Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Scott Kitterman [110318 15:30]: > Since they would have had to enable non-free, suprise would not be an > appropriate reaction. Again, just because they had to enable non-free does not mean it should change the semantics of anything else. Non-free is not there for some hypothetical "non-free ju

Trains from Debconf to Munich, Koeln, Paris, London, Cambridge

2011-03-18 Thread Ian Jackson
I'm going to Debconf by train. Having done my research, I now know which trains I'm going to be on. On the way out I will be taking a day to look around Sarajevo by myself, which produces quite a detour. On the way back I will depart on Sunday at 15:42 and be travelling straight back via Zagreb

Re: Bug#617999: Please include link to general info in each lists page

2011-03-18 Thread Cord Beermann
Hallo! Du (Michelle Konzack) hast geschrieben: > it would be nice, if could implement an autoresponder > for peoles sending messages to lists without being subscribed. > > This message should only send one time per year and contain usefull > links based on the mailinglist, the FAQ and the C

Bug#618807: RFP: icinga-web -- host and network monitoring system - modern web interface

2011-03-18 Thread Roman V. Nikolaev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: icinga-web Version: 1.3.0 Upstream Author: Icinga Team URL: http://www.icinga.org/about/icingaweb/ URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/icinga/files/icinga-web/1.3

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:40:41PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Marcin Owsiany writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:29:57PM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > >> How are others doing it? > > > > Thanks for all the responses (I never expected to start such a big > > discussion - it mu

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 18 mars 2011 à 15:35 +0100, Olaf van der Spek a écrit : > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > >> Like say: In 10+ years I have never ever seen a single rar file > >> unrar-free could unpack but thousands that needed unrar/rar. > > > > If that was true then unrar

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> Like say: In 10+ years I have never ever seen a single rar file >> unrar-free could unpack but thousands that needed unrar/rar. > > If that was true then unrar-free should be dropped and everything > depending on it be removed, too, or mo

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, March 18, 2011 10:10:49 am Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Goswin von Brederlow [110318 14:38]: > > And as long as it works I see no reason why a maintainer should not be > > allowed to put the non-free dep first in alternatives if there is a good > > reason. > > Debian makes some promises

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Goswin von Brederlow [110318 14:38]: > And as long as it works I see no reason why a maintainer should not be > allowed to put the non-free dep first in alternatives if there is a good > reason. Debian makes some promises to users. Suprisingly getting non-free software installed is definitely n

Bug#618789: ITP: r-cran-stabledist -- Stable distribution functions

2011-03-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-stabledist Version : 0.6-0 Upstream Author : Diethelm Wuertz and Martin Maechler * URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/stabledist/index.html * License : GPL (>= 2) Desc

Re: Bug#617999: Please include link to general info in each lists page

2011-03-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Alexander Wirt, Am 2011-03-18 07:10:41, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Michelle Konzack schrieb am Thursday, den 17. March 2011: > > Hello Andrei Popescu and Listmasters, > > it would be nice, if could implement an autoresponder > > for peoles sending messages to lists without being subs

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marcin Owsiany writes: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:29:57PM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: >> How are others doing it? > > Thanks for all the responses (I never expected to start such a big > discussion - it must have been a while since I last read debian-devel), > and especially for the pointer to

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow [110317 22:10]: >> My metric here is clearly the functionality for the user. > > Being able to modify it or get help with the package (which needs > people being able and willing to look at the source and fix problems) > is a very important par

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > I recently had a situation where I was doing a backup to a USB flash > > device and I decided to install some Debian packages. The sync() > > didn't complete until the backup completed because the write-back > > buffers were never empty! > >

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker writes: > I recently had a situation where I was doing a backup to a USB flash device > and I decided to install some Debian packages. The sync() didn't complete > until the backup completed because the write-back buffers were never empty! Which is odd because I've used sync() w

Bug#618774: ITP: cctools -- cooperative computing tools

2011-03-18 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke * Package name: cctools Version : 3.3.0 Upstream Author : Douglas Thain * URL : http://nd.edu/~ccl/software/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C, Python Description : cooperative computing tools T

Bug#618769: ITP: logreq -- LaTeX compiling helper

2011-03-18 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm * Package name: logreq Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Philipp Lehman * URL : http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/logreq/ * License : LPPL Programming Lang: LaTeX Description : LaT

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
"Bernhard R. Link" wrote: * Goswin von Brederlow [110317 22:10]: > My metric here is clearly the functionality for the user. Being able to modify it or get help with the package (which needs people being able and willing to look at the source and fix problems) is a very important part of func

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Goswin von Brederlow [110317 22:10]: > My metric here is clearly the functionality for the user. Being able to modify it or get help with the package (which needs people being able and willing to look at the source and fix problems) is a very important part of functionality of the user. > If n

Re: Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?

2011-03-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
To recap, there was some discussion about whether a versioned Pre-Depends on dpkg-maintscript-helper [dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2)] is a good idea for packages in wheezy, with no definite conclusion. The main complication was such Pre-Depends are not needed for squeezy-to-wheezy upgrades. Still I believe a

Bug#618758: ITP: compass-slickmap-plugin -- Compass plugin implementing SlickMapCSS sitemap

2011-03-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: compass-slickmap-plugin Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Thomas Reynolds * URL : https://github.com/tdreyno/compass-slickmap * License : None Programming Lang: SCSS, Ruby Description