Work-needing packages report for Dec 28, 2007

2007-12-27 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: 328 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 90 (new: 3) Total number of packages requeste

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Bug#458031: ITP: libcomplearn-mod-ppmd -- prediction by partial matching complearn compression module

2007-12-27 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcomplearn-mod-ppmd Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://complearn.org/download.html * License : BSD Programming Lang:

Bug#458028: ITP: libcomplearn-mod-ppmd -- prediction by partial matching complearn compression module (ppmd)

2007-12-27 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcomplearn-mod-ppmd Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://complearn.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Descrip

Re: [proposal] Documenting which revision is installed

2007-12-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Anthony Towns [Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:32:18 +1000]: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:21:20PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > > * Anthony Towns [Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:34:49 +1000]: > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 11:53:25PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > > > > *Personally*, I like the idea of Javier Fern??nd

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Re: DOAP files

2007-12-27 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 11:33:43PM +0800, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 10:11:18AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 02:50:32AM +0100, Luca Brivio wrote: > > > 1) Should we include DOAP files from upstream in packages? (always?) > > Why not :) > > I'd l

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Consider the case that you create a patch for a package in unstable on a > stable system. The autotools-dev package on stable is definitely older > than in unstable, so you always downgrade your version of config.*. > This seems to be a rather typical

Bug#458009: ITP: libcomplearn-mod-lzmax -- complearn compression module interfacing to lzma external compressor

2007-12-27 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcomplearn-mod-lzmax Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://complearn.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Descript

Re: [proposal] Documenting which revision is installed

2007-12-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:21:20PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > * Anthony Towns [Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:34:49 +1000]: > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 11:53:25PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > > > *Personally*, I like the idea of Javier Fern??ndez-Sanguino expressed in > > > the mail linked above of keep

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-27 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Florian Weimer] >> It has come to my attention that a number of packages edit source files >> (i.e. non-generated files in the source directory tree) in the "clean" >> target of debian/rules. > > Do you have any example packages to mention? I've

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

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 13:11 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > So could I ask, from an upstream perspective, what kind of changes in > the underlying lib might *not* cause such a port and therefore end up > with libfoo1 still being buildable against libbar3 yet *still* require > a > SONAME bump to a

Re: Please test sysvinit package from experimental

2007-12-27 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Petter, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last few days I have made an effort to fix a few bugs in the boot > system. The changes need some testing, as I do not have all the > affected hardware to test on. I've tested the changes in qemu, but > that do not test some of the

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Huh? I, as a user, routinely use upstream-provided debian/ directory to > create packages for some software (most frequently mplayer). So those > are not assumptions but facts. > And as a user, I can say that if e.g. the debian mplayer maintainer > consi

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Felipe Sateler
Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:04:17PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > >> Gabor Gombas wrote: >> > You seem to make the mistake to think that the debian/ directory >> > provided by upstream is there to help the distro maintainer. >> [false assumptions] > > Huh? I, as a user, ro

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:04:17PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Gabor Gombas wrote: > > You seem to make the mistake to think that the debian/ directory > > provided by upstream is there to help the distro maintainer. > [false assumptions] Huh? I, as a user, routinely use upstream-provided deb

Please ignore mail bounces for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-27 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Hi all, some of you may have noticed have received mail bounces from mail that you sent me from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that referenced failure to deliver mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], for example: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection timed out with thunk.org. Message could not be delivered for

Bug#457839: general: Many man pages display shell quotes ` and ' wrong in Unicode environment

2007-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Teemu Likonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery kirjoitti: >> Note that it only does this in verbatim text and in C<> blocks, so >> people who use 'text' or `text' in general text in POD will still get >> the Unicode quotes. I think this is the correct behavior, but I'm >> always open to

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Russ Allbery [Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:35:53 -0800]: >> I also considered making several of the packages that I maintain >> native, since I keep the debian directory in the upstream VCS, but >> decided against it becaues of this, and also because Debian als

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 08:40:22PM +0100, Adeodato Simó a écrit : > * Miriam Ruiz [Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:47:52 +0100]: > > > (I personally prefer to > > do that in configure, and to remove config.{sub,guess,log,status} in > > clean, so that diff files are cleaner, > > I wish everybody did it that w

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:09:13PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:36:54 +0100, Andreas Metzler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I do not think that is really necessary. I doubt there are lots of new > >qmail installations nowadays by people that are not aready well versed > >in it

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Vincent Danjean
Gabor Gombas wrote: > You seem to make the mistake to think that the debian/ directory > provided by upstream is there to help the distro maintainer. [false assumptions] I remove the upstream debian/ directory because the program that create the diff.gz (dpkg-deb ?) does not record *removal* of

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:36:54 +0100, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I do not think that is really necessary. I doubt there are lots of new >qmail installations nowadays by people that are not aready well versed >in its configuration. Newbies ask "which MTA to use", are lured in by qmai

Re: [proposal] Documenting which revision is installed

2007-12-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Anthony Towns [Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:34:49 +1000]: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 11:53:25PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > > *Personally*, I like the idea of Javier Fern??ndez-Sanguino expressed in > > the mail linked above of keeping debian_version as is, and introducing > > /etc/lsb-release with det

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Russ Allbery [Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:35:53 -0800]: > I also considered making several of the packages that I maintain native, > since I keep the debian directory in the upstream VCS, but decided against > it becaues of this, and also because Debian also often needs new releases > that are meaningle

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:32:39PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 14:23 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:17:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > I'd just add: > > > * it isn't in the spirit of free software to make it hard for others to > > > use t

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 03:16:36PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > I can tell you that this is not a easy way to cleanly package these > softwares. I did not talk to upstream yet because I would like to present > them new clean packages. Nevertheless, for now, I need to recreate a > X.Y.Z+debian

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-27 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:32:39PM +, Neil Williams wrote: In general, you seem to rant about a lot of things that may make sense on their own, but they do not seem to have _anything_ to do with a package being Debian-native or not. More specifically, you try to imply that a package being vers

Bug#457922: ITP: israndom -- nonclassical randomness test using data compressors

2007-12-27 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: israndom Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cilibrar.com/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : noncl

Bug#457839: general: Many man pages display shell quotes ` and ' wrong in Unicode environment

2007-12-27 Thread Teemu Likonen
Russ Allbery kirjoitti: > Note that it only does this in verbatim text and in C<> blocks, so > people who use 'text' or `text' in general text in POD will still get > the Unicode quotes. I think this is the correct behavior, but I'm > always open to further suggestions. (I'm upstream for Pod::Ma