Re: Bits from the DPL: Looking forward

2006-10-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:39:20PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > BSPs in Vienna (Switzerland) [3], I was assuming, of course, that "Switzerland" was some foreign word meaning "snowy place", but apparently it's actually a country all of its own, entirely separate to Austria... On Tue, Oct 03, 200

Re: Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-02 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:00 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > I'd very much like to see this happen, but I feel kind of > uncomfortable sending an "AOL" to a list I'm not subscribed to and a > discussion I haven't participated in. Maybe some sort of signature > collection would make more sense, then sen

Bug#390778: ITP: ntfs-3g -- A read-write NTFS driver for FUSE

2006-10-02 Thread Le_Vert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ntfs-3g Version : 0.0.0+20070920 Upstream Author : Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mario Emmenlauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yuval Fledel (n

Re: Experiment: orphanining some of my packages (second round)

2006-10-02 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:21:45AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >Aurelien Jarno wrote: >- zziplib I'll take zziplib. Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: looking for the article with a graph of the relations between maintainer scripts

2006-10-02 Thread James R. Van Zandt
"Andrew Saunders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can any one point me to the article with a graph of the relations > > of the various maintainer scripts? > > Sounds like you're after > http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/Main

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WAS: Re: Simpleminded members better than abusive members)

2006-10-02 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:54:09AM +0200, Maarten Verwijs wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:37:55PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Try filing better bug reports instead. > > Since this is an ongoing problem, how about the following: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ... > Tis just an idea, and it may have it'

Bug#390754: O: piuparts -- .deb package installation, upgrading, and removal testing tool

2006-10-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I've just orphaned the piuparts package. I can't promise to spend any time on it myself in the next few months, so it's better to be explicit about this. See also http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg01068.html Alastair McKinstry offered to help, but I'v

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (WAS: Re: Simpleminded members better than abusive members)

2006-10-02 Thread Maarten Verwijs
Good evening, On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:37:55PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Try filing better bug reports instead. Since this is an ongoing problem, how about the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please consider: 1) Endusers and bugreports often do not mix well. 2) Developers and 'Stupid Bugreport

Bug#390765: ITP: xmms-pipe -- plugin to control XMMS via a named pipe

2006-10-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xmms-pipe Version : 0.5.6 Upstream Author : Ben Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rooster.stanford.edu/~ben/xmmspipe/ * License : GPL Description : plugin to cont

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-10-02 Thread Alexander Petrov
Hi On Tuesday 26 September 2006 11:12 Christoph Haas wrote: > I have tried the new Etch installer last weekend and I'm impressed. The > installation works perfectly well and the graphical installer - while it > doesn't add much value IMHO to the dialog based installer - looks nice and > will surel

Bug#390768: ITP: xmms-mp3cue -- plugin to add cue file support to XMMS

2006-10-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xmms-mp3cue Version : 0.94 Upstream Author : Brian Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://brianvictor.tripod.com/mp3cue.htm * License : GPL Description : plugin t

Bug#390745: O: liwc

2006-10-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm orphaning liwc. Description: Tools for manipulating C source code Includes programs for converting C++ comments to C comments, removing C comments, print out string literals, and converting characters to trigraphs and trigraphs to characters. -- System Info

Bug#390744: O: publib -- library of miscellaneous C functions

2006-10-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I have just orphaned (by doing an upload setting the maintainer to QA) the publib source package (producing the publib-dev binary package). I'm also freezing my upstream development. I haven't really used the code for many years, and every time someone else does, the

Re: Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, first, thanks Evan for your work and the update. Eric Dorland wrote: > * Evan Prodromou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> So, for those of you who want to see Creative Commons licenses that meet >> our standard of Freedom, this is the time to act. Pl

Re: Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:00:02PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > Maybe some sort of signature collection would make more sense, then > send batches in a single email to the list. Seems more polite that > way. Totally agreed, I was going to write exactly the same reply. Evan: what about setting up

Re: Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-02 Thread Eric Dorland
* Evan Prodromou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, for those of you who want to see Creative Commons licenses that meet > our standard of Freedom, this is the time to act. Please, if you haven't > already, take a few minutes to send an email message to the Creative > Commons public review mailing li

Re: Debian Women Wiki (was: No Config-Files state even though postrm purge failed while purging an installed package?)

2006-10-02 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:32:23AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > >May I ask why information this important is not on the main Debian > >wiki, wiki.debian.org? > > It was born in the Debian Women wiki, because I felt much more > comfortable doing this documenting process inside the Debian Wom

Re: Simpleminded members better than abusive members

2006-10-02 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Dan, * Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-02 20:18]: > I used to work at Bell Labs. There was a very large management > training effort to correct things like abusive behavior between > co-workers, etc. You might say that that was a profit making company, > and Debian is not, but I am s

Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-02 Thread Evan Prodromou
Hi, everyone. Pardon the wide distribution, but I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anyone. As some of you know [1], a workgroup within Debian cooperating with Creative Commons [2] to make some of their licenses compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines [3] so that CC-licensed works (ima

Bug#390725: ITP: vb2py -- convert existing visual basic applications into python

2006-10-02 Thread alex bodnaru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: alex bodnaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> see below. * Package name: vb2py Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://vb2py.sourceforge.net * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Help with piuparts?

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:25:28AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm not going to be able to work much on piuparts in the coming months. > This includes both improving the code, and processing log files and > reporting bugs found by piuparts. > > It might be a good idea if someone else, or severa

Bug#390729: ITP: bluemsxlite -- portable version of the blueMSX MSX emulator

2006-10-02 Thread Joost Yervante Damad
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joost Yervante Damad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: bluemsxlite Version : 2.6.1 Upstream Author : Daniel Vik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.bluemsx.com/ * License : GPL, Zlib, BSD Programming Lang: C, C++

Bug#390717: ITP: gtk2-engines-human -- Ubuntu GTK2.x theme based on Clearlooks

2006-10-02 Thread Le_Vert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gtk2-engines-human Version : 0.9.12+0.2 Upstream Author : Richard Stellingwerff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-10-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Mike Hommey] > Why not add support for Libs.private in libtool ? That's essentially what the .la file already provides, with _debian_ libtool. The main problem we have with libtool these days is packages that use their own shipped libtool rather than debian's. Anyway, it's probably easiest jus

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:10:01PM -0500, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Loïc Minier] > > Can't we just tell people to not use *.la files for static linking? > > The problem is that .la files provide a way to pull in all the > dependent libraries for static linking, and unless

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-10-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Loïc Minier] > Can't we just tell people to not use *.la files for static linking? The problem is that .la files provide a way to pull in all the dependent libraries for static linking, and unless you also ship .pc files, there is no other automated way to do this. Some people apparently care

Re: Simpleminded members better than abusive members

2006-10-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 02 October 2006 17:15, Dan Jacobson wrote: > You might want to have related workshops at the next Debian > conference or seminars. The leadership team should get involved. Try filing better bug reports instead. I don't see _any_ rationale in #390564 why the maintainer should add the Sug

Simpleminded members better than abusive members

2006-10-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
I used to work at Bell Labs. There was a very large management training effort to correct things like abusive behavior between co-workers, etc. You might say that that was a profit making company, and Debian is not, but I am sure the values still apply. http://bugs.debian.org/390564 was my sugges

Bug#390691: ITP: gnome-icon-theme-human -- Ubuntu default Gnome's icons theme

2006-10-02 Thread Le_Vert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gnome-icon-theme-human Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Daniel Holbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://packages.ubunt

Re: Debconf creating default files

2006-10-02 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Rodrigo, * Rodrigo Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-02 17:00]: > I got to create a debian structure defaukt from a > package. > > changelog control dirs emacsen-remove init.d > manpage.xml postrm prerm script-full shlibs > compat copyright docs emacsen-startup manpage.1 menu >

Debconf creating default files

2006-10-02 Thread Rodrigo Tavares
Hello, I got to create a debian structure defaukt from a package. changelog control dirs emacsen-remove init.d manpage.xml postrm prerm script-full shlibs compat copyright docs emacsen-startup manpage.1 menu preinst README.Debian script-gera-dbar-default templates config cro

Re: FIRST CALL FOR VOTES FOR "DFSG #2 applies to all programmatic works"

2006-10-02 Thread Peter Van Eynde
On Sunday 01 October 2006 01:05, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 22fc4edd-1f6c-454f-b204-6aa0bad0ce1d > [ ] Choice 1: DFSG #2 applies to all programmatic works > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Further discussion > - - -=-=-=-=-=-

Bug#390655: ITP: enblend -- image blending with multiresolution splines

2006-10-02 Thread Sebastian Harl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: enblend Upstream Author : Andrew Mihal * URL : http://enblend.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : image blending with multiresolution splines enblend is a tool fo

Re: No Config-Files state even though postrm purge failed while purging an installed package?

2006-10-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 9/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts states, while discussing the purging of a fully installed package ("Removing and Purging", Removal+Purge of foo (Installed)), that there's no way that the package might end-up

Bug#390650: ITP: azrael -- Simple GTK2 based client for XMMS2 audio server

2006-10-02 Thread Ricardo Mones
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: azrael Version : 0.3.5 Upstream Author : Costin Chirvasuta * URL : https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155647 * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Re: Debian Women Wiki (was: No Config-Files state even though postrm purge failed while purging an installed package?)

2006-10-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 9/29/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:52:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts states, >while discussing the purging of a fully installed package >("Removing and Purging", Removal+Purge of foo (Installed)),

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-10-02 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > A first step in that direction would be to fix .la, .pc and -config > > files so that they only give the needed libraries. > binary-arch: build-arch > # [something like '$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(shell pwd)/debian/tmp'] > # > sed -i

Re: FIRST CALL FOR VOTES FOR "DFSG #2 applies to all programmatic works"

2006-10-02 Thread Peter Van Eynde
> > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 22fc4edd-1f6c-454f-b204-6aa0bad0ce1d > [ ] Choice 1: DFSG #2 applies to all programmatic works > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Further discussion > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- pgpJ

Director Appointee

2006-10-02 Thread Beau Philips
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RE: Experiment: orphanining some of my packages

2006-10-02 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Here is the list of packages I have orphaned in a first round, please > feel free to adopt them: > * xwelltris (priority goes to the pkg-games team) The Games Team will take care of that game, thanks Aurelien :) Greetings, Miry

Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator

2006-10-02 Thread Frank Küster
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> .app is pretty much meaningless. Therefore I'd prefer if you'd use a >> suffix with a less arcane meaning, like -gnustep. > > Does anyone truly care? Is it worth any effort to rename? It's an ITP, why not do it

Re: Experiment: orphanining some of my packages (second round)

2006-10-02 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Aurelien Jarno wrote: Hi all, As Debian^WDunc-tank experiments with funding, I have loosed motivation to spend so much time on my packages. I have therefore decided to experiment with orphaning a few of my packages in the hope I will have more time to contribute to other Free Software project

Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator

2006-10-02 Thread Miles Bader
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > .app is pretty much meaningless. Therefore I'd prefer if you'd use a > suffix with a less arcane meaning, like -gnustep. Does anyone truly care? Is it worth any effort to rename? -miles -- "Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresti

[hardware-donations] 15-20 GB IDE disks (USA)

2006-10-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Someone is interested in donating some older IDE hard disks with about 15-20 GB. They are located in the States and might be useful for testing to someone working on the debian-installer. If you are interested, please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ --