Re: PPPoE and Portslave

2004-05-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:09:43AM -0500, larry wrote: To Whom it may concern My Name is Larry Sheetz I'm a Co owner in a Debian based ISP. We are currently deploying wireless systems for our isp and noticed that there is on debian package that we can find that includes PPPoE in

RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread Zak B. Elep
Hi! debian/rules! Let me refer you to the Debian Bugs Page, at http://bugs.debian.org. Currently there are 11 bugs that should be addressed; actually they should have been closed/fixed years ago (thanks to the old maintainer :) Of Particular Interest is #157399 which add a button to launch

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:40:52PM -0400, David Krovich wrote: I have a question. If an /etc/init.d script hangs indefinately while waiting for user input, is this a violation of Debian policy? See BTS #221751 for more information. There is no explicit rule in policy about the

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 03.40, David Krovich wrote: I have a question. If an /etc/init.d script hangs indefinately while waiting for user input, is this a violation of Debian policy? My server not booting up to the point where ssh is running and accepting logins means a 2h journey to get there

Re: RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-05-24 Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] gtklp (0.9s-1) unstable; urgency=low [...] * Rebuilt gtklp against libcupsys2-gnutls10 in experimental (Closes: #249494) This does not work. You cannot upload a package which links and buidld-depends on a library in experimental to

Re: RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-05-25 Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-05-24 Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] gtklp (0.9s-1) unstable; urgency=low [...] * Rebuilt gtklp against libcupsys2-gnutls10 in experimental (Closes: #249494) [...] You can upload gtklp to experimental or

Re: RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:34:19AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: This does not work. You cannot upload a package which links and buidld-depends on a library in experimental to unstable. It will FTBFS (fail to build from source) on every autobuilder, because they do not access experimental.

RFC: various KDE window themes and styles

2004-05-25 Thread Marcin Orlowski
Hi, I've packaged some native window decorations and some window styles for KDE and look for sponsor. All the packages are recently uploaded to mentors.debian.net and these are: kwin-decor-activeheart kwin-decor-baghira kwin-decor-fahrenheit kwin-decor-grover kwin-decor-kbcl kwin-decor-kbl

Re: RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread sirtobi
Hi! I'll show the wholte page tomorrow, no time now, but the bug below is no real bug. The config file of gtklp has changed, so the 1 as command was another flag. If you delete the .gtklp/gtklpr or change the gtklpq-command, all works fine. I *should* check for config-file versions, but I

RFS: 2nd call for xmms-singit -- Display and edit lyrics with XMMS

2004-05-25 Thread Florian Ernst
Dear mentors, as my first call[0] hasn't recieved any response, here I go again one last time: Package name : xmms-singit Version : 0.1.28-1 Upstream Author : Jan-Marek Glogowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de/~glogow/ License : GPLv2

Re: RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:42:08AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Which has happened 6 hours ago. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg01548.html - You'll need to build-depend on the new package, though: Build-Depends: libcupsys2-dev (=1.1.20final+cvs20040330-4) Yep, actually

Outsourcing mal ganz anders und zu fairen Preisen!

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas . P . Mueckl
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, sie suchen IT-Personal? - Outsourcing mal ganz anders und zu fairen Preisen! Konzentrieren Sie sich auf Ihr Kerngeschäft und das ohne auf die neuestenTechnologien zu verzichten! Heutzutage lässt sich die Konzentration vieler Firmen auf das eigentliche

RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jesper Zedlitz
I have created a Debian package for the dom4j library. Now I am looking for a sponsor who is willing to take a look at it. dom4j http://www.dom4j.org is an easy to use, open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java platform using the Java Collections Framework. It is

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jorge Pérez Burgos
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 15:05, Jesper Zedlitz wrote: I have created a Debian package for the dom4j library. Now I am looking for a sponsor who is willing to take a look at it. dom4j http://www.dom4j.org is an easy to use, open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Frank Küster
Jesper Zedlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original source (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16035) is pretty big (12MB) so I did not copy that to my webspace. The debian/ directory can be found here: http://saturn.genealogy.net/~jesper/debian/dom4j-1.4/debian/ If

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread David Krovich
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no explicit rule in policy about the interactivity of init scripts (you can check this yourself), but I would consider it to be in very poor taste unless the stability of the system is at stake (e.g., manual fsck). There is the potential of

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Stefan Völkel
One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document should be updated to explicitly deal with this case? If it does wait on input (or might) it should start afte, ssh, pcmcia, hotplug and networking. Thus

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread David Krovich
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My server not booting up to the point where ssh is running and accepting Well, one thing I did make sure was to update the run levels so that my package starts after drbd.

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jesper Zedlitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 But you should nevertheless put the dsc and diff.gz files on the web. Sorry, I forgot to upload those files: http://saturn.genealogy.net/~jesper/debian/dom4j_1.4-1.i386.changes http://saturn.genealogy.net/~jesper/debian/dom4j_1.4-1.dsc

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jesper Zedlitz
Jorge Pérez Burgos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have packaged libraries needed by dom4j, like jtidy, libicu and xom (avalaible in mentors.debian.net) . But i don't see theses dependencies on the control file in debian. You do not need these libraries when you use dom4j, only for building it.

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread David Krovich
David Krovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My server not booting up to the point where ssh is running and accepting Well, one thing I did make sure was to update the run levels so that my package starts after drbd. Doh, I meant

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document should be updated to explicitly deal with this case? If it does wait on input (or might) it should start afte, ssh, pcmcia, hotplug and

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:49:46AM -0400, David Krovich wrote: One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document should be updated to explicitly deal with this case? So far, it does not seem to have been a

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread David Krovich
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So far, it does not seem to have been a problem, but you are welcome to propose it through the normal channels. Please forgive my ignorance, but what are the proper channels to use in regards to discussion/modification of a policy document? Post to

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Frank Küster
Jesper Zedlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Jorge Pérez Burgos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have packaged libraries needed by dom4j, like jtidy, libicu and xom (avalaible in mentors.debian.net) . But i don't see theses dependencies on the control file in debian. You do not need these libraries

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Frank Küster
Stefan Völkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document should be updated to explicitly deal with this case? If it does wait on input (or might) it should start afte, ssh,

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:19:27PM -0400, David Krovich wrote: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So far, it does not seem to have been a problem, but you are welcome to propose it through the normal channels. Please forgive my ignorance, but what are the proper channels to use

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jesper Zedlitz
If you compile with the included libraries, but generate a dynamically linked binary - uups, that will lead to hell. Oops, I saw everything a little bit too optimistic. Sure - not everybody will have the same version of the jar on the system. That explains why there is no dom4j-package, yet.

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jorge Pérez Burgos
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:21, Jesper Zedlitz wrote: Jorge Pérez Burgos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have packaged libraries needed by dom4j, like jtidy, libicu and xom (avalaible in mentors.debian.net) . But i don't see theses dependencies on the control file in debian. You do not need

adopt orphaned package cpuburn

2004-05-25 Thread Lucas Albers
I'd like to adopt this package, and I would need someone to sponsor me on it for the upload. The current maintainer of cpuburn, Indra Kusuma [EMAIL PROTECTED], is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see

Re: RFS: PennMUSH - #3

2004-05-25 Thread Ervin Hearn III
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:15:51AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: The .diff.gz is far too large to be sponsored (by most developers' standards, anyway). It looks like it contains a lot of auto-generated junk that should be deleted in the clean target. [snip] Thanks, I've added some extra

RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread Zak B. Elep
Hi! debian/rules! Let me refer you to the Debian Bugs Page, at http://bugs.debian.org. Currently there are 11 bugs that should be addressed; actually they should have been closed/fixed years ago (thanks to the old maintainer :) Of Particular Interest is #157399 which add a button to launch

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:40:52PM -0400, David Krovich wrote: I have a question. If an /etc/init.d script hangs indefinately while waiting for user input, is this a violation of Debian policy? See BTS #221751 for more information. There is no explicit rule in policy about the

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 03.40, David Krovich wrote: I have a question. If an /etc/init.d script hangs indefinately while waiting for user input, is this a violation of Debian policy? My server not booting up to the point where ssh is running and accepting logins means a 2h journey to get there

Re: RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-05-24 Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] gtklp (0.9s-1) unstable; urgency=low [...] * Rebuilt gtklp against libcupsys2-gnutls10 in experimental (Closes: #249494) This does not work. You cannot upload a package which links and buidld-depends on a library in experimental to

Re: RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-05-25 Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-05-24 Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] gtklp (0.9s-1) unstable; urgency=low [...] * Rebuilt gtklp against libcupsys2-gnutls10 in experimental (Closes: #249494) [...] You can upload gtklp to experimental or

Re: RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:34:19AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: This does not work. You cannot upload a package which links and buidld-depends on a library in experimental to unstable. It will FTBFS (fail to build from source) on every autobuilder, because they do not access experimental.

RFC: various KDE window themes and styles

2004-05-25 Thread Marcin Orlowski
Hi, I've packaged some native window decorations and some window styles for KDE and look for sponsor. All the packages are recently uploaded to mentors.debian.net and these are: kwin-decor-activeheart kwin-decor-baghira kwin-decor-fahrenheit kwin-decor-grover kwin-decor-kbcl kwin-decor-kbl

Re: RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread sirtobi
Hi! I'll show the wholte page tomorrow, no time now, but the bug below is no real bug. The config file of gtklp has changed, so the 1 as command was another flag. If you delete the .gtklp/gtklpr or change the gtklpq-command, all works fine. I *should* check for config-file versions, but I

RFS: 2nd call for xmms-singit -- Display and edit lyrics with XMMS

2004-05-25 Thread Florian Ernst
Dear mentors, as my first call[0] hasn't recieved any response, here I go again one last time: Package name : xmms-singit Version : 0.1.28-1 Upstream Author : Jan-Marek Glogowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de/~glogow/ License : GPLv2

Re: RFC: gtklp-0.9s

2004-05-25 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:42:08AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Which has happened 6 hours ago. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg01548.html - You'll need to build-depend on the new package, though: Build-Depends: libcupsys2-dev (=1.1.20final+cvs20040330-4) Yep, actually

Outsourcing mal ganz anders und zu fairen Preisen!

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas . P . Mueckl
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, sie suchen IT-Personal? - Outsourcing mal ganz anders und zu fairen Preisen! Konzentrieren Sie sich auf Ihr Kerngeschft und das ohne auf die neuestenTechnologien zu verzichten! Heutzutage lsst sich die Konzentration vieler Firmen auf das eigentliche Kerngeschft

RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jesper Zedlitz
I have created a Debian package for the dom4j library. Now I am looking for a sponsor who is willing to take a look at it. dom4j http://www.dom4j.org is an easy to use, open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java platform using the Java Collections Framework. It is

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jorge Pérez Burgos
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 15:05, Jesper Zedlitz wrote: I have created a Debian package for the dom4j library. Now I am looking for a sponsor who is willing to take a look at it. dom4j http://www.dom4j.org is an easy to use, open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Frank Küster
Jesper Zedlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original source (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16035) is pretty big (12MB) so I did not copy that to my webspace. The debian/ directory can be found here: http://saturn.genealogy.net/~jesper/debian/dom4j-1.4/debian/ If

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread David Krovich
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no explicit rule in policy about the interactivity of init scripts (you can check this yourself), but I would consider it to be in very poor taste unless the stability of the system is at stake (e.g., manual fsck). There is the potential of

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Stefan Völkel
One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document should be updated to explicitly deal with this case? If it does wait on input (or might) it should start afte, ssh, pcmcia, hotplug and networking. Thus

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread David Krovich
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My server not booting up to the point where ssh is running and accepting Well, one thing I did make sure was to update the run levels so that my package starts after drbd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jesper Zedlitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 But you should nevertheless put the dsc and diff.gz files on the web. Sorry, I forgot to upload those files: http://saturn.genealogy.net/~jesper/debian/dom4j_1.4-1.i386.changes http://saturn.genealogy.net/~jesper/debian/dom4j_1.4-1.dsc

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jesper Zedlitz
Jorge Pérez Burgos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have packaged libraries needed by dom4j, like jtidy, libicu and xom (avalaible in mentors.debian.net) . But i don't see theses dependencies on the control file in debian. You do not need these libraries when you use dom4j, only for building it.

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread David Krovich
David Krovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My server not booting up to the point where ssh is running and accepting Well, one thing I did make sure was to update the run levels so that my package starts after drbd. Doh, I meant

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document should be updated to explicitly deal with this case? If it does wait on input (or might) it should start afte, ssh, pcmcia, hotplug and

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:49:46AM -0400, David Krovich wrote: One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document should be updated to explicitly deal with this case? So far, it does not seem to have been a

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread David Krovich
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So far, it does not seem to have been a problem, but you are welcome to propose it through the normal channels. Please forgive my ignorance, but what are the proper channels to use in regards to discussion/modification of a policy document? Post to

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Frank Küster
Jesper Zedlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Jorge Pérez Burgos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have packaged libraries needed by dom4j, like jtidy, libicu and xom (avalaible in mentors.debian.net) . But i don't see theses dependencies on the control file in debian. You do not need these libraries

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Frank Küster
Stefan Völkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document should be updated to explicitly deal with this case? If it does wait on input (or might) it should start afte, ssh,

Re: /etc/init.d/ script policy violation?

2004-05-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:19:27PM -0400, David Krovich wrote: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So far, it does not seem to have been a problem, but you are welcome to propose it through the normal channels. Please forgive my ignorance, but what are the proper channels to use

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jesper Zedlitz
If you compile with the included libraries, but generate a dynamically linked binary - uups, that will lead to hell. Oops, I saw everything a little bit too optimistic. Sure - not everybody will have the same version of the jar on the system. That explains why there is no dom4j-package, yet.

Re: RFS: libdom4j-java

2004-05-25 Thread Jorge Pérez Burgos
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:21, Jesper Zedlitz wrote: Jorge Pérez Burgos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have packaged libraries needed by dom4j, like jtidy, libicu and xom (avalaible in mentors.debian.net) . But i don't see theses dependencies on the control file in debian. You do not need

adopt orphaned package cpuburn

2004-05-25 Thread Lucas Albers
I'd like to adopt this package, and I would need someone to sponsor me on it for the upload. The current maintainer of cpuburn, Indra Kusuma [EMAIL PROTECTED], is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see

Re: RFS: PennMUSH - #3

2004-05-25 Thread Ervin Hearn III
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:15:51AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: The .diff.gz is far too large to be sponsored (by most developers' standards, anyway). It looks like it contains a lot of auto-generated junk that should be deleted in the clean target. [snip] Thanks, I've added some extra