Work-needing packages report for Feb 13, 2009

2009-02-12 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: 395 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 115 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

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2009-02-12 Thread Mixx
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Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-12 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:37:06 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > What you actually want here is to use architecture wildcards, as in: > > > > libasound2-dev [linux-any] > > > > this is documented in dpkg-architecture(1), and has been supported since > > dpkg 1.13.13. debhe

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > What you actually want here is to use architecture wildcards, as in: > > libasound2-dev [linux-any] > > this is documented in dpkg-architecture(1), and has been supported since > dpkg 1.13.13. debhelper also supports this since 5.0.36. Currently the > only missing pi

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 09:30:48 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Introduction of the new fields > == > > - Build-Recommends would list packages that are basically available in > the Debian archive, but are not available on all architectures or for > all kernels. [...

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:27:14 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, wrote: > > PW> Which date would it contain? > > > > The date the maintainer made the polishing touches on the .deb. > > We don't have that date. We do have: > [...] And the date the .deb was built:

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread jidanni
OK, instead of a Date: field in Packages, I can get a better idea of how well maintained a package is with an "updates vs. bugs" perspective, e.g., for package do for u in http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html?src=$package \ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=$package

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Enrico Zini [Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:50:41 +]: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:44:16PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > > I would propose something like freshness of bugs vs. freshness of last > > non-binary upload, possibly weighted. This would let old but > > non-problematic packages off the

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:44:16PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > I would propose something like freshness of bugs vs. freshness of last > non-binary upload, possibly weighted. This would let old but > non-problematic packages off the radar. I don't have the time to design and test such an a

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Enrico Zini wrote: > If anyone can suggest me a decent heuristics to spot a 'rotting' package > (like, for example standards-version older than X, but you need to tell > me what X), I can automatically mine it and turn it into a debtags tag. I would propose something like freshness of bugs vs. fre

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> > That way one could tell, even when offline, if a package hasn't been >> > updated in ten years. >> I hope we don't have any of those. > And those that we have, we can also spot them by old Standards-Version > in lintian warnings. > If anyone can suggest me a decent heuristics to spot a 'rott

Re: DDE, Debian Data Export

2009-02-12 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Le mercredi 11 février 2009 à 14:55 +, Enrico Zini a écrit : > Hello, > > After testing the idea and the prototype with my presentation at Fosdem, > it's time to announce DDE (http://wiki.debian.org/DDE), Debian Data > Export. Very intersting... much easier to retrieve "common" requests

Re: DDE, Debian Data Export

2009-02-12 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:37:46PM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: > One of the criticisms I could make (and made live at your presentation > @FOSDEM), is the lack of semantics (as in Semantic Web W3C standards) > there (somehow what I mentioned also in > http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/we

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-12 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Josselin Mouette wrote: > As for update-mime-database, I think it concerns only a very small > number of packages, but that’s certainly doable. I've looked into update-mime-database and update-mime. Here's what I think needs to be done in order to properly adopt triggers support in these packages:

Re: DDE, Debian Data Export

2009-02-12 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 02:55:07PM +, Enrico Zini wrote: > You can add data to the DDE tree by just putting a data file in yaml, > json or pickle format under `~/.dde`: I've written a specific guide[1] > to this on the Debian wiki, see: http://wiki.debian.org/DDE/HomeFiles Make that http://wi

Re: DDE, Debian Data Export

2009-02-12 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:08:52PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Enrico Zini wrote: > >> DDE exports data as a big virtual tree. You can pick a node in the tree >> by its URL and download all the data that it contains, in a format of >> your choice: currently it supports JSON

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:40:32 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Well OK, assuming network connections, one can always just do e.g., Or `who-uploads --date $package'. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, a

The Grudge Match is coming

2009-02-12 Thread Events Dept (The Grudge Match Series)
We are delighted to announce that The Grudge Match Series will launch on the 13th of March 2009 in London. The first Grudge Match will be between ex-professional footballers from London rivals SPURS and CHELSEA! The evening will see 3x bouts of boxing between Graham Roberts, Kerry Dixon, Steve

Bug#514984: ITP: getdata -- retrieval, updating and indexing of public data collections

2009-02-12 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: getdata Upstream Author : Steffen Moeller , Charles Plessy * URL : http://wiki.debian.org/getData * License : AGPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : retrieval, updating and indexing of p

Bug#514978: ITP: tegaki-zinnia-simplified-chinese -- Simplified Chinese handwriting model for Zinnia

2009-02-12 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: tegaki-zinnia-simplified-chinese Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Mathieu Blondel * URL : http://tegaki.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: N/A Description : Simplified C

Bug#514977: ITP: tegaki-zinnia-japanese -- handwriting recognition software (data for Japanese)

2009-02-12 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: tegaki-zinnia-japanese Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Mathieu Blondel * URL : http://tegaki.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: N/A Description : handwriting recogn

Bug#514972: ITP: tegaki-recognize -- handwriting recognition software (recognize application)

2009-02-12 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: tegaki-recognize Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Mathieu Blondel * URL : http://tegaki.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : handwriting recognition

Bug#514973: ITP: tegaki -- handwriting recognition software (base library)

2009-02-12 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: tegaki Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Mathieu Blondel * URL : http://tegaki.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : handwriting recognition software (ba

Bug#514971: ITP: tegaki-gtk -- handwriting recognition software (GTK interface)

2009-02-12 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: tegaki-gtk Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Mathieu Blondel * URL : http://tegaki.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : handwriting recognition softwa

Bug#514969: ITP: zinnia -- online hand recognition system with machine learning

2009-02-12 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: zinnia Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Taku Kudo * URL : http://zinnia.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ (with Python, Perl, Ruby binding, with swig) Description :

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:27:14PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > > That way one could tell, even when offline, if a package hasn't been > > updated in ten years. > I hope we don't have any of those. And those that we have, we can also spot them by old Standards-Version in lintian warnings. If anyone

Bug#514961: ITP: scim-tegaki -- handwriting recognition engine for SCIM platform

2009-02-12 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: scim-tegaki Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Mathieu Blondel * URL : http://tegaki.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: python Description : handwriting recognition engine

Processed: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#514910: nfs: Fail to mount older NFS export

2009-02-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 514910 nfs-common Bug#514910: nfs: Fail to mount older NFS export Bug reassigned from package `general' to `nfs-common'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administra

Re: Recai Oktaş MIA?

2009-02-12 Thread Sandro Tosi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Martin, On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:33, martin f krafft wrote: > Recai Oktaş, maintainer of pandoc, seems MIA for about a year. Well, there was an upload in July 2008 (haskell-pcre-light) and an ITP filed on mid Nov 2008 (#505924), with a propo

Recai Oktaş MIA?

2009-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
Recai Oktaş, maintainer of pandoc, seems MIA for about a year. The pandoc upstream and I have pinged him several times. Does anyone know of his whereabouts? Is there a Haskell-savvy someone who would like to take over pandoc? Upstream is very responsive and eager to have the package in Debian. Ch