Bug#654348: ITA: python-levenshtein -- extension for computing string similarities and edit distances

2012-01-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm interested in the package, but all the contact with the maintainer (CC-ed) have failed in the past, also reported to MIA. I'll take this package over to DPMT if I get no reply in the coming days. Cheers, Sandro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ.

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Yaroslav! Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > > I strongly recommend this solution, along with a proper debconf notice. > > [...] > > > /tmp is a good choice because the next reboot will automatically clean > > > up everything (and obviously the old binary will not be needed after > > > a reboot).

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Thank you for the list. That does make things clearer. "Bernhard R. Link" writes: > 1) Debian contributors are volunteers, they are not be forced to do some >work. > 2) Packages, especially those not avoidable in a Debian installation, >are no personal property. [...] > 6) (1) means

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Karl Goetz
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:40:33 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > > to fix a tiny problem which presents itself just for the length > > > > of the upgrade process, if at all. > > > > > > Correct. It's an option nevertheless, so I mentioned it. >

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [120101 19:12]: > > If the maintainer refuses patches and only wants to fix brokeness if > > someone does a full blown upstream fork then this is a maintainer issue. > > I think this discussion is getting hopelessly muddled by excessive use of > sweeping statements like this. As yo

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012, Axel Beckert wrote: > > I strongly recommend this solution, along with a proper debconf notice. > [...] > > /tmp is a good choice because the next reboot will automatically clean > > up everything (and obviously the old binary will not be needed after > > a reboot). > Thanks

Re: debian-devel-digest Digest V2012 #2

2012-01-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 10:55 -0800, Dean Sorenson wrote: > I have a concept for a kernel that would probably help quite a bit. [...] Never reply to a digest, as it is generally impossible to tell which message you are replying to. If you have suggestions to make regarding the kernel packages in De

input method and multiarch

2012-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Back from new year party ... On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 07:45:01PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Also, for such input method plugins, we have a hook and configuration script > > "im-config" to initialize such input method environment while starting X. > > Could you sp

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Julien, Julien Cristau wrote: > > A) Add an option to screen so the screen client speaks the old > >protocol to the running server protocol. This IMHO would be best > >solution and one without a big impact. It's also something which > >could be Debian-only, i.e. a patch. (It of cour

Re: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 03:18:34 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > A) Add an option to screen so the screen client speaks the old >protocol to the running server protocol. This IMHO would be best >solution and one without a big impact. It's also something which >could be Debian-only, i.e. a

Bug#654275: ITP: svrcore -- Netscape's secure PIN storage library

2012-01-02 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Timo Aaltonen * Package name: svrcore Version : 4.0.4 Upstream Author : The Mozilla Project * URL : http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/directory/svrcore/ * License : GPL-2+, LGPL-2.1+, MPL-1.1 Programming Lang: C

Bug#654269: ITP: libplexus-components-java -- Plexus Components parent POM

2012-01-02 Thread Ludovic Claude
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ludovic Claude -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: libplexus-components-java Version : 1.1.16 Upstream Author : Codehaus * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org/plexus-components * License : Apach

Bug#654235: ITP: libmediainfo -- library reading metadata from media files

2012-01-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: libmediainfo Version : 0.7.52 Upstream Author : MediaArea.net SARL * URL : http://mediainfo.sf.net * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : library reading metadata fro

Re: exFAT fuse driver and the patent situation

2012-01-02 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 01:34:06PM +0100, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Am 30.12.2011 10:47, schrieb Sven Hoexter: Hi, > As I've learned a couple or hours ago there is a package inside Ubuntu > PPA avaialble for exFAT drivers as well as utils. Maybe you can use it > as base. Yeah I know. I did it from s

Re: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > >2) Make screen 4.0.3 and screen 4.1.0 installable at the same > > > > time, i.e. give them different source and binary package names. > > > This would require a great amount of work > > > > I fear so, yes. > > > > > to fix a tiny problem which presents itself jus

Re: exFAT fuse driver and the patent situation

2012-01-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 01:18:23PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > In the end I'm not concerned about myself or the Debian project > but our users building commercial products on top of Debian. > Seems to be a very thin line between supporting our users and > creating a complicated trap for others. :(

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Romain Francoise wrote: > >3) Tell people via the release notes that they should not run the > > dist-upgrade inside screen, but inside tmux instead. > > Unfortunately tmux has an issue of its own for squeeze → wheezy upgrades, .oO( Houston, we've got a problem. ) > the socket pat

Re: Bug#653836: ITP: fonts-migmix -- High quality Japanese fonts based M+ and IPA fonts

2012-01-02 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:04:10 +0900 Youhei SASAKI wrote: > * Package name: fonts-migmix > Version : 20111002-1 > Upstream Author : Itou Hiroki > * URL or Web page : http://mix-mplus-ipa.sourceforge.jp/ > * License : M+FONTS and IPA-1 > Description : High quality

Bug#654204: ITP: libgusb -- GLib wrapper around libusb1

2012-01-02 Thread Michal Čihař
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Michal Čihař" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: libgusb Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://www.hughsie.com/downloads.html * License : LGPL2 Programming Lang:

Bug#654202: ITP: colorhug-client -- Tools for the Hughski Colorimeter

2012-01-02 Thread Michal Čihař
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Michal Čihař" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: colorhug-client Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://www.hughsie.com/downloads.html * License : GPL Programming

Re: exFAT fuse driver and the patent situation

2012-01-02 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 30.12.2011 10:47, schrieb Sven Hoexter: > due to demand by a coworker I've taken #625611 and started to prepare > a package for the exFAT fuse driver and the utils package. As I've learned a couple or hours ago there is a package inside Ubuntu PPA avaialble for exFAT drivers as well as utils. M

Re: exFAT fuse driver and the patent situation

2012-01-02 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 09:47:44PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Hi, > You may want to take a look at the Community Distribution Patent > Policy FAQ, prepared for Debian by the SFLC: > > http://www.debian.org/reports/patent-faq thanks, that's worth reading. In the end I'm not concerned about myself

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > to fix a tiny problem which presents itself just for the length of > > > the upgrade process, if at all. > > > > Correct. It's an option nevertheless, so I mentioned it. > > Sorry if I've misunderstood, but doesn't this problem manifest for > *anyone*

O: libxslt -- XSLT 1.0 processing library - runtime library

2012-01-02 Thread Mike Hommey
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Due to lack of time and interest, I intend to orphan the libxslt package. The package description is: XSLT is an XML language for defining transformations of XML files from XML to some other arbitrary format, such as XML, HTML, plain text, etc. using standard XSL

O: libxml2 -- GNOME XML library

2012-01-02 Thread Mike Hommey
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Due to lack of time and interest, I intend to orphan the libxml2 package. The package description is: XML is a metalanguage to let you design your own markup language. A regular markup language defines a way to describe information in a certain class of documents

Bug#654185: ITP: libzen -- ZenLib C++ utility library

2012-01-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: libzen Version : 0.4.23 Upstream Author : MediaArea.net SARL * URL : http://zenlib.sf.net * License : Zlib Programming Lang: C++ Description : ZenLib C++ utility library ZenLib is

Re: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:28:39AM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > Axel Beckert writes: > > >3) Tell people via the release notes that they should not run the > > dist-upgrade inside screen, but inside tmux instead. > > Unfortunately tmux has an issue of its own for squeeze → wheezy u

Re: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Romain Francoise
Axel Beckert writes: >3) Tell people via the release notes that they should not run the > dist-upgrade inside screen, but inside tmux instead. Unfortunately tmux has an issue of its own for squeeze → wheezy upgrades, the socket path was changed from /var/run/tmux to /tmp in order to re