Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Ben Finney
Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > My mail client is a script, ~/bin/mail-handler; which, I > > think, is not permissible in reportbug-ng. In other words, the > > user can not configure the reporter; they can ask the author to > > add in some stan

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Adeodato Simó [Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:05:59 +0200]: > xdg-email does not deal with clients directly; it just constructs a > mailto: URL from its arguments and options (or a mailto: url can be > given directly if that's easier for the caller), and opens it with the > appropriate command depending on

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Bastian Venthur [Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:50:49 +0200]: > I'll have to investigate which mail clients xdg-email supports and > whether it supports at least the to-, subject- and body for all of them. > If this is the case, I should make it the default and leave the other > ones as an option. xdg-ema

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Bastian Venthur
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:07:08 +0200, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> This reminds me: do you know about /usr/bin/xdg-email (from package >> xdg-utils)? I don't know if reportbug must get a MUA configured before >> being able to send reports; if so, xdg-email wou

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Manoj Srivastava [Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:32:23 -0400]: > something as heavy weight as xdg-utils The number of Depends of xdg-utils is zero, Installed-Size 260. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Bastian Venthur
Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Bastian Venthur [Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:34:06 +0200]: > >> That's not true. As I already told you, all you have to do is to send me >> a valid call of your mail client where the composer opens with to-, >> subject- and body prefilled. > > This reminds me: do you know about /

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Bastian Venthur
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > My mail client is a script, ~/bin/mail-handler; which, I think, > is not permissible in reportbug-ng. In other words, the user can not > configure the reporter; they can ask the author to add in some standard > mail clients; but not the non-standard ones. It

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:07:08 +0200, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Bastian Venthur [Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:34:06 +0200]: >> That's not true. As I already told you, all you have to do is to send >> me a valid call of your mail client where the composer opens with >> to-, subject- and bod

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 04:42:48PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > While you're at it, can you please also add reportbug-ng to the list of > tools helping the user to provide bug reports? I'd rather suggest to add a paragraph discouraging users from using rng at this point, until it meets the deve

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:34:06 +0200, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:50:15 +0200, Bastian Venthur >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> Or, if you prefer a GUI application with out of the box support for >>> most mail clients, try reportbug-

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Bastian Venthur [Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:34:06 +0200]: > That's not true. As I already told you, all you have to do is to send me > a valid call of your mail client where the composer opens with to-, > subject- and body prefilled. This reminds me: do you know about /usr/bin/xdg-email (from package

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Ondrej Certik
I find it easy enough to do: $ sudo apt-get update $ apt-src -bi install $package apt-src will then "install" the source of the package into the current working directory, then "b"uild it, and then "i"nstall the resulting binaries. Thanks for the tip. This is actually very comfortable and wor

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Ondrej Certik wrote: The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor package maintainer (tm) didn't find a sponso

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 22.07.2007, 21:01 +0200 schrieb Ondrej Certik: [..] > I think it would also help, if > there was some official repository for unnoficial packages, so that I > (as non-DD) could just upload my package to mentors (which I can now) > and then just add the "deb" line (not just "deb-src

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Ondrej Certik
The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor package maintainer (tm) didn't find a sponsor in time. Yes, that is the most difficult p

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:37:13PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > [...] > Thanks for your work! But basically you do work that already > had been done by mentors.debian.net. Ok not everyone is > using this service but it would be good if they would. Ah, you get beaten in the race quite often! ;-)

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:37:13PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > * Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-22 19:26]: > > (Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) > > Dear Debian developers, > > > > I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an > > approximate list of p

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-22 19:26]: > (Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) > Dear Debian developers, > > I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an > approximate list of packages which have been or have _not_ been > sponsored despite an RFS to d

List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
(Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) Dear Debian developers, I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an approximate list of packages which have been or have _not_ been sponsored despite an RFS to debian-mentors. The program generates bad output if the RFS mailer has n

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Michelle Konzack wrote: > The last sentence makes no sense, because WM's do not depend on the > "Menu System". They only Recommends or Suggests "menu". So you can > not drop anything. I'm talking about droping the 'Debian menu' here, not droping dependencices on 'the menu syst

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-07-15 22:57:10, schrieb Daniel Leidert: > Am Samstag, den 14.07.2007, 12:44 -0400 schrieb Joey Hess: > > Until there is one, I don't see any reason why I should accept patches > > adding menu files to my packages. > > The .desktop format is not only about the menu item itself. It also > co

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-07-14 10:55:00, schrieb Bernhard R. Link: > * Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070713 23:44]: > > IMO the Debian menu should be entirely deprecated unless something > > serious is done about it. Currently: > > * It is utterly and absolutely ugly. 32x32 XPM icons are not > >

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Don, Am 2007-07-16 04:12:02, schrieb Don Armstrong: > So it seems like we should do the following: > > 1. Make changes to the menu system to use .desktop files in preference > to .menu files when they exist > > 2. Generate .desktop files from .menu files using the menu system when > .desktop

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Neil, Am 2007-07-15 14:11:55, schrieb Neil Williams: > If all Gnome packages silently drop debian/menu in the next upload, is > that actually going to be a problem for anyone? Since WE (me, colegous and friends) do not use any GNOME/KDE Apps, where will be no lost for us. But maybe the KDE

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-07-13 23:43:56, schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Le vendredi 13 juillet 2007 à 16:54 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > > I've gotten some bug reports lately asking for desktop files to be added > > to packages like xgalaga and kobodeluxe, and saw some others in the BTS. > > All of these packages, of

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Joey, Am 2007-07-13 18:02:18, schrieb Joey Hess: > Bastian Venthur wrote: > You should be able to do this on your own system by editing > /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus. > > But.. The Appications menu can already have up to 23 submenus, and already > grows beyond 10 on many typical syste

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-07-13 23:49:29, schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Le vendredi 13 juillet 2007 à 17:30 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > > There are probably enhancements that would let it create _better_ > > .desktop files. For example, ones with translations.. > > Ah, right. I forgot translations. Another good reas

Re: Is Andrew Lau (netsnipe) MIA?

2007-07-22 Thread Roger Leigh
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-22 13:17]: >> Is Andrew Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) known to be MIA? > > mia-query says no I already checked that, but I thought I had better make a better check before contacting the MIA team. Thanks, Roger --

Re: Is Andrew Lau (netsnipe) MIA?

2007-07-22 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007, Nico Golde wrote: > mia-query says no Hello, mia-query only lists summaries of email exchanges with the person in question. That means that when it says "no", it only says "I am not aware of him being MIA". So I've marked him inactive right now but I will have to contact him

Re: Is Andrew Lau (netsnipe) MIA?

2007-07-22 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Roger, * Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-22 13:17]: > Is Andrew Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) known to be MIA? mia-query says no Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://ngolde.de - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted

Is Andrew Lau (netsnipe) MIA?

2007-07-22 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi folks, Is Andrew Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) known to be MIA? The packages he maintains and co-maintains are listed below. Most are GNOME packages he has not apparently uploaded. Some are already comaintained by others. The two of most concern are cinepaint and cupsys-pt, which are not comainta

Bug#434206: ITP: moe -- powerful text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character encodings

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: moe Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Antonio Diaz Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/moe/moe.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Descri

Gardul viu - minune!!!

2007-07-22 Thread Gard viu
GARDUL VIU-MINUNE!!! Creste rapid (1.20-1.80 m/an)!!! E incredibil de nepretentios!!! (atât în privinta solului cât si a îngrijirii) E incredibil de ieftin!!! Capacitate de umbrire excelenta! Capacitate antipraf de un grad înalt! Este o planta foioasa, de culoare verde viu, cu frunze mici lucioase,

Bug#434188: ITP: metasm -- cross architecture and cross platform assembler, disassembler and linker

2007-07-22 Thread Arnaud Cornet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arnaud Cornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: metasm Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Yoann GUILLOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://metasm.cr0.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Ruby Description : cross

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-22 Thread Bastian Venthur
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:50:15 +0200, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Or, if you prefer a GUI application with out of the box support for >> most mail clients, try reportbug-ng. > > My major problem with reportbug-ng was that is is very hard to > con