Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-24 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Nathan Paul Simons may or may not have also sent directly to me despite my not having requested this... > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 08:28, Darren Salt wrote: >> Hmm. They're conffiles (not sure why, given that they're all binaries); >> have you tried 2.4 with the 2.3 drums files? > I be

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-23 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
(Sorry for taking so long to get back) On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 08:28, Darren Salt wrote: > Hmm. They're conffiles (not sure why, given that they're all binaries); have > you tried 2.4 with the 2.3 drums files? I believe I tried that, but I can't recall. As it stands now, I just keep the source to

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-23 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
(Sorry for taking so long to get back) On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 19:18, Cameron Patrick wrote: > Er, the SBLive and its Creative brethren do, don't they? At least, I'm > presuming that's what "sound fonts" are for. Has it been removed in > later versions of the card? If it's there, I can't find it

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-18 Thread Nick Phillips
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 04:28:40PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > [snip] > > For instance, what are some good replacements for magicfilter? > > apsfilter seems to work well. Not For Me. Every time I've tried it it's been utter crap. Magicfilter, OTOH, Just Works. Just in case anyone out there was

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-14 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> cadaver Andrew> You get ten of these to the penny. Actually, cadaver shouldn't be on that list. The current maintainer is continuing to support it and doesn't want to give it up unless someone else ports it to GnuTLS (I aske

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:34:32PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: >> > pptp-linux [...] > Additionally, pptp-linux seems to be the only/prefe

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-13 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:34:32PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > > pptp-linux > > AIUI, you have to rebuild your kernel with a patch, and the version of > the patch in the archive doesn't work on recent kernels. So I doubt > many peo

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Not about to offer to take pptp-linux, though - it's not essential for me, > and > I guess as a non-DD, it would be a bit tough to take on as a first package. If you change your mind and need a sponsor, let

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-13 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Saturday 12 April 2003 15:34, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > > pptp-linux > > AIUI, you have to rebuild your kernel with a patch, and the version of > the patch in the archive doesn't work on recent kernels. So I doubt > many people will

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le sam 12/04/2003 à 15:34, Andrew Suffield a écrit : > > phpgroupware > > Again, several alternatives. Sorry ? > > pppoeconf > > Yay, another config tool. Just what we need. Sure. Instead of being able to set up a DSL line in a few seconds, we should let users handle all those configuration f

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 04:01:28PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:34:32PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > [...] > > > mnogosearch > > > > Again, several alternatives. > > search.d.o is using it, IIRC it was the only search engine > able to index foreign languages found o

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Nathan Paul Simons may or may not have written... [snip] > Speaking for myself, I can say that I still have playmidi installed, albeit > version 2.3 instead of 2.4 (2.4 drums sound ugly on my wavetable for some > reason I can't fathom; not a Debian problem per se, it's in upstream to

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:34:32PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > pptp-linux > > AIUI, you have to rebuild your kernel with a patch, and the version of > the patch in the archive doesn't work on recent kernels. So I doubt > many people will be hugely affected. Well, uni shut down VPN-access a

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-12 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:34:32PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: [...] > > mnogosearch > > Again, several alternatives. search.d.o is using it, IIRC it was the only search engine able to index foreign languages found on www.d.o. Denis

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > I am not currently using anything on the wnpp-list, but it > seems to me that not all these packages are better off gotten > rid off. > > Does anyone know something about the importance of these > packages? > I would suspect packages

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:23:39PM -0700, Nathan Paul Simons wrote: | | [...] Most sound cards these days don't even *come* with wavetable | synthesis, [...] | Er, the SBLive and its Creative brethren do, don't they? At least, I'm presuming that's what "sound fonts" are for. Has it been remove

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 13:57, Lars Bahner wrote: > I am not currently using anything on the wnpp-list, but it > seems to me that not all these packages are better off gotten > rid off. > > Does anyone know something about the importance of these > packages? Has/can someone run this against the pop

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Lars Bahner
I am not currently using anything on the wnpp-list, but it seems to me that not all these packages are better off gotten rid off. Does anyone know something about the importance of these packages? Has/can someone run this against the popularity-contest? My point is that I could prolly adopt a pa