Re: Bug#512433: ITP: r-cran-vcd -- GNU R Visualizing Categorical Data

2009-01-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 21 January 2009 at 23:34, Andreas Tille wrote: | On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > The Policy Draft you reference is somewhat outdated and in need of a | > refresher. | | I've thought this because it is quite old from the tome stamp but | I failwd to found something more rec

Re: Bug#512433: ITP: r-cran-vcd -- GNU R Visualizing Categorical Data

2009-01-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: The Policy Draft you reference is somewhat outdated and in need of a refresher. I've thought this because it is quite old from the tome stamp but I failwd to found something more recent. As for the names: On a few of my more recent ITPs for R / C

Bug#512573: ITP: libnumber-range-perl -- manipulate and test ranges of numbers

2009-01-21 Thread Niko Tyni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niko Tyni * Package name: libnumber-range-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Larry Shatzer, Jr., * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Number-Range/ * License : GPL-1+ | Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Maximilian Gaß
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:45:58PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Maximilian Gaß: > > > The second option I came up with was creating a libev-source package from > > the > > existing libev package and build packages including libev against this one. > > Bugs in libev would then only require a r

Re: The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Maximilian Gaß: > The second option I came up with was creating a libev-source package from the > existing libev package and build packages including libev against this one. > Bugs in libev would then only require a rebuild of the dependent packages > instead of source package fixing. I think th

Bug#512562: ITP: xsettings-kde -- xsettings daemon for KDE

2009-01-21 Thread Guido Günther
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Guido Günther" * Package name: xsettings-kde Version : 0.9 * URL : http://svn.mandriva.com/svn/soft/theme/xsettings-kde/trunk * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : XSettings daemon for KDE This package

ASP Unleashed 09 _ Synapse 2009(DAIICT)

2009-01-21 Thread ankit gupta
Dear friend, Welcome to ASP Unleashed '09_Synapse '09 . ASP Unleashed is aimed at harnessing the potential of Web 2.0 by making use of ASP.Net. The event is aimed at popularizing the use of ASP.NET and other Microsoft technologies among the participants. This mail is to remind you that End of Ph

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:04, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES > wrote: >>ll need I suppose cooperation from BTS itself but in a second >> time. We need only two user tags by foreign distrib: >> bts-link-foreign-xref-$distrib set to the foregin bugzi

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:46, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:17:06AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Before you decide to push out errors to maintainers via PTS (as I've seen >> mentionned), you should really improve the tool so that the only remaining >> errors are reall

ASP Unleashed 09 _ Synapse 2009(DAIICT)

2009-01-21 Thread ankit gupta
Dear friend, Welcome to ASP Unleashed '09_Synapse '09 . ASP Unleashed is aimed at harnessing the potential of Web 2.0 by making use of ASP.Net. The event is aimed at popularizing the use of ASP.NET and other Microsoft technologies among the participants. This mail is to remind you that End of Ph

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Raphael, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> In recent bts-link runs, we noticed some errors. The log is available >> at [2]: please take the time to give it a look, search for your >> packages and check the situation. There are

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 19:54, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Hello, > >> If you feel something is missing, should be fixed or enhanced, let >> us[4] know; of course, patches are welcome ;) (git repo at [5]). > > I really useful stuff will be to

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:20, Frank Küster wrote: > "Paul Wise" wrote: >> Debian TeX Maintainers >>texlive-bin > > One was a typo in the upstream address. The other one, Thanks for fixing this. > E: pkg=texlive-bin, bug=351672, msg=Does not deals dupes: > [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:12, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> E: pkg=update-manager, bug=415376, msg=Parse error: > [https://bugs.launchpad.net/update-manager/+bug/95168/] No product specified > but > bug affects multiple products > > That looks wrong to me. The error says "No product specified

Re: New package: gpgtools

2009-01-21 Thread Franck Joncourt
Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Franck Joncourt wrote: > >> I packaged gpgdir: >> Description: recursive directory encryption tool using GnuPG > >> and Jari Aalto gpgwrap: >> Description: a passphrase wrapper for GNU privacy guard (gpg) > >> Does anyone see any objection with this

Re: Help bts-link be a more effective tool

2009-01-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:21, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hi, > > Sandro Tosi wrote: > [...} >> In recent bts-link runs, we noticed some errors. The log is available >> at [2]: please take the time to give it a look, search for your >> packages and check the situation. There are errors in that log

Re: Bug#500616: ITP: solid3d -- Software library for collision detection of geometric objects in 3D space

2009-01-21 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
A Dilluns 29 Setembre 2008, Sune Vuorela va escriure: > On Monday 29 September 2008 20:40:24 Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leopold Palomo Avellaneda Package name: solid3d Version : 3.5.6 Upstream Author : Gino van den Bergen URL

Re: Should gnome-libs die for Lenny?

2009-01-21 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Jan 21 12:08, Barry deFreese wrote: > There are only 5 packages left that have reverse depends on gnome-libs > packages. They are as follows: > > gbib: Removal was proposed. I mailed upstream and the response was "gbib > is no longer maintained or developed". I'm trying to build it now

Bug#512551: ITP: faucc -- C compiler generating Intel code for 16bit/32bit CPUs

2009-01-21 Thread Stefan Potyra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefan Potyra * Package name: faucc Version : 2009 Upstream Author : Volkmar Sieh * URL : http://www.faumachine.org [1] * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : C compiler generating Intel code for

Should gnome-libs die for Lenny?

2009-01-21 Thread Barry deFreese
Hi folks, There are only 5 packages left that have reverse depends on gnome-libs packages. They are as follows: digitaldj: Removal request was filed but maintainer claims someone has done a Gtk2 port and saved it for now. gbib: Removal was proposed. I mailed upstream and the response was

Re: dicomscope: open tasks

2009-01-21 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:38:30 +0100 Mathieu Malaterre napsal(a): > Hi there, > > I am working on the dicomscope package, and I was told there is an > issue with my package: > > ... > > E: dicomscope: no-shlibs-control-file usr/lib/libjInterface.so > > N: > > N: Although the pa

Re: Fwd: dicomscope: open tasks

2009-01-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Mathieu Malaterre [Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:38:30 +0100]: > Could someone please let me know: > 1. What this means ? > 2. What am I supposed to do to fix that issue. Please re-post this question to debian-ment...@lists.debian.org. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.co

Fwd: dicomscope: open tasks

2009-01-21 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am working on the dicomscope package, and I was told there is an issue with my package: ... > E: dicomscope: no-shlibs-control-file usr/lib/libjInterface.so > N: > N: Although the package includes a shared library, the package does > not > N: have a shlibs control

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:24:15PM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen schreef: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:49:29AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: >>>I'm working on a project porting the Debian tools to Cygwin. >>>Currently, my plan is to: - Provide some required patches to the Cygwin >>>team,

Re: New package: gpgtools

2009-01-21 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Franck Joncourt wrote: > I packaged gpgdir: > Description: recursive directory encryption tool using GnuPG > and Jari Aalto gpgwrap: > Description: a passphrase wrapper for GNU privacy guard (gpg) > Does anyone see any objection with this new package, have a better name? > A

Re: The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Maximilian Gaß dijo [Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:15:43AM +0100]: > Hi developers, > > I am a non-DD member of the Debian Perl Group. In the process of packaging the > libev-perl package, an event loop for Perl, I stumbled upon the fact that it > does not link against libev as a shared object, but inst

Bug#512526: ITP: gmm++ -- generic C++ template library for sparse, dense and skyline matrices

2009-01-21 Thread Ana Guerrero
Package: wnpp Owner: Ana Guerrero Severity: wishlist * Package name: gmm++ Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : Yves Renard and Julien Pommier * URL : http://home.gna.org/getfem/gmm_intro.html * License : LGPL v2.1 or later Programming Lang:

Bug#512522: ITP: pct-scanner-scripts -- easy scan and create merged djvu and pdf documents for archiving

2009-01-21 Thread Jelle de Jong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelle de Jong Package is part of the possible upcomming pct-desktop-environment, I want to start getting my stable packages into the debian repository. Release often, release soon :-D. Request for sponsering will come to. Thanks in advance, Jelle de Jon

Bug#512519: ITP: grid-packaging-tools -- system to control dependencies between packages of larger projects

2009-01-21 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: grid-packaging-tools Version : 3.2 * URL : http://www.globus.org * License : custom Programming Lang: Perl Description : system to control dependencies between packages of larger pro

Bug#512518: ITP: jbig2enc -- a JBIG2 encoder

2009-01-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jakub Wilk * Package name: jbig2enc Version : 0.27 Upstream Author : Adam Langley * URL : http://www.imperialviolet.org/jbig2.html * License : Apache License, Version 2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : a JBIG

Re: Name Removal from your website

2009-01-21 Thread Sjors Gielen
Raghav Dayma schreef: Hi There, How are you ? I just discovered my name in 2 links of your website. I am not even aware what those things are about and it is falsely posted ?? Links : lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/01/msg01948.html lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/03/msg00091.html I

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Sjors Gielen
Hey, Thanks for all your answers! Carsten Hey wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:14:24AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: So maybe debian-win32 could just be awaken since the barring issue seems gone? This is what I would try first. I hope you are successful with this. Carsten I was using Cyg

Name Removal from your website

2009-01-21 Thread Raghav Dayma
Hi There,How are you ?I just discovered my name in 2 links of your website.I am not even aware what those things are about and it is falsely posted ??Links :lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/01/msg01948.html lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/03/msg00091.htmlI would like to request you to PLEA

Name Removal from your website

2009-01-21 Thread Raghav Dayma
Hi There,How are you ?I just discovered my name in 2 links of your website.I am not even aware what those things are about and it is falsely posted ??Links :lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/01/msg01948.html lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/03/msg00091.htmlI would like to request you to PLEA

Name Removal from your website

2009-01-21 Thread Raghav Dayma
Hi There,How are you ?I just discovered my name in 2 links of your website.I am not even aware what those things are about and it is falsely posted ??Links :lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/01/msg01948.html lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/03/msg00091.htmlI would like to request you

Re: The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:35:15AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Wow, nice upstream. Maybe you should reconsider whether this code > belongs > in Debian at all; we have enough hostile upstreams without seeking > them out. in the interest of good cooperation with upstream, we should keep in mind

Re: The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Julien Danjou
At 1232534115 time_t, Steve Langasek wrote: > However, there are zero packages in Debian that use libev. awesome does, and by linking against it (and not embedding it). -- Julien Danjou .''`. Debian Developer : :' : http://julien.danjou.info `. `' http://people.debian.org/~acid `- 9A0D 5FD

Re: The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Maximilian Gaß
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:35:15AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > However, there are zero packages in Debian that use libev. Like I said, rxvt-unicode is using libev. > So I think this is the correct solution - first fix the libev package > (in cooperation with upstream) to not require build-time

Re: The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:15:43AM +0100, Maximilian Gaß wrote: > I e-mailed upstream about this, but he basically considers this a feature > and, remembering of the OpenSSL fiasco, warned not to fiddle in upstream > code. Wow, nice upstream. Maybe you should reconsider whether this code belongs

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Carsten Hey
[removing cyg...@cygwin.org] On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:14:24AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > So maybe debian-win32 could just be awaken since the barring issue > seems gone? This is what I would try first. I hope you are successful with this. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Carsten Hey
Sjors Gielen wrote: > ... but the Cygwin packages are different from their Debian > counterparts (think patches), and I'm not sure how that happens with > other ports. debian-devel, is this a problem? No, this is no problem. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD also uses additional patches. Carsten -- To UNSUB

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Just a comment about the debian-win32 project: I can read from the list archive that the main issue was that the VFS doesn't allow to remove or to overwrite through mv a file in use. IIRC that issue got fixed not so many months ago in cygwin, and I can confirm that it now seems to work: $

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi. Sjors Gielen wrote: > Now I'm wondering where to host this project. I've been thinking about > three locations: Sourceforge, Debian or Cygwin. I've filed a project > takeover request for Sourceforge, but the original project admin seems > to work against me a little and it doesn't seem "fit" t

Re: The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Maximilian Gaß wrote: >Examples of programs that embed libev: the EV perl module, >rxvt-unicode, gvpe (GNU Virtual Private Ethernet), the Deliantra MMORPG >server (http://www.deliantra.net/), Rubinius (a next-generation Ruby >VM), the Ebb web server, the Rev event toolkit. > > I ha

The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Maximilian Gaß
Hi developers, I am a non-DD member of the Debian Perl Group. In the process of packaging the libev-perl package, an event loop for Perl, I stumbled upon the fact that it does not link against libev as a shared object, but instead builds it into its own binary. libev has a "feature" that allows y