Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Stephen Gran] > While I have to agree that the presence or absence of ads in LJ may make > or break some consumers decisions about what hardware to go with, I just > feel I have to note that arm has been a long supported platform within > Debian, and there are hundreds if not thousands of machine

Re: Translated packages descriptions progress

2006-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 08:26:02AM +0200, Michael Vogt a écrit : > > 1. send a Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject 'GET 3 cs' > (use cs da de eo es fi fr hu it ja nl pl pt_BR pt_PT ru sk sv_SE > uk as langcode) Dear Michael, how can we get description for specific packages? Ther

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-30 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:00:21 +, "Gustavo Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > The packages that aren't under group maintenance and will never be, > needs more not so strict NMU rules. Why? -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/

Bug#380583: ITP: debcache -- python module to maintain and serve a cache of Debian packages

2006-07-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adeodato Simó" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: debcache Version : N/A Upstream Author : Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL (bzr branch): http://people.debian.org/~adeodato/code/debian/debcache * License : MIT Programming L

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Re: Build failure: cannot find -lz

2006-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:49:30AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:29:15PM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:50:48PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > So yes, please re-add the dependency on libxml2-dev for the time being. > >

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-30 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:03:14PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Note it is unclear whether the makefiles could be called "scripts" > > Unproven assertion. How is something proven unclear? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Dustin Harriman said: > Hello Joey and all you other Debian heroes, > > Joey Hess wrote: > "It's interesting to see arm increasing like this. I wonder which new arm > systems are responsible?" > > It's likely that the TS-7300 is an ARM embedded computer quickly growin

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Wouter Verhelst said: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Again a person who tries to bend the GPL to his wishes.. > > Gee, that sounds familiar somehow. Haven't we reached the point where we have noticed that all posts by JS are

Re: Bug#380468: ITP: phpunit2 -- Unit testing suite for PHP5

2006-07-30 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:52:50AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: >On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 02:40:47PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: >>Package: wnpp >>Severity: wishlist >>Owner: Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>* Package name: phpunit2 > >*cough*330301*cough* It seems to me that the submitter

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wrote "the default python version", and I maintain that my original > fix would work with the new upstream release. Your "original fix" would not succesfully apply as a patch to the new upstream version. It's also, as it happens, the *wrong* way to m

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le dim 30 juillet 2006 07:21, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > >> No, it requires *both* the newer Python > > pure speculation, upstream *AND* users on the list, claim it works > with python2.3. so stop with that, it's tiresome. This is incorrect.

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When this thread started, you had decided to bind the fix with the new > upstream release and you had blocked the new upstream release with the > switch of the default Python version. Now you're also blocking this > new upstream release with a major n

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> > So what? If you know how to fix that issue, then why don't you upload a >> > package based on Pierre's work with the fix? Why don't you do it RIGHT >> > NOW and get DONE with this madness? >> I don't kn

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Dustin Harriman
Hello Joey and all you other Debian heroes,Joey Hess wrote:"It's interesting to see arm increasing like this. I wonder which new arm systems are responsible?"It's likely that the TS-7300 is an ARM embedded computer quickly growing in popularity.  I suggest this because the TS-7300 (and similar, pas

Re: Translated packages descriptions progress

2006-07-30 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/2006 03:26 AM, Michael Vogt wrote: > Dear Friends, Hi Michael, > the current version of apt in debian/experimental has support for > translated package descriptions and we have a the current translations > available for sid on the mirrors (

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > It has been a while since I reported the architecture distribution in > Debian, as reported by popularity-contest. The raising star is 'arm', > now used by 1.3% of the population. 'alpha' and 'sparc' continue to > drop. Here are the numbers. You can find the details

Re: More dh_python questions

2006-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have a growing suspicion that dh_python does not do the right thing for private pure Python modules in the presence of XS-Python-version This is how dh_python behaves: *** PRIVATE PURE MODULE: If there is a .py file, and it is in a private dir. only one version

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-07-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 09:39:26PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Do you know of a good example of a tool that has successfully shaped > Debian development for a large number of people? CDBS and alioth/svn.debian.org. HTH, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Bug#380468: ITP: phpunit2 -- Unit testing suite for PHP5

2006-07-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 02:40:47PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: phpunit2 *cough*330301*cough* - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-07-30 Thread martin f krafft
Dear fellow developers, As many of you know, I am conducting research on Debian, specifically on how Debian developers adopt or reject new methods of package maintenance. I would like to get a broad collection of data for the first part of my research, which is the study of tools that have been su

Re: Bug#380388: ITP: toga2 -- computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

2006-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Perhaps one of these might be useful: likevel:~> debtags grep 'game::board:chess && x11::application' Hmmm, not really. I'm perfectly able to find all packages that might be usefull to play chess under X. The question was how my father will b

Re: Bug#380388: ITP: toga2 -- computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

2006-07-30 Thread oliver
At Sunday 30 July 2006 17:55 wrote Andreas Tille: > On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, oliver wrote: > > You are right, its definetly the stongest engine in debian now. > > So what we are obviousely lacking is a *nice* UI that enables > people like my father to use this engine. Is anything out there > that migh

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > >Erast Benson wrote: > >> I do not need to make the build system > >> available under GPL (GPL §3 requires me to make it available but does > >> not mention a license) > > >GPL 3(a) requires the "comp

Bug#65611: looking for you

2006-07-30 Thread Alice
Do not ignore me please, I found your email somewhere and now decided to write you. I am coming to your place in few weeks and thbougaht we can meet each other. Let me know if you do not mind. I am a aniace pretty girl. Don't reply to this email. aEmail me direclty at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: Bug#380388: ITP: toga2 -- computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

2006-07-30 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 05:55:59PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > So what we are obviousely lacking is a *nice* UI that enables > people like my father to use this engine. Is anything out there > that might be more convinient than xboard? Perhaps one of these might be useful: likevel:~> debtags g

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 09:52:34AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > We do not vote for every decision there is --- and this does > not boil down to the tyranny of the majority. For my packages, it > still remains just my decision --- unless you can get three quarters > of the membership

Re: Bug#380388: ITP: toga2 -- computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

2006-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, oliver wrote: You are right, its definetly the stongest engine in debian now. So what we are obviousely lacking is a *nice* UI that enables people like my father to use this engine. Is anything out there that might be more convinient than xboard? If I missed something pl

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 05:17:22PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Sunday 30 July 2006 16:21, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I agree with you that there is this kind of technological competition among > > derivatives, and so long as it is all free software, Debian and its > > derivatives all stand to

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:02:55 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:51:40AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > Do you have examples of collaborative maintenance projects where >> > the "no one is responsible" part plays a role, making people >> > willin

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 July 2006 16:21, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:34:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:49:07AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:58:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > When Ubuntu leads to users having ideas l

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:34:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:49:07AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:58:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > When Ubuntu leads to users having ideas like the one in the parent post, > > > this is manifestly fal

Re: Bug#380388: ITP: toga2 -- computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

2006-07-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:01:56PM +0200, oliver wrote: > At Saturday 29 July 2006 22:15 wrote Henning Makholm: > > Scripsit Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Description : computer chess engine, calculates chess moves > > We seem to have several such engines already. Could the descripti

Re: How to fix a disk problem/damaged file?

2006-07-30 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:15:34 +0100, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, I suggest this query is better for debian-user@lists.debian.org, > since it is not related to general development issues. Right, and I know it, sorry for that. > Second, an I/O error trying to ls a file usually

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 July 2006 15:34, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:49:07AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:58:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:38:23AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > > > > For one, Debian and Ubuntu aren't in compet

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:49:07AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:58:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:38:23AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > > > For one, Debian and Ubuntu aren't in competition, [...] > > When Ubuntu leads to users having ideas li

Bug#380468: ITP: phpunit2 -- Unit testing suite for PHP5

2006-07-30 Thread Bart Martens
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: phpunit2 Version : 2.3.6 Upstream Author : Sebastian Bergmann * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/PHPUnit2 * License : BSD Programming Lang: php Description : Unit t

Re: renaming network interfaces in udev

2006-07-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 30, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason I thought it was considered bad to rename eth* to eth* using > udev (race conditions and such). This was before 0.084-4. > # UNKNOWN device (/class/net/eth0) Interesting, can you try to debug why this happens? It's only cosmetic, b

Bug#380450: ITP: openser -- very fast and configurable SIP proxy

2006-07-30 Thread Julien BLACHE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: openser Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : OpenSER contributors * URL : http://www.openser.org * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : very fast and config

Re: new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> (note: I am using ssh-krb5 - not that should matter - it Brian> authenticated OK). Brian> This is weird. Maybe I will need to experiment more. Brian> I just tried the standard ssh in sarge, and get the same Brian> r

renaming network interfaces in udev

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
Hello, For some reason I thought it was considered bad to rename eth* to eth* using udev (race conditions and such). However, after upgrading my systems to etch, I notice they do just this, by default: --- cut --- # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules # program

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Ricardo Mones
Hi Gustavo, On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:57:27 -0300 Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:55:26 +0200 > Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > If you need to apply a patch to one of my packages for a > > non-critical bug in order to complete

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Török Edvin] > Afaik popularity-contest uses access-time to report statistics. That is not entirely true. The installation count is collected using dpkg -l. The votes on the other hand are collected using atime, and that is less accurate and should be taken with a grain of salt. Because of thi

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:51:40AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Do you have examples of collaborative maintenance projects where the > > "no one is responsible" part plays a role, making people willing to > > go back to non-collaborative maintenance? > Yes, there was a mention of it j

Re: Bug#380328: ITP: pdfcrack -- PDF files password cracker

2006-07-30 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:17:10 +0100 Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:02:37PM +0200, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: > > * Package name: pdfcrack > > > [snip] > > This software uses xpdf/poppler stuff (categorized as free). > > > > Hi there, > > Does thi

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: >Erast Benson wrote: >> >> I do not need to make the build system >> available under GPL (GPL §3 requires me to make it available but does >> not mention a license) >GPL 3(a) requires the "complete corresponding source code [be] >distributed under the terms of Section

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Török Edvin
On 7/30/06, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you want to help the Debian project to get a more accurate view on the architectures used, make sure your machines have the popularity-contest package installed and enabled. The reported data is also used to decide which packages go

Re: new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> (note: I am using ssh-krb5 - not that should matter - it Brian> authenticated OK). Brian> This is weird. Maybe I will need to experiment more. I just tried the standard ssh in sarge, and get the same results. -- Brian May

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le dim 30 juillet 2006 07:21, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > No, it requires *both* the newer Python pure speculation, upstream *AND* users on the list, claim it works with python2.3. so stop with that, it's tiresome. > *and* the newer Guile. In another mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you said

Re: Bug#380328: ITP: pdfcrack -- PDF files password cracker

2006-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:02:37PM +0200, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: > * Package name: pdfcrack > [snip] > This software uses xpdf/poppler stuff (categorized as free). > Hi there, Does this use xpdf or poppler? :) poppler is a fork of xpdf which allows dynamic linking, so is much preferr

Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
It has been a while since I reported the architecture distribution in Debian, as reported by popularity-contest. The raising star is 'arm', now used by 1.3% of the population. 'alpha' and 'sparc' continue to drop. Here are the numbers. You can find the details on http://popcon.debian.org/>.

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > So what? If you know how to fix that issue, then why don't you upload a > > package based on Pierre's work with the fix? Why don't you do it RIGHT > > NOW and get DONE with this madness? > I don't know a fix for that issue except to use Guile 1.8

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Actually, I didn't make those "packaging mistakes"; the previous > maintainer did. « "The previous maintainer did the mistakes" is the refrain of people who don't want to fix their packages. » :-P > You seem to think this is a battle, in whic

Re: Bug#380388: ITP: toga2 -- computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

2006-07-30 Thread oliver
At Saturday 29 July 2006 22:15 wrote Henning Makholm: > Scripsit Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Description : computer chess engine, calculates chess moves > > We seem to have several such engines already. Could the description > please say something that distinguishes this from the o

Re: new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
> "Osamu" == Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Osamu> Hi, Are you sure it is Debian gluck issue? It was working fine all the time up and until the compromise of gluck.debian.org. I haven't made any changes to the software on this computer, except to install the odd security fix. (I