Bug#1073938: ITP: libgeo-libproj-ffi-perl -- Foreign function interface to PROJ coordinate transformation software

2024-06-20 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgeo-libproj-ffi-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Contact: Arne Johannessen * URL : * License : Perl or

Bug#1052161: ITP: libmozilla-ca-perl -- Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format

2023-09-18 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmozilla-ca-perl Version : 20230821-1 Upstream Contact: Gisle Aas * URL : https://github.com/libwww-perl/Mozilla-CA * License : MPL

Bug#732531: ITP: pktools -- A collection of programs to process geo raster images

2013-12-18 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine * Package name: pktools Version : 2.4.3 Upstream Author : Pieter Kempeneers * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/pktools/html/index.html * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : A

Bug#551631: ITP: ossim -- The OSSIM library

2009-10-19 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian GIS Project * Package name: ossim Version : 1.7.21 Upstream Author : Garrett Potts et al. * URL : http://www.ossim.org/OSSIM/OSSIM_Home.html * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : The OSSIM li

Bug#550218: ITP: python-liblas -- A Python module to use the ASPRS LiDAR data translation library

2009-10-08 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian GIS Project * Package name: python-liblas Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Howard Butler * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/libLAS * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : A Python module t

Bug#548720: ITP: libkml -- The C++ library for supporting OGC KML 2.2 standard

2009-09-28 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine * Package name: libkml Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Google Inc. * URL : http://code.google.com/p/libkml/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++, Python and Java Description : The C

Bug#536882: ITP: ncview -- A X11 visual browser for NetCDF format files

2009-07-14 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian GIS Project * Package name: ncview Version : 1.93g Upstream Author : David W. Pierce * URL : http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/ncview_home_page.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A X11 vi

Bug#532415: ITP: liblas -- ASPRS LiDAR data translation toolset

2009-06-09 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian GIS Project * Package name: liblas Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Howard Butler et al * URL : http://liblas.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : ASPRS LiDAR data translation toolset

Bug#530845: ITP: spatialindex -- A general framework to manage spatial indexes

2009-05-28 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian GIS Project * Package name: spatialindex Version : 1.3.2 Upstream Author : Marios Hadjieleftheriou * URL : http://trac.gispython.org/spatialindex * License : LGPL 2.1+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : A

Bug#521182: ITP: dans-gdal-scripts -- GINA contributed GDAL tools

2009-03-25 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine * Package name: dans-gdal-scripts Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Dan Stahlke * URL : http://www.gina.alaska.edu/projects/gina-tools * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description

Bug#456659: ITP: tk-tile -- A themed widget set provider library for Tk

2007-12-17 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tk-tile Version : 0.7.8 Upstream Author : Joe English and other parties. * URL : http://tktable.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang:

Bug#418184: ITP: geotiff -- the GeoTIFF library

2007-04-07 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian GIS Project * Package name: geotiff Version : 1.2.3 Upstream Author : Frank Warmerdam et al. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://geotiff.maptools.org/ * License : MIT/X like Programming Lang: C Description :

Bug#413842: ITP: ogdi -- A library which implements an API for OGDI, a network-enabled protocol to access raster and vector GIS data respositories

2007-03-07 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ogdi Version : 3.1.5 Upstream Author : Frank Warmerdam et al * URL : http://ogdi.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD-like Programming Lang: C Descr

Re: [Debconf-discuss] list of valid documents for KSPs

2006-06-01 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:17:28AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > If absolute trust is the only thing you will accept, then you might as > well withdraw from Debian project, and go hide in a hole with some > paranoiod survivalists in Montana. We can't have absolute trust; it > is impossible. And yo

Re: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-03-12 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:52:04AM -1200, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > no manpages are not going to be renamed. but should be split of > from manpages if they are linux specific to a package called linux-manpages. > > check the package that's in new queue now how it's done: > http://io.debian.net/~tar/d

Re: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-03-12 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:52:04AM -1200, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > >Wouldn't this package conflict with the 'manpages' package (which provides > >them for GNU/Linux) and with the manpages provided by other (core) > >packages? > >Or are all manpages going to be renamed so that there is no filename >

Bug#348508: ITP: autodir -- Creates home, group directories for LDAP/NIS/SQL/local Unix accounts transparently

2006-01-17 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: autodir Version : 0.99.0 Upstream Author : Venkata Ramana Enaganti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/ * License : Crea

Re: Co-maintainers sought

2005-12-10 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:09:48AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 10:01:03AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:42:25AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > I seek co-maintainers for: > > > > > >

Re: Co-maintainers sought

2005-12-10 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:42:25AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > I seek co-maintainers for: > > mwavem > thinkpad, tpctl > resolvconf > I got a couple of thinkpads, so i could be a good candidate for thinkpad related things if you agree. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: apt-get wants to remove hotplug?

2005-10-10 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:54:11AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Hm, doesn't just manually loading mousedev (and putting it in > /etc/modules) get things working again? > Mousedev, evdev and usbmouse here, to have a working setup for X with a synaptics touchpad and an usb mouse. -- Francesco

Bug#330174: ITP: netgo -- KDE tool to interactively manage network settings using different custom profiles

2005-09-26 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: netgo Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Per Johansson * URL : http://netgo.hjolug.org/ * License : GPL Description : KDE tool to interactively

Re: Bug#319849: Security fix in just released 1.3.0rc2?

2005-08-18 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 08:57:27AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du lundi 25 juillet 2005, vers 10:42, > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > I pointed both bugs at the very start of july (or end of june?) > > to both stable and testing sect

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-16 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:08:00PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:17:24AM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > > my congratulation to the team too. However I was not as fortunate as the > > Sean. > > > > Me too, at least on this machine I had to explicitly install >

Re: Drop the minor release number

2005-07-08 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 05:05:09PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Then we would have > > Debian 4.0 for etch, 4.1 for etch stable release 1, 4.2 for etch stable > release 2, 4.2a for etch stable release 2 with a minor CD mastering fix > (for example), etc.pp. > > Does the release team agree wit

Re: The story of speex/vorbis-tools, or how not to be disservicing to our users

2005-06-05 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 03:08:48PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Since not everyone subscribes to d-d, is there a n easy way to do this? > Would a change in a library that is officially depended on by more than > X packages qualify to be sent out via d-d-a? Or does there is exist > some alias

Re: Leadership, collaboration and canoncial

2005-06-05 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 10:03:35PM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > Personally i feel that Debian Developers should put their jealousy > aside, burry the hatchet and start collaborating with the other > developers out there, not just ubuntu. Besides, you have given your work > out to the public for a

Re: [frankie@debian.org: Status of kernel-patches in sarge]

2005-05-30 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:19:11PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > I'd expect maintainers drop patches which are orphaned by the upstream > > or whose maintainance would be a problem... > > The number of patches that do not apply shown in the initial message of > this thread shows that your expect

Re: [frankie@debian.org: Status of kernel-patches in sarge]

2005-05-22 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:35:59AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > The check shown below is almost complete (but for a couple of 2.2 patches > > and per-arch patches). > > I'm asking

Re: [frankie@debian.org: Status of kernel-patches in sarge]

2005-05-22 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:40:26AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > The check shown below is almost complete (but for a couple of 2.2 patches > > and per-arch patches). > > I'm asking if

[frankie@debian.org: Status of kernel-patches in sarge]

2005-05-21 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
arded message from Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Subject: Status of kernel-patches in sarge Mail-Followup-To: debian-kernel@lists.debian

Re: Bug#308533: ITP: gstat -- A program for multivariable geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation

2005-05-11 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 08:55:28PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Howdy, > > Francesco Paolo Lovergine debian.org> writes: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" debian.org> > > > &g

Bug#308533: ITP: gstat -- A program for multivariable geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation

2005-05-10 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gstat Version : 2.4.4 Upstream Author : Edzer J. Pebesma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> et al. * URL : http://www.gstat.org/ * License : GPL Description : A program f

Re: PHP/WebApp policy/mailing list

2005-05-01 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:24:53PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > > I think a suitable section in debian policy would be appropriate. And > > mere technical discussions about the policy contents are also > > appropriate in d-policy. All other technical discussions should go > > in an alioth list. My

Re: PHP/WebApp policy/mailing list

2005-05-01 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:56:47AM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > Pascal Hakim wrote: > >Speaking as a listmaster, I believe that a list that would be used to > >provide people with a place to discuss the packaging of web-apps, as > >well as standard things associated with it is a great idea. It's

Re: PHP/WebApp policy/mailing list

2005-05-01 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 07:28:48PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I've lurked for a while in [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoping that that would > be the right place for such discussions, and, when they happen, the > subscribers are usually pretty clued-in and interested. Perhaps it is > the natural place to

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-29 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 04:10:21PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Ideally, we would have agreement to update all of the following packages to > libmysqlclient12 at the same time: > > courier > cyrus-sasl2 > exim4 > linesrv > pam-mysql > postfix > proftpd ^^^ yet do

Re: Where to install ROX applications?

2005-04-04 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 06:17:33PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > I was thinking of something like /usr/share/rox-desktop/Apps (I would > probably make a meta-package called rox-desktop anyway, to conveniently > install a nice bundle of applications), but that would mean having to > move the binarie

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-14 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:47:24PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Justin Pryzby writes: > > It occurs to me that help output to stderr is arguably appropriate if an > > invalid option is given > > But '--help' is not an invalid option. > It depends on programs, sometimes the same usage function is u

Re: First line in /etc/hosts

2005-02-14 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 03:01:26PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:25:15PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > > However, now we've suddenly discovered that _other_ programs get confused by > > this! In particular, if you use an NFSv4-patched mount, it does a > > gethostna

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-02-13 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 12:07:06PM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > > So what if we had two editions of libmysqlclient, one of them > > ssl-enabled and the other - as currently - not? That would allow > > using ssl whenever possible. I think that could be done, without > > breaking things. > > That's

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-02-12 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:17:44AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:53:34AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > > Nice, so we should check that any linked GPL library directly > > > > (obviuolsy) or > > > > indirectly

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-02-12 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:39:58AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Nice, so we should check that any linked GPL library directly (obviuolsy) or > > indirectly (with N=1,2,3... levels of indirection) linked against > > openssl adds the exception. > > No, we should simply not be linking libmysql

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-02-12 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:30:59PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:31:44PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > > On 2005-02-11 sean finney wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:15:55AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > > FYI: new mysql FLOSS includes OpenSSL licen

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-02-02 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:49:31PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > For what concern proftpd, it does not use libpam-mysql at all, > > so I see no problem for that. > > Hello, > Ehh. As maintainer of a PAM-using application you usually have no > control which PAM modules are used. You just shi

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:41AM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > I've been under the impression that the only machine-level > incompatibilities are really kernel and driver issues and not issues > with Debian per se. > > Can you be a little more specific? > Currently for instance Matlab 6.5+ canno

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-31 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:34:07PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Hello, > These four packages also link against both libpam and libmysqlclient10 > and might experience segfaults when accessing MYSQL over PAM with > libpam-mysql if libpam-mysql switched to libmysqlclient12: > > linesrv-mysql, pur

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-04 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:27:26PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > There were quite many backup programs without the admin::backup tag. > Now admin::backup counts 61 packages: good! > > If someone wants to take care of keeping the admin::backup tag up to > date, please send me a note. hdup? -- Fran

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-25 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:33:24PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> It may sound a bit radical, but core points have been mentioned in the > >> thread already. I suggest to do it in a more radical way: > >> > >> - unstable lockdown in the freeze > >>

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-25 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:44:58PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > It may sound a bit radical, but core points have been mentioned in the > > thread already. I suggest to do it in a more radical way: > > > > - unstable lockdown in the freeze > > - drop Testing and concentrate on work instead of w

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-23 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Okay, that's what t-p-u is roughly for, but the fact is that it's > >> quite painful. > > > > Could you elaborate on that? Why is it so painful? > > Probably because you need m

Proftpd 1.2.10 available in experimental

2004-10-11 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Subject says all. Interested people can have a look on it and return feedback on BTS. I have no intention to release 1.2.10 in sarge at this time, anyway. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-10 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 10:43:14AM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > > Furthermore, we should all know that Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus is a CPU & > memory hog. It needs tons of memory and fastest cpu ... always. > I'm using now bogofilter and razor, without CPU and memory problems at all. So your

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-10 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:53:58PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:36:48 +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Not always. In the past many backports have been built including perfectly > >avoidable new dependencies. The vola

Re: pmount vs updfstab

2004-10-09 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 03:04:10PM +0200, alphac wrote: > I think hal + dbus-1 + fstab-sync works very well on debian, but the > real missing feature is the possibility for users to mount remote file > systems like cifs and smbfs without having root privileges or having to > suidroot smbmnt, th

Re: pmount vs updfstab

2004-10-09 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:23:42PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 12:57:46PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 02:46:05PM +0200, Bluefuture wrote: > > > Il giorno sab, 09-10-2004 alle 12:23 +0200, Michae

Re: pmount vs updfstab

2004-10-09 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 12:57:46PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 02:46:05PM +0200, Bluefuture wrote: > > Il giorno sab, 09-10-2004 alle 12:23 +0200, Michael Banck ha scritto: > > > > > What is updtfstab? > > I use this on sarge/sid and works very fine: > > http://ccomb.fre

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-09 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 03:01:11AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Packages like virus checkers seem to be > composed of 2 parts: the app program and the data where the data in > this case are virus sigs and the app is say clamav. And the 'volitile' > part is the virus sigs whereas the app (once it hits

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-09 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 02:28:10AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:51:29PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > > I generally have to resort to backports or unstable when installing > > Debian > > on recent hardware, because we don't update hardware drivers in stable. >

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-08 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:51:29PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Friday 08 October 2004 11:51 am, Andreas Barth wrote: > > - volatile is not "just another place" for backports, but should only > >   contain changes to stable programs that are necessary to keep them > >   functional; > > I ge

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-08 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
I'll add a few my consideration already discussed in IRC with Andi and others. Feel free to fill the gaps :) On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:51:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Hi all, > > we had some discussion about volatile, and I'm more and more considering to > pick this task up. I think some

Re: Bug#274923: ITP: wnpp -- C++ library for robust numerical and geometric computation

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:58:07PM +0200, Joachim Reichel wrote: > > If the names above are still too generic, I think I will use libcore++ as > prefix. Or has anyone else another suggestion? > Why not libexact? > I'm a bit uncertain about potential consequences if the Debian package name > d

Re: Bug#155583: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-16 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 10:36:53AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think dpkg-statoverride is not too bad in this case. I'll talk to > >the nis package maintainer and see if that's acceptable. If not, nis > >cou

Re: Mcrypt maintainer.

2003-09-08 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:53:58PM -0500, Andrés Roldán wrote: > Is the mcrypt maintainer MIA? > > The last mcrypt package was released the last year (November) and > there are newer mcrypt and libmcrypt upstream releases. > Ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Bug#207640: ITP: xoops -- XOOPS is a dynamic oject-oriented web portal system written in PHP

2003-08-28 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-28 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xoops Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Author : Kazumi Ono, Goghs Cheng, et al, See [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.xoops.org/ * License : GPL Descripti

Re: Packaging some Redhat admin tools

2003-08-07 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:15:35AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > So, I wonder if someone has already built a package from a SRPM package > > ? > > You can easily extract the .tar.gz using alien. > rpm -Uvh estracts in /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-07 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:33:08PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > What we need is a database with simple mailing list function (similar to > PTS) where willing sponsors for a certain package can subscribe and > sponsorees with much motivation can send diffs for the next version > upgrade. Easy to

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-07 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then he should spend the 10 minutes it takes to implement a "reject" > button on the webpage he can just press to reject someone. > After that rejecting would be a matter of seco

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-07 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:30:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > Someone should point NMs to difficulty of entering the development > > mainstream of FreeBSD or becoming maintainer for the kernel... > > IMO it's generally too easy entering in Debian. > > You can get access to the gc

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Interessting analysis. Many things that hold up the release can only be > solved by active and experienced maintainers since the packages are often > essential. New developers can help maintaining them in cooperation with > main develo

Experimental: proftpd pre-1.2.9, for brave hearts

2003-06-21 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Hi guys this is to announce a preview (off sid) for current (cvs) version of proftpd. Testing and comments are welcome. An (incomplete) IPv6 patch is also available. http://people.debian.org/~frankie/debian/sid/experimental/proftpd/ The package will not be uploaded in sid, until a complete IPv6

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-22 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:31:14PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > >* Acknowledge NMU (closes: #174301, #172803, #179036, #177616) Ugh, also this one. Do not use changelog for closing fixed bugs. Do it using BTS directly. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 09:40:07PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > > Additionally, it might be a good idea to provide a shoreter list of authors > in > addition to the detailed one for easier copying to 'standard copyright files' > like 'copying' in Debian. > GNU folks generally use a Credits fi

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
I like maintaining the idea of forge, so my proposal is VULCAN (from Roman mithology). He was the God of volcanic fire and of metal work. He was the son of Hera (and maybe Zeus).(Some say that Hera gave birth to Hephaestus alone because she was angry with Zeus, because Athena was born out of Zeus'

Re: orbit/evolution/linux2.5 bug #168188

2002-11-27 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:29:36PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > Jeff > When I do this sort of thing on my local mirror, I usually pretend it's > an NMU - so your package would be 0.5.17-4.1 or something. This > prevents apt from preferring the Debian distributed pakage over yours. > Either