Re: Very BIG Problem with debian packages versioning...

2004-11-03 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:51:44AM +0200, Vincenzo Belloli wrote: > Package: clamav-daemon > Version: 0.80-2 > The problem is related to clamav debian packages maintained by ... and > hosted here: > deb http://people.debian.org/~sgran/debian woody main > I've 2 identical machines. These are ver

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:15:19AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I am facing a problem with my ISP started filtering incoming mails with > SPF. Since AOL adopted it, it seems becoming quite popular as I see it. [...] > SPF has known issue with e-mail forwarder such as pobox.com. I think > debian.o

debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Disclaimer: I am not asking Debian to use SPF[1] to filter incoming ML posts. If this has been discussed, excuse me. I am facing a problem with my ISP started filtering incoming mails with SPF. Since AOL adopted it, it seems becoming quite popular as I see it. I understand my ISP's rationa

Re: Bug#279422: ITP: python-nltk -- A suite of Python libraries for natural language procesing

2004-11-03 Thread Alberto Rodriguez Galdo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package is ready, it's name is python-nltk and can be downloaded from www.igaelica.com/debian. apt-get url is, deb www.igaelica.com/debian ./ Please report any bug or improvement Best regards, - -- Alberto Rodriguez Galdo [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG

Bug#279555: ITP: wacom-tools -- support for Wacom graphics tablets in Debian

2004-11-03 Thread Ron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Tools and documentation, mostly from linuxwacom.sf.net and my own experience getting one working on a Debian system today. Details TBA. Ron

Bug#279551: ITP: zsync -- A client-side implementation of the rsync algorithm

2004-11-03 Thread Robert Lemmen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: zsync Version : 0.0.4 Upstream Author : Colin Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://zsync.moria.org.uk/ * License : GPLv2 Description : A client-side implementation of the rsync algorithm This package

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-03 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And if you take the combination of both: Upstream source that > contains non-DFSG material and forbids to use the DFSG-free parts > without explicitly referring to the removed non-DFSG-free parts, > well, IANAL, and IANARODL[2], but I wouldn't like this.

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-03 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If Mr Wontshare's client doesn't work without your software, this is > what I call a derivative work. Whether it is linked to it using ELF or > not is irrelevant. So anything that runs on Windows is a derivative work of Windows? This might not impact

Bug#279494: ITP: apache2-redirtoservname -- Apache module to redirect browsers to the canonical server name

2004-11-03 Thread Simon Richter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: apache2-redirtoservname Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.hogyros.de/misc * License : GPL + exception to allow linking against Apache Description : Apache m

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-11-03 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > an application needs to create more than one dot file then they should be > > placed in a subdirectory with a name starting with a '.' character, (a "dot > > directory"). In this case the configuration files should not start wit

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > 4. Writing to debian-legal and asking for advice. Now that's a good idea. Why did you do that on debian-devel instead? -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- wi

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Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] "Debian comes in three flavors: Stale, rusting, and broken, which > are renamed once or twice a decade. Actually, rusting is stale yet > currently, but it can't be officially released before 2004, because > Gnome2 and KDE3 aren't sufficiently outdated,

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

2004-11-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Sean Perry wrote: 2) this looks like a font issue (as you mentioned) try forcing the app to load 'fixed' as its font. Using emacs with fixed font works and I also found the problem which is descirbed in #279380. I think this bug is worth to be increased in severity but strang

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:47:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> How about this rule of thumb: If you get stuff from the >> primary NON DEBIAN distribution site, that is what you call >> upstream. What someone unconnected to debian, not using

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To prevent this misunderstanding, perhaps change to > > For example, it is not sufficient reason to omit a file that it is > used only when buidling on MS-DOS. Similarly, a Makefile provided by > upstream should not be omitted even if the first th

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
Hi Bill, hi all, I'd like to come back to one point of your mail: Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have a whole directory of binary files, you might consider > making a new source package for them. (For example a Debian theme > for a program). I guess you really wanted to say