Bug#394315: ITP: io -- A small, prototype-based programming language

2006-10-20 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Kurt B. Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: io Version : 2006-10-15 Upstream Author : "Steve Dekorte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.iolang.com * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : A s

Bug#97500: Zachary says Hi

2006-10-20 Thread Abraham, Zachary
Our educational counselors are recruiting new people for our home degree program. We are running this program as an experiment and we feel you may qualify. This program will earn you a fully qualified degree, with transcripts. Currently we are recruiting people with vast knowledge or experienc

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:18:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:37:36PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > That's not correct. [serious, grave, and critical] are the "release > > > critical" severities, though some release critical issues won't be > > > fixed for any

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:05:58AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > wrote: > > I'm not sure if anybody else is seeing this but I have seen (just today) 28 > > spam messages sent to the BTS. I've received them because they were all sent > > I've seen

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:37:36PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > That's not correct. [serious, grave, and critical] are the "release > > critical" severities, though some release critical issues won't be > > fixed for any given release, due to either being not known about or > > understood (ie

Bug#62878: Tyler says Hi

2006-10-20 Thread Lam, Tyler
Our educational counselors are recruiting new people for our home degree program. We are running this program as an experiment and we feel you may qualify. This program will earn you a fully qualified degree, with transcripts. Currently we are recruiting people with vast knowledge or experienc

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Javier, On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:05:58AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > I'm not sure if anybody else is seeing this but I have seen (just today) 28 > spam messages sent to the BTS. I've received them because they were all sent I've seen BTS spam before and ask the list admi

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:27:24 +1000, Anthony Towns said: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:06:05AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > Even then, it's only "serious" if it violates the release policy >> > [http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt]. Hence the reason >> > that >> No. A bug may be s

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Aurelien Jarno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061021 00:37]: > Anthony Towns a écrit : > >On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:06:04PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >>Maybe some errors (E:) of lintian could be changed to critical (C:) and > >>uploads containing such critical errors be refused by dak? What do you >

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Anthony Towns a écrit : On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:06:04PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Maybe some errors (E:) of lintian could be changed to critical (C:) and uploads containing such critical errors be refused by dak? What do you think? AFAIK dak doesn't support this? Does "C:" exist? No AF

Does anybody know where Janez Rabzelj Zappone is?

2006-10-20 Thread Carlos Martín Nieto
Hi, I ask because he took (or was going to anyway) maintainership of the package blam, but this was about a month ago and no new version has been uploaded. I sent him an e-mail a few days ago but he hasn't replied. There is already a package ready which fixes at least two of the RC bugs, and pe

Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 6

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Debian developers, Thanks to your collective effort, the number of circular dependencies in Debian has halved since the begining of the year. Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by maintainers. This list is also available at

Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-20 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I'm not sure if anybody else is seeing this but I have seen (just today) 28 spam messages sent to the BTS. I've received them because they were all sent to (at least) the 'www.debian.org' pseudo-package, and I have reported all of them in the BTS' spam interface [1] They also seem to share common

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:06:04PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Maybe some errors (E:) of lintian could be changed to critical (C:) and > uploads containing such critical errors be refused by dak? What do you > think? AFAIK dak doesn't support this? Does "C:" exist? > Among all of the bugs repo

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:06:05AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Even then, it's only "serious" if it violates the release policy > > [http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt]. Hence the reason > > that > No. A bug may be serious and yet not RC, as I understand it. That's not cor

Bug#394249: ITP: inotify-tools -- A set of command-line programs providing a simple interface to inotify

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Makholm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: inotify-tools Version : 2.6 Upstream Author : Rohan McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://inotify-tools.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Desc

Re: gcc-4.2 build-depends?

2006-10-20 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > here. Also, the same solution should be used (eg. split the > package). The gcc-4.x packages are already set up to support building the Java and Ada compilers (and associated libraries) separately from the rest of GCC; however, there is no need to do so for 4.2 while i

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Rafael Laboissiere] > Moderating has the great advantage of reducing spam in the list. Yeah. And if you get a lot of spam to the list, using the listadmin script make it a lot easier to process through the moderation requests. One of the list I moderate get 200 spam a day, and I would never ha

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-20 Thread Matthias Julius
Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As regards bouncing, we recognize that receiving an automated message is not > the suitable behavior. On the other hand, not receiving anything and not > seeing the message in the list archives is even worse. We decided then to > suppress bouncing

Bug#394223: ITP: cl-cffi -- The Common Foreign Function Interface for Common Lisp

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Van Eynde
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cl-cffi Version : 20061013 Upstream Author : James Bielman * URL : http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Common Lisp Description

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-20 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-17 09:33]: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Something I have yet to understand is what purposes the bounce [from > > a moderated list] serve in the first place. Moderating is OK, but > > bouncing ? > > I read many mailing lists (this on

Bug#394161: ITP: cl-plus-ssl -- A simple Common Lisp interface to OpenSSL

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Van Eynde
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cl-plus-ssl Version : 20060904 Upstream Author : various * URL : http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-plus-ssl/ * License : Lisp LGPL Programming Lang: Common Lisp Descr

Bug#394163: ITP: cl-hunchentoot -- The Common Lisp web server formerly known as TBNL

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Van Eynde
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cl-hunchentoot Version : 0.4.4 Upstream Author : Dr. Edmund Weitz * URL : http://weitz.de/hunchentoot/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Common Lisp Description :

Bug#394171: ITP: cl-trivial-https -- a fork of trivial-http with https support

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Van Eynde
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cl-trivial-https Version : 20051125 Upstream Author : Brian Mastenbrook / David Lichteblau * URL : http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-plus-ssl/ * License : BSD Programmi

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Why don't we all try to calm down and get less paranoid? I don't think anyone's trying to piss off anyone, so I think we should all try to take it less personal. We probably all have different priorities, different goals and different ideas on how to achieve them, and I don't think anyone's making

Bug#394138: ITP: vmware-package -- utility for building Vmware related Debian packages

2006-10-20 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vmware-package Version : 0.0 Upstream Author : Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : none yet * License : GPL Programming Lang: shell Description : utility for buildi

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:49:09 +0100, Adam D Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 10:00 -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> >> > Doesn't policy violation warrant Critical severity? >> >> No, it "only" warrants the lowest RC severity, serious [0],