Bug#389163: How to handle filename conflict "aleph" (Packages aleph, tetex-bin, texlive-bin)?

2006-12-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
From Paul's comments, it seems to me that there is no need for the current Aleph it's been replaced, and it's three years old. I have no opinion about whether it ought to be dropped from Debian. Paul also explains that AFNIX replaced Aleph, and should not be thought of as just a new version with

Bug#389163: How to handle filename conflict "aleph" (Packages aleph, tetex-bin, texlive-bin)?

2006-12-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 21:20 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > We've got a problem here, since all three packages are in testing, > provide /usr/bin/aleph, and conflict with each other (or rather, the > *tex* packages conflict with aleph). Eek. > > The right solution to this would be to package the "n

Bug#361766: status

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the status of this bug? It looks like nobody has checked out your patch. Since it's a QA package, you are probably at the moment the person who is best qualified to check out the patch. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#346883: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I intend to NMU a fix for this bug sponsored by some member of the QA > group; patch attached. My pbuild result of this patch was clean, and > produced a binary package with expected debdiff output from the most > recent version in sid. Build logs and

Bug#346975: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > package wmtz > tag 346975 patch > thanks > > I intend to NMU a fix for this bug sponsored by some member of the QA > group; patch attached. My pbuild result of this patch was clean, and > produced a binary package with expected debdiff output from the m

Bug#325035: Intent to NMU

2005-09-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As these bugs have been open for 30 days without a response from the > maintainer, I intend to NMU them in 1 week (or earlier, at the > maintainer's request). gkdial is currently orphaned. So you don't need to NMU; you can simply do an upload yourself.

Bug#246486: ["Craig P. Steffen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] drop package roleplaying from Debian

2005-03-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
--- Begin Message --- Hi Tomas, You contacted me a while back about the roleplaying package, which I have set to ITA. Your last comment on bug 246486 was that fixing it and bringing it up to date would be the be difficult, and perhaps the package should just be removed. I think that's a good a

Re: webmin-samba in testing

2005-03-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Roedel, Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it seems the package webmin-samba is not available anymore in the testing > branch. Will it be available again? The webmin-optional packages have two release-critical bugs and it was probably dropped from testing for the time being until those bug

Re: Bug#241371: marked as done (gbuffy: crashes after adding new mailbox)

2004-08-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > that bug was supposed to be closed by katie, but my sponsor forgot to > pass the appropriate -v option to debuild (or whatever). Whoops! Ah well, such mistakes happen. > actually, bugs closed via the changelog get closed when they enter > inco

Re: Bug#241371: marked as done (gbuffy: crashes after adding new mailbox)

2004-08-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
> this bug is fixed in gbuffy 0.2.6-8, currently in incoming. Do not close bugs this way. It is incorrect to close a bug until the fixed package is actually installed in the archive. Instead, you can tag the bug "pending", and then put "Closes: #" in debian/changelog, which will make su

Bug#251768: pbuilder duplicates bug

2004-08-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My reopens of this bug are based on pbuilder builds on sparc. You can > probably duplicate it with pbuilder on other architectures. Nope. I tried pbuilder on ppc, and it works fine. The problem, again, is the handling of dependencies (as mentioned on

Bug#251768: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends libxt-dev

2004-08-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
reopen 251768 thanks So this is a tricky problem; some buildd's are apparently not installing package dependencies properly. I'm tracking the bug; if you wish to work on it too, please coordinate with me. Thomas

Bug#264026: dia2code: FTBFS

2004-08-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter van Heyst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Regenerating the autotools stuff with a modified autogen.sh from the > autotools-dev package resulted in a package that builds with pbuilder. This is much preferable.

Bug#267927: ppxp: FTBFS on i386

2004-08-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: ppxp Version: ppxp_0.2001080415-10 Severity: serious ppxp does not build on i386. See attached log. Title: File `log' in ppxp_0.2001080415-10_i386 (Aug 17 14:33) File `log' in ppxp_0.2001080415-10_i386 (Aug 17 14:33)ppxp >> 0.2001080415-10 >> Aug 17 14:33 >> logAutomatic build of pp

please remove ia64 lush binary package

2004-08-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: important Please remove the ia64 lush and lush-library binary packages. The latest upload omits (intentionally) ia64 from the Architecture line. Lush does not work on ia64, and it is only accidental that past builds worked. The old binary packages for ia64 are

Bug#240992: This is a feature request rather than a bug...

2004-08-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
severity 240992 normal thanks Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I might be mistaken, but isn't it so that currently, if you accidently > have libktoblzcheck1-dev installed, the resulted binary is linked > against it, and otherwise, it isn't? > > Then, isn't it true that this p

Bug#255955: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Accepted mmake 2.2.1-4 (all source)]

2004-08-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp/mmake-2.2.1$ cat LICENSE > COPYRIGHT GNUGPL (c) 1998-2001 Jan-Henrik Haukeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Redistribution and use with or without modification, are permitted > provided that the above copyright notice can be rep

Bug#255955: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Accepted mmake 2.2.1-4 (all source)]

2004-08-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well well. I assume of non-serious priority right? > I did a random check of tree packages. 2 of them was correct and 1 did > not include such source comments (hsftp). It depends on the particular case. > That he removed GNUGPL.TXT and LICENSE and adde

Bug#246486: attempts to fix

2004-08-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
It turns out that fixing this bug is not trivial; it is merely one of a whole host of problems that are caused because apparently swig has changed its interface in a variety of ways. Adapting to the changes seems easy on the assumption that you understand swig, but I don't. Perhaps version 2.0.1

Bug#255955: Clarification of

2004-08-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My original bug was that debian/copyright didn't actually include the > following (I was auditing packages for something wolse when I ran > across this.) > >COPYRIGHT GNUGPL (c) 1998-2001 Jan-Henrik Haukeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Redistributi

Bug#255955: reopen

2004-08-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
reopen 255955 thanks This bug still exists; merely creating a copyright file doesn't do it. The package is not properly licensed under the GPL, and until we get clarification from upstream, we can't budge on release of it; and we must drop it from Debian if we don't hear at all. I'm tracking th

Bug#265426: lush: FTBFS on amd64: Please add 'amd64' to the supported architectures

2004-08-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The latest change from 'any' to an explicit list of supported architectures > broke the amd64 port. Please add 'amd64' to the supported architectures. Sorry about that; I'll do an upload right away. What we *really* need is a way to do: Architecture

Bug#243501: [Lush-devel] Status of lush ia64 bug

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Leon Bottou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 11 August 2004 10:54 am, Leon Bottou wrote: > > I can see two possible causes: > > > > 1- A floating exception (problems we encountered on mipses) > > The fix would then be easy. > > > > 2- A bfd issue in the dynamic loading/unloading co

Bug#243501: [Lush-devel] Status of lush ia64 bug

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Leon Bottou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kevin told me about a failure to build on certain mips machines. > I was not able to fix it for lack of such a machine. > I was not aware of an IA64 failure. It builds fine on mips and mipsel; it fails on ia64. The mips build log is at http://buildd.debi

Bug#241371: pending upload for gbuffy?

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've adopted the package (#242096). I'm waiting for a DD to do the > upload for me: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004/07/msg00407.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004/08/msg00109.html > > I also asked the QA te

Bug#263594: cannot uninstall xlibs due to broken speedbar-beta dependency

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> apt-get remove --purge xlibs > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages h

Bug#255955: copyright for mmail 2.3

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
I am working on the Debian package for mmail, and I noticed that its copying permissions are very unclear. You distribute a copy of the GPL with the program, but you never actually say that the program may be distributed under its terms. All I can find is this: # # (c) 1998-2004 Jan-Henrik Hauk

Bug#171082: speedbar-beta and xemacs21

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
I'm investigating bug 171082 / 171222 which you reported; in which speedbar-beta didn't install on with xemacs. Using the current versions in Debian unstable, I am unable to reproduce the problem. Can you confirm whether or not you are still seeing the bug? Thomas

Bug#151870: xitalk crashes if you click on 3rd user

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
> If you have 3 people logged in, and you click on the 3rd person, xitalk > quits. The 4th person, 1st 2nd all work fine - it's always the 3rd > person that causes it to crash. I can't reproduce this bug on my system; can you tell me if the bug still happens for you, and if it does, what version

Bug#259258: gnucash: Crashes on startup - guile problem

2004-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Does this problem still happen for you? I cannot reproduce it on my system, and before I try to investigate further, can you confirm that it is still a problem? > Package: gnucash > Version: 1.8.9-2 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Hi all, > > I have checked othe

Bug#151319: xkbd doesn't work with sawfish

2004-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
> As an ipaq user, I know that xkbd isn't really intended for normal > window managers, but I actually have a real need for it on a real WM on > x86 architecture so I'm reporting this as a bug. > > xkbd under sawfish-gnome 1.0.1.20020116-4 doesn't do a darn thing. It > puts up its keyboard wind

Bug#128058: guppi-gnumeric crashes

2004-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
> Package: libguppi15 > Version: 0.40.2-7 > Severity: important > > On debian ppc sid, I find that guppi-gnumeric crashes when > I try to do the following. > > 1) run gnumeric > 2) enter two columns of three rows of numbers (1,2,3 and 2,4,6) > 3) select these six cells > 4) click on the graph ic

Bug#246486: Debian roleplaying package

2004-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Are you still planning to take over maintenance of the Debian "roleplaying" package? On May 25 you said you were planning to start working on it. If you no longer intend to adopt the package, please change its status back to orphaned (I would be happy to do that for you if you like). If you d

Bug#249777: semi: prevents gnus-bonus-el package from configuring

2004-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
I have just done the following with no problems: # apt-get remove gnus-bonus-el gnus # apt-get install semi wl t-gnus # apt-get install gnus-bonus-el with no errors at all. Perhaps this was fixed in a release after the one you have installed (which appears to be 1.14.6+0.20040). Can you try wi

Bug#110331: This bug seems done now

2002-03-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Current practice is to simply close bugs in packages maintained by the > QA group once they've been dealt with, rather than regarding them as > NMUs. A new maintainer taking over the package will have to start from > the most recent version in the archive

Bug#128444: This *is* serious

2002-01-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > severity 128444 serious > thanks > > In practice this is serious. I'll put together a fix. "in practice". No. It doesn't violate policy. Maybe it should, but it doesn't. Of course, it's fine to fix it. But there is no rule that packages must not de

Bug#128444: zope-zpatterns_0.4.3p2-0.2(unstable/sparc): build-depends on a package with interactive install

2002-01-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't build-depend on zope, it's postinst is interactive which > means it can't be installed by build daemons. Gregor suggested a > better solution in #86722 (namely that the needed header files be > copied to zope-zpatterns source), please use tha

Bug#121459: Got microwindows to build on ppc

2002-01-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Aaron Schrab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree. My previous patch was mostly intended to show what needed to > be turned off for powerpc. I'd somehow got it in my head that it was > the maintianer that had asked for help on -powerpc, and so completely > missed that the package was orphaned.

Bug#121459: Got microwindows to build on ppc

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Aaron Schrab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But vgaplan4.c also includes that file (via vgaplan4.h) and appears to > need it. I got around this by modifying debian/config.fb so that it > won't build that part: > > --- config.fb.distSat Jan 5 15:40:15 2002 > +++ config.fb Sat Jan 5 14:18:30

Bug#121459: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It was easily reproduced - there's no libmwdrivers.a for powerpc and the > microwindows build tries to use that before it's built. No, no, a thousand times no. microwindows does try to build libmwdrivers.before it's used, and without someone giving m

Bug#121459: Got microwindows to build on ppc

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Aaron Schrab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tags 121459 patch > thanks > > Fixing the source was actually pretty easy, but it took me quite a while > due to needing to fight the horrible build system from upstream. Thank you, you rock! I'll take care of uploading this.

Bug#127933: microwindows: microwindows source is organized wrong

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: microwindows Version: N/A Severity: normal The microwindows source is organized wrongly. The .orig.tar.gz file contains itself another .tar.gz, and a set of patches. This is so wrong, it doesn't even begin to deserve mention. But whoever adopts this package really *must* reorganize the

Bug#121459: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's why (only the last of four identical errors). According to the > package listing page at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages there's no > libmwdrivers.a in any of the PowerPC packages, any distribution. On ix86 > the file is in libmicrowindow

Bug#121459: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that's a drastically unfair judgement. I would rather ask > every maintainer to do a few extra steps for the quality of their > packages (or better yet, to improve automated systems to notify > (opt-in) maintainers about such problems). R

Bug#121459: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's why (only the last of four identical errors). According to the > package listing page at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages there's no > libmwdrivers.a in any of the PowerPC packages, any distribution. On ix86 > the file is in libmicrowindow

Bug#121459: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Technically these are binary NMUs, but I'd rather think of them as > happening on behalf of the maintainer by some obscure magic, and that > ultimately leaves the maintainer in charge of checking the result (at > least sporadically). That's a reasonab

Bug#121459: microwindows build status

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I rarely do these > days, rather rely on the maintainer to check build status and > logs). This is not such a good idea. Maintainers are generally not responsible for checking build status and logs; the port maintainer (whoever is responsible for m

Bug#121459: microwindows build status

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've rescheduled the 0.88pre11-4 build hoping the build dependencies > install now. But that doesn't relate to #121459 at all. As far as I can tell, it doesn't work: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=microwindows&ver=0.88pre11-4&arch=powerpc&st

Bug#121459: microwindows build status

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
microwindows is not building on powerpc, but I don't know why. The bug report filed seems wrong to me, and the buildd report at http://buildd.debian.org/stats/?arch=powerpc&state=Dep-Wait reports: libs/microwindows_0.88pre11-4: Dep-Wait by schmitz-pb [optional:uncompiled] Dependencies: freet

Re: Processed: done now

2002-01-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:33:09PM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > tags 110331 + fixed > > Bug#110331: libmicrowindows0-fb-dbg is not installable in unstable > > Tags added: fixed > > Don'

Bug#110331: here's the fix

2002-01-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Here's the patch for the bug mentioned. NMU in progress. libmicrowindows0-fb-dbg should depend on libmicrowindows0-fb, not libmicrowindows0. libmicrowindows0-x11-dbg should depend on libmicrowindows0-x11, not libmicrowindows0. Thomas

Bug#121459: oops

2002-01-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
The previous message is in error; I typoed the bug number.

Bug#121459: Here's the patch

2002-01-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Here's the patch for the bug mentioned. NMU in progress. libmicrowindows0-fb-dbg should depend on libmicrowindows0-fb, not libmicrowindows0. libmicrowindows0-x11-dbg should depend on libmicrowindows0-x11, not libmicrowindows0. Thomas

Re: gtml

2001-12-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to the Need Help page, gtml is O. Looking at it's bug > report I noticed that QA is the maintainer and not the maintainer > that originally maintained the package --- I assume that it is still > for adoption since O bug is not closed. Correct? C