Re: Bug#637892: ITP: python-formalchemy -- auto-generation and customizable form

2011-08-16 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Hi, > By the way, this package seems in requested packages list. here is the > bug. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526936 > > As a new maintainer, I'm not so sure what need to do next, any help > will be appreciated. As there was already a RFP, you should have not opened a

Re: gnome unstable hanging? gnome-utils vs g-c-c

2011-08-16 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 17 Aug 2011, Josselin Mouette wrote: > It is unfortunate that gnome-utils was uploaded too soon. Actually only > gnome-font-viewer is uninstallable, the other packages from gnome-utils > are not. Thanks for the explanation, that is fine with me. Best wishes Norbert ---

Re: gnome unstable hanging? gnome-utils vs g-c-c

2011-08-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 17 août 2011 à 06:48 +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : > I wanted to ask what is going on with the gnome-utils 3.0 in unstable > that is not actually installable, because gnome-control-center from > experimental is needed. I see that the last updated to g-c-c was > in April, so I assum

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Ben Hutchings wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > Are people who are proposing that we change these programs proposing we > > build a new package with binaries of those same names and use > > alternatives? That Debian fork gzip? Something else? > > I propose that we provide a separate package cont

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Roger Lynn
On 16/08/11 00:10, Carsten Hey wrote: > bzip2 has a better compression on average for some filetypes, xz[1] has > a better compression on average for others: > >gzip bzip2 xz bzip2+xz[3] > text files[2] 94312922 73496587 77783076 73496587 > other files

gnome unstable hanging? gnome-utils vs g-c-c

2011-08-16 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi, I wanted to ask what is going on with the gnome-utils 3.0 in unstable that is not actually installable, because gnome-control-center from experimental is needed. I see that the last updated to g-c-c was in April, so I assume that there is something strange going on. Can one of the maintainers

Re: RFC: dpatch - past, present and future

2011-08-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Sandro Tosi writes: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 22:54, Gergely Nagy > wrote: >> Something like a dpatch2quilt thing. While I haven't verified it yet, >> I'm fairly sure most dpatches out there actually use the default >> template, which is trivial to convert to quilt, preserving metadata and >> al

Re: RFC: dpatch - past, present and future

2011-08-16 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 22:54, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Something like a dpatch2quilt thing. While I haven't verified it yet, > I'm fairly sure most dpatches out there actually use the default > template, which is trivial to convert to quilt, preserving metadata and > all. there's already: /usr/shar

Re: RFC: dpatch - past, present and future

2011-08-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> As for the future: I still believe dpatch is a temporary solution, and >> that better tools exist now. Therefore, it is my long-term plan to >> slowly deprecate dpatch, and eventually make it gracefully leave the >> arc

Re: RFC: dpatch - past, present and future

2011-08-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Gergely Nagy wrote: > As for the future: I still believe dpatch is a temporary solution, and > that better tools exist now. Therefore, it is my long-term plan to > slowly deprecate dpatch, and eventually make it gracefully leave the > archive. How do you plan to do this?

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Adam Borowski [Tue, Aug 16 2011, 12:18:40PM]: > "zcat" already supports multiple formats: gzip and compress, it's just that > support for uncompressing the latter is included in gzip's binary. Since > it's not called "gzcat" but generic "zcat", I think that's a better idea > than prol

RFC: dpatch - past, present and future

2011-08-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! Some of you may have heard of this ancient beast called 'dpatch'[1], some of you might have noticed that it's been recentishly orphaned[2], and that someone (hi!) intends to pick it up[3]. The past My involvement with dpatch goes back a loong long time, and I feel somewhat responsib

Re: e2dis: a Jigdo-like tool for Ext2+ FS images

2011-08-16 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Steve McIntyre writes: > Ivan Shmakov wrote: BTW, the primary Git repository for the project is now located at Gitorious: git://gitorious.org/e2dis/e2dis-devel.git http://gitorious.org/e2dis/e2dis-devel.git https://gitorious.org/e2dis/e2dis-devel The most notab

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Adam Borowski , 2011-08-16, 12:18: zcat and zless are nothing but thin shell wrappers over "gzip -cd", without loads of extra functionality lesspipe has. I'd turn them into a C program linked against zlib (priority: required), liblzma2 (priority: required) and libbz2 (priority: important, mig

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adam Borowski writes: > > > On the other hand, zcat and zless are nothing but thin shell wrappers > > over "gzip -cd", without loads of extra functionality lesspipe has. I'd > > turn them into a C program linked against zlib (priori

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > On the other hand, zcat and zless are nothing but thin shell wrappers > over "gzip -cd", without loads of extra functionality lesspipe has. I'd > turn them into a C program linked against zlib (priority: required), > liblzma2 (priority: required) and libbz2 (priority: imp

Re: Introduction of a "lock" group

2011-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:19:05AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Makes sense that tmpfiles.d comes from systemd, if he's trying to get > away from shell scripts. But for those who think it's annoying to have > to put 3 separate steps in your init script 'start' section (mkdir -p, > chown, chmod)

Re: Introduction of a "lock" group

2011-08-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 at 11:19:05 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > But for those who think it's annoying to have > to put 3 separate steps in your init script 'start' section (mkdir -p, > chown, chmod), I'd like to point out that you may as well just use > install -d, and do it all in one step. ... a

Re: Introduction of a "lock" group

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roger Leigh] > tmpfiles.d comes from systemd, but we could adopt the concept > without systemd being involved. If we didn't adopt tmpfiles.d, > it would be the responsibility of the init script to create > the necessary directories. Makes sense that tmpfiles.d comes from systemd, if he's trying

Re: Introduction of a "lock" group

2011-08-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 07:36:26PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:00:50PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 05:35:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 04:11:49PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > Are these any other downsides we ne

Re: Introduction of a "lock" group

2011-08-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:03:59PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 04:11:49PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Fedora has moved to having /var/lock (now /run/lock) owned by > > root:lock 0775 rather than root:root 01777. This has the advantage > > of making a sys

Bug#637613: base: Linux console can't display Korean when the system locale is Korean.

2011-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
> Hughe Chung wrote: > > When the user selects only Korean language from installer and install only > > standard system > > the console can't display Korean messages at all. > > > > This is very serious problem for Korean users. Amaya, le Mon 15 Aug 2011 10:10:09 +0200, a écrit : > reassign 637

Re: mentors.debian.net runs the debexpo code now

2011-08-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Ian Jackson wrote: Asheesh Laroia writes ("mentors.debian.net runs the debexpo code now"): It's live: http://mentors.debian.net/ Thanks, this looks very cool. I have a question, from the point of view of a potential sponsor/mentor. How can I tell the "status" of each of

Re: Release Update: Goals, Arches, Rolling, Removals

2011-08-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 13 août 2011 à 21:59 +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > If you decide to NMU without delay a package maintained by me[0], please > don't bother doing it, but orphan the package instead. I won't be > interested in maintaining such a package anymore. I don’t understand this kind of reaction

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-08-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Stig Sandbeck Mathisen , 2011-08-16, 14:32: I'd like to see hgweb repo browser any time soon, too. It's very annoying that it doesn't work any more. If you don't make the alioth admins guess which URLs work or not, things may actually be fixed. :) There's nothing to guess here. None of htt

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-08-16 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
"O. Andrew" writes: > I'd like to see hgweb repo browser any time soon, too. It's very > annoying that it doesn't work any more. If you don't make the alioth admins guess which URLs work or not, things may actually be fixed. :) -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:43:39 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-08-15 23:29:17 -0400, James Vega wrote: >> You mean like lesspipe(1)? Seems like it might need to be updated to >> handle *.xz, but other than that looks like it fits the bill. > > lesspipe(1) from the less package is

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-15 23:29:17 -0400, James Vega wrote: > You mean like lesspipe(1)? Seems like it might need to be updated to > handle *.xz, but other than that looks like it fits the bill. lesspipe(1) from the less package is a bit primitive. How about using Wolfgang Friebel's version, which already su

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:50:49AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:08:45 +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > FWIW, if you the following in your bashrc: > > > > if [ -f /usr/bin/lesspipe ]; then > > I would use the -x expression instead ;-) > > And I would also say that

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 04:44:07PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > Am 16.08.2011 02:43, schrieb Russell Coker: > >> I'd like to see zless work transparently with bzip and xz compressed > >> files. > >> There's really no need for three different wrapper programs when the zless > >> program can

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:08:45 +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Am 16.08.2011 02:43, schrieb Russell Coker: > >> I'd like to see zless work transparently with bzip and xz compressed files. >> There's really no need for three different wrapper programs when the zless >> program

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:08:45AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Am 16.08.2011 02:43, schrieb Russell Coker: > > > I'd like to see zless work transparently with bzip and xz compressed files. > > > > There's really no need for three different wrapper programs when the zless > > prog

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 16/08/2011 16:08, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Am 16.08.2011 02:43, schrieb Russell Coker: > >> I'd like to see zless work transparently with bzip and xz compressed files. >> There's really no need for three different wrapper programs when the zless >> program can just consult

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 16.08.2011 02:43, schrieb Russell Coker: > I'd like to see zless work transparently with bzip and xz compressed files. > There's really no need for three different wrapper programs when the zless > program can just consult the magic db to determine which decompression > program > to u

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-08-16 Thread O. Andrew
I'd like to see hgweb repo browser any time soon, too. It's very annoying that it doesn't work any more. -- WBR, Andrew On 5/28/11, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Bernd Zeimetz may or may not have written... > > [snip] >> Please provide a proper gitweb instance or at least a proxy at that u

Re: Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

2011-08-16 Thread Keng-Yu Lin
2011/8/13 Andrea Bolognani : > I believe you could achieve the same effect using a combination of > triggerhappy and the aforementioned rfkill, and I don’t like the idea > of having a special daemon running to handle a subset of the special > keys when there’s a more general solution to the problem