The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Total number of orphaned packages: 176 (new: 20)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 104 (new: 2)
Total number of packages reques
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:37:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
>On Aug 01, "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:07:10PM +, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
>> > But how do you push the users to remove the package from their
>> > systems? In reality they will
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> > I will probably drop arts support on the floor to be able to be
> > happy once again (also known as not needing to care about a
> > dependency hell the size of a small mountain to add almost no useful
> > functional
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >> Which is wholy irrelevant, because Debian's mailing list policy
>> >> prohibits UBE, not UCE. See:
>
>> > In that case, the description needs to be fixed.
>
>> Why?
>
> Because the intent is obviously to forbid any sort of spam.
"Spam", as I understa
Peter Samuelson writes:
> There is no need for dumbing down descriptions for things non-technical
> users aren't going to be selecting anyway.
One can be a highly technical user of a package without knowing (or caring)
squat about the language it is implemented in. Descriptions should focus
on th
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> One can't even claim that using 'kernel-image*' will confuse
> >> the users of the *BSD or Hurd ports, because those packages
> >> simply won't be in their Package files, wi
[Dustin Harriman]
> 1) Package descriptions should tend towards readers like grandma by
> default (ie. are as general as possible by default), and
What about the majority of packages in Debian? You know, the ones your
hypothetical ancestor would never wish to install explicitly, under any
circum
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Thomas Bushnell:
>
>> You are confusing "unwelcome" with "unsolicited." It's not solicited.
>
> Few messages which begin new threads on Debian mailing lists are
> solicited.
That's right.
Few are commercial either, though Bruce's certainly was th
> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> One can't even claim that using 'kernel-image*' will confuse
>> the users of the *BSD or Hurd ports, because those packages
>> simply won't be in their Package files, will they?
There may be good reasons to install
Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I demand that Goswin von Brederlow may or may not have written...
>
> [snip]
>> I would have suggested using
>
>> kernel-hurt-image
> ^
> Ouch.
>
> ;-)
Pun intended.
MfG
Goswin
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: René van Bevern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: cl-yacc
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/cl-yacc/
* License : MIT/X
Description
On 20050804T200629+0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 07:47:18PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> >
> > And yes, I expect that all messages reported will need to be manually
> > reviewed to avoid deleting good mails from the archive.
>
> It would be cool if we could c
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 07:47:18PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
>
> And yes, I expect that all messages reported will need to be manually
> reviewed to avoid deleting good mails from the archive.
It would be cool if we could create a spam-reporting alias similar to what
Spamcop does that would make i
I demand that Goswin von Brederlow may or may not have written...
[snip]
> I would have suggested using
> kernel-hurt-image
^
Ouch.
;-)
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On Aug 04, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I would appreciate it if someone would create the "potash" shell,
> >> consisting of posh modified to implement "test -a", "test -o" and
> >> "local". Debian would probably run on that well enough for it to
> >> be used as /bin/sh, and it
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 04-Aug-05, 05:09 (CDT), Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Steve Greenland wrote:
>> > I know what the rationale is: to avoid offending the *BSD and Hurd
>> > users, because, ya know, they have kernels too. And if we were starting
>> > from
On Thursday 04 August 2005 19:07, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> I wonder, what does the web interface do at all? I have reported
> lots of spam (I reviewed all of July) but the spam is still there
> in the mailing list archives.
As you know this is a very new feature. At the moment data
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 01, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I would appreciate it if someone would create the "potash" shell,
>> consisting of posh modified to implement "test -a", "test -o" and
>> "local". Debian would probably run on that well enough for it to
Hi,
* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-04 19:08]:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:29:57PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> > Hi,
> > there is the possibility to mark mails via the list archive
> > web interface as spam. Is there a possibility to do this via
> > a mail gateway with
* Thomas Bushnell:
> You are confusing "unwelcome" with "unsolicited." It's not solicited.
Few messages which begin new threads on Debian mailing lists are
solicited.
I don't think Bruce's message qualifies for the $2,000 fee. On the
other hand, we shouldn't turn debian-devel into a general pa
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:29:57PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi,
> there is the possibility to mark mails via the list archive
> web interface as spam. Is there a possibility to do this via
> a mail gateway with the message id?
> regards nico
I wonder, what does the web interface do at all? I hav
* Andreas Barth:
> * Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050804 13:54]:
>> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >> Which is wholy irrelevant, because Debian's mailing list policy
>> >> prohibits UBE, not UCE. See:
>
>> > In that case, the description needs to be fixed.
>
>> Why?
>
> Because
Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And to boot, an e-mail calling for curriculae for a recruiting party
> is on-topic to a DEVELOPERS list, and not Unsolicited by those of us
> (like myself) that could use a new, better, job and for those of us
> that could use ANY job at all.
** Andreas Barth ::
> * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050804 18:48]:
> > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > * Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050804 13:54]:
> > >> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >> >> Which is wholy irrelevant, because Debian's mailing
> li
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050804 18:48]:
> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > * Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050804 13:54]:
> >> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> >> Which is wholy irrelevant, because Debian's mailing list policy
> >> >> prohibits UBE, n
Lior Kaplan guides.co.il> writes:
>
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Lior Kaplan guides.co.il>
>
> * Package name: x3270
> Version : 3.3.4
> Upstream Author : Paul Mattes
> * URL : http://x3270.bgp.nu
> * License : other
> Description : IBM
Is somebody working on porting/packaging FDS to Debian?
Regards,
maykel
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Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050804 13:54]:
>> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >> Which is wholy irrelevant, because Debian's mailing list policy
>> >> prohibits UBE, not UCE. See:
>
>> > In that case, the description needs to be fixed
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:34:16AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 04, Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I would also like to understand. 2.6.12 being available doesn't help.
> > The package remains un-upgradable from sarge or etch.
> Sarge or etch do not have newer versions of ud
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:28:44AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> This one still depends on an untransitioned C++ library:
> linuxsampler (libgig)
libgig is in NEW.
cheers, piem
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On 04-Aug-05, 05:09 (CDT), Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Greenland wrote:
> > I know what the rationale is: to avoid offending the *BSD and Hurd
> > users, because, ya know, they have kernels too. And if we were starting
> > from scratch, I'd be all for it. But at this point, it'
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: cl-lw-compat
Version : 0.2
Upstream Author : Pascal Costanza
* URL : http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/
* License : MIT-style
Description : LispWorks Compatibil
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: cl-closer-mop
Version : 0.2
Upstream Author : Pascal Costanza
* URL : http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/
* License : MIT-style
Description : Cross implementatio
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:46:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Max Vozeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cdtool
The debconf question will be dropped in next upload. It asks about the
/dev/cdrom symlink that is created elsewhere nowadays.
cheers,
Max
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* Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050804 13:54]:
> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Which is wholy irrelevant, because Debian's mailing list policy
> >> prohibits UBE, not UCE. See:
> > In that case, the description needs to be fixed.
> Why?
Because the intent is obviously to for
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> No, you don't need the dependency even in that case. You can just make
>> the code only to run if there is debconf installed.
>
> Good call. I thought Julien meant removing the "purge old stuff from the
> database", and not just the depend
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Which is wholy irrelevant, because Debian's mailing list policy
>> prohibits UBE, not UCE. See:
>
> In that case, the description needs to be fixed.
Why?
-miles
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* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:11:47 -0300]:
> On Thu, 04 Aug 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > timidity
> FTBFS with gcc 4.0, I am on it. I will probably drop arts support on the
> floor to be able to be happy once again (also known as not needing to
> care about a dependenc
[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> I will probably drop arts support on the floor to be able to be
> happy once again (also known as not needing to care about a
> dependency hell the size of a small mountain to add almost no useful
> functionality whatsoever to timidity), if KDE does not transition
>
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> timidity
FTBFS with gcc 4.0, I am on it. I will probably drop arts support on the
floor to be able to be happy once again (also known as not needing to
care about a dependency hell the size of a small mountain to add almost no
useful functionality wh
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050803 12:51]:
> > On Wed, 03 Aug 2005, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> > > I'll drop the dependency on debconf on these two packages, as it's
> > > only used to purge some old debconf questions from the database.
Hello Michelle,
* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-04 12:48]:
> Am 2005-08-04 12:29:57, schrieb Nico Golde:
> > Hi,
> > there is the possibility to mark mails via the list archive
> > web interface as spam. Is there a possibility to do this via
> > a mail gateway with the message id?
I do not know, wheter it is possibel for Debian, but I am using
fetchmail on my FileServer where I have courier-imap to read the
mesages.
I have made a mutt-macro and a little BASH script which send the
message back to my FileServer whose rescan the message automaticly
as SPAM.
I think, there is
Hi,
there is the possibility to mark mails via the list archive
web interface as spam. Is there a possibility to do this via
a mail gateway with the message id?
regards nico
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Steve Greenland wrote:
> I know what the rationale is: to avoid offending the *BSD and Hurd
> users, because, ya know, they have kernels too. And if we were starting
> from scratch, I'd be all for it. But at this point, it's just a stupid
> annoying change that makes it hard for people to find upd
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 08:12 PM, Tomas Davidek wrote:
Yes, this is exactly the problem - the *.orig.tar.gz should be unpacked,
but apparently it is not. When I have in my makefile:
.
install:
cp -a usr $(DESTDIR)/usr
.
it fails with the error message:
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:45:48AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Nathanael Nerode [Thu, 04 Aug 2005 04:28:44 -0400]:
> > Ugh. Isn't there some other way?
> Having britney do partial library upgrades (i.e, not remove the old
> package/soname from testing when letting the new version in; but
* Anthony DeRobertis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050804 11:55]:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>
> > It was an advertisement for a recruiting party. That's commercial by
> > any definition.
>
> Which is wholy irrelevant, because Debian's mailing list policy
> prohibits UBE, not UCE. See:
> http://www
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> It was an advertisement for a recruiting party. That's commercial by
> any definition.
Which is wholy irrelevant, because Debian's mailing list policy
prohibits UBE, not UCE. See:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads
"The sending of any kind of unsolicited *bu
* Nathanael Nerode [Thu, 04 Aug 2005 04:28:44 -0400]:
> Ugh. Isn't there some other way?
Having britney do partial library upgrades (i.e, not remove the old
package/soname from testing when letting the new version in; but make
sure the old one gets removed before release).
Don't ask m
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050803 12:51]:
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> > I'll drop the dependency on debconf on these two packages, as it's
> > only used to purge some old debconf questions from the database.
> You can do that only if those old debconf que
On Aug 04, Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would also like to understand. 2.6.12 being available doesn't help.
> The package remains un-upgradable from sarge or etch.
Sarge or etch do not have newer versions of udev to upgrade to.
> As Manoj and Blars said, solutions would be to have
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> gstreamer0.8-jack
gst-plugins0.8 is waiting for arts.
Bye,
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The following packages have not gone through the JACK transition yet,
and appear ready to (c++ dependencies all transitioned):
amsynth
brutefir
freqtweak
galan
gstreamer0.8-jack
horgand
liballegro4.1-plugin-jack
libwine-jack
rezound
tapiir
timidity
This one still depends on an untransitioned C++
Hello,
> If the debtags also get searched when she does a simple search, then
> great. This will depend on how seamlessly debtags get integrated into
> package managers (like Synaptic's) search facilities (for example, a
> simple search by default, then an "Advanced" button to expand the searc
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