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xnoxHello anyone familiar with Edubuntu seed inclusion process?00:49
xnoxI want to get 3 packages into it =)00:49
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ockhamhi, is anybody experiencing this: http://pastebin.com/d275a5d95 when trying to package something user pbuilder?00:58
cjwatsonockham: looks like you've broken /bin/sh in your chroot.  Make it a symlink to dash01:00
cjwatson(or maybe dash doesn't handle downgrades properly, I don't know for sure)01:00
cjwatson"unable to execute installed post-installation script: No such file or directory" means in this case that it can't find the #! interpreter, which is /bin/sh here01:00
cjwatsonfor /var/lib/dpkg/info/dash.postinst01:00
ockhamcjwatson: thanks for the hints. this should actually be a pretty clean lucid pbuilder chroot, so i'm a bit afraid of having to tweak it manually01:05
ockhamis there any way to cleanly re-create the chroot?01:06
crimsunit looks like dash's prerm is kinda "oops".01:06
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xnoxwhere was the announcment of the Developer Memberhip Board voting results send?01:14
micahgxnox: u-d-a and it was posted on teh fridge01:15
xnoxmicahg: aha thanks =) stragily I'm not subscribed to u-d-a....01:17
xnoxAnyhow when is the next meeting?01:17
xnoxthe helpful 15UTC every two weeks is quite vague.... =)01:17
micahgfeb 201:18
xnoxOk thanks01:18
micahgxnox: if you're ever wondering when the meetings are, check the fridge calendat01:18
micahg*calendar01:18
xnoxOk I will in the feature. Thank you01:19
maxbjames_w: What's happened to all the debian branches for source package subversion? They are apparently deleted from launchpad?!02:58
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xnoxIn the new merges page06:57
xnoxthere is bugs column with bugs assigned06:57
xnoxhow do i edit it? or link bugs there?06:57
ScottKThe script looks up merge/sync bugs on Launchpad automatically.07:02
xnoxKk cool =)07:06
xnoxso it will pick mine up next time it scans ;-)07:06
dholbachgood morning07:11
xnoxdholbach: 0/07:15
dholbachhi xnox07:16
xnox=) hope your having nice morning ;-)07:16
dholbachyeah... it will be even better when I've had my first cup of coffee :-)07:18
dholbachthanks xnox :)07:18
* xnox is a bit too far to make dholbach coffee07:19
dholbachno worries :)07:20
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xnoxdholbach: thank you for ACKed on my syncs ;-) \0/07:42
dholbach:-)07:44
MFenare there any subtle changes in cdbs between jaunty and karmic?07:51
MFena python-distutils.mk package i was able to build while running jaunty, will not build in karmic07:51
MFenit doesn't even attempt to run setup.py07:51
MFenmy rules file: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/167874/07:52
MFenit builds a package, which contains nothing except the entries in debian/dirs plus copyright, changelog.07:53
pittiGood morning08:18
tseliotpitti: any ideas as to what causes this error? dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Error parsing subject struct09:06
pittitseliot: yes, in fact I do09:07
pittitseliot: weird, I fixed that in early lucid already09:07
tseliotwhat is it?09:07
tseliotI'm still getting it here09:07
pittia missing parameter in the self.polkit.CheckAuthorization() call09:07
pittithe karmic version didn't supply start-time09:07
pittibut it's required with lucid's policykit09:07
tseliotoh, so I guess I'll have to fix screen-resolution-extra09:08
pittitseliot: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ejockey-hackers/jockey/trunk/revision/58309:08
pittitseliot: ah; right09:08
pittiI thought it was from jockey09:08
pittitseliot: above patch should pretty much work for s-r-e, too09:08
tseliotpitti: ok, thanks a lot09:09
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MFenfigured it out. it didn't like that my package was named -dev09:46
geserhas someone any idea what happen there? http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38059356/buildlog_ubuntu-lucid-sparc.ncmpc_0.16-1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz10:03
geserI've seen this in several FTBFS build logs from 18 Jan and 19 Jan10:04
mvoev: hi, did anything change in recent ubiquity (between alpha-2 and now) that could explain why mat_t sees bug #510033 and I don't see it?10:16
ubottuLaunchpad bug 510033 in ubiquity "It's not possible to install mp3 codecs on a fresh install" [Medium,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/51003310:16
mvoev: it looks like for him no apt-get update was run in-target during the install, but for me that worked fine (with a daily)10:16
* ev digs10:18
mvoev: there was a similar issue in karmic when on a fresh install universe package lists were not available, this is why even wrote a small patch :/10:19
mat_tmvo: I can test it with daily if that helps10:23
mvomat_t: that would be nice. I will still add code to gnome-codec-install for the case when the system is installed without network and later gets connectivity10:23
mat_tmvo: yes, definitely10:24
mat_tmvo: thanks a lot for looking at it!10:24
seb128mvo, could be that he was not online during install?10:24
mat_tseb128: yes, I wasn't10:25
evthat would do it then10:25
mvomat_t: oh? you wrote "Note: the same error occurs regardless of whether internet connection is established or not"10:26
mat_tmvo: yes, but I did not account for the installation process10:26
mvoaha, ok10:26
mvoev: sorry for the noise then10:27
mat_tI only referred to what happened post-installation10:27
evno worries10:27
mvothat explains it10:27
mat_t:)10:27
mat_tmvo: so will your patch cater for this scenario?10:28
mvoyes10:29
mat_tmvo: brilliant10:30
ttxseb128: should bug 508297 rather be considered a gtk+2.0 regression ? Should I open a gtk task ?10:31
ubottuLaunchpad bug 508297 in xchat "[lucid] channels do not change color anymore" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/50829710:31
* xnox has sent application to become Ubuntu Contributing Developer10:31
seb128ttx, reassign to gtk rather than opening a new task10:34
ttxseb128: done10:35
mvoev: what is the issue with Ensure that Jockey's apt-cache is up-to-date after install ? (just curious)11:22
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evIf you're referring to the switch of blueprints, it only becomes an issue when we have a jockey page in ubiquity.  The issue itself is that the jockey backend caches apt-cache lookups, so if you run apt-get update (via "update this installer", for example) while the backend is running, and you get to the jockey page, it wont be using the updated apt cache.11:26
evit's not a major deal, as the backend goes away after 10 minutes11:27
evmvo: ^11:27
mvoev: aha, thanks. I was just curious if its some limitation in python-apt or apt12:28
evnope :)12:28
lamontI wonder... if I drop a karmic libc6 on a hardy system (well, chroot), do things blow up?12:45
directhexvery likely12:47
slangasekttx, kirkland: do you recall what the issue was in hardy that caused all instances of scsi-modules-$version-di in the archive to be pulled into the server CD, and is that resolved in post-hardy versions?12:49
slangasek(it's prompting me to do some needful NBS pruning of kernel binaries in hardy-{proposed,updates,security} which we don't have an automatic way of taking care of - but it would be good if we didn't have to worry about this before lucid point releases)12:50
ttxslangasek: that doesn't ring any bell12:50
slangasekok12:50
lamontdirecthex: that was kind of my thinking12:50
lamontI may just do intrepid/jaunty vms as interim steps in my search for the bug12:50
directhexlamont, i had enough explosions with sid libc on non-sid debian to not trust it12:51
ttxslangasek: we should now be able to get rid of cglib2.1, btw12:51
slangaseklamont: I'm not aware of any specific reasons it would explode12:51
lamontdirecthex: ah - very good data point, ta12:51
slangasekttx: woohoo! :)12:51
ttxslangasek: eucalyptus now build/runs from libcglib-java12:51
ttx(2.2)12:51
lamontslangasek: coolness.12:51
slangaseklamont: I may just be exposing my own ignorance, though :)12:52
ttxslangasek: there are a few universe packages that still depend on libcglib2.1-java but libcglib-java provides it.12:52
ttxslangasek: let me know if there is anything more I should do on that subject12:53
lamontslangasek: you're the one who encourages boy scouts to throw gasoline on the fire, aren't you?12:53
directhexon debian it's usually locales that go to poop when you update libc... but ubuntu's locales are handled differently12:53
ttxnot sure how automatic those removals are12:53
slangasekttx: semi-automatic12:54
ttxQuestion about main: when a source package gets promoted into main, do all the resulting binaries also end up in main ? Or do they each need to be pulled by something ? i.e. can a main source package have main and universe binaries ?12:54
slangasekyes, a main source package can have both main and universe binaries12:54
ttxslangasek: ok, cool.12:55
lamontand if you find a universe source with main packages, then you have found a bug.  or warty.12:55
ttxlamont: heh12:55
ScottKThat can still happen if a binary starts being provided by a different source.12:56
lamont'twas one of those lolwut? moments12:56
ScottKIt happened for a bit recently with the switch to distribute from python-setuptools source.12:56
slangasekScottK: that should show up on components-mismatches, though?  Or was this "old package forgot to say that it no longer owned it"?12:58
barrymvo: ping13:41
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tseliotcjwatson: currently we don't pass the vga= parameter to vga16fb, right? Any ideas as to how bug #509328 can be fixed without this parameter?13:56
ubottuLaunchpad bug 509328 in nvidia-graphics-drivers "Lucid Alpha2: Plymouth does not work with the current nvidia driver" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/50932813:56
cjwatsontseliot: that's correct, because using vesafb breaks suspend/resume13:56
cjwatsontseliot: I believe the plan of record is to fall back to vga16fb, not vesafb13:56
tseliotcjwatson: right but currently vga16fb doesn't seem to allow plymouth to work. Is there some parameter we can pass vga16fb?13:58
* tseliot wasn't suggesting that we use vesafb13:58
slangasekpass it to do what?13:58
cjwatsontseliot: that I don't know, Keybuk probably would13:59
tseliotcjwatson: ok, I'll send him an emai. Thanks13:59
cjwatsonI assume that plymouth explicitly rejects it or something at the moment, since vga16fb should present a framebuffer much like anything else13:59
cjwatsonor that we aren't arranging for vga16fb to be loaded if nothing better is available14:00
tseliotok14:00
slangasekfrom bug #506717 and an examination of the initramfs scripts, I believe vga16fb should be getting loaded correctly in the initramfs14:02
ubottuLaunchpad bug 506717 in plymouth "[Lucid] plymouth does not display when using nvidia drivers" [High,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/50671714:03
slangaseki.e., the affected users have it loaded /after/ boot, and the only thing that loads it is the alias, so it should load just as well from the initramfs14:03
tseliotright14:05
xnoxCheck out http://bzr.debian.org/bzr/users/xnox-guest/merges/14:26
xnox=)14:26
xnoxIt's a webpage =)14:26
xnoxRevamped new merges page14:27
xnoxa little bit =)14:27
xnoxhttp://bzr.debian.org/bzr/users/xnox-guest/merges/index.html14:27
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smoserkees, you have a minute? i've a questoin about ssh known hosts format15:02
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keessmoser: hello!  I'm here now, going through IRC backlogs.  :)16:58
smoserkees, i bothered jdstrand , he answered. i was somewhat worried that in my known hosts file the 3rd field always started with same 28 chars or so16:59
smoserit appears to be key header, which always base64 encodes the same, so not an issue (at least i dont think so)17:00
Laibschlool: ping.  Do you have a minute?17:01
keessmoser: ah-ha, yes. that's correct (key header)17:02
smoseri was afraid i was getting little or no randomness in key generation17:03
loolLaibsch: Depends how long the minute  ;)17:06
ccheneydoko: did the build work?17:17
dokoccheney: the build takes about 40h ...17:24
ccheneydoko: oh so won't be done until tomorrow i suppose?17:29
ccheneydoko: was the problem in the past it failed to build or the resulting binaries just failed to work? if failed to build it sounds like it still going is a good sign :)17:30
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Laibschlool: ping.  I sent you one more question.  If you another minute...18:01
MacSlowbryce_, pitti, seb128: today's updates removed xserver-xorg-video-intel on an intel-GPU based system... any idea why?18:08
hungerIs there a way to speed up key processing of plymoth in lucid? Entering the passphrase for my disks is really annoying now.18:26
mathiazslangasek: hi - re bug 50777818:33
ubottuLaunchpad bug 507778 in acpid "Please merge acpid (1:2.0.0-1) from Debian testing" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/50777818:33
mathiazslangasek: does it make sense to pull 2.0.0 in lucid LTS?18:33
slangasekmathiaz: I haven't looked at what's different in 2.0.018:43
slangasekmathiaz: though I do know there are some changes in the Debian package that will need to be gone over carefully in a merge18:44
mathiazslangasek: the debian changelog entry says: New Upstream version from new source tree that already incorporates the18:45
mathiazslangasek: netlink patch..18:45
mathiazslangasek: I'm not sure how stable is this *new* tree with regards to LTS18:45
mathiazslangasek: AFAICT there isn't any major packaging change - kacpimon is a new binary package that has been added18:48
slangasekyes, I don't know either18:50
mathiazkees: jdstrand: mdeslaur: what's your opinion on bug 510732?18:51
ubottuLaunchpad bug 510732 in openssh "OpenSSH server sshd_config PermitRootLogin -> NO" [Wishlist,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/51073218:51
keesmathiaz: we defer to cjwatson.  I would support the change, though.18:51
mathiazkees: could you add a comment to the bug?18:52
keescjwatson: so, what do you think about this ^^ ?  It's been a long-standing request, and I kind of like it.18:54
keesmathiaz: what do you think of it?18:54
jdstrandmathiaz: I'm with kees. I too like it, but realize it cuts down on usability18:54
keesmathiaz: the logic has been that rootlogin isn't possible by default because there is no root password.18:54
mathiazkees: yes - that was my first answer18:55
jdstrandpeople argue that if they enable the root account, they want to use it18:55
mathiazjdstrand: and it's true that the choice to be made is between usability and multiple layer of security18:55
keesright18:55
jdstrandthat said, it is something I typically change on machines I administer (and if I can get away with it, AllowUsers)18:56
* kees ♥ AllowUsers18:56
jdstrand(not suggesting we try to do anything with AllowUsers)18:56
jdstrand*totally*18:57
keesso, here's a thought...18:57
keeswe have an implicit possible with gdm to disallow the root user to log in, even if they have a password set.18:57
keesperhaps we should duplicate this with SSH?18:57
mathiazkees: an implicit possible with gdm to disallow the root user?18:58
jdstrandinteresting thought, though there is a similar discussion with sudo and gksudo18:58
mathiazkees: what do you mean by that?18:58
keesmathiaz: oh, er, total typo.  s/possible/policy/18:58
ScottKAren't there system risks with running Gnome/KDE as root?18:58
jdstrandit is interesting in this case that the gui app is more restrictive18:58
keesScottK: yes, very much18:58
* ScottK wouldn't see blocking root login as primarily a security issue18:58
ScottKIt's a this won't work issue18:58
keesScottK: right, that's why gdm blocks root.18:59
mathiazkees: right. there seem to be a policy mismatch here18:59
* slangasek runs GNOME as gdm18:59
jdstrandit is a known account which makes it particularly easy to brute force (and everyone wants it)18:59
mathiazkees: that being said, openssh is not installed by default on desktops18:59
keesbut I'm saying that it might make sense to carry that logic to SSH18:59
ScottKSo it's tangential to the security issue18:59
keesslangasek: so did I briefly :)18:59
mathiazkees: what the reason for disabling root login in gdm?18:59
jdstrandScottK: I don't think it is tangential18:59
mathiazkees: it seems that the target users are different here19:00
ScottKThere's no system reliabilty reason to avoid ssh as root.19:00
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jdstrandScottK: if you have an enabled root account *and* allow root passwords (also the default), then it makes it possible to brute force19:00
mathiazkees: gdm policy is to disallow end users to shoot themselves in the foot19:00
keesmathiaz: AIUI, lots of system files can get trashed.  gnome/kde don't support it, etc.19:00
ScottKjdstrand: Certainly, but that's not why gdm doesn't allow root loging19:00
ScottKlogin19:00
mathiazkees: are users installing openssh more literate?19:00
jdstrandScottK: oh, I thought we were talking about ssh still19:01
mathiazkees: ie they know more about the root account19:01
mathiazkees: and when they enable the root account they know what they're doing?19:01
keesmathiaz: I would say a greater percentage of people installing openssh-server understand the root account19:01
jdstrandrunning the whole X/Gnome stack is a lot of code that wasn't really written with running as root in mind19:01
keesmathiaz: and I don't think that people enabling the root account know what they're doing always, which is why I think there's value in making the SSH default be tighter19:01
jdstrandagain, I'm for it, but defer to cjwatson19:02
mathiazkees: the other argument for defaulting PermitRootLogin to no is that's what upstream recommends in their documentation19:03
mathiaz(even though the default is yes)19:03
keesmathiaz: yeah, agreed.  mostly we would need to convince cjwatson.  :)19:04
ScottKSounds like upstream should change then19:04
keesmathiaz: http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=309419161619:11
mathiazkees: lol19:12
mathiazkees: that's *very* helpful in taking a good decision :)19:13
keesmathiaz: yeah, I've been using that site for diagrams a lot lately, super easy19:13
mathiazkees: the whole question is actually about the *size* of the different circles19:13
mathiazkees: if blue > brown, then default PermitRootLogin to yes19:14
mathiazkees: if blue < brown, then default PermitRootLogin to no19:14
keesmathiaz: exactly.19:14
keesmathiaz: actually, maybe not.19:15
mathiazkees: AFAICT the *current* representation relies on the number of letters in the circle label19:15
keesPermitRootLogin to no protects the dark green area.19:15
mathiazkees: minus the blue area19:16
keesmathiaz: yup.  comment posted to the bug detailing this logic.19:16
mathiazkees: awesome!19:17
mathiazkees: jdstrand: thanks for taking the time to look at this19:18
keesmathiaz: sure, no problem.  it's come up before, but the brute-forcing attempts have been getting stronger lately, so it's valuable to revisit it.19:19
kirklandslangasek: i don't recall that at all, sorry19:19
jdstrandmathiaz: np! :)19:22
xteejxNCommander: Hi, I was told by charlie-tca that you were the best person to speak to about helping to build packages for the Ubuntu PS3 port (PowerPC)19:34
xteejxI want to contribute19:35
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jonathan_Wow this is busy20:22
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loolLaibsch: It's ok, don't ask to ask, just leave me your questions and I should get to them20:37
Laibschlool: I don't ask to ask, but I was under the impression that a ping here grabs your attention while simply writing to you in an ongoing chat doesn't20:37
Laibschjust wanted to make sure our discussion isn't lost in the void20:38
statikhey, anyone available to sponsor a merge? I filed the proposal about 4 days ago. I'm not in any particular hurry, just don't want it to rot: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~statik/ubuntu/lucid/protobuf/merge-bug502654/+merge/1757120:53
loolLaibsch: it's actually exactly the same, except I get two red channels instead of one  :-)20:54
Laibschlool: OK, thanks20:55
ScottKstatik: At this point in the cycle, that's not so long.20:58
statikScottK: i can only imagine. i'm buried in work myself and i don't have to deal with sponsoring :)20:59
lamontwhere does sound-juicer get track names from?  (and more to the point, when it decides that the musicbrains answer is available, how do I tell it "no, that's wrong"?21:26
lamontand yeah, echan and all that21:26
ionsiretart: Debian seems to have fix for the gst-plugins-bad0.10 FTBFS.21:30
TheMusolamont: musicbrainz for one21:35
TheMusolamont: And very likely cddb/freedb.21:36
lamontTheMuso: well, it's telling me that musicbrains doesnt have it, so I expect "not that"21:39
lamontmore to the point, sometimes it's getting it very right, other times wildly wrong - for the same CD set...21:39
lamontergo, I want a way to influence it's voting...21:39
TheMusolamont: heh right.21:40
* TheMuso has found that the shell script abcde is the most flexible method of ripping for his needs.21:40
lamontdoes it get track info?21:42
lamontactually, is there any way to have that data encoded on the CD? or is it all magic lookups based on hashes?21:43
TheMusolamont: Yes it gets track info, I think it may have some support for musicbrainz, but it mostly uses freedb. Note that there is no GUI for abcde.21:44
TheMusolamont: I don't think this can retrieve cd-text.21:44
lamontok21:49
lamontthanks21:49
chrisccoulsonis there any reason why fuse-utils provides a /sbin/mount.fuse helper but no umount.fuse helper?21:51
cjwatsonkees: convince upstream.  I'm not going to deviate from them21:52
cjwatsonkees: and frankly, I'm fed up with having the discussion every ten minutes21:55
cjwatson(this isn't getting at you, but at the people who won't read)21:55
ockhamhi, is there any easy way to rename a manpage when installing it using debian/<package>.manpages?23:35
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