Re: any comments on diagram?

2004-11-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:55:45PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: > Kevin Mark [u] wrote on 09/11/2004 18:29: > > >i made a diagram in xfig of what I think is the debian development > >model. Could folks give me a few comments on what's not correct. > >http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png > > AF

Bug#280541: ITP: libclass-namedparms-perl -- A lightweight named parameter handling system

2004-11-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libclass-namedparms-perl Version : 1.04 Upstream Author : Benjamin Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nihongo.org/snowhare/utilities/modules/class-namedparms/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic Description

Bug#280539: ITP: conspy -- Remote control of Linux virtual consoles

2004-11-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: conspy Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Russell Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.lubemobile.com.au/ras/debian/sarge/conspy/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : Remote contro

Bug#280534: ITP: kernel-patch-linuxabi -- Runs programs written for different Unix's under Linux

2004-11-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kernel-patch-linuxabi Version : 20040724 Upstream Author : Various * URL : http://www.lubemobile.com.au/ras/debian/sarge/kernel-patch-linuxabi * License : GPL Description : Runs programs written for differe

Bug#280540: ITP: libclass-parmlist-perl -- Collection of routines for parameter lists for method calls

2004-11-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libclass-parmlist-perl Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : Benjamin Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nihongo.org/snowhare/utilities/modules/class-parmlist/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic Description

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hampson) > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:41:40PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > We solved (4) by introducing a new group called 'plugdev'. Every user > > who is a member of this group can access hotpluggable devices (digital > > cameras, USB drives etc.). pmount can on

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-09 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:41:40PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > We solved (4) by introducing a new group called 'plugdev'. Every user > who is a member of this group can access hotpluggable devices (digital > cameras, USB drives etc.). pmount can only be executed by members of > this group (it is ro

Re: remove me from callwave

2004-11-09 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 22:47, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Debian-devel is now result number four when googling for "callwave > > remove" (without quotes). > > Ah, the Duelling Banjos Effect. > Weird, I wouldn't jugde this people capable of using google for solving problems their minds can't fat

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

2004-11-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:31:05PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:22:30PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:15:19AM +0100, > > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > a message of 47 lines which said: > > > > > If you know easy way

Re: svn.debian.org

2004-11-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:51:03AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > It took me a while to get SVN access to some projects at svn.debian.org. > > It will be nice if someone can update web page contents of > svn.debian.org. Done. > Of couse, svn+ssh with absolute path /svn/pkg-ime/ worked but this

Re: remove me from callwave

2004-11-09 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Henning! You wrote: > Debian-devel is now result number four when googling for "callwave > remove" (without quotes). Ah, the Duelling Banjos Effect. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7

Re: Bug#280324: ITP: freemind -- A Java Program for creating and viewing Mindmaps

2004-11-09 Thread Hilko Bengen
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

Bug Squashing in Latin America, November 27th to 28th

2004-11-09 Thread David Moreno Garza
Hello guys, Watching Frankfurt[1] and Sidney[2] guys working in Debian Bug Squashing Parties made me thought it would be useful also that Latin American maintainers could also get to work and beat them on killing RC bugs[3] ;-) Objectives: --- Close more RC bugs than the guys from Frankfu

Re: any comments on diagram?

2004-11-09 Thread Sven Mueller
Kevin Mark [u] wrote on 09/11/2004 18:29: i made a diagram in xfig of what I think is the debian development model. Could folks give me a few comments on what's not correct. http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png AFAICT from my limited debian expertise ;-), there is at least one mistake in that

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-09 Thread Isaac Clerencia
> So the Ubuntu approach is a bit different: we let hal run as normal > user, do not modify /etc/fstab at all and instead use a program > called 'pmount' (policy mount) that allows normal users to mount > removable devices without an /etc/fstab entries. pmount is now in It's great to have a pmount

Bug#280479: ITP: libsearch-invertedindex-perl -- A manager for inverted index maps

2004-11-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libsearch-invertedindex-perl Version : 1.14 Upstream Author : Benjamin Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nihongo.org/snowhare/utilities/modules/search-invertedindex/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic De

Bug#280481: ITP: libtie-filelrucache-perl -- A lightweight but robust filesystem based persistent LRU cache

2004-11-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libtie-filelrucache-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Benjamin Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nihongo.org/snowhare/utilities/modules/tie-filelrucache/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic Description

Bug#280477: ITP: libtie-db-file-splithash-perl -- libtie-db-file-splithash-perl

2004-11-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libtie-db-file-splithash-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Benjamin Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nihongo.org/snowhare/utilities/modules/tie-db_file-splithash/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic D

Re: remove me from call*wave

2004-11-09 Thread John Hasler
Henning Makholm writes: > I still wonder what the people posting here are thinking, though. Probably the same thing as the one who emailed me personally (cc'ing debian-user) asking for help with his "AO*L a*rt fi*le" problem. -- John Hasler

Re: Why are there no /usr/lib/debug/*.so in *-dbg packages ?

2004-11-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:46:21PM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi all, > > I've checked many *-dbg packages and can not avow oneself > why only /usr/lib/debian/*.a files are provided by *-dbg > pacakges? It would be a advantage to have also *.so files > as non-striped version for development pu

Why are there no /usr/lib/debug/*.so in *-dbg packages ?

2004-11-09 Thread Raphael Bossek
Hi all, I've checked many *-dbg packages and can not avow oneself why only /usr/lib/debian/*.a files are provided by *-dbg pacakges? It would be a advantage to have also *.so files as non-striped version for development purposes. Is there a policy which prohebit *.so files in /usr/lib/debug ? Wha

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 09, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We solved (4) by introducing a new group called 'plugdev'. Every user > who is a member of this group can access hotpluggable devices (digital > cameras, USB drives etc.). pmount can only be executed by members of > this group (it is root:plugdev

any comments on diagram?

2004-11-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi DD folks, i made a diagram in xfig of what I think is the debian development model. Could folks give me a few comments on what's not correct. http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png TIA -Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! (__) (oo) /--\

Re: remove me from callwave

2004-11-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] > remove me from callwave [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is getting as bad as the du*ling b*njos phenomenon. For some time I just thought that "callwave" must an AOLism for a discussion forum, and that the posters wanted to unsubscribe from debian-devel. However, Google does n

Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-09 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Debian developers! I am currently responsible for developing the GNOME Utopia stack for Ubuntu and closely work together with Sjoerd Simons who maintains the Debian packages (gnome-volume-manager, hal). Upstream's idea of automatic USB/FireWire device handling is as follows: the "hal" daemon r

Re: Transitioning to Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR

2004-11-09 Thread Eric Dorland
* Johannes Rohr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I see that five firefox locale packages are still not updated and keep > firefox out of testing: > > mozilla-firefox-locale-eu (0.9+0.7-1) > mozilla-firefox-locale-ko (0.9.1) (btw: this looks like a native package > which it should

Re: Documentation for upstream software authors

2004-11-09 Thread Frank Küster
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi, > > I've just started http://wiki.debian.net/SoftwarePackaging, intended to > collect thoughts of packagers how upstream developers can make the life of > a packager easier. The idea sounds good. However, > I'm sure all pa

Re: Transitioning to Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR

2004-11-09 Thread Johannes Rohr
Hello everyone, I see that five firefox locale packages are still not updated and keep firefox out of testing: mozilla-firefox-locale-eu (0.9+0.7-1) mozilla-firefox-locale-ko (0.9.1) (btw: this looks like a native package which it should not be) mozilla-firefox-locale-nb (0.9.2-4) mozilla-firefox

Re: Transitioning to Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR

2004-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:40:40PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote: > I see that five firefox locale packages are still not updated and keep > firefox out of testing: > > mozilla-firefox-locale-eu (0.9+0.7-1) > mozilla-firefox-locale-ko (0.9.1) (btw: this looks like a native package > which it should n

Bug#280447: ITP: digikamimageplugins -- plugins for digikams image editor

2004-11-09 Thread Achim Bohnet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: digikamimageplugins Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Digikam Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://extragear.kde.org/apps/digikamimageplugins.php * License : GPL Description : plugins for digikams image edi

Bug#280439: ITP: libkipi -- library for apps that want to use kipi-plugins

2004-11-09 Thread Achim Bohnet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libkipi Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : KIPI Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kipi.php * License : GPL, LGPL Description : library for apps that want to use kipi-plugins Libki

Bug#280442: ITP: kipi-plugins -- Image manipulation/handling plugins for KIPI aware programs

2004-11-09 Thread Achim Bohnet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kipi-plugins Version : 0.1.0-beta1 Upstream Author : KIPI Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kipi.php * License : GPL Description : Image manipulation/handling plugins for KIPI aw

Bug Squashing in Sydney, November 27th to 28th

2004-11-09 Thread Anand Kumria
Folks, we can't let the Debian developers in Germany have all the fun and glory. If you are in or around Sydney, let's beat them to the punch and close out as many bugs as we can. Objectives: --- Close as many RC bugs before the Frankfurt BSP and help get sarge out the door. Much of the

Bug#280435: ITP: libkexif -- KDE library to read/edit EXIF informations

2004-11-09 Thread Achim Bohnet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libkexif Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Digikam Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://digikam.sf.net/ * License : GPL Description : KDE library to read/edit EXIF informations Libkexif is a KDE library fo

Bug#280426: ITP: libgeography-nationalgrid-perl -- Class for a point and to transform coordinate systems

2004-11-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libgeography-nationalgrid-perl Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : P. Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geography-NationalGrid/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic Description : Class for a

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-11-09 Thread g.b.
Is there *any* way to check what packages are available on particular CD without downloading iso and mounting it locally? If not (and I'm assuming that's the right answer) [...] wrong. try: $ wget -nd \ http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo $ zless sarg

Debconf Templates Style Guide now part 6.5.2 of Developers Reference

2004-11-09 Thread Christian Perrier
The document formerly known as the "Debconf Templates Style Guide", or DTSG, which I already publicised from time to time, is now part of the Developer's Reference in the Best Packaging Practice section. This document I wrote several months ago, has been rewiewed by Joey Hess and Denis Barbier and

Bug#280396: ITP: libconfig-tiny-perl -- Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible

2004-11-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libconfig-tiny-perl Version : 2.00 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Tiny/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic Description : Read/Write .ini style files

Bug#280395: ITP: libvcs-lite-perl -- Minimal version control system

2004-11-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libvcs-lite-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Ivor Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/VCS-Lite/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic Description : Minimal version control system

Bug#280394: ITP: liburi-find-delimited-perl -- Find URIs which may be wrapped in enclosing delimiters

2004-11-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: liburi-find-delimited-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Kake Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/URI-Find-Delimited/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic Description : Find URIs which m