Bug#338272: ITP: libpoe-filter-ircd-perl -- a POE-based parser for the IRC protocol

2005-11-08 Thread Steve Kowalik
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libpoe-filter-ircd-perl Version : 1.2-1 Upstream Author : Jonathan Steinert, now Chris Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/POE-Filter-IRCD-1.2/ * License : GPL/Artistic Descripti

Re: KDE ABI transition woes: linking both old and new libstdc++ ?'

2005-09-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:04:36 +0200, Adeodato Simó uttered > There's known trouble with this check linda producing false positives. > Just upload if no binary of yours DT_NEEDs libstdc++5. > Is there really? This is the first I've heard of it, keeping in mind I'm ignoring #179926. Please file

Re: python's gettext.gettext broken, use gettext.lgettext

2005-08-09 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:06:48 -0500, Joe Wreschnig uttered > No, it doesn't return UTF-8, it returns unicode objects. They're > automatically recoded when you try to print them (based on the same > function lgettext uses, locale.getpreferredencoding()). As Steve said, > unicode objects are basically

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-09 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:46:20 -0400, Joey Hess uttered >xringd Fixed package in unstable as of a few days ago. Cheers, -- Steve C offers you enough rope to hang yourself. C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and a blindfold.

Re: python's gettext.gettext broken, use gettext.lgettext

2005-08-08 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:24:50 +0200, Martin v. Löwis uttered > It is also useless for the issues at hand: since linda and > apt-listchanges apparently use local strings, giving them Unicode > strings would break them. So Junichi's change looks right to me. > Standing up for Linda, I am more than wi

Re: Bug#306268: ITP: connect -- Establish socket connection using SOCKS4 or 5 and HTTP tunnel.

2005-04-28 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:40:09 -0400, Glenn Maynard uttered > Peter's complaint is a legitimate and important one--it really is a terrible > package name--so please don't dismiss it. Package names are a shared > namespace, and must be chosen intelligently. > I concur. When I built this program loca

Re: lintian & linda

2005-04-11 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:45:04 +0200, Emanuele Rocca uttered > Everybody agrees here, but (AFAIK) this is not the situation we are > discussing. No 'Better Ideas' in linda. > Speak for yourself. Here are three (off the top of my head) that spring to mind that lintian can't do, and I feel better serv

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:01 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen uttered > TTBOMK, he hasn't discussed this with the dpkg maintainer, nor has he > made his code public. > Er, Adam Heath has made plenty of uploads of dpkg, and is listed as an Uploader. Cheers, -- Steve

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

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:19:31 +0100, Thiemo Seufer uttered > AFAIR it wasn't fixed but dropped, nobody seemed to care about > sun4c any more. > You need to check your assertions better. Joshua Kwan has done a hell of a lot of work with sparc{32,64} recently. Anyway, sun4c is not the only sparc32 su

Re: apt-secure broke?

2005-01-30 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:21:26 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis uttered > I suspect this has to do with > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/Release.gpg being an > empty file. Stable still has a signature; what happaned? > If I remember the conversation on IRC correctly, the archive GPG key exp

Re: Programming first steps.

2003-11-17 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:17:10PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > I found Python to be a very nice, elegant language. I have not yet > used it for any real project, but I am looking forward to give it a > spin. > Agreed. I used Linda as an excuse to learn Python, and it helped me _really_ understand

Re: ftpmaster accepts packages that have been rejected a few days ago

2003-11-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:00:37AM -0600, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > Do we want to talk about keyring? > I'm glad you want to. I lost my GPG key a few days ago due to a RAID disaster, and got Herbert Xu to send a message to keyring-maint on my behalf (as outlined in the Replacing Ke

Re: [debian-devel] Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 10:05 pm, Tuesday, October 14 2003, Magos?nyi ?rp?d mumbled: > Which road will you take to make linda fall into testing? > Wait until python2.3 provides python (>= 2.3), or change > the dependencies of linda? > I'm going to wait. Like I usually do. > Anyway I feel it is a pity that the almost-

Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 6:46 pm, Tuesday, October 14 2003, Magos?nyi ?rp?d mumbled: > Linda apparently does not know about the new policy version. > It isn't even reported as a bug (filing it right now). > It does! Stop spreading lies, Linda 0.2.21 deals with Policy 3.6.1 correctly, but does not drop to testing immed

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 9:13 pm, Friday, July 11 2003, Craig Sanders mumbled: > you're all making a big mistake. those numbers were obviously binary, not > decimal. > 2 architectures? Rght. -- Steve advice to insomniacs: autoconf macro references can be coma-

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism "echo -e")

2003-06-01 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 7:57 am, Monday, June 2 2003, Herbert Xu mumbled: > So what? The *Debian* changelog is for Debian changes only. It's not there > for listing upstream changes, copyright information, or who your favourite > TV personality is. > And if this new upstream release deals with a bug filed in the BT

Re: More bugs.debian.org MIME work

2003-05-23 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 10:27 pm, Friday, May 23 2003, Wouter Verhelst mumbled: > Is there any chance of these changes being merged into the debbugs > package? It's last update is over a year old... > debbugs_2.4_all.deb 18-Nov-2002 22:0280k Not quite. Well, that's experimental, but whatever. --

Re: mozilla address auto completion does not work anymore

2003-04-21 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 8:31 am, Tuesday, April 22 2003, Bastiaan Naber mumbled: > I have updated my unstable box but my address auto completion does not work > anymore in mozilla. Can anyone reproduce this ? It is annoying me as hell. > Ditto. I did the annoying switch to mozilla-snapshot where completion works,

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-19 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 7:22 pm, Saturday, April 19 2003, Denis Barbier mumbled: > I do not understand exactly what is good and bad use of debconf. > For instance all questions asked by the debconf package have good default > values, so there is no reason to prompt user, a configuration file is > enough. So what am I

Re: perl 5.6 dependent packages

2002-08-25 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 11:06 am, Sunday, August 25 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh mumbled: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > Note that in addition, since perl 5.8.0 includes some modules which were > > previously stand-alone, any package declaring a versioned[0] dependency > > on: > > > > libdi

Re: Possible mass filing of bugs, take #2.1

2002-08-25 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 7:01 pm, Wednesday, August 21 2002, Anthony Towns mumbled: > linda doesn't run cleanly over the entire archive -- it misbehaves on > some packages (leaving /tmp/linda-* directories about), and just seems > to hang on others. I haven't tracked down what's causing this. I don't > believe it inclu

Bug#158013: ITP: libevent-perl -- Generic Perl event loop

2002-08-23 Thread Steve Kowalik
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-24 Severity: wishlist Package name: libevent-perl Version : 0.86 Upstream Author : Joshua Nathaniel Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JP/JPRIT License : Same as Perl its

Re: Wasteful packaging

2002-04-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:21:05AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > sledge:~/debian/evolution$ du -s usr/* > 3660usr/bin > 6656usr/lib > 12 usr/sbin > 14548 usr/share > > Over half of the installed package is made up of stuff in /usr/share, > i.e. common arch-independent stuff like im

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 10:30 am, Saturday, January 12 2002, Rob Bradford mumbled: > I'm now a happy evolution user, to converyt my mail i did cat > Mail/lists/* | cat /var/spool/mail/rob > Congratulations, you get today's "Most Useless Use Of cat" award. Plague, and LART will be forthcoming. --

Re: Installed wajig 0.2.11-1 (i386 source)

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 11:17 am, Friday, January 11 2002, Adam Heath mumbled: > That's a bug in python2.{1,2} then. What's the point of having a platform > neutral 'compiled' version of a script if the format changes every time the > wind changes direction? > FUD. Pure FUD. --

Re: Debian installer

2001-12-31 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 2:08 pm, Tuesday, January 1 2002, Tollef Fog Heen mumbled: > | It then un'tar's the base tarball into /target, makes Linux bootable if you > | said it could, and then reboots. > > There is no base tarball for woody; it then runs debootstraps which > unpacks the .debs. > Okay, I should add th

Re: Debian installer

2001-12-31 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 1:53 am, Tuesday, January 1 2002, Penguin mumbled: > How does it work? Broad overview: does it install a root filesystem and > simply do a huge cp /mnt/cdrom/package /wherever then configure, or what? > As I understand it, when you partition a drive, it mounts the too-be root partition as /t

Bug#113364: ITP: libacme-poe-knee-perl -- Time sliced pony race using the POE kernel.

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Kowalik
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-25 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libacme-poe-knee-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Jos Boumans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://japh.nu/index.cgi?base=modules * License : Perl Artistic License Descripti

Re: how to get full package url from apt-cache?

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:09:54PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto uttered: > Hi, > > is it possible to get the full URL of a package (the one which is passed > by apt-get to dpkg for package installation) from apt-cache or some other > standard tool? What I would lite to do is something like this: > [E

Re: gpg and trustdb very slow

2001-09-18 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:27:20AM -0400, Joey Hess uttered: > It'd be nice if someone would look at optimizing it sometime; the > behavior I see with strace is absurd, and could easily be done with no > syscalls, at least, by just reading the whole trustdb into memory. > I doubt very strongly that

Re: New update_excuses output

2001-09-15 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Paul Slootman uttered: > Would it be possible to also offer a compressed version of these files > (update_excuses.html, update_output.txt, etc)? Most browsers can handle > uncompressing these on the fly and it makes accessing these lists MUCH > faster. As a

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-14 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:04:08PM +0200, Francis ANDRE uttered: > I check out the www.gnu.org inetutils against debian inetutils and I found > them out of sync?? > Found _what_ about them out of sync? Their version number? Their 3rd toe on their root foot? _What?_ > Could anybody tell me why?? >

Re: Clueless bug reports from autobuilders.

2001-09-10 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:03:41PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa uttered: > > > > call ``madison package'' on auric. > > It needs a shell access. I don't always have shell access to auric. > Use packages.debian.org search page, that'll tell you what is installed. (Yes, it's somewhat like madison.) --

Re: Wherabouts of buildd logs

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:49:17PM -0700, Stephen Zander uttered: > I'm trying to track down why some of my packages have not made into > testing. update_excuses shows one of them as out of date on hppa, but > doesn't give a buildd log showing why. Do hppa buildd logs exist > online anywhere? >