New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-22 Thread Thomas Hood
: DELAYLOGIN=no No-login mode always: rm -f /etc/nologin ; : /etc/nologin Anyone see any problems with this scheme? Any better ideas? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-22 Thread Thomas Hood
: DELAYLOGIN=yes No-login mode never: rm -f /var/lib/initscripts/nologin ; DELAYLOGIN=no No-login mode always: touch /var/lib/initscripts/nologin ; DELAYLOGIN=no Anyone see any problems with this scheme? Any better ideas? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
packages into bastions of untended bugs. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
... insulting. This is not a fair characterization of what the introduction of a two-maintainer rule would be doing. No one should be insulted by general rule changes designed to make Debian work better. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
this idea. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
mood then I'd suggest that those who are promoting team maintainance are trying to gain power while evading responsibility. Well, you do suggest it here. And what you suggest makes no sense, so let's not rule out the possibility that you are in fact paranoid. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-20 Thread Thomas Hood
and admins who have to ensure that writable space is shoved under /var/run by the time any of the H tries to write there. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-20 Thread Thomas Hood
Gabor Gombas wrote: ... I'd like to have a check for /run (or /lib/run or whatever) being empty at the end of the boot process The new mountvirtfs prints such warnings for all the virtual filesystems. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-20 Thread Thomas Hood
Tmpfs memory can be swapped out, so is this even a hypothetical problem? Maybe it isn't on Linux. I wasn't aware tmpfs could be swapped out. That still leaves the question of just which features we want to require from our non-Linux kernels for basic operation, I guess. Yes, I don't

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
would be an appropriate claim if Manoj had said it looked okay. Agreed. Fortunately, I didn't claim that. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
only for those very few purposes for which /var/run cannot be used. If there are worries about abuse then I would suggest the addition of a sentence to Policy forbidding such abuse. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
-write and programs must not use /run before the cleaning has been completed; it would probably be easier to drop the cleanliness-at-boot guarantee and let programs clean out their own stale files. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Please test the new sysvinit

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
So, has anyone tested the new packages? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
, but at the top level. Here's another possible argument: Putting R in /lib spoils the otherwise read-only character of that directory. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
Anthony Towns wrote: Developers have been known not to be completely familiar with policy, but it's admins and upstream programmers that I'm particularly thinking of. I don't see any problems arising from rampant /run use by _admins_. They are always free to do what they want with their

/run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
Any other defenders of /lib/run? Of /run? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Thomas Hood
find /lib/run uglier than /run. ;) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ALSA packager needed

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas Hood
, but it does involve some work. There is a new upstream release candidate out now (1.0.11rc1) and I would like to take the opportunity to go through the process with the new volunteer. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Please test new sysvinit, sysv-rc, initscripts

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas Hood
with INIT_VERBOSE=yes kernel parameter. Is the boot more verbose? Any glitches in any of the messages? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted tpctl 4.17-2 (source i386)

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:07:10 +0200 Source: tpctl Binary: tpctl Architecture: source i386 Version: 4.17-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian tpctl maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

ALSA packager needed

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas Hood
The ALSA packaging team needs help. We really need someone with expertise in programming for the ALSA library. If you are able to help us, please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Co-maintainers sought

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas Hood
I seek co-maintainers for: mwavem thinkpad, tpctl resolvconf -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#272066: Patch?

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Hood
to solicit opinions. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to the list. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to use lsb init-functions

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Hood
to be reworked? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Not delete symlinks to directories in /var/run/ ?

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Hood
the latter eliminates the need for the former. I am cc:ing this to debian-devel in order to solicit opinions. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to the list. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-14 Thread Thomas Hood
if 'localhost.localdomain' is included on the 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get in Sid broke sound and /etc/modules?

2005-10-13 Thread Thomas Hood
That did it, unloaded the snd-intel8x0 and 8x0m and then reloaded i810_audio and things worked again. i810_audio is an OSS module, not an ALSA module. You fixed sound by switching from ALSA to OSS. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-13 Thread Thomas Hood
properly whether /etc/hosts contains 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost or 127.0.0.1 localhost especially considering the fact that the sarge installer writes /etc/hosts with the former. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: hotplug blacklists

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Hood
. For backward compatibility that behavior should probably be preserved. When a final decision has been made about how hot plug blacklisting will be implemented in the future, please file a bug report against alsa-base explaining what changes need to be made, if any. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-09-29 Thread Thomas Hood
files which might appropriately be kept in a subdirectory of /run/. /etc/nologin /etc/mtab /etc/network/run/ifstate /etc/resolvconf/run/* -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-07 Thread Thomas Hood
Andreas Metzler wrote: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [command -v] It is not even useful as a which(1) replacement. Whereas which prints the pathname of the first executable file on the PATH, command -v prints the pathname of the first executable file on the PATH _or_ the pathname

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-06 Thread Thomas Hood
Marco d'Itri wrote: Andreas Metzler wrote: Thomas Hood wrote: Is there anything else which dash supports but posh does not? command -v Which is the well known which(1) replacement, and basically mandatory in a sane Debian shell. I keep wondering why people bother with posh. command -v

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-04 Thread Thomas Hood
updates. To change it know is just silly political correctness. I think that the kernel packaging team members should be able to do their work without being insulted. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-03 Thread Thomas Hood
of a shell feature whose use we should not be discouraging. That's why it is proposed that local be added (alongside echo -n) as an exception to the POSIX-only rule expressed in 10.4. (Both bash and dash support local.) If you agree then it would be helpful to mention this in #294962. -- Thomas

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-01 Thread Thomas Hood
be to replace '-a' with '] [' in the offending scripts. I support the idea of requiring #!/bin/sh scripts to be runnable on posh. I don't. So the idea is doomed and there is no more need to discuss it. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-01 Thread Thomas Hood
--- #!/bin/bash If test -a, test -o and local are no longer considered illegal bashisms then there won't be much need for this. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-01 Thread Thomas Hood
can't be greater than the maximum. And I know that the maximum is larger than 343. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-01 Thread Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would appreciate it if someone would create the potash shell, consisting of posh modified to implement test -a, test -o and local. Debian would probably run on that well enough for it to be used as /bin/sh, and it could become the de facto testbed

Accepted resolvconf 1.33 (source all)

2005-08-01 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2005 16:00:00 +0200 Source: resolvconf Binary: resolvconf Architecture: source all Version: 1.33 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-07-29 Thread Thomas Hood
for a long discussion of the POSIX-only rule. I support the idea of requiring #!/bin/sh scripts to be runnable on posh. Unfortunately not everyone is prepared to go along with it (e.g., #309415). -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Accepted resolvconf 1.32 (source all)

2005-07-29 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:37:01 +0200 Source: resolvconf Binary: resolvconf Architecture: source all Version: 1.32 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-22 Thread Thomas Hood
I have a couple of initscripts that print progress messages and I do not want to be too hasty in eliminating them so I am thinking of doing the following for now: ... if [ -r /lib/lsb/init-functions ] ; then . /lib/lsb/init-functions print_warning_msg() { log_warning_msg $* ; }

Scrolling the viewport

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas Hood
that holding the control key down would allow me to roll forward in order to move the viewport forward and thus INCREASE the text size, as if I was getting closer to the text. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Accepted resolvconf 1.31 (all source)

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2005 11:00:00 +0200 Source: resolvconf Binary: resolvconf Architecture: source all Version: 1.31 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas Hood
() would have to be added. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Hood
the maintainer scripts can be simplified on the basis of the assumption that the previous version is sarge or later. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-17 Thread Thomas Hood
$@; } log_warning_msg() { echo $@; } fi Perhaps an idea for you too? The package is only 20 kbytes installed. Let's just start Depending on it. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Bug#317892: ITP: bum -- tool to manage boot scripts

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Hood
and leave the Conflicting up to the latter. The salty dog and I have been discussing runlevel editors in general and bum in particular. I think that the next release of bum will be rather good. :) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Accepted resolvconf 1.30 (all source)

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:18:18 +0200 Source: resolvconf Binary: resolvconf Architecture: source all Version: 1.30 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#317892: ITP: bum -- tool to manage boot scripts

2005-07-12 Thread Thomas Hood
in order to obtain the factory default sequence numbers and implement a restore factory default sequence numbers feature. See my last comment in #183460. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-10 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:57:54 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: I suggested Debian IV Are release numbers really needed? Why not do away with them altogether? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-10 Thread Thomas Hood
Nigel Jones wrote: On 10/07/05, Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are release numbers really needed? Why not do away with them altogether? you mean, just stick with code names? That wouldn't exactly work, Debian's apt/dpkg basicly relies on release numbers, how else can it easily

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-10 Thread Thomas Hood
. Among numbers, integers describe this order most clearly. :) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-08 Thread Thomas Hood
Debian releases as minor ones. Every release is major. If Debian simply _must_ have decimal points in its release numbers then I'd suggest replacing the 'r' in update version numbers with '.'. Thus 9.1 would be the number of the first etch update. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-07-06 Thread Thomas Hood
have been split off into a separate Arch: all package. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted resolvconf 1.29 (all source)

2005-06-15 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2005 20:00:00 +0200 Source: resolvconf Binary: resolvconf Architecture: source all Version: 1.29 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#313369: RFH: mwavem -- Mwave/ACP modem support software

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the mwavem package. I own a ThinkPad 600 with an Mwave modem inside and I use this to test the mwavem packages that I prepare. However, I do not use the machine on a daily basis. If possible I would like help from someone who

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

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Hood
that the DPL will get involved in this debate and steer it toward a firm decision. To begin with we can all go back and review: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ReleaseProposals -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Hood
up and down. http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/ -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcp-client package in sarge

2005-06-03 Thread Thomas Hood
be enough time to adjust to it before the release. Then the release was delayed for a couple of years; meanwhile the maintainers of dhcp and dhcp3 have been busy with other things. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Accepted mwavem 2.0-1 (i386 source)

2005-05-24 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:00:00 +0200 Source: mwavem Binary: mwavem Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-14 Thread Thomas Hood
in the Debian project despite its dysfunctional organisation; 2. push for changes to the organisation; 3. participate in another project instead. (There are other possibilities, of course.) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Should Debian use lsb init-functions?

2005-05-03 Thread Thomas Hood
be better if we simply made rc capture initscripts' standard output (and exit status) and formatted it in such a way that bootup messages were prettier. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted resolvconf 1.28 (all source)

2005-04-21 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:30:56 +0200 Source: resolvconf Binary: resolvconf Architecture: source all Version: 1.28 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-16 Thread Thomas Hood
that wholly conforms to the DFSG, robustly interpreted. Another goal is to encourage authors to license works compatible with the DFSG, robustly interpreted. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: init.d script dependencies for etch?

2005-04-06 Thread Thomas Hood
Apparently Gentoo is using simpleinit. Anyone know what the other distros are using? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted resolvconf 1.27 (all source)

2005-04-06 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:16:21 +0200 Source: resolvconf Binary: resolvconf Architecture: source all Version: 1.27 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: init.d script dependencies for etch?

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas Hood
be very hard to implement efficiently. I missed the beginning of this conversation. I hope it has been said that the first thing we should do is investigate the several dependency-base init systems that are already out there. (There are earlier threads about this.) -- Thomas Hood

Re: How to handle unreproducible RC bugs when the submitter is MIA?

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas Hood
by everyone (if the bug only affects some users) then the bug is not grave. If the bug is unreproducible then it can't be the case that the package is unusable to everyone. So I'd say that a downgrade is justified. Of course, I may be misinterpreting the severity tags. -- Thomas Hood

Re: How to handle unreproducible RC bugs when the submitter is MIA?

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 22:22 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: (bugs in maintainer scripts are a policy violation) I don't recall policy saying that maintainer scripts must be entirely bug free. Obviously they _should_ be bug free, but bugs in maintainer scripts aren't always RC. -- Thomas Hood

Re: init.d script dependencies for etch?

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas Hood
://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/06/msg01445.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/11/msg01695.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/09/msg01359.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/01/msg01898.html -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted ifupdown 0.6.4-4.12exp4 (i386 source)

2005-03-29 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:07:18 +0100 Source: ifupdown Binary: ifupdown Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.6.4-4.12exp4 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL

Accepted thinkpad 5.8-4 (i386 source)

2005-03-28 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:00:45 +0100 Source: thinkpad Binary: thinkpad-source thinkpad-base Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.8-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood

Should Debian use lsb init-functions?

2005-03-26 Thread Thomas Hood
-LSB packages. * Update README.Debian. Should Debian initscripts use lsb init-functions? It would probably be best if this were decided at the project level. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Who uses libasound2-plugins?

2005-03-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Does anyone use the libasound2-plugins package? If so, how? -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: If Debian's too radical for you... [was: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels]

2005-03-24 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:50:16 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Is it as easy to participate with Ubuntu as it is with Debian? In some respects it is easier. For one thing you can become a maintainer there without going through an NM ordeal. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Ubuntu Patches

2005-03-21 Thread Thomas Hood
http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/ Thanks, that is very useful. I see that Ubuntu has done a lot of work to make initscripts send output through lsb printing functions. Are there any plans for Debian to adopt these changes? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted ifupdown 0.6.4-4.12exp3 (i386 source)

2005-03-17 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:00:00 +0100 Source: ifupdown Binary: ifupdown Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.6.4-4.12exp3 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL

Accepted ifupdown 0.6.4-4.12exp2 (i386 source)

2005-03-15 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:10:44 +0100 Source: ifupdown Binary: ifupdown Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.6.4-4.12exp2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-12 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:00:15 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: Here is another idea. We create a new binary package sound-system-chooser which contains blacklists for both OSS and ALSA and provides a debconf interface that the administrator can use to disable either or both of the sound systems

Re: Stateless linux in Debian

2005-03-11 Thread Thomas Hood
I am interested in this subject. http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-10 Thread Thomas Hood
the blacklists because more than one of them can be installed at once. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-10 Thread Thomas Hood
interface apparently doesn't support In-Reply-To headers. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
in Debian that provides the same functionality. laptop-net also contains a configuration file switching mechanism. I believe that Chris Hanson (laptop-net's author) was once thinking of repackaging this separately from laptop-net. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
files that would blacklist ALSA modules, just as alsa-base blacklists OSS modules. These packages would Conflict with each other and 2.6 kernel-image packages would Depend on their disjunction. An alternative is to drop ALSA modules from the 2.6 kernel-image packages. -- Thomas Hood

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
the (currently nonexistent) oss package which blacklists ALSA modules. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-08 Thread Thomas Hood
. Actually, this isn't true for 2.6 kernels. By default, discover loads ALSA modules into 2.6 kernels. The alsa-base/alsa-utils duo still has its uses, though, even if you are running 2.6. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-06 Thread Thomas Hood
option would be to put the alsa modules in separate packages, just like pcmcia modules. There already exist separate alsa modules packages. Currently we only build them for 2.4 kernels, though. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Accepted ifupdown 0.6.4-4.12exp1 (i386 source)

2005-03-06 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:54:42 +0100 Source: ifupdown Binary: ifupdown Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.6.4-4.12exp1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL

Accepted ifupdown 0.6.4-4.12 (i386 source)

2005-03-04 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:05:05 +0100 Source: ifupdown Binary: ifupdown Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.6.4-4.12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted ifupdown 0.6.4-4.11 (i386 source)

2005-03-02 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:46:29 +0200 Source: ifupdown Binary: ifupdown Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.6.4-4.11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted resolvconf 1.26 (all source)

2005-02-25 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:26:30 +0100 Source: resolvconf Binary: resolvconf Architecture: source all Version: 1.26 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted tpctl 4.17-1 (i386 source)

2005-02-14 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:09:15 +0100 Source: tpctl Binary: tpctl Architecture: source i386 Version: 4.17-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

2005-02-13 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:59 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 22:52 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: It would be nice if the page indicated which of the binary packages is new. The binary column indicates those created within the source package. Every source package

Re: First line in /etc/hosts

2005-02-13 Thread Thomas Hood
permanently connected network adapter, or, if it does not have one of those, 127.0.1.1. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

2005-02-12 Thread Thomas Hood
. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please post listing and status of NEW queue

2005-02-12 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:20:13 +0100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: Any input is welcome. It would be nice if the page indicated which of the binary packages is new. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted resolvconf 1.25 (all source)

2005-01-23 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:46:14 +0100 Source: resolvconf Binary: resolvconf Architecture: source all Version: 1.25 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted thinkpad 5.8-3 (i386 source)

2005-01-09 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2005 18:00:00 +0100 Source: thinkpad Binary: thinkpad-source thinkpad-base Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.8-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood

Accepted tpctl 4.16-1 (i386 source)

2005-01-09 Thread Thomas Hood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:02:21 +0100 Source: tpctl Binary: tpctl Architecture: source i386 Version: 4.16-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

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