Bug#325371: ITP: binfmtc -- a binfmt_misc hook for running C programs as scripts

2005-08-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Package: wnpp I'm planning on uploading binfmtc to Debian. It is a binfmt_misc hook that allows using C source as if they were scripts. It invokes gcc and runs the resulting binary. I would be interested to know if there is any existing tool that does something similar, and also if anyone fin

Bug#325370: ITP: cowdancer -- a COW scratch filesystem implementation in userland

2005-08-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Package: wnpp Hi, I'm planning on packaging cowdancer for Debian. It's a scratch-filesystem implementation that is implemented through LD_PRELOAD hacks. It uses only the standard Linux features for implementing a cow-like filesystem feeling; enough is implemented to get a reasonably useful pbuil

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 06:31:20PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > >> I will start maintaining the packages bootchart (#321784) and have a >> question. Bootchart collects data while booting. It is started before >> init, which means there is no place in the

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:53:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> /run/bootchart, but there seems to be some resistance to actually trying to >> standardize on /run :) > what about /dev/shm? > sean Is it available _before_ init is started? Jörg. --

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I will start maintaining the packages bootchart (#321784) and have a >> > question. Bootchart collects data while booting. It is started before >> > init, which means there is no place in the file tree to write to. > > can't you hack the package to us

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh > scripts should work with dash too. That's incorrect. A correctly written /bin/sh script is allowed to use Debian programs (including, say, test) and expect to get the Debian versions.

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:42:12PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> I don't understand why making it possible to find fellow Debian >> Developers this way should in effect make the information public. >> >> Why not simply hide it behind the password

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 10:16:58AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Thijs Kinkhorst: > > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:06 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> I've been privately told that an alioth admin demands hardware in > >> compensation for his Debian-related work, effectively blackmailing the > >> D

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > because it's not only targeted at debian developers, but also at new > maintainers, contributors who are not even in the nm queue (there are > many of them), and even interested users or people who want to become > more involved Anyway, the way is the s

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:40:23PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> >> I suppose this is what I mean by "we are talking about Debian >> Developers". We're not keeping personal information on customers, or >> people with a peripheral relationship; t

Re: tetex-bin: rename texconfig => tex-config; consistent with other utilities

2005-08-27 Thread Frank Küster
Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | tags 306089 wontfix > | > It would be good if the configuration program name was consistent > | > with the other programs like apt-config, fvwm-config, gtk-config ... > | > so please rename > | > | I cannot see a consistent naming here. In fact in /usr/b

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:53:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > /run/bootchart, but there seems to be some resistance to actually trying to > standardize on /run :) what about /dev/shm? sean -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#325342: ITP: hocr -- OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program with Hebrew support

2005-08-27 Thread Lior Kaplan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hocr Version : 0.4.5 Upstream Author : Kobi Zamir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://hocr.berlios.de/ * License : GPL Description : OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

Looking for co-maintainers for Pan

2005-08-27 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hi, For a while now, I've been meaning to request help for maintaining pan[0][1] in the Debian archives. So here it is: If anyone is interested in helping out with maintaining pan in Debian, I would greatly appreciate it. As with most package maintainenance, the work involves fideting around with

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread martin f krafft
> > I will start maintaining the packages bootchart (#321784) and have a > > question. Bootchart collects data while booting. It is started before > > init, which means there is no place in the file tree to write to. can't you hack the package to use RAM until the init process is complete, when it

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 06:31:20PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > I will start maintaining the packages bootchart (#321784) and have a > question. Bootchart collects data while booting. It is started before > init, which means there is no place in the file tree to write to. > The upstream package c

a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I will start maintaining the packages bootchart (#321784) and have a question. Bootchart collects data while booting. It is started before init, which means there is no place in the file tree to write to. The upstream package creates a directory in /mnt/ where it mounts a tmpfs. But using a d

Bug#128852: Hot stocks for quick surge knittest

2005-08-27 Thread kamala Peterson
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Re: Bug#325289: ITP: debian-hebrew -- Hebrew support in the Debian desktop

2005-08-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:14:45PM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: > Lior Kaplan wrote: > > >Package: wnpp > >Severity: wishlist > >Owner: Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >* Package name: debian-hebrew > > Version : 1.0.5 > > Upstream Author : Yaacov Zamir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Bug#325289: ITP: debian-hebrew -- Hebrew support in the Debian desktop

2005-08-27 Thread José Luis Tallón
Lior Kaplan wrote: >Package: wnpp >Severity: wishlist >Owner: Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >* Package name: debian-hebrew > Version : 1.0.5 > Upstream Author : Yaacov Zamir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >* URL : http://debian-hebrew.alioth.debian.org >* License : GPL >

Bug#325289: ITP: debian-hebrew -- Hebrew support in the Debian desktop

2005-08-27 Thread Lior Kaplan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: debian-hebrew Version : 1.0.5 Upstream Author : Yaacov Zamir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://debian-hebrew.alioth.debian.org * License : GPL Description : Hebrew sup

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-27 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, (that I answer to this mail is just pure Chance - it's meant at you both, and I might have answered to another mail equally well :) * Thijs Kinkhorst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050827 10:46]: > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:34 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Thijs Kinkhorst: > > > > > unverifiable g

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-27 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:19:06PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17.15, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > Make sure you use only POSIX features when doing this. I think > > "grep -o" is a GNU extension, FreeBSD doesn't have it for example. > > Doesn't the 'only POSI

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:34 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Thijs Kinkhorst: > > > unverifiable grave accusations > > It's not unverifiable (you can ask the DPL if you wish, or the admins > involved), and it's not a very grave accusation, either. See it as an > encouragement to make backups of

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thijs Kinkhorst: > unverifiable grave accusations It's not unverifiable (you can ask the DPL if you wish, or the admins involved), and it's not a very grave accusation, either. See it as an encouragement to make backups of your data on Debian's machines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:16 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Thijs Kinkhorst: > > > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:06 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> I've been privately told that an alioth admin demands hardware in > >> compensation for his Debian-related work, effectively blackmailing the > >> DPL.

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thijs Kinkhorst: > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:06 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> I've been privately told that an alioth admin demands hardware in >> compensation for his Debian-related work, effectively blackmailing the >> DPL. I don't know if this is true, I hope it's not. > > Making grave accu

Re: Help in gcc-4.0.x transition issue

2005-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-1] "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: class AWT_canvas; at the beginning of the header file. Thanks, I got a patch saying the same yesterday. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:06 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > I've been privately told that an alioth admin demands hardware in > compensation for his Debian-related work, effectively blackmailing the > DPL. I don't know if this is true, I hope it's not. Making grave accusations based on rumours is

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Christian Perrier: > Well, I'm afraid that I'm not a responsible maintainer, then:-) But you do keep backups, I hope. > Maybe alioth maintenance does not fit your own admin quality reference > system. I'm not the only one who is complaining. > Then, I see a few solutions to this: > > -c

Re: Documentation of alioth?

2005-08-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Raphael Hertzog: >> But I fail to see how more machines make system administration easier. >> I'd expect that additional machines put only more load on our various >> administration teams, not less. > > In our case we want to merge costa/haydn on a single machine. And that's > even more importan