Re: new incompatible versions of make and archive rebuilds

2014-04-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
/partial rebuilds sounds interesting to me. manoj -- The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal. -- Mark Twain Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/ 4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438

Re: new incompatible versions of make and archive rebuilds

2014-04-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, [not subscribed, please retain CC] On Sun, Apr 13 2014, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Given how essential make is to our builds, it is perhaps wise to know how much work needs be done before we can upgrade make. How does one go

new incompatible versions of make and archive rebuilds

2014-04-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
manoj -- Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. Paul Tillich, German theologian. Manoj Srivastava sriva...@acm.org 4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438 C577 9A1C signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#553280: defoma: read-in-maintainer-script postinst:20

2009-11-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
that this report be tagged pending, and be still marked as serious, as that is a more accurate rendition of the real status. manoj -- We have luck only with women -- not spacecraft! Kremnev, builder of failed Soviet FOBOS probes Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org http://www.debian.org

Bug#553537: wdg-html-validator: dir-or-file-in-var-www /var/www/wdg-html-validator.html

2009-10-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: wdg-html-validator Version: 1.6.2-6 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: dir-or-file-in-var-www Debian packages should not install files under /var/www. This is not one of the /var directories in the File Hierarchy Standard and is under the control of the local

Bug#553536: iptotal: dir-or-file-in-var-www /var/www/iptotal/images/Archive_Button.gif and 12 others

2009-10-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: iptotal Version: 0.3.3-8 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: dir-or-file-in-var-www Debian packages should not install files under /var/www. This is not one of the /var directories in the File Hierarchy Standard and is under the control of the local administrator.

Bug#553540: htdig: dir-or-file-in-var-www /var/www/htdig/button1.gif and 31 others

2009-10-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: htdig Version: 1:3.2.0b6-9 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: dir-or-file-in-var-www Debian packages should not install files under /var/www. This is not one of the /var directories in the File Hierarchy Standard and is under the control of the local

Bug#553140: xfonts-intl-phonetic: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly postinst:23 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* init

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: xfonts-intl-phonetic Version: 1.2.1-7 Severity: serious Justification: This script apparently runs an init script directly rather User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 9.3.3.2 (Running initscripts) for

Bug#553137: xfonts-intl-asian: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly postinst:23 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* initscr

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: xfonts-intl-asian Version: 1.2.1-7 Severity: serious Justification: This script apparently runs an init script directly rather User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 9.3.3.2 (Running initscripts) for

Bug#553146: xfonts-intl-chinese-big: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly postinst:23 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* i

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: xfonts-intl-chinese-big Version: 1.2.1-7 Severity: serious Justification: This script apparently runs an init script directly rather User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 9.3.3.2 (Running initscripts)

Bug#553142: xfonts-intl-japanese: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly postinst:23 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* init

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: xfonts-intl-japanese Version: 1.2.1-7 Severity: serious Justification: This script apparently runs an init script directly rather User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 9.3.3.2 (Running initscripts) for

Bug#553141: xfonts-intl-chinese: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly postinst:23 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* inits

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: xfonts-intl-chinese Version: 1.2.1-7 Severity: serious Justification: This script apparently runs an init script directly rather User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 9.3.3.2 (Running initscripts) for

Bug#553138: xfonts-intl-arabic: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly postinst:23 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* initsc

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: xfonts-intl-arabic Version: 1.2.1-7 Severity: serious Justification: This script apparently runs an init script directly rather User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 9.3.3.2 (Running initscripts) for

Bug#553143: xfonts-intl-japanese-big: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly postinst:23 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/*

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: xfonts-intl-japanese-big Version: 1.2.1-7 Severity: serious Justification: This script apparently runs an init script directly rather User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 9.3.3.2 (Running initscripts)

Bug#553144: xfonts-intl-european: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly postinst:23 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* init

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: xfonts-intl-european Version: 1.2.1-7 Severity: serious Justification: This script apparently runs an init script directly rather User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 9.3.3.2 (Running initscripts) for

Bug#553241: tix: missing-dependency-on-libc needed by ./usr/lib/libTix8.4.so.1 but the package doesn't depend on the C library package. Normally this indicates that ${shl

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: tix Version: 8.4.0-6 Severity: serious Justification: The listed file appears to be linked against the C library, User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: missing-dependency-on-libc All shared libraries and compiled binaries must be run through dpkg-shlibdeps to find out any libraries

Bug#553243: libwxgtk2.8-dbg: missing-dependency-on-libc needed by ./usr/lib/libwx_gtk2ud_adv-2.8.so.0.4.0 and 15 others but the package doesn't depend on the C library package. Normally

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: libwxgtk2.8-dbg Version: 2.8.7.1-2+b1 Severity: serious Justification: The listed file appears to be linked against the C library, User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: missing-dependency-on-libc All shared libraries and compiled binaries must be run through dpkg-shlibdeps to find out

Bug#553239: libncurses5-dbg: missing-dependency-on-libc needed by ./usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libform.so.5.7 and 4 others but the package doesn't depend on the C library package. Normally

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: libncurses5-dbg Version: 5.7+20090803-2 Severity: serious Justification: The listed file appears to be linked against the C library, User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: missing-dependency-on-libc All shared libraries and compiled binaries must be run through dpkg-shlibdeps to find

Bug#553273: afbackup: read-in-maintainer-script preinst:28

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: afbackup Version: 3.5.3-2 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: read-in-maintainer-script This maintainer script appears to use read to get information from the user. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating through a program such as debconf

Bug#553277: afbackup-client: read-in-maintainer-script preinst:21

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: afbackup-client Version: 3.5.3-2 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: read-in-maintainer-script This maintainer script appears to use read to get information from the user. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating through a program such as

Bug#553280: defoma: read-in-maintainer-script postinst:20

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: defoma Version: 0.11.10-1 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: read-in-maintainer-script This maintainer script appears to use read to get information from the user. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating through a program such as debconf

Bug#552669: maintainer-script-modifies-netbase-managed-file preinst:9 /etc/services

2009-10-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: afbackup Version: 3.5.3-2 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: maintainer-script-modifies-netbase-managed-file Justification: The configuration files /etc/services, /etc/protocols, and /etc/rpc are managed by the netbase package and must not be

Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages

2009-08-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
to have said that in the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry. Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa

Re: Bug#483179: PTS: please link to Ubuntu Launchpad bugs page

2008-05-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
system? manoj -- I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. Oscar Wilde Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#436063: lineakd: Please add definitions for Dell Precision M90 supplied

2007-08-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
of packages lineakd recommends: pn lineak-defaultplugin none (no description available) pn lineak-xosdplugin none (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Refreshed by a brief blackout, I got to my feet and went next door. Martin Amis, _Money_ Manoj Srivastava

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2007-05-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
=ddpoDeveloper's packages overview p -- The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein : Understanding the world Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2007-05-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 9 May 2007 00:07:26 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:13:56PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The PTS already implements the fields referred to in this patch, so this is a working current practice, and I think we are way past the design phase

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2006-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:31:32 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On dom, 2006-11-12 at 14:02 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I suggest that we specify tow headers: and SCM specific header, XS-Vcs-NAME where name is one keyword from a specified list (bzr, cvs, svn, darcs, git

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2006-11-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
== manoj -- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#388494: tla: tla fils to recognize missing patches

2006-09-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
2.5.9-4Apply a diff file to an original Versions of packages tla recommends: ii tla-doc1:20040801-1.lord revision control system (documenta -- no debconf information -- lilo Fairlight: udp is the light margarine of tcp/ip transport protocols :) Seen on #Linux Manoj

Bug#387074: Bug#387072: tla-load-dirs: tla_load_dirs crashed during import

2006-09-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:07:37 -0500, John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: severity 387072 normal tags 387072 unreproducible tags 387072 moreinfo thanks On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:11:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Package: tla-load-dirs Version: 20040801-1.lord I strongly suspect

Bug#387074: tla: fails to commit

2006-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
, pride and hypocrisy are the inhabitants. 150 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.golden-gryphon.com/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
. manoj -- Vulcans believe peace should not depend on force. Amanda, Journey to Babel, stardate 3842.3 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Happy Birthday!

2002-11-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
son, man. Fred Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/ 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C

Re: Bug#109833: postinst could offer to run lilo

2001-08-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
a multitude of blunders. George Bernard Shaw Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/ 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C

Re: Proposal: Reject packages that violate policy

1998-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Darren == Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Darren On 13-Oct-98 Manoj Srivastava wrote: I am inclined to trust the current method of having a human actually do rejects. The afore mentioned human may, of course, use the services of lintian in deciding whether or not to reject

A mechanism to amend policy documents

1998-09-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
at the current bug reports on the packages). manoj Oh, the current set of volunteers are: 1. Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Live free or die

Re: Failed Maintainer Addresses

1998-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
? If there is one, please ask the authors to use internal timers instead; they are more robust, and are less of a load on the system manoj -- Ten years of experience should add up to more than one year's experience multiplied by ten. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http