Work-needing packages report for Sep 3, 2010

2010-09-02 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: 564 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 133 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Re: License of a patch

2010-09-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, D M German wrote: > After my presentation at DebConf this year I was pointed to your efforts > on the Patch Tagging Guidelines. > > One thing I believe would be useful is if the patch included a > license. The simplest license would be "Same as patched code" but it >

Re: on the role of debian among its derivatives

2010-09-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > You assume that, if we disable most of the columns, people will think > "it's surprising that this interface doesn't do more, let's search the > hidden options for more features", and thus add the additional columns > they want. I don't think that i

Bug#595292: ITP: daisy-player -- player for Daisy talking books (DTB)

2010-09-02 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Gevers -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: daisy-player Version : 4.0.2 Upstream Author : Jos Lemmens * URL : http://web.inter.nl.net/users/lemmensj/ * License : GPL version 2 or higher

Bug#595286: ITP: barebox -- Barebox (u-boot-v2) is a bootloader.

2010-09-02 Thread Hector Oron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hector Oron * Package name: barebox Version : 2010.09 Upstream Author : Sascha Hauer * URL : http://www.barebox.org/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description : Barebox (formerly known as u-boot-v2) is a

Bug#595284: ITP: xul-ext-cacheviewer -- this extenion is gui front-end of "about:cache"

2010-09-02 Thread Roman V. Nikolaev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: xul-ext-cacheviewer Version: 0.6.3 Upstream Author: Tiny Benki URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/2489/ License: MPL-1.1 Description: This extenion is GUI Fro

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Le mercredi 01 septembre 2010 à 17:40 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton a écrit : > i leave you with this: the idea of the "Freedom Box" caused quite a > stir at debconf2010, but i honestly doubt that, without any experience > of getting *yourselves* off of the client-server paradigm, there

Distributed bugtracker - Was: Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Le mercredi 01 septembre 2010 à 17:40 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton a écrit : > > * again: ikiwiki or something similar could well be used as the basis > for a distributed bugtracker. > I'd suggest you have a look at the SD tool and the incoming debbugs support for it developped by C

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Oscar Morante wrote: > Have you seen this project [1]? It looks like they have been already > thinking about the git+bittorrent idea. > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/ yes. it's effectively shelved. the name "gittorrent" was abandoned and the name "mi

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Oscar Morante
Have you seen this project [1]? It looks like they have been already thinking about the git+bittorrent idea. [1] http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/ -- Oscar Morante "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Bug#595240: ITP: salome-code-aster -- Salome-Meca platform : Code_Aster modulus

2010-09-02 Thread trophime
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: trophime * Package name: salome-code-aster Version : 5.1.3 Upstream Author : EDF (Electricité de France) * URL : http://www.code-aster.org/ * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: Python Description : Salome-Meca

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Just - Wow... thanks! > > Hopefully digesting of this tasty post would not cause too much of farting ;-) :) > seems might be worth adding (if I am not missing the point), then the > concept of "derivatives" would then converge finally