Re: Generic "extra menus" package (was: Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion))

2008-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: I don't think it serves the purpose, as anything configured by the desktop-profiles would only be done at session startup time. This is correct. This completely breaks the use-case where: apt-get install Will place the app in the user's expected m

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: Well, you did not answered on my hint to desktop-profiles. Could you please comment on the differences between desktop-profiles and extra-menus? Perhaps I absolutely missed your point. I'm really interested in enhancing menus but I would hate if we wou

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: I'd still very much like to get something like "extra-menus" uploaded in Well, you did not answered on my hint to desktop-profiles. Could you please comment on the differences between desktop-profiles and extra-menus? Perhaps I absolutely missed your

Re: gnome 1.x removal

2008-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/08 19:20, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > (Dropping -release, which is not a discussion list, and Pierre, who is > obviously subscribed to both.) > > On 15/01/2008, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> This is not the right process for something like this.

Re: gnome 1.x removal

2008-01-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 02:20 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > (Dropping -release, which is not a discussion list, and Pierre, who is > obviously subscribed to both.) > > On 15/01/2008, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > This is not the right process for something like this. Instead, I > > believe you s

Bug#460813: ITP: p9m4 -- GUI for Prover9 and Mace4

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Collingbourne
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Collingbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: p9m4 Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : William McCune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cs.unm.edu/~mccune/mace4/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Des

Re: gnome 1.x removal

2008-01-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Dropping -release, which is not a discussion list, and Pierre, who is obviously subscribed to both.) On 15/01/2008, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > This is not the right process for something like this. Instead, I > believe you should find out specifically which packages depend on > gnome 1.x, and o

Re: Bug#460493: ITP: libfprint -- fingerprint library of fprint project

2008-01-14 Thread Emfox Zhou
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11264 March 1977, Luca Capello wrote: > >> 3) Emfox Zhou's packages were updated to NEW [4] no more than 6 hours >>after his ITP (#460493 [5]), effectively giving no time to reply to >>the ITP with the concerns above > >> Now, since Emfox aske

Re: gnome 1.x removal

2008-01-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:07 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Then I'll do some more runs of the same principle on other gnome 1.x > related libs until we got rid of them al. > > If you know your package depends on gnome 1.x one way or the other, now > is the time to fix that, package a new upstrea

Re: Future Debian package candidate web pages: present and future

2008-01-14 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Neil Williams wrote: Have you thought about not relying on a cron job but doing the whole thing via the PHP SOAP interface? I'm using PHP and SOAP to query the BTS for Emdebian. http://www.emdebian.org/bugs.php (code available in the Emdebian SVN repo) http://buildd.emdebian.org/svn/browser/curre

Bug#460807: ITP: shoes -- Tiny graphics and windowing toolkit using Ruby

2008-01-14 Thread Bram Senders
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bram Senders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: shoes Version : Curious (0.r396) Upstream Author : why the lucky stiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/ * License : MIT/X Programming L

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:28:00PM +, Peter Clifton a écrit : > > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 08:22 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Shall I open a wiki page to start the coordination of this ? > > That sounds like a good idea.. I will contact the SuSE and Fedora people > I know packaging Elec

Re: Future Debian package candidate web pages: present and future

2008-01-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 23:43 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > There's no SQL to talk to. If you want actual accurate data, the SOAP > > service is the thing to talk to. [Anything else has various delay > > lengths in it before you actually see the data reported.] > my wnp

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 08:22 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Shall I open a wiki page to start the coordination of this ? That sounds like a good idea.. I will contact the SuSE and Fedora people I know packaging Electronics applications. I'd still very much like to get something like "extra-me

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:25:55PM +, Peter Clifton a écrit : > > Suggesting that any of these should be shoe-horned into the nearest XDG > main category or risk not appearing in any menu is only going to cause > the XDG system to be further inefficient in meeting users needs. For > gEDA, we v

gnome 1.x removal

2008-01-14 Thread Pierre Habouzit
As per release goal, gnome 1.x won't be shipped in Lenny. I just started a first round of bugs (severity important for now), with user/usertag [EMAIL PROTECTED]/gnome-1.x-removal so that people interested in that goal can track our progress. I will file a removal request for gnome-libs when I come

Re: Future Debian package candidate web pages: present and future

2008-01-14 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Don Armstrong wrote: There's no SQL to talk to. If you want actual accurate data, the SOAP service is the thing to talk to. [Anything else has various delay lengths in it before you actually see the data reported.] i started working on this project and i have reached the point where it makes se

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:43 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:34:21PM +, Peter Clifton a écrit : > > > > In gEDA, the .desktop files list "Electronics" and "Engineering" (both > > of which are sub-categories), and without an additional XML file > > describing a new men

Re: Generic "extra menus" package (was: Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion))

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 10:53 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0-1.dsc > > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0-1.diff.gz > > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0.or

Re: Bits from the Debian i18n Meeting (Extremadura 2007)

2008-01-14 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:24:34 +0100 David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > ... > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/debian-med/scripts/update-ddtp", > line 167, in ? > get_status(item) > File "/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/de

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:13:50PM +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > Colin Tuckley wrote: >> I'm working on a package (blas) that contains a postscript document with no >> source supplied by upstream. >> >> Obviously I can remove the postscript file from the binary package, but is >> this sufficien

Re: Bug#460672: RFP: pymills -- James Mills Python Library

2008-01-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Jan-08, 07:15 (CST), Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Description: James Mills Python Library Uh, no. Possibly: Description: python library for distributed event-based programming > pymills is a collection of works by James Mills containing general > purpose and special purpose

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Hamish, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:43:35AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Do you know how many .desktop files in Debian use the categories >> Electronics or Engineering? If there are not enough to nicely populate a >> menu, it may be better to patch

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-14 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
Colin Tuckley wrote: I'm working on a package (blas) that contains a postscript document with no source supplied by upstream. Obviously I can remove the postscript file from the binary package, but is this sufficient or do I also need to remove it from the source package - which implies re-pack

Re: Bug#460493: ITP: libfprint -- fingerprint library of fprint project

2008-01-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11264 March 1977, Luca Capello wrote: > 3) Emfox Zhou's packages were updated to NEW [4] no more than 6 hours >after his ITP (#460493 [5]), effectively giving no time to reply to >the ITP with the concerns above > Now, since Emfox asked how to solve this situation [6], I think the best

Bug#438922: Info received (Bug#460493: ITP: libfprint -- fingerprint library of fprint project)

2008-01-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the package maintainer(s) and to other interested parties to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Fing

Re: Bug#460493: ITP: libfprint -- fingerprint library of fprint project

2008-01-14 Thread Luca Capello
Hello, I'm directly writing to the Debian FTP Team to solve the issue with fprint. Since the discussion started on debian-devel, I set the R-T and M-F-T headers to point to debian-devel and bug #438922 [1]. This because the latter is the first ITP for fprint and it's owned by the FingerForce tea

Bug#460674: ITP: micropolis -- real-time city management simulator

2008-01-14 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: micropolis Version : 0.0.20071228 Upstream Author : "Don Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.donhopkins.com/home/micropolis/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang

Re: Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache

2008-01-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Norbert Preining] > BTW, could you add some lines do README.Debian to explain how > readahead should be used for boot sequences? There is missing any > form of documentation currently? I'll see what I can do. Please submit such requests to BTS to make sure I do not forget. :) Happy hacking, --

Re: Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache

2008-01-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 14 Jan 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Sure. But what is too old? It seem to be a slow process when I run > it in qemu, so I am not sure if it is a good idea to activate it > automatically. BTW, could you add some lines do README.Debian to explain how readahead should be used for boot

Re: Problems with xine ?

2008-01-14 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Erick Tostes may or may not have written... > Im runing xine and when im put the legend the kaffeine crash and show me > this error .. You should report this to the BTS. (Feel free to reference this message when you do so.) > ## > 09:36

Bug#460672: RFP: pymills -- James Mills Python Library

2008-01-14 Thread Kartik Mistry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: pymills Version: 3.3.3 Upstream Author: James Mills URL: http://trac.shortcircuit.net.au/pymills/ License: GPL Description: James Mills Python Library pymills is a collection of works by James Mills contai

Re: Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache

2008-01-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Lucas Nussbaum] > Couldn't the learning phase be started automatically if the profiling > data is not available or too old? Sure. But what is too old? It seem to be a slow process when I run it in qemu, so I am not sure if it is a good idea to activate it automatically. Happy hacking, -- Pet

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 01:11:36PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > > Yes. Please see the latest mails from debian-toolchain for context. > > Okay, thanks for doing the grunt work. But which upstream tarball are > you using? Everything I could find at Netlib doesn't have a PDF at all. It is a hand-ma

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-14 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Montag, den 14.01.2008, 17:22 +0530 schrieb Kumar Appaiah: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:49:05AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > > > Right, so a source tarball repack is needed. > > > > Which blas package is this? The one from netlib? > > Yes. Please see the latest mails from debian-toolchain for

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:49:05AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > > Right, so a source tarball repack is needed. > > Which blas package is this? The one from netlib? Yes. Please see the latest mails from debian-toolchain for context. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Ins

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-14 Thread Colin Tuckley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Weber wrote: > Which blas package is this? The one from netlib? It is the one prepared by Kumar Appaiah. It is intended to be a replacement for refblas3 since it's been transitioned to gFortran. See the thread on d-toolchain for more details.

Problems with xine ?

2008-01-14 Thread Erick Tostes
Hey Im runing xine and when im put the legend the kaffeine crash and show me this error .. ## 09:36:38: input_file: File not found: >/fat/Digital/Torrent/Im A Legend/I Am Legend.avi#subtitle:/fat/Digital/Torrent/Im A Legend/I.Am.Legend.PROPER.DVDS

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-14 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Montag, den 14.01.2008, 10:41 + schrieb Colin Tuckley: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > Source, as we ship the source too. For the (C)/license checks in NEW it > > (*nearly*) doesn't matter if you ship it in the binary package or not. > > R

Re: Bug#460323: ITP: unreal-assistant -- Unreal Tournament packaging helper

2008-01-14 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 at 17:12:52 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > [This message has also been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.general.] > On 2008-01-12, Simon McVittie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some more explanation: I intend to have a source packag

Re: Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache

2008-01-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/01/08 at 10:50 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Today a new package to speed up the boot is available in unstable. > The readahead binary package can speed up the boot quite significantly > by optimizing how the hard drive is used. It make sure the kernel > disk cache is populated as t

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-14 Thread Colin Tuckley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Source, as we ship the source too. For the (C)/license checks in NEW it > (*nearly*) doesn't matter if you ship it in the binary package or not. Right, so a source tarball repack is needed. Thanks, Colin - -- Colin Tuckley

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11264 March 1977, Colin Tuckley wrote: > I'm working on a package (blas) that contains a postscript document with no > source supplied by upstream. > Obviously I can remove the postscript file from the binary package, but is > this sufficient or do I also need to remove it from the source pack

Re: Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache

2008-01-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
Thanks for taking care about this. It's also quite important to speed up live systems that use squashfs (like debian-live), because the output of readahead can directly be used by mksquashfs via the -sort command. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email:

Re: Generic "extra menus" package (was: Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion))

2008-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0-1.dsc http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0-1.diff.gz http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0.orig.tar.gz I'd appreciate it if those who were advocating this approac

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: If there are enough, there is a third way of having an optional menu: the Custom Debian Distribution. In the Debian-Med CDD, we have an extra "Med" menu, and which user gets it is configured through debconf. I might add the fact that this extra menu i

postscropt document without source

2008-01-14 Thread Colin Tuckley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm working on a package (blas) that contains a postscript document with no source supplied by upstream. Obviously I can remove the postscript file from the binary package, but is this sufficient or do I also need to remove it from the source package

Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache

2008-01-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Today a new package to speed up the boot is available in unstable. The readahead binary package can speed up the boot quite significantly by optimizing how the hard drive is used. It make sure the kernel disk cache is populated as the very first thing done at boot with the files used during boot.

Re: Bits from the Debian i18n Meeting (Extremadura 2007)

2008-01-14 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:18:02 +0100 "Martijn van Oosterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Jan 14, 2008 9:13 AM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Once this is working nicely we will issue an announcement on dda and > > try to make the code available for all CDDs in the com

Re: Bits from the Debian i18n Meeting (Extremadura 2007)

2008-01-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Jan 14, 2008 9:13 AM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once this is working nicely we will issue an announcement on dda and > try to make the code available for all CDDs in the common CDD framework. Which bit isn't working nicely? Apart from the fact that it's using the old address. T

Re: Bits from the Qt/KDE team

2008-01-14 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > I'd plea to follow the policy of openoffice.org by tagging conf folders > with versions: Where you you see openoffice.org doing this? It doesn't. It only encodes the major: ~/.openoffice.org2 (we take upstreams default here) Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René

Re: Bits from the Debian i18n Meeting (Extremadura 2007)

2008-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote on debian-devel-announce: Grisu and Martijn worked mainly on DDTP and DDTSS integration. DDTSS now provides statistics for stable, testing and unstable, we are also working with Debian Med to provide support and infrastructure t