Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:40:06PM -0800, D. Starner wrote: > > I just installed the textedit.app package; it pulled in a few GNUstep > > libraries, but not a complete desktop environment. > > Do the GNUstep libs still start a demon at startup? Last time I > checked, they did, instead of starting

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread D. Starner
> I just installed the textedit.app package; it pulled in a few GNUstep > libraries, but not a complete desktop environment. Do the GNUstep libs still start a demon at startup? Last time I checked, they did, instead of starting them only if you were running a GNUstep program, like KDE and GNOME d

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Miles Bader
Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For me, I don't want GNUstep in the names of my programs because I am not > connected to GNUstep and don't want to be. It is just a couple of libraries > that I use to write my apps -- you wouldn't put "GTK+" in the name of your > apps, would you? Most

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Jeff Teunissen
Frank Küster wrote: > Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank Küster wrote: > > > >> If I'm wrong, I apologize and will not object against cddb.bundle (at > >> least not because of this. Still the ".bundle" part is meaningless to > >> me, but that might be due to my bad english). If

Re: Bug#274957: ITP: susv3 -- Fetch and install SUSv3 documentation

2004-10-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 04:05:50PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Hamish Moffatt] > > Why is it useful to fetch this documentation and install it through a > > Debian package, rather than say with your favourite web browser? > > Offline reading? wget? Why is this document useful for offlin

Re: Bug#259400: How to a user can add menu entry for GNOME ?

2004-10-05 Thread Miles Bader
Marc Dequènes (Duck) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, if i'm not dead for GNOME 2.10, custom Debian menu is gonna die, as > it is a bunch of unbrowseable nightmare stuff. That seems a tad overwrought. I usually prefer the debian menu because it's much more complete than the gnome menu, and ofte

Re: PRINT EPSON STYLUS C82; bug #235522?

2004-10-05 Thread Bernd Schubert
Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * SAVERIO FERRARO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041005 18:49]: >> I HAVE SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE CONFIGURATION OF THIS PRINT. >> HOW HAVE I TO DO? > > Tell us your problem, and we might be able to help. > > Oh, and in case you didn't noticed: Your caps-lock key seems to be > bro

Bug#275103: ITP: 6wall -- IPv6 Firewall, based on Shorewall

2004-10-05 Thread Mikael Magnusson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: 6wall Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Eric de Thouars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://leaf-project.org/doc/howto/6wall.html * License : GPL Description : IPv6 Firewall, based on Shoreline Firewall (Shor

Bug#275093: ITP: gaim-encryption -- encryption plugin for gaim

2004-10-05 Thread Chris Vanden Berghe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gaim-encryption Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : encryption plugin for gaim Gaim-Encryption

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:08:42PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am under the impression that 'normal procedures' does not involve > > updating the application to catch new threats. If I'm wrong, then there > > is no need for this entire thread.

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am under the impression that 'normal procedures' does not involve > updating the application to catch new threats. If I'm wrong, then there > is no need for this entire thread. Talk to the security team. Talk to the security team. Talk to the securi

Re: Bug#274923: ITP: wnpp -- C++ library for robust numerical and geometric computation

2004-10-05 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, >>If the names above are still too generic, I think I will use libcore++ as >>prefix. Or has anyone else another suggestion? > > Why not libexact? Maybe, but I'd prefer if "core" is part of the package name, because is is known under this name in the scientific community. >>I'm a bit uncertai

Re: PRINT EPSON STYLUS C82

2004-10-05 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 18:49, SAVERIO FERRARO wrote: > I HAVE SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE CONFIGURATION OF THIS PRINT. > HOW HAVE I TO DO? > THANKS You should really start out by reading http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (especially http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.h

Bug#275073: ITP: hsql -- Multi-Database Interface System for Haskell

2004-10-05 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: hsql Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Krasimir Angelov * URL : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65248 * License : BSD Description : Multi-Database Interface System for Haskell HSQL provi

Bug#275071: ITP: hunit -- Haskell Unit Testing Framework

2004-10-05 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: hunit Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Dean Herington * URL : http://hunit.sf.net/ * License : BSD Description : Haskell Unit Testing Framework HUnit is a unit testing framework for Haskell, inspired by the

Bug#275070: ITP: missingh -- Library of utility functions for Haskell

2004-10-05 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: missingh Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : gopher://quux.org/devel/missingh (not yet active) * License : GPL Description : Library of utility func

Bug#275069: ITP: haskell-cabal -- Haskell Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries

2004-10-05 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: haskell-cabal Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.haskell.org/cabal * License : BSD Description : Haskell Common Architecture for Building Applications and Lib

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-05 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Brendan wrote: > >> Open Source is awesome, but most hardware companies are >> never, ever going to open their hardware. > > There's a rather large difference between telling people how to talk to > the hardware they buy (some interpretations of G

Re: Bug#274923: ITP: wnpp -- C++ library for robust numerical and geometric computation

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:58:07PM +0200, Joachim Reichel wrote: > > If the names above are still too generic, I think I will use libcore++ as > prefix. Or has anyone else another suggestion? > Why not libexact? > I'm a bit uncertain about potential consequences if the Debian package name > d

Re: PRINT EPSON STYLUS C82

2004-10-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* SAVERIO FERRARO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041005 18:49]: > I HAVE SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE CONFIGURATION OF THIS PRINT. > HOW HAVE I TO DO? Tell us your problem, and we might be able to help. Oh, and in case you didn't noticed: Your caps-lock key seems to be broken. Yours sincerely, Alexander si

Re: Bug#274923: ITP: wnpp -- C++ library for robust numerical and geometric computation

2004-10-05 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: core This seems a tad generic, especially since it's a library. Maybe libcoremath or libcore++? Hmm, you're right. Does your comment only apply to the source package name or also to the binary package names? I intend to make the following p

PRINT EPSON STYLUS C82

2004-10-05 Thread SAVERIO FERRARO
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Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is exactly the problem. I don't think that most people actually > > think it would be better to release either no AV/spam/whatever software > > or useless software. I am getting the impre

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is exactly the problem. I don't think that most people actually > think it would be better to release either no AV/spam/whatever software > or useless software. I am getting the impression that people don't want > to disrupt the stability of the re

Re: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:04:05PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Adrian, > if 'boot-loader' was not a real package (not sure if it requires a new > catagory or if it fits under meta or virtual) and then when you did: > apt-get install boot-loader > it (dpkg or apt -- not sure) checked your ARCH and

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:00:56AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I said "without GNOME installed," I meant without the entire GNOME > > desktop environment installed: nautilus, gnome-session, metacity, etc. > > No Gnome application I'm aware of r

Re: downloading selected source packages automatically

2004-10-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* ROBERTOJIMENOCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041005 16:00]: > So I download the source package (dsc, diff.gz & tar.gz), dpkg-source > it, apply my patches, dpkg-buildpackage > -rfakeroot, install it and mark it for hold so when upgrading a newer > version isn't installed. I didn't tried it myself, but

Re: downloading selected source packages automatically

2004-10-05 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: ROBERTOJIMENOCA in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So I have, in a folder, something like: > glibc_2.3.2.ds1-16.diff.gz > glibc_2.3.2.ds1-16.dsc > glibc_2.3.2.ds1.orig.tar.gz > > and just running a command have that files upgraded to the latest > version. cd src && rm -rf glibc_* glibc-* && apt-get so

downloading selected source packages automatically

2004-10-05 Thread ROBERTOJIMENOCA
I have to compile many packages from source because some of my patches are not applied upstream. So I download the source package (dsc, diff.gz & tar.gz), dpkg-source it, apply my patches, dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot, install it and mark it for hold so when upgrading a newer version isn't installe

Re: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-05 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > > - Getting the packages into testing, which was previously apparently > > impossible. > > - Avoiding the common problem with task packages that if you remove > > one package in the task, you have to remove the task package as > > well, since its dependecies

Re: Bug#274957: ITP: susv3 -- Fetch and install SUSv3 documentation

2004-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Hamish Moffatt] > Why is it useful to fetch this documentation and install it through a > Debian package, rather than say with your favourite web browser? Offline reading?

Re: Bug#274957: ITP: susv3 -- Fetch and install SUSv3 documentation

2004-10-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:11:43PM -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: susv3 > Upstream Author : Copyright (c) 2001-2003 IEEE and The Open Group > * License : Installer Package: Public Domain > Description : Fetch and install SUSv3

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thiemo Seufer: > How could clamav possibly have a stable engine and suddenly start to > need libfoo? Most antivirus software today is a framework for mobile code distribution. Too often, you have to replace MIME decoders, HTTP decoders, and the like. I find it rather strange that new dependen

looking for font package sponsors

2004-10-05 Thread Gürkan Sengün
I am looking for sponsors to close the following ITPs: #268613 ttf-summersby http://www.linuks.mine.nu/i_debian/ttf-summersby/ #268722 ttf-f500 http://www.linuks.mine.nu/i_debian/ttf-f500/ Thanks, Gürkan Sengün

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I said "without GNOME installed," I meant without the entire GNOME > desktop environment installed: nautilus, gnome-session, metacity, etc. No Gnome application I'm aware of requires metacity. I don't believe that gnome-session will be pulled in exc

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: > >> If I'm wrong, I apologize and will not object against cddb.bundle (at >> least not because of this. Still the ".bundle" part is meaningless to >> me, but that might be due to my bad english). If I am not wrong, and >> GNUstep app

Re: Bug#274986: RFP: lives -- Video editing system

2004-10-05 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Closing this RFP, and ITP already exists: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=247337 Cheers, Free |--==> Free Ekanayaka writes: FE> Package: wnpp FE> Severity: wishlist FE> * Package name: lives FE> Version : 0.9.1-pre6 FE> Upstream Author : G. Finch <[

Bug#274986: RFP: lives -- Video editing system

2004-10-05 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: lives Version : 0.9.1-pre6 Upstream Author : G. Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/ * License : GPL Description : Linux video editing system LiVESis designed to be simple

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:54:51AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.05.0015 +0200]: > > > We can push neither of them into Debian via security.d.o. No, > > > sorry, this is not the way stable works. > > > > /Should/ it be the way stable works

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:46:29PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Francesco Paolo Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041004 19:40]: > > What we probably need is the infrastructure to support the volatile > > archive (buildd support and pools) and a general policy for those kind > > of updates. Progra

Re: Seeking "one-time" Hungarian translators for Debian Installer

2004-10-05 Thread VEROK Istvan
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: > Unfortunately, I'm currently unable to get news from Istvan Verok, our > usual and very efficiant Hungarian translator. [snip] > Hungarian has always been complete in past D-I releases and most often > quickly, so I suspect an unscheduled event for

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:28:21AM +0100, John Lines wrote: > > > > > > > clamav can be as stable as a rock but be completely useless... when > > > two months after Sarge's release, a new virus hits hard, and in > > > order to detect it, clamav needs libfoo, which is not in Debian. > > > What then

Re: Looking for ontologies useful for debtags

2004-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:22:13AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > in organizing the tags that compose debtags, it would be nice to reuse > existing ontologies for our facets (groups of tags from specific points > of view), so that we could have some facets that could be linking points > for other exis

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.05.0828 +0200]: > You could take the rather horrible step of building a static copy > of libfoo into clamav. This would be rather messy, but would allow > a single binary to be updated. The problem is not so much that a new dependency would be ne

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-05 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Brendan wrote: > Open Source is awesome, but most hardware companies are > never, ever going to open their hardware. There's a rather large difference between telling people how to talk to the hardware they buy (some interpretations of German law suggest that one *has* to do that; for instanc

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread John Lines
> > > > clamav can be as stable as a rock but be completely useless... when > > two months after Sarge's release, a new virus hits hard, and in > > order to detect it, clamav needs libfoo, which is not in Debian. > > What then? *Maybe* we could push a new clamav via security.d.o, but > > what abou

Re: backports.org (was: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1))

2004-10-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.05.0018 +0200]: > Some quick & dirty perl and shell scripts. I plan to completely > rewrite these scripts in python soon. Superb. It would rock if you could make this available as a package (which I am sure you will). I think many of use

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.05.0015 +0200]: > > We can push neither of them into Debian via security.d.o. No, > > sorry, this is not the way stable works. > > /Should/ it be the way stable works? We have the ability to change > that. No. It's "stable". It's one of the

Seeking "one-time" Hungarian translators for Debian Installer

2004-10-05 Thread Christian Perrier
This is a quite unusual call, but a quite urgent one. Debian installer is currently in its final stages of development and currently in what we call a "string freeze". This means that no change to translatable parts happen, allowing translator to finish their work. The string freeze lasts until O

Re: proposal: factoids bot on #debian-devel

2004-10-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Rob Weir [Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:45:38 +1000]: > Is this any more useful than a wiki FAQ? From: madduck To: gort Subject: ~tell Rob I asked for private answers From: gort To: Rob Subject: Rob, madduck asked for private answers scnr, -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es