On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:58:29AM +, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Bart Samwel wrote:
> > Hmmm. I'd require a sponsor for that, as I'm not a DD. Raphael, would you
> > mind sponsoring?
>
> Yeah, I can. And you could most probably quickly become "DM" for those
> packages given
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:11:33 +0100
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Given that acpi-support is going to be deprecated in favor of
> > pm-utils/hal [1] I'd rather see acpi-support removed from the
> > laptop-task completely.
> > [1] https://w
Bart Samwel wrote:
> 2. What we may actually require is a detection system which triggers the
> installation of packages at installation time, based on hardware
> detection.
You should contact Petter Reinholdtsen, who has been working on a new life
for the package discover to do exactly that.
He
[Bart Samwel]
> 2. What we may actually require is a detection system which triggers
> the installation of packages at installation time, based on hardware
> detection.
The discover package got the script discover-pkginstall which will do
this. I've added mapping from hardware to packages for a
On 31/10/2007, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 31-Oct-07, 12:39 (CDT), Ben Goodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc.
>
> Huh? VNC != VLC.
Oh yes, misread the N. Whoops.
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On Thursday 01 November 2007 10:19, Christian Perrier wrote:
> IMHO, even if I did not check this, the ttf-dejavu font(s) cover
> these languages pretty well. So, the font is maybe not very much
> relevant for being installed by default.
Hi Christian,
FWIW, greek is ok with the current set of fon
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:54:44AM +0100, Bart Samwel wrote:
> Luk Claes wrote:
> >Bart Samwel wrote:
> >>3. Regarding the toshset package: I have a working Toshiba Tecra 8200,
> >>one of the models covered by toshset. I may be biased, but as far as I'm
> >>concerned the stuff is still useful. :-)
(beware: wide crosspost. Please turn your brain ON to decide where you
want to reply... :-)))
Quoting Cyril Brulebois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007):
> > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> > u
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Given that acpi-support is going to be deprecated in favor of
> pm-utils/hal [1] I'd rather see acpi-support removed from the
> laptop-task completely.
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PMUtilsSpec
I'm all for this if this is possible. acpi-support has alway
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Bart Samwel wrote:
> Luk Claes wrote:
>> Bart Samwel wrote:
>>> 3. Regarding the toshset package: I have a working Toshiba Tecra 8200,
>>> one of the models covered by toshset. I may be biased, but as far as I'm
>>> concerned the stuff is still useful. :-)
>> Please do adopt th
Bart Samwel wrote:
> I wouldn't mind having the packages installed in the laptop task if that
> fixes it. However, the laptop task currently uses the task-fields method,
> which AFAICT means that the dependent packages should list themselves as
> being part of the laptop task, something that wil
Bart Samwel schrieb:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>>> The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial
>>> installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop
>>> task if
>>> we made that a Recommends...
>>
>> d-i can't afford to install recomme
Joey Hess wrote:
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial
installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop task if
we made that a Recommends...
d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change
that is
Luk Claes wrote:
Bart Samwel wrote:
3. Regarding the toshset package: I have a working Toshiba Tecra 8200,
one of the models covered by toshset. I may be biased, but as far as I'm
concerned the stuff is still useful. :-)
Please do adopt the toshutils and toshset packages so people don't need
t
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> You may be interested to learn that we plan to downgrade a number of
> dependencies of the gnome metapackages to Recommends.
>
> If this means tracking them later on to be sure that everything needed
> is installed, maybe we need a way to improve the coordination between
Le mercredi 31 octobre 2007 à 18:05 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
> d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change
> that is to make all uses of recommends sane to be installed by default).
>
> So the laptop task would need to track and list the recommends. Doing
> something sm
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:45:29AM +0100, Frank S. Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Luk Claes wrote:
> > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> > users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are
Hi,
On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Luk Claes wrote:
> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still
> usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that
> are r
Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 31/10/2007, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libglade.html
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libv/libvncserver.html
>
>
> AFAIK these are unofficially or officially deprecated:
> libglade is now replaced by something nearly identica
Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Luk Claes wrote:
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autobook.html
> Based on the submitter's observation in #328219, maybe we should remove
> autobook?
> If it's non-free and increasingly outdated and doesn't have anone
> wanting to maintain it, we might as well stop distri
Bart Samwel wrote:
> tag 438665 wontfix
> merge 438665 445900
> thanks
>
> Clint Adams wrote:
>> reopen 438665
>> quit
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
>>> That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file
>>> a bug for it.
>>
>> It doesn't lo
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:39:38PM +, Ben Goodger wrote:
> libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc.
I somehow don't think it's likely for a remote desktop server to have been
replaced by a media player?
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Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial
> installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop task if
> we made that a Recommends...
d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change
that is to make all use
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Bart Samwel [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:57 +0100]:
>
> Hello Bart. While I understand your reasoning, it may be now the time to
> revisit it:
>
> > or Recommends which
> > behaves exactly like Depends (like some package managers treat Recommends,
> > bu
* Bart Samwel [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:57 +0100]:
Hello Bart. While I understand your reasoning, it may be now the time to
revisit it:
> or Recommends which
> behaves exactly like Depends (like some package managers treat Recommends,
> but not all),
As announced in [1] and can be seen in [2], a
Luk Claes wrote:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autobook.html
Based on the submitter's observation in #328219, maybe we should remove
autobook?
If it's non-free and increasingly outdated and doesn't have anone
wanting to maintain it, we might as well stop distributing it.
Kind regards
T.
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tag 438665 wontfix
merge 438665 445900
thanks
Clint Adams wrote:
reopen 438665
quit
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file
a bug for it.
It doesn't look like #438665 was actually fixed.
OK, then I
Luk Claes wrote:
> Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which
> probably should stay?
I'll do a qa upload as we speak, removing the xmms package. One less to
bother for the upcoming removal...
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On 31-Oct-07, 12:39 (CDT), Ben Goodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc.
Huh? VNC != VLC.
Steve
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Cyril Brulebois a écrit :
> Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007):
>
>> Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>>
>>
http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html
>>> If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so
>>> xmms will be gone, too.
>>>
>> Yes
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:37:38AM +0900, Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi
>
> Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100
> Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a):
>
> > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> > users. It would be great i
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007):
> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still
> usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that
> are rather
On 31/10/2007, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libglade.html
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libv/libvncserver.html
AFAIK these are unofficially or officially deprecated:
libglade is now replaced by something nearly identical or perhaps merely
renamed a
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007):
> Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>
> >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html
> >
> > If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so
> > xmms will be gone, too.
>
> Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade wh
reopen 438665
quit
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file
> a bug for it.
It doesn't look like #438665 was actually fixed.
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Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi
>
> Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100
> Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a):
>
>> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
>> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still
Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html
>
> If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so xmms
> will be gone, too.
Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which
probably should stay?
Cheers
Luk
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Hi,
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-gnome.html
python-gnome only useful for gnome 1. It could (should?) be replaced by
a pseudo package which transitions to python-gnome2 probably, or just be
removed from Debian.
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pyzor.html
Imho there're better ways t
Hi
Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a):
> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still
> usefull and give alternatives and/or migratio
Hi
Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still
usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that
are rather obsolete or not really usefull anymore.
Cheers
Luk
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