Re: How to become a contributor?

2011-05-19 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Hi, I would like to contribute more than just being a passive reader of the email lists and submitting bugs. there is also always to little manpower in the translations teams. Cheers, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Sponsorship in Debian (Re: Ubuntu-originated packages in Debian (Re: ubuntu keyring?))

2011-05-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 20/05/11 at 10:23 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Chose a specific person to mentor, review their packages, educate them > about Debian, upload their packages when ready and encourage them join > DM/NM. Rinse, repeat. I think that one clear message to send to new contributors is that they should look

Sponsorship in Debian (Re: Ubuntu-originated packages in Debian (Re: ubuntu keyring?))

2011-05-19 Thread Paul Wise
The situation with sponsoring in Debian is not specific to packages from derivatives. Lets move the discussion about how it could be improved to debian-devel, please reply there. For those not subscribed to the debian-derivatives list, here is the mail that started the thread: http://lists.debian.

Bug#627360: ITP: ruby-echoe -- A Rubygems packaging tool that provides common Rake tasks

2011-05-19 Thread Clint Byrum
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Clint Byrum * Package name: ruby-echoe Version : 4.5.6 Upstream Author : Evan Weaver, Cloudburst, LLC * URL : http://fauna.github.com/fauna/echoe/ * License : AFL-3.0 Programming Lang: Ruby Description : A Rubygem

Re: How to become a contributor?

2011-05-19 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On 2011-05-19 23:36, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a GNU/Debian user for a long time now, after trying out > Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, Mandriva, Debian, etc. Now, I'm stuck at Debian, > which I find the best distribution not limited to GNU/Linux. > > I would like to contribute more tha

Re: How to become a contributor?

2011-05-19 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a GNU/Debian user for a long time now, after trying out > Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, Mandriva, Debian, etc. Now, I'm stuck at Debian, > which I find the best distribution not limited  to GNU/Linux. > > I would like to contribu

How to become a contributor?

2011-05-19 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, I've been a GNU/Debian user for a long time now, after trying out Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, Mandriva, Debian, etc. Now, I'm stuck at Debian, which I find the best distribution not limited to GNU/Linux. I would like to contribute more than just being a passive reader of the email lists and subm

FW: Squeeze...we might just be friends after all

2011-05-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
I you might want to know :) - Forwarded message from Mark - Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 00:25:32 -0700 From: Mark To: Debian List Subject: Squeeze...we might just be friends after all Did my first Lenny to Squeeze upgrade tonight on a laptop. Following every detail of the release notes, i

Re: Bug#626789: xserver-xorg: xserver crashes randomly

2011-05-19 Thread Andreas Theofilu
Am Montag 16 Mai 2011, 16:44:01 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > severity 626789 important > thanks > > Please try and get a full backtrace: > http://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/report-bugs.html > http://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/use-gdb.html > Here is a full backtrace as described in t

Bug#627330: ITP: ruby-rubyforge -- A script which automates a limited set of rubyforge operations

2011-05-19 Thread Clint Byrum
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Clint Byrum * Package name: ruby-rubyforge Version : 2.0.4 Upstream Author : Ryan Davis * URL : http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/rubyforge/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : A script which au

Bug#627328: ITP: ruby-hoe -- a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles

2011-05-19 Thread Clint Byrum
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Clint Byrum * Package name: ruby-hoe Version : 2.9.4 Upstream Author : Ryan Davis * URL : http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : a rake/rubygems helper for projec

Re: Anyone looking at darcs?

2011-05-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Sandro Tosi writes ("Re: Anyone looking at darcs?"): > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 13:00, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe > wrote: > > You are sharing good info, but you could have been more kind. I agree. > from a guy (co)maintaining 22 packages in main you could expect more > than that. and where was rudene

Bug#627316: ITP: haskell-blaze-html -- HTML combinator library for Haskell

2011-05-19 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: haskell-blaze-html Version: 0.4.1.1 Upstream Author: Jasper Van der Jeugt URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/blaze-html License: BSD Description: HTML combinator libr

Re: Suspend/Hibernate Resume in debian

2011-05-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:53 +0700, Arief M Utama wrote: > Hi all, > > > First, I gotta say thanks for the awesome work in debian. I'm not a DD, > just a long time debian user, been using it since potato era (wow, > that's a long time) and I could testify that it has been a fun and > joyful rid

Re: Anyone looking at darcs?

2011-05-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:39:11PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 13:00, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe > wrote: > > You are sharing good info, but you could have been more kind. I guess Tshepang meant "kind" = "hand holding". The burden of learning such basics lies with the con

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-05-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Julian Andres Klode writes ("Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}"): > So we'd need one supporter now to speak up in order to get a neutral > level again. The purpose of the policy rule asking for consensus here is to not to count people on one side or the other. We don't ha

Re: Anyone looking at darcs?

2011-05-19 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 14:22, Peter Miller wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:39 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> and where was rudeness? > >> should I add flowers and kisses to emails? > ^^^ > This.  This is rudeness. oh really? thanks for letting me know. >

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?"): > Changing the uid of the calling application is *not* an acceptable side > effect for a library and I can't imagine how anyone could believe that it > is. Unfortunately that seems to leave nss_ldap caught between an SSL > implementat

Re: Anyone looking at darcs?

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Miller
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:39 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > and where was rudeness? > should I add flowers and kisses to emails? ^^^ This. This is rudeness. Lose the sarcasm, if you wish to communicate more effectively. -- Peter Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#437177: ta-lib -- common functions for the technical analysis of financial market data

2011-05-19 Thread Ondřej Surý
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ondřej Surý" Marco, I'll be your sponsor, but you have to fix current lintian errors and warnings: $ lintian ta-lib_0.4.0-2.1_amd64.changes E: ta-lib source: weak-library-dev-dependency ta-lib0-dev on libta-lib0 (>= ${binary:Version}) W: ta-lib source:

Re: Anyone looking at darcs?

2011-05-19 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 13:00, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > You are sharing good info, but you could have been more kind. from a guy (co)maintaining 22 packages in main you could expect more than that. and where was rudeness? should I add flowers and kisses to emails? -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph

Re: Anyone looking at darcs?

2011-05-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 08:31 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 00:10, Erik de Castro Lopo > wrote: > > Is anyone looking at getting the latest version of darcs into unstable? > > > > If not, I will have a crack at it. > > Why didn't you ask its maintainers (or at least cc them)?

Re: httpd-cgi is it really CGI or maybe *CGI instead

2011-05-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:51:23PM +0400, Anton Martchukov wrote: > 1. Virtual package httpd-cgi is this only plain CGI or also > can be FactCGI too? In case with nginx, it does not support > plain old CGI, but does support FastCGI (plus SCGI and WSGI). http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/