Work-needing packages report for Dec 21, 2007

2007-12-20 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: 343 (new: 3) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 88 (new: 1) Total number of packages requeste

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 04:08:28AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > (BTW, pkg-config upstream wrongly claims that exporting dependent libs > > in the pkg-config --libs output provides this protection. :/) > It doesn't? (I must be missing something as I thought it did, just over > aggressively). N

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:36:06AM -0600, Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney wrote: > On Dec 20, 2007 2:08 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > there are more and more packages which require wxwidgets >=2.8. Last > > time[0], I hoped somebody would finally take care of it, but nothing > > happened yet. >

Bug#457242: marked as done (general: unable to print,cause /dev/usb/lp0 permisions)

2007-12-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:38:37 -0800 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#457242: general: unable to print,cause /dev/usb/lp0 permisions has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If th

Bug#457242: general: unable to print,cause /dev/usb/lp0 permisions

2007-12-20 Thread pintitas
Package: general Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable in order to use the printer (after configuring the printer) you must set /dev/usb/lp0 permissions to 755, 777 ... (various printers models) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> or in other words: It's less worse to have three wxwidget versions in > the archive than only two and having other packages delaying/blocking by > that. Only if you have a good plan how to get rid of at least one of the older releases. -- bye Joerg [Kaffeemaschinen und Babies] Funktioniert a

Bug#457220: ITP: shake -- test engine for lua

2007-12-20 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: shake Version: 1.0.0 Upstream Author: Copyright © 2007 Kepler Project. URL: http://shake.luaforge.net License: MIT/X Description:

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Robin Dunn
Vadim Zeitlin wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:54:46 +0100 Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RH> Apparently, Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is ready to take care of RH> the Debian packaging but he would need a sponsor and I'm sure some help RH> would be useful as well. Hello, I can

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney
On Dec 20, 2007 2:08 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Hi, > > there are more and more packages which require wxwidgets >=2.8. Last > time[0], I hoped somebody would finally take care of it, but nothing > happened yet. I just wanted to alert you in case you're not aware, that wxwidgets maintains their o

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 00:51 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:47:36PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > > >>> No, what can be done is to fix upstream's broken declaration that 'you can > >>> assume glib functions are available when doing "#include "'. > >>> It > >>> doesn't

testing build errors on arm/sid

2007-12-20 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all, I need to check out some build failures on ARM arch in a sid chroot. I found a chroot on leisner.debian.org. But since I have never done this, how can I as normal user there check that? Is there something like a cow/pbuilder using this chroot? Thanks a lot for any comments Norbert --

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

2007-12-20 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Thu, 20.12.2007 at 13:57:39 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry you don't like our feedback, but this is the reason why ITPs are > posted to debian-devel. let me say that I think I did change my mind in the course of the discussion, maybe not entirely in the directio

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Ron wrote: We already ostensibly have a group of DD's that have committed themselves to some degree or another to help with this, and I've been handing out access to the resources available for that like candy to all who asked. and yet there has nothing happened (which is just a statement and n

Re[2]: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Vadim Zeitlin
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:54:46 +0100 Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RH> Apparently, Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is ready to take care of RH> the Debian packaging but he would need a sponsor and I'm sure some help RH> would be useful as well. Hello, I can indeed take care of thi

Bug#457198: ITP: lua-leg -- Leg library for lua5.1

2007-12-20 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: lua-leg Version: 0.1.2 Upstream Author: Humberto Saraiva Nazareno dos Anjos URL: http://leg.luaforge.net License: MIT/X Descripti

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 20 décembre 2007 à 00:41 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > When many of the types used by GTK+ are those provided by GLib, it > > sounds wrong to ask developers to include the GLib headers to have these > > types available. > > Well, that part is fairly reasonable, I admit. What isn't

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:21:08AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Now, what are YOUR plans?" > > No answer. Sorry Ron, No _email_ answer. We talked in IRC about that indeed, I forgot that. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Ψηφιοποίηση και φύλαξη αρχείων

2007-12-20 Thread Bousgou Vassiliki
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Re: Shouldn't apt-listchanges be Priority: standard?

2007-12-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 06:13:02AM +, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Philippe Cloutier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> > >> Could we consider increasign the priority of apt-listchanges so that > >> it is installed by default? > > I'm against making it standard, because currently tasksel doesn't a

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:54:46AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > I have been (indirectly) contacted by upstream developers of wxWindows who > are also unsatisfied by the lack of action of Ron. It's clear that Ron and > upstream are not in good terms (Ron being a former upstream

Re: poppler transition

2007-12-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Norbert Preining schrieb: > Dear all! > > The other packages which are ready for transition and only waiting are: > evince, gambas, kdegraphics, pdfcube, tracker, texlive-bin > > So let's hope that NO new uploads are happening for the following 8 > days. At least I will refrain from uploading any

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hello Daniel, Hi, and thanks for your answer. Apparently, Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is ready to take care of the Debian packaging but he would need a sponsor and I'm sure some help would be useful as well. I'd be more than happy if Vadim would maintain the pa

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

2007-12-20 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Sean, On Thu, 20.12.2007 at 09:09:37 +0100, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and i just have to add that i think it's really silly to add a > package/program called tcpwatch that doesn't actually... watch tcp > connections. but whatever, it's not like i'm installing it. well, that wo

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Daniel, On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote: > there are more and more packages which require wxwidgets >=2.8. Last > time[0], I hoped somebody would finally take care of it, but nothing > happened yet. > > With the new version of poedit, it's not possible to build anymore with an >

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:47:36PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: >>> No, what can be done is to fix upstream's broken declaration that 'you can >>> assume glib functions are available when doing "#include "'. It >>> doesn't follow that just because this works in practice, it should be a >>> support

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:45:27PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 09 décembre 2007 à 15:44 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > For example, pkg-config --libs gtk+-x11-2.0 will return, among others, > > > -lglib-2.0 and -lm. And this is perfectly intentional. > > Just because it's i

Re: poppler transition

2007-12-20 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Steve, On Mi, 19 Dez 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > $ grep-excuses luatex > luatex (0.11.2-1 to 0.20.1-1) > Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers > Too young, only 9 of 10 days old > out of date on arm: luatex (from 0.15-1) > ^^ Hmm, right (why wasn't that shown on

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: there are more and more packages which require wxwidgets >=2.8. Last time[0], I hoped somebody would finally take care of it, but nothing happened yet. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg00028.html and ff and also, i'm ware of #403237. -- Address:

Re: Shouldn't apt-listchanges be Priority: standard?

2007-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Thanks for starting this discussion, Christian; I had planned to do so myself within a few days. On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:49:41AM +0530, Christian Perrier wrote: > From Bug#456977: > Steve Langasek commented while closing this bug report: > > It is recommended that you use apt-listchanges on

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

2007-12-20 Thread sean finney
On Thursday 20 December 2007 01:06:58 am Toni Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 20.12.2007 at 00:06:55 +0100, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the FHS (and debian by extension) doesn't provide support for > > /usr/libexec. in every case i know of, contents of what would otherwise > > have

wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, there are more and more packages which require wxwidgets >=2.8. Last time[0], I hoped somebody would finally take care of it, but nothing happened yet. With the new version of poedit, it's not possible to build anymore with an older wxwidgets, hence the package is required for me. Does a

Re: poppler transition

2007-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:09:35PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > Can we somehow organize that the poppler transition can be done in a > reasonable time frame? Only with the cooperation of the maintainers, of course. > Currently the problematic packages are (from bjorn.haxx.se): > . gimp >