Mentors BoF at DebConf (was: Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages))

2010-06-16 Thread Tim Retout
On 16 June 2010 03:21, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Tim Retout wrote: > >> (Advance warning: I'm interested in discussing the mentoring process >> at DebConf.) > > Please register a BoF in penta about it to give folks more advance warning. I've now submitted a BoF for DebC

Processed: Re: Please Recommend default-mta | m-t-a, not exim4 | m-t-a

2010-06-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

2010-06-16 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Tim Retout wrote: > On 15 June 2010 21:59, Neil Williams wrote: > > Encouraging maintainers to invest their time in QA > > makes more sense than adding more NEW packages to become the QA > > workload of the future. Directing everyone at NEW is counter-productive > > and

Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs

2010-06-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > For a QA package, a non-developer must improve existing packaging and > then find a sponsor. If the packager demonstrates suitable aptitude with > their changes, the sponsor could support setting DMUA for that package. Uh, the current impleme

Re: Automatically installing hardware specific packages

2010-06-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 21:33 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Petter Reinholdtsen] > > Are there better ways to do this? Anyone willing to work on it? > > One alternative would be to move the information out of the > discover-data package, and into the Packages file instead, similar to > how I

Re: Hydra is not really free

2010-06-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Hans-J. Ullrich" writes: > Hi guys! Good news! > > Hydra is now beeing maintained again, and it is now free! Thanks to its > maintainer, hydra is now set under the GPLV3. > > Yeah! > > Please take a look: > > http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra/ > > Maybe you might want to put it back into deb

Bug#586153: ITP: jcsp -- Java library providing Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) features

2010-06-16 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miguel Landaeta * Package name: jcsp Version : 1.1-rc4 Upstream Author : Peter Welch, Paul Austin * URL : http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/ofa/jcsp/ * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: Java Description : Java

Re: Automatically installing hardware specific packages

2010-06-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 16 juin 2010 à 21:33 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : > > Fedora 13 provides PackageKit to install hardware specific packages > > after installation. Perhaps we should extend the discover system to > > listen to DBus events and install hardware packages also after > > installation?

Re: Automatically installing hardware specific packages

2010-06-16 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 22:23:54 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Julien Cristau] > > We did something like that in lenny (not in the Packages file, but > > same basic idea), to get X to choose the right driver. It turns out > > it's a pain to maintain, and doesn't really work all that well.

Re: Automatically installing hardware specific packages

2010-06-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Julien Cristau] > We did something like that in lenny (not in the Packages file, but > same basic idea), to get X to choose the right driver. It turns out > it's a pain to maintain, and doesn't really work all that well. Why was it a pain to maintain? I can imagine it is a pain if there is no a

Re: Automatically installing hardware specific packages

2010-06-16 Thread Bjørn Mork
Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > [Petter Reinholdtsen] >> Are there better ways to do this? Anyone willing to work on it? > > One alternative would be to move the information out of the > discover-data package, and into the Packages file instead, similar to > how Iceweasel[1] and Moonlight[2] might

Re: Automatically installing hardware specific packages

2010-06-16 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 21:33:52 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The idea I got was to add headers like this to the package supporting > specific hardware, and use this information to look up the USB and PCI > ids present in the machine: > > Xb-Hardware-Bus-PCI: 1af4:1002 > Xb-Hardware-Bu

call for python/pylons hackers

2010-06-16 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:13:35AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote [edited]: > Some of the above is part of the proposed design for debexpo, which > really needs folks to step up and work on it (hint hint). No need for subtlety. debexpo is dead: it hasn't had a commit in 11 months. debexpo needs a new pro

Re: Automatically installing hardware specific packages

2010-06-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > Are there better ways to do this? Anyone willing to work on it? One alternative would be to move the information out of the discover-data package, and into the Packages file instead, similar to how Iceweasel[1] and Moonlight[2] might find their plugins and codec packages,

Re: Bug#586132: ITP: indicator-messages -- indicator that collects messages that need a response

2010-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/16/2010 12:41 PM, Evgeni Golov wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: The Ayatana Packagers * Package name: indicator-messages Version : 0.3.7 Upstream Author : Ted Gould * URL : https://launchpad.net/indicator-messages * License : LGPL Prog

re: Hydra is not really free

2010-06-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi guys! Good news! Hydra is now beeing maintained again, and it is now free! Thanks to its maintainer, hydra is now set under the GPLV3. Yeah! Please take a look: http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra/ Maybe you might want to put it back into debian? Would be nice. Cheers Hans -- To UNSU

Bug#586132: ITP: indicator-messages -- indicator that collects messages that need a response

2010-06-16 Thread Evgeni Golov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: The Ayatana Packagers * Package name: indicator-messages Version : 0.3.7 Upstream Author : Ted Gould * URL : https://launchpad.net/indicator-messages * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : indicator t

Bug#586110: ITP: mumps-metis -- Mumps library with METIS support

2010-06-16 Thread trophime
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: trophime * Package name: mumps-metis Version : 4.9.2 Upstream Author : Patrick Amestoy et al. * URL : http://mumps.enseeiht.fr/ * License : public domain Programming Lang: C, Fortran Description : Mumps library w

Bug#586108: ITP: mooproxy -- A buffering proxy for moo-connections

2010-06-16 Thread Marcel Moreaux
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcel Moreaux * Package name: mooproxy Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Marcel Moreaux * URL : http://qvdr.net/software/#mooproxy * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : A buffering proxy for moo-c

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joachim Breitner] > What do you think? To me, installing libnss-myshostname by default sound like a good idea. Perhaps only in the laptop task as a start? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-16 Thread Thomas Hood
One reason for resolving the system hostname to 127.0.1.1 in an NSS service is that this allows us to list that service last on the "hosts:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf, thus making 127.0.1.1 the resolved address of last resort, coming after addresses resolved via /etc/hosts and/or DNS. Please

Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs

2010-06-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On 16/06/2010 08:13, Neil Williams wrote: > I think we have to consider redirecting new volunteers AWAY from > assuming that their work must centre on a NEW package and make it > equally (or even more) likely that new people get to learn their craft > on existing, orphaned, packages. After all, the

Re: Indicator applets and related packages

2010-06-16 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le mercredi 16 juin 2010 à 12:01 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > I'm not familiar with Ubuntu's languages packs so I can't contribute > much > on this topic but it would be nice if Ubuntu could create/use them > without > having to modify the Debian source packages. Hi, The "run intltool-upda

Re: Indicator applets and related packages

2010-06-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Could you avoid changing the packaging system when you take things to > Debian? We do use cdbs for those because it makes easier some of the > things we are doing, we could need to add a diff back for langpacks > translations for example over your

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-16 Thread Brian May
On 14 June 2010 22:13, Adam Borowski wrote: >> For me, bindv6only=0 seems like an ugly hack designed to make existing >> applications work without change. > > "without change"?  Except, you know, the whole conversion from gethostname() > and friends to getaddrinfo()?  V4-mapped addresses won't sho

Bug#586069: ITP: libdbusmenu -- library for passing menus over DBus

2010-06-16 Thread Evgeni Golov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: The Ayatana Packagers * Package name: libdbusmenu Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Ted Gould * URL : https://launchpad.net/dbusmenu * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : library for passing menus ove

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-16 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Jakub Wilk, 2010-06-15] > I consider QA/adoption uploads without DD assistance unacceptable. +1 -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7

Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

2010-06-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:59:04 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:50:28AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > What about if Debian QA packages were all to be deemed suitable for > > DM upload, including those which have been orphaned for over 2 > > months without a change of maint