Bug#571676: ITP: pianobar -- console based player for Pandora radio

2010-02-26 Thread Luke Faraone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luke Faraone * Package name: pianobar Version : 20100222.git6805c07 Upstream Author : Lars-Dominik Braun * URL : http://6xq.net/0017 * License : MIT/X11 (BSD like) Programming Lang: C Description : console based

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

2010-02-26 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! As no opposing arguments were brought up I went ahead and now both changes are in dpkg's git tree. On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 00:15:10 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > 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 50

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

2010-02-26 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 22:51:55 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > I don't have any objections to this, but I'd strongly suggest that > this get a run-through experimental with an announcement on > -devel-announce to request testing so that any really bad problems are > caught before it gets deploye

Re: Removing dpkg conffile backgrounding prompt support

2010-02-26 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 04:49:06 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'd like to know if people would strongly miss being able to > background dpkg on the conffile prompt (‘Z’), instead of starting a > new subshell. The latter is the default with most modern frontends > (APT based). > > I personally

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - "Michael Tautschnig" wrote: > First of all, I'd like to say a big THANKS to all the people > maintaining Xen > within (in of course also outside) Debian; you really saved us lots of > money and > energy (which is both, electrical and that personal one). > > [...] > > > > > > 4) Wha

Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond Summary

2010-02-26 Thread John Goerzen
Thank you for the conversation on this. I would like to summarize what people have been saying -- it seems there is still a lot of disagreement about things out there yet, and I'm not entirely certain about things yet, but this has been helpful. I'll include my original email with comments from p

Bug#571656: ITP: billiard -- Multiprocessing Pool Extensions for Python

2010-02-26 Thread Fladischer Michael
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fladischer Michael -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: billiard Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Ask Solem * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/billiard/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Py

Re: Debian Packaging Meego Working Group

2010-02-26 Thread Fathi Boudra
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > following the recent "Debian Mobile" thread on > debian-devel@lists.debian.org, and the numerous discussions about > packaging on meego-...@meego.com, it looks like that it would be a good > idea to have an official Meego Working

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Tautschnig
First of all, I'd like to say a big THANKS to all the people maintaining Xen within (in of course also outside) Debian; you really saved us lots of money and energy (which is both, electrical and that personal one). [...] > > > 4) What will be our preferred server virtualization option for non-

Bug#571651: ITP: blogilo -- Blogging client for KDE

2010-02-26 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: blogilo Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Mehrdad Momeny * URL : http://blogilo.gnufolks.org/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Blogging client for KDE Blogilo is a B

Bug#571647: ITP: qhimdtransfer -- Transfer software for HiMD Walkman

2010-02-26 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Glaubitz Hi, I would like to package qhimdtransfer for Debian which is the graphical frontend to a library called libhimd which we also develop. libhimd is also intended for packaging in another ITP (#533112) in Debian. Up to now, we are linking qh

Debian Packaging Meego Working Group

2010-02-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, following the recent "Debian Mobile" thread on debian-devel@lists.debian.org, and the numerous discussions about packaging on meego-...@meego.com, it looks like that it would be a good idea to have an official Meego Working Group dedicated to Debian Packaging of Meego software. So I went ah

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 26, Luca Capello wrote: > >> 5) Do we recommend that new installations of lenny or of squeeze avoid > >> Xen for ease of upgrading to squeeze+1? If so, what should they use? > > It depends. KVM in lenny is buggy and lacks important features. While it > > works fine for development and cas

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:38:33 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 25, John Goerzen wrote: >> 5) Do we recommend that new installations of lenny or of squeeze avoid >> Xen for ease of upgrading to squeeze+1? If so, what should they use? > It depends. KVM in lenny is buggy and lacks impor

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:58 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 26, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > I understand the pain of maintaining Xen, but believe it is bad idea > > to defend replacing it with kvm by claiming those needing > > virtualization and not having servers with hardware support a

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:25:37PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > UDD is the wrong approach. And also, ever looked at its > > "db layout"? > > Could you elaborate? UDD sprung to mind for me too. I'd like to know why it doesn't fit for this use-case. I'd also be curious in an armchair-sense to

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread John Goerzen
Bastian Blank wrote: > > Did we ever had something "preferred"? Not officially, but there were clearly better solutions for different situations. -- John > > Bastian > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread John Goerzen
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I understand the pain of maintaining Xen, but believe it is bad idea > to defend replacing it with kvm by claiming those needing > virtualization and not having servers with hardware support are few > and should just get new servers. Agreed. At work, we made a major p

Re: Where to report bug for lintian HTML pages ?

2010-02-26 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 02:13:48PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/doc-base-unknown-section.html > > Where should I fill a bug for that ? See the bottom of the page: " Please send all comments about these web pages to the Lintian maintainers." Regards, Patri

Where to report bug for lintian HTML pages ?

2010-02-26 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am looking at the page: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/doc-base-unknown-section.html Clearly the line (and the href) is bogus: "Refer to Debian doc-base Manual section 2.3.3 (The section field) for details. " Where should I fill a bug for that ? Thanks, -- Mathieu -- To UNSU

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 at 11:21:08 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > Post-upload corrections? I assume Charles refers to this practice: imagine I maintained hello, and uploaded upstream release 6.6 without initially realising that it contained a security fix: hello (6.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 26, Philipp Kern wrote: > Wow, logic. Because they don't have monetary resources to buy new > servers they have a vast amount of time instead? Why should they expect other people to solve their problems for them? Free software is not about other people working in your place. -- ciao, Ma

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-26 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-02-26, Charles Plessy wrote: > If the developments on changelog parsing introduce new requirements, in > particular limitations on post-upload corrections, I strongly recommend to > document this in our Policy. Post-upload corrections? Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-02-26, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 26, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> I understand the pain of maintaining Xen, but believe it is bad idea >> to defend replacing it with kvm by claiming those needing >> virtualization and not having servers with hardware support are few >> and should just

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 26, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I understand the pain of maintaining Xen, but believe it is bad idea > to defend replacing it with kvm by claiming those needing > virtualization and not having servers with hardware support are few > and should just get new servers. Obviously these people

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:18:41AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > But the pv-ops xen kernel is shaping up well and that is what Bastian > Banks is working on. They have a proper upstream and follow the latest > vanilla kernel well enough. According to the wiki the plan is to have > pv-ops me

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Hi, 1) in Lenny I use the Xen hypervisor 3.4 from Squeeze, so it works. The main problem is that the linux dom0 patch is not (yet) upstream, and Debian can't really maintain it. But we hope, it will be accepted upstream, a lot of works have be done. As you can see on the Xen wiki http://wiki.x

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 04:53:56PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> There was a thread here a little while back about the status of Xen in >> future Debian releases. It left me rather confused, and I'm hoping to >> find some answers (which I will then

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marco d'Itri, le Fri 26 Feb 2010 02:38:33 +0100, a écrit : > On Feb 25, John Goerzen wrote: > > 3a) What about Linux virtualization on servers that lack hardware > > virtualization support, which Xen supports but KVM doesn't? > Tough luck. > > > 6) Are we communicating this to Debian users in som

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 04:53:56PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > "Xen - Provides para-virtualization and full-virtualization. Mostly used > on servers. Will be abandoned after squeeze." > The Xen page on the wiki makes no mention of this. Well, I don't know where this conclusion comes from. But usu

Bug#571580: ITP: python-netio230a -- software to control the Koukaam NETIO-230A, a cheap but advanced multiple socket

2010-02-26 Thread Philipp Huebner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philipp Huebner * Package name: python-netio230a Upstream Author : Philipp Klaus * URL : http://github.com/pklaus/netio230a * License : GPL 3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : software to control the Koukaam NETIO-23