Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
[redirecting this to -devel; discussions of ftp team NEW queue policies are off-topic for -release.] On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:13:47PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > And thats what I asked for, yes. Drop the version from -dev|-dbg|-doc, > > use the shlib system for the rest (which makes pac

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-14 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Josselin Mouette dies 12/11/2005 hora 18:37: > It was already suggested to accept only source+binary uploads, but to > rebuild the binaries on the upload's architecture anyway. Has there been a consensus on rejecting that solution? Curiously, Nowhere man -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-14 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Manoj Srivastava dies 11/11/2005 hora 22:35: > You gotta start trusting somewhere. Our web of trust starts with the > Developers in the keyring, we trust these people not to muck with the > binaries. You trust them, but not any user of Debian will want to trust them so much. Some will want

Re: Azureus magnet-link functionality

2005-11-14 Thread Ken Bloom
Shaun Jackman wrote: > In the following email Chris suggests that I add support for bit > torrent magnet:// URLs under Gnome2 in the Azureus package by setting > the gconftool-2 parameter /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command > to call Azureus. This seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do,

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:38:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:17:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > It resembles describing charity as "investment with no return". > > Perhaps; though there are diff

Re: Azureus magnet-link functionality

2005-11-14 Thread Shaun Jackman
In the following email Chris suggests that I add support for bit torrent magnet:// URLs under Gnome2 in the Azureus package by setting the gconftool-2 parameter /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command to call Azureus. This seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do, but it must be done for each

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> * Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-14 18:46:50]: Hold on - does this mean I will or won't be able to do apt-get install debconf6-doc >>

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:17:06 +1000 Anthony Towns wrote: > > Well, it's not an inaccurate description (I think), but you would > > use such a definition only if you think that charity is a stupid > > thing to do... > > So, if I'm parsing you right, you're saying that a person (such as > myself) wo

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Rich Walker
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> * Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-14 18:46:50]: >>> Hold on - does this mean I will or won't be able to do >>> apt-get install debconf6-doc >> >> you will, and most likely it will be 100% com

Re: Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-14 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Loudly promoting my own software here... la, 2005-11-12 kello 10:39 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh kirjoitti: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Besides, depends/pre-depends and conflicts should be more than enough if > > > done right. > > > > Yes, this is what is meant by sup

Mortgages/Finance

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Re: Three way link exchange with your-legal-advice.co.uk

2005-11-14 Thread jitender
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Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-14 18:46:50]: >> Hold on - does this mean I will or won't be able to do >> apt-get install debconf6-doc > > you will, and most likely it will be 100% complete. if someone > packages it. Uhhh, why would

approx (was Re: apt-proxy)

2005-11-14 Thread Eric Cooper
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:40:04AM +0100, Brian May wrote: > Is a back port available for sarge? If not, how feasible would it be > to create on? Does it depend on anything not in sarge? Approx needs the current version of libocamlnet-ocaml-dev, but otherwise should compile and work OK in sarge.

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-14 18:46:50]: > Hold on - does this mean I will or won't be able to do > apt-get install debconf6-doc you will, and most likely it will be 100% complete. if someone packages it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Rich Walker
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The same benefit that accrue from freedom of software still > remain if that software bits represent a presentation; the > software/presentation can be modified to suit a particular need, and > redistributed, excepts can be used in other

Re: library renaming due to changed libstdc++ configuration

2005-11-14 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Matthias Klose a écrit : * Once dependencies are fulfilled for all architectures, request binNMU's for all other packages depending on a library package with a changed package name. If a source upload is necessary for other fixes, wait as well until dependencies are fulfilled for all

Re: library renaming due to changed libstdc++ configuration

2005-11-14 Thread damog
On 12:14 Mon 14 Nov 2005, Matthias Klose wrote: > [Sent to d-d-a as well, didn't arrive there yet] Did you actually sign the mail to d-d-a? Quoting http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/: Only messages signed by a Debian developer will be accepted by this list. Cheers, -

Bug#339044: ITP: kitty -- a Qt/KDE based RSS podcast and video aggregator

2005-11-14 Thread Uwe Hermann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kitty Version : 0.9.2 Upstream Author : KesieV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kesiev.com/kittyguide/home/ * License : GPL Description : a Qt/KDE based RSS podca

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:17:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > It resembles describing charity as "investment with no return". > > Perhaps; though there are differences. Charity does have returns: both > emotionally/psychologica

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:04:51 +0100, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Scripsit David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> From reading the responses from Andreas, rather than people trying >> poorly to interpret him, it's pretty apparent that they'll be >> giving freely licensed talks a great

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:21:38 +1000, Anthony Towns said: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:59:41AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: >> > On Nov 13, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think the best reason to ask or require contributors

Bug#339029: ITP: barnyard -- output spool reader for Snort

2005-11-14 Thread Lars Bahner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Bahner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: barnyard Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Andrew R. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Roesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/barnyard/ * License

Bug#339025: ITP: sancp -- network security tool designed to collect statistical information from network traffic

2005-11-14 Thread Lars Bahner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Bahner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sancp Version : 1.6.1 Upstream Author : John Curry [ john dot curry at metre dot net ] * URL : http://www.metre.net/sancp.html * License : QPL Description : network s

Bug#339026: ITP: sguil -- Realtime network security monitor

2005-11-14 Thread Lars Bahner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Bahner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sguil Version : 0.5.3 Upstream Author : Bamm Visscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.sguil.org/ * License : QPL Description : Realtime network security monitor

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Andrew Saunders
On 11/14/05, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I case you hadn't noticed, there was a major _difference_ in opionons > about how "software" was to be interpreted. The editorial > clarification in 2004-003 removed the confusion by avoiding the > ambiguous word "software" Unfortunately n

Re: [Help] How to fix a buggy prerm script in sarge?

2005-11-14 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If your old prerm fails, the new prerm should be called with >>> "failed-upgrade" as its first argument (see Policy 6.4 and 6.5), >>> so you can do any necessary workarounds there. Errors in postrm >>> are handled similarly. >> >> But what would be th

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > From reading the responses from Andreas, rather than people trying poorly > > to interpret him, it's pretty apparent that they'll be giving freely > > licensed talks a greater weight

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony Towns > In case you hadn't noticed, for the Debian project's purposes software > is a synonym for computer programs; if it weren't the reversion of the > social contract would have had no effect on the "non-free documentation > in main" question. I case you hadn't noticed, there

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Oh, and here's something else to ponder: Maybe, just maybe, James has > more time to go to Ubuntu below zero than he has to handle keyring > updates because he prioritizes by what gets the bills paid. As most of > us do, I suppose. Maybe, just maybe, someone else should be

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From reading the responses from Andreas, rather than people trying poorly > to interpret him, it's pretty apparent that they'll be giving freely > licensed talks a greater weight than non-free ones. They're also going to > make it easy to choose a free

Re: [Help] How to fix a buggy prerm script in sarge?

2005-11-14 Thread Frank Küster
Hi all, it seems that just reading the policy again sometimes solves a problem... Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:25:01PM +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> was heard to say: >>> we just received a bug r

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:59:41AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > On Nov 13, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think the best reason to ask or require contributors to licenses > >> their papers in a DFSG form is so that Debian ca

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:28:41 +1000 Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:26:55PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > I disagree with your calling "licensing in a DFSG-free manner" as > > > "giving up rights": this seems

Bug#339002: ITP: cvsconnect -- CVS connection minimizer

2005-11-14 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cvsconnect Version : 0.1 * URL : http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/cvssuck/ * License : BSD Description : CVS connection minimizer CVSconnect enables you to do multiple CVS

Re: CDBS and other build systems

2005-11-14 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting "Ivan S. Dubrov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The problem is I can't find thorough documentation or some kind of "How To" > there I can find how to write these extensions. Although they just simply > pieces of make-files, I find it difficult to start understanding them. For > example, the diffire

library renaming due to changed libstdc++ configuration

2005-11-14 Thread Matthias Klose
[Sent to d-d-a as well, didn't arrive there yet] Another round of package renamings of some libraries written in C++ is needed. Background: libstdc++6 is currently configured to use the mt allocator based on discussions in April 2004 with upstream libstdc++ developers. This configuration turned o

Re: [Help] How to fix a buggy prerm script in sarge?

2005-11-14 Thread Frank Küster
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:25:01PM +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> we just received a bug report that is caused by a buggy prerm script >> in the package in sarge (it fails because it doesn't handle read-only >> /usr/local

Re: CDBS and other build systems

2005-11-14 Thread Jani Monoses
Could anybody point me to some documentation or example of writing custom rules/classes for CDBS? BTW, is there other build systems like CDBS? WBR, Ivan Dubrov The best I could find is https://perso.duckcorp.org/duck/cdbs-doc/cdbs-doc.xhtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: apt-proxy

2005-11-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Eric Cooper [Mon, Nov 07 2005, 09:18:15AM]: > > Is there a good alternative? > > I wrote approx for exactly this purpose. It's now in testing. Update your package description please. Current apt-cacher does not require Apache. Eduard. -- Elric: We are dreamers, shapers, singers, an