrieb Ansgar Burchardt: [..] Just out of curiosity: Does that also mean, that a user running 'apt-get source ' may not receive the package version shipped in testing, but one used by an other package? If there is both a source and binary named or requests source fo

Re: rmadison vs. dak ls (was: Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?)

Hi! * Ansgar Burchardt [130723 11:11]: [..] > Please also not that the additional source packages included can be at a > *higher* version than sources included in src_association. This is what > happened here: grub2_1.99-27+deb7u1 is in jessie, however a package > embedding a newer version of gru

Re: request for removal of texmacs-extra-fonts

Hi! Am 02.08.2012 09:37, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: > Usualleyreportbig ftp.debian.org should dop the trick. That should have been: 'usually running "reportbug ftp.debian.org" ...'- Best regards, Alexander (and Clara) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: request for removal of texmacs-extra-fonts

Hi! Am 02.08.2012 08:11, schrieb Atsuhito Kohda: [..] > What is the best way to do in this case. > Is this mail enough or something more is necessary? Please see the paragraph "About removals in Debian" on http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.html. Usualleyreportbig ftp.debian.org should dop

Re: MySQL is still in unstable (Re: Bug#593463 closed by Debian FTP Masters (Bug#680362: Removed package(s) from unstable))

Hi! On 11.07.2012 04:45, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > Although mysql-5.1 was indeed removed from unstable, MySQL wasn't. > mysql-5.1 was simply removed because MySQL has a version number in > source package names and the number changed. MySQL is now packaged as > mysql-5.5: http://packages.qa.debian.

Re: incomplete de translation of maintainer guide

Hi Enrico, On 12.06.2012 19:15, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > just seen that the German translation of the maintainer guide is > quite incomplete. > > Perhaps I could find some time for fixing it, if anybody explains > me how to do that ;-) Thanks for volunteering. Please ask on the debian-l10n-ger.

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

Hi! On 18.05.2012 10:50, Paul Wise wrote: Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might happen only for a few packages. Most of th

Re: A few questions from a new DD

Hi! Am 29.02.2012 10:47, schrieb olivier sallou: > Yes, they are. You'll have to wait for your key to be pushed to the > machines you're interested in. > (You can log in to db.debian.org in the meantime) > I already logged to web interface to update my profile. >

Re: Doesn't contain source for waf binary code

Hi! Am 08.02.2012 09:02, schrieb Jon Dowland: > Do we have any idea how many packages in Debian currently use waf? Well, we opened about 55 bugs see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=waf-unpack;users=ftpmas...@debian.org (The list was created by searching for "waf" files in all so

Re: Doesn't contain source for waf binary code

Hi! Am 07.02.2012 14:16, schrieb Ian Jackson: > * Upstream waf should be packaged somehow. Upstream's declared >policy of asking packages to ship a copy of waf suggests that there >won't be much API stability so we will need to encode the waf >version number in the package name, an

Re: Versionned dependencies

Hi! Am 02.02.2012 10:54, schrieb Tanguy Ortolo: > Packages can currenctly declared dependencies on specific versions of > other packages, with simple relations: <<, <=, =, >= and >>. For > instance: > Package: xul-ext-adblock-plus > Depends: iceweasel (>= 3.6.13) | iceape (>= 2.1) | … > >

Re: Bug#604947: midish: diff for NMU version 1.0.4-1.1

[ droping the bug logs from CC, adding -devel in case further discussion is needed ] Hi Konstantinos! Am 31.01.2012 13:51, schrieb Konstantinos Margaritis: > I've prepared an NMU for midish (versioned as 1.0.4-1.1) and [..] +midish·(1.0.4-1.1)·unstable;·urgency=low + +··*·Non-maintainer·upload,

Re: Lock down of io.debian.net

Hi! Am 25.01.2012 13:02, schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > we noticed that due to some misconfiguration all home directories of > io.debian.net have been exposed through HTTP. > > As an immediate action, the machine has been locked down for further > inspection. [..] > We sincerely apologize for the i

Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

Hi! Am 21.08.2011 18:59, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: [ more powerful hardware needed ] > What is missing is rather a bit of coordination of people that: [..] > Any taker? Well, according to [1] and [2], we have some hardware donations coordinators, and at [3] we have a list of needed hardware.

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

Hi! Am 16.08.2011 02:43, schrieb Russell Coker: > I'd like to see zless work transparently with bzip and xz compressed files. > There's really no need for three different wrapper programs when the zless > program can just consult the magic db to determine which decompression > program > to u

Re: Bug#634235: ITP: mess-desktop-entries -- Desktop entries for MESS ROMS

Am 20.07.2011 13:58, schrieb Jordi Mallach: > This was noted by Tolimar when he accepted the package, and I made the > changes in -2, which should be sitting in NEW right now. ... and got accepted four minutes, after you sent your mail ;) Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Linux 3.0

Hi! Am 31.05.2011 01:21, schrieb Adnan Hodzic: >> We could delay uploading it to unstable for a while if this is >> necessary to allow time for fixes to userland. > Would this mean we wouldn't have it in Experimental either? Quoting the original announcement: > If you suspect that your packages

Re: Debian Project mourns the loss of ...

Hi! Am 27.04.2011 03:00, schrieb Ben Finney: >> Could the Debian obituaries start including the age, and cause of death >> please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obituary#Contents > −1. It's not the business of the Debian project to ask such questions of > the surviving family, nor to distribute th

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

Hi! Am 28.03.2011 11:23, schrieb Thomas Schmitt: > Test reports from reading such an ISO image by a real Windows machine > would be interesting ... :) > E.g. with a file name of 100 characters: > > xorriso -as mkisofs -o test.iso -J -joliet-long -graft-points \ > > /01234567890123456

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

Hi! * Goswin von Brederlow [110201 21:29]: > > squeeze release live microblogging [..] > Is there a ToDo list of things that need to happen during the release > process, idealy with ETAs? Something that gives an overview without the > distractions of funny and otherwise interesting facts about De

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

Hi! Am 27.01.2011 13:45, schrieb Andreas Tille: >> If I remember correctly, DDTP got a short mention and the result was: >> "Wow, debian really has translations for package descriptions?!?" >> Other distributions seem to have only failed (=very outdated) tries if any. > > IMHO this does show two

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

Hi! Am 13.01.2011 11:54, schrieb Olaf van der Spek: >> Now we just need to define what a proper job is. > Instead of stepping down, it might be better to ask for a co-maintainer. You mean like this http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested? Let's have a look: # chromium-browser [..] reque

Re: 404 Errors on http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

Hi! Am 16.12.2010 13:51, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > for each package currently in the NEW queue (i.e. from minidlna on) > clicking on the version number to get further information about the > packag results in an 404 Error, e.g. "The requested URL > /new/minidlna_1.0.18-4.html was not found on t

Re: Reportbug not translated (Was: Bug#605892: please state that mails will be publically archived)

Hi! Am 06.12.2010 14:48, schrieb Andreas Tille: >> The only way I can see this working would be to have a sort of staging >> bts, where users could send their bugs in their mother tongue, and where >> some i18n teams could translate and forward to the actual bts. That's a >> long way before that

Re: Launch of Debian 6.0

Hi! Am 21.11.2010 16:39, schrieb Jonathan Carter (highvoltage): >> when is Squeeze going to be stable? When can I expect this? > when it's ready. > > See also: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ Also see http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101116b for some other ways to help. Best regards

Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 22, 2010

Hi! Am 22.10.2010 16:26, schrieb Martin Zobel-Helas: >> 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: 0 (new: 0) >> Total number of packages

Re: Bits from ftp-team (aka: Don't upload RC fixes to NEW queue)

Hi! Am 02.11.2010 10:55, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: > Best regards, > Alexander, who promises to spent some more time on NEW processing in > the coming weeks, but points out, that still more volunteers are needed Just for the record: We worked quite a bit recently on the

Re: Bits from ftp-team (aka: Don't upload RC fixes to NEW queue)

Hi! Am 02.11.2010 15:57, schrieb Rene Engelhard: > And because people can do such bogus things you are going to stop > progress/testing > completely? Doesn't make much sense to me. Where did I said that? I said in my original mail: >> For example, work on things that are not entirely release

Re: Bits from ftp-team (aka: Don't upload RC fixes to NEW queue)

Hi! Am 31.10.2010 22:42, schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: >> [..] For example, work on things that are not entirely release critical, >> like processing the NEW queue [2], are not the highest priority currently. >> [..] > I must admit that I'm not too happy about that. Neither are we. However, unless

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release

Hi! Am 01.11.2010 13:51, schrieb Christian PERRIER: >>> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta >>> release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze. [..] >> I was wondering if there will be WPA support in D-I for squeeze, as this > No. Nobody did the needed tests

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

Hi! Am 15.09.2010 17:07, schrieb Marco d'Itri: >> I suspect that those figures are because 2048 bits is the default size >> for RSA keys and 4096 bits is the largest size that GnuPG supports. > FWIW, the OpenPGP smartcard v2 supports keys up to 3072 bits. At the recent FrOSCon I have been told,

Re: mass bug filing: packages not installable on any architecture

Hi! * Ben Hutchings [100804 04:42]: > > http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/results/unstable/latest/every/list.php > I think some of these are old versions of arch:all packages that for > some reason have not been automatically removed. I think you should > consider only the latest version of

Re: CUT BoF at DebConf10

Hi! * Stefano Zacchiroli [100802 14:23]: > Thanks for noticing, I didn't realize that. I'll try to check with the > local team if something can be arranged, although unfortunately there > are no resources for video in all rooms. Minutes will be posted > nonetheless and hopefully we can then hav

Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ?

Hi! Am 30.07.2010 11:38, schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Craig Small] >> The problem with replacing WML is; what do you replace it with? and >> will it bring any real benefit? > What about using XHTML and po4a to handle translations using .po > files? And how come common headers and styles or in

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

Am 26.07.2010 21:04, schrieb Russell Gadd: >>> I spotted this topic in Debian Project News. Thanks, you just made my day :) >>> I am a non-technical Debian user (Lenny AMD 64 bit) >> Up-to-date flash support is provided by the flashplugin-nonfree package >> available from Debian's unofficial ba

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

Hi! Am 22.07.2010 09:21, schrieb Josselin Mouette: >> I think with our next release, we will have got less users. Why? >> We stripped out all binary only firmware images from Linux and put them >> mostly into the non-free linux-firmware image. > If you think this is a problem, you could help with

Re: Bug#589229: vmfs-tools: possible FHS violation, as fsck.vmfs is not in /sbin

HI! Am 16.07.2010 11:18, schrieb Mike Hommey: > So until the program actually does what it is intended to, I'm not > exactly sure it is safe to put it in /sbin. OTOH, I could rename it, but > except for nitpicking, what exactly would be the point? > > What do fellow developpers think? Leaving i

Re: ftp-master/release move

Hi! Am 04.07.2010 14:35, schrieb Joerg Jaspert: > > I just reactivated our cronjobs, processing is back to normal. Due to NEW processing after syncing the two machines, some of you might get a reject mail for packages which had already been accepted. Don't worry, you can safely ignore them. Be

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

Hi! Am 30.06.2010 02:31, schrieb Michael Gilbert: > Advantages of switching to backports: > - very simple for the maintainers to keep up to date with respect to > security updates (a matter of just recompiling the unstable/testing > package for stable) As current maintainer of the iceweasel

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

Hi! Am 29.06.2010 22:52, schrieb Michael Gilbert: >>> I believe I do. Backports are for recompilations of unstable packages >>> for the stable releases. >> Thanks for excellently stating that you do *not* know about what is >> backports about and for, you couldn't have done that better. > The s

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

Hi! Am 29.06.2010 17:24, schrieb Michael Gilbert: > No, my proposal is to move the package to a better home: backports. You don't know the current policies WRT packages in backports and about their reasoning, do you? Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...

Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

Hi! Am 15.06.2010 09:50, schrieb Neil Williams: > OTOH if those requesting sponsorship were more open to packaging some of > the orphaned packages listed under WNPP and qa.debian.org which > have already been through NEW [..] > What about if Debian QA packages were all to be deemed suitable

Re: Hardware trouble ries.debian.org - ftpmaster.debian.org / release.d.o services disabled

Hi! Joerg Jaspert schrieb: just a short notice for everyone out there who wants to upload or waits for a package migration to testing: ries.debian.org, the host behind ftp-master.debian.org, has hardware trouble, a failed memory module keeps resetting the machine at random intervals. A small

Re: Serializing transitions

Hi! Neil Williams schrieb: Wouldn't a simpler method be to identify uploads that inadvertently impair an ongoing transition and bump that one upload to experimental or simply tell the DD not to upload to unstable? [..] Maybe extending dput functionality to check a file on a central server tha

Re: mail notifcation on "failed" builds

Hi! Cyril Brulebois schrieb: Thanks, did't knew about that. Tag! You're it. Go and open a bug against developers-reference with a patch. ;) Been there, done that, got no shirt: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#packages-arch-specific Best regards, Alexander, who wa

Re: mail notifcation on "failed" builds

Hi! Cyril Brulebois schrieb: If your supported architectures aren't going to change, please get your package added to P-a-s[1,2] by following instructions[3]. Thanks, did't knew about that. Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

mail notifcation on "failed" builds (was: Re: Misc developer news (#20))

Hi! Raphael Hertzog schrieb: The autobuilding system now mails notifications for failed builds to the PTS, keyword buildd. [..] Please note that these notifications do not necessarily mean bug reports in your package but could also be caused by other packages, temporary uninstallabilities and a

Re: Flag images

Hi! Dmitry E. Oboukhov schrieb: >> I wish to use my country's flag to refer to my language... >> Don't. There are many languages not associated with countries or in >> use in many different countries. [..] > Is it really so big problem? Looks like as non-issue, farfetched. Believe me as someone w

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

Hi! Stefano Zacchiroli schrieb: There has also been some similar discussions in Ubuntu with some users reporting that some web sites and packages don't work with openjdk but I have not seen a lot of concrete proof. I might look a naive user here, but with openjdk I still don't have plugin sup

Re: Please help with checking the boot and shutdown script ordering

Hi! Petter Reinholdtsen schrieb: > Another new resource is piuparts, which will detect packages with > inconsistency between the package dependency and the init.d script > dependency - like a script requiring $portmap while the package do not > depend on portmap. Couldn't that be added as a chec

Re: eiskaltdc extra licence

Hi! Rene Engelhard schrieb: >>> a) rename/move this file another place and patch code > Depends on the license. If it was (L)GPL you could use > /usr/share/common-licenses/... GPL with OpenSSL permission. No default template for that. But yes, that would be option c) wich doesn't work in this c

Re: eiskaltdc extra licence

Hi Andrey, Such questions are better suited for the debian-mentors list. Andrey Tataranovich schrieb: > What should I do to satisfy DEBIAN policy? > > a) rename/move this file another place and patch code > b) add lintian override I would go for b). Best regards, Alexander signature.as

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

Hi! Aurelien Jarno schrieb: >> The press release not only mentions release goals but also >> "infrastructure goals" ftpmaster would like to have done by then. > Then, maybe the ftpmasters should communicate through > debian-devel-announce *in addition* to the press releases. To the best of my kn

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

Hi! Aurelien Jarno schrieb: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:28:58PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> The following goals for Squeeze have been identified up to now: [ some stuff ] > And according to the press release: [ some more stuff ] The press release not only mentions release goals but also "infras

Re: Should we improve our (internal) communication?

Hi! Ben Hutchings schrieb: >> Now, scheduled means programmed, and suddenly this question comes to >> me: should the project be notified of such core activities? should we >> only relay on #debian-devel irc channel topic to know this? > This is what debian-infrastructure-announce is for (though >

Re: Configurable debian/control & debian/rules

Hi! Mathieu Malaterre schrieb: > My question is simply: how do express that only one Binary package > requires a particular Build-Depends package, but the other remaining > Binary package should be fine ? You can't. You specify build-depends for _source_ packages, which in turn build the binar

Bug#532975: ITP: microcom -- minimalistic terminal programm

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Alexander Reichle-Schmehl" * Package name: microcom Version : 2009.6 Upstream Author : Anca and Lucian Jurubita, Sascha Hauer, Marc Kleine-Budde and Wolfram Sang * URL : http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=tools/microcom

Re: anyone using interactive bugscripts

Hi! Josselin Mouette schrieb: > From now on, I’d say we can either: > * force such scripts to use an abstraction layer to prompt the > user; Wouldn't it be possible to use debconf for that? It already has interfaces for different user interfaces (TTBOMK including KDE, GNOME, Dialog

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

Hi! Uwe Kleine-König schrieb: > [your To: header was strange, maybe my mail reaches less recipents than > your's] Well, at least it reached me ;) >>> Maybe providing a patch package is a better first step? >> thanks for thinking. Who could provide such a patch package? > I can. I'd need a spon

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

Hi! Ben Hutchings schrieb: > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 09:28 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> [..] cdrecord [..] >>> [..] wodim [..] Please, not again. The arguments have been exchanged ad invinitum a couple of times already. So if there is nothing new to bring up, please don't restart the discussi

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

Hi! Bastian Venthur schrieb: > Another way to see it is that unstable is constantly flowing and > we're just forking a stable distribution from it from time to time. Sounds like what was done before testing was introduced, which worked even less, with even longer freeze periods, where you couldn'

Re: Release plans? Bits from the RMs?

Hi! Christian Perrier schrieb: > So, what's the status now? Can't answer for the release team, but it seems to me, that everyone is waiting for the outcome of GR 2008/vote_003 [1]... But I would appreciate an "official Bits from" mail, too. Links: 1: http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/vote_003

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

Hi! Luk Claes schrieb: >>> Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>gem >> This was fixed by an NMU, but can't transition to testing due to dependency >> on >> libquicktime 2:1.0.3+debian-2. What to do in cases like this? > > Contact the release team to see if it's possible to unbl

Re: Is this another headsup: lenny+1=squeeze

Hi! Osamu Aoki schrieb: > Hmmm... lenny+1=squeeze > > This is my first sighting :-) Sometimes it's worth to read these "Release update" mails comming in till the end: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg0.html ;) Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Lenny upgrade-advisor

Hi! Am 7.9.2008 schrieb "Franklin PIAT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I've worked on an upgrade advisor tool for Lenny. The idea is to do some >sanity check to then warn the users of potential problems (and also >advertise some best practices). The example below should be quite >explicit. Wonderfull id