Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle 14:57, mar 11 marzo 2008, Andreas Bombe ha scritto: > It's no active notification, but aptitude lists all installed packages > that aren't in any distribution included in sources.list under "Obsolete > and Locally Created Packages". Verifying that this doesn't include any > packages that I ex

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-02 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle 19:48, sab 1 marzo 2008, Christian Perrier ha scritto: > If someone cares to listen: when you think about ITPing each and every > piece of FLOSS that pops around: think about *helping* people who > maintain existing packages instead of adding even more noise to our > noisy bunch of various cra

Re: (user)tagging wnpp bugs

2008-03-01 Thread Luca Brivio
Thank you for your feedback... Alle 21:41, sab 1 marzo 2008, Don Armstrong ha scritto: > > If nothing against comes up, I'm going to use such usertags as > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and report (lots of) RFPs (and possibly some ITP!) > > for fields I am interested in. > > I'd suggest just picking a rea

(user)tagging wnpp bugs

2008-03-01 Thread Luca Brivio
Hello folks, following a short discussion with Erich Schubert on the debtags-devel list[1], I decided to come with a simple proposal (are DEPs already active and useful?). In order to have wnpp bugs better categorized (and, as such, searched, shown, and managed), it seems a viable option to use

Re: Bug#465660: ITP: extreme-tuxracer -- Arcade game featuring tux the penguin, snow ice and fishes

2008-02-14 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle 11:34, gio 14 febbraio 2008, Alexander Schmehl ha scritto: > * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080214 06:54]: > > > Description : Arcade game featuring tux the penguin, snow ice and > > > fishes > > > > At least uncapitalize "Arcade". > > "At least"? You have further improvements

Re: DOAP files

2007-12-26 Thread Luca Brivio
mer 26 dicembre 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli ha scritto: > I see two ways of serving it that seem to me much more useful: provide a > centralized, archive-wide place, where we serve all the DOAPs of Debian > packages. The more obvious places to me seem packages.d.o and/or the > PTS. BTW, I don't know

DOAP files

2007-12-25 Thread Luca Brivio
Hi developers, While I'm packaging morla[1], I've found in the tarball tree a little XML file named "doap.rdf", which turned out to be a DOAP[2][3] file. An apt-file query (on 'sid', i386) showed me that there are at least three packages which install such files: flumotion: usr/share/doc/flumo

Bug#452422: RFP: yacy -- distributed web crawler and search engine

2007-11-22 Thread Luca Brivio
eate a independent and open search engine. The standard YaCy release is configured in such a way that the software joins this public network. The software has a number of community function like a co-operative bookmark system, a news, blog and built-in wiki system. -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUB

Re: deb-ice -- violating the GPL since 2007-08-14

2007-08-30 Thread Luca Brivio
Hi, ven 31 agosto 2007, Robert Edmonds ha scritto: > [...] > > The aggregator needs to either immediately stop distributing this ISO or > provide source code for the components that require source code and > clarify that the entire work is not under a single GPL license. I believe -legal and per

Debian Packaging Handbook project mailing list

2007-08-25 Thread Luca Brivio
Hi all, A few days ago Davide Truffa and I opened a mailing list[1] on Alioth, which will be used for the purpose of coordinating the writing and proofreading (hence Cc:ing the l10n-english list) of the packaging handbook[2]. I'd invite anybody which may be interested to subscribe. I'm also loo

Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-18 Thread Luca Brivio
t wiki page (and, at your choice, create new pages!). BTW, does anybody have any concerns about the licensing? -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-08 Thread Luca Brivio
rst stage) in the wiki-based handbook. Furthermore, the New Maintainers' Guide should remain as a simple tutorial, yet the official one. -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-08 Thread Luca Brivio
heck the documentation I'm not always online. This probably means > that the wiki pages should be included in the existing maint-guide. I agree with you. AFAIK, MoinMoin allow to export into DocBook, so it should be not too hard to make snaphots and include them in that package, after some

Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-08 Thread Luca Brivio
s needs, rather than just the first they suggested her/him or that with the best documentation available or something alike. I think this would be also useful for mentoring. -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-07 Thread Luca Brivio
ic documentation. I don't know if such a project deserves to be official, however I wish to try to make it work, and see how it might work. -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#434029: ITP: qfsm -- A graphical tool for designing finite state machines

2007-07-20 Thread Luca Brivio
ion - AHDL/VHDL/Verilog HDL/KISS export - State table export in Latex, HTML and plain text format - Ragel file export (used for C/C++, Java or Ruby code generation) -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#431824: ITP: morla -- GTK+ RDF editor

2007-07-05 Thread Luca Brivio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: morla Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Andrea Marchesini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.morlardf.net/ * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: C

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-22 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle venerdì 22 giugno 2007, Zachary Palmer ha scritto: > Hello, all. It has been my understanding that the reason that the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributed computing software has not been made a Debian > package is that the license under which it is released does not allow it > to be free. No, it

Re: Bug#428198: ITP: gabedit -- graphical interface to Ab Initio packages

2007-06-09 Thread Luca Brivio
:" the latter). After all, Debian is about software freedom. :-) -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#425952: ITP: emacs-rails -- Emacs minor-mode for developing RubyOnRails applications

2007-05-25 Thread Luca Brivio
: http://rubyforge.org/projects/emacs-rails/ > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: Ruby > Description : Emacs minor-mode for developing RubyOnRails > applications I think this should be merged with #418558 ("RFP: rails-el -- minor mode for editing RubyOnRails code in Emacs"). Thanks. -- Luca Brivio

Re: Bug#419951: ITP: jexcelapi -- Java API to read, write and modify Excel spreadsheets

2007-04-18 Thread Luca Brivio
namically. (Sorry if this is boring) I think that at least in the long description it would be wise to fully qualify "Excel spreadsheets", because there's no actual standard about them (Microsoft's as I guess? If so, either .xls or ECMA's "OpenXML"? Which version?). Thanks, -- Luca Brivio

Re: hunting for Linux developer

2007-04-07 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle 14:05, sabato 7 aprile 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > Hi everyone, > > *Wanted* Linux Developer I guess debian-jobs@lists.debian.org is more appropriate for this. Thanks. -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: debian rocks!

2007-02-05 Thread Luca Brivio
ch a solid system. In > the future, when I will be wealthier, I hope to donate regularly. Good work is being done, I must thank all developers. -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Luca Brivio
keep playing these number > games, but I don't really see the point :-) Anyway, ~ 3 000 times, not ~ 3 000 000 times, sadly! -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]