On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:01:12 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
>If you do not consider this user interface good enough for your uses
>then feel free to implement the debconf interface described in #369479.
Maintaining _YOUR_ packages is _YOUR_ fscking job. Writing "send a
patch" to [E
On Friday 28 July 2006 22:06, Katrina Jackson wrote:
> Okay here is another honest question: Do you really honestly think not
> having co-maintainers for base packages is ever a good idea? What if
> someone is busy? You don't really feel safe noticing your base packages
> aren't being co-main
On Saturday 29 July 2006 00:42, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jul 28, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "innovation" is the industy's current buzzword. Doing things well even
> > if someone else had a similar idea before will outlive it.
>
> We used to take pride in inventing stuff like update-al
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> When everyone is responsible for something, no one is
> responsible.
If everyone is motivated to work on the distribution and fix bugs in
the distribution, it doesn't change the global amount of work that we
can produce in fixing bugs.
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: libsvm-ruby
Version : 2.8.2
Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://rubysvm.cilibrar.com/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C++,Ruby
Descr
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 04:26:33AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> (Format: X-Vcs-${VCS}: ${URL})
> X-Vcs-Bzr: http://people.debian.org/~adeodato/code/packages/taglib
>
> Another, perhaps more parseable format, would be:
>
> X-VCS-Url: ${VCS}:${URL}
> X-Vcs-Url: bzr:http://people.debian.org
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:10:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > I agree. We should do it like the BSDs: a tree that any developer
> > can commit to, for any package.
>
> How would you handle dilution of responsibility?
>
> When everyone is responsible for
#include
* George Danchev [Sat, Jul 29 2006, 10:23:58AM]:
> On Saturday 29 July 2006 00:42, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Jul 28, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > "innovation" is the industy's current buzzword. Doing things well even
> > > if someone else had a similar idea before will outl
On Saturday 29 July 2006 11:17, Eduard Bloch wrote:
--cut--
> > > The innovation in udev (with HAL, new kernel features and other stuff)
> > > is allowing implementing new features which used to not be possible or
> > > required very complex hacks.
> > > There is a middle ground between useless and
Hi,
On Saturday 29 July 2006 08:43, Christian Perrier wrote:
> And get a very nice random theme for gdm, making the system different
> each time it's booted up. Very user friendly.
I agree with Christian. Quite some people will be confused by this, and it's
completly unnecessary to have a random
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Nacho Barrientos Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: pdfcrack
Version : 0.7
Upstream Author : Henning Noren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcrack
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Should `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11' be added to the list of
virtual package names?
I've discovered that the virtual package `pinentry' is provided by
pinentry-curses, pinentry-gtk, pinentry-gtk2 and pinentry-qt, and
the virtual package `pinentry-x11' is provided by pinentry-gtk,
pinentry-gtk2 and
Hi,
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:02:37 +0200
Nacho Barrientos Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Nacho Barrientos Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: pdfcrack
> Version : 0.7
> Upstream Author : Henning Noren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Tatsuya Kinoshita 2006-07-29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Should `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11' be added to the list of
> virtual package names?
>
> I've discovered that the virtual package `pinentry' is provided by
> pinentry-curses, pinentry-gtk, pinentry-gtk2 and pinentry-qt, and
> the virtual pack
Re: Nacho Barrientos Arias 2006-07-29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What could be the best section for this package? 'admin' like
> "john" (pdfcrack has got a similar behaviour) or 'utils'?
Cracking pdfs is not something an admin would usually do.
Christoph
--
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On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 13:16 +0200, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote:
>
> What could be the best section for this package? 'admin' like
> "john" (pdfcrack has got a similar behaviour) or 'utils'?
"john" is in admin because it's intended to be run by the administrator
to check if any of the users have
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:18:49 +0200
Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cracking pdfs is not something an admin would usually do.
>
> Christoph
Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "john" is in admin because it's intended to be run by the administrator
> to check if any of the
On July 29, 2006 at 1:18PM +0200,
myon (at debian.org) wrote:
> > Should `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11' be added to the list of
> > virtual package names?
> Policy: 3.6. Virtual packages
>
> All packages should use virtual package names where appropriate, and
> arrange to create new ones
Em Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:23:21 +0100
Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> > Why does Ubuntu have to have
> >all the great ideas for their users? One example: They have a
> > pop up telling you updates are ready. Now maybe you now have this
> > feature,
>
>Debian does have this
Em Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:55:26 +0200
Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> If you need to apply a patch to one of my packages for a
> non-critical bug in order to complete an integration work, please send
> me the patch by BTS and if I do not reply in a few days feel free to
> uploa
On 10730 March 1977, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote:
> At the moment, should `pinentry' be added to the list of virtual
> package names? If so, I'll file a wishlist bug against debian-policy.
Nope. If it can work as the pinentry thing then provide it. Thats it for you.
--
bye Joerg
I read the DUMP an
On July 29, 2006 at 4:02PM +0200,
joerg (at debian.org) wrote:
> > At the moment, should `pinentry' be added to the list of virtual
> > package names? If so, I'll file a wishlist bug against debian-policy.
>
> Nope. If it can work as the pinentry thing then provide it. Thats it for you.
Hmm, I h
On 10730 March 1977, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote:
> | All packages should use virtual package names where appropriate, and
> | arrange to create new ones if necessary. They should not use virtual
> | package names (except privately, amongst a cooperating group of
> | packages) unl
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: python-jinja
Version : 0.8
Upstream Author : Armin Ronacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://wsgiarea.pocoo.org/jinja/
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: Python
Desc
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:27:34 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> [ text reordered during quoting ]
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:10:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > I agree. We should do it like the BSDs: a tree that any
>> > developer can commit to, for any package.
>>
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:29:49 +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> When everyone is responsible for something, no one is responsible.
> If everyone is motivated to work on the distribution and fix bugs
> in the distribution, it doesn't
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:43:28AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > We do, see my reply for Matthew and test if you want. You can install
> > the 'desktop' and 'gnome-desktop' task in a sid or testing system
> > using aptitude too.
>
> And get a very nice random theme for gdm, making the system
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Søren Boll Overgaard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Pan[0] is currently undergoing a major rewrite, and being the
> maintainer, I am currently considering what version of pan to
> include in etch. This mail[1] from one of the pan mailing lists
> sums up the s
On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:38:52 -0300, Gustavo Franco
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> * Promote NMU LowThreshold wiki list giving it some official status.
What does this mean?
That you're out of date on what's going on and trying to mak
On Saturday 29 July 2006 18:51, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
-cut--
> It could go either way, of course, but I was referring to the
> difference between due diligence of a group, as opposed to an
> individual; potentially, a team is only as strong as the weakest
> link.
`weakest link' is no
On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:23:33 -0500, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 05:44:38PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
>> > If Debian had slightly less of a culture of "Keep your hands off
>> > my package", I'd do it here
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:28 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
[breaking circular dependencies]
> Dpkg does it the way policy says it should do it and even slightly
> better since it checks for postinst files.
That's unsurprising, given that the relevant sections of policy and dpkg
were written by
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:27:57 +0300, George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Saturday 29 July 2006 18:51, Manoj Srivastava wrote: -cut--
>> It could go either way, of course, but I was referring to the
>> difference between due diligence of a group, as opposed to an
>> individual; potentiall
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:27:26 +, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:38:52 -0300, Gustavo Franco
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > * Promote NMU LowThreshold wiki list giving it some official
>> > st
On Saturday 29 July 2006 21:00, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:27:57 +0300, George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Saturday 29 July 2006 18:51, Manoj Srivastava wrote: -cut--
> >
> >> It could go either way, of course, but I was referring to the
> >> difference between du
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: rest2web
Version : 0.4.0~alpha
Upstream Author : Michael Foord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/
* License : BSD
Programming Lang
On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:27:26 +, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:38:52 -0300, Gustavo Franco
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > * Promote NMU
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: toga2
Version : 1.2.1.1
Upstream Author : Thomas Gaksch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.uciengines.de/UCI-Engines/TogaII/togaii.html
* License : GPL
Programming La
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Nice state of Utopia. Bu of course, everyone is not uniformly
> motivated, and people's motivation is not static, it changes over
> time, real life has a trendency to sometimes intrude, --- so the
> reality is far from everyone is all equal
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:35:28 +0300, George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Saturday 29 July 2006 21:00, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:27:57 +0300, George Danchev
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> > On Saturday 29 July 2006 18:51, Manoj Srivastava wrote: -cut--
>> >
>> >>
Scripsit Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Description : computer chess engine, calculates chess moves
We seem to have several such engines already. Could the description
please say something that distinguishes this from the other ones?
> This is one of the strongest chess programs on the
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:00:21 +, Gustavo Franco
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:27:26 +, Gustavo Franco
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
> I wrote that it could be integrated with PTS, somebody else
> suggested
On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:00:21 +, Gustavo Franco
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:27:26 +, Gustavo Franco
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
> I wrote that it c
Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Advancement of the strong chess engine fruit, it is
> even stronger, and will be further developed.
Please work on the phrasing. It doesn't make much sense as
written. Perhaps "Advanced chess engine under active
development."?
--
Ben Pfaff
email: [
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:20:35 +, Gustavo Franco
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I'm not here for push "new upstream releases" into your packages,
> for example. We're talking about bug fixing and better integration,
> eg: better hardware support, as Anthony pointed out.
Even then, there
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:31:28 +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Nice state of Utopia. Bu of course, everyone is not uniformly
>> motivated, and people's motivation is not static, it changes over
>> time, real life has a trendency to som
On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:20:35 +, Gustavo Franco
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I'm not here for push "new upstream releases" into your packages,
> for example. We're talking about bug fixing and better integration,
> eg: better hardware sup
Erast Benson wrote:
>
> I do not need to make the build system
> available under GPL (GPL §3 requires me to make it available but does
> not mention a license)
GPL 3(a) requires the "complete corresponding source code [be]
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above". GPL 3
defines
Hello,
What is the situation with gluck?
I am cut off from debian-devel, while my mail is accumulating on
gluck, as I can't log in with my DSA key.
I was under the impression from the security announcement that DSA
logins should still be working.
Unfortunately, the ssh connections hang immediat
Bastian Venthur wrote:
> What is the preferred solution for this kind of problem?
>
>
I've heard rumors that packages have a Description: field which could
probably contain a note along the lines of:
WordPress requires access to a local or remote MySQL server. If you
wish to run the s
Hi,
Are you sure it is Debian gluck issue?
I can connect with SSH to it now with minor problem.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:28:36AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
...
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
> debug1: Host 'gluck.debian.org' is known and matches the RSA host key.
> debug1: Found ke
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> PS: It would have been nicer if old hosk identification was backuped and
> used in new system.
Well, not if the system had a root compromise. The attacker must be
assumed to have the private host key, which means that reusing the same
key would allow them
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Le jeudi 27 juillet 2006 à 16:38 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit :
>> Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > it seems that guile 1.6.8 is buggy. people reported to have build
>> > lilypond with guile 1.6.7 and/or guile-1.8 correctl
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is the stupidiest thing you ever did, because everyone had to look
> at your handling of your packages. Everybody saw your gcc-4.1 RC with
> a patch which you're blocking until the new upstream release.
> Everybody saw the awful packaging mistake
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, and we could start by really enforcing co-maintainership. Make it 100%
> mandatory for all essential, required and base packages at first.
There are many ways of working together with people, and
co-maintainership works well for some
Dear Friends,
the current version of apt in debian/experimental has support for
translated package descriptions and we have a the current translations
available for sid on the mirrors (currently not on ftp.debian.org
itself because of the mirror split I suspect).
This means that everyone with no
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