Re: C++ ABI change -- freezing unstable for new C++ library packages

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:31:06PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Friday 10 June 2005 15:27, Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes, for the moment getting that into testing requires release-team > > approval (which is unlikely to be withheld - it's just so that the udeb > > can

Re: C++ ABI change -- freezing unstable for new C++ library packages

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
e now require manual intervention from the release team? Yes, for the moment getting that into testing requires release-team approval (which is unlikely to be withheld - it's just so that the udeb can be synced at the same time). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROT

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
a correct way, but certainly don't touch debian/changelog). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
Debian could make it the > default; I already did: groff (1.18.1.1-7) unstable; urgency=low * Too many fonts are missing the Unicode HYPHEN character, so I give up. Render "-" as HYPHEN-MINUS (ASCII 0x2D) by default. (Of course, manual pages using "-" when they

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
t defined what the > existing unqualified locale names mean, save in the defaults, /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED is a little more than "the defaults", I think. It's at least standard across systems that use glibc (in that you may get additional entries, but you won't get differen

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
about needing more buildd maintainers; he was talking about the task of chasing up issues involved in trying to get required package uploads built everywhere, which currently ends up being a very significant time drain on the release team (since that's the set o

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:44:17AM -0500, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:55:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:45:59PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > > > ditto, plus, isn't there meant to be a few more good features coming > &

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
at. > > That answers my question. Whatever amount of work the porters can do for > these architectures, they won't be accepted. That's an incorrect paraphrase of what Steve said. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:45:59PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > On 06/06/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:13:50AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > > > Is it your hope that the debian project will switch to the new software > > &

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
er? I think that's pretty unlikely, personally ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C++ ABI change for etch -- freeze unstable for all C++ libs with changed or new sonames

2005-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
the change as close to the beginning of a release cycle as possible in order to have as much time as possible to clean up any resulting problems. This had nothing to do with fictional business models and everything to do with straightforward practical release management. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
ly, depending on how much time we have available to make the code better and more generic versus just making it work so that we can ship something. Yes, fixing that situation could be very useful for other derivative distributions too. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
average more along the lines of handling different archive layouts than insanely voluminous translation changes, I'll feel less like I'm bloating the d-i repository up with stuff that doesn't benefit Debian by committing it there. -- Colin Watson

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-01 Thread Colin Watson
eems to > > assume udeb support and Debian is not there yet. > > I have no idea what you mean. What does running hpoj as non-root have to do > with udebs? s/udeb/udev/g -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: FW: Processing of tla-load-dirs_1.0.21ubuntu1_source.changes

2005-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:21:04PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:11:09AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:39:30AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > What it means: the Ubuntu maintainer for tla-load-dirs (sorry, don't kno

Re: FW: Processing of tla-load-dirs_1.0.21ubuntu1_source.changes

2005-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
we hope should make this less likely to happen again. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt in experimental (Re: APT 0.6 migration -- second status report)

2005-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
gt; > it into sid and not worry about the dependency issue, right? > > > > i've been using apt .6 on one of my machines, and while i haven't kept > > a super-close eye on it, i haven't noticed anything that would make > > me think it an unsuitable candidate

Re: Right of a maintainer not to respect FHS

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
verity (and, honestly, what's the point of the release-critical severities otherwise)? We can block packages from testing, but it's awkward to do that routinely for single bugs, and I wouldn't want to encourage that situation. -- Colin Watson [

Mail loss, please resend

2005-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
uld resend. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should Debian use lsb init-functions?

2005-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
ersion 2.0-6 in unstable; look for log_*_msg. The main current issue with these functions, IMO, is that the output is not user-configurable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: update-menus runs in the background?

2005-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
kgrounding itself if it's there and if there isn't already an update-menus process waiting. It could be an apt DPkg::Post-Invoke hook, but this is no good for people running 'dpkg -i' directly; really, it's an ideal use case for the as-yet-unimplemented dpkg trigger mec

Re: Ubuntu Patches

2005-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
I'm not interested in extra merge effort due to an Ubuntu patch for a spelling error, so I generally just make these in Debian directly as I notice them and only hurry the merge to Ubuntu if they're user-visible. I hope this helps to clarify things a little. It's a hug

Re: Ubuntu Patches

2005-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
-traffic enough to be readable anyway.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu Patches

2005-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
uot;themeable", i.e. the display style is in code in /lib so you can't customise it locally without having it trashed on upgrade, and so on. Fixing that would be good. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:18:44AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:36:33AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > There is no transfer needed at all, IOW the capability to do releases > > from ports.debian.org exists (and is a very good thing, as Colin >

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
if we could simply use the current support in britney for declaring that an architecture isn't keeping up to date and that any problems with it shouldn't block the rest of testing. I'm not sure what the consequences of that would be for the usability of testing on non-releasin

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:38:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:10:30PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > * Colin Watson [Mon, Mar 14 2005, 02:40:56PM]: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:31:30PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > >

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
here. Right. We might need to do either etch-ignore or a lower severity in the meantime, though; Architecture: would take a little while to implement properly. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
-wise points to http://www.debian.org/ports/)? I like this idea. SCC was a working codename that I think was originally intended to be changed as soon as somebody thought of something better, but nobody ever quite got round to it ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PR

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
is whether it goes on ftp.d.o or scc.d.o. There's a point of view that says that committing to release powerpc from scc.d.o means that we're committed to making sure that we *can* release architectures from scc.d.o, which is a good thing ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
y making it an essential part of our infrastructure? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mipsel drop / buildd situation Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space]

2005-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
ork with the well-founded expectation that it would be part of sarge. It's not fair to do this sort of thing at the last minute. After sarge is a different matter, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Problems with - and ' in some man-pages

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
g particularly given the lacking support for Unicode HYPHEN in many fonts (especially on the console). (Either way, it should still be configurable, and manual pages should still be fixed.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:27:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 10:23 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:45:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 00:53 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > I have severa

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
o have 2GB mbox files? Consider a spam-bin folder that you don't split by month or whatever and don't check very often. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:59:00PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:54:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> > Re: Daniel Burrows in <

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
ebstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment: dh_install, which ... - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649 Cheers, -- Colin Watson [

Re: Errors in RC-bug list (was: Release-critical Bugreport for February 18, 2005)

2005-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
t; > > > Package: texgd (debian/main) > > But actually tex4ht has two RC-bugs (both tagged sarge-ignore, but the > package is being worked on, see [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > What happened to the other RC bug? They're merged, so it only lists the first. -- Colin Watson

Re: Package xxx has broken dep on yyy: normal?

2005-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
> the mirror push? Somehow can consistent versions of xxx and yyy > either be made sure to go out this mirror run together, or both wait > for the next run? That's the problem that the testing distribution is intended to solve. -- Colin Watson

Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:43:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Well, if any program were to actually depend on this virtual package, > > they'd need to know which encoder was being used in order to corre

Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
the bug. Well, if any program were to actually depend on this virtual package, they'd need to know which encoder was being used in order to correctly support the differing argument conventions. In which case, why not just depend on the encoders they know ho

Re: Bug#295006: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
virtual package > than "mp3-encoder". What would the interface provided by such a virtual package be? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The keychain package, its debconf templates, the security hole induced

2005-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
exit status from the SSH_ASKPASS program, rather than text entered into the requester. This was added in OpenSSH 3.6. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The keychain package, its debconf templates, the security hole induced

2005-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
his for any kind of security whatsoever then you should rethink your own security design. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
kill existing sessions. You clearly have an existing session because you're using it to upgrade. I think it's better to restart sshd (and possibly have to clean up the occasional problem) than to have it silently continue running using old libraries with security issues. C

Re: Bug#291193: base-passwd: Users added in group audio, not seen though. No sound!

2005-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
e-passwd. Anyone on -devel want to help figure out what's wrong? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: intent to rename vips7.10 -> vips

2005-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:42:41PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:53:58PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > >> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: > >> > We really need to get dpkg

Re: intent to rename vips7.10 -> vips

2005-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
have those semantics (in addition to suppressing warnings about overwritten files). Conflicts/Replaces/Provides would indeed be overkill. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
ork pretty > well in Fedora. IME porting changes to the installer's guts from one installer to a totally different installer is not a particularly productive approach. It was easier to do it from scratch. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
on devfs is a bad idea long time > ago, but let's not warm that up again. *shrug* Changing d-i to use udev instead of devfs when building 2.6 images is almost trivial; I did it for Ubuntu with very little pain. We'll land this change straight after sarge. -- Colin Watson

Re: dselect and its help messages

2005-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
packages without getting a chance to look at them. That's just terrible UI design. People often complain about dselect's user interface, but let's not make gratuitously bad UI decisions! Enter was explicitly avoided at the help screen when dselect was written for this exact rea

Re: dselect and its help messages

2005-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
e of us who have been using it since woody and earlier. Switching back to the old behaviour unbroke it. As the changelog message states, encouraging people to press Enter in dselect is dangerous. Use 'dselect --expert' if you don't want to see the help messages at all. Cheers, -- C

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-11 Thread Colin Watson
he Maintainers file synced more often so that the bug tracking system could know about new packages more often than once a day would be somewhat useful too. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:22:43AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:58:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > Given that -source packages do not adequately specify the dependencies > > to be able to use the output, one must NEVER run "dpkg -i" a giv

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
ort dependency problems encountered in the configure step, nor exit non-zero when it encounters them. See bug #55364. It's much more efficient for users to keep the old .debs around and simply use dpkg -i, which will exit non-zero on errors and allow you to put the old .deb back. Seems clear that

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
stops > > believing us and finds an option that actually works. > > I started using Linux (and Debian) a couple months after Woody "came > out." Was woody due "any day now" for a year like this? To a large extent, yes. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#284272: udev: fails to create /dev/pmu on PPC

2004-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
bug if necessary. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#284219: please remove gnu-standards

2004-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
of the GFDL must be released, for which the optimists among us may still hope. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
e release management team. :-( In future, please perform such widespread audits *before* base system freezes, not *during* them. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Transitioning to Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR

2004-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
when mozilla-firefox is actually ready for testing in its own right (it's currently missing a sparc build). > Eric: Should we upload with priority=high to be ready for Sarge ASAP? britney already considers mozilla-firefox urgency=critical due to: mozilla-firefox (0.10.1+1.0PR-1) experime

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
is Section: base. and, > iiuc, base should be self-contained (that is, packages in base must > not depend on packages outside it). I don't believe such a restriction exists. "Section: base" is pretty much a relic, obsoleted long ago by debootstrap. -- Colin Watson

Re: Debconf is not a registry (was: Right Way to make a configuration package)

2004-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
tements like 'debconf is not a > >registry'.) > > Why is the information given during package installation stored > persistently in the first place? As a convenience so that you don't have to waste time answering questions again and again. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for October 22, 2004

2004-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:20:39PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:51:45AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > > For people who care about getting sarge out, it's not useful to put out > > a report listing 726 bugs, only 150 of which matter, in a form that > > makes i

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for May 14, 2004

2004-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
nvestigate why they're not reaching the debian-devel-announce readership. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
ical? For instance, deciding to target the distribution at > most popular architectures only? In my experience as both a Canonical employee and a Debian developer, the number of architectures supported by Ubuntu makes a negligible difference to Ubuntu's ability to release. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
ing the size of the team to the point where effective coordination became impossible. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
oth, since it speaks of Depends and Recommends (which only apply to binary packages) and Build-Depends (which only apply to source packages). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
ore bugs against different > packages. If you like, you can reassign both bugs to "foo,bar" and merge them. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
split apart again? Are > their original values restored, or do they keep their new values? They keep their new values. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
yet, although I'm willing to be corrected on this. I agree that's the right place for programs like sshd and Xsession to get this information. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Regarding: packages.debian.org/testing/net/bcm5700-source

2004-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:43:52AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.13.0929 +0200]: > > martin f krafft wrote: > > > Have people seen these? > > > > Thousands of times. > > Have people responded? What

Re: Fwd: Regarding: packages.debian.org/testing/net/bcm5700-source

2004-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:22:14AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Have people seen these? Thousands of times. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Smooth Debian Installer Experience

2004-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:13:34PM +0200, Tilo Schwarz wrote: > On Saturday 09 October 2004 15:56, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 12:48:27AM +0200, Tilo Schwarz wrote: > > > Just one remark: When I was asked to enter a package server I would > > > h

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
uded to volatile.d.n. > > Is for example a package "whois" also a candidate for volatile? > Regestries change from time to time; i just consider .org changed within > the last 2,5 years... That sounds like a candidate for a stable update to me, not volatile. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Common set of debconf templates (was: Re: RFC: best practice creating database)

2004-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
t; > should depend upon, instead of constantly reinvent the wheeland > > make up, translators, do damn boring work. > > Is is guaranteed that these templates be available in the .config script? The templates would probably have to be copied at build-time, d

Re: Smooth Debian Installer Experience

2004-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
. Scroll up to the top of the country list and you'll see "enter information manually". Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
own that they work with > spamassassin 3. This is backwards. The conflicts must be added in spamassassin in order that we don't forget to remove said other packages from sarge if necessary. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
atically win you the argument. FWIW, I think that every upload to the security archive should be accompanied by a security advisory. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the security team felt that uploads that don't merit security advisories were an inappropriate use of their archive. Chee

Re: ÙUnicode problem

2003-12-18 Thread Colin Watson
ty with US-ASCII. See RFC 2279 for the definition of UTF-8. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTS (Normal and Important) -- more issues?

2003-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:32:01PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:22:57PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Fixed now. > > earlier today i submitted a bug against an orphaned package in wnpp, > and haven't yet recieved a reply. normally the replies c

Re: BTS (Normal and Important)

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:57:34PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:01:01PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Many bags disapeared in my mozilla screen when I was looking at: > > http://bugs.debian.org/ipmasq [...] > > I wish this is true but ... I k

Re: BTS (Normal and Important)

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:01:01PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:19:04AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > How quickly is a change of maintainer supposed to propagate to the BTS? > ..

Re: BTS and maintainer changes

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
the meantime? In the meantime, I've rsynced the Maintainers file by hand, so you're now correctly listed as autotrace's maintainer. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Colin Watson
aterial being, holding a > middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. > [1913 Webster] I wonder if people here object to the daemon() library call. I have to say that this whole discussion is reminding me of Jesux (http://www

Re: Conflicting manpage for queue.3

2003-12-15 Thread Colin Watson
doesn't apply since 'queue' is not a binary, but obviously file conflicts are bad anyway. Perhaps policy should have a similar comment about manual pages containing a footnote documenting the extension convention above. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Services I'd like from auric

2003-12-15 Thread Colin Watson
thought that a plain list of what's currently in NEW would be OK and useful. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any Progress?

2003-12-15 Thread Colin Watson
re fairly normal right now to be honest, but if you do take a vacation at least please make sure somebody uploads kdebase. :) I guess one of the QA group will have a look at developer.php soon. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: experimental codename

2003-12-15 Thread Colin Watson
way it should be. Experimental isn't a complete distribution in the sense that the others are, so it doesn't really deserve a codename. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Services I'd like from auric

2003-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
ould be a big slice of some machine's resources. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
t mangled into the nine question marks above, perhaps because your post didn't have a Content-Type: header to specify the character set. I checked in the raw list archives on master and it was indeed nine times ASCII 0x3f. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any Progress?

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:35:53PM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote: > I noticed that http://qa.debian.org/developer.php still isn't > updating. See debian-qa. It looks as if this can be re-enabled soon, but the primary author of developer.php currently doesn't have a key in the key

Re: Any Progress?

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
;t appear to be generally broken. I wonder, though, if all five (!) MXs are doing the right thing. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
I wonder why it is missing from > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=tipptrainer&archive=yes > > but this might be a different effect. Hmm, how odd. (Yes, it's a different effect - index.archive was truncated for some reason

Re: Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:22:42AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:30:49AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I just sendet > > > > > > mailx -s "Merge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<

Re: Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
63 > does not exist in the BTS. #219863 is archived, as http://bugs.debian.org/219863 says near the top of the page. You can't make any changes to archived bugs. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
d it. I've fixed it now. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
ng-security; urgency=high [...] * Support setuid ssh-keysign binary instead of setuid ssh client. [...] -- Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:43:44 -0400 Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
enty of bugs that should be fixed, certainly, but not all of them need to be release-critical. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
nics in the peanut gallery. :) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with bugs.debian.org

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
nd might have time to look into it before accounts reopen, > but if not, it'll be fixed then. As long as the bugs themselves are > displaying fine (bugreport.cgi / http://bugs.debian.org/nn), no > information is being lost, and the indices can be easily recreated. This has been fixed f

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