Re: [Oneiric-Foundations-Topic] networked client app updates

2011-04-26 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:23:52 +0100, John Rowland Lenton john.len...@canonical.com wrote: * if our projects switch to, say, python 4, then we'd be looking at shipping python 4 to all supported ubuntus, including LTS'es. I can see why you would want to do this for ease of support, but it's

Re: Ubuntu Branch reviewers

2010-09-22 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:47:46 +0300, Bilal Akhtar bilalakhta...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, I think it would be a *lot* better to set the reviewer of all ubuntu branches to ubuntu-sponsors. This would prevent confusion among people who wish to fix bugs in Ubuntu or merge packages. Such people

Re: libuser1 was removed from Universe .. but usermode wasn't and it's broken

2010-04-14 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:04:53 -0500, Jerone Young jerone.yo...@canonical.com wrote: Hey, Quick question. libuser1 was removed from universe as it was said to not be building under Lucid. Though the program usermode requires it. Anyway to get it back in so usermode can be used again?

Re: ubuntu-releases package

2009-12-06 Thread James Westby
On Mon Nov 23 18:22:55 -0500 2009 Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 16:28 -0500 schrieb James Westby: Have you considered making something similar for Debian (though it's a problem that bites less there)? No. unstable will stay unstable. All my uploads to Debian targeted

Re: Install Wizard 'Looks Too Complicated'

2009-11-30 Thread James Westby
On Mon Nov 30 13:47:34 -0500 2009 John Moser wrote: List some not-silly reasons. You're serious? Ok. * Takes a long time to crack any password that's not in the dictionary and more than a few characters long. * Rainbow tables would be too large to fit on the CD. * We can't know

Re: ubuntu-releases package

2009-11-23 Thread James Westby
On Sun Nov 22 19:16:57 -0500 2009 Benjamin Drung wrote: Introduce a ubuntu-releases package. This package will have a list of all known Ubuntu releases. A small script will give you the needed information, based on the releases list and the current date. Examples: I have often thought this

Re: python-zopeinterface - apparent dependency resolution error

2009-09-07 Thread James Westby
On Sat Sep 05 19:18:37 +0100 2009 Matt Zimmerman wrote: Did anyone else see this recently in Karmic? python-apport wouldn't upgrade automatically due to a chain of dependency weirdness which led to python-zopeinterface and python-zope.interface. I was just looking at this. The issue is the

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:58 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: More usefully would be to assess the bit-rot, number of bugs, any critical or security issues which makes it dangerous. [...] baring any security issues I see no reason why it should be removed. (although I'm sure these things are assesed

Jaunty python upgrade prevents pygtk apps from working

2009-04-14 Thread James Westby
This morning python2.6 version 2.6.1-1ubuntu5 made it in to Jaunty after being held for a few days for the freeze. Unfortunately this package contained an ABI break that meant some python extensions no longer worked, most notably pygtk. In other words if you installed this version you would see

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-06 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 07:27 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: Maybe delaying upgrades until shutdown *is* the right solution? There are a couple of other issues with that. 1. The upgrades may need some feedback from the user, but the user has just declared that they would like to leave the

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-23 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 11:19 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: Hi all, Ubuntu developers tend to complain about the ratio of signal to noise on this list - that is, the percentage of posts that take up their time without helping them to improve Ubuntu. Many developers have apparently unsubscribed

Re: Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

2009-01-09 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 17:17 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 09.01.2009 um 02:22 schrieb James Westby: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 01:26 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Hello all, in an attempt to get some insight about https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/+bug/245981

Re: Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

2009-01-08 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 01:26 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Hello all, in an attempt to get some insight about https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/+bug/245981 I tried to build the packages myself. However, the results are totally different from what I see in the build

Re: Reportbug's behaviour now that bts=ubuntu is dropped

2009-01-07 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:30 +, Iain Lane wrote: Hi all, Just a quick mail to solicit some kind of general consensus on this issue, which came up when I merged reportbug 3.48 from Debian[0]. Previous versions of reportbug in Ubuntu were configured to mail bug reports to the

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-03 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:06 +, Matthew East wrote: This is the second time I've been bitten by a problem like this... it seems that people tracking intrepid frequently end up with a desktop that is different to that which is finally released. No doubt this policy has been considered and

Re: System-Administration cleanup

2008-10-24 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 12:54 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: The Control Center makes scanning the available settings easier, and avoids the increasingly-meaningless distinction between Preferences and Administration. And it saves two clicks (or one drag), compared with the

Re: System-Administration cleanup

2008-10-24 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:12 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 12:54 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: However, the Control Center adds an extra click whenever you access any settings from it, because you need to close the Control Center once you've finished. And the

Re: Pointer to explanation of Ubuntu package naming?

2008-10-10 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 18:50 +0200, David MENTRE wrote: Oops, one remaining question: what does mean the -3build1 part in a package version (e.g. liblablgtkmathview-ocaml[1])? A rebuild of the package without touching the corresponding source package, like Debian's -bN packages? It's similar

Re: OCaml support on Ubuntu Proposal to improve it

2008-09-27 Thread James Westby
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 12:26 +0200, David MENTRE wrote: [ Bcc: to Erik and Stefano for information. ] Hello, == Current situation == I am a user of the OCaml programming language and I switched from Debian to Ubuntu a few years ago. While I'm very satisfied by Ubuntu for the desktop,

Re: how can it be more popular then popcon?

2008-09-17 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:54 +0200, Viktor Nagy wrote: Hi! this is an excerpt from the actual popcon dataset sorted by vote 1 perl-base 150701 2 debianutils 150375 ... 10popularity-contest145894 this means that

Re: Bugs marked incomplete

2008-09-02 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 23:32 +0200, Wouter Stomp wrote: Hello, Bugs that are marked incomplete and subsequently get a reply from the original reporter often stay in the incomplete status. This means they automatically get closed even though the needed info was provided. I think it would be a

Re: Problem with libcupsys2

2008-06-16 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 19:58 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote: On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:51 PM, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you see 403 errors it is one of the rare cases that an upload severely breaks many users systems, and it is a safety measure to limit the number of people

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread James Westby
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 11:21 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Hi all. The new firefox start page in hardy: http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/ is aesthetically pleasing, and I like it, however the google search gives me concerns: Hi, The website also uses launchpad for bug tracking, you can

Re: SPARC architecture moved to ports.ubuntu.com for 8.04 and beyond

2008-04-25 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:54 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: Colin Watson pisze: In accordance with the technical board decision documented in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-March/000400.html, the SPARC architecture has been moved to ports.ubuntu.com for

Re: pulseaudio enabled on dist-upgrades?

2008-04-07 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 13:31 -0700, Matt Price wrote: i notice on my hardy upgrade that pulseaudio, though installed, is not active by default. is there a standard way to enable it on upgrades? the wiki lists this for gutsy: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio but that looks dated. happy to

Re: Hardware Database and Client - Dohickey

2008-03-01 Thread James Westby
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 12:59 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: Hi all, http://dohickey.parsed.net/ https://launchpad.net/dohickey Hi, Can I ask how this differs from the smolt project? http://smolts.org/ Is there a benefit of having all of these clients available, or should we try and coverge