Re: Checklist for Package Sponsors

2007-08-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Great to have a checklist to help me with my sponsoring. Thanks for creating it. :) Seemed mostly sensible, except for this: [Don Armstrong] > Make sure that the package can be distributed by Debian [...] > * Are there significant patents which the work infringes which are known >

Re: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?

2007-08-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 05:11:07AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This means that when draining the battery we do not allow the CPU to run > > at full speed, so CPU-bound tasks take longer. This tends to extend > > battery life but reduces the processi

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-11 Thread Andre Offringa
David Lopez Zajara (Er_Maqui darkbolt.net> writes: > .. > I doesn't have more for this, but a comment: > > I've read on this thread, on a critical for audacious "as xmms > replacement", I've pointed who audacious doesn't have many features > present on xmms. Hello everyone, I'm a regular Debia

Re: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?

2007-08-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] > Except that a PowerPC processor (as found in Gustavo's ibook) simply > doesn't *have* C states. On my PowerBook G4, I noticed that when I > started running this crude hack[0]... > > -- > #!/bin/bash > > modprobe cpufreq_userspace > echo $$ > /var/run/mycpufreqd > echo users

Bug#437261: ITP: perlconsole -- interactive Perl code interpreter

2007-08-11 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexis Sukrieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: perlconsole Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Alexis Sukrieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.sukria.net/perlconsole.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl D

Re: adduser/deluser on postinst

2007-08-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:57:23 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think that we should standarise user creation/deletion in maintainer >scripts. Yes. The tool for doing so is adduser. >For some code examples which do work (and are used in several >packages) see: > >h

wireless-tools marked non-for-us on S390, blocking other packages from entering testing

2007-08-11 Thread Guus Sliepen
Hello, Several people have emailed me that their packages, which depend on wireless-tools, can't enter testing because wireless-tools is out-of-date on S390. It appears that at some point, the wireless-tools package was marked not-for-us on S390. Newer versions have been uploaded since then, but s

Re: Seeking new maintainer(s) for HPLIP and amavisd-new

2007-08-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > But what about HPLIP? No volunteers for it? i do have a lot of various models using hplip.. but i'm not actually in search for new packages.. what about torsten, doesn't he want to take over? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Bi

Re: Seeking new maintainer(s) for HPLIP and amavisd-new

2007-08-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > But what about HPLIP? No volunteers for it? > > i do have a lot of various models using hplip.. but i'm not actually in > search for new packages.. what about torsten, doesn't he want to take over? I wouldn't mi

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Roger Leigh
David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to package a simple tool that wants a Japanese string in its man > page. It would appear that currently, man pages use fixed encodings that vary > depending on which locale's man page is being looked up; English uses > ISO-8859-1, so it's not po

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Leigh wrote: [...] > I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are > limited (I believe) to the glyphs described in groff_char(7). I am > not aware of any Japanese support at all except in specially-patched > versions. I

Re: Checklist for Package Sponsors

2007-08-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Don Armstrong] > > Make sure that the package can be distributed by Debian > [...] > > * Are there significant patents which the work infringes which are > > known > >to be enforced? > > I'm not going to do this. Knowing what is p

Bug#437316: ITP: opencbm -- Utilities for communicating with Commodore IEC serial bus devices

2007-08-11 Thread Frédéric Brière
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Frédéric Brière" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: opencbm Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Spiro Trikaliotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (and others) * URL : <

Re: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?

2007-08-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:07:39PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Wouter Verhelst] > > Except that a PowerPC processor (as found in Gustavo's ibook) simply > > doesn't *have* C states. On my PowerBook G4, I noticed that when I > > started running this crude hack[0]... > > > > -- > > #!

Bug#437350: ITP: hunspell-ar -- Arabic dictionary for hunspell

2007-08-11 Thread Mohammed Sameer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hunspell-ar Version : beta1 Upstream Author : Mohamed Kebdani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://perso.menara.ma/~kebdani/ayaspell-dic/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, MPL) Pro

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 11 août 2007 à 12:25 +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 04:00:18PM +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > > > > As you don't seem to have understood at all, let me repeat it: XMMS is > > unmaintained. > > Dear Josselin, > > why do you write this while it has been sa

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 11 août 2007 à 06:57 +0200, David Lopez Zajara (Er_Maqui) a écrit : > You are saying to the mantainers who if they doesnt work > on a GTK+ 1.2 -> 2.0 port their packages will go out of debian now? I don't have any power to remove their packages from Debian, but I urge every maintainer o

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 06:10:53PM +0100, David Given wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > [...] > > I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are > > limited (I believe) to the glyphs described in groff_char(7). I am > > not aware of any Japanese support at all except in spec

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

2007-08-11 Thread Brian May
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russ> My preference would be to dump the UMich GSSAPI library and Russ> link nfs-common directly against MIT Kerberos, which doesn't Russ> conflict with Heimdal. So should I make the Heimdal GSSAPI library conflict with the UMic

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-11 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 8/12/07, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 11 août 2007 à 06:57 +0200, David Lopez Zajara (Er_Maqui) a > écrit : > > You are saying to the mantainers who if they doesnt work > > on a GTK+ 1.2 -> 2.0 port their packages will go out of debian now? > > I don't have any power t

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

2007-08-11 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:40:40AM +1000, Brian May wrote: >Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>My preference would be to dump the UMich GSSAPI library and >>link nfs-common directly against MIT Kerberos, which doesn't >>conflict with Heimdal. No. There is a better solution, Brian has found

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

2007-08-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:40:40AM +1000, Brian May wrote: >> Wouldn't this be a better solution then getting rid of the UMich >> library? > Yes. Why? Could you explain what the UMich indirection library practically adds for our users? Why

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

2007-08-11 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 07:13:01PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >Why? Could you explain what the UMich indirection library practically >adds for our users? Why would we want to continue using it rather than >linking directly against an appropriate GSSAPI implementation? I agree with all that. Howe

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

2007-08-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 07:13:01PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Why? Could you explain what the UMich indirection library practically >> adds for our users? Why would we want to continue using it rather than >> linking directly against an ap

Re: Arch-independent parts of binary modules of interpreted languages

2007-08-11 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The rationale is simply that it's not always easily doable while using the > official installation methods, and that changing it manually is > error-prone and can be confusing in some cases. > > While it's important that all files in /usr/share be arch-independent > (becaus

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:09:07AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > For HTML if Japanese text is short, embeding gif/png file is better than > using UTF-8 characters. Then you can read it from any configuration. ...except a text-mode one? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSU

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:09:07AM +0900, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 06:10:53PM +0100, David Given wrote: > > Roger Leigh wrote: > > [...] > > > I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are > > > limited (I believe) to the glyphs