Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

2010-02-19 Thread Andres Mejia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andres Mejia * Package name: mythtv Version : 0.22 Upstream Author : Isaac Richards * URL : http://www.mythtv.org/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C, C++, Perl, Python, Description : A personal video recorder

klibc only initramfs

2010-02-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I googled a bit and found this old mail about a klibc only initramfs: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/07/msg00400.html I would really like to do this and it has been close to 4 years since that mail. But it doesn't look like there has been much progress or not in the right directi

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

2010-02-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Samuelson writes: > [Keegan Quinn] >> Guillem Jover wrote: >> >It's one of the few native packages (if not the only one) that is still >> >statically linking. >> >> dpkg appears to be dynamically linked on my unstable/amd64 box: > > It is dynamically linked to some libraries, staticly link

Bug#570604: ITP: python-scikits-statsmodels -- Python module for fitting parameterized statistical models

2010-02-19 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko * Package name: python-scikits-statsmodels Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Statsmodels Developers * URL : http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

2010-02-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Keegan Quinn] > Guillem Jover wrote: > >It's one of the few native packages (if not the only one) that is still > >statically linking. > > dpkg appears to be dynamically linked on my unstable/amd64 box: It is dynamically linked to some libraries, staticly linked to others. Guillem is proposing

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

2010-02-19 Thread Keegan Quinn
Guillem Jover wrote: It's one of the few native packages (if not the only one) that is still statically linking. dpkg appears to be dynamically linked on my unstable/amd64 box: kee...@keegan:~$ file /usr/bin/dpkg /usr/bin/dpkg: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically

No usable upstream for uscan watch file, DEHS status (was: Misc developer news (#21))

2010-02-19 Thread Ben Finney
Joachim Wiedorn writes: > What is with deactivated watch files, because upsteam is dead? > > For a short time I had this case with the package d4x: upstream > homepage is deleted, there is no more upstream development. There is also the set of packages where the upstream files are available, but

Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

2010-02-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! As I'd like to change some Pre-Depends in dpkg, I'm bringing this up here for discussion, as per policy §3.5 and given dpkg “Essential: yes” nature. First, I'd like to change the dpkg Pre-Depends from lzma to xz-utils, the latter is a bit bigger in size (lzma 172 KiB; xz-utils 504 KiB, 160 K

Re: Misc developer news (#21)

2010-02-19 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >  As of the time of writing, DEHS is only 45 watch files away from the >  1 milestone!. Out of them, only 7480 packages are up to date with >  regard to upstream. What is with deactivated watch files, because upsteam is dead? For a short time I had this ca

Re: What about David Frey (dfrey)?

2010-02-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Jonathan McDowell schrieb am Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:00:39AM +: > > I am intrested in adopting one of his orphaned packages and wanted to > > talk to him before. Unfortunately df...@d.o is bouncing with: > > > > host master.debian.org [70.103.162.29]: 550 Unrouteable address > > > > Ho

Re: Misc developer news (#21)

2010-02-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >  As of the time of writing, DEHS is only 45 watch files away from the >  1 milestone!. Out of them, only 7480 packages are up to date with >  regard to upstream. It is worth noting that not all packages need to be kept up to date with

Re: Misc developer news (#21)

2010-02-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > * More than 1000 source packages[4] are already using the new source > > formats "3.0 (quilt)" and "3.0 (native)". Have you updated your own > > packages already? > > Why should

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

2010-02-19 Thread Olivier Berger
Le mercredi 17 février 2010 à 16:35 +0100, Julian Andres Klode a écrit : > > > > Also the pkg-fso team: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianFSO > > Freesmartphone.org is the other way, it has its own software. My idea is > more about the things coming from Nokia and Intel, i.e. oFono, Connman, > a

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Meskes
> Any chances of uploading the new version (after it has stabilized and made > it to testing) to backports.org? Sure, I'm currently just waiting for it to migrate. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michael at BorussiaFan dot De, Meskes

Re: DEHS and source format 3.0

2010-02-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> DEHS now supports format 3.0 source packages >> >> >> Although support for format 3.0 source packages on DEHS was not expected >> to be added until DEHS2

Re: Misc developer news (#21)

2010-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > * More than 1000 source packages[4] are already using the new source > formats "3.0 (quilt)" and "3.0 (native)". Have you updated your own > packages already? Why should I? Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Michael Meskes wrote: > > For the record, the watchdog daemon seems not to be able to deal with 1Hz > > cleanly (must have something to do with these zombies it likes to keep > > around for 1s) in my test boxes. It can do 0.5Hz just fine though. > > The latest upload 5.7-4 or

Re: What about David Frey (dfrey)?

2010-02-19 Thread markus schnalke
[2010-02-19 11:00] Jonathan McDowell > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:08:35AM +0100, markus schnalke wrote: > > Does anyone know if he is still active? Or better: Is he still a DD? > He retired from the project last May. Try david at eos.lugs.ch Thanks. I'll try this address. [2010-02-19 12:01] R

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 19 février 2010 à 13:02 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > The fact that Gnome doesn't show the Debian menu (thereby requiring me > to either find that mythical option somewhere which would enable it, or > to manually start the application) is one of the reasons I'm not using > gnome.

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

2010-02-19 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On ven., 2010-02-19 at 11:21 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > Maybe Nokia could be convinced to open up some/most of the Maemo5 apps > > once Maemo6/Meego is out; AIUI, not opening up the UI apps was an > > initial decision that has been at least partly rethought internally > > since. > > See http

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:39:45PM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Hi, > > FTP team and I are currently writing a new feature in dak which will > collect changelog entries and store them in projectb, to be later used > for other purposes (e.g. to write point release changelogs, see [1]). Isn't thi

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:54:43PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 13:10 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > The problem is not to implement this; it already exists. The problem is > > > that maintainers don???t fill these fields properly. I mean, even KDE > > > develop

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:30:01PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The layout sucks: a good menu is hard to do because it must not be too > deep (too many clicks/movements to reach an application) nor too crowded > (too many applications in one submenu). The Debian menu is an > achievement in fail

Bug#570505: ITP: ploader -- Application to upload your pictures to your Piwigo gallery

2010-02-19 Thread Nicolas Roudaire
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Roudaire -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: ploader Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Pierrick LE GALL * URL : http://piwigo.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Descript

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:32:39AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 08:54 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > IMHO the best solution to this (unavoidable) problem is to enable a > > configuration feature controled by some kind of priority tag in the > > desktop files. Thi

DEHS and source format 3.0

2010-02-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > DEHS now supports format 3.0 source packages > > > Although support for format 3.0 source packages on DEHS was not expected > to be added until DEHS2 was released, thanks to a contribu

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

2010-02-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2010-02-19 at 11:21 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > Maybe Nokia could be convinced to open up some/most of the Maemo5 apps > once Maemo6/Meego is out; AIUI, not opening up the UI apps was an > initial decision that has been at least partly rethought internally > since. See http://wiki.maemo

Re: What about David Frey (dfrey)?

2010-02-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, markus schnalke wrote: > Does anyone know if he is still active? Or better: Is he still a DD? No, he's no longer a DD. > I am intrested in adopting one of his orphaned packages and wanted to > talk to him before. Unfortunately df...@d.o is bouncing with: You have to fin

Re: What about David Frey (dfrey)?

2010-02-19 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:08:35AM +0100, markus schnalke wrote: > Does anyone know if he is still active? Or better: Is he still a DD? > > I am intrested in adopting one of his orphaned packages and wanted to > talk to him before. Unfortunately df...@d.o is bouncing with: > > host master.debia

What about David Frey (dfrey)?

2010-02-19 Thread markus schnalke
Does anyone know if he is still active? Or better: Is he still a DD? I am intrested in adopting one of his orphaned packages and wanted to talk to him before. Unfortunately df...@d.o is bouncing with: host master.debian.org [70.103.162.29]: 550 Unrouteable address However, I found him on db.de

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-19 Thread Simon Paillard
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:00:13PM +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"? :) > > > >

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

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 04:43:44PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > 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 pa

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Meskes
> For the record, the watchdog daemon seems not to be able to deal with 1Hz > cleanly (must have something to do with these zombies it likes to keep > around for 1s) in my test boxes. It can do 0.5Hz just fine though. The latest upload 5.7-4 or an older version? The older versions use sleep() wh