Re: how to communicate removals (Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-09 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2011, 15:35:35 schrieb Holger Levsen: > So, removals needs to be done, but they also need to be communicated _well_ > (else where then on -testing-changes, thats a dump, not communication). In addition to what you said, packages.d.o should not "forget" about removed packages

Re: Debug output etc, cluttering the terminal

2010-08-18 Thread Josef Spillner
In data mercoledì, 18. di agosto 2010 11:00:04, Goswin von Brederlow ha scritto: > Those are DEBUG messages. They are not relevant or usefull for 99.9% of > all users and the only thing they do is annoy. Some of them have been > around for years so clearly they are not something anyone is working

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-16 Thread Josef Spillner
In data lunedì, 16. di agosto 2010 12:35:29, Ian Jackson ha scritto: : > Adam Borowski writes ("Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF"): > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:54:07PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > git://foo.bar.org/meow#debian > > > > At least, neither git clone, merge nor

Re: Debug output etc, cluttering the terminal

2010-08-15 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Sonntag, 15. August 2010, 14:19:05 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > I would guess they still fill up the .xsession-errors file, though? At > least for me, that file is mostly useless due to: > > « ...Too much output, ignoring rest... » > > as the last line. Yes they would, because the applications

Re: Debug output etc, cluttering the terminal

2010-08-15 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Samstag, 14. August 2010, 19:59:50 schrieb Michael Welle: > Hello, > > what is the reason that many applications clutter the terminal with > output that is obvisously debug output? Lets take digikam as an > example: In the specific case of Digikam and other KDE applications, you can run kdebu

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-12 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Donnerstag, 12. August 2010, 16:36:56 schrieb Ian Jackson: > This is easy: you just publish two trees, rather than two branches in > the same tree. (It's a shame that there isn't a syntax for "git > clone" which checks out a particular branch.) The --branch option to git-clone is going to cele

Re: When the init.d script exits [typo fixed], the service should be operational

2010-08-03 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010, 18:24:09 schrieb Steve Langasek: > ... only between services that have declared a dependency relationship, > which should obviously *not* be started in parallel. In the example given by Petter, dhcpd runtime-depends on pdns through some configuration option. This is n

Re: When the init.d script exist, the service should be operational

2010-08-03 Thread Josef Spillner
In data martedì, 3. di agosto 2010 10:45:41, Petter Reinholdtsen ha scritto: > If you maintain a package with a service started during boot using a > init.d script, please make sure your service is operational when the > init.d script exits. There are two disadvantages to this approach: It decreas

Re: Bug#590853: ITP: your-freedom -- The your-freedom.net client

2010-08-02 Thread Josef Spillner
In data lunedì, 2. di agosto 2010 12:38:48, Martín Ferrari ha scritto: > This description sounds like a marketing blurb (in fact, it is copied > verbatim from the webpage), I think that's not good for a Debian > package. IMO it should just explain what is this for, and highlight > that it is a paid

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

2010-07-22 Thread Josef Spillner
In data giovedì, 22. di luglio 2010 17:24:43, Nicholas Bamber ha scritto: > Okay so that's what I learnt in school today. Could we have a link to it > on the from page? There is room in that red menu bar. Actually I tried > to look for it under "support" and various other places, but I could not >

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-21 Thread Josef Spillner
In data giovedì, 22. di luglio 2010 02:07:16, Raphael Geissert ha scritto: > The problem with HTTP submissions is that there must be able to connect to > the server when the cronjob is run. Or, alternatively, use any of the thousand message queuing systems which are shipping with Debian which sup

SOA base component packaging

2009-06-28 Thread Josef Spillner
Hello, I'm currently working on system integration of services and components for service-oriented architectures. Among them are a few commonly used base components which would be useful to have in Debian, and the rest would rather go into a derivative/pure blend due to their specialisation and

Re: Question about libcdda_paranoia

2003-10-08 Thread Josef Spillner
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 16:58, Henning Moll wrote: > Is this a bug in k3b? Should k3b try to dlopen 'libcdda_paranoia.so.0' > instead? Is there a standard for so-naming (which is respected by all/ > most Gnu/Linux distributions)? Shared object files that are private to a project are usually n

Re: Package verification

2003-10-08 Thread Josef Spillner
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 09:04, Andreas Metzler wrote: > 'chown -R ...' accidentally excuted in the wrong directory comes to > my mind. Or filesystem corruption after a hard crash. But then not only files from packages, but also user files are subject of corruption. Using a tool like integrit

Re: On package description quality

2003-10-05 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 05 October 2003 17:10, Tom wrote: > Whether or not an app is GTK1, GTK2, Tcl/Tk, or QT3 makes a big > difference to this. So yes, the library doesn't matter, but the core > feature set is kinda relevant. Maybe you could find another way to > describe it. That's what package tags can be

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-20 Thread Josef Spillner
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 13:30, Russell Coker wrote: > KDE 1.x was quite usable, while many of the beta releases in the 2.x and > early 3.x series weren't... That's why they're called betas :) I don't think this whole discussion fits in here, for 2 reasons: - the KDE conference (which will pro

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-07 Thread Josef Spillner
On Thursday 07 August 2003 09:51, Yven Johannes Leist wrote: > I think not even that is exactly true either, since the skills required to > get a cvs account for KDE are surely somewhat above our NM checks[1]. You > usually need to have a whole application written by yourself to get an > account, a

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Josef Spillner
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 18:55, Ian Hickson wrote: > Without meaning offense, that is a very selfish attitude. The number of > future debian users is *significantly* larger than the number of existing > users, unless something drastic happens to either humanity or debian > itself. Why should every

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Josef Spillner
On Saturday 02 August 2003 09:01, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > I disagree. We should ship ASAP despite, or even because of, older > milestones. With RC bugs and d-i (as is) fixed, Sarge would still be an > improvement on current stable, woody: the longer between releases the > less useful the distro

Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

2003-07-31 Thread Josef Spillner
On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:27, Sam Hocevar wrote: >And HTML makes it even harder since very few pages are valid, but > that DeCSS utility uses only regexes anyway. Technically, using RegExps for CSS will not only become maintenance hell, but would also limit the usability of such a script fo

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-06-30 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 30 June 2003 15:36, Josip Rodin wrote: > And this proves exactly what? Someone who knows shit all about awk sure as > hell ain't gonna learn it from that help output. Nor are they supposed to! More along the lines of behaving nicely on the command line, i.e. to support --help and --vers

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-01 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 02 June 2003 04:22, Chris Cheney wrote: > This was done as a request by someone prior to my maintainence of KDE, > long ago KDE had its own separate Debian submenu as well. Many people > seem to think the way it is done currently is better than the separate > Debian sub-menu. Also, rippin

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-01 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 02 June 2003 04:06, Russell Coker wrote: > However if an icon looks good at 100dpi then surely when doubled it should > look just as good at 200gpi. One thing to consider as well is that while in the past X11 was the only windowing system available, there are a few others out there now.

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-01 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 01 June 2003 20:02, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > It is related. Heck, this specification even gives in the example the > Icon as .png-file. While using .xpm-only for menus is really > long-lasting standard, with no reason to stop this... One day, SVG icons might be used, so there has to be

Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-21 Thread Josef Spillner
On Tuesday 20 May 2003 15:22, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > (Of course, this still doesn't answer the question of whether anyone > would ever want or use locale support to be enabled during the initial > boot sequence, such that the boot messages come up in the local > language) You don't have a dad

Re: Do we need policy changes?

2003-04-20 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 20 April 2003 10:09, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Apart from telling various and sundry people about it, have > you done anything? This is free software. If it scratches youtr itch, > fix it. And send patches. The original author stated that it occurs that upstream rejects UTF-8 fix

Re: Stupid use of debconf award

2003-04-14 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 14 April 2003 14:13, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Please, kick out all those questions. They have nothing to do here and > should be replaced by either configuration files or autodetection. There > have been 4 bug reports for more than 6 months asking for this and you > haven't even replied

Re: Maintainers with excessive old RC bugs

2003-04-14 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 14 April 2003 09:44, Andrew Suffield wrote: > This is a sorted (worst offenders first) list of maintainers who have > excessive numbers of old RC bugs open against their packages. Bugs ... > Josef Spillner Your script is buggy, fix it :-) Are sponsored NMUs allowed in case o

Re: Bug#122642: ITP: ggz -- gaming network system

2002-04-21 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 21 April 2002 18:30, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I see that 0.0.5 has been released this last week. Would it be possible > for someone to ITP these now? (I'm not too picky about who :) ) Packages for woody and sid are all available at http://mindx.dyndns.org/debian/. Feel free to