Accepted nbd 1:2.9.10-1 (source powerpc)

2008-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:09:18 +0200 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-server nbd-client nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.10-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted emile 0.11-2 (source all m68k)

2008-02-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-By: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: emile - the Early Mac Image LoadEr emile-bootblocks - Boot blocks for EMILE, the Early Mac Image LoadEr Changes: emile (0.11-2) unstable; urgency=low . * Change $(error) in Makefile to $(warning), otherwise we can't build

Re: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be Include In Debian Distribution

2008-01-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:24:55AM -0800, May Hwang wrote: Dear Margarita, Can you resend Sean's email because I didn't receive his email? Up to this point, we are offering binary package based on customer request, because binary driver package only support one specific kernel version.

Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results

2008-01-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:20:47AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 26/01/08 at 08:59 +, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I'm not really sure of what we should do about those problems. The easiest way to fix them is to use

Re: miBoot floppies for debian-installer and use of people.debian.org

2008-01-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:55:05AM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: I have a question. I have at various times been interested on getting Debian working on an Old World PowerPC Macintosh and have come across a situation that confuses me. I was able to get the mac working with the use of

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.9-6 (source powerpc)

2008-01-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:14:23 +0100 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-server nbd-client nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.9-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.9-5 (source powerpc)

2008-01-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:18:23 +0100 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.9-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted belpic 2.6.0-3 (source powerpc)

2008-01-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: beid-tools - SmartCard utilities from the OpenSC project, compiled against lib beidgui- application to read out information from the Belgian electronic I libbeid2

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.9-4 (source powerpc)

2008-01-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:39:24 +0100 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.9-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu multiuser update-rc.d extention

2008-01-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:18:53PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:11:01PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Once we are at it: If we don't do clean shutdowns of the services anymore, why don't you just turn off power instead of taking the pain to kill the

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.9-2 (source powerpc)

2007-12-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:23:59 +0100 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.9-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.9-3 (source powerpc)

2007-12-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:06:17 +0100 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.9-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:32:39PM +, Neil Williams wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 14:23 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:17:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote: I'd just add: * it isn't in the spirit of free software to make it hard for others to use the code

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

2007-12-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:09:13PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:36:54 +0100, Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not think that is really necessary. I doubt there are lots of new qmail installations nowadays by people that are not aready well versed in its

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:17:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote: Luk Claes wrote: Neil Williams wrote: i.e. native should be a last resort - used only when it is all but impossible for the package to be used outside Debian or some distro fundamentally based on Debian like Ubuntu. I

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:35:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: tags 457353 + wontfix thanks On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 07:20:57PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: You're missing a .diff.gz, which means that this is a native package. This package is in no way specific to Debian, which

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 03:16:36PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: Wouter Verhelst wrote: Anyone who wants to package your source for something else than Debian is then free to completely and utterly ignore your debian/ directory... I'm trying to package two softwares where upstream 1

Re: [RFH] Bug#454179: kdesvn killed by SIGBUS

2007-12-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 08:07:59PM +0100, Vincent Fourmond wrote: I saw you closed the bug - I however wanted to point to debsums. As mentioned, SIBGUSes can be caused by corrupted binaries; Much can be caused by corrupted binaries: when a binary is corrupt, then segfaults, bus errors, and

Re: Unmet dependencies on Sparc when building wordnet and fslview

2007-12-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:32:02AM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote: Hi, On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:40:52AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, if you look at the buildd report for latest wordnet on sparc at

Re: Contents-source.gz

2007-11-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:38:51PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: So what? Space is cheap these days. Contrary to popular belief, space will never become free. -- Lo-lan-do Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Accepted belpic 2.6.0-2 (source powerpc)

2007-11-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: beid-tools - SmartCard utilities from the OpenSC project, compiled against lib beidgui- application to read out information from the Belgian electronic I libbeid2

Accepted belpic 2.6.0-1 (source i386)

2007-11-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: beid-tools - SmartCard utilities from the OpenSC project, compiled against lib beidgui- application to read out information from the Belgian electronic I libbeid2

MTA religious wars (was: Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...))

2007-11-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:41:20PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: Postfix has a reputation for being faster and more secure than exim. When talking about security, exim doesn't exactly have a horribly bad track record. It's not qmail, but then I wouldn't *want* to use qmail for other reasons. Why

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 12:40:16PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:00:13 +0100, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is one way to look at it. The other way would be that these are just three lines of code being duplicated here, and that start_daemon is just

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:16:28PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:47:49 +, Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: How many seconds until the please make pidfile location configurable wishlist bug? Which is another, what,

Re: buildds: Authentication warning overridden.

2007-11-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:24:12AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:27:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Wouter Verhelst: That's inevitable because http://incoming.debian.org is not signed; The update frequency of that repository (which is available only

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.9-1 (source powerpc)

2007-11-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:53:29 +0100 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.9-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:15:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 08:49:22 +0100, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: log_daemon_msg Starting Foo Daemon foo start-stop-daemon --whatever --you --want --here log_end_msg 0 I do not think that this is particularly elegant

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:24:46PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Petter Reinholdtsen [Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:00:42 +0100]: It is not obvious for me. Can you explain why it should be obvious that you do not plan to patch the daemon to write its own pid file? For me, the obvious solution for a

Re: debian-infrastructure-announce (was: dupload failed)

2007-11-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:50:23AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Friday 09 November 2007 10:45, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: I'd suggest that if ftp-master is down, the message should go to both d-d-a and the infrastructure list. I'm not sure I see the benefit to also have it on the

Re: buildds: Authentication warning overridden.

2007-11-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:53:12PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: Hi all, It's not uncommon to see buildds (actually build tools) override the package/Release signature warning. That's inevitable because http://incoming.debian.org is not signed; The update frequency of that repository (which

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:36:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, ser2net, a small daemon in a package maintained by me, cannot write its own pidfile. Since it forks and detaches by default, start-stop-daemon's --make-pidfile option is of no use as well, since the daemon that ends up running

Re: dupload failed

2007-11-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:13:50PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote: Thanks to all! Now I'm subsribed into that list too. Uhm. This is the one and only must-subscribe list for Debian Developers. Please do not unsubscribe from it. Ever. -- Lo-lan-do Home is where you have to wash the dishes. --

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.8-1 (source powerpc)

2007-10-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:50:12 +0200 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.7-1 (source powerpc)

2007-09-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:55:27 +0200 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:28:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, I am not a Debian developer. I have considered it several times but have been put off by the amount of documentation. I have to be able to jump in and do something or I lose interest. Don't we all? This might be a

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:12:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The same exact thing could be said of Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and any of a number of other packages which received tremendous testing upstream. None of them have empty pages on

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:13:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are also free to properly package it yourself and find a sponsor to upload it for you (assuming you are not already a Debian Developer yourself, which I am guessing you are not). I do not see the need to do anything other

Re: Re: Debian + pkgsrc

2007-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
[side note: why oh why did you include my msgid in your _reply-to_ header?] On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:47:12PM +0200, ciol wrote: Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:33:03PM +0200, ciol wrote: Hello, can you provide binaries from pkgsrc current built with debian stable? We

Re: Bug#438683: ITP: libconfig -- simple library for manipulating structured configuration files

2007-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:06:48AM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: At 1187477920 time_t, Julien Danjou wrote: Currently there's already a libconfig in Debian, that seems unmaintained and not used. I don't know yet what I'm going to do ; maybe ask the maintainers if he thinks we can remove

Re: Debian + pkgsrc

2007-08-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:33:03PM +0200, ciol wrote: Hello, can you provide binaries from pkgsrc current built with debian stable? We don't provide pkgsrc; the NetBSD people do. They put quite some time in making sure it works on most POSIXy environments, so theoretically using pkgsrc on

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.6-2 (source powerpc)

2007-08-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:55:56 +0200 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.6-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?

2007-08-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 05:11:07AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Ben Hutchings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This means that when draining the battery we do not allow the CPU to run at full speed, so CPU-bound tasks take longer. This tends to extend battery life but reduces the processing work

Re: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?

2007-08-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:07:39PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Wouter Verhelst] Except that a PowerPC processor (as found in Gustavo's ibook) simply doesn't *have* C states. On my PowerBook G4, I noticed that when I started running this crude hack[0]... -- #!/bin/bash

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:30:33PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Recommends: is easy with small packages, it becomes more difficult when each user does different things with the one package. This is nothing more than an interface problem. For instance, I think aptitude should make it more obvious

Re: needs=vc as menu field useful and needed?

2007-08-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:12:20PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, I recently stumbled upon the needs=vc field for debian menu files. The menu manual says the following about them: 3. `vc': if it runs under a linux virtual console but not under a X terminal emulator.

Re: /bin/sh diversions

2007-08-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:47:59PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:59:13PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Pierre Habouzit dixit: I don't see a valid reason for the user to chose what lies behind /bin/sh. Debian policy allows it. Okay, but that's not an

Re: /bin/sh diversions

2007-08-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:11:52PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 01, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It being the smallest and fastest one doesn't really help if you're in a tight environment where you want only one shell to be installed, and you want to use a different one

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:54:45PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 01, Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's just one line in your apt.conf, as described in the original announcement. That's just one line in the apt.conf of hundred of servers. Don't tell me you manually edit

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:14:14PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:28:27 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: On Aug 01, Michael Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We, the APT Development Team, will change apt to install recommended packages by default on

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:37:33AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 10:54 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : One thing I do not like about the GNOME usability philosophy is precisely this: catering for the novice user is great, but the GNOME usability philosophy

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:33:17PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 12:59 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : You do not remove the need for some functionality by simply removing the functionality itself altogether, which is what I see GNOME developers do more often

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:57:54PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 25 juillet 2007 à 08:54 -0400, Marvin Renich a écrit : Gnome and KDE are targeted primarily at desktop users, not servers. If, as a desktop user, I install a graphical app on my machine, I *expect* to see that

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.6-1 (source i386)

2007-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:04:22 +0200 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:2.9.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.5-1 (source powerpc)

2007-07-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:34:26 +0200 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:11:55PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:36:47 +0200 Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le vendredi 13 juillet 2007 à 18:34 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : I can't find anything in the Debian menu which is neither already in the GNOME menu

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: I heard from quite many users, that they where confused about the doubled menu structure, and always asked why some applications are there and some others aren't. That's a good reason to improve the menu system, but not really

Re: Bug#433119: nfs-common: NFS volume no longer mounted on boot

2007-07-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 09:54:43PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: IMO if an upload of a package is the direct cause of serious breakage, then, even if the actual bug is in another package, the maintainer needs to take responsibility for getting that breakage fixed _before_ allowing his package to

Accepted belpic 2.5.9-9 (source powerpc)

2007-07-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: beid-tools - SmartCard utilities from the OpenSC project, compiled against lib beidgui- application to read out information from the Belgian electronic I libbeid2

Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:11:04PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: One of the issue is that tools like sbuild and pbuilder which want to take advantage of the Build-Depends-Indep split needs to know whether dpkg-buildpackage will call debian/rules build or build-arch. It needs to know no such

Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-07-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:28:05PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: Running debian-rules can always have side effects and can actively rely on them so a --has-target can not be implemented cleanly in make. I am proposing hooking into the logic that ultimately decides that there is no such target

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.4-1 (source powerpc)

2007-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:51:30 +0100 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: transition of packages into testing

2007-06-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:58:56AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On to, 2007-06-21 at 17:01 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 1) How can I request for a new build on ia64? or will it happen automatically? This is outside my area of expertese, but I would assume that the buildds don't

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:40:26PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I would like to gather up some momentum for a policy change. Namely that the build-arch/indep targets in debian/rules become required instead of being optional. Wouldn't looking for the output

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:25:38PM -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: How about instead requiring something like: the build-arch target must return successfully or with a status of 2 (the standard make error status for target not found), and in the latter case the build target must return

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.3-3 (source powerpc)

2007-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:20:39 +0100 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server nbd-client-udeb Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.3-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.3-2 (source powerpc)

2007-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:55:21 +0100 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.3-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Wouter Verhelst

Accepted nbd 1:2.9.3-1 (source powerpc)

2007-06-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:39:25 +0100 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.9.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Wouter Verhelst

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:40:46AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Of course, I don't usually care that file sizes in my browser window are displayed in kibibytes and mebibytes. Not until I select some of them, see the total size, and ask myself whether they fit on a DVD. If you want to figure

Back to the point (was: Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?)

2007-06-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:57:51PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Tim Cutts wrote: That's not true, unfortunately. They also have different design criteria for duty cycles, and more stringent MTBF testing requirements. There's been a lot of assertion in this thread,

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:29:59AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: Considering that we know that experimental is not a full branch and there's no migration from experimental to unstable, do you agree then we could remove experimental and switch unstable automatic nature to not automatic (release)

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:40:54PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/12/07, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:29:59AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: Considering that we know that experimental is not a full branch and there's no migration from experimental

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:32:21PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/12/07, Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NO! unstable is meant for packages that should be in the next stable release, as such only packages that are in the maintainer's opinion ready to migrate to testing should be

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:25:59PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: Promote 'quite probably broken in some ways' stuff isn't the motto. Upload everything that we've in experimental actually seems to be more appropriate. Eh, you lost, now. Please go read what experimental is for. I don't think I

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:31:37AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:27:26AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Diskspace *is* a problem for mirrors, as is bandwidth in many countries. Also, you should think about this issue not just in the context of the single package you

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:28:13PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: Actual data seems to show the cheap desktop disks are not worse than so-called server-class disks. My actual data does not back up your claim. Moreover, desktop-class hard disks never support hotplugging, which you really want for a

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:24:34PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 13:09:40 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: That may be true when it comes to breakdowns.  However, I challenge you to show me a cheap desktop disk that is also SCSI or SAS *and* hotpluggable. While not SCSI or

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:54:36AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Sam Hocevar wrote: 3. Nexenta: Despite their incompatibility, Debian accepts both the CDDL and GPLv2 as valid free software licences and would welcome any solution to the distribution of a Debian

Re: Improving dependencies on shared libraries

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:02:37PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Right, I read your message too quickly, sorry. However the maintainer can change the symbols file in his package and update the dependency associated to this symbol and make sure that a binary using this symbol will depend on the

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:18:56AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:46:30 +0200 Wouter Verhelst wrote: [...] If it isn't, then the GPL is also non-free, by the very same rationale: the fact that you are required to produce source when so asked if you do distribute

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:28:22AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: Anthony Towns writes: I don't think that's meaningful; if I sue you in a court in Australia for not complying with debootstrap's license, and they find that you've infringed the license, it doesn't really matter if I'm doing

Re: Improving dependencies on shared libraries

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:30:39PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:37:08PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:02:37PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Right, I read your message too quickly, sorry. However the maintainer can

Re: Why not move Apt to a relational database

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:22:46PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: Justin Emmanuel wrote: I am brand new to this mailing list, I joined it because I had an idea that I would like to have considered. Moving apt to a relational database, for several reasons. Before reading on, have you

Re: Why not move Apt to a relational database

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:31:18AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:55:01 +0100 Justin Emmanuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on a relational database it will run faster, also there should be some more data stored about the programs to facilitate system restoring. That

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 05:09:57PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: If you get sued and convicted as a private person in a jurisdiction that is not yours, there are two possible outcomes: * You try to defend yourself, and might win or lose depending

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-05-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:10:06PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: [...] Those are good reasons. Those are different reasons than static libraries are faster, which was the previous argument for keeping them. No, that was one argument for keeping them, and the only one that I could come up with

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-05-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:28:49AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 09-May-07, 04:02 (CDT), Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not entirely sure about the specifics, and especially not across architectures; but regardless, doing a PLT lookup is more expensive than doing

Accepted belpic 2.5.9-8 (source i386)

2007-05-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: beid-tools - SmartCard utilities from the OpenSC project, compiled against lib beidgui- application to read out information from the Belgian electronic I libbeid2

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:14:17AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11012 March 1977, Nico Golde wrote: would it be a big change for dak to enable that sponsors of Yes. And not only for dak. Just - tell me how the script should find out who the sponsor was/is? I might be mistaken, but

Re: Bug#422423: ITP: libtool-cvs -- Generic library support script - CVS snapshot

2007-05-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 03:15:03AM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: Do you mean I should just renumber the package version from 2.1a to 1.9 or what? I think the versioning schema for this project is very bizzare. Also I think it is not so important for experimental packages :) Actually, it is,

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:32:37AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: If there are concerns over archive size, why don't we drop all static .a libraries at the same time. Given that in Debian we typically always link dynamically, is

Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

2007-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:13:50AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:01:36PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: I belive that a rate of 0.1% is quite an acceptable rate, but we permanently try to lower that. I don't know how much this helps, but wouldn't it be good to

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:31:04PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 22:12 schrieb Russ Allbery: Actually, you don't. See the features of dh_strip introduced at debhelper level V5. And of course you can do the same thing by hand. gdb will read the resulting detached

Re: Package file names

2007-04-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:47:26PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: Is it a technical requirement (of dpkg, apt, and/or dak), that packages be named ${pkgname}_${version}_${arch}.${ext} (${pkgname}_${version}.${ext} for source), or merely (or mostly) policy? It's a technical requirement for apt

Accepted vmelilo-installer 1.16 (source m68k)

2007-04-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-By: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: vmelilo-installer - Install vmelilo on a hard disk (udeb) Changes: vmelilo-installer (1.16) unstable; urgency=low . [ Joey Hess ] * Multiply menu-item-numbers by 100 . [ Wouter Verhelst ] * Release Files: 5fc32a2e7ad094686fb964cabb95adc2

Re: Re: Postfix as default MTA?

2007-04-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:50:40PM +1200, Adrian Hall wrote: probably better if you all go outside and get some fresh air and daylight instead of playing with your neck beard and pony tail and worrying needlessly about geeky stuff Probably better if you go outside, too, rather than playing

Accepted nbd 1:2.8.7-5 (source powerpc)

2007-04-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:59:42 +0200 Source: nbd Binary: nbd-client nbd-server Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1:2.8.7-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Wouter Verhelst

Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:11:23PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I share the feeling of niceness of the personal touch, but this isn't a technical reason, and the point of uniforming a timezone so that it's easier to compare dates among different changelog is definitely a valid one. It

Re: Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit

2007-03-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:14:27AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 20.02:14 Greg Folkert wrote: And for clarity, IA32 cover 32-bit Intel and works for AMD 32-bit processors. IA64 is the Itanium series of processors, amd64 cover the AMD K8/Opteron processors AND the

Re: Changelog not signed by human

2007-03-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:27:04AM -0700, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On updating my system today I obtained a version of screen which was a binary-only upload which contained the following changelog entry: screen (4.0.3-0.3+b1) unstable; urgency=low * Binary-only

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