Re: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2006-10-08 Thread Clément Stenac
Hi, > [ Debian-specific feature ] > - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} Don't we support these by using entries in /etc/crontab and run-parts for all cron systems, which would make this requirement void ? -- Clément -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#384533: ITP: gnome-main-menu - menu applet for GNOME

2006-08-24 Thread Clément Stenac
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gnome-main-menu Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Dan Winship, Jim Krehl, JP Rosevear, Scott Reeves (Novell) * URL : No website. Included in Gnome CVS * Lic

Bug#383609: ITP: pgfouine - PostgreSQL log analyzer

2006-08-18 Thread Clément Stenac
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: pgfouine * Version : 0.7 * Upstream Author : Guillaume Smet * URL : http://pgfouine.projects.postgresql.org/ * License : GPL * Programming Lang: PHP * Description : Pos

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-02 Thread Clément Stenac
> Of course, the problem is that gcc spawns many processes, and if > reniced only takes a little while to react to a new gcc process, the > children won't be reniced. > If I understand correctly the description, reniced is not actually a daemon but a program that you run from time to time, so not

Re: Bug#334225: ITP: libmodelfile -- library to handle quake .md3 files

2005-10-16 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, > Description: library to handle quake .md3 files > Full support for loading all quake .md3 models found in the field, many of > which were not handled by tutorial code, or other loaders. Simple converter > provided for stripping environment texture coords to make vertex data more > com

Re: Bug#321945: ITP: gtablix -- graphical user interface for Tablix, a timetable generator

2005-08-08 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, > G-Tablix is a graphical user interface to the Tablix timetabling software. > It helps you write properly formatted configuration files, from which > Tablix calculates the best possible timetables. I think this description would need a preliminary sentence to explain what tablix really i

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-08-02 Thread Clément Stenac
sk the maintainers to compare (and keep this comparisons up to date) their packages to the similar ones, but I agree that in some cases, it could be useful for the user. What do you think ? -- Clément Stenac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use svn(-buildpackage) with pbuilder?

2005-08-02 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, > If I have the complete upstream source in SVN, but not the > .tar.gz, how do I create the .orig.tar.gz, when I have a new > upstream version? Use "svn export" to create a dist of the svn tree, without the control folders. Regards, -- Clément -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-07-31 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, > You must update unreviewed description daily. Checked reviewed > descriptions again and show changes to the reviewer, if the review ist > not finished. Ok, did that. Thanks for your suggestions, -- Clément Stenac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-07-31 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, > One more question: Was the question, should short descriptions be > capitalized? ever decided? The policy does not answer this specific question. Anyway, for such highly-repetitive and computer-detectable "errors", it's not a good idea to mark the description as wrong here, it would mak

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-07-30 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, > how will you handel changes in the description (from upstream, aka package > maintainer)? By comparing all descriptions when we are done. For packages which have a new descriptions, a manual review/merge will be needed. Regards, -- Clément Stenac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-07-29 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, > Someone suggested an announcement should be sent to > > d-d-a. What do you think ? > > Yes, go to it and find some reviewer. Will do... > Maybe you should add a 'get a random Description' link on your Page... I'm not sure it would be very good, because it's better to review related p

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-07-28 Thread Clément Stenac
by the desktop packages (x11, gnome, kde, ...). I don't think base packages should be given a high priority as people don't often want to install them. Libs and devel packages are also lower priority IMHO Thanks for your help -- Clément Stenac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Packages descriptions review

2005-07-26 Thread Clément Stenac
-qa crosspost removed > 1) It seems that only two people can comment on an entry. If I see a > problem that two other people have missed, I can't point it out. Agreed. I'm going to add a freetext field in the packages detail page for additional comments and a flag on the list page indicating wheth

Packages descriptions review

2005-07-26 Thread Clément Stenac
more discussion is needed, please do it on the list, not on the wiki. Thanks for your help (well, I hope so), -- Clément Stenac PS: it might not be necessary to keep -qa Cced on answers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-21 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, I started a page on the Debian wiki for this project http://wiki.debian.net/?PackagesDescriptionsReview Feel free to edit any part of it. If everyone agrees, I intend to add some thoughts about the organization details we could set up (code to track the work and ease the work of the revie

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-20 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello > Maybe it would be worthwhile to > have a weekend, similar to a bug squashing party, where all descriptions > are proofread and for those that need it, a proposed new description > filed as a wishlist bug? > > Given 15000 packages, and 20 volunteers, and on average two minutes per > descri

Re: querying available package versions over the net

2005-03-12 Thread Clément Stenac
SOAP or XML-RPC access to as many debian web services as possible ? It would save the people who want to develop scripts based on them the pain to parse html. Regards, -- Clément Stenac http://clement.stenac.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: querying available package versions over the net

2005-03-12 Thread Clément Stenac
based on them the pain to parse html. Regards, -- Clément Stenac http://clement.stenac.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-09 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, I'm interested in maintainership of PovRay. I'm going to try to update the package to the latest upstream version and to work on some of the bugs Regards, -- Clément Stenac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#292716: ITP: mkvtoolnix -- Set of tools to work with Matroska files

2005-01-30 Thread Clément Stenac
> * URL : http://www.example.org/ http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ wil work better Sorry, -- Zorglub Clément Stenac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#292716: ITP: mkvtoolnix -- Set of tools to work with Matroska files

2005-01-30 Thread Clément Stenac
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Clément Stenac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: mkvtoolnix Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Moritz Bunkus * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : G