Work-needing packages report for Feb 19, 2010

2010-02-18 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: 556 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 134 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

gutenprint 5.2.5 release: testers with inkjet printers wanted

2010-02-18 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi folks, I've packaged a new gutenprint release, 5.2.5-1, which is available from http://www.codelibre.net/~rleigh/gutenprint-5.2.5-1/ (source, amd64) or git git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/gutenprint.git I no longer have an inkjet printer, so I can't verify the software works corre

Bug#570439: RFP: [PACKAGE] -- lessfs A high performance inline data deduplicating filesystem for Linux.

2010-02-18 Thread Falk Hackenberger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: lessfs Version: 1.0.1 Upstream Author: Mark Ruijter URL: http://www.lessfs.com License: GPL version 3 Description: lessfs is an

Bug#570433: ITP: elexis -- medical practice managemant system for use in Switzerland

2010-02-18 Thread Niklaus Giger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niklaus Giger * Package name: elexis Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Gerry Weirich * URL : http://www.elexis.ch * License : Eclipse Public License - v 1.0 Programming Lang: Java (Eclipse Rich Client Platform) Descri

Bug#570431: ITP: blokkal -- KDE blogging client

2010-02-18 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: blokkal Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Martin Mueller * URL : http://blokkal.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : KDE blogging client Blokkal is a K

Re: Flag images

2010-02-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Dmitry E. Oboukhov schrieb: > >> I wish to use my country's flag to refer to my language... > >> Don't. There are many languages not associated with countries or in > >> use in many different countries. [..] > > Is it really so big problem? Lo

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2010-02-18, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > --=-krd2Pvts3nDRsMxpCHn/ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:00 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> On 18/02/10 at 14:31 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: >> > > I's only a few hundreds

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Troy Heber writes: > On 02/16/10 13:54, dann frazier wrote: >> The kernel team discussed this at our face to face meeting (due to >> some prompting from the 'crash' maintainer). > I didn't see this explicitly mentioned in the rest of the discussion, > but debug kernel images are useful for more

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 09 Feb 2010, Darren Salt wrote: > > I demand that Guillem Jover may or may not have written... > > > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:15:30 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > > >> Please keep in mind the OOM killer will only influence watchdog i

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-02-18, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Currently I can upload a ~230 MB i386 build in 2 hours or so. Add debug > info to this for all 6 images and I'm looking at more than a day, by > which point I believe the incoming daemon would have given up waiting > for a complete upload. Even if I switched

Re: Debian Mobile -- Debian GNU/Linux for mobile devices

2010-02-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 at 17:51:35 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > For packages that are free, use debian versions whenever possible. > For packages that are free but patched too much, use renamed packages. > For non-free packages, use current Nokia's binaries wrapped into hand-made > debs. No

Re: Flag images

2010-02-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:11:15 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > On lun., 2010-02-15 at 12:03 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > Flags are a poor representation of a particular language, and language > > > > selection is better handled using locales and content-negotiation > > > > anyway. [There a

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:00 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 18/02/10 at 14:31 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > I's only a few hundreds of megabytes per kernel image. > > > > Its around half a GiB per image. > > Isn't that a correct instance of "a few hundreds of megabytes"? :) [...] I would o

Re: Debian Mobile -- Debian GNU/Linux for mobile devices

2010-02-18 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hi, > > Is anyone interested in starting a Debian Mobile project, probably as a > Debian Pure Blend? > > Goals: > - Provide an environment for handheld and netbook devices > + example: the Nokia N900 Interestingly, is it possible to create a mix between current n900 packages and debian,

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Troy Heber
On 02/16/10 13:54, dann frazier wrote: > > The kernel team discussed this at our face to face meeting (due to > some prompting from the 'crash' maintainer). I didn't see this explicitly mentioned in the rest of the discussion, but debug kernel images are useful for more than just systemtap. It w

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/02/10 at 14:31 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > I's only a few hundreds of megabytes per kernel image. > > Its around half a GiB per image. Isn't that a correct instance of "a few hundreds of megabytes"? :) > >Some games or > > debug p

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:01:19PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 18/02/10 at 00:18 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 22:47 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > Why couldn't it be done using a normal deb? It is just a matter of taste. > I's only a few hundreds of megabytes p

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/02/10 at 00:18 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 22:47 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 16/02/10 at 22:27 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > - disk space on buildds: at least 2 GiB are required to bui

Re: Debian Mobile -- Debian GNU/Linux for mobile devices

2010-02-18 Thread Gergely Fazekas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone interested in starting a Debian Mobile project, probably as a > Debian Pure Blend? > > Goals: > - Provide an environment for handheld and netbook devices > + example: the Nokia N900 > - Provide

Bug#570367: ITP: liblocale-ruby -- pure ruby locale library

2010-02-18 Thread Tatsuki Sugiura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tatsuki Sugiura * Package name: liblocale-ruby Version : 2.0.5 Upstream Author : Masao Mutoh * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/locale/ * License : GPL or Ruby's Programming Lang: ruby Description : pure ru

Re: Debian Mobile -- Debian GNU/Linux for mobile devices

2010-02-18 Thread Andreas Marschke
> Hi, > > Is anyone interested in starting a Debian Mobile project, probably as a > Debian Pure Blend? > > Goals: > - Provide an environment for handheld and netbook devices > + example: the Nokia N900 > - Provide a Debian-based implementation of MeeGo > + Packaging the software from

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Debian Mobile -- Debian GNU/Linux for mobile devices

2010-02-18 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> > Of course work should happen upstream as most as possible. But as > > upstream will use rpm, our part is repackaging. > > It should be possible to work in the manner you have proposed without > problems. I am a great believer in the power of the community to resolve > any potential issues which

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Debian Mobile -- Debian GNU/Linux for mobile devices

2010-02-18 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> > Am Mittwoch, den 17.02.2010, 17:20 +0100 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > > > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > > Is anyone interested in starting a Debian Mobile project, probably > > > > as a Debian Pure Blend? > > Count me in. Me too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve