Work-needing packages report for Mar 14, 2014

2014-03-13 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 564 (new: 9) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 140 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

Bug#741571: ITP: ruby-inflecto -- Inflector for strings

2014-03-13 Thread Jonas Genannt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Genannt -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: ruby-inflecto Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Markus Schirp * URL : https://github.com/mbj/inflecto * License : Expat Programming Lang: R

Re: fotoxx: new upstream version available

2014-03-13 Thread random . numbers
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 07:18:50PM -0300, Santiago Torres Batán wrote: > Hi, sorry for the delay. > Yes, I'm active. I was waiting the new realease to find a sponsor and work > with the new version of the package. > > Thanks for the bug reports. I'm going to check them out. Dear Santiago, are yo

Bug#741570: ITP: ruby-virtus -- Attributes on Steroids for Plain Old Ruby Objects

2014-03-13 Thread Jonas Genannt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Genannt -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: ruby-virtus Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Piotr Solnica * URL : https://github.com/solnic/virtus * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ru

Bug#741545: ITP: libvt-ldap-java -- Virginia Tech LDAP Library

2014-03-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Package name: libvt-ldap-java Version : 3.3.7 Upstream Author : Middleware Services URL : http://code.google.com/p/vt-middleware/wiki/vtldap License : LGPL-3 or Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Craig Small wrote: > It means that the upstream have to hang onto some script they might of > used once years ago for.. what reason? No, that's not what it means. The whole point of requiring source is to stop artificially inhibiting user's (and Debian's) ability to modify a w

RTC login

2014-03-13 Thread chandrika parimoo
Hello, I have been working with WebRTC for some time now and wanted to work on improving the current softphone feature of Debian WebRTC service, rtc.debian.org. In order to do so I need to familiarize myself with the existing features of the service and since it requires a developer login, I am un

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 12 mars 2014 22:26 CET, Ben Finney  : >> The javascript world is difficult to deal with. They like embedded >> copies, they may not really care about API/ABI stability, even for big >> projects. Those are difficulties that we already have to deal with. We >> already work around them by using De

Re: jquery debate with upstrea

2014-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Joachim, On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 02:49:00PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > > I hope you are aware that taring up two byte identical trees usually > > does not lead to a byte identical tarball. > > Well, I was hoping that uscan would not simply create new tarballs, but > rather removing

Re: jquery debate with upstrea

2014-03-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 13.03.2014, 14:06 +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille: > > This would be quite annoying in my usual workflow. > > I hope you are aware that taring up two byte identical trees usually > does not lead to a byte identical tarball. Well, I was hoping that uscan would not simply create

Re: jquery debate with upstrea

2014-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Lisandro, On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 07:53:52PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > > > it sounded be too good to be true: > > > > $ rm ../*tar.gz && uscan --download && md5sum > > ../haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz haskell-ekg: Newer version > > (0.3.1.4) available on re

Re: jquery debate with upstrea

2014-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Joachim, On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 12.03.2014, 18:37 -0300 schrieb Lisandro Damián Nicanor > Pérez Meyer: > > > Do you (or anyone) know if it repacks the file consistently? I.e. will > > > two developers, who both use uscan to

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-13 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:58:51PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I have a completely different approach to the DFSG. The DFSG is not > carefully drafted document and it doesn't stand up to detailed > legalistic interpretation. Rather, it is a statement of aims and > values. That was certainly how I