RFA: alliance

2016-01-19 Thread Roland Stigge
On 19/01/16 20:39, Roland Stigge wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > This package is not that difficult to maintain. Upstream is active and > releases > every few years. I'm requesting adoption for this package because I'm not > really using it. >

Bug#731801: ITP: whiteboard -- simple collaborative text editor for the web

2013-12-09 Thread Roland Stigge
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roland Stigge * Package name: whiteboard Version : 0.1~1-1 Upstream Author : Richard Darst * URL : http://whiteboard.debian.net/ * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: Python, JavaScript Description : simple

Powerpc: overflowing GOT table: -fpic acceptable?

2013-03-12 Thread Roland Stigge
): On 03/11/2013 01:22 PM, Roland Stigge wrote: > make[4]: Entering directory > `/build/buildd-quickfix_1.13.3+dfsg-4-powerpc-X8NgWA/quickfix-1.13.3+dfsg/src/python' > /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile /usr/bin/g++ > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I. -I.. -I../..

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#687396: sbuild: building pyca fails silently

2012-12-05 Thread Roland Stigge
On 12/05/2012 04:34 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 15:17:11 +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: >> On 12/05/2012 03:11 PM, Roland Stigge wrote: >>> But don't worry - it's just a minor change and at least fixes the issue >>> for the protocol. ;

Re: [Pkg-dia-team] Bug#689293: dia menu entry should use /usr/bin/dia not /usr/bin/dia-normal

2012-10-04 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi! On 10/04/2012 09:07 AM, Andre Naujoks wrote: >> On 01/10/12 10:30, Andre Naujoks wrote: >>> The installation of dia should add a menu entry to start dia with the >>> link in /usr/bin/dia, so the choice of the alternatives system is taken >>> into account. >>> >>> Currently /usr/bin/dia-normal

Re: [Pkg-dia-team] Bug#689293: dia menu entry should use /usr/bin/dia not /usr/bin/dia-normal

2012-10-03 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi! Thanks you for your report! On 01/10/12 10:30, Andre Naujoks wrote: > The installation of dia should add a menu entry to start dia with the > link in /usr/bin/dia, so the choice of the alternatives system is taken > into account. > > Currently /usr/bin/dia-normal is used, which bypasses the

Re: NMU needed for TL2012

2012-03-05 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Daniele and Norbert, On 03/05/2012 06:02 AM, Daniele Tricoli wrote: > Norbert Preining is working on TexLive 2012 for Debian. The following > packages need an NMU (already prepared) to proceed: > fonts-tlwg > musixtex > > So I'm asking to you if Norbert can go along and NMU your packages. Wo

Bug#636330: RFA: convirt -- management system for open source hypervisors and cloud platforms

2011-08-02 Thread Roland Stigge
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I request an adopter for the convirt package. There are 2 open RC bugs caused by upstream source being non-DFSG-free. Unfortunately, upstream doesn't respond nor issue updates in a timely manner. Maybe someone wants to pick up maintainership. She will need to do

Bug#621632: O: hyperlatex

2011-04-07 Thread Roland Stigge
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I'm orphaning the package hyperlatex. It's unmaintained upstream for years now and it depends on an old emacs version (for emacs lisp in which it is implemented). Therefore, it is RC-buggy now. I'm not a lisp programmer so I won't port it to current emacs23. T

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On 06/01/2010 03:10 AM, Paul Szabo wrote: > This package depends on ghostscript, and may be affected. Please > evaluate the security of this package, and fix if needed. There are several issues with this bug: (1) If ghostscript has a bug, maybe it should be fixed there instead of in all gs d

Bug#569813: dh-kpatches: Can't fulfill its original purpose anymore (kernel-package dropped --added-patches)

2010-02-14 Thread Roland Stigge
Package: dh-kpatches Version: 0.99.36 Severity: serious Hi, according to the Description, the purpose of dh-kpatches is to produce patches to be automatically usable by kernel-package: The dh_installkpatches script pro

Wrong Architecture for openhackware

2008-01-12 Thread Roland Stigge
reopen 339870 thanks Hi, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >* Error out if the toolchain used to build is not powerpc-linux-gnu. > (Closes: #322300, #339870) Again, I don't agree here (backed by p2): The package is wrong if it asserts that it's "Architecture: all". It contains powerpc s

FAQ (was: Bug#399153: xen-tools: Ubuntu Edgy - ttys not disabled by hooks)

2006-11-19 Thread Roland Stigge
Neil Wilson wrote: > What's an upstream issue? Consideration for next version or something? | | | | <-- xen-tools (Steve Kemp) | | | | ^ |T| | upstream |h| | |e| | | | |R| | flow |i| v |v| |e| | |r| | downstream | | v | | | | <-- Debi

Re: ITP: xenman -- A graphical Xen management tool

2006-10-27 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Roland Stigge wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: xenman > Version : 0.5 > Upstream Author : Haphazard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >

Bug#394460: ITP: xenman -- A graphical Xen management tool

2006-10-21 Thread Roland Stigge
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xenman Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Haphazard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yves Perrenoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xenman.so

Dia 0.95-pre in experimental

2006-03-31 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I just uploaded dia 0.95-pre7 to experimental. This will go to unstable when the actual release happens (soon?). Feel free to test. Enjoy! bye, Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

UTF-8 for debian/control

2005-11-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, when feeding the data from the Sources file into a script that implicitly checks for UTF-8 consistency (a Python lib), the following packages happen to include byte sequences that are no valid UTF-8: cadubi fcmp glade-perl myspell-sv rat all of them have another encoding in the Maintainer fi

Re: Re: [Mass bug filing] Native vs. non-native packages consistency

2005-11-05 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Steve, >> Feel free to point me to false positives, as I haven't checked every >> single one of them. I know that some of them already have respective >> bugs filed against them. > > Indeed, at least some of these *are* false positives; there is nothing > that prohibits the use of dashes in nat

[Mass bug filing] Native vs. non-native packages consistency

2005-11-04 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I knew you would read this mail considering the subject. ;-) Below is a list of 311 packages that currently have a version in unstable that is not properly reflected by the existence of an orig.tar.gz file (that's 3.3% of the whole sid archive). Feel free to point me to false positives, as I

Re: [marcov@stack.nl: (debian-devel related) FPC static/dynamic]

2005-03-11 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Bill, On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 16:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > >Hello Roland, I know nothing about fpc, but does it really need to > >produce binaries statically linked with glibc ? > > It doesn't. Not all statically linked binaries are statically linked with > glibc. > > FPC is no GCC de

Re: Re: Statically linked binaries from fpc

2005-03-01 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Bill, > Hello Roland, I know nothing about fpc, but does it really need to > produce binaries statically linked with glibc ? I would expect to just > link statically with the units and dynamically with glibc. This would > be much less a problem. (In particular, if security bugs are found in >

Statically linked binaries from fpc

2005-02-27 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, maintaining m-tx, I would like to move from the p2c generated C sources to the original upstream Pascal sources (better suited for patches, development, design, etc.). m-tx is written in a Turbo Pascal dialect that can only be compiled with fpc (not gpc). Unfortunately, fpc in Debian produce

Re: TG3 firmware report...

2004-10-10 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Daniel Freedman wrote: > Anyway, just thought I'd see what people think of this, and how the > Debian community wants to proceed. Is there some way to enable > compability with this without downloading the firmware and violating > the DFSG? Since the tg3 driver doesn't work with my BCM5702 i

/usr/bin/xpp with different functionalty in xpp and iraf

2003-12-10 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, since the respective maintainers don't seem to have acted upon this, I will address this here. Policy states: = 10.1. Binaries -- Two different packages must not install programs with different funct

Re: Source only uploads? -- Survey evaluation

2003-12-02 Thread Roland Stigge
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 02:41, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Source only uploads were afaik disabled because the uploaded source > would just disapear and never enter the archive afaik. It was just > easier to block them than to fix the archive scripts I guess. Just trying it (for fun, see package "

Re: Source only uploads? -- Survey evaluation

2003-12-01 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Steve, >> Unfortunately, there wasn't much response to this. Maybe this is >> related to the big Debian KO. > Or maybe because making technical decisions by voting is silly. At this stage, I personally decided that more official efforts wouldn't be appropriate just to reflect the community's

Re: Is vrms really still a Virtual Richard M. Stallman?

2003-11-19 Thread Roland Stigge
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 14:41, Florian Weimer wrote: > > debian-legalint > > I don't think this is a good idea. "non-free" doesn't mean "illegal". In contrast to the common German denotation of the word "legal" ("allowed"), consider the one implied by the usage of "legal" in names like "debian-leg

Re: Is vrms really still a Virtual Richard M. Stallman?

2003-11-18 Thread Roland Stigge
Anthony Towns wrote: > > > debian-legalint > > I think this one, or a variation, has good prospects.. > > If it's just going to check freeness, maybe "dfsg-check" or something? That would not reflect the current service of vrms. > Something called "legalint" really ought to let you check that you

Re: Is vrms really still a Virtual Richard M. Stallman?

2003-11-17 Thread Roland Stigge
Andrew Lau wrote: > So is vrms now up for a name change before the real RMS decides to sue > us for misrepresenting him! = ) > > vbranden? > vdlegal? > > Nominations are now open. debian-legalint signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Source only uploads? -- A summary

2003-11-15 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, last month, Wolfgang Borgert wondered [1] if we should decide to enable source-only uploads. The thread was lead quite emotionally and turned to be a flame war. Personally, I stopped following it when [DD X] wrote: "Be very wary of listening to [DD Y]. His comments are frequently disconnected

Re: Removal of LaTeX2HTML from main

2003-11-10 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, some additional info: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:54, Adrian Bunk wrote to #204684: > after reading through #204684, I'd suggest a different approach for > latex2html: > - move latex2html to non-free without renaming it > - file RC bugs against packages in main build depending on latex2html >

Removal of LaTeX2HTML from main

2003-11-10 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, working on the legal issues for LaTeX2HTML [1], at debian-legal [2], we concluded that LaTeX2HTML will have to be removed from main because it is considered non-free in the sense of the DFSG. After dozens of emails with upstream and a thread [3] on the LaTeX2HTML mailing list, the upstream mai

Re: can't update pbuilder to unstable

2003-09-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Brian May wrote: > Is there anything I can do to update this pbuilder chroot? That was #208602, solved in pbuilder 0.86, for the case that something like /etc/pam.d/other appears again. bye, Roland signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part