FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (Composed as UTF-8 mail with graphic characters) I have been trying to update debian reference. As a part of this effort, I made snapshot of popularity of packages. One of the most interesting thing I noticed by doing this was change in popularity of VCS. (Just 1/2 year r so). When I start

Re: db.debian.org/password.html : Why ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to setup OpenSSH for RSA

2008-05-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:03:55PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Considering recent issues, http://db.debian.org/password.html requires > > updated as "s/id_dsa.pub/id_rsa.pub/". > > My mail to d-i-a said that y

Re: db.debian.org/password.html : Why ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to setup OpenSSH for RSA

2008-05-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Considering recent issues, http://db.debian.org/password.html requires updated as "s/id_dsa.pub/id_rsa.pub/". Discussion as below. Do I need to make rt thingy? I am not yet familiar with it. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 07:50:29PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Osamu Aoki

db.debian.org/password.html : Why ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to setup OpenSSH for RSA

2008-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Recent openssl issue lead me to http://db.debian.org/password.html and made me wonder why script example uses DSA key while main text only talks about RSA key. | Alternatively, you can do without a password and use PGP to manipulate your | LDAP information through the mail gateway and use SSH

Re: Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

2008-04-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:53:52PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > >> > >>> 5. chkconfig works well with the new insserv. > >> Could you elaborate on that? What's the problem with sysv-rc-conf and > >> insserv? > >

Re: Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

2008-04-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I can mention old bug... On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:25:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl: > >> What's the advantage over exisiting tools like sysv-rc-conf? > > > > 1. chkconfig works solely on the command line.

dpatch and "diff -u"

2008-02-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
This is a bit going out of original post but... On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 05:14:25PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/debian/patches You have column for "accepts diff -u output" and "No" for dpatch. I am not quite sure what is the criteria for you but to me dpatch accepts "dif

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hmmm... On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:41PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I ended up updating NM guide which only had dpatch to current one with > quilt: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html#s-dpatch As I read this thread back to d-project, ... interest

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 25/01/08 at 08:01 +, Steve Langasek wrote: > > As a second runner up, quilt is ok by me. :) > > I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% > use dpatch. This was discussed in debian-doc a

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#411639: x11-common: There should be a way to set per-user environment variables which last the whole X session]

2007-12-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:29:33AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > Hi everyone, > >I'd appreciate some brief commentary on this bug from people who are > more aware of the minutia of shells and so forth than I am. Is this really > accurate, or is there a way that the submitter and myself are una

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:10:35PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:40:43PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Leo costela Antunes said: > > > Enrico Zini wrote: > > > > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > >

Re: Bug#451799: new evince cannot display Japanese characters correctly

2007-12-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:22:49PM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > However I don't think there is anything copyrightable in these files; > > they only contain series of numbers that describe the mappings. Do you > > people think it could be suitable for main? > > (Please follow-up on -legal only for

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
comment as below On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:36:06AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After seeing recent post(*) on the default MTA issue, I did some > > research and experiment on MTAs. They are summarized at: > > http://wiki.debian.org/De

MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, After seeing recent post(*) on the default MTA issue, I did some research and experiment on MTAs. They are summarized at: http://wiki.debian.org/DefaultMTA Also good review was found at: http://shearer.org/MTA_Comparison Although both exim4 and postfix daemons are negligibly small ones on

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I think one technical solution which seems o be good to one person may not be good one for others. You must think realistic solution which do not affect others in any negative way and possibly give more benefits than just solving your own corner case problem. On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:03:05

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 01:32:44PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Hello Osamu, > > thank you very much for your reply! > > Osamu Aoki schrieb: >> Latest news here. >> >> http://www.mhatta.org/blog/ >> >> He is planning and working on its new rele

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:53:12PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:31:22AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > > > I cannot understand why transition like this one are done in Ubuntu rather > > than in Debian? > > If they were done directly in D

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:53:12PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:31:22AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > > > I cannot understand why transition like this one are done in Ubuntu rather > > than in Debian? > > If they were done directly in D

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:31:22AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > I cannot understand why transition like this one are done in Ubuntu rather > than in Debian? > If they were done directly in Debian, ubuntu could benefit from the result > as well since they synchronize their repositories regul

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny? -- cupsys?

2007-08-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Thanks for this good news. On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:09:05AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi everyone, > > recently ghostscript 8.60 was released [1] which is now available under > the GPL. > The features of ESP Ghostscript have been merged into Ghostscript GPL > and the upstream of gs-esp

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 06:10:53PM +0100, David Given wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > [...] > > I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are > > limited (I believe) to the glyphs described in groff_char(7). I am > > not aware of any Japanese support at all except in spec

RFH: Debiandoc SGML (debiandoc-sgml) and UTF-8 transition

2007-07-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (Reply-To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org) This is call for help for DebianDOC SGML infrastructure update to cope with new UTF-8 environment for lenny. (Especially for PS and PDF output.) The volunteer should have some understandings on: * SGML * perl * POSIX shell * encoding (tradition

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:52:43AM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > When I'm locking at the BTS, I sometimes get the feeling it was either > designed a long time ago, or that it was designed by real hardcore > developers. Not that it isn't effective, as when you have learned the > whole system

Re: synchronizing README.Debian with wiki.debian.org

2007-07-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:45:41PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:16:11PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > > I think more packages, and the wiki itself, could benefit > > if this procedure could become a bit more standardised. > > Can someone upload an example of a wikipage, exp

Re: synchronizing README.Debian with wiki.debian.org

2007-06-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 12:55:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6/30/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:56:25AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> > Any version of moinmoin can export version list by "info" and >> > o

Re: synchronizing README.Debian with wiki.debian.org

2007-06-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:56:25AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Any version of moinmoin can export version list by "info" and > obtain the old version in 3 ways: raw, print, recall. FYI: If ou just use curl or wget, robot reject happens. I used lines such as: elinks -source &q

Re: synchronizing README.Debian with wiki.debian.org

2007-06-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:40:21AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > > I had an idea and still pondering on it. I wanted to do automatic > > > two-way synchronization with README.Debian and wiki.debian.org > > > > Excuse me - which existing wiki pages are synchronized with > > README

Re: apt-get

2007-05-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:35:47PM +, The Fungi wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:32:40AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > [...] > > aptitude [...] does everything apt-get does... > [...] > > Well, analogies to 'apt-get source' and 'apt-get build-dep' were > still missing the last time I tried,

Re: apt-get

2007-05-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:06:39AM +0100, Howard Young wrote: > Hello, > > I did not find a list for APT so am asking here. > > Is it possible to > apt-get remove package --andsuggestedpackages > and to do the opposite > apt-get install package --andsuggestedpackages > > using the original lists

Re: List of packages with problems wrt release

2006-12-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:00:30AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:31:03PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > maint-guide (U): has RC bugs (#403200) > > This is nanother package hit by cjk-latex ch

Re: List of packages with problems wrt release

2006-12-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:31:03PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > maint-guide (U): has RC bugs (#403200) This is nanother package hit by cjk-latex change during etch testing. It is FTBFS, I agree in etch but fault is latex-cjk-* packages,

Re: Bug#397917: gsynaptics - lists s390 as supported

2006-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:59:07PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: ... > > Option 3) > > * Set "Architecture: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel > > powerpc sparc" > > * Ask ftp-master for removal of package for s390 > > * Make entry in quinn-diff not to build on s390 > > This

Re: Bug#397917: gsynaptics - lists s390 as supported

2006-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:04:54PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:17:57PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:00:32PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Package: gsynaptics > > > Version: 0.9.7-1 > > > Severit

Re: Bug#397917: gsynaptics - lists s390 as supported

2006-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:00:32PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > Package: gsynaptics > Version: 0.9.7-1 > Severity: serious > > gsynaptics lists s390 as supported (Architecture: any) but > xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is not available. This leads to > uninstallable binary packages. I see. But xs

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-11-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:45:09PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:30:52 -0700, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >So have a note in exim4's debconf which tells the users that, and only > >display the note if DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE=1 or $1='reconfigure'. > > That is what

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:33:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:04:50 +0200, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Oct 07, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The size of the .debs for targeted policy is 2185702 Bytes, and > >> adds seven packages

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:18:32PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:37:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Would you mind sharing the -39 or deb-src with us? > > xv isn't distributable by me as I'm not the copyright holder. Whoever > controls where the original -26 source liv

License question: Re: Bug#389598: ITP: xpbiff

2006-10-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:22:35PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 07:29:05PM +0200, Gernot Salzer wrote: > >> Copyright: > >> > >> * xpbiff - popup biff for X > >> * > >> * Author: Kazuhiko Shutoh, 1993 > >> * > >> * Perm

Re: Bug#381568: ITP: med-fichier -- Library to exchange meshed data

2006-08-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:36:54AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > but some kind of strange feeling continues if I hear this name (and > > the translation of it). It's just misleading. > > Er, just because you have a "strange feeling" doesn't mean th

new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Are you sure it is Debian gluck issue? I can connect with SSH to it now with minor problem. On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:28:36AM +1000, Brian May wrote: ... > debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY > debug1: Host 'gluck.debian.org' is known and matches the RSA host key. > debug1: Found ke

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:03:03PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Henning Glawe writes ("Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5"): > > Well, the problem with circular deps is not caused by dpkg but by the way > > apt calls it: > > Ahh. Well, perhaps apt should be fixed, as you say. > Pers

Re: doc compilations: build-time or pre-built?

2006-07-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:04:48PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:25:16PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> 1) compile docs pre-build-time; or > >>> 2) compile docs in build-time > >>

BTS tag proposal "faq"

2006-07-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
When I encounter user configuration issues reported to BTS, I try to close it by documenting it in README.Debian. This works fine for "unstable". But when this happens on "stable", I feel not kind to mark those bug report as "wontfix". In many cases, it is FAQ and the answer is hidden under obsc

How to securely read debian-private for sure

2006-06-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:22:45PM +0100, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I'm one of the small minority of people who have a very negative > > opinion about gmail. I realise I'm a bit of a kook on this subject > > and I'd ideally I'd like to avoid having an

Re: Problems with PDF creation

2006-06-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:28:15PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:17:20AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > Wait, there

Re: Problems with PDF creation (was: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?)

2006-06-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:17:20AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wait, there is less than 70MB of PDF. Yes, this is true. Due to > > difficulties of making nice PDF out of XML/SGML without hitting FTBFS, > > many package

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:00:57AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Gzipping PDF provides no real space saving advantage > > What do you mean with "no real"? There is a considerable saving, as > I've shown in

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:59:36AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > There was. It ended with no conclusion. Here's my view of the outcome, > from pure recollection without looking anything up: > > - gzipping PDF files does save some space; bz2 compression would save > even more. Naturally, compr

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:20:28PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-25 12:09]: > pdftk handels both uncompress and compress (see > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg01440.html). I overlooked this discussion st

Re: *-doc package should not gzip PDF file

2006-06-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:30:34AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:35:53 +0900 > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > * propose policy update proposal. (debian-policy) > > Ok, I'll bring it up here. > > > Unless someone do th

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:05:54AM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-25 10:18]: > > > * Martin Wuertele [Sun, Jun 25 2006, 08:09:57AM]: > > > > > file-roller does view pdf.gz and if e.g. firefox handels them incorrect > > > it should be fixed in there

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:30:59PM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My point is that if I choose to install a doc packages I intend to use > > it frequently and would therefore like that it is user friendly rather > > than that one has sque

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 07:25:00PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > > > > 2. xpdf doesn't want to open gzipped pdfs by default which > > > > makes this a pain in the **tt for people who want to read the > > > > pdf. > > > > > > There's "zxpdf" in the xpdf package, analogous t

*-doc package should not gzip PDF file

2006-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi relax. As I said, I "understand ..". See below :) On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 06:48:26PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:52:26 +0900 > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But, we have fast CPUs so it is not too bad. Under gnom

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
are/doc/* or something like it. Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yokohama Japan, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://peopl

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-06-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:51:18PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > [ crosspost to live, -devel and -edu; replies please to -devel ] > > Hi all, > > at the moment, we have two types of Live CD images: > > * the small one which contains only packages of standard priority, > * and three lar

Re: Software Patents: Was: Re: Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2006-06-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
through an mp3 > stream with vlc... *Sigh!* You can find some debian packages of such kind http://www.rarewares.org/index.html I have not tried this site much though. So YMMV. Osamu ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote: ... > > e) it's difficult to install versions of packages not available from > > your regular sources.list. For example if you build a new (version of a) > > library package and then an application that uses it and want to upload > > both

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (extra archive source set up)

2006-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:08:09PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:47:41AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: ... > Without wishing to join the mob, > > e) it's difficult to install versions of packages not available from > your regular sources.list. For example if you build a

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-02-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:30:14PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > > Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank Küster: > > >> Were can I read up on how and why I should do this? > > > > > > /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.g

Re: documentation types -- use common sense

2006-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I hate to see to much dogmatism around Debian. We need to use common sense. Let's not use policy as the only guiding principle. On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:34:14AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > pe, 2006-02-17 kello 01:10 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > kirjoitti: > > Docbook/XML or

Re: Bug#352303: ITP: gsynaptics -- configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X

2006-02-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:03:07PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:59:42PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > ... > > > I tested 0.9.5 here that destroyed my runtime configuration :) > > > Probably taking synaptics.h from the

Re: Bug#352303: ITP: gsynaptics -- configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X

2006-02-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 05:15:17PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:38:03PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Oops. I think I was careless. ... > > It looks like "synclient" is not always used. > > Be really careful then! We have to sync

Re: Bug#352303: ITP: gsynaptics -- configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X

2006-02-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Oops. I think I was careless. On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:18:04PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I had a second thought so I need your help again. > > GSynaptics is a configuration tool for the Synaptics touchpad driver > > of the X server. This allow for modifications of the driver &

Re: Bug#352303: ITP: gsynaptics -- configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X

2006-02-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
I had a second thought so I need your help again. On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Now, my control contains following only: > > - > > GSynaptics is a configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver > > of X server. This enables you to modify driver p

Re: Bug#352303: ITP: gsynaptics -- configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X

2006-02-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:50:19AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Description: configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X server > > GSynaptics is a configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver > > of X server. This enables you to modify driver parameters on the fly > >

Re: Bug#352303: ITP: gsynaptics -- configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X

2006-02-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:34:22AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > "Properly" is a bad word to use in this context, since the configuration > in question seems to result in a potential security problem. From the > xfree86-driver-synaptics README.Debian file: ... Good point. Here is revised co

Bug#352303: ITP: gsynaptics -- configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X

2006-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: gsynaptics Version : 0.9.5 Upstream Author : Hiroyuki Ikezoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Takuro Ashie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ikuya Awashiro

Re: ITK: debmake

2006-01-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 02:50:36PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Saturday 31 December 2005 18.48, Osamu Aoki wrote: > [debmake] > > > As I see in debian-reference: This should have been developers-reference :-) > > --- > > A.3.2 debmake > > > [...

developers-reference update for ITK: debmake

2006-01-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 06:22:20PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As I see in debian-reference: Of course, it is developers-reference :-) > > --- > > A.3.2 debmake > > > > debmake, a precursor to debhel

Re: ITK: debmake

2005-12-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:13:05PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > There are less than 80 packages in unstable still using it, and there > is an excellent package called debhelper which can do everything that > debmake does and probably much better, so it does not make much sense > to keep debmake al

Priority=important: elvis-tiny & nano-tiny / Priority=optional: nvi, vim-tiny, nano, elvis, vim

2005-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:13:25PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 24 December 2005 14:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Sarge installer installs nano and nvi. I thought it was sort of > > overlooked bug of installer. nano and nvi are in /usr/bin. > > s/installer/debootstrap

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi? -> which editor should be standard?

2005-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Since I have not seem posting from Miquel... For this discussion of "Which editor should be installed as default on` the each Debian system?", I think more technical discussion should be done. This is old topic. We can always install nano, nvi or vim-* later as you wish by "sudo aptitude ins

Re: buildd administration -- TeX related FTBFS

2005-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:48:12PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > I think one to ease tension is to make tetex packages to coexist in > > archive just like many gcc. > > That would be nice - but it would cause even

Re: buildd administration -- TeX related FTBFS

2005-12-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I realize TeX is tough program to maintain. Thanks to Frank. One quick and easy way to avoid TeX related build issues are to avoid using TeX related tools during build time. So the results will be Debian only ships documentations in plain text and HTML. (No PS and no PDF). But is it what w

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 05:14:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:41:15AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > > "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Along similar lines, if a have a "closes: #nnn" in my changelog for > > package X, but the bug is for package Y

Re: cannot log into debian svn server, communication via svn+ssh broken?

2005-10-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:10:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:38:47PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > Hi all! &

Re: cannot log into debian svn server, communication via svn+ssh broken?

2005-10-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:38:47PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > ATM I cannot log into the svn server, nor use svn+ssh anymore. Are there > > any works going on? > > I have no problems here. Hmmm.. I have been unable to use CVS (

Re: Reviving the Debian FAQ

2005-09-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:01:48AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > The Debian FAQ [0] has been, unfortunately, unmaintained for quite some time > and needs a thorough review. True. > I updated information in the FAQ in preparation for the sarge release when I > noticed that it

Re: access to debian mirror pools

2005-09-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:34:22AM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: ... > I have investigated this by grabbing individual files with wget and I have > discovered that the same IP address is selected each time I run wget on a > specific computer. ... > Any insights? Is this a bug, if so for what packa

Re: Debian Reference

2005-09-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 04:20:32AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > There's rather a lot there. Nay, that a tiny fraction of things which needs to be consideded. This is one of the key reason behind why few bothered to contribute. So changing this situation from bottom by offering better infr

Re: Debian Reference

2005-09-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:41:43PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I have been taking a lot of interest in the Reference recently, as a > result of time on d-u and #debian, and seeing where we fall short from > a documentation point of view. Thank you for filing bug #325777. We appreciate thi

Re: Warning: Some CVS repos are broken (was Re: gluck available again / filesystem shaked)

2005-04-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Thanks all for the work. This info may help you to fix CVS issues. On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:47:17PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:06:23PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > [ ... lots of stuff ... ] > > Thanks Joey for your dedication, it has beco

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-03-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 07:24:05PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 26, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a project-wide policy for support for devfs (and devfs-style, > > e.g. udev devfs.rules) device naming? > No, but nearly all packages support both conventions. Nearly a

Re: The Right Way to turn a native package in a non native package with a NMU

2005-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:03:41PM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote: > On 03/09/2005 03:35 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: > > >The .dsc file contains: > >.../... > >Files: > > fb6549efbab887efea88a8fcc4b4319f 451517 gnome-find_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz > > 7ea07e4e9226648422fb7a83d066ffe8 3400 gnome-find_1.0.2-1.1.d

Re: self-depending packages

2005-03-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:13:56PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > * Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho > > > > | On 20050228T204520+, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > | > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:49:41PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > | > > On 20050228T16

Re: Tips wanted for debugging and testing Debian

2005-03-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:54:30PM +0100, Sascha Berkenkamp wrote: > * Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21:05h, 24.02.2005]: > > [Debian for Debugging and Testing] > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot > > thank you. I tried it out and it works very good. Muc

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-02-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:46:27PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi Joey > > > > > > > Just request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] while pointing them our message on > > > this list. > > > > Or see and follow the instructions summarised on > > http://master.debian.org/~joey/misc/webwml.html#ddp > > >

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-02-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 06:24:31PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > Or see and follow the instructions summarised on > http://master.debian.org/~joey/misc/webwml.html#ddp > > > PS: If you are in rush, I or javi should be able to add you as a pserver > &g

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:05:14PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:03:23PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > 3. can I get commit-access to CVS? Please get it. Having DOC in CVS makes easier for proofreader to correct things. For me, I initially got patche

Re: Release update: --> What is primary local type for X and console

2005-01-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am happy to hear release is coming soon. Also new gnome and KDE desktop are coming to shape. At the same time, I saw many new Desktop tasks are set up to support many localized desktop and localized environment. But I am lost on where to find the policy behind setting these localized envi

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:35:42PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op do, 20-01-2005 te 15:09 -0300, schreef Diogo Kollross: > > Is there a problem in using something like > > > > shutdown -r now > > > > inside a postinst script of a package? > > I was going to say something smart and funny, b

Re: Bug#271567: Can you disables the "locking" of the keyboard, mouse, ...

2005-01-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (Disclaimer: I never coded C seriously for any useful commands.) On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:24:05PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Qui, 2005-01-13 às 19:12 +0100, Osamu Aoki escreveu: > > * Parsing of GNU long-option and /etc/gksu.conf may share codes. > > I don&

Re: Bug#271567: Can you disables the "locking" of the keyboard, mouse, ...

2005-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:26:04AM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Qui, 2005-01-13 às 10:42 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > escreveu: > > Better solution: > > - Have gksu source a /etc/gksu.conf file directly > > I can hack gksu to read the file. I think we now have a winer idea

Can you disables the "locking" of the keyboard, mouse, ...

2005-01-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
he root requiring programs, use sudo type arrangement. (gksudo?) FYI: Aptitude will prompt you for root passwd if you installed it. (Maybe it should check sudo existence and use it if available.) Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu

Re: Serious problem with the tty terminal - HELP!

2005-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, This should be debian-user question. On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:03:48PM +0100, Bjorn Johansson wrote: > I have a problem with the text (tty) terminals. The problem is that if I move > from the x-server to an tty text terminal I can't go back and I can't switch > to another tty terminal eith

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:01:03AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 02 janvier 2005 à 12:49 -0600, Steve Greenland a écrit : > > On 01-Jan-05, 21:14 (CST), Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:07:42PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > > > > I'm tryi

Packaging true type fonts with minor variation

2004-12-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi folks, I have a question on how to package true type fonts while making tiny section of fonts to be made debconf selectable. (This is related to ttf-arphic-{ukai|uming} font packages.) Current solution I suggested to the packager was to provide binary diff and apply it everytime debconf are r

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:31:05PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:22:30PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:15:19AM +0100, > > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > a message of 47 lines which

svn.debian.org

2004-11-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
It took me a while to get SVN access to some projects at svn.debian.org. It will be nice if someone can update web page contents of svn.debian.org. Osamu - Here is example with pkg-ime. Although svn.debian.org lists for SubVersionN: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ime/ most obvious action caused

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