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schweeburgh, looks like Branden won DPL02:50
crimsunyep02:51
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schweebhopefully he's a better DPL than I think he'll be02:52
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crimsunI don't think we'll have a problem with that :)02:52
zulwho got elected?  been living in a hole all weekend02:52
crimsunBrandon Robinson02:53
schweebBranden02:53
crimsune02:53
zulah...the x guy?02:53
crimsunyep02:53
schweebyea ;_;02:53
desrtisn't DPL that thing that mjg59 was supposed to be?02:53
tseng....02:53
tsengWTFOMGLOLBBQ02:53
schweebdesrt: he was running for DPL, yes02:53
tsenghow can you elect branden02:53
desrti have no idea what DPL is, but i suspect the "d" means debian02:54
tsengthats almost as bad as voting for kerry02:54
schweebdebian project leader02:54
desrtand the "pl" means "project leader" now that i think about it02:54
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schweebtseng: <3 tseng!02:54
tseng<3 !02:54
zultseng: if gentoo had elections there would be some people i wouldnt elect but the point is moot..02:54
tsengzul: meh, people in gentoo elected me02:55
tsengwhats that tell you02:55
zulyou would be one of the few i would elect02:55
desrtwhat's the point of having elections if you never release anything?02:55
zulflame wars of course02:55
desrtright.02:55
tsengthats a misinformed comment02:55
tsengimo.02:55
desrti admittedly know very little about debian02:56
desrti installed it once and found out all the software was 2 years old02:56
desrtthen it went away02:56
tsengthats another misinformed comment02:57
desrtwell.  it's an account of actual events.02:57
desrtand i lived those events02:57
tsengthere are multiple branches02:57
desrtwell, i wasn't running sid02:57
tsengyou were running woody02:57
crimsunthe funny thing is, there are machines I _want_ Woody running on02:58
desrtyes.  i think i was.02:58
desrtyou *need* to have a stable distribution with modern software in it, though02:58
schweebI don't even trust my servers to woody anymore02:58
desrtlinux moves pretty quickly.  2 years ago is relatively unusable compared to what's available today02:58
zulbrb02:58
tsengthey just keep coming02:59
crimsunto be fair, though, I don't think there's a distro quite like Debian. I'll happily slap it on for a server and not think twice.03:00
schweebcrimsun: yes03:01
desrti used debian as the basis for a thin client image a while ago.  it was the best distro for that.03:01
schweebI use sarge now though for servers03:01
desrtit had like Xfree3 at the time (4 was out, but not xorg, i don't think) but who cares?  it worked nicely.03:02
desrtand having a single-executable X server was sort of nice anyway03:02
crimsunsure made debugging simpler03:02
desrtand the entire dpkg/apt concept is really interesting and strange03:03
desrtthe fact that you can go between entire distributions by changing your apt sources and reinstalling some stuff is pretty cool03:03
desrti'm suprised that even works at all03:04
desrtnevermind the fact that it works *well* from what i understand03:04
crimsunwell, if you're using Ubuntu, that's testament to how well it works ;)03:04
desrtright.  but i installed ubuntu off of an ubuntu install cd03:05
desrti should hope that works properly :)03:05
desrti mean more if you have a debian system and want to move it to ubuntu03:05
crimsunyep, it does work.03:05
crimsunI migrated 20 machine from woody (or sarge or sid) to warty03:06
crimsunmachines03:06
desrtgenerally, how do the debian folks feel about ubuntu?03:06
desrtmore or less a mixed bag?03:07
tsengalot of them work for canonical :P03:07
tsengsome of them are bitterly opposed, the rest are cool with it03:07
crimsunyeah, it's across the board03:07
crimsun(as expected)03:07
desrti went in #debian on the day i installed ubuntu asking something about how to override package dependancies with dpkg03:07
desrti accidentally mentioned that i was running ubuntu -> kickban03:08
tseng#debian isnt a warm fuzzy03:08
desrtya03:08
desrti learned that a bit later03:08
desrtthey didn't hate me because i use ubuntu.  they hated me because i'm a person :)03:08
tsengthey dont want basic user questions03:08
tsengor any questions really03:08
tsengmeh.03:09
tsengthat last time i frequented there was when it was on OPN03:09
desrtirc used to be a lot nicer03:09
schweebmwilson personifies all that is wrong with the debian community (or at least he used to)03:09
desrtyou could actually get help in help channels03:10
tsengmwilson usually is such a douche it makes me ssmile03:10
tsenghe's funny03:10
desrtand actually talk about project development in devel channels03:10
desrteven this morning i commited the faux pas of using a devel channel for help :P03:10
desrt(though i choose to blame crimsun)03:10
crimsunhey now, I did migrate it to #ubuntu03:11
crimsun:)03:11
tsengi blame everyone03:11
tsengtime to sleep03:11
desrtcha.03:11
crimsunnight tseng03:11
tsengbye.03:11
desrtso, i guess i should ask03:11
desrtsay i want to package up the latest abiword03:11
desrtand have it in hoary03:11
desrtcan i do that here?03:11
crimsunassuming you mean breezy, yeah03:12
desrtah.  afraid of that.03:12
crimsun(nothing's going into hoary save security updates)03:12
crimsunwell, it's not as bad as you might think :P03:12
crimsunbreezy will probably open in ~2 weeks03:12
desrtright03:12
desrtbut i'm not insane enough to install breezy on computers that aren't my own :)03:12
desrtok.. so as i understand it03:13
desrtwhen breeze 'opens', a snapshot is taken of sid03:13
desrtand ubuntu packages are added03:13
desrtand anything not explicitly added/maintained by the ubuntu people remains frozen at the version it was at when sid was branched03:14
crimsunmore realistically, everything's synced/merged from current sid03:14
crimsunthat will affect mostly universe03:14
desrthmm03:14
desrtbut the end result is that new sid packages will get in03:14
crimsuna "sync" is a straight pulling of Sources.gz03:14
crimsunand a building on Ubuntu's buildds03:15
desrtat that exact instant and no other time03:15
crimsunnope, we can ask for syncs from sid at any time03:15
desrtoh.  that's nice.03:15
desrton a package-by-package basis or the entire shot in one go at predetermined times?03:15
desrtjeff was explaining this to me before... he said that the reason that abiword was so old was because it was version-frozen at the sid branch point03:16
crimsunwell, the "all sid" sync is done at the opening03:18
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crimsunfrom then on, "all sid" is fairly rare03:19
desrthmm03:19
crimsunwe ask for package syncs on a much more frequent basis03:19
crimsunthat's why community involvement is vital for universe and multiverse03:19
crimsunthere are something like a dozen of us universe maintainers03:19
desrthmm03:20
desrtso if i'm lazy03:20
desrtand i like abiword03:20
crimsunonly about half were actually given upload privileges by Hoary's timeframe03:20
desrtthen i can badger a master of the universe to pull in a more-up-to-date abiword?03:20
crimsunwell, we can't sync ourselves, but we ask our ftpmasters to sync for us03:21
crimsunon the other hand, we can upload completely new packages that aren't in Sid03:21
crimsun(they, too, have to be hand-approved by an ftpmaster just as they must be in Debian)03:21
desrtstrange.03:22
desrtis there a freeze during the release cycle at which point new universe packages are disallowed?03:22
crimsunnope03:22
desrthuh03:22
crimsunwe can push new packages in right up until the release (which we did)03:23
desrtso an up to date abiword could have made it into hoary if i was here a week or two ago?03:23
crimsun"a week or two"? doubtful.03:23
crimsunmaybe one month ago.03:23
desrtbecause you were too busy?03:23
crimsunand you would have had to have done a heck of a lot of work to ensure it installs/upgrades/removes cleanly.03:24
desrtor because the ftpmasters are a bit picky about what goes in toward the end03:24
crimsundesrt: yeah, we were all extremely pressed for time.03:24
desrthmm03:24
desrtok03:24
desrtstarting to get an idea03:24
crimsundesrt: about 7 people in charge of 15000 packages ... yeah ...03:24
desrtand universe can contain stuff that's not even in debian...03:25
crimsuncorrect.03:25
crimsun(it does)03:25
desrtso, multiverse is solely for the purpose of packages of questional legality?03:25
desrt*questionable03:25
crimsunlicense-wise and other, yes03:25
desrtcool.03:26
crimsuntake a look at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/MOTU03:26
desrti always thought universe was debian stuff and multiverse was stuff that debian refused to package03:26
crimsunoh man, speaking of refusing, we're going to see apt-get.org in breezy...03:26
crimsunI cringe at the idea, but it's going to happen, and we're going to make it work.03:27
dredgit gives me the fear03:27
crimsunit'll definitely be challenging03:27
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desrtapt-get.org = a bunch of 3rd party packages?03:30
crimsunyep03:30
desrtneat.03:30
crimsunsimultaneously neat and hair-ripping ;)03:30
desrtneat for me03:31
desrtstressful for you :)03:31
crimsunyou should consider joining MOTU if you'd like to help :)03:32
desrti have a problem03:32
desrti like to help with a lot of things03:32
desrtso i commit to a lot of projects and have not enough time to contribute a proper amount of time to them all03:32
desrtso i'm actively trying to not do that anymore :)03:32
crimsunI encourage you to at least become a member03:32
desrtright.  but if i become a member i feel bad when i hardly do any work03:33
crimsunwell, help out when you can.03:33
crimsunthere's no obligation03:33
schweebspeaking of membership03:33
crimsunof course it's kinda expected if you actually gain maintainership, which is a different step at this point03:33
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crimsunWed 13 Apr 04:00 UTC Community Council03:34
desrtwell03:34
desrtwhat does 'membership' mean?03:34
desrtactually03:34
desrti'll just read some wiki :)03:35
schweeb0400 UTC = 1100 EST?03:35
desrtDanielTChen (crimsun) audio and ALSA specialist03:35
crimsunschweeb: yes. Or for me, since I'm in EDT, it's midnight.03:36
desrti wouldn't mind maintaining haskell03:36
crimsundesrt: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/NewDevelopersAndMaintainers03:36
crimsunthe Members list is sadly outdated03:36
schweebah, I take it you're in IN03:36
crimsunschweeb: nope, NC.03:37
schweebhrm03:37
schweebmaybe I'm in EDT now too03:37
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crimsundate will tell you :)03:38
crimsunthe switchover was last weekend03:38
schweebguess I'm EDT :)03:38
ajmitch_hi03:38
schweebanyways, I'm up for membership at the next meetin03:39
crimsunlo ajmitch_03:39
schweebevenin03:39
crimsunschweeb: excellent!03:39
crimsunmust be afternoon for ajmitch_?03:39
schweebthen, hopefully soon, I'll be MOTU03:39
schweebgotta start working on more packages for that though :)03:39
crimsunschweeb: look forward to it :)03:39
desrtcrimsun; ya.  the wikipage says that i should be active if i'm a member :)03:40
schweebactive can mean any number of things though03:41
crimsundesrt: the onus is less than that if you were to be a maintainer ;)03:41
ajmitch_yeah, afternoon here for me03:41
schweebparticipating in IRC, mailing lists, etc... is considered activity03:41
desrtweird.03:41
ajmitch_killing time before I go & do work in 15min at uni :)03:41
desrtparticipating in IRC is considered, for me, avoiding other things that i should be doing :)03:41
crimsunirc definitely counts03:42
desrtcrimsun; so what if i find myself a little niche to take care of?03:42
crimsundesrt: then go for it :)03:42
desrti'm upstream for gnome, fd.o and haskell03:42
desrtgnome and fd.o are well-represented in ubuntu already but haskell isn't so much03:42
crimsundesrt: a couple or a few packages you'd have an active hand in is the best way to start03:42
desrtthing is, debian already does a fairly decent job with haskell... i know the packager.  he's a nice guy :)03:43
crimsunwork with him03:43
desrtthe only real problem is latency03:43
crimsunwe try to maintain a very good and close relationship with our Debian maintainer/developer counterparts03:44
desrtthat's good policy03:44
crimsunafter all, the entire point is that changes flow freely and frequently between our two distros03:44
desrtdoes ubuntu have a buildfarm?03:44
crimsunoh yes.03:44
schweebyep03:44
crimsunit's ver-ah nice-ah.03:45
desrtso even though i don't have an amd64 box, i can still package amd64 binaries03:45
schweebcouldn't survive without it03:45
schweebyep03:45
desrtsweet03:45
crimsunwe do amd64, powerpc, and i386 officially, but there are also ia64 builds03:45
crimsunat some point, I suspect sparc and hppa will appear03:45
desrtoh man03:45
desrti almost forgot the best part about ubuntu03:46
desrtsweet sweet vendor patches03:46
desrtexcept for the ones that mess with nautilus03:46
ajmitch_desrt: we upload source packages, and watch the buildlogs, so we don't need the machines ourselves :)03:46
desrtmy personal habit with ghc is that i tend to commit a bunch of changes right *after* the releases :)03:47
desrtso should i ask my debian friend to show me the ropes about what's involved with creating a package?03:48
crimsuncheck DeveloperResources03:48
crimsunit has a bunch of stuff that's essential03:48
crimsunDebian new maintainer's guide, for instance, though I'd policy and developer's manuals03:48
crimsunI'd add^03:49
desrtheh03:52
desrtso i asked him03:52
desrthe says that i should package other haskell-related stuff for debian :)03:52
crimsunthat'd be a great way to get involved :)03:54
desrtya.  honestly, though, i don't care very much about debian :)03:54
schweebyou should03:55
schweebit's one of the most significant open source projects out there03:55
crimsunI dislike the image of Debian and Ubuntu competing, though I willingly admit one's "better" for my desktop needs out of the box03:57
crimsunthings that help one help the other, and that's the way it should be03:58
desrtright... except in terms of automatic package importing, the relationship is only one-way, right?03:58
schweebubuntu is no more competing with debian than progeny and the like03:58
schweebdesrt: it's meant to be quite 2 way03:58
desrti mean... in theory, shouldn't the masters of the universe not exist at all if the sharing was complete?03:58
desrtwe'd just all share debian's universe and be happy03:59
schweebno03:59
schweebMOTUs tame the Debian packages into working with Ubuntu's main03:59
desrthmm03:59
schweebsince main often has newer versions, etc...03:59
desrtbut new packages, ideally, go into debian, right?03:59
schweebthere's a reasonable number of packages that are in Ubuntu that aren't in Debian04:00
schweebespecially mono related stuff04:00
schweeblike, I packaged gsf-sharp, which Debian doesn't have04:00
desrti guess that's the crux of my question.  why aren't they in debian?04:00
schweebbecause no one's added them to Debian's NEW yet04:01
crimsundesrt: yes, ideally. There aren't really that many of us MOTUs who are both Debian and Ubuntu maintainers/developers04:01
desrtso wouldn't it be more efficient to add packages to debian instead of to ubuntu?04:01
schweebUbuntu has a lower barrier to entry for packaging than Debian for the most part04:01
desrtok.  that makes a lot of sense, then.04:01
crimsunDebian has a much stricter entry bar, yes.04:02
crimsun<insert comment regarding apt-get.org>04:02
schweebwe actively try to improve upon Ubuntu04:02
schweebif upstream Debian happens to accept our changes, great04:02
schweebwe try to share our work as much as possible04:03
desrtso... i should make packages for ubuntu and hope they get accepted upstream?04:04
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schweebpretty much04:04
schweebif you want to communicate with some DDs and get yoru packages accepted to NEW, great04:05
desrtnod.  i just heard the debian side of things04:06
desrtthe plan is to stick with ubuntu for now04:06
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desrti like to be able to use the benifits of my work04:06
desrti'm not very altruistic about these things :)04:07
desrtmy debian friend convinced me of one thing - not to duplicate his work.  so i'm not going to package ghc.04:07
schweebbasically separating our development from Debian's allows us a bit more freedom than if we had to wait for all of our development to hit upstream Debian04:08
desrthmm04:11
desrtaccording to the debian guidelines, a library is a bad choice04:11
schweebeh, ignore that04:11
desrtthe good news is that it's a library that nothing will use :)04:11
schweebthose aren't so much guidelines as recommendations04:12
desrtAs an example, I'll use a program called `gentoo', an X GTK+ file manager. Note that the program is already packaged, and has changed substantially from the version while this text was first written.04:12
desrt*classic*04:12
desrtok.  the program i want to package depends on having gecko around04:14
desrtbut i can do --disable-mozilla, for a reduction in functionality04:14
crimsunthe mono stuff, or ...?04:14
desrtlibgtk2hs04:14
desrtor 'gtk2hs' i should say04:15
desrtironically, my friend from school wrote the mozilla bindings for this package :)04:15
desrt(and now i am disabling them)04:15
crimsunoh, you'll probably want to build against mozilla-firefox-dev in that case04:15
desrtoh.  interesting.04:16
desrtok.  let's see04:16
desrtya.  that's not good enough04:18
desrtoh weird.  it might be time for a patch.04:19
desrtok.  patched configure.ac to look for firefox-gtkembed instead of mozilla-gtkembed04:21
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desrtso.. because i'm doing a library i have to deal with -dev04:34
crimsunyep04:34
desrthere's the thing... haskell isn't really normal04:34
crimsunand the soname would go in the binary name04:34
crimsunand all that $funstuff04:34
desrtif you install this package, you're going to want the whole deal04:35
crimsunin other words, it doesn't make sense to just install that lib?04:35
desrtthe standard foo/foo-dev division doesn't make much sense here04:35
thomdesrt: there's no haskell packaging policy?04:36
crimsunI was just going to ask that, thom04:36
crimsunbut I don't think there is04:36
thomdesrt: (for debian, i mean)04:36
desrtwell.. going by c2hs, for example04:36
desrtthere is no c2hs-dev04:36
desrtthere's another thing too04:37
desrtwhen a new ghc gets installed, gtk2hs needs to be reinstalled04:37
desrtand similarly, when a new gtk2hs gets installed, all the programs built using it need to be rebuilt too (this isn't as important, since at the moment, everything is statically linked)04:38
desrtit's sort of a similar situation to kernel modules, i guess04:39
desrtit's not that the gtk2hs code has changed to match the new ghc version... it's more that any code linked together has to be compiled with exactly the same version of ghc04:40
desrtk.  found some policy.04:48
desrti've just convinced myself that i can't do this05:03
desrtthere's a reason that gtk2hs isn't packaged by debian yet.  it's extremely difficult.05:03
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crimsunmorning tritium05:14
crimsunerr, I guess it's still night05:14
tritiumhello crimsun :)05:14
crimsunthe clock on my live cd session is on UTC05:15
tritiumWhat's up?05:15
tritiumWhat are you doing on a LiveCD session?05:15
crimsunnot much, I've been amazingly productive today thanks to a Ubuntu 5.04 livcd05:15
crimsunlive cd05:15
tritiumFantastic!  Away from your office?05:15
crimsunwell, the XP install was acting up, so I decided to let the administrators deal with that mess. I popped in a livecd and rebooted. ;)05:16
tritiumSounds like a good plan.05:16
crimsunyeah, it's very nice. Have you had a good weekend?05:17
tritiumYes, quite good, thanks.  Yourself?05:17
crimsunnot too bad05:17
tritiumGlad to hear it.05:18
crimsunI wonder what my uptime will be on this livecd session ;)05:30
tritiumWhere is the computer you're running it on?05:31
crimsunmy office :)05:31
tritiumAh, wow.  You're working late, particularly for a Sunday night.05:31
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crimsunyeah, some last-minute grading, then I'm heading home05:32
crimsunwb ajmitch_05:32
tritiumWhat course?05:32
crimsunprogramming language concepts05:34
crimsunwe're about to wrap up OOP05:35
crimsunfinishing concurrency05:35
tritiumThat's great.05:35
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desrtcrimsun; you're a prof?05:41
crimsundesrt: yep05:46
ajmitchuh oh ;)05:47
crimsunhaha05:47
schweeblike I said, the enemy ;)05:47
crimsunI'll say this much: I didn't appreciate the amount of work my professors must have put in behind the scenes05:48
crimsunthis is hard work05:48
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ajmitcheither that, or you just haven't found the most efficient way to procrastinate yet :)05:49
crimsunI'm sure it's that, too :)05:49
BurgundaviaI want to run a package list through apt-cache to see if we have them05:49
crimsunhow is the list delimited?05:50
Burgundaviathe problme is that as soon as apt-cache fails to find one, it dies and takes the pipe with it05:50
Burgundavianewlines05:50
crimsunwhich apt-cache action are you using?05:50
Burgundaviahmm05:50
Burgundaviajust a sec05:50
desrtcrimsun; i'm going that way05:50
Burgundaviathis is a case of "I think I just figured it out"05:50
crimsundesrt: excellent05:51
desrti TA right now.  aparantly i'm pretty good at it too.05:51
schweebBurgundavia: you could always download Packages.gz from the sources and parse that05:51
desrtand it's as fun as hell05:51
ajmitchdesrt: TA?05:51
desrtteaching assistant05:51
ajmitchwhat does that entail?05:51
crimsunI would have suggested for i in $(cat foo); do apt-cache policy "$i"; done05:51
desrtteaching tutorials, labs, etc05:51
desrtsometimes marking05:51
ajmitchright05:51
Burgundaviaschweeb, that is what I am doing05:51
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ajmitchalso a student for a few more weeks :)05:52
schweebBurgundavia: why do you need apt-cache then?05:52
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ajmitchhey dholbach!05:52
dholbachhey05:53
Burgundaviaschweeb, ok, I am slightly confused05:53
tritiumHi dholbach05:53
dholbachhey tritium05:53
crimsunmorning dholbach05:53
dholbachhey crimsun... morning indeed :-)05:53
dholbach05:53 here05:53
ajmitchouch05:53
ajmitchwhy are you up so early?05:53
dholbachbut i'm worried, i will have forgotten to pack something05:53
ajmitchcan't bear to be away from us? ;)05:53
dholbachajmitch: exactly :-)05:53
ajmitchwhere are you going?05:53
crimsunUdU?05:54
dholbachajmitch: from dortmund (my place) to trier (my parents), so i'll be able to drop my dog there05:54
crimsunor is that not for a bit05:54
ajmitchI thought UDU wasn't for another week for dholbach :)05:54
crimsunah05:54
ajmitchcrimsun: will you be at UDU?05:54
dholbachi'll be leaving germany on the 16th05:54
desrtcrimsun; what school are you at?05:54
crimsundesrt: NCA&TSU05:55
schweebBurgundavia: what exactly are you looking to do?  I was talking about you can download http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz and all the other Packages.gz's for the other branches and parse them for the packages you're looking for05:55
desrti've never heard of that :)05:55
crimsunajmitch: I can't, teaching commitment05:55
ajmitchah :(05:55
ajmitchUDU is in the mid-semester break for me05:55
crimsunajmitch: ah, excellent05:55
ajmitchyeah, it worked out very well05:55
schweebwish I could go to UDU05:55
ajmitchnice & close, too05:55
crimsundesrt: it's one of the larger historical black colleges and universities (HBCU)05:56
ajmitchdholbach: seen the udu.wiki.ubuntu.com wiki?05:56
crimsundesrt: I think only Texas A&M is larger05:56
Burgundaviaschweeb, I am parsing another repo for candidates for upload05:56
desrtinteresting.05:56
desrtwhat is a black college, exactly?05:56
dholbachajmitch: yeah... i'll make some notes on it when i arrive at my parents place05:56
crimsuna minority college, african-american-based05:56
desrthmm05:57
tritiumcrimsun, we recruit there, I believe05:57
crimsunthough to say it's "black" is really a misnomer, since there's a fairly large south asian population, too05:57
ajmitchdholbach: so many BOFs now...05:58
crimsuntritium: wouldn't be surprised as a fellow engineering school05:58
dholbachajmitch: it will be a DAMN tough week05:58
ajmitchyeah, not much chance for partying ;)05:58
dholbachajmitch: haha, we'll manage05:58
crimsunhaha, I'm sure there will be time for partying ;)05:59
schweebseeing as most of the people there are robots, and barely sleep, there will probably be partying till all hours of the night :p05:59
dholbachall we need to do it persuade sabdfl into a global MOTU boot camp and we're set :-)06:00
tritiumMy sister got me a ticket to the U2 concert in Tempe next week.  I'll be leaving for Arizona Wed.06:00
dholbachWOW06:01
ajmitchdholbach: a bootcamp would be good :)06:01
dholbach:-)06:01
crimsunoh dear.  23:55 < coreymon77> and where can i find how to add the unstable backports?06:01
schweebhaha06:01
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dholbachusers make me cry some times06:01
schweebit's been out 3 days!06:01
ajmitchcrimsun: bad word!06:01
schweebjebus06:01
crimsunit was only a matter of time, really :/06:01
dholbachso what did i forget to pack?06:02
ajmitchbackports! ;)06:02
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schweebdholbach: where you goin?06:03
ajmitchyour passport?06:03
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dholbachschweeb: first ogra, then my parents place, then i'll visit an ex-girlfriend, then off to UDU06:03
ajmitchthen make sure you have passport, visa if needed for UDU06:04
ajmitcheverything else is secondary06:04
schweebex-girlfriend, eh? you dirty rascal you06:04
ajmitchoh, and a laptop if you have one (with AC adaptor)06:04
dholbachschweeb: HAHAHAHAHA! :-)06:04
dholbachajmitch: need to get my sister's one, will burn my home-directory now06:05
ajmitchgpg key!06:05
dholbachajmitch: yes!06:05
schweebdholbach: :D06:05
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schweebdon't forget blank CDs06:06
schweebI always end up needing blank CDs for one reason or another06:06
ajmitchyou can pick those up easily enough06:06
dholbachschweeb: for my ex-girlfriend? :-)06:06
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=== dholbach pipes innocently
schweebdholbach: well, if you take some "pictures" you gotta back em up :)06:06
dholbachschweeb: you're so funny :-)06:07
schweebof course I am06:07
ajmitchI should hunt down mpt - it seems that he might be in dunedin as well06:07
schweebdunedin?06:08
ajmitchthis city, where I live :)06:08
schweebah :)06:08
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dholbachschweeb: that'd be lovely :-)06:11
schweebare we gonna continue using bugzilla? or are we switching to malone entirely?06:11
dholbachmalone, at some stage06:11
schweebwhereabouts in germany are you, dholbach?06:12
dholbachschweeb: dortmund06:13
dholbachschweeb: 10km from mvo06:14
dholbachdid you spot it on the map?06:16
schweebI'm lookin now06:16
schweebthere we go06:18
ajmitchmalone is looking fairly quiet06:19
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schweebpoor lamont, all alone in the central US06:19
schweebhehe06:19
schweebhrm, anyone know volvoguy?  he's in MI too06:22
=== ajmitch is all alone at the bottom end of NZ
ajmitchat least according to that, I'm the southern-most Ubuntu person :)06:25
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dholbachsmurfix lives close to atlantis :-)06:26
schweeblol06:27
dholbachand phurballphredd somehow got the coordinates wrong, he's in mongolia instead of indianapolis :-)06:27
crimsunwhich map is this?06:27
ajmitchhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~jdub/random/UbuntuWorldWideHuge.jpg06:27
schweebhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~jdub/random/UbuntuWorldWideHuge.jpg06:27
dholbachwiki/UbuntuWorldWide06:28
schweebdholbach: well, mine shows up clearly still :P06:28
crimsungreat, thanks06:28
ajmitchschweeb: as does mine, sadly06:28
schweebajmitch: that's cause you live in LoTR land :p06:29
dholbacheurope is REALLY packed06:29
ajmitchthere is that06:29
dholbachwe need another map for that06:30
schweebthink jdub's talkin about doing some zoomed in maps06:30
dholbachhow could i else find mates for the next release party?06:30
ajmitchnah, we need this expanded out lots, and printed out for UDU ;)06:30
dholbachsounds like a tapestry06:32
dholbach<- shower06:32
crimsuncool, just added coords06:35
tritiumGood night, guys.06:51
tritiumSee you tomorrow.06:52
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schweebdholbach: east coast, about the middle06:59
Burgundaviaone of the original 13 states06:59
dholbachahh, ok06:59
dholbachwonder what branden robinson will do to debian's situation now07:11
schweebthat's a very good question07:12
schweebI'm pretty concerned, I've not been a big fan of his07:12
schweebbut I hope for the best07:12
dholbachmaybe he's one of those who /can/ make major changes07:13
crimsun'night all07:15
dholbachsleep tight, crimsun07:15
Burgundaviadholbach, I grepped that repo I mentioned. It seems to be a straight build of Debian sid with one exception.07:25
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dholbachBurgundavia: then we should talk to the maintainer07:26
Burgundaviadholbach, I have built that program (glest) in my pbuilder and it builds and installs07:26
dholbachi think we should now go the -> MOTUNewPackages way07:27
Burgundaviaok07:27
BurgundaviaI will add it07:27
Burgundaviadone07:38
schweebman, this womble guy is hostile.07:54
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Gagatanmoin08:09
schweebnight folks08:27
dholbachbye schweeb08:30
dholbachhi Gagatan08:30
dholbachi'm off, bye08:41
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wombleGot a package-without-.desktop-file: conglomerate09:30
wombleDo I just drop it in the wiki page somewhere?09:31
Burgundaviathere is a page already listing everything in uni/multi not having a .desktop file09:44
Burgundaviawww.ubuntu.com/wiki/UniverseWithoutDesktopFile09:45
Burgundaviahttp://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UniversePackageWithoutDesktopFile09:47
wombleBurgundavia: And yet, I don't see conglomerate on there.  Which is why I want to add it.  But, since there doesn't appear to be any "manually added" entries there already, I'd like to get the opinion of those who have to read it as to the best way to add it.09:52
crimsunwomble: add it and file on malone09:52
womblecrimsun: Why both places?09:53
crimsunwomble: because malone is our bug tracking tool09:55
womblecrimsun: Yeah, as in "Bugsy Malone".  Do I file against the package in malone and then duplicate that info in the wiki as a package to be fixed?09:56
crimsunwomble: sure.09:56
=== womble wonders why there's both a BTS to track these and a wiki as well.
crimsunwomble: because prior to Malone, we had no official bug tracker09:58
crimsunwomble: so it was easiest to stuff things onto a wiki09:58
wombleAnd you're in a dual-operation transition phase currently?09:58
crimsunwomble: and in the last months leading down to Hoary's release, we were all massively editing the wiki pages to keep our changes current09:59
crimsunwomble: essentially.09:59
Amaranthheh, using a wiki as a BTS hurts09:59
wombleOK then.  Now I understand.09:59
crimsunwe can't use bugzilla.u.c for universe/multiverse09:59
crimsunmalone wasn't ready then09:59
Amaranthit really hurts when the wiki looses two days of changes :/10:00
Amarantherr, loses10:00
wombleWill the account I create for the wiki work on malone and vice versa?10:00
crimsunwomble: absolutely.10:00
womblephew10:04
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d3vic3morning10:15
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\shgrmpf...can't login to ubuntulinux website...11:29
\shthe data is correct...but I can't login11:29
\shand resetting passwords is also not working :(11:29
ajmitchit's done this before..11:29
\shscrap11:30
\shneed to change something on MOTUNewPackages11:30
\shhell damned11:30
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ajmitchwe'll have a good MOTU discussion session at UDU with the rest of the people, but I think a meeting at sometime could be good11:33
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siretarthi02:23
TreenaksMOTU meeting? I propose Amsterdam!02:24
Treenaks[/late] 02:24
siretartdoes anyone have a good pointer why amd64 binaries usually needs to be compiled with "-fPIC"?02:24
dredgTreenaks: feh. i propose dublin.02:25
thomsiretart: because you can't have non-fpic shared objects on amd6402:25
Treenaksdredg: do they have bandwidth there then?02:25
siretartthom: why isn't -fPIC default in gcc on amd64 then?02:25
dredgmaybe...02:25
siretartI try to understand it02:25
thomsiretart: you might be building staticly02:26
siretartwhen to use -fPIC and when not? does it harm on i386/ppc?02:26
siretartah02:26
siretarthm02:26
thomdebian policy says you should use PIC everywhere02:26
thom(for shared objects)02:26
siretartand I assume it doesn't make any difference on i386, yes?02:27
siretartanyway, thanks for explanation02:32
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lunatikhi there, is there a plan to add e17 to ubuntu please ?02:54
Treenakslunatik: has it been released then?02:54
Treenaks(and: do you have sane packages for us?)02:55
lunatikno released but compilation and usage is ok for me02:55
lunatikno package no02:55
truluxheya02:55
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sabdflhello-motu!02:56
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sabdflwell done on getting universe into shape for hoary, guys02:56
sabdfli've had several people say "wow"02:56
dredgmorning sabdfl02:56
Treenakshi sabdfl02:56
dredgsabdfl: personally, i think you could probably s/guys/dholbach/ for most of it :)02:56
Treenaksdredg: and d3vic3 for the python stuff02:57
lunatikbut I can do packages for it02:57
dredgTreenaks: definitely02:57
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dredgshrine*02:57
ctdhullo everyone - does anyone know why mplayer-g4 doesn't actually install mplayer?02:58
Treenaksdredg: with lots of <blink> and <marquee> and clashing colors?02:58
Riddelllunatik: I'm sure packages would be most welcome.  do you know if there are any made for debian (official or somewhere on apt-get.org)?02:58
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dredgTreenaks: hell yes02:58
dredgTreenaks: and a great big "OMG!!!!11111" at the top of the page02:58
lunatikRiddell: I saw .deb in forum and blogs for e17, but the installation process like hard02:59
lunatikRiddell: .deb exists shure02:59
d3vic3:)02:59
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Treenakslunatik: but those debs should also interact nicely with the e16 ones03:00
Treenaksthe ones I've seen don't03:00
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lunatikthe one I've seen was places on different repositories03:00
lunatikdont move03:00
lunatikhttp://thomas.walraet.net/blog/index.php/2005/01/22/22-enlightenment-e17-sous-ubuntu-warty <= if you read french03:01
lunatikhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=20216 <= for english version in forum :)03:01
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lunatikI think the big deal is to make e17 configured as good with nautilus and a good desktop configuration03:04
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dholbachhellooooooooo03:34
d3vic3O.O03:35
tritiumHi ogra03:35
ogratritium, that was in fact dholbach ;)03:35
ograhi03:35
tritiumWell, hello to dholback also :)03:36
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Mithrandirhi both of you03:36
tritiumAre you guys in the same place right now?03:36
ograyup03:36
fabbionehi guys03:36
tritiumhi fabbione03:37
Mithrandirthis is fun.  The new ia32-libs won't ship with just one gcc, nor just two, it'll actually ship _three_ gcc sources.03:37
truluxMithrandir: a couple of gcc sources?03:38
truluxUHH03:38
Mithrandirtrulux: 2.95, 3.0 and 3.303:39
thom_2_.95? why OGGE?03:39
truluxMithrandir: Christ... 2.95, kinda weird03:39
truluxW E I R D03:39
Mithrandirfor libstdc++2.9-glibc2.903:39
Mithrandiror whatever it's called03:40
fabbioneyou kidding right?03:40
Mithrandirno03:40
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Mithrandirthis is for debian, but we'll just sync it.03:40
Amaranthia32-libs?03:40
Amaranthfor running 32-bit apps on amd64?03:40
MithrandirAmaranth: probably one of the most evil packages you'll ever know.  Stay away from it.03:40
Amaranthheh03:40
Mithrandiryay for libstdc++: four different versions shipped.03:41
Amaranth1) All my software is open-source and can run on 64-bit and 2) I don't even have an amd6403:41
Mithrandir(2.10, 2.9 3.0 and 5)03:41
Mithrandirelmo will so hate me.03:41
Mithrandirhmm, now I need an ia64 which is running Debian.03:42
Mithrandir:P03:42
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Mithrandirheh, the source package will grow from 16MB to about 250MB.03:44
thomMithrandir: dear god03:45
Mithrandirthom: I'm trying to make people understand why we want multiarch. :)03:45
Treenakswe do?03:46
Mithrandiryes. :)03:46
Mithrandiroh, fun.  The Ubuntu package should probably ship xorg instead of xfree in the source package.03:47
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\shbreezy is open?03:55
thomnot yet03:56
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dokoMithrandir: you are soure about 2.95? that's egcs-1.1 :-)04:21
Mithrandirdoko: ok, four versions of gcc, I forgot about egcs 1.104:21
dokoand be prepared to put glibc-2.1 in there as well ;-)04:21
Treenaksoh while you're at it, why not libc504:22
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dokoTreenaks: it's not _really_ needed ...04:22
Mithrandirdoko: nah, glibc should be backwards compatible, shouldn't it?04:22
thomcan we have some a.out love, too?04:22
Mithrandirthom: sure.04:22
thombecause just elf is really dull04:22
dokothe package is called libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 ...04:23
dokothom: :)04:23
Mithrandirthom: or, no I don't think we can.  The kernel doesn't support them.04:23
Mithrandirdoko: yes, but that means "built against glibc2.1", it's part of the egcs sources.04:23
jbaileyMithrandir: glibc can generally be expected to be backwards compatible.04:23
dokoMithrandir: build xen first ...04:23
Mithrandirdoko: not funny.04:23
Mithrandir:P04:23
jbaileyMithrandir: The major difference si that from 2.2 to 2.3, all of the internal symbols were hidden, so anything compiled against those suddenly broke.04:24
Mithrandirah, ok04:24
Treenaksjbailey: which is a good thing though04:24
Treenaksjbailey: (in the end)04:24
jbaileyMithrandir: The exception there was that drow hacked it so that extern int errno; would still work - But it fails as soon as you move to nptl.04:24
Mithrandirjbailey: you make me cry.04:24
jbaileyMithrandir: No, incompetant C programmers should make you cry.04:25
Mithrandirjbailey: that too.04:25
jbaileyPlay thou not with library internals =(04:25
dokoMithrandir: there are some hundred bug reports in the archives, and AFAIR we fixed many of them already for hoary04:25
Mithrandirjbailey: I'm just happy I'm at the university now, so I get about 2.5MByte/sec to my local mirror04:26
jbaileyMithrandir: Bite me.04:26
jbailey;)04:26
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atmaniakhi04:27
MithrandirI'm going to build-depend on lsb so we can DTRT for ubuntu and debian both, just because I can.04:27
atmaniakis there a solution to have a recent version of XFCE in hoiary ?04:27
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dredgsoon to be ie.archive i hope04:28
dredgatmaniak: Version: 4.2.1.1-2ubuntu2 isn't recent enough?04:28
atmaniakdredg, oups, ?? universe ?04:29
dredgyes04:29
atmaniakok, thx04:30
atmaniakdredg, is there any iso live kubuntu using xfce ?04:31
dredger, not exactly kubuntu then is it?04:32
dredgxfce4 is in universe, not in main04:32
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bddebianHey folks05:06
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lunatikI've got a maintaner for e17 in ubuntu :)05:44
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GheRiverores06:03
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UsiuHi, Do you know the problem ?? [gnome-bluetooth]  Ubuntu Linux (Send To: Menu Function)   Patrick Steiner06:43
UsiuHow to fix it ?06:43
Usiuhttp://lists.gnomehack.com/pipermail/gnome-bluetooth/2005-March/000818.html06:43
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hervehouba!07:31
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bddebianhouba?07:33
hervenevermind :-)07:33
bddebian:-)07:35
hervebddebian, http://www.marsupilami.com/07:37
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bddebianHeya Boilermaker!07:47
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tritiumbddebian, hey there :)07:48
tritiumI think I prefer "Fightin' Irish" to Boilermaker ;)07:48
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bddebiantritium: Traitor!! :-)07:48
bddebianherve: No habla :-)07:48
tritiumbddebian, undergraduate ties are just much stronger ;)07:49
hervebddebian, just if you knew the character under another name07:49
bddebianAhhh07:49
bddebianRen and Stimpy? :-)07:49
bddebianj/k07:49
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hspranghi!07:58
hervehi07:58
bddebianHello hsprang08:01
tritiumbddebian, so what's up?08:03
bddebiantritium: "working" :-(  You?08:03
tritiumbddebian, same08:03
bddebiantritium: Are you working on Masters or PhD?08:08
tritiumbddebian, PhD08:08
bddebianWhat school?08:08
bddebianerr curriculum08:08
tritiumbddebian, what do you mean?  I'm in Electrical & Computer Engineering.  That what you mean?08:09
bddebianAhh08:09
bddebianYou don't happen to know a Brian Pearson do you?08:09
tritiumbddebian, doesn't ring a bell, but I'll look him up.08:09
bddebiantritium: Well it was long ago.  He was an EE student I think and was my boss at the Krannert building when I was doing tech support :-)08:10
tritiumbddebian, I don't know any of the undergrads...08:11
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bddebiantritium: D00d, I'm old.  This was like 15 years ago.. :-)08:12
tritiumbddebian, I haven't been her that long, dude!08:12
tritiumI was here for 1 year to get my MS in 98-99, and I've only been here for PhD since Aug `02.08:13
bddebianAhh08:13
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bddebianI was there in like 88-89.. ;-P08:13
tritiumAh, the year ND won the national championship ;)08:14
bddebianHeh08:14
tritiumI'll be leaving in August for good - can't wait!08:15
bddebianWhat, West Lafayette not exciting enough for you?? ;-)08:17
tritiumI much prefer the climate of New Mexico :)08:17
tritiumAnd I miss the chile...08:17
bddebianBah, too damn hot there :-)08:20
tritiumnah, it's a dry heat ;)08:20
bddebianShit, I lived in California and went to AZ to the river often.  Don't tell me about "dry heat"  It's still fucking hot!! ;-)08:24
tritiumheh, but it beats humidity any day08:25
bddebianThis is true08:26
bddebianAlthough there is nothing quite like stepping out of the shower and NEVER drying off.. ;-P08:27
tritiumbddebian, you're in MD, did you say?08:27
bddebianNo, Philly08:28
tritiumOh, that's right.08:28
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tritiumI'll be back...08:35
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hervehmm... cryptic08:57
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pkernogra: May I message you?09:08
hervedidn't you just? :-)09:10
pkernNo.09:10
pkernNot really ;)09:10
hervehaaa... you want to flood him :-p09:11
pkernlol (:09:11
pkernHm is there a DFSG-equivalent for Ubuntu?09:11
herveDFSG :-)09:12
pkernOk, the License Policy ;)09:12
hervehi doko09:13
pkernWhat really caught me when searching for it was the spelling. ``licence'' instead of ``license'' |:09:13
hervethe other way round for me09:14
hervelicence is the French spelling, for instance09:14
Treenaksincense!09:15
herveif you say so :-p09:15
pkernTreenaks: May I message you privately instead of ogra who is away? ;)09:18
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Treenakspkern: about what?09:21
pkernTreenaks: MOTU09:22
Treenakskeeping it on the channel might be nicer :)09:22
Treenaksmaybe?09:22
hervewell, it's #motu here09:22
hervebut can you be more specific, pkern09:22
hervecome on, don't be shy :-)09:22
pkernQuestion No. 1: Are packages flowing directly from Debian into the universe?09:24
hervenot really09:25
pkernBut otherwise work would be duplicated?09:25
herveconsider packages going into main, at first :-)09:25
herveand we have altered some, so the flow cannot always be automated09:26
pkernYeah, sure. I know that it is sometimes necessary to patch some.09:26
pkernWell, it's like this. Some guy of the local Linux User Group ordered some Ubuntu CDs to my home to distribute them.09:27
pkernI was impressed when I tried it.09:27
pkernNow I wanted to contribute some time to Ubuntu. As I am a Debian Developer I am quite used to Packaging.09:28
hervesure you're welcome09:28
pkernYeah, but how to get started exactly? Packaging stuff for Ubuntu and looking for a mentor for each one of them again like in Debian? ;)09:28
herveif you're a dd09:29
herveI think you can easily get upload rights09:29
hervebut we're having some rest for now ;-)09:29
pkern(:09:29
hervehoary just released and breezy is not opened next09:29
herves/next/yet09:29
ajmitchonce breezy is reopened there'll be a mad period of automagic syncing with debian09:30
pkernWell, look at Debian sarge. *cough*09:30
pkern*g*09:30
herveajmitch, but it can't be automated for packages marked ubuntuN ?09:30
pkernWell, it is not documented, that's why I wanted to ask. (:09:30
hervethat's what I was about to say09:30
herveI don't really know how the motu will work now09:31
herveas for me, I'll concentrate on python/zope packages09:31
hervewhich were almost all altered :-] 09:31
ajmitchherve: the merge-o-matic hsa some special rules for handling those syncs - I don't know how it will work09:31
pkernherve: In theory you could record a diff between the ubuntu version and the Debian version it was build upon and apply this to the new one, after a review ;)09:31
ajmitchpkern: there are a whole bunch of debdiffs sitting somewhere for that purpose :)09:32
herveajmitch, unapply, update, and reapply changes? I doubt it09:32
ajmitchyou  may have seen the recent discussions on the debian lists about debian & ubuntu09:32
pkern(=09:32
Mithrandirpkern: that's basically what mom does.09:32
herveI easily get bored of tro^Wendless discussions on debian-devel :-)09:33
TreenaksMithrandir: cleaning up after the maintainers? :P09:33
MithrandirTreenaks: no, finding the ubuntu diff and applying that to the new debian package.09:33
herveI already know packages where it would have been a mess09:33
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Mithrandirpkern: take a look at http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/ongoing-merge/09:33
ajmitchah, there they are09:34
hervesip-qt3 and sip4-qt3 DD made the same job as us09:34
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pkernMithrandir: Really nice, thank you.09:35
hervewow! scott is really productive! :-p09:36
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motaboyHi all!09:55
crimsun'lo09:55
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hervehi motaboy09:57
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hervenight all!10:50
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tritiumogra, you said dholbach is with you?  Are you already "down under" for the conference?11:20
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ajmitch_tritium: they're both in .de, iirc11:30
tritiumajmitch, oh, is that right?  I see...11:30
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JanCthe xbel-utils package doesn't install correctly in hoary11:33
JanC(post-install script tries to use the wrong python version)11:33
JanCso yesterday I made a fixed package for myself (first time I used pbuilder ;) )11:33
JanCxbel-utils is built from the python-xml source package BTW11:33
JanCnow the big question is: "what should I do with it"?  :-)11:33
kokehi motus!!11:35
siretarthi koke :)11:36
ajmitch_morning koke11:38
kokeajmitch: morning, but here it's 23:36 :)11:38
kokedo you know how to login on the UDU wiki??11:39
ajmitch_nope, I haven't done so yet11:41
kokeI wanted to add myself to the Attendees page!!! :D11:52
tsengkoke: just click Login at the top11:52
tsengon the front page11:52
kokeohh, I must be blind :)11:52
kokewhat a small font!11:52
tsengits next to search11:52
tsengyeah i had trouble with it11:52
tsengswitch your theme to rightsidebar11:53
tsengits easier to use imo11:53
tseng(i run moin at work also)11:53
koketseng: it's quite nicer, thanks11:54
tsengnp dude11:55
tsengshould be default11:55

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