Bug#734418: ITP: gap-io -- low level C library IO bindings for GAP

2014-01-06 Thread Jerome Benoit
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jerome Benoit * Package name: gap-io Version : 4.2 Upstream Author : Max Neunhoeffer * URL : http://www-circa.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~neunhoef/Computer/Software/Gap/io.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, GAP Descrip

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:47:46PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > I think that it would make more sense if a current member of the release team > filed that bug on behalf of the release team. I agree and need to say that I am surprised to read so many emails complaining for the release team,

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2014-01-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 05-01-14 15:57, Clint Adams schreef: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 05:07:29PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> This goes for GPLvX "or later", but also for other "or later" licenses, >> where they exist. >> >> I'm convinced that the GPLv2 is a free license, but I'm so far undecided >> on the GPLv3 (

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2014-01-06 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi Dimitri, On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:22:09 +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > But GPL text does confuse me as a whole, no modifications nor derivate > works of the GPL license text are allowed, and the original text has > "and later" clause - is licensing without "and later" constitues > modificati

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 06:46:02PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > Looking into the d-d-a archives, I find something about NMUs during > BSPs in May 2007 (<20070513172244.ga14...@solar.ftbfs.de>) for the > last time, and then (and since then, e.g. > <47ccf6ce.7050...@debian.org> in March 2008) the

Bug#734394: ITP: pyhusl -- conversions for HUSL (human-friendly HSL) color space

2014-01-06 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko * Package name: pyhusl Version : 2.1.0 Upstream Author : Alexei Boronine * URL : https://github.com/boronine/pyhusl * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : conversions for HUSL (

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:26:14 -0500 Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Delegation for the Release Team"): > >> On 06/01/14 at 11:56 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > >> > Explicitly again: Please see the last 7 years worth of bits

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:24:40 +, Ian Jackson wrote: FWIW, I have no strong opinion if something about NMU rules should be in the RT delegation; just adding some experiences / data points: > > Do you see a problem with the current NMU recommended practices, that > > you would like to fix? [...

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Delegation for the Release Team"): >> On 06/01/14 at 11:56 +, Neil McGovern wrote: >> > Explicitly again: Please see the last 7 years worth of bits mails, where >> > the release team have lowered this without advan

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/01/14 at 15:24 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Delegation for the Release Team"): > > Also, I'm surprised that you didn't comment on the last part of my mail. > > (Regarding the TC.) Well, of course I'm on the TC and the TC has the > power to rule on disputes about t

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Delegation for the Release Team"): > On 06/01/14 at 12:59 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Given Lucas's attitude, I would like to suggest to the release team > > that they file a bug against the the Developers' Reference, containing > > a proposed change explicitly authori

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2014-01-06 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 6 January 2014 15:07, David Weinehall wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 03:13:01AM +, Clint Adams wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 10:58:32AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > > That's also why I *don't* use BSD-style licenses for software that > > > I write, but rather GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1

Re: 'tty' output on kFreeBSD, etc. within sbuild

2014-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Alastair McKinstry writes ("Re: 'tty' output on kFreeBSD, etc. within sbuild"): > On 06/01/2014 12:39, Ian Jackson wrote: > > But perhaps more information would enable us to give better advice. > > Thanks, I've been able to adapt the build scripts so it is not necessary; > they just output to stdou

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2014-01-06 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 03:13:01AM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 10:58:32AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > That's also why I *don't* use BSD-style licenses for software that > > I write, but rather GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1. > > So if someone takes your LGPLv2.1-only software and

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/01/14 at 12:59 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Delegation for the Release Team"): > > On 06/01/14 at 11:56 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > Explicitly again: Please see the last 7 years worth of bits mails, where > > > the release team have lowered this without advanc

Bug#734374: ITP: kde-connect -- tool to integrate the KDE desktop with your mobile devices

2014-01-06 Thread David Suárez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: kde-connect Version: 1.0 Upstream Author: Albert Vaca Cintora URL: http://albertvaka.wordpress.com/ License: GPL Description: set of plugins and services for kde to integrate mobile devices

Re: 'tty' output on kFreeBSD, etc. within sbuild

2014-01-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 06/01/2014 12:39, Ian Jackson wrote: > Alastair McKinstry writes ("'tty' output on kFreeBSD, etc. within sbuild"): >> Can anyone answer the following question which is puzzling me; >> I have a piece of csh code which gets called during the build of a package >> i'm maintaining. it does the follo

Bug#734369: ITP: plasmate -- tool specifically tailored to creating Plasma Workspace add-ons

2014-01-06 Thread David Suárez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: plasmate Version: 1.0 Upstream Author: Plasma Workspaces team URL: http://projects.kde.org/plasmate License: GPL2 Description: small IDE taylored for development of Plasma components, such

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Delegation for the Release Team"): > On 06/01/14 at 11:56 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Explicitly again: Please see the last 7 years worth of bits mails, where > > the release team have lowered this without advance notice, for BSPs etc. ... > First, I do not think tha

Re: [RFH] [with fix] totally hosed init system

2014-01-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > Upstart doesn't directly make use of the LSB headers -- it just calls back > onto Ah okay, thanks for this explanation! (I’ve switched back to sysvinit for now.) On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, Roger Leigh wrote: > It might be safer to do something like this:

Re: 'tty' output on kFreeBSD, etc. within sbuild

2014-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Alastair McKinstry writes ("'tty' output on kFreeBSD, etc. within sbuild"): > Can anyone answer the following question which is puzzling me; > I have a piece of csh code which gets called during the build of a package > i'm maintaining. it does the following: > > echo "useful information" > /dev/t

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2014-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?"): > On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 19:40:54 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > No, it just means that I gave up. > > Oh, ok. :/ Personally I see it has similar drawbacks to the discarded > Build-Options field that some

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 06/01/14 at 11:56 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 01:23:42PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > I'd like to note that the discussion on this delegation was inconclusive > > on a couple of points: > > > > 1) it does not include anything about defining rules for NMU

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2014-01-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 01:23:42PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I'd like to note that the discussion on this delegation was inconclusive > on a couple of points: > > 1) it does not include anything about defining rules for NMU delays. > > The last time the NMU "policy" was changed was in 201

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful

2014-01-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014, Clint Adams wrote: > because any code under this license would be deliberately incompatible > with anything else FOR NO GOOD REASON. Uhm, then stop advocating the GNU GPL, which is deliberately incompatible with anything else FOR NO GOOD REASON. bye, //mirabilos -- [16:04:33

Bug#734354: ITP: fonts-croscore -- width-compatible fonts for improved on-screen readability

2014-01-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fabian Greffrath * Package name: fonts-croscore Version : 1.23.0 * URL : http://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: TTF Description : width-compatible fonts f