Bug#280324: ITP: freemind -- A Java Program for creating and viewing Mindmaps
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: freemind Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Christian Foltin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freemind.sf.net/ * License : GPL Description : A Java Program for creating and viewing Mindmaps Hi, the package does already exist actually (see http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FreeMind_on_Linux for details), I'm the maintainer of the package for the FreeMind project and I'd like to have it in the official Debian repository (contrib Section). I'm not yet a Debian developer, going through the documentation and the process of becoming one. Cheers, Eric -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8
Re: Bug#280324: ITP: freemind -- A Java Program for creating and viewing Mindmaps
Hi, hope this is OK to reply-to-all in such cases... Hilko Bengen wrote: Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: the package does already exist actually (see http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FreeMind_on_Linux for details), I'm the maintainer of the package for the FreeMind project and I'd like to have it in the official Debian repository (contrib Section). Have you tried to compile/run freemind with any of the available DFSG-free JREs so far? Not personally, but some users have unintentionally and unsuccessfully tried to start FreeMind with kaffe and gcj. Would I get a different result if I would try to _compile_ first FreeMind with whatever free JDK? I'm not yet a Debian developer, going through the documentation and the process of becoming one. Recently I spent a few hours on creating a freemind package myself, since I hadn't seen the links to your package so far. If you want, I'll be happy to sponsor your package. It would be a pleasure, I just need to find a key signer nearby. Anybody living around BÃblingen (or Stuttgart)? So, what would be the next steps? Remember: I'm still going through the documentation (and I didn't think it would be so quick to get a sponsor :-) ). Thanks, Eric Cheers, -Hilko -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the Last Resort of the Incompetent. Gwalt jest ostatnem schronieniem niekompetencji. La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompetence. ~ Isaac Asimov
Re: SVG icons
Hi, isn't the actual underlying problem that the Debian Policy only accepts XPM icons (and lintian with it)? I don't know the background of this decision, but could imagine: - broad acceptance (aside from GNOME and KDE), PNG should be fine on this one, SVG not yet. - text oriented format: SVG OK, PNG not. - free: SVG and PNG OK. To summarize, I think recommending SVG would require a change to the policy. Cheers, Eric > Le mardi 07 décembre 2004 à 23:51 -0500, James A. Treacy a écrit : >> SVG use is increasing and I have seen nothing in Debian about how they >> should be handled. So, > > I don't think that's much different from PNG icons. > >> What is the proper way to handle svg icons? >> For example, where should they be placed? > > GNOME places them under /usr/share/icons/$THEME/scalable. > >> How well are they supported? > > Support is increasing; but at least all GTK+ stuff supports them, > including as toolbar icons, provided that librsvg2-common is installed. > >> Should a non-svg icon also be included? > > Not necessarily. > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ > : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] > `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom > -- Eric de France, d'Allemagne et de Navarre
Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?
Hi, as I understand myself as someone aware of the support problems of software problems, I would like to point to 2 problems: 1. the Debian Kernel is a bit different from the kernel.org Kernel; example: at work we used the Apani VPN client, which did work under all kind of RedHat/SuSE kernel, but not under the Debian kernel, even though there is some compiling done at installation time (i.e. not only binary modules delivered). 2. as a software provider, you need to be able to reproduce the problem of your customer to solve it (at least for non-obvious problems), so that you can reproduce the problem in your environment, debug, correct and test again. (I would also imagine there could be some legal implications if you are officially supporting a certain setup, but practically aren't able to support it properly; but we want to stay out of the court ;-) ). What is the consequence? you need a limited amount of possible combinations, you need to have a stable system (in the sense: not changing every three weeks) and you would greatly appreciate to be informed of changes that might break your system before your customer actually installs the patch/update/whatever. Imagine a customer doing regularly an apt-get update & upgrade in order to be sure to have the latest security fixes, and all of a sudden, your expensive software stops to work, at all of your customers, almost at once. You're out of business! Game over! I'm exagerating a bit but that's what they want: no surprise, be able to clearly define what is supported and what not (e.g. self compiled kernel or not?!), have a chance to test before their own customers do. This said, I don't have a clue who at Debian could provide this to them; though I'd think Debian is probably best in these aspects than some other platforms starting with W. Probably some training to understand how Debian is working and structured might just be what they need. Cheers, Eric Tim Cutts wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such people?? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way to support Debian?? The first thing I would do is to try to convince the vendor not to get so hung up on supporting different distributions. If their product depends tightly on kernel stuff, then they should base their support matrix on kernel version, not on distribution. Point them at Platform Computing as an example of how to do it with LSF. They support Linux, and they don't give a stuff what distribution you're running. They support certain kernels, and certain C libraries, and other than that they don't care. And they're not too precise about kernel version - on X86 you can run any 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, and any 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 glibc. They're a little pickier on other architectures (they don't support 2.6 on either Alpha or Itanium yet). Tim -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the Last Resort of the Incompetent. Gwalt jest ostatnem schronieniem niekompetencji. La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompetence. ~ Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pwc-source headed for unstable this weekend
Hi, I confirm that the pwc driver works well. Only at boot time, I have the following messages: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Linux video capture interface: v1.00 pwc: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted. pwc: Unknown symbol video_devdata pwc: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device pwc: Unknown symbol video_device_alloc pwc: Unknown symbol video_register_device pwc: Unknown symbol video_usercopy pwc: Unknown symbol video_device_release pwc: Unknown symbol video_devdata pwc: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device pwc: Unknown symbol video_device_alloc pwc: Unknown symbol video_register_device pwc: Unknown symbol video_usercopy pwc: Unknown symbol video_device_release pwc Philips webcam module version 10.0.6-unofficial loaded. pwc Supports Philips PCA645/646, PCVC675/680/690, PCVC720[40]/730/740/750 & PCVC830/840. pwc Also supports the Askey VC010, various Logitech Quickcams, Samsung MPC-C10 and MPC-C30, pwc the Creative WebCam 5 & Pro Ex, SOTEC Afina Eye and Visionite VCS-UC300 andVCS-UM100. pwc Trace options: 0x00a1 but without any practical consequence, gnomemeeting works like a charm (Debian Kernel image 2.6.10-1-k7). So I welcome pwc! Eric sean finney wrote: i've been using this new pwc driver for a while now and have not had any problems with it, tested on i386 and amd64 boxen. so, after looking over the latest version, assuming there are no new issues i'll plan on uploading the pwc-source package to unstable. i don't think this really warrants a cool off period in experimental, but if someone has a reasonable objection then i will put it there instead. i'll probably do this on saturday. quoth teemu: Since this package claims to be GPL (although there might be issues with the reverse engineering which this code is based on) is there any reason not to integrate this code into the kernel-source package and have the pwc.ko module compiled automatically to kernel-packages? The kernel-package-2.6.10-1-686 package already contains several usb-webcam drivers in the /drivers/usb/media/ directory which are approximately the same size as pwc.ko. i suppose it could be added to the debianized kernel source package, but since the original author asked to have it yanked from the mainline kernel and it is now itself forked and maintained outside of the kernel, i think this approach makes the most sense. at least for the time being. sean -- -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the Last Resort of the Incompetent. Gwalt jest ostatnem schronieniem niekompetencji. La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompetence. ~ Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pwc-source headed for unstable this weekend
Hi, (I assume everybody is on -devel, like I am, and as it seems the problem sits between keyboard and chair, no bug report either). This might very well be, as I didn't compile the kernel myself (I just use the standard kernel-image-2.6.10-1-k7 package) but used kernel-source-2.6.10 with the .config from the image package, make oldconfig and make dep (which I was told is deprecated, so). So, basically, your saying that the right way to do this kind of things is to use the corresponding kernel-headers package, and apt-get tells me that I need as well kernel-kbuild to build "out-of-tree kernel modules" which seems to be exactly what I need. Thanks, Eric Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:08:11PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: pwc: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted. i'm guessing that this has to do with how you compiled the module. IME, this message is typically seen when one complies a module against a 2.6 kernel tree where 'make clean' has been run since the latest kernel build. The kernel-headers-2.6.*-foo packages should ship enough intermediate files in /usr/src/kernel-headers/* to prevent this problem, but one easily gets in trouble [1] if one compiles custom kernels without being aware of the problem. [1] Well, such as it is. As long as one does not get oneself in more trouble by trying to use the module against a different kernel build, the warning message at load time seems to be all that happens. -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the Last Resort of the Incompetent. Gwalt jest ostatnem schronieniem niekompetencji. La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompetence. ~ Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with - and ' in some man-pages
Hi, in some man pages (e.g. ImageMagick, dh_installmime but I've met other ones), the dashes and single quotes are not really what they look like, but some other unicode letter. This has two major drawbacks: - search for options become nearly impossible (try searching for -m, without using -). - cut&paste doesn't work. (this has also the drawback that not all fonts have the said characters, but that's all right) I'm pretty sure, it's somehow due to the fact that I have set LANG=en_IE.UTF-8 (unicode being important of course). Nevertheless, I don't know if it's a problem of the manpage system or of the manpage writers, and how the writers could circumvent/solve the problem. And this information would be useful before I start filing bugs, or!? Thanks for any help, Eric -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the Last Resort of the Incompetent. Gwalt jest ostatnem schronieniem niekompetencji. La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompetence. ~ Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with - and ' in some man-pages
Hi, thanks to both Clint and you for the help. In /etc/groff/man.local, I removed the comments in front of: . if '\*[.T]'utf8' \ .char - \N'45' and removed the negation ! in front of the first condition: . if '\*[.T]'utf8' \ .tr \[oq]' (I could have removed the condition alltogether) You made my day! :-) Eric Adeodato Simà wrote: * Eric Lavarde [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:04:45 +0100]: I'm pretty sure, it's somehow due to the fact that I have set LANG=en_IE.UTF-8 (unicode being important of course). Nevertheless, I don't know if it's a problem of the manpage system or of the manpage writers, and how the writers could circumvent/solve the problem. And this information would be useful before I start filing bugs, or!? Clint already told you how "writers" cand solve the problem. In the meantime, you may find useful the workaround described in the last paragraph of /etc/groff/man.local. -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the Last Resort of the Incompetent. Gwalt jest ostatnem schronieniem niekompetencji. La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompetence. ~ Isaac Asimov
Re: d-i has 99% support for filesystem labels
Hi, I don't know if my opinion counts but I _did_ notice that d-i creates labels, and at the same time broke my parallel Red-Hat FC2 installation, which all of soudain tried to use my debian root partition (LABEL=/) as its own root partition, without luck of course, and with a lot of really strange error messages. It took me quite a while to figure out the problem, so here is the message: labels do only properly work at install time, if no other system is using them as well. (and, no, I didn't think about posting a bug, but I can do. Against which package actually?) Thanks, Eric Andrew Pollock wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:20:00PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Miros/law Baran wrote: it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just reinsert "root=/dev/hda?" into grub's menu.lst. Any idea how to solve this problem? ...by using partition labels in fstab? Sorry, I do not know anything about partition labels but if this is the solution it should be done in the installer and if this works in Grub menu.lst this should be done here as well. I gave some of the relevant people in the d-i team an education on the benefits of filesystem labels, to to the point where partman will create filesystems with a label, however I didn't manage to convince them to mount by the label in /etc/fstab regards Andrew -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the Last Resort of the Incompetent. Gwalt jest ostatnem schronieniem niekompetencji. La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompetence. ~ Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
see with URL support or agnostic konqueror?
Hello, I'm maintaining the freemind package and currently 'sensible-browser' is used to open links (which are always absolute, either file:/... or http, ftp, whatever). It works well for remote links (http etc.) but is not the best solution for file: links, if a true browser is behind sensible-browser. 'see' would be a better solution because it handles file types properly, but it doesn't understand URL notation and doesn't handle remote links. konqueror would handle everything well but is not so nice for non-KDE users. My best guess currently would be a small wrapper script that calls 'see' for file: links (removing the file: prefix), and 'sensible-browser' for all other kind of links. Not very difficult but I have the feeling this must have been needed by others as well. So my questions: - is there already an "agnostic" utility that does this kind of thing? - would the 'mime-support' maintainer be interested in adding URL handling to the 'see' utility? (would this be at all a good idea?) Thanks, Eric -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the Last Resort of the Incompetent. Gwalt jest ostatnem schronieniem niekompetencji. La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompetence. ~ Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#320044: ITP: libforms-java -- framework helping you lay out and implement elegant Swing panels quickly and consistently
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libforms-java Version : 1.0.5 Upstream Author : Karsten Lentzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://forms.dev.java.net/ * License : BSD Description : framework helping you lay out and implement elegant Swing panels quickly and consistently The FormLayout has been designed to be powerful, flexible, precise and easy to learn and understand. It can significantly reduce the time to describe a form and to fill it with components. The layout manager introduces a unique layout feature: it honors the screen resolution and dialog font size to retain the layout proportions in different environments. . Also, we have seperated the layout task from the panel construction. Therefore we provide a set of non-visual builders that assist you in defining common panel layouts and in filling a form with components. The JGoodies Forms ships with general purpose builders and builders for specialized layout tasks. For example, the DefaultFormBuilder helps you build forms with one, two, three, or four columns. The ButtonBarBuilder specializes in building button bars. . On top of these non-visual builders the JGoodies Forms provides factories that create the most frequently used layouts, panels, bars and stacks. We recommend to use the factory methods whenever possible; future releases may map a logical panel creation to a concrete creation method that honors the platform and look&feel, for example the Mac vs. Windows button bar layout, where Mac has the default button in the right hand side and Windows in the left. . Alternative URL: http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/forms/ (and the main interest for me is that it's a dependency for FreeMind 0.8.0) The good news is that the library compiles with free java tools (already succeeded with free-java-sdk). Cheers, Eric -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)
Hello Bart, is there some kind of agreement between Debian and Ubuntu concerning the distribution part of the version? I ask this because you seem to assume that: X.Y.Z-K (Debian) << X.Y.Z-L (Ubuntu) X.Y.Z-K (Debian) << X.Y.Z-KubuntuA (Ubuntu) (also dfsg stuff doesn't seem to be completely right) I would suggest that you split your report between: 1) A.B.C << X.Y.Z and 2) X.Y.Z-KKK << X.Y.Z-LLL The 2nd part would be a watchout (yellow) whereas the 1st part would really mean a different version of the software (red). Well... Not always true but good enough :-) (check liblog4net-cil with 1.2.8+1.2.9beta-1 vs. 1.2.9beta-0ubuntu2) Cheers, Eric Bart Martens wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 11:49 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-01 11:21]: Another approach for identifying packages to be updated in Debian to newer upstream releases is by comparing Debian with Ubuntu. Here is a list of packages that are newer in Ubuntu than in Debian, grouped by maintainer: http://people.debian.org/~bartm/borg/outdated.html The first package in your list shows that you're not handling epochs properly. 1.0~rc1-13 vs 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9. Debian isn't out of date here. You need to ignore epochs. The handling of epochs is correct, but some packages have different epochs in Debian and Ubuntu for the same upstream version. I have updated the list to hide packages with identical upstream version numbers but with different epochs. This might hide some real positives but most likely hides more false positives. So thanks for the feedback; this is useful. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#499929: ITP: simplyhtml -- Java word processor based on HTML and CSS
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: simplyhtml Version : 0.12.3 Upstream Author : Dimitry Polivaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://simplyhtml.sf.net/ * License : GPLv2+ plus some Sun licensing (Berkeley alike) Programming Lang: Java Description : Java word processor based on HTML and CSS SimplyHTML is an application built for working with text documents. Text documents are stored in HTML and CSS format, but the application is meant as a word processor rather than a code editor or web site builder. . SimplyHTML can be used standalone as well like a library/plugin. (and it's used as a plugin by FreeMind 0.9.0, hence my interest) Cheers, Eric -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#566375: ITP: freeplane -- A Mind Mapping software written in Java.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Lavarde * Package name: freeplane Version : 1.0.38 Upstream Author : Dimitri Polivaev * URL : http://freeplane.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java Description : A Mind Mapping software written in Java. (from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeplane>) In July 2009, Freeplane was launched as a fork of the FreeMind project. Since then, while maintaining file format compatibility with FreeMind, Freeplane adds many new features. New features of Freeplane include: * Export to PNG, JPEG, SVG (in addition to HTML / XHTML and PDF) * Find / Replace in all open maps * Paste HTML as node structure * Outline mode * Portable version (run from a USB flash drive) * Scripting via Groovy * Spell Checker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
