Re: Should fast-evolving packages be backports-only?

2014-11-12 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > On 2014-11-11 15:30, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> However, candidate packages due to reason (c) above really are a problem, >> IMHO they shouldn't be in stable in the first place. > > Does this mean that I should ask for the removal

Re: Should fast-evolving packages be backports-only?

2014-11-11 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 11/11/14 14:30, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: >> It has been recently stated [0-1] that backports is enabled by default >> in Jessie. >> >> 1. Does that mean that if pkgX is in jessie-backports but not jessie, >> "apt-get install pkgX" will ins

Re: Debian.

2014-07-07 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Dan Rulos wrote: > How are you developing debian? I need to develop a new linux distro > based on debian squeeze, how can i ? Thanks. I'm 14 years old spanish > and my english is not perfect. That's great that you are interested and learning at a young age! If you

Bug#736123: ITP: sbbi-upnplib -- Java library for universal plug and play (upnp)

2014-01-19 Thread Scott Howard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: sbbi-upnplib Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : SuperBonBon Industries * URL : http://sourceforge.net/p/triplea/code/HEAD/tree/upnp/ * License : Apache-1.1 Programming Lang: Java

Bug#731189: ITP: jssc -- Library for working with serial ports from Java

2013-12-02 Thread Scott Howard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: jssc Version : 2.6.0 Upstream Author : scream3r@gmail.com * URL : http://code.google.com/p/java-simple-serial-connector/ * License : LGPL-3+ Programming Lang: Java Description

Re: Let me introduce!

2013-07-22 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Ian Sapelino wrote: > Hello guys!! I am Ian Sapelino I am also Programmer and I want to know how > to make a Debian Based OS?? > > Please reply to my answer! Thank you :) Welcome to Debian Here are some resources on making your own Debian derivative: "Making your

Bug#711233: ITP: fonts-ebgaramond -- EB Garamond OpenType and TrueType fonts

2013-06-05 Thread Scott Howard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: fonts-ebgaramond Version : 0.015+git20130522 Upstream Author : Georg Duffner * URL : http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/ * License : SIL OFL 1.1 Programming Lang: font (python-fontforge

Upgrade path for packages that dropped ia32-libs for wheezy

2012-06-02 Thread Scott Howard
Hello, I have a non-free package that is distributable but comes precompiled for i386. Squeeze (and previous) released an amd64 package that depended on ia32-libs. For wheezy we've been able to use multiarched libraries to drop the dependency. Is there a mechanism that will make the upgrade to whe

Bug#660957: ITP: arduino-mk -- CLI (makefile) for arduino platforms

2012-02-22 Thread Scott Howard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: arduino-mk Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Martin Oldfield * URL : http:/mjo.tc/atelier/2009/02/arduino-cli.html * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: Perl, make Description : CLI

Bug#656565: ITP: openstereograph -- Open source stereograph ("Magic Eye") generator for desktops

2012-01-19 Thread Scott Howard
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: openstereograph Version : 0.1+20080921 Upstream Author : Gustavo de Farias * URL : http://code.google.com/p/openstereogram * License : BSD-2

Re: uscan, watch files, and gihub tags

2011-12-18 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > For XCP (Xen Cloud Platform) that I'm helping to package (the first > version is nearly finished), upstream doesn't releases tarballs, but > instead, just adds tags to its Git repository, and git-buildpackage does > the rest of the

Bug#648444: ITP: triplea -- turn based strategy war game

2011-11-11 Thread Scott Howard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: triplea Version : 1.3.2.2 Upstream Author : TripleA developers * URL : http://triplea.sourceforge.net * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Java Description : turn based strategy war

Re: Re: Qt3 looking for adopters

2011-06-01 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Grzegorz Wierzchowski wrote: > There is also very impotrant package qcad (and connected qcad-doc and > partlibrary) which are not on the list of QT3 dependencies. > This program is to my knowledge the only one usable OSS CAD type progam. I use > it regularly. Hell

Bug#617197: ITP: fparser -- Library to evaluate strings as mathematical functions

2011-03-06 Thread Scott Howard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: fparser Version : 4.3 Upstream Author : Juha Nieminen (http://iki.fi/warp/), Joel Yliluoma (http://iki.fi/bisqwit/). * URL : http://warp.povusers.org/FunctionParser/ * License : LGPL-3.0

Bug#605914: ITP: librecad -- 2D CAD program (qt4 port of QCad)

2010-12-04 Thread Scott Howard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: librecad Version : 1.0.0beta4 (won't propagate to testing until it's out of beta) Upstream Author : Ries van Twisk * URL : http://www.caduntu.org/ * License : GPL-2 Programmin

ITP: sandbox -- Collaborative 3D game editor for education

2009-10-14 Thread Scott Howard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: sandbox Version : 2.4 Upstream Author : Platinum Arts, LLX * URL : http://sandboxgamemaker.com/ * License : Custom: open source, free to download, but potentially non