Re: Bug#529624: netbase: networking should not be stopped on reboot or halt

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:56:16PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Does anybody see any downsides to this? If there are any pre-down/post-down commands in /etc/network/interfaces, then this can cause surprises. The same holds from custom scripts in /etc/network/{if-down.d,if-post-down.d}. The justi

Re: Bug#529624: netbase: networking should not be stopped on reboot or halt

On May 21, Teodor wrote: > This could be done by calling dhclient3 with "-r" parameter somehow, > but it isn't even required by the protocol. Is this an acceptable > workarround for the desktop computers? You need to discuss this with the dhcpd3 maintainer. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descri

Re: Should we remove OpenMotif?

William Pitcock wrote: > Use GNU Lesstif instead? Lesstif is buggy and basically abandoned upstream. However I still think it is preferable to OpenMotif which is buggy and non-Free. I have no problem with OpenMotif being dropped. Erik --

Work-needing packages report for May 22, 2009

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: 387 (new: 18) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 135 (new: 27) Total number of packages reque

Bug#529871: marked as done (Dependency mismatch for nautilus-filename-repairer and nautilus-image-converter)

Your message dated Fri, 22 May 2009 01:50:56 +0200 with message-id <4a15e8e0.8080...@debian.org> and subject line Re: Bug#529871: Dependency mismatch for nautilus-filename-repairer and nautilus-image-converter has caused the Debian Bug report #529871, regarding Dependency mismatch for nautilus-f

Bug#529871: Dependency mismatch for nautilus-filename-repairer and nautilus-image-converter

Package: general Severity: important Cant install the these two nautilus plugins. All other plugins installed corerctly. I tried several mirrors. $ sudo aptitude install nautilus-filename-repairer nautilus-image-converter Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state infor

Re: adding a new package

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 19:48 +0200, Alex Berson wrote: > Hi all, how can i add a new package? See . > i'd like to add justniffer website: > http://justniffer.sourceforge.net/. its a powefull textmode sniffer. > Should i look for

Re: Bug#529624: netbase: networking should not be stopped on reboot or halt

On Thursday 21 May 2009 01:56:16 Marco d'Itri wrote: > Does anybody see any downsides to this? > > - Forwarded message from Teodor - > > From: Teodor > To: Debian Bug Tracking System > Subject: Bug#529624: netbase: networking should not be stopped on reboot or > halt > > Package

Re: Should we remove OpenMotif?

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > OK, just for kicks I just pulled arb and it seems to build fine with > lesstif. Though I don't know the package well enough to test runtime. My colleagues worked with a version of arb which was linked against lesstif and noticed

Re: Transitions Completed

Adeodato Simó wrote: > From: Debian Installer Although this usage probably predates D-I, I do find it quite confusing in practice, and for example when googling, that we currently have two completely unrelated usages of the term "Debian Installer". Would the FTP master team consider changing t

Bug#529624: netbase: networking should not be stopped on reboot or halt

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Not going to happen: releasing DHCP leases is more important. This could be done by calling dhclient3 with "-r" parameter somehow, but it isn't even required by the protocol. Is this an acceptable workarround for the desktop computers? Thank

Re: Fwd: Transitions Completed

+ Jonathan Wiltshire (Thu, 21 May 2009 19:00:09 +0100): > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 07:54:52PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > I thought it could perhaps be a good idea to CC them to -devel. Does > > somebody think we shouldn't do that? (I'd send a patch to include the > > name of the transition in

Re: Bug#529525: ITP: vsag -- Very Simple Archive Generator

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:47:06PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > Not at all! dpkg-scanpackages works fine, in fact Vsag uses it to generate > > Packages files. But it does also a few other things: > > > > - Generates compressed Packages.{gz,bz2}. > > > > - Generates Release index

Re: Fwd: Transitions Completed

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 07:54:52PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > I thought it could perhaps be a good idea to CC them to -devel. Does > somebody think we shouldn't do that? (I'd send a patch to include the > name of the transition in the Subject.) Would -devel-changes be more appropriate? though I

Fwd: Transitions Completed

Hello, dak is configured to send the Release Team a mail each time one of the "transition blocks" expires because the transition has been completed. I thought it could perhaps be a good idea to CC them to -devel. Does somebody think we shouldn't do that? (I'd send a patch to include the name of th

Bug#529814: ITP: luckybackup -- rsync-based GUI data backup utility

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Patrick Matthäi" * Package name: luckybackup Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Loukas Avgeriou * URL : http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/ * License : (GPL-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : rsync-based GUI data

adding a new package

Hi all, how can i add a new package? i'd like to add justniffer website: http://justniffer.sourceforge.net/. its a powefull textmode sniffer. Should i look for a sponsor? Can i become a debian maintainer? Thanks to all

Bug#529815: ITP: kde-plasmoid-yawp -- Yet Another Weather Plasmoid fetches weather forcasts for you

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kai Wasserbäch * Package name: kde-plasmoid-yawp Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Pierpaolo Vittorini , Marián Kyral , Ezequiel Aguerre , Ruan Strydom * URL : http://s

Bug#529812: ITP: libmoosex-params-validate-perl -- Perl module to validate Moose type parameters

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libmoosex-params-validate-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module to validate Moose

Bug#529813: ITP: libmoosex-semiaffordanceaccessor-perl -- Perl modules to generate accessors from attributes

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libmoosex-semiaffordanceaccessor-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (GPL/Artistic) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl modules to ge

Re: Should we remove OpenMotif?

Daniel Baumann wrote: Barry deFreese wrote: I was considering packaging up the new upstream but I would have to register to do that not true: ftp://ftp.ics.com/openmotif/ Anyone have an opinion? it's still on my todo list. if i'll not get arround to do it over the current l

Bug#529795: ITP: libfile-changenotify-perl -- Perl module to watch for changes to files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libfile-changenotify-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module to watch for chang

Re: Should we remove OpenMotif?

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 22:03 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > Hi folks, > > As some of you may already know, I have been doing a lot of package > removals and QA work. One of the ones I ran across lately is > OpenMotif. It has been orphaned since 2006 and has several bugs against > it. However,

Bug#529764: ITP: octave-oct2mat -- convert Octave m-file into Matlab-compatible coding style

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere * Package name: octave-oct2mat Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : Alois Schloegl * URL : http://octave.sourceforge.net/oct2mat * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Octave Description : convert O

Bug#529761: ITP: libfake437 -- A simple cross-platform ANSI-art library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jack Kelly Package name: libfake437 Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Jack Kelly URL : http://libfake437.googlecode.com License : LGPL 3+; Manual is CC-BY-SA-3.0 Programming Lang: C and C++ Description : A s

Bug#529749: ITP: octave-simp -- single interval mathematics package for Octave

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere * Package name: octave-simp Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Simone Pernice * URL : http://octave.sourceforge.net/simp * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Octave Description : single interval

Bug#529732: ITP: octave-quaternion -- quaternion manipulation package for Octave

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere * Package name: octave-quaternion Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : A. S. Hodel * URL : http://octave.sourceforge.net/quaternion * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Octave Description : quater

Re: Should we remove OpenMotif?

Barry deFreese wrote: > I was considering packaging up the new upstream but I would have to > register to do that not true: ftp://ftp.ics.com/openmotif/ > Anyone have an opinion? it's still on my todo list. if i'll not get arround to do it over the current long weekend, no objections for its rem