Re: up-to-date dump of packages metadata.

2010-11-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:39:31PM -0800, Gustavo Franco wrote: > Would it > be possible to add more fields if passing more flags > ?format=txt.gz&extra_fields=maintainer ... ? IMHO a quite flexible way to get the information you are looking for is querying Ultimate Debian Database. Kind regards

Re: up-to-date dump of packages metadata.

2010-11-10 Thread Gustavo Franco
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:36:23PM -0800, Gustavo Franco wrote: >> Do we have an up-to-date dump of packages metadata (name, version, >> short and long description) somewhere in a similar form popcon is >> generating and keeping its informati

Re: up-to-date dump of packages metadata.

2010-11-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:36:23PM -0800, Gustavo Franco wrote: > Do we have an up-to-date dump of packages metadata (name, version, > short and long description) somewhere in a similar form popcon is > generating and keeping its information available at popcon.debian.org > for download? Do you me

up-to-date dump of packages metadata.

2010-11-10 Thread Gustavo Franco
Do we have an up-to-date dump of packages metadata (name, version, short and long description) somewhere in a similar form popcon is generating and keeping its information available at popcon.debian.org for download? thanks in advance, -- Gustavo "stratus" Franco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#603116: RFP: libx11-xcb-perl -- perl bindings for libxcb

2010-11-10 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libx11-xcb-perl Version : 0.01_006 (not really released yet) Upstream Author : Michael Stapelberg * URL or Web page : http://search.cpan.org/~mstplbg/X11-XCB-0.01_006/lib/X11/XCB.pm.in * License : Artistic Description

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Andres Mejia
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Roger Leigh writes: >>> >>> > A new "aptitude" resolver has been written by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt. >>> > This creates a dummy "depend

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:50:49PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: > > The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you > > describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had > > Which begs the question: why do we e

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 19:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you >> > describe.  (And it really confused me until I figured out wh

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:57:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Roger Leigh writes: > > Just to mention in passing, I also wrote an additional "apt" > > resolver last night, based on the

Bug#603074: ITP: fontchooser -- A Java control to allow font selection.

2010-11-10 Thread Andrew Ross
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ross * Package name: fontchooser Version : 1.0.0 (no upstream versioning) Upstream Author : Dr Christos Bohoris * URL : http://www.connectina.com/components/fontchooser.html * License : LGPL Programming Lang: J

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh writes: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Roger Leigh writes: >> >> > A new "aptitude" resolver has been written by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt. >> > This creates a dummy "dependency package" which is installed and >> > contains Depends and Confli

Re: Debian Web Terminal Kiosk - Graduation Work - Mozambique University UEM

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 07:49:27PM +0200, edelson adriano wrote: > > Greetings Debian Support, Hello Edelson, This list is for development of the distribution, not support. Please email debian-u...@lists.debian.org where I'm sure someone will answer your query. -- Jonathan Wiltshire 4096R:

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: > > The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you > > describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had > > Which begs the question: why do we even have source.list.

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: > The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you > describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had Which begs the question: why do we even have source.list.d/ suport in the first place (or, if it is really useful to other

Bug#603057: ITP: gjacktransport -- standalone application to access the JACK‘s transport mechanism as touchable slider

2010-11-10 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: gjacktransport Version : 0.4.4 Upstream Author : Robin Gareus * URL : http://gjacktransport.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : standalone applicatio

Debian Web Terminal Kiosk - Graduation Work - Mozambique University UEM

2010-11-10 Thread edelson adriano
Greetings Debian Support, My name is Edelson da Costa Adriano and I’m a student from Mozambique, and i writing my graduation work, where is about WEBOS and Terminal Kiosk. And for my presentation I´m going to use a network with 30 computers having the web terminal kiosk inside them, where trough

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
PJ Weisberg wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Don't even think of doing this in a package uploaded to Debian. > > Right. I mentioned it mostly for completness, since it's the answer > to the question that was actually asked. I almost added, "I don't > think any Debian packages actually do this,"

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Roger Leigh writes ("Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies"): > The existing approach to determinism is not to support alternatives > at all, which is clearly not ideal. While I don't think we should > be encouraging the use of alternative build-deps, this is one

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > A new "aptitude" resolver has been written by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt. > > This creates a dummy "dependency package" which is installed and > > contains Depends and Conflicts for all the appropriate B

Bug#603039: ITP: libmonkey-patch-perl -- a scoped monkey-patching Perl module

2010-11-10 Thread USB
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ernesto Hernández-Novich (USB)" * Package name: libmonkey-patch-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Paul Driver * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Monkey-Patch/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Descri

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Reza Alemi writes: > Hello all, > I don't seem to be able to find my answer searching the net, so please > forgive me if my question is too trivial. > > I am packaging a product which is dependent on sun-java6-sdk (upstream > says it won't work with openjdk). in ubuntu, that package is in the > p

Re: testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh writes: > A new "aptitude" resolver has been written by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt. > This creates a dummy "dependency package" which is installed and > contains Depends and Conflicts for all the appropriate Build-Depends > and Build-Conflicts, and uses aptitude to install and remove the

LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring

2010-11-10 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) I'm a member of the LibreOffice community. LibreOffice (LibO) is the office suite project of The Document Foundation (TDF), the community-driven organization that recently forked from the Oracle-managed OpenOffice.org project. TDF/LibO is currently working on its branding and on its artwo