Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-18 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 06:08:17PM +0200, Teodor wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le lundi 16 février 2009 à 14:20 +, Matthew Johnson a écrit : > >> the FHS should certainly continue to exist and be coordinated between > >> distros though. I agree that if i

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-18 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:14:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the > tool to create user packaged kernel images and headers; which will > make the make-kpkg script far less error prone, and far more > deterministic. >

Re: file-roller: Can't open .deb by default (aka should recommend binutils)

2009-02-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 12:31:14 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > In Bug 515175, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Package: file-roller > > Version: 2.22.4-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > On a default gnome-desktop system (Lenny), .deb files (application/x-deb) > > are associated with file-roller, but it c

Bug#516035: RFP: qmpdclient-ne -- Qt-based MPD client

2009-02-18 Thread Nick Shaforostoff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: qmpdclient-ne Version: Upstream Author: [NAME ] URL: [http://wiki.github.com/Voker57/qmpdclient-ne] License: [GPL] Description:

Sa. 21.2.: Sonix Saturday Night Showcase mit Akanni LIVE & MUSA (Dibo & Band) + Jamsession

2009-02-18 Thread Berlin Events
Du bist eingeladen, einen wunderbaren Abend im Sonix zu erleben!!! Das Sonix ist ein kleiner Live-Club in Kreuzberg - von Künstlern für Künstler - geführt von Allround-Künstler Akanni und seiner Partnerin-in-Crime Heli. Hier gibt es jeden Samstag Abend Live-Musik (Soul, Funk, Jazz, HipHop) von

Re: craetion of /srv/ftp or /home/ftp by a ftpserver.deb

2009-02-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] shaul Karl | Does that mean that an ftpServer.deb is not allowed to issue | | mkdir /srv/ftp | or | mkdir /home/ftp Yes. (Your /srv might be organized by service, but far from everybody's is and you can not make any assumptions about the local admin's preference.) -- Tollef Fog

Re: PlayOnLinux in contrib

2009-02-18 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 19:30 +0100, Bertrand Marc wrote: > Mehdi Dogguy a écrit : > > If it's GPLv2+ and doesn't depend on proprietary software, why it cannot > > be in main? > > Does it depend on proprietary things? > > > > Regards, > As it is now, PlayOnLinux makes the user install Microsoft fonts

Re: PlayOnLinux in contrib

2009-02-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bertrand Marc (18/02/2009): > As it is now, PlayOnLinux makes the user install Microsoft fonts. You > can say no, but it will keep asking every time you start PlayOnLinux. > We are currently thinking to add a Depends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer > because of that... I'm not very clueful about ttf-

Re: Bug#515793: ITP: CGIT -- C-code Web Front-end to GIT

2009-02-18 Thread Marc Singer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:47:57PM +, Iulian Udrea wrote: > 2009/2/18 Marc Singer > > > It was not my intention to shut you down. I am just trying to figure > > out how far you've gotten in packaging the program. > > > Sure, no problem. I haven't gotten too far in packaging it because of

Re: Bug#515793: ITP: CGIT -- C-code Web Front-end to GIT

2009-02-18 Thread Iulian Udrea
2009/2/18 Marc Singer > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:47:57PM +, Iulian Udrea wrote: > > 2009/2/18 Marc Singer > > > > > It was not my intention to shut you down. I am just trying to figure > > > out how far you've gotten in packaging the program. > > > > > > Sure, no problem. I haven't gotte

Re: PlayOnLinux in contrib

2009-02-18 Thread Bertrand Marc
Mehdi Dogguy a écrit : If it's GPLv2+ and doesn't depend on proprietary software, why it cannot be in main? Does it depend on proprietary things? Regards, As it is now, PlayOnLinux makes the user install Microsoft fonts. You can say no, but it will keep asking every time you start PlayOnLinux.

Re: PlayOnLinux in contrib

2009-02-18 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Bertrand Marc wrote: > > The PlayOnLinux program itself is written under the GPL2+ so I (and my > sponsor) think it could be uploaded to contrib. Do you think such a > program which allows to easily install proprietary softs in a Debian > system would be acceptable in contrib and would not be a

Re: Bug#515793: ITP: CGIT -- C-code Web Front-end to GIT

2009-02-18 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 17:47:57 18.02.2009 UTC+00 when iul...@ubuntu.com did gyre and gimble: IU> Perhaps we will find a way to get it back. What about this solution: building git-core & cgit from the one source package, containing both source trees? This way they won't go out-of-sync. -- pgpWVTX

Re: Bug#515793: ITP: CGIT -- C-code Web Front-end to GIT

2009-02-18 Thread Iulian Udrea
2009/2/18 Marc Singer > It was not my intention to shut you down. I am just trying to figure > out how far you've gotten in packaging the program. Sure, no problem. I haven't gotten too far in packaging it because of bug #407722. > There is a serious blockage in pushing cgit into the archiv

Re: Bug#515793: ITP: CGIT -- C-code Web Front-end to GIT

2009-02-18 Thread Marc Singer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 06:50:55AM +, Iulian Udrea wrote: > 2009/2/18 Marc Singer > > > Is your package patch available so I can review it? > > > > Also, it doesn't look like you're a DD. Why are you so keen to > > maintain it? > > > > Yes, you're right, I'm not a DD. Anyway, I've had no

Re: PlayOnLinux in contrib

2009-02-18 Thread Allan Lyons
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:57:51PM +0100, Bertrand Marc wrote: > The PlayOnLinux program itself is written under the GPL2+ so I (and my > sponsor) think it could be uploaded to contrib. Do you think such a > program which allows to easily install proprietary softs in a Debian > system would

PlayOnLinux in contrib

2009-02-18 Thread Bertrand Marc
Hi, I am the current owner of the ITP bug #485149 for PlayOnLinux and I have a question about this (free) software. PlayOnLinux is a front-end for Wine. Its aim is to provide a nice way (without command line) to install programs built for Windows. Therefore it allows the user to install propr

Re: craetion of /srv/ftp or /home/ftp by a ftpserver.deb

2009-02-18 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
shaul Karl wrote: 1) (/srv/) SRV DATA FOR SERVICES PROVIDED BY SYSTEM http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM asserts that: no program should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv existing or data necessarily being s

craetion of /srv/ftp or /home/ftp by a ftpserver.deb

2009-02-18 Thread shaul Karl
1) (/srv/) SRV DATA FOR SERVICES PROVIDED BY SYSTEM http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM asserts that: no program should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv existing or data necessarily being stored in /srv 2) (/

Bug#515937: ITP: osm2go -- lightweight, mobile map editor for OpenStreetMap

2009-02-18 Thread andrewc
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: andr...@piffle.org * Package name: osm2go Version : 0.6.13 Upstream Author : Till Harbaum * URL : https://garage.maemo.org/projects/osm2go/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : Lightweight, mobile

Re: Bug#515793: ITP: CGIT -- C-code Web Front-end to GIT

2009-02-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:14:45PM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > Also, it doesn't look like you're a DD. Why are you so keen to > maintain it? Please consider refraining to post comments like this in the future. Your intention might have been good, but written as you wrote it, it can discourage non

Re: Bug#482396: Double detecting the same input device

2009-02-18 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, this days I just gave the newest version, 1:7.3+18, a try. Unfortunatelly I found the bug NOT fixed. The xorg is still unusable. So I did search for the old bug, perhaps I missed to give some informationes. I found the bug archived. So I una

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-18 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 07:41 +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi a écrit : Also for cgroups, I really hope that proposal come from distributions (and common usage). Only after one distribution use it, it need to be standardized. IMHO standards should come from bottom. I’m not

Re: Bug#515850: RFP: mjpegtools - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding

2009-02-18 Thread Reinhard Tartler
[ CC'ed ftp-master, please see below ] José Manuel Santamaría Lema writes: > It should be great if someone can package this tools for debian, a software > which I'm packaging depend on this tools. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467228 are you willing to package it under th

Re: Bug#515663: ITP: kmess2 -- Windows(R) Live(R) Messenger(R) Client for KDE4.

2009-02-18 Thread Sjors Gielen
Rafael Belmonte schreef: Kmess 1.5 is the current stable version of kmess, and built in KDE3, kmess2 is the current development version of kmess and built in KDE4, it is not stable yet, but it provides functional svn snapshots regularly. I am not sure if kmess and kmess2 packages should be at th

Re: Bug#515793: ITP: CGIT -- C-code Web Front-end to GIT

2009-02-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 19:14 -0800, Marc Singer a écrit : > Also, it doesn't look like you're a DD. Why are you so keen to > maintain it? For a second, I thought AJ was back. Phew. -- .''`. Debian 5.0 "Lenny" has been released! : :' : `. `' Last night, Darth Vader came down from pla

Re: Bug#515793: ITP: CGIT -- C-code Web Front-end to GIT

2009-02-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Iulian Udrea wrote: > 2009/2/18 Marc Singer > > Is your package patch available so I can review it? > > > > Also, it doesn't look like you're a DD. Why are you so keen to > > maintain it? *shrug* Have you never been excited about being able to contribute to Debian? (I foun