Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Bernd Zeimetz (be...@bzed.de): > It should as it means that it will be a PITA to find patches which were > applied > in Ubuntu and should be applied in Debian, too - or it means that we'll just > recreate the same patches as they are hidden somewhere in the mess Ubuntu made > without talk

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/03/2011 06:03 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > At the same time, I've been glad that particular user didn't conclude > that Debian sucks at maintaining packages just because the maintainer of > $foo did. Surely, I wouldn't have spent my time explaining to him what > was going on and how he co

FTBFS bugs against binary packages

2011-12-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hello, we are seeing an increasing number of users in #debian-next asking about FTBFS bugs that are reported by apt-listbugs during upgrades. Most of those users are not familiar with acronyms such as FTBFS or if these bugs apply to their setup. The underlying problem seems to be that a subset of

Bug#650842: ITP: libbfio -- basic file input/output abstraction

2011-12-03 Thread Julien Valroff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Forensics * Package name: libbfio Version : 20111031 Upstream Author : Name * URL : http://libbfio.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : basic file input/output abstraction

Re: Donation

2011-12-03 Thread Andreas Moog
On 12/03/2011 09:52 PM, Daniel Martí wrote: > Scam in french, asking for money. Is there any way to avoid spam in this > list? For starters, by not including a fullquote of the SPAM. Then by following http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.html#ads Cheers, Andreas signature.asc Description:

Re: Donation

2011-12-03 Thread Daniel Martí
Scam in french, asking for money. Is there any way to avoid spam in this list? Nadia Dubois wrote: >Bonjour > >N'ayez aucune crainte, car avant de vous contacter j'ai prié pendant >plusieurs nuits pour que le seigneur Jésus Christ puisse m'accorder le >contact d'une personne de confiance à qui

Donation

2011-12-03 Thread Nadia Dubois
Bonjour N'ayez aucune crainte, car avant de vous contacter j'ai prié pendant plusieurs nuits pour que le seigneur Jésus Christ puisse m'accorder le contact d'une personne de confiance à qui je pourrai confier cette affaire et c'est à la suite de cela que je vous contact. Je tiens aussi dans

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-03 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-12-03, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 18:58:55 + (UTC), Philipp Kern > wrote: >>On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber wrote: >>> I also support this and think it is a really good idea. But please >>> keep x.y.z-1 around and easily accessible when x.y.z is released. >>You can jigdo any old

Re: Some suggestion

2011-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 03:59:18 +0800, pei deng wrote: >I think debian should release a publish version with roll updating as >archlinux. and remove testing and sid version. Kindly try to understand how Debian's release process works before suggesting things. Greetings Marc --

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:21:34 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >Philipp Kern writes: >> On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber wrote: >>> I also support this and think it is a really good idea. But please >>> keep x.y.z-1 around and easily accessible when x.y.z is released. >> >> You can jigdo any old CD im

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 18:58:55 + (UTC), Philipp Kern wrote: >On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber wrote: >> I also support this and think it is a really good idea. But please >> keep x.y.z-1 around and easily accessible when x.y.z is released. > >You can jigdo any old CD image. How do I do this for a past

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 05:38:24PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Exactly that is the kind of bullshit why a lot of Debian people hate > what Ubuntu does. At a conference once happened to me that, after the official question time, a Debian user approached me and told me something along the lines: "

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Exactly that is the kind of bullshit why a lot of > Debian people hate what Ubuntu does. Thanks for wasting your and our time > instead of just talking to the people who maintain a package you want to > change. I don't see how I'm wasting y

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/03/2011 05:33 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> - Ubuntu splitted the package and applied various changes without getting in >> contact with their Debian upstream about it. I'm not willing to try to figure >> out what they did and wh

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > - Ubuntu splitted the package and applied various changes without getting in > contact with their Debian upstream about it. I'm not willing to try to figure > out what they did and why and if it makes sense. >From a quick look at the package,

Who is this tell me now pr il find u

2011-12-03 Thread Del1
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Bug#650809: ITP: mysql-connector-python -- Pure Python implementation of MySQL Client/Server protocol

2011-12-03 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sandro Tosi * Package name: mysql-connector-python Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Geert Vanderkelen * URL : http://launchpad.net/myconnpy * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Description : Pure Python im

The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, as empathy, webkit and emerillon build-depend on geoclue these days, I thought its time to write something about it on d-devel instead of just orphaning it ;) We are facing several issues with geoclue: - upstream is more or less dead.The only commits I see in their git are bugfixes for major

Re: Some suggestion

2011-12-03 Thread darkestkhan
2011/12/2 Игорь Пашев : > +1. Also there is no much difference between unstable and testing. > > > 2011/12/3 Mike Dupont >> >> so what is the difference, I am using unstable and it rolls >> mike >> Testing/Unstable/Experimental are kind-of rolling - it is rolling two months after release and

Re: Some suggestion

2011-12-03 Thread darkestkhan
2011/12/2 pei deng : > I think debian should release  a publish version with roll updating as > archlinux. and remove testing and sid version. > > because 'roll' is really a very good mechanism for software publish and > test. > And how would then Debian continue releasing stable? Debian is especi