Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ikely to be used there. > > Continue to say DRAT! The handwriting is on the wall. Very few have come > out even marginally supporting the ham radio claim other than myself. > > Frankly, given the lack of response from the Debian ham community I'm > inclined > to no

Re: build self-contained repository for offline use

2011-07-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:52:02PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > One of apt-zip/aptoncd/apt-offline might meet your needs. Thanks all for the replies. I checked out apt-zip, apt-offline, aptoncd, CDD and apt-clone. None of them really suited my needs, as I want to generate this repository automaticall

build self-contained repository for offline use

2011-07-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I need to build a repository to allow some specified packages to be installed on computers without internet access. It needs to contain the specified packages plus any dependencies (new packages and new versions) from squeeze plus other repositories such as squeeze backports and some local ones. I

Re: Bug #302907 - maintainer doesn't reply

2011-05-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:25:17AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:17:30PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Bug #302907 in libstroke0-dev has been open and had a (working) patch > > for 6 years. The maintainer has never replied or done anything else >

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:28:18PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Christian PERRIER writes: > > That's indeed insane..:-). Hobart (Tasmania), Melbourne (Victoria), > > Sydney (NSW) and Canberra (ACT) have the *exact* same time rules > > (including DST). > > But they didn't always; and with the tenden

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:59:19PM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Commonwealth Games. In Victoria we were on a different timezone to that > of the folks in New South Wales. Not really relevant, but no we weren't. NSW changed too. Hamish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: The "node" command in Debian

2011-02-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:54:24AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > The LinuxNode project > > - > > The other is a frontend to libax25, an AX.25 implementation for Linux. > > Hardware implementations of AX.25 are apparen

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-04-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
h 32-bit libraries outside of a chroot. The chroot is too isolating. I used to run 32-bit Firefox in a chroot before 64-bit flash and nspluginwrapper etc and of course it couldn't launch external applications associated with various file types etc. PITA. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

2008-12-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e Bonjour, then? (Implemented in pidgin and finch.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
xpdf-CJK packages should be done. Obviously poppler-data is the best > way to solve the issue. Thanks very much. You also need the release managers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to accept the new package into lenny, and they appear reluctant to allow new packages in general. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
of non-free as of today. > > 2. Japanese users upgrading from etch would have xpdf-japanese > installed because evince (poppler) needed and used xpdf-japanese, and > natural upgrade path would be xpdf-japanese supporting poppler. > > These factors make adding support in pop

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
le to expect a new package to enter Debian lenny. I kinda think it's in poppler's domain to fix this; logically xpdf-japanese (etc) exists only to enhance xpdf. poppler-data appears to be a good solution. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
instead Patches for xpdf-japanese would be most welcome. I'm not familiar with the details of fontconfig, defoma etc. Maybe the relevant data in xpdf-japanese should be moved into cmap-adobe-japan1 instead. Probably xpdf-japanese's additional CMaps should move too; I thought I su

Re: Bug#493972: ITP: etherpuppet -- create a virtual interface from a remote Ethernet interface

2008-08-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e. etherpuppet doesn't sound like a tunnel or VPN tool at all - it seems to be a mirroring tool for diagnostic purposes. I'm confused about how TUN/TAP are involved though. If I'm routing packets between two Ethernet interfaces, can I have them copied to a third? Hamish -- Hamis

Re: Bug#492922: ITP: arpon -- arp handler inspection

2008-07-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
; the intended 'Description' field of the package. Where's that written? I don't mean to be objectionable, but no such requirement is listed in the developer's reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#newpackage I think it's more importan

Re: Bug#492376: ITP: libwwwbrowser-perl -- Platform independent means to start a WWW browser

2008-07-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
round for X11, with a > specified URL. Options exist to use a user-specified browser, including > text browsers, which are started in a terminal window. Is this better than fork & exec("sensible-browser ")? Does it refer to existing methods used to select a browser on Debian eg

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> which I can use to generate cross-dependencies). FWIW, couldn't emdebian-tools be used to build a Debian target on a Ubuntu host? You need Debian's packages for the target architecture, but you don't have to be running Debian on your host to access those. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: How to build only linux-image-2.6.18-6-686

2008-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> kernels. Ideally the .config files used to build the standard Debian kernels would be available in a light-weight package. I think the only solution currently is to install that package and get the configuration from /boot/config-. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL

Re: Mailing lsit code of conduct, again

2008-05-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
y other communities where CCs are fine or even welcome, eg the kernel communities. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-05-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ers. ie: Package: something-that-needs-an-mta Depends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent Package: default-mta Depends: exim4-daemon-light | mail-transport-agent Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New README.source documentation for Debian packages

2008-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
tee_ the relevant debian/rules target is "patch" though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP-master & DAM delegations

2008-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is made a full Debian Account > Manager and is therefore empowered to create and remove developer > accounts according to the New Maintainer procedure. > >These delegations are effective until revoked by the DPL or by a > resolution.

Re: Bits from the armel porters

2008-03-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
]. Can someone give us an update on armeb? www.debian.org/ports refers to debonaras.org which is currently giving a 500 result. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:23:33AM -0600, Anibal Avelar wrote: > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Mascot_Harmony_without_Strings_by_ravenmosher.jpg That looks like some sort of big eyeball? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBS

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
y eat penguins :-| http://www.flickr.com/photos/hnmoffatt/381679738/in/set-72157594521689295/ Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e constrained environments where you think static linking would be useful? I'm developing embedded systems and I prefer shared libraries - unless you have only one application using a particular library then you will save space. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#466939: ITP: hex2bin -- Converts Motorola and Intel Hex files to binary

2008-02-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ler to use, although it could probably be implemented as a simple wrapper script on-top of srecord, and packaged with it. You can do a hex to binary conversion with: srec_cat -Intel -output -Binary Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UN

Re: Upstream API breakage question

2008-02-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ou need to rename the source package also, ie have parallel libprojectm1{,dev} and libprojectm2{,dev} packages. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon

2008-02-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:13:29PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 05-Feb-08, 01:10 (CST), Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mpd has a play queue. > > No it doesn't. See SVN revision 7155. (Short version: the maintainer > didn't like the implem

Re: Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon

2008-02-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Wow, XML. Shiny! It must be better then(?). > It has the following drawbacks compared to mpd : > - uses more memory and perhaps more CPU time (because written in > Python vs optimized C) but it keeps reasonable, you'll see if you give > it a try. DSP in pure Python? Hopefull

Re: Bug#463873: ITP: pondus -- personal weight manager for GTK+2

2008-02-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
us will help. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#463862: ITP: ipafont -- Japanese high quality TrueType font

2008-02-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
don't do that for a source package with a single binary package output. It's unnecessarily confusing. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:58:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >ax25-tools (U) >hf (U) Thanks, fixed these two. >libguilegtk-1.2-dev False alarm: the /usr/bin/build-gtk-guile script is actually in guile, but has a quick sh

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:23:09AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 27/01/08 at 12:47 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > trustedqsl build-depends(*) on libwxgtk2.4-dev, but your bdfh had > > libwxgtk2.6-dev installed as well. The bdfh build used the newer > > version, hence th

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
lled as well. The bdfh build used the newer version, hence the binary dependencies were different. I'm not really sure how to solve this. The two libwxgtk-dev packages are co-installable (obviously). (*) It's since been changed to build-depend on libwxgtk2.6-dev anyway. Thanks Hamish --

Re: elinks[-lite] doesn't provide links anymore

2008-01-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
inks alternative > isn't installed. Wouldn't have providing a links executable been a better solution? It would have solved the bug but also not broken those other packages. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:22:19PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >> Err, like you did already for games, as you said. I see in the >> standard GNOME gnome-applications.menu. >> >> It appears that the Technical menu should

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:22:19PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >> Err, like you did already for games, as you said. I see in the >> standard GNOME gnome-applications.menu. >> >> It appears that the Technical menu should

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:34:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Can submenus be made to appear automatically? I should study the > standards. Err, like you did already for games, as you said. I see in the standard GNOME gnome-applications.menu. It appears that the Technical menu

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a ham radio menu more than two years ago and unfortunately the maintainer has not responded at all. That still leaves KDE. I guess it has its own implementation of the standard XDG menus somewhere. Is it better to have a single implementation of these extra menus that could be recommended by

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Distribution. In the Debian-Med CDD, we have an extra > "Med" menu, and which user gets it is configured through debconf. All the other electronics and hamradio packages are in standard Debian. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#459627: ITP: libdmtx-dev -- header files for libdmtx

2008-01-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
lad to do it that way. If I've > misunderstood again, please clarify what's needed. Typically the -dev package should be just libdmtx-dev, unless you anticipate that it will be necessary to have both libdmtx0-dev and libdmtx1-dev in the archive at the same time in the future. Thi

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

2008-01-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
really crap design. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFA: gpsim -- Simulator for Microchip's PIC microcontrollers

2007-12-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
maintenance, consider joining the pkg-electronics group at alioth. http://pkg-electronics.alioth.debian.org has some details though it's spartan. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ual about what to put in the Policy doesn't dictate the format of an ITP message though, or even a requirement to submit one. This particular ITP doesn't need to explain what qmail is (the target audience already knows) and the ITP isn't intended to be a review of the final descri

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

2007-12-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 01:06:58AM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > Anyway, I'll put the program where I think it fits, and it will be in > accordance to packaging rules. Sorry you don't like our feedback, but this is the reason why ITPs are posted to debian-devel. Hamish -- Hami

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

2007-12-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:05:47PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Thu, 20.12.2007 at 08:50:39 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > In that case, you could call the package funkload-tcpwatch? > > Perhaps even install the binaries in /usr/lib for use by f

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

2007-12-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
irectly these days) to record web requests and write them to > file as Python code which you can later modify to automate web-related > tasks, or run tests against web based applications. In that case, you could call the package funkload-tcpwatch? Perhaps even install the binaries in /usr/l

Re: Unmet dependencies on Sparc when building wordnet

2007-12-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
get a response but action will be taken anyway. Or that may have been a coincidence. Indeed, http://www.buildd.net/cgi/package_status?unstable_pkg=wordnet&searchtype=all says wordnet is building right now on sparc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

reporting BTS spam easily from Mutt

2007-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
re enhancements might include reopening of occasional [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam incidents. I suppose the trend these days would be to blog this rather than post, but I don't have one. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ds up running has a different pid than s-s-d's > child. > [..] > > How am I supposed to properly lsb-ize ser2net's init script? Is it ok > to directly call s-s-d from the init script or do I need other > workarounds? Perhaps you could patch the daemon to add pidf

Re: dh_installinit

2007-11-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
well. > > > How verify if the the program start by init script wait an entry on standard > input; because when use init y hand this script work perfectly. When the script has run and hung, is the process started by the script running? Then you can get its pid, check in /proc//fd and see

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
es that are > installed on their system sorted by the packages' popcon scores. This may > help with deciding which package to adopt. Or use wnpp-alert from devscripts. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: what's up with sparc?

2007-10-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:19:04PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:08:07PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Thanks. OK so now a few of my packages have been built after a long > > wait, but 2.5 days later still not uploaded apparently. Are they just > &g

Re: what's up with sparc?

2007-10-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:16:58AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Are we short on sparc buildd resources right now? > > > > geda-* 1:1.2.0-1 was first built nearly a month ago but never uploaded. > > For the past week they've been hover

what's up with sparc?

2007-10-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Are we short on sparc buildd resources right now? geda-* 1:1.2.0-1 was first built nearly a month ago but never uploaded. For the past week they've been hovering in the build queue but never making it near the top. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: how to find out the sponsor of an upload?

2007-10-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:17:36PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > How can I find out who sponsored a particular upload? (I only need to do > > it by hand, not an automated lookup.) > > > > I expected that I could locate the upload announcement

how to find out the sponsor of an upload?

2007-10-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
se it is, suggesting it's not in the keyring... Now I'm confused. It would be useful if this information was recorded somewhere, especially as dak has to verify the key on uploads anyway. As an aside, db.debian.org only allows searching by whole fingerprint, not key ID. thanks Ha

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
al public at present. Sorry about that. Perhaps the new debian-maintainers system will allow access to that information to participants. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ones, or the program > depends on a specific version (and API) of the library. Or in rare cases, the shared libraries are forks of embedded code, eg the case of Xpdf which has been forked to make libpoppler. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
message on the user lists on _all_ orphaned packages, > maybe just a CC of the current WNPP report? wnpp-alert may be useful to you - it will tell you if any of your packages are nominated for adoption or are orphaned. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Bug#446057: ITP: uspp -- Universal Serial Port Python library

2007-10-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a multi-platform Python module to access serial ports. You might wish to investigate python-serial instead (already in Debian) which appears to do exactly the same thing. It supports Windows and POSIX platforms. IMHO universal/multi-platform isn't actually an interesting property of a Debian p

Re: configure script cannot find doc/goops/Makefile.in

2007-10-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
/rules to see what it does differently? The answer seems to be that it applies quite a few patches, and that some documentation has removed due to licensing problems (DFSG). So the .tar.gz is missing the doc/goops/* files and the patches are needed to remove it from the Makefiles. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

2007-10-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ship the source though. Clause 2. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:10:52PM -0400, Edward Allcutt wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:26 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:03:38AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > m-a don't need build-essential. It needs the compiler (nothing else like >

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:03:38AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:44:50AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > It would be consistent with m-a's handling of build-essential. However, > > I think m-a should depend on build-essential since it always requir

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Hamish Moffatt schrieb: > > module-assistant installs build-essential it doesn't seem like space is > > an important consideration. > > When i read this sentence I had an idea of what would even

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ce is an important consideration. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:43:09PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Hamish Moffatt [Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:18:34 +1000]: > > > Perhaps rt2500-source should recommend bzip2? The relationship seems to > > fit the definition - a package that is usually installed along with it &g

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:00:25AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:40 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I wouldn't expect rt2500-source to depend on bzip2 any more than I > > expect any package providing a PDF file to depend on a viewer. > > That

Re: ITP: tinytinyrss -- Web-based news reader

2007-09-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a more recognisable package name. Will you need a sponsor? I have been using tt-rss for over a year so I am interested in a package. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
nge of package work. How about amd64 packages? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
be more than one destionation or you can connect to > a database with more than one connection. So it can be parallelable too. Same potential for reordering here. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:18:29PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:12:50AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > * Package name: rsyslog > > Version : 1.18.0 > > Upstream Author : Rainer Gerhards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
nes) or not. And I think that this dispute is onlt theoretical. :) My original question was why you would mention multi-threaded in the short description of rsyslog? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the key to increased complexity and therefore more bugs. Multi-threaded does allow you to use more than one CPU, but in the case of syslogd ultimately the log file has to end up on disk anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t; Programming Lang: C > Description : enhanced multi-threaded syslogd > > Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd supporting, amongst > others: Why is rsyslog being multi-threaded interesting to our users? Isn't that an internal implementation decision? Hamish -- Hamish

Re: [updated] Mass bug filing: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:22:52AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >kptc (U) >phaseshift (U) >qsstv (U) >ucblogo >verilog The first 4 of these are all extra dependencies on libdnet, which all come from AC_PATH_XTR

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
u don't understand the description, the package isn't what you're looking for (within the hamradio section). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ut from the description it appears to be somewhat outdated (eg Fedora Core 2). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#417118: ntpdate: Start sequence problem for some network setups

2007-07-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
witch from exim to postfix. That's just religion without technical basis. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ere > internet access is firewalled, but DNS queries are allowed. Hi Gregor, How is iodine different from nstx? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:29:47PM -0400, Ivan Jager wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:11:23PM -0400, Ivan Jager wrote: > >You seem to claim that binary units (ie powers of 2) are natural > >everywhere related to computers, but

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:32:09AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:11:52PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I think Ben's point is that we don't know. > > > > You seem to claim that binary units (ie powers of 2) are natural > > e

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
es like network traffic. Hard disks are different again; I don't know that there is any particular reason for them to have 2^n byte sectors (and at the hardware level perhaps they don't). CD-ROMs have 2304 byte raw sectors. Most NAND FLASH chips have 2062 byte blocks, which even throws

Re: Bug#429801: ITP: libclass-accessor-grouped-perl -- build groups of accessors

2007-06-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
f accessors > > Class::Accessor::Grouped lets you build groups of accessors that will call > different getters and setters. Are all these weird and whacky new Perl module packages in aid of something, ie are they about to become reverse dependencies of some new package? Hamish -- Hamis

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> > Really? I'd have guessed that most people used aptitude. I can't imagine > anyone preferring synaptic to aptitude. Of course, I don't really [..] > Steve the hopelessly out-of-date dselect still works, fwiw ;) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Bug#428188: ITP: dir2ogg -- audio file converter into ogg-vorbis format

2007-06-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ing audio quality? I have used it to convert M4A podcasts into something playable on my portable player (eg ogg). Being that those the podcast is just talking the quality did not matter. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
receive > everything. Though, I find it a real PITA not having the confirmation > mail from Katie^Wdak. Yup. Even worse is screwing up and not getting the Naks, and the maintainer you're helping is in the opposite timezone so you don't even know about it till hours later. Sorr

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e of the program). So it I build it with -g1, the > > debug symbols size drops to 48 kb and compresses to 14 kb. > > Except that -g1 drops line numbers... Wasn't that Joey's point? cheers, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#420249: ITP: thom -- A Thomson TO7-70 Emulator

2007-04-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:13:38PM +0200, Jérémie Corbier wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 05:22:00PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Do these two emulators come with free ROMs and other free software to > > run in the emulated environment? > > Unfortunately, both emulators

Re: Bug#420249: ITP: thom -- A Thomson TO7-70 Emulator

2007-04-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
package provides an emulator capable of running most of the softwares > that > were available for the original hardware. Do these two emulators come with free ROMs and other free software to run in the emulated environment? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
gt; > case. (4.22.3 already prevented any upstream version in 4.22.[123]). > > Yes, therefore an epoch would be needed anyway should a 4.22.x version > be released. You could use "4.22..x-1" for that version, as a workaround. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:22:27PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Hamish Moffatt: > > > FWIW you can experiment quite easily using > > > > dpkg --compare-versions x lt y && echo Yes > > > Interestingly, "4.22.." is considered higher than "

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
erwise, should I use 4.23~real.4.22-3.1 or similar beasts? Or just > go for 4.22.3-0.1 and leave the decision to the maintainer? FWIW you can experiment quite easily using dpkg --compare-versions x lt y && echo Yes Interestingly, "4.22.." is considered higher than "

Re: Debian Buzz and Rex binary packages

2007-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e was an installer (known as boot-floppies); its appearance was fairly similar from buzz right through to woody when it was retired. There was no apt and no source dependencies, and early on even a different source package format, but there's still a lot of similarity. Hamish -- Hamis

Re: Installing packages with arch i686

2007-04-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
hich may be detected and used at runtime, eg in /usr/lib/i686. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debhelper and variable substitution in *.install files etc.

2007-03-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
s to all environment variables, or a set of predefined Debian variables like $(PACKAGE) and $(VERSION)? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alioth lists are too strict in checking senders

2007-03-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
in but relaying through your ISP to send, it seems to be a problem with your incoming server still. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ebootstrap package to extract scripts for edgy/feisty. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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