Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:59 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > Basically > > > egrep '^image/(png|x-portable-pixmap)\s*;\s*((\S*).*?)\s*($|;.*)' > > /etc/mailcap > > > > A virtual package only makes sense if it will also provide a s

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > Basically > egrep '^image/(png|x-portable-pixmap)\s*;\s*((\S*).*?)\s*($|;.*)' /etc/mailcap > > A virtual package only makes sense if it will also provide a standard > > interface that other packages will invoke. > It doesn't have

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:12:30PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > egrep '^image/(png|x-portable-pixmap)\s*;\s*((\S*).*?)\s*($|;.*)' > > /etc/mailcap > > > > > A virtual package only makes sense if it will also provide a standard >

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > egrep '^image/(png|x-portable-pixmap)\s*;\s*((\S*).*?)\s*($|;.*)' /etc/mailcap > > > A virtual package only makes sense if it will also provide a standard > > interface that other packages will invoke. > > It doesn't have such, it

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:45:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:00:26PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:55:59PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > * Jan Hauke Rahm , 2009-07-08, 19:36: > > > >I'd like to have a new virtual package 'x-image-viewer

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:00:26PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:55:59PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Jan Hauke Rahm , 2009-07-08, 19:36: > > >I'd like to have a new virtual package 'x-image-viewer'. All packages > > >providing that virtual package should be able to vi

Bug#536270: ITP: boost-numeric-bindings -- Numeric Library Bindings for Boost

2009-07-08 Thread Teemu Ikonen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Teemu Ikonen * Package name: boost-numeric-bindings Version : 20081116 Upstream Author : Kresimir Fresl et. al. * URL : http://mathema.tician.de/software/boost-bindings https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox/numeric_b

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-08 Thread James Westby
Guido Günther wrote: > Which isn't a problem on patch-queue branches since you either can > recreate them anytime from what's in debian/patches or simply ammend the > commit. They're supposed to be rebased frequently anyway. "Supposed"? That's not true in my opinion. It would tend to be hostile t

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:55:59PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Jan Hauke Rahm , 2009-07-08, 19:36: > >I'd like to have a new virtual package 'x-image-viewer'. All packages > >providing that virtual package should be able to view images in common > >formats (png, jpeg etc.). I'm thinking but that's

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jan Hauke Rahm , 2009-07-08, 19:36: I'd like to have a new virtual package 'x-image-viewer'. All packages providing that virtual package should be able to view images in common formats (png, jpeg etc.). I'm thinking but that's pretty much all I can say... It's obvious that I would want all imag

dh_nativejava warning

2009-07-08 Thread Adrian Perez
The latest lintian complains about dh_nativejava prepending paths to maintainer scripts. I wish to know what's the status of fixing this since it's affecting a package of mine. The bug report #511491 submitted a patch, I think. -- Best regards, Adrian Perez signature.asc Description: This is

New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hello everybody, I'd like to have a new virtual package 'x-image-viewer'. All packages providing that virtual package should be able to view images in common formats (png, jpeg etc.). I'm thinking but that's pretty much all I can say... It's obvious that I would want all image viewers to provide t

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:56:26AM +0100, James Westby wrote: > Guido Günther wrote: > >> I am concerned that just allowing to use git-format-patch will result in > >> people not making an effort to markup other metadata in DEP#3 format, > >> like bug numbers or reviewers and leave those as free-fo

Is Christian Meder MIA?

2009-07-08 Thread Walter Franzini
Hi, in the past months I've tryied without success to contact Christian Meder (ch...@absolutegiganten.org), the maintainer of the aegis package, offering my help. As a Debian and Aegis user I'm a bit worried of state of the aegis package. He uploaded 4.24-1 (2008-04-20) and next packaging update

Bug#536245: RFH: graphviz -- rich set of graph drawing tools

2009-07-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Heya folks. I request assistance with maintaining the graphviz package. That might also move to an RFA later on. Given I'm slowly drifting to more porting, I'm currently lacking time to maintain graphviz properly. If you're interested, you may want to be aware of s

Tidying up packages

2009-07-08 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I've recently had a serendipitous excuse[1] to look at my package list and tidy up things a bit, orphaning a thing or two and publishing my plans for another half-forgotten package. I realised that while this tidying up is important and rather easy to do, I often lack the trigger to do tha

Re: Linking libxxx.so to libxxx_r.so? dpkg-shlibdep doesn't like it...

2009-07-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 03:53:58PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:01:21PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > Hello > > > > To help packages like Apache which have some parts like libaprutil > > that wants to link against libmysqlclient16_r.so and some like PHP > > that

Re: Linking libxxx.so to libxxx_r.so? dpkg-shlibdep doesn't like it...

2009-07-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:01:21PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > To help packages like Apache which have some parts like libaprutil > that wants to link against libmysqlclient16_r.so and some like PHP > that wants to link against libmysqlcient.so, it was proposed that > libmysqlclien

Bug#536235: ITP: haskell-regex-tdfa -- Haskell library for a tagged DFA regex engine

2009-07-08 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Erik de Castro Lopo * Package name: haskell-regex-tdfa Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Christopher Kuklewicz * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/regex-tdfa * License : BSD Programming

Bug#536234: ITP: haskell-regex-tdfa-utf8 -- Haskell library for the UTF8 version of the tagged DFA regex engine

2009-07-08 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Erik de Castro Lopo * Package name: haskell-regex-tdfa-utf8 Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Christopher Kuklewicz * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/regex-tdfa-utf8 * License : BSD Prog

Re: Resigning from Debian

2009-07-08 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Alexis, On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 08:51, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > * Sandro Tosi (mo...@debian.org) : >> Good luck for the future and thanks a lot for all your contributions! >> >> > Feel free to orphan/adopt all of my packages. >> > >> > electricsheep[1] deserves a prioritary adoption: a major upst

Re: Resigning from Debian

2009-07-08 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
* Sandro Tosi (mo...@debian.org) : > Good luck for the future and thanks a lot for all your contributions! > > > Feel free to orphan/adopt all of my packages. > > > > electricsheep[1] deserves a prioritary adoption: a major upstream > > version has been released and Debian's is now deprecated. >