Re: Debian participating in Google Code-in 2010, we need your help!

2010-11-23 Thread Obey Arthur Liu
> > I already got an email from a participant asking for help, which I > replied with "I don't know what you are talking about". > > I'm very annoyed by this. Please fix it ASAP by removing me from > the "Contact" for this task, and stop referring p

Re: Debian participating in Google Code-in 2010, we need your help!

2010-11-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
the wiki log) decided to add a task listing me as a contact, without even talking to me about it before: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/show/google/gci2010/debian/t128985930296 I already got an email from a participant asking for help, which I replied with "I don't know what yo

Re: Upcoming Bug Squashing Parties to help the squeeze release

2010-10-18 Thread Sheridan Hutchinson
unsubscribe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin2f2ksmy1e54xyju7gqvi=+tke+nq7+s2on...@mail.gmail.com

"Debexpo" and how you can help

2010-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey all! In the next month, we're all going to get Debexpo running as an alternative to mentors.debian.net. I'm going to revive this project, and I need some help. (I'm cross-posting; I've set the Reply-To header so that replies go the debexpo devel list.) We're g

Re: watch file help

2010-08-21 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 12:07 -0500, Chris wrote: > > Simply having http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo-(.*)\.tar\.gz > > in the debian/watch files downloads an html file. > > Something like: > > opts=filenamemangle=s/\?format=raw$// \ > http://www.foo.com/ihave/

Re: watch file help

2010-08-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 12:07 -0500, Chris wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I am trying to set my debian/watch correctly. The upstream > site allows you to download (wget for example) with something like: > > wget http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo.tar.gz > > However, the source code behind U

watch file help

2010-08-21 Thread Chris
Greetings everyone, I am trying to set my debian/watch correctly. The upstream site allows you to download (wget for example) with something like: wget http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo.tar.gz However, the source code behind URL shows this: http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo.tar.gz?fo

Re: how to help end-users to increase the life-time of their SSDs

2010-06-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 10:28 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > - optionally /var/tmp as tmpfs > Not an answer to your original question, just a not-so-random observation. > /var/tmp is declared by LFS as "temporary storage that persists across > reboots". It wont be this way if it's on tmpfs obviou

Re: how to help end-users to increase the life-time of their SSDs

2010-06-05 Thread Michael Tokarev
06.06.2010 02:13, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hi folks. I recently got my first SSD payed by my university and, even though modern SSDs seem to have smart wear leveling algorithms and more and more parts of kernel/userspace support TRIM, I was thinking about what one can do to improve its li

how to help end-users to increase the life-time of their SSDs

2010-06-05 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi folks. I recently got my first SSD payed by my university and, even though modern SSDs seem to have smart wear leveling algorithms and more and more parts of kernel/userspace support TRIM, I was thinking about what one can do to improve its lifetime. The most obvious things I found were: - /tm

pls help, hppa FTBFS: /usr/lib/libatlas.so.3gf: undefined symbol: __canonicalize_funcptr_for_compare

2010-05-11 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Everyone, bug report (from myself to myself) in question: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581204 boils down to ImportError: /usr/lib/libatlas.so.3gf: undefined symbol: __canonicalize_funcptr_for_compare and when looking at (sid)y...@paer:/home/yoh/nipy/nipy-0.1.2+201005

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

2010-04-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:57:12AM +0200, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > * Tcl/Tk 8.4/8.5 > Tcl 8.3 will be replaced by newer versions. This transition is > currently staged in experimental. Note that this will imply soon a good bounce of NMUs for experimental. If your packages depends direc

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

2010-04-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam D. Barratt, le Thu 01 Apr 2010 09:57:12 +0200, a écrit : > * GNU/kFreeBSD-* > The release of these two new architectures looks promising, but they > are still far away from full archive coverage. It seems that much > could be gained by fixing some key packages. What is the target BTW?

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:46:57 + Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > > *Precisely* what changes do you need for that "architecture" - is it > > really a different architecture from armel? (Answers to debian-embedded > > please.) > > h

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-11 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > *Precisely* what changes do you need for that "architecture" - is it > really a different architecture from armel? (Answers to debian-embedded > please.) hi neil, firstly thank you for the informative post, esp. the history about actually

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:52:57 + Neil Williams wrote: > > has anyone actually done this > > Yes. Me - I was cross-building the entire chain too. It took me the > best part of a year to get through 200 packages. i.e. SERIOUSLY > reconsider precisely how many packages you want to rebuild and ho

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:08:30 + Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: (When replying, please shorten the CC list, preferably only to the debian-embedded list.) > >> a bit like openembedded. It's much easier to not do things like OE and to actually build incrementally, putting dependencies int

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:20:04PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> yeah - i'd like to know how to do this, too. i installed buildd (and >> wannabuild) but there appears to be some "manual" steps involved, and >> i was kind-

Re: need help of Octave language expert

2010-03-10 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi Thomas, On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:34:33 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > I'm cc'ing debian-devel, so people see that there is an answer. If > whoever wants to continue the discussion, please strongly consider > dropping debian-devel -- the list is noisy enough. Sorry for additional noise. > Directl

Re: need help of Octave language expert

2010-03-09 Thread Thomas Weber
Hi, I'm cc'ing debian-devel, so people see that there is an answer. If whoever wants to continue the discussion, please strongly consider dropping debian-devel -- the list is noisy enough. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:06:06PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Hi all, > > I, a maintainer of TeXmacs,

need help of Octave language expert

2010-03-09 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
I suspect that TeXmacs plugin for Octave is obsolete but, as I don't know Octave language at all, so I request a help of Octave language expert. ii octave3.0 1:3.0.5-7+b1 GNU Octave language for numerical computatio ii texmacs 1:1.0.7.3-3WYSIWYG mathematical text editor using T

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-10 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
R doesn't have a \eof symbol ] and b) one comment line > was not actually commented out. Two correct individual files are > attached. Can you (or Atsuhito) try with those? I tried them quickly and it worked fine! Thank you for your help. Also thank you Asheesh for y

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 February 2010 at 22:26, Asheesh Laroia wrote: | yOn Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > Asheesh Laroia asheesh.org> writes: | >> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: | >>> I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 | >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 10 February 2010 at 22:26, Asheesh Laroia wrote: | yOn Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > Asheesh Laroia asheesh.org> writes: | >> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: | >>> I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
yOn Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Asheesh Laroia asheesh.org> writes: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551254 I temporarily remove a problematic patch but clearly it

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Asheesh Laroia asheesh.org> writes: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551254 > > > > I temporarily remove a problematic patch but clearly it is > > not a real fix. A plugin

Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
especially in case he can help, since he has used some R. Take a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551254 . Atsuhito, An R-y friend pointed me toward http://developer.r-project.org/parseRd.pdf which documents changes to the .Rd format. From what I gather, Rd is a

need help of R language expert

2010-02-08 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi all, I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551254 I temporarily remove a problematic patch but clearly it is not a real fix. A plugin of R seems not to work anymore. I don't know R language at all so request a help

Bug#568424: ITP: hlbrw -- assistant to help make new rules to HLBR

2010-02-04 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho * Package name: hlbrw Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Joao Eriberto Mota Filho * URL : http://hlbr.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: Bash Description : assistant to help make

Help with Firmware issue

2009-12-31 Thread chrisr
> To whom it may concern > > I hope you can help us as we really desperate to solve a problem we > currently facing with a product we imported from China that has a > problem with the firmware > > The product is a 3.5 incn Hard disk media player that you can use to watch >

Re: [Need Help] About file lock in Debian Sarge

2009-12-22 Thread Roger Leigh
[please don't top-post] On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:31:16PM +0700, Muhammad H Hilman wrote: > Wow, it's work > > but, must I change the code on my application that needed filelock? > because, filelock code on that application stated as ubuntu command (just > filelock) > as far as I know debian com

Re: [Need Help] About file lock in Debian Sarge

2009-12-21 Thread Muhammad H Hilman
Wow, it's work but, must I change the code on my application that needed filelock? because, filelock code on that application stated as ubuntu command (just filelock) as far as I know debian command on filelock is (filelock-create) can you tel me what's the different between (filelock-create) com

Re: [Need Help] About file lock in Debian Sarge

2009-12-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:16:02PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > maybe > apt-get install liblockfile1 Possibly, but lockf() and fcntl() are usually better, and are present in libc. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `'

Re: [Need Help] About file lock in Debian Sarge

2009-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, maybe apt-get install liblockfile1 Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Lin

Re: Help with uscan

2009-12-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-12-18, Ben Finney wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo writes: > >> The upstream version number is 0.5.2-rc3 which is invalid for a >> non-native package > > No, it's fine for the upstream version string to contain a hyphen. See > Debian policy §5.6.12., where the hyphen is explicitly listed as o

Re: Help with uscan

2009-12-17 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > # Current version from Cheese Shop. > opts="uversionmangle=s/-([a-z]+\d+)$/~$1/" \ > http://zhevny.com/specimen/files/specimen-(.+).tar.gz Erm. Ignore the comment line; clearly I cut-and-paste from one of my own packages and failed to edit the comment accordi

Re: Help with uscan

2009-12-17 Thread Ben Finney
Erik de Castro Lopo writes: > The upstream version number is 0.5.2-rc3 which is invalid for a > non-native package No, it's fine for the upstream version string to contain a hyphen. See Debian policy §5.6.12., where the hyphen is explicitly listed as one of the valid characters in the upstream v

Re: Help with uscan

2009-12-17 Thread Ben Finney
Erik de Castro Lopo writes: >http://zhevny.com/specimen/files/specimen-0.5.2-rc3.tar.gz Okay. The current list at http://zhevny.com/specimen/files/> shows the following tarball files: specimen-0.5.1.1.tar.gz specimen-0.5.1.tar.gz specimen-0.5.2-rc1.tar.gz specimen-0.5.2-rc2.

Re: Help with uscan

2009-12-17 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to write a debian/watch file for an upstream package which > has a version number 1.2.3-rc4. For the debian package I need to drop > the dash from the version number to give a debian version number of > 1.2.3rc4. > > Any clues on how to do thi

Re: Help with uscan

2009-12-17 Thread Ben Finney
Erik de Castro Lopo writes: > I'm trying to write a debian/watch file for an upstream package which > has a version number 1.2.3-rc4. For the debian package I need to drop > the dash from the version number Why do you need to drop the hyphen? A hyphen is perfectly valid in the upstream version

Re: Help with uscan

2009-12-17 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Ben Finney wrote: > For a start, you should replace the allows-empty match ‘(.*)’ with one > that requires at least one character ‘(.+)’. Noted. Thanks. > Can you give us the full URL so that we can test our proposals before > posting them? http://zhevny.com/specimen/files/specimen-0.5.2-rc3

Re: Help with uscan

2009-12-17 Thread Ben Finney
Erik de Castro Lopo writes: > Any clues on how to do this? If I just use: > >package-(.*).tar.gz For a start, you should replace the allows-empty match ‘(.*)’ with one that requires at least one character ‘(.+)’. That's orthogonal to the behaviour you're describing. though. > uscan complai

Re: Help with uscan

2009-12-17 Thread Ruben Molina
El vie, 18-12-2009 a las 14:14 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo escribió: > I'm trying to write a debian/watch file for an upstream package which > has a version number 1.2.3-rc4. For the debian package I need to drop > the dash from the version number to give a debian version number of > 1.2.3rc4. Hi

Re: Help with uscan

2009-12-17 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > uscan complains that it can't find the current version (1.2.3rc4) on > the server. I'm currently doing: version=3 opts=filenamemangle=s/-// \ http://example.com/files/ package-(.*).tar.gz Erik --

Help with uscan

2009-12-17 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, I'm trying to write a debian/watch file for an upstream package which has a version number 1.2.3-rc4. For the debian package I need to drop the dash from the version number to give a debian version number of 1.2.3rc4. Any clues on how to do this? If I just use: package-(.*).tar.gz u

Re: [Need Help] About file lock in Debian Sarge

2009-12-16 Thread Steve Langasek
[Please note that this question is more appropriate for debian-user, not debian-devel.] On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:51:39AM +0700, Muhammad H Hilman wrote: > Dear Debian developers > I run DOVIS 2.0 (docking application) in cluster server using Debian Sarge > Then I got *"Can not get init lock!"*

[Need Help] About file lock in Debian Sarge

2009-12-16 Thread Muhammad H Hilman
Dear Debian developers I run DOVIS 2.0 (docking application) in cluster server using Debian Sarge Then I got *"Can not get init lock!"* notification here is the screenshoot [image: http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/7643/35869453.png] I already asked the developers about this problem They said

Help needed: upgrade/replace and dpkg-divert

2009-12-01 Thread Norbert Preining
as shell script - luatex diverted /u/b/texdoc by renaming to /u/b/texdoc.notluatex - luatex ships a link /u/b/texdoc -> /u/b/texdoclua New status should be: - texlive-base ships /u/b/texdoc -> ../../share/texmf-dist/.../texdoc.tlu - no diversion in luatex - luatex does

Re: Preparing lecture about Debian. Help needed.

2009-10-28 Thread Simon Paillard
ing > > like "debian developer's reference + debian new maintainers' guide in > > pictures" :) > > > > If you have some materials (mostly I need presentation) which could help > > me in preparing, please mail. > > My diagram might be usef

Re: Preparing lecture about Debian. Help needed.

2009-10-28 Thread Douglas Guptill
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:31:37AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:00:12PM +0300, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote: > > Hi there. > > > > I'd like to ask you guys for some help. > > > > Here in Moscow State University there is a cou

Re : Re: Preparing lecture about Debian. Help needed.

2009-10-28 Thread anthony berger

Re: Preparing lecture about Debian. Help needed.

2009-10-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:00:12PM +0300, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote: > Hi there. > > I'd like to ask you guys for some help. > > Here in Moscow State University there is a course "Software > maintenance in Linux Distribution." It is dedicated to general que

Preparing lecture about Debian. Help needed.

2009-10-28 Thread Alexander GQ Gerasiov
Hi there. I'd like to ask you guys for some help. Here in Moscow State University there is a course "Software maintenance in Linux Distribution." It is dedicated to general question of software packaging. As example they use rpm-based community repository Sisyphus (rela

Bug#551180: ITP: mp3diags -- find issues in MP3 files and help to solve them

2009-10-16 Thread Alessio Treglia
files and help to solve them MP3 Diags is a GUI-based application that allows end-users to identify issues with their MP3 files, fix some of the issues and make other changes, like adding track information. It also allows user to "look inside" an MP3 file. . Unlike some programs that ar

Processed: user needs help

2009-10-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 544590 general Bug #544590 [powermanagement] Screen On Off Issue Warning: Unknown package 'powermanagement' Bug reassigned from package 'powermanagement' to 'general'. > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistan

Re: Please help with checking the boot and shutdown script ordering

2009-09-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl] > Couldn't that be added as a check to lintian? Sure, for this particular problem, which at most affect 14 scripts. For the general case, it is not possible for lintian to know which package a given init.d script dependency belong to. Quite a lot of lintian checks are

Re: Please help with checking the boot and shutdown script ordering

2009-09-21 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Petter Reinholdtsen schrieb: > Another new resource is piuparts, which will detect packages with > inconsistency between the package dependency and the init.d script > dependency - like a script requiring $portmap while the package do not > depend on portmap. Couldn't that be added as a chec

Please help with checking the boot and shutdown script ordering

2009-09-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
h will detect packages with inconsistency between the package dependency and the init.d script dependency - like a script requiring $portmap while the package do not depend on portmap. Please help find and fix errors in the init.d script ordering. The majority of packages are fairly correct, and

Bug#545811: ITP: texttrainer -- program to help you memorise text

2009-09-09 Thread Jacob Kanev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: texttrainer Version: 0.0.2 Upstream Author: Jacob Kanev URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/texttrainer, http://home.arcor.de/j_kanev/texttrainer License: GPL 3 Description: TextTrainer is a program which

[help] Bug#543323: /usr/bin/gtk-theme-switch2: crash, bad freelist

2009-08-25 Thread Denis Briand
tag 543323 help thanks On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:39:42AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Package: gtk-theme-switch > Version: 2.1.0-1 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/bin/gtk-theme-switch2 > > When clicking on the "preview" button of gtk-theme-switch2, I got a

Re: New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-24 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas, 2009-08-24 14:15:18 +0200 : > For reference, the Darcs plugin is complete (thanks to Sylvain Le > Gall), so it should be usable as a base. The Git plugin is mostly > complete, and should only be missing the parts about the repository > browser and the code to map email address to lo

Re: New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-24 Thread Roland Mas
Hi again, It has been brought to my attention that the URLs for the FusionForge branches I mentioned in my previous email were broken. Here are the correct ones: http://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/bzr/users/lolando/fusionforge/patches/scmrefactor-4.8 http://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/bzr/users/

Re: Help needed on mipsel #541706: gpe-expenses_0.1.7-2+b1(mipsel/unstable)

2009-08-20 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-08-19, Andreas Moog wrote: > Another way to fix this is to have the scripts use /bin/bash as shell > (as Daniel Leidert suggested, this is a problem with dash as /bin/sh). I guess I need to point out that dash as default will propagate to the buildds when chroots are redone. (Which does

New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-20 Thread Roland Mas
s cut-n-pasting from another plugin and replacing what needs to be replaced. I am therefore looking for, yes, volunteers to complete that effort. If you're familiar with your tool, it shouldn't take long, and it'll help other users of Alioth (as well as your friendly Alioth admins)

Re: Help needed on mipsel #541706: gpe-expenses_0.1.7-2+b1(mipsel/unstable)

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Moog
atus: creating po/Makefile.in >>> config.status: executing depfiles commands >>> shift: 2368: can't shift that many >>> make[3]: *** [stamp-it] Error 2 >> A full build log can be found at: >> http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=mipsel&pkg=gpe-expens

Re: Help needed on mipsel #541706: gpe-expenses_0.1.7-2+b1(mipsel/unstable)

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel Leidert
uild your package: > > > > > Automatic build of gpe-expenses_0.1.7-2+b1 on rem by sbuild/mipsel 99.999 > > There doesn't appear to be a mipsel machine that I can access as a > developer to test this bug and as it was a binNMU with only one arch > failing, I'm at a l

Help needed on mipsel #541706: gpe-expenses_0.1.7-2+b1(mipsel/unstable)

2009-08-18 Thread Neil Williams
There doesn't appear to be a mipsel machine that I can access as a developer to test this bug and as it was a binNMU with only one arch failing, I'm at a loss to see how to fix it unless someone can reproduce it and help with the debugging. (mips is fine). morales.debian.org is lis

Re: Paid help for DDs and Debian infrastructure?

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Wise
This mail should have been posted to debian-project, debian-devel is for technical discussions. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Paid help for DDs and Debian infrastructure?

2009-07-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 11:17 +0200 schrieb Steffen Moeller: > * the web-pages team might possibly need more helping hands to implement > what they want > to implement and/or to coordinate the translations etc .. so they could get > some more > graphical skills in or .. they would need

Paid help for DDs and Debian infrastructure?

2009-07-28 Thread Steffen Moeller
might know some other DD they would like buy time from, or they would like to take a Debian-paid (partial?) sabbatical from their very own daytime job. I truly think that more man power in the infrastructure bits would help us a lot in preparing our distribution. If money helps, and if we have

Bug#537886: ITP: quitcount -- A small tool which may help yourself quit smoking

2009-07-21 Thread Ricardo Mones
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ricardo Mones * Package name: quitcount Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Colin Leroy * URL : http://quitcount.sourceforge.net * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C Description : A small tool which may help

Re: Debian @Linuxtag 2009 - Last call for help

2009-06-12 Thread Martin Alfke
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Hi, > > okay - this is my last call for help. Currently I have one, maybe two > people > that want to help on the Linuxtag [1] booth on June 24th - 26th [2] in > Berlin, Germany. Linuxtag is the largest Linux and Open

Re: Help needed with /etc/X11/config/cf

2009-06-02 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi, Please consider posting this kind of questions to debian-user@ instead of -devel, where this is off-topic. Anyway, as for your problem: On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 23:56:15 +0100, alexe...@iol.pt wrote: > Hi, > It is my first time i instaled debian. I am enjoying it very much. > I am trying to

Help needed with /etc/X11/config/cf

2009-06-02 Thread alexe100
Hi, It is my first time i instaled debian. I am enjoying it very much. I am trying to compile jk6 using sour make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/etc/X11/config/cf/Imake.tmpl', needed by `xmkmf'. Stop. I think this error is due to this IRULESRC=/etc/X11/config/cf which exists in the jdl Ma

Re: Debian @Linuxtag 2009 - Last call for help

2009-05-25 Thread Alexander Wirt
Leo 'costela' Antunes schrieb am Monday, den 25. May 2009: Hi Leo, > Alexander Wirt wrote: > > I think that two people are not enough to run a booth. If this call for > > help does not succeed I'll have to cancel the booth. So if you are in Berlin > > durin

Re: Debian @Linuxtag 2009 - Last call for help

2009-05-25 Thread Leo 'costela' Antunes
Alexander Wirt wrote: > I think that two people are not enough to run a booth. If this call for > help does not succeed I'll have to cancel the booth. So if you are in Berlin > during June 24th - 27th please be so kind and participate to the Debian > booth. You don't hav

Re: Debian @Linuxtag 2009 - Last call for help

2009-05-25 Thread Sebastian Rose
Alexander Wirt writes: > Hi, > > okay - this is my last call for help. Currently I have one, maybe two people > that want to help on the Linuxtag [1] booth on June 24th - 26th [2] in > Berlin, Germany. Linuxtag is the largest Linux and Open Source in Germany > whith 10.000 expec

Re: Bug#527557: general: should have a help tracker for each package

2009-05-10 Thread Bryan Donlan
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 13:15 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Hi Ritesh, >> >> thank you for your suggestion on how to improve Debian! Even though I'm >> closing this bug on the assumption that it ain't useful to report arbitary >> wishlist bugs

Re: Bug#527557: general: should have a help tracker for each package

2009-05-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 13:15 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Ritesh, > > thank you for your suggestion on how to improve Debian! Even though I'm > closing this bug on the assumption that it ain't useful to report arbitary > wishlist bugs about things which could be implemented to improve Debian,

Re: Bug#527557: general: should have a help tracker for each package

2009-05-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
with other packages, in place for wiki. Is there a way to find all wiki pages related to kdelibs5, from the PTS page ? That would help. I think, data should go to just a single location. Mailing lists, forums, wiki, BTS - all should have a single database. All should be made inter- related. And

Bug#527557: marked as done (general: should have a help tracker for each package)

2009-05-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 8 May 2009 13:15:18 +0200 with message-id <200905081315.25576.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line Re: Bug#527557: general: should have a help tracker for each package has caused the Debian Bug report #527557, regarding general: should have a help tracker fo

Bug#527557: general: should have a help tracker for each package

2009-05-08 Thread Neil Williams
ncern is that bugs are more work for overloaded maintainers then how is a help request different? > I have a query regarding fdm. Then probably I could just file a "help > report" against fdm. It'd go to the same package maintainer. How does that help the maintainer? It&#

Bug#527557: general: should have a help tracker for each package

2009-05-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
similar to Debian BTS. When a user has some query regarding a package, she cannot file a bug report directly unless she's sure that it is a bug (and not an odd behavior). I have a query regarding fdm. Then probably I could just file a "help report" against fdm. It'd go to the sam

Help for open source and diagramming research

2009-04-30 Thread chung
be picked to receive a $30 Amazon gift certificate. Your participation is anonymous (unless you consent to have us contact you) Here is the survey address. https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/limesurvey/58564/lang-en We really appreciate your help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Needs help testing apt-xapian-index

2009-04-12 Thread David Paleino
ty.__get__(self, obj, type) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/package.py", line 613, in candidateRecord return self.candidate.recor AttributeError: 'Version' object has no attribute 'recor' --->8--- Maybe a typo there? Fixing it to "record"

Needs help testing apt-xapian-index

2009-04-12 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I've prepared a fix for a bug that I cannot reproduce, so I'd like others to test it before I upload: Preconditions: 1. On sid or experimental 2. apt-get install apt-xapian-index OR run update-apt-xapian-index as root 3. See if you get the problem at #521346 To test: 1. git clone

Re: need help updating @debian.org email alias

2009-03-13 Thread Lex Spoon
Thanks for the help, guys! I have lots of pointers now to go from. - Lex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: need help updating @debian.org email alias

2009-03-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
I replied to him in private (because I wanted to mention his current emailForward setting). Cheers, -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

need help updating @debian.org email alias

2009-03-13 Thread Lex Spoon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Who would I talk to about machine access issues? I suspect my l...@debian.org alias is pointing to an old college email. I tried to check it by logging into people.debian.org, but I was refused access. Now I'm stuck. What should I try next, or who

Re: urgent RFH: please help test mdadm 2.6.7.2-1

2009-02-04 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Martin! On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:34:07 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Luca Capello [2009.02.04.1208 +0100]: >> I am going to re-install another HP Vectra VEi8 with the same >> specifications as above: should I test our udeb, as well? > > Not necessary. Thanks! Too late, I had alrea

Re: urgent RFH: please help test mdadm 2.6.7.2-1

2009-02-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Luca Capello [2009.02.04.1208 +0100]: > I am going to re-install another HP Vectra VEi8 with the same > specifications as above: should I test our udeb, as well? Not necessary. Thanks! -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer

Re: urgent RFH: please help test mdadm 2.6.7.2-1

2009-02-04 Thread Didier Raboud
martin f krafft wrote: > I found a bit of time to package up mdadm 2.6.7.2-1, which fixes two > RC bugs, but I cannot test it. I've built unofficial packages for > i386 and amd64 and put them at > > http://debian.madduck.net/repo/pool/main/m/mdadm/ > > so please try them out if you can, otherw

Re: urgent RFH: please help test mdadm 2.6.7.2-1

2009-02-04 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Martin! On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:46:53 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I found a bit of time to package up mdadm 2.6.7.2-1, which fixes two > RC bugs, but I cannot test it. I've built unofficial packages for > i386 and amd64 and put them at > > http://debian.madduck.net/repo/pool/main/m/mdadm/

Re: urgent RFH: please help test mdadm 2.6.7.2-1

2009-02-04 Thread Török Edvin
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 22:46, martin f krafft wrote: > I found a bit of time to package up mdadm 2.6.7.2-1, which fixes two > RC bugs, but I cannot test it. I've built unofficial packages for > i386 and amd64 and put them at > > http://debian.madduck.net/repo/pool/main/m/mdadm/ > > so please try

urgent RFH: please help test mdadm 2.6.7.2-1

2009-02-03 Thread martin f krafft
I found a bit of time to package up mdadm 2.6.7.2-1, which fixes two RC bugs, but I cannot test it. I've built unofficial packages for i386 and amd64 and put them at http://debian.madduck.net/repo/pool/main/m/mdadm/ so please try them out if you can, otherwise I won't be able to upload them soo

Bug#512705: ITP: boinc-app-milkyway -- Help discover structures in the MilkyWay Galaxy

2009-01-22 Thread Thibaut VARENE
: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C/C++ Description : Help discover structures in the MilkyWay Galaxy The goal of milky...@home is to use the BOINC platform to harness volunteered computing resources in creating a highly accurate

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:04, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES > wrote: >>ll need I suppose cooperation from BTS itself but in a second >> time. We need only two user tags by foreign distrib: >> bts-link-foreign-xref-$distrib set to the foregin bugzi

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:46, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:17:06AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Before you decide to push out errors to maintainers via PTS (as I've seen >> mentionned), you should really improve the tool so that the only remaining >> errors are reall

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
ou decide to push out errors to maintainers via PTS (as I've seen > mentionned), you should really improve the tool so that the only remaining > errors are really user errors. That's exactly what this call for help was about, getting input from you about what to improve

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
really useful stuff will be to use user tag in order to crossref > another distrib bugzilla. For instance some bug are fixed on redhat > like #506180 but not upstream. > It will allow to automatize retrieval of information. Of course it would help, but how to implement it? do you have an

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