Re: mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.

2011-08-18 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:39:28 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > maybe i'll just go create the debian2 operating system or the > > google2 search engine. brilliant! > Or you could rip off the name of a standard Windows program. Oh wait, > you already did that. Actually, both mplayer and mpl

mentors.debian.net: login problems

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, Since mentors.d.n was upgraded, I can't log in. Even if I reset my password, I can't log in with a temporary one. Any ideas what can it be? -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#633518: ITP: colord -- system service to manage device colour profiles

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:06:48 +1000 Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > * Package name: colord > Version : 0.1.10 > Upstream Author : Richard Hughes > * URL : http://colord.hughsie.com/ > * License : GPL2+, LGPL2+ > Programming Lang: C > Descrip

Re: Bug#633131: ITP: diod -- I/O forwarding server for 9P

2011-07-08 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:40:11 +0200 Євгеній Мещеряков wrote: > * Package name: diod > Description : I/O forwarding server for 9P > diod is a 9P server used in combination with the kernel v9fs file > system for I/O forwarding on Linux clusters. Wow! Thanks for pointing me to thi

Re: TeX packages

2011-07-07 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 07:41:15 +0900 Norbert Preining wrote: > On Do, 07 Jul 2011, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > > Is it possible to run mktexlsr and updmap-sys (and, possibly, other > > TeX things) just once when installing or removing packages which > > need to run th

TeX packages

2011-07-07 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, Is it possible to run mktexlsr and updmap-sys (and, possibly, other TeX things) just once when installing or removing packages which need to run them in postinst/postrm? I've been trying to remove some not-really-needed latex-cjk-* packages to minimize my old laptop's system installed size,

hgweb on alioth

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, Just wanted to mention that hgweb interface on alioth is still not working. It'd be good if anyone responsible for this fixed it (it's not really that hard). -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ifupdown 0.7~alpha4 in experimental

2011-06-17 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:46:49 +0200 Christian Hammers wrote: > I use /etc/network/interfaces for the static IP and tell the kernel > via sysctl to accept Router-Advertisements for additional prefixes > (autoconf=1 and accept_ra=1) under which it should generate random > addresses (use_temp

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:44:43 +0200 Gergely Nagy wrote: > >> You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a > >> negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt > >> will refuse to install it. > > > >> For example, with the following stanza apt will refus

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:25:29 +0200 Peter De Wachter wrote: > You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a > negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt will > refuse to install it. > For example, with the following stanza apt will refuse to instal

ifupdown 0.7~alpha4 in experimental

2011-06-08 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, As some may already have noticed, the new ifupdown revision, 0.7~alpha4 entered experimental, and is successfully built at least on i386 and amd64. This was made possible by Roger Leigh's help and submitters of patches that were kindly stored at the BTS. Of course, the most of work was don

Re: Bug#628953: O: mercurial-buildpackage -- Utillities for maintaining a deb package in Hg repository

2011-06-03 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:11:19 +0200 Jens Peter Secher wrote: > Native package written by yours truly. Pristine-tar part does not > work anymore, reason unknown. Everything is written in haXe, which > entails some problems wrt. Process control & input/output, and I have > created a branch

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-31 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Tue, 31 May 2011 12:21:26 +0200 Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > Especially Darcs is rightly famous for its user-friendly interface > > Are you kidding? :) > Your quoting lets me wonder: Do you really doubt that Darcs’s general > user interface is more intuitive than others (especially co

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-30 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Mon, 30 May 2011 23:30:03 +0200 Joachim Breitner wrote: > BTW, for all who create patches this way and want to later split the > patch into two logically independent patches, I am creating an > interactive patch splitter based on the darcs UI (but only the UI, > don’t worry): > http://

Re: Bug#627983: ITP: bmake -- Portable version of NetBSD's make

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Thu, 26 May 2011 11:09:27 +0200 Jeroen Schot wrote: > > Alexey Cheusov and me are already working on creation of the package > > for bmake, so you can join our team instead of doing this on your > > own. > Good to hear. I've already had contact with Alexey. I'm more than > happy to wo

Re: Bug#627983: ITP: bmake -- Portable version of NetBSD's make

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Thu, 26 May 2011 09:29:44 +0200 Jeroen Schot wrote: > * Package name: bmake > Version : 20110505 > Upstream Author : Simon J. Gerraty > * URL : http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.html > * License : BSD > Programming Lang: C > Description

mcs maintainership

2011-05-23 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
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: Changed ssh key on git.debian.org

2011-05-23 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
-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

2011-05-23 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
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: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 in wheezy as default?

2011-05-10 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Wed, 11 May 2011 00:33:33 + (UTC) Robert Edmonds wrote: > it would be great if there were a simple way to control the IPv6 > address selection policy (static, SLAAC, SLAAC + privacy extensions, > DHCPv6...) from the interfaces(5) file or its successor. It is and I hope we can get

Bug#624490: ITP: tnat64 -- IPv4 to NAT64 redirector

2011-04-28 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Andrew O. Shadoura" * Package name: tnat64 Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Andrew O. Shadoura * URL : https://bitbucket.org/andrew_shadoura/tnat64/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description

Re: /run in experimental

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:37:44 +0200 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > > udev 167-2: > > - works with /run absent > > - broken with /run present and with a tmpfs mounted > > (no networking, others have other non-working hardware) > Unsurprisingly, it turned out that udev

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:47:18 +0200 Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > My major gripe with ifupdown is the lack of CIDR in "address", but I > can live with that. :) ifupdown 0.7 does support CIDR. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

rock around hwclock.sh

2011-04-12 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, I'd like to hear opinions on hwclock.sh operation. Few thoughts of my own: i) It's still quite common that battery in the RTC becomes flat. In this case, hwclock.sh silently sets system clock to 1970 (or whatever else nonsense), efficiently turning file access and modify times into a mess

Re: Bug#621761: ITP: khtmlib -- javascript library for browser maps

2011-04-09 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:41:16 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > * API uses WGS84 (GPS). This is illiterate a bit, WGS84 has nothing to do with GPS on its own. You can just say, 'API uses WGS84'. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:40:43 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > That's not sufficient, because if a DHCP client is still running (e.g. > because the previous configuration used DHCP), one needs to kill it > before using a fixed IP address (in eth-home). If you do `ifdown`, either manually or

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:29:05 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Your limited knowledge is like jam. The less you have, the more you > spread it. Well, you have just confirmed this statement. > What you actually like about ifupdown is that it cannot do anything > but extremely trivial setup

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:31:40 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > [About the general problem of documentation] > The problem is to find the correct tools and the correct > documentation. For instance, imagine the average user who wants for > Ethernet (eth0), to do the following automatically (fo

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:30:53 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > Why is that necessary? So far as I can see, the purpose of the state > files is: > - Let ifup refuse to reapply a configuration (even if it failed to > apply it in the first place) > - Allow ifdown to take shortcuts, which often

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:16:30 +0300 "Andrew O. Shadoura" wrote: > Another thing is that they may be ignored when the interface > isn't really 'up', as per kernel. I mean, isn't up when doing ifup, of isn't down when doing ifdown. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:56:15 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Does this imply that "fixing" ifupdown to query the state(s) via > > netlink instead of relying on state files would solve most of the > > problems? > I expect so, but it would be a very big 'fix'. Well, ifupdown will still need

ifupdown and IPv6 (was: Bits from the Release Team)

2011-03-31 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:01:25 +0200 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > The problem is with all features implemented by external if-*.d > scripts. If e.g. a bridge is created by the first defined afi, the > second script will fail. And if it does not fail on up then > everything will stil

Bug#587522: ITP: twms -- tiny WMS service

2010-06-29 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Andrew O. Shadoura" * Package name: twms Version : 0.01q Upstream Author : Darafei Praliaskouski * URL : http://code.google.com/p/twms/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : tiny W

Bug#545151: ITP: libnatspec -- a library for national and language-specific issues

2009-09-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Andrew O. Shadoura" * Package name: libnatspec Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Authors: Vitaly Lipatov , Pavel Vainerman * URL : http://natspec.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL2.1 Programmi