Work-needing packages report for May 25, 2007

2007-05-24 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 398 (new: 7) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 83 (new: 0) Total number of packages requeste

Bug#425952: ITP: emacs-rails -- Emacs minor-mode for developing RubyOnRails applications

2007-05-24 Thread Jan Michael Alonzo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Michael Alonzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: emacs-rails Version : 0.5.99.5 Upstream Author : Emacs Rails Team * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/emacs-rails/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Descri

Re: Is Ron Lee MIA?

2007-05-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
"Paul Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I exchanged a couple of emails with him about GPG signing in April. Good to know; apologies for the false alarm. > I'm thinking there needs to be a co-maintainence team for wxWidgets, > and ron seems open to the idea. Sounds reasonable, though I'm sprea

Re: Is Ron Lee MIA? (was Re: wxwidgets2.8)

2007-05-24 Thread Paul Wise
On 5/25/07, Aaron M. Ucko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Likewise, bitpim has moved to 2.8 upstream, forcing me to hold back or backport various GUI-related changes on their part, so I'd also greatly appreciate seeing wxWidgets 2.8 in Debian. However, I am concerned that its maintainer (Ron Lee) ma

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 24, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The DFSG is a set of guidelines; there are many things that licenses > can do which would be anathema to Free Software but are not > specifically excluded by the DFSG. But still, the first two sentences of the SC read: "We provide the guide

Is Ron Lee MIA? (was Re: wxwidgets2.8)

2007-05-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for explaining why filezilla is not yet updated. If you have the > time, you might want to offer help to the maintainer of wxwidgets2.6: Likewise, bitpim has moved to 2.8 upstream, forcing me to hold back or backport various GUI-related changes o

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Poole
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le jeudi 24 mai 2007 à 15:36 -0400, Michael Poole a écrit : >> > Please stop the choice-of-law bullshit. This clause is moot, we can >> > ignore it. >> >> Moot in what venues? I live in a state that has enacted the Uniform >> Computer Information Transactions Act (UCIT

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Please stop the choice-of-law bullshit. This clause is moot, we can > ignore it. The problem is not the choice-of-law, but the choice-of-venue clause, as you yourself indicated in.[1] I don't know why it has yet to be removed by Sun, but we were told

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 24 mai 2007 à 15:36 -0400, Michael Poole a écrit : > > Please stop the choice-of-law bullshit. This clause is moot, we can > > ignore it. > > Moot in what venues? I live in a state that has enacted the Uniform > Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), which -- among other > things

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Poole
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le jeudi 24 mai 2007 à 10:54 -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : >>This License shall be governed by the law of the jurisdiction >>specified in a notice contained within the Original Software >>(except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise), >>

Re: checklib

2007-05-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:26:00PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > hi > > what about http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/ ? > > madcoder mentioned in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00822.html > of the intention of getting the checklib service up again: any progress? We're still waiti

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 24 mai 2007 à 10:54 -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : >This License shall be governed by the law of the jurisdiction >specified in a notice contained within the Original Software >(except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise), >excluding such jurisdiction's

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 24, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is not the case, unfortunatly, and it really would be wise in the > > future to consult with people who are familiar with the arguments > > surrounding such licenses before expressing Debian's

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 24, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not the case, unfortunatly, and it really would be wise in the > future to consult with people who are familiar with the arguments > surrounding such licenses before expressing Debian's opinion to the > FSF. Do you mean the ftpmasters,

checklib

2007-05-24 Thread A Mennucc
hi what about http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/ ? madcoder mentioned in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00822.html of the intention of getting the checklib service up again: any progress? also, where do I get the source code from (since the link http://greek0.net/div/checklib.tar

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-24 19:44:38, schrieb Mike Hommey: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:27:36PM +0200, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 2007-05-22 13:30:24, schrieb Sam Hocevar: > > > 3. Nexenta: Despite their incompatibility, Debian accepts both the > > > CDDL and GPLv2 as valid free s

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Sam Hocevar wrote: > 3. Nexenta: Despite their incompatibility, Debian accepts both the > CDDL and GPLv2 as valid free software licences and would welcome any > solution to the distribution of a Debian system based on OpenSolaris. This is not the case, unfortunatly, and

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:27:36PM +0200, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2007-05-22 13:30:24, schrieb Sam Hocevar: > > 3. Nexenta: Despite their incompatibility, Debian accepts both the > > CDDL and GPLv2 as valid free software licences and would welcome any >

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:27:36PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-05-22 13:30:24, schrieb Sam Hocevar: > > 3. Nexenta: Despite their incompatibility, Debian accepts both the > > CDDL and GPLv2 as valid free software licences and would welcome any > ^

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-22 13:30:24, schrieb Sam Hocevar: > 3. Nexenta: Despite their incompatibility, Debian accepts both the > CDDL and GPLv2 as valid free software licences and would welcome any ^^ Can this start a flame now? (I mean cdrtools => Jürg Sch

Re: update htop to 0.65

2007-05-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Andrea Bolognani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-24 09:34]: > On Thu, 24 May 2007 12:35:48 +0530 > shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Forgive if this is not the correct list to post to. I like htop > > & the latest version of htop is 0.6.5 > > http://htop.sourceforge.net/index.php?p

Re: update htop to 0.65

2007-05-24 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 24 May 2007 12:35:48 +0530 shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Forgive if this is not the correct list to post to. I like htop > & the latest version of htop is 0.6.5 > http://htop.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=downloads while the package > even in unstable is at 0.6.3 >

update htop to 0.65

2007-05-24 Thread shirish
Hi all, Forgive if this is not the correct list to post to. I like htop & the latest version of htop is 0.6.5 http://htop.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=downloads while the package even in unstable is at 0.6.3 http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/htop . Can it be updated/upgraded? Cheers