Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-19 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 09:43:45PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > > No. Simply answer the question: Is this VCS used by derived distros, > > > too? If not, it's Debian only. Two examples: The git repository for > > > apt-mirror is used only for Deb

Re: Warm up discussion about desktop files [Was: Lintian check for missing desktop files?]

2011-04-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Sune Vuorela [110419 15:24]: > >> The OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn items should normally not be used, unless there > >> is a tight integration between a DE and the app itself. e.g. a tool to > >> configure the appearance of Plasma should probably have OnlyShowIn=KDE > > > > What exceptions are there? Sh

Re: /run in experimental

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Hood
Resolvconf 1.49, which makes use of /run instead of /lib/init/rw for storing run-time data, has just been uploaded to experimental. Those testing the experimental initscripts package (2.88dsf-13.4) are invited to test this experimental resolvconf package along with it. -- Thomas Hood resolvconf

Re: Packaging cloud-utils in Debian

2011-04-19 Thread Scott Moser
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Thomas Goirand wrote: Sorry for the slow reply. The message kind of got lost. I'm willing to start making cloud-utils "upstream" packages and move the package away from being a native package. Probably the best thing for me to do is to move cloud-utils out of the ubuntu-on-e

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-19 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > No. Simply answer the question: Is this VCS used by derived distros, > > too? If not, it's Debian only. Two examples: The git repository for > > apt-mirror is used only for Debian (there's only the master branch). The > > git repository for vlc is used

Re: (Vcs-Upstream-)Git support for uscan?

2011-04-19 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 09:02:38PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > > How many packages are there that are not using a watch file because > > upstream does not provide usable tarballs (either no tarballs or they > > are behind some changing dy

Re: (Vcs-Upstream-)Git support for uscan?

2011-04-19 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > How many packages are there that are not using a watch file because > upstream does not provide usable tarballs (either no tarballs or they > are behind some changing dynamic web site layout)? quite a few I guess ;-) but for some of them, especia

Bug#623364: ITP: rdiff-backup-fs -- Fuse filesystem for accessing rdiff-backup archives

2011-04-19 Thread Sergio Talens-Oliag
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Sergio Talens-Oliag" * Package name: rdiff-backup-fs Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Filip GruszczyƄski * URL : http://code.google.com/p/rdiff-backup-fs/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : Fu

Re: Warm up discussion about desktop files [Was: Lintian check for missing desktop files?]

2011-04-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:16:23PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:34:43 +0200 > "Bernhard R. Link" wrote: [...] > > And the debian menu has supported translations since longer than .desktop > > files even exist. It just has the strange idea that it might be easier > > for tra

Re: Warm up discussion about desktop files [Was: Lintian check for missing desktop files?]

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:34:43 +0200 "Bernhard R. Link" wrote: > * Neil Williams [110419 12:50]: > > How can the old Debian menu system be considered as "working" when it > > has never supported translation? All those titles and longtitles, not > > a single one can be shown as a translated string.

Bug#623341: ITP: python-mplayer -- Lightweight and dynamic MPlayer wrapper with a Pythonic API

2011-04-19 Thread Olivier Schwander
Package: wnpp Owner: Olivier Schwander Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-mplayer Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Darwin M. Bautista * URL or Web page : http://code.google.com/p/python-mplayer/ * License : LGPL-3.0 Description : Lightweight and dynamic MPlayer

Bug#623339: ITP: ardour3 -- Digital Audio Workstation

2011-04-19 Thread Adrian Knoth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Knoth * Package name: ardour3 Version : 3.0.0 Upstream Author : Paul Davis et al. * URL : http://www.ardour.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Digital Audio Workstation That's versi

Re: Warm up discussion about desktop files [Was: Lintian check for missing desktop files?]

2011-04-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-04-19, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > What about nautilus.desktop's (at least in squeeze): > > Name=File Manager > and no GenericName. Would that be a policy violation? I would consider that a bug. At least my default Plasma Desktop menu shows the menu as GenericName (in black on white) Name

Re: Warm up discussion about desktop files [Was: Lintian check for missing desktop files?]

2011-04-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Sune Vuorela [110419 12:32]: > On 2011-04-19, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Sune Vuorela [110419 09:41]: > >> On 2011-04-18, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > >> > Currently there is none of this[1]. I think it makes no sense to discuss > >> > if things should have desktop files or whether it makes s

Re: Warm up discussion about desktop files [Was: Lintian check for missing desktop files?]

2011-04-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Neil Williams [110419 12:50]: > How can the old Debian menu system be considered as "working" when it > has never supported translation? All those titles and longtitles, not > a single one can be shown as a translated string. Let's not start about longtitles, those "Comment"s found in .desktop

Re: Warm up discussion about desktop files [Was: Lintian check for missing desktop files?]

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:50:29 +0200 "Bernhard R. Link" wrote: > * Andreas Tille [110418 15:33]: > > As far as I understood [1] fvwm 2.6 now can use XDG menus. So it might > > be that even fvwm users will be happy about desktop files. Can we now > > come back to the discussion whether it might m

Re: Warm up discussion about desktop files [Was: Lintian check for missing desktop files?]

2011-04-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-04-19, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Sune Vuorela [110419 09:41]: >> On 2011-04-18, Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> > Currently there is none of this[1]. I think it makes no sense to discuss >> > if things should have desktop files or whether it makes sense to >> > remove the old working system

Re: Warm up discussion about desktop files [Was: Lintian check for missing desktop files?]

2011-04-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Sune Vuorela [110419 09:41]: > On 2011-04-18, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > Currently there is none of this[1]. I think it makes no sense to discuss > > if things should have desktop files or whether it makes sense to > > remove the old working system. > > what do you miss from the xdg specs? Th

Re: Warm up discussion about desktop files [Was: Lintian check for missing desktop files?]

2011-04-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-04-18, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Currently there is none of this[1]. I think it makes no sense to discuss > if things should have desktop files or whether it makes sense to > remove the old working system. what do you miss from the xdg specs? /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

(Vcs-Upstream-)Git support for uscan?

2011-04-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Evgeni Golov writes: > We (lindi, liw and me) had just a short discussion in #-devel, that it > would be nice to have some sort of Vcs-Upstream-* in debian/control How many packages are there that are not using a watch file because upstream does not provide usable tarballs (either no tarballs or