Hello,
Due to a reduction of my free time and a lack of interest in some of
my packages I've decided to put some up for adoption. None of them are
particularly taxing and most have dormant upstreams. If no one is
interested in them I may just ask for their removal.
blktool #420370
Supposed to be
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:43:20PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007 10:23:51 +0900, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > Suggests: foo, bar, baz
>
> > Justify-foo: To play while the program works for you. Justify-bar:
> > Here a longer discussions which
> > takes
On Sun, 20 May 2007 10:23:51 +0900, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I am quite convinced that recommended packages do not need to be
> justified, but I think that the need for such a justification in the
> case of suggested packages will go growing. Soon or later, the apt
> frontends
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:26:59AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
>
> > If you want to be off topic yet marginally related to Debian, use
> > -curiosa. If it has nothing to do with Debian at all, pick from
> > the multitude of fora where it would be on t
Le Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:52:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
>
> A field in the control file is unlikely to have enough space to
> truly state the reasons (remember, the maintainer has alsready stated
> that in their judgement the packages belong together for all but the
> most
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Tim Retout wrote:
> * Package name: ircservices
> IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay Chat
> networks. It provides for definitive nickname and channel ownership, as
> well as the ability to send messages ("memos") to offline users, and
>
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2007 13:17:45 +0200, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Am Samstag 19 Mai 2007 07:14 schrieb Manoj Srivastava:
If you do not wish to educate yourself on the details, perhaps you
should be heeding the directions given to you by the maintainer?
Pe
The current source tarball contains code for 4 binaries. In future,
upstream is likely to release three separate tarballs (possibly at
different times) from the same CVS repository. One tarball matches the
current source name and one of the existing binaries. The second
tarball will provide the oth
Joey Hess wrote:
>
>I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become
>nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read
>our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of
>offtopic posts there. I've in the past threatened to leave -user
>entire
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:31:02PM +0300, Touko Korpela wrote:
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> You should fix your mail system not to send quoted-printable.
Urm, why?
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Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Without going into arcane details, you have been told that, in
> the maintainers opinion, you should be installing debconf-utils when
> you install ucf, unless yours is an unusual installation, and you know
> what you are doing.
True. However, lets not forget that this i
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:22:17PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:00:57AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:21:51AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:12:56AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
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> > > > > Wouldn't it be b
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:26:25PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> Come on. `useless debconf proliferation'? The question has medium
> priority. I can also make it an configration option somewhere and use
> that, but it was just a convenient why to get info from a user.
I'd also say a debconf questi
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On Saturday 19 May 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Well, for non-buggy packages, what you have is an issue of
> trusting the maintainers judgement. In that case, you also have to
> trust that the maintainer comes up with a correct, and properly
> formulated explanation in under one line
On Fri, 18 May 2007 21:44:43 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It's not like it would be difficult to decide on a standard to allow
>> the segment of text in README.Debian that described the optional
>> dependencies (or other information
On Sat, 19 May 2007 13:17:45 +0200, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Am Samstag 19 Mai 2007 07:14 schrieb Manoj Srivastava:
>> If you do not wish to educate yourself on the details, perhaps you
>> should be heeding the directions given to you by the maintainer?
> Perhaps. But first, b
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:32:40AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
[...]
> aptitude [...] does everything apt-get does...
[...]
Well, analogies to 'apt-get source' and 'apt-get build-dep' were
still missing the last time I tried, but these days I have little
trouble remembering to type apt-get instead
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:01:18AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:08:16AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > Now as for the need for re-classification of 'recommends' to say
> > 'suggests' to trim (mega|giga)bytes from the basic install sounds like a
> > neat
> > idea and a w
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Trent Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: dpans2texi
Version : 1.03
Upstream Author : Jesper Harder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://whome.phys.au.dk/~harder/dpans.html
* License : GPL / non-Free
Programming Lang:
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:08:16AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Now as for the need for re-classification of 'recommends' to say
> 'suggests' to trim (mega|giga)bytes from the basic install sounds like a neat
> idea and a way to help with that is to have the maintainer have a simple
> file that expla
On Sat, 19 May 2007 00:23:08 +0200
David Härdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:41:41PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> >On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:12:15AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> >
> >> Good point. Thus it looks like there is no right way [...]
> >
> >How about maki
Am Samstag 19 Mai 2007 07:14 schrieb Manoj Srivastava:
> If you do not wish to educate yourself on the details, perhaps
> you should be heeding the directions given to you by the maintainer?
Perhaps. But first, but not all packages are actually strict about that and I
do not want to blo
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Package name: ssaha
Version : 3.3
Upstream Author : Anthony J. Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ssahausers/files/ssaha_v33.tar.gz
License : GPL
Program
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2007, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> I don't see how that would be easier than subscribing to the PTS for a
>> package you're co-maintaining.
> Well, the problem is missing documentation - at least I was not
> aware of this fact. That's why my
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:26:59AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> If you want to be off topic yet marginally related to Debian, use
> -curiosa. If it has nothing to do with Debian at all, pick from the
> multitude of fora where it would be on topic.
[qoute Joey Hess]
To be clear, I am not sugges
On Sat, 19 May 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:41:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > [4] FWIW, forums.debian.net has an offtopic section that actually
> > seems to be used appropriately, without bothering the technical
> > discissions in other sections.
>
> Debian seems
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