Work-needing packages report for Sep 7, 2007

2007-09-06 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: 379 (new: 7) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 79 (new: 2) Total number of packages requeste

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:11:24AM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > Lionel Mamane: >>> Roberto Sánchez: One possible solution would be for Opera to produce a "source" package of unlinked binary object files. This would allow relinking against new versions of the libraries (at least

Re: Find complete set of debs

2007-09-06 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 06 September 2007 19.33:50 Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:45:28 +0200 > > Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I (more or less efficiently - I do have a script but it's > > very crude and probably buggy) download all .debs (and for bonus > > points the

Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module

2007-09-06 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi: On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Gunnar Wolf wrote: (added [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the Cc:s) Gürkan Sengün dijo [Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:36:41AM +0200]: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pgplot-perl Please use libpgplot-perl, following the current policy for Perl packages. Consider

Bug#441136: ITP: jfftw -- Java library to perform Fast Fourier Transformations (FFT)

2007-09-06 Thread Manuel Prinz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Manuel Prinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: jfftw Version : 20070725 Upstream Author : Will Hossack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~wjh/teaching/Java/fft/ * Lic

Re: Wanted: really weird status files from production machines

2007-09-06 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:35:30PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > As I report on debian-dpkg in > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm proposing to deploy a new dpkg status file parser. > > It would be bad if someone installed the new dpkg but then the new > dpkg rejected their status file. I think I've captu

Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module

2007-09-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
(added [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the Cc:s) Gürkan Sengün dijo [Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:36:41AM +0200]: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: pgplot-perl Please use libpgplot-perl, following the current policy for Perl packages. Consider working this together with the pkg-perl

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:11:24AM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > These are roughly the arguments I've used in the past to avoid > pressure to "simplify" our packaging by changing to static linking > (which would save us having to address issues of compatibility with > diverse versions of GNU/

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Edward Welbourne
Lionel: >> (Explicitly CCing Edward in the assumption he's not subscribed to this >> list. Thank you - I am, indeed, not subscribed. It would actually be best if you could address me as [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that various of my colleagues see the discussion, too. >> ... The message I'm answering to

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-06 Thread Simon Paillard
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:41:51PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > 35.9.37.225, in http.us.debian.org, and ftp.us.debian.org, has been > unreachable on port 80 from all the networks I have access to for days. > > This is ftp.egr.msu.edu. Its admin are in BCC of this mail. > It is also still listed

Heads up on initramfs-tools dev

2007-09-06 Thread maximilian attems
MODULES=dep The size of the generated initramfs of initramfs-tools in the case of MODULES=dep improved since 0.90a version. i'd like to get more tester feedback on that setting. -> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf WARNING: The ide subsys has a funky /sys usage where

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-06 Thread Johan Kullstam
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 09:24:24AM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: >> >> Using "host" from bind9-host, >> $ host http.us.debian.org >> http.us.debian.org has address 128.101.240.212 >> http.us.debian.org has address 204.152.191.7 >> http.us.debian.org has ad

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:19:51PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > See http://bugs.debian.org/438179 > > This bug was closed by adding a config option. Why wasn't it cloned to > all the network clients (apt, ntp, etc) that exhibit undesirable > behavior due to this change in glibc

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-06 Thread Joey Hess
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > See http://bugs.debian.org/438179 This bug was closed by adding a config option. Why wasn't it cloned to all the network clients (apt, ntp, etc) that exhibit undesirable behavior due to this change in glibc? Perhaps because the list is too long for anyone to enumerate it. --

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 09:24:24AM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > > Using "host" from bind9-host, > $ host http.us.debian.org > http.us.debian.org has address 128.101.240.212 > http.us.debian.org has address 204.152.191.7 > http.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225 > http.us.debian.org has addres

Re: directory for icons

2007-09-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Thomas Lange [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:57:49 +0200]: > Hi > my package fai-server will include a command faimond-gui which needs > some icons. Were should I put those icons? > /usr/share/packagename/icons or > /usr/share/commandname/icons or > /usr/share/icons/packagename > or a different location

directory for icons

2007-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi my package fai-server will include a command faimond-gui which needs some icons. Were should I put those icons? /usr/share/packagename/icons or /usr/share/commandname/icons or /usr/share/icons/packagename or a different location? I could not find anything in the policy, developers-reference o

Re: Find complete set of debs

2007-09-06 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:45:28 +0200 Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I (more or less efficiently - I do have a script but it's > very crude and probably buggy) download all .debs (and for bonus > points the source pkgs, too) that belong to some .deb that I have > (same src pack

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Holger Levsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > I'm happy to hear that the team maintainance aspect of this seems to have > been > resolved on IRC. Thanks to those involved! Indeed. I don't know who had the initiative of setting up that IRC discussion to solve that "dispute" but (s)he des

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 6, 2007 at 09:24:24 -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > However, libc6 resolv+ (I think - can someone confirm who is to > blame?) goes out of its way to *sort* the list by IP number and thus > thwarts the round-robin. Aptitude (and wget, &c) *always* choose > 35.9.37.225. This server mus

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm happy to hear that the team maintainance aspect of this seems to have been resolved on IRC. Thanks to those involved! On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:26, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If there are restrictions on the package name, this definitely looks > like something all Debian developer

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 09:24:24AM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > I also notice that we have 4 servers listed under the name > "http.us.debian.org" > > Using "host" from bind9-host, > $ host http.us.debian.org > http.us.debian.org has address 128.101.240.212 > http.us.debian.org has address 204.15

Find complete set of debs

2007-09-06 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi! [please cc: me. Thank you.] How can I (more or less efficiently - I do have a script but it's very crude and probably buggy) download all .debs (and for bonus points the source pkgs, too) that belong to some .deb that I have (same src package, same version)? cheers -- vbi -- > So do

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-06 Thread Johan Kullstam
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > 35.9.37.225, in http.us.debian.org, and ftp.us.debian.org, has been > unreachable on port 80 from all the networks I have access to for days. > > This is ftp.egr.msu.edu. > > It is also still listed at http://www.debian.org/mirror/list > > It is

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 02:27:25PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > (Explicitly CCing Edward in the assumption he's not subscribed to this > list. The message I'm answering to is at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/09/msg00145.html . I'd like > to be CCed an followups, although subscri

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
(Explicitly CCing Edward in the assumption he's not subscribed to this list. The message I'm answering to is at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/09/msg00145.html . I'd like to be CCed an followups, although subscribed.) On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:38:14AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >

Bug#441047: ITP: libyanfs-java -- Yet Another NFS - a Java NFS library

2007-09-06 Thread Varun Hiremath
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Varun Hiremath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libyanfs-java Version : CVS Upstream Author : Agnes Jacob et al * URL : https://yanfs.dev.java.net/source/browse/yanfs/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Descript

ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module

2007-09-06 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pgplot-perl Version : 2.20 Upstream Authors : Karl Glazebrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/search%3fmodule=PGPLOT * License : see below (yes non-free) Description : PGPLOT Perl module

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-06 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Wed Sep 05, 2007 at 20:41:51 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi, > > 35.9.37.225, in http.us.debian.org, and ftp.us.debian.org, has been > unreachable on port 80 from all the networks I have access to for days. > > This is ftp.egr.msu.edu. created as RT#171 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]#

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 5, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Edward Welbourne wrote: Steffen: For a closed source release it would be lovely if you had a Debian developer amongst your Opera developers who can upload packages to the distribution. That's one of the (too many) things I've got on my todo list - get myself train

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:21:14AM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > you can at least use linda and lintian (-iI) to check your packages, > > that should help a lot. > > Indeed - I've been using lintian, and linda's on my set of things to > try during my next binge of package work. How about amd

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Edward Welbourne
> you can at least use linda and lintian (-iI) to check your packages, > that should help a lot. Indeed - I've been using lintian, and linda's on my set of things to try during my next binge of package work. Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc