Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Raphaël, Thanks for looking at ways to improve the dpkg-source experience. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:53:03AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > b/ modify dpkg-source --before-build to keep a trace of the fact that >it applied the patches (for example by creating >.pc/dpkg-source-auto-app

Re: How Debian Deals with Data

2011-07-15 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Christopher, On 16.07.2011 00:20, Christopher Baines wrote: > The actual package would just contain the rules and checksums for the > files it tries to fetch, but not the data itself, I think of this as a > symbolic package. This approach in my opi

Re: How Debian Deals with Data

2011-07-15 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:20:09PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote: [...] > Any thoughts, or have I found a non-existent problem? A very-existent problem (the scientific package maintainers deal with this at least as much as the games package maintainers from what I gather). It's come up a lot ove

Bug#634008: ITP: ioping -- Simple disk I/O latency measuring tool

2011-07-15 Thread Apollon Oikonomopoulos
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Apollon Oikonomopoulos * Package name: ioping Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Konstantin Khlebnikov * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ioping * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : Simple disk I/O lat

How Debian Deals with Data

2011-07-15 Thread Christopher Baines
Hello All, I currently have two packages in the archive, one small ant related package (ant-contrib-cpptasks) and a FlightGear related package (fgrun). But its the FlightGear packaging I want to talk about. For those of you that have yet to enjoy playing with FlightGear, its a very flexible and

Bug#634003: ITP: conky-all -- highly configurable system monitor (all features enabled)

2011-07-15 Thread Vincent Cheng
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Cheng * Package name: conky-all Version : 1.8.1 Upstream Author : Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. * URL : http://conky.sf.net/ * License : GPL3, BSD Programming Lang: C, Lua Description : highly

Improving package descriptions (I)

2011-07-15 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Hi, some time ago I read a post of the DPL regarding enhancing package description quality. Bug reports from translators should be a means for achieving this goal. (quoting from the developer's reference, section 8.4:) Best current practice concerning l10n ... As a tra

Bug#633953: ITP: tyxml -- typed XML in OCaml

2011-07-15 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Stéphane Glondu" * Package name: tyxml Version : 1.91 Upstream Author : Thorsten Ohl, Vincent Balat, and others * URL : http://ocsigen.org/tyxml/install * License : LGPL Programming Lang: OCaml Description : type

Re: Offer to take over sdlperl package

2011-07-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Wednesday 13 July 2011 16:01:26, Jon Dowland a écrit : > Shortly, the Debian Games Team will be co-opting the sdl maintainers team, > which is all but defunct. > > We would welcome you into the team if you would like to help to co-maintain > sdlperl: how does that sound? Great ! :-) I'll mai