Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-31 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 23:43 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Also It's important that we can tell our users "Debian 4.0, as of > > 2008-01-31 has flashplugin-nonfree version X.Y, skype version Z.Y" > > Some non-free works are distributed via Debian's infr

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also It's important that we can tell our users "Debian 4.0, as of > 2008-01-31 has flashplugin-nonfree version X.Y, skype version Z.Y" That will never be true as long as those works are non-free. Debian has no non-free software (and if it does, that's a

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-31 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 31 janv. 08 à 08:52, Franklin PIAT a écrit : On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:48 +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Perhaps a possibility would be to have a sort of "module-assistant"- like package with a database of third-party, non-free software. This tool would either install the third-party softwar

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-31 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:19:17PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 30/01/2008, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > 7 virtualbox > > In sid, at least in part IIRC > > Called virtualbox-ose, but present indeed and also in testing. virtualbox-ose is the Open Source Edition. My guess it that quite

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:48 +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Perhaps a possibility would be to have a sort of "module-assistant"- > like package with a database of third-party, non-free software. This > tool would either install the third-party software on demand (like > googleearth-package)

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:17:32 +0100 Sebastian Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > * A mapping to current ITPs might be interesting. > > (Integration into http://wnpp.debian.net/) > > I just added that. Currently about 500 RFPs and ITPs > show more than 0 install

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Sebastian Pipping wrote: * A mapping to current ITPs might be interesting. (Integration into http://wnpp.debian.net/) I just added that. Currently about 500 RFPs and ITPs show more than 0 installs: http://wnpp.debian.net/?type%5B%5D=ITP&type%5B%5D=RFP&sort=installs;desc Sebastian -- To

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:48:06AM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Perhaps a possibility would be to have a sort of "module-assistant"- > like package with a database of third-party, non-free software. This > tool would either install the third-party software on demand (like > googleearth-pack

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 30/01/2008, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > 7 virtualbox > In sid, at least in part IIRC Called virtualbox-ose, but present indeed and also in testing. > > 28sun-j2sdk1.5 > Wrong Java licence - packaged before Sun went "free": I think only > Java 7 will be fully free IIRC FWIW: 2008/01/

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 29 janv. 08 à 23:57, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : One of the lists from popcon.debian.org I find most interesting, is the list of popular packages currently missing in Debian, http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote>. I understand it to list the packages our users would love to find in D

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Sebastian Pipping] > > * Would non-free be an option to all or some of them? > > Do we have binary only packages in Debian? > > Yes. The issue is more that very few package maintainers in Debian > want to maintain non-free packages. And that'

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Sebastian Pipping] > * Would non-free be an option to all or some of them? > Do we have binary only packages in Debian? Yes. The issue is more that very few package maintainers in Debian want to maintain non-free packages. > * A mapping to current ITPs might be interesting. > (Integration

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-29 Thread sean finney
hi, jftr: On Tuesday 29 January 2008 11:57:25 pm Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > 10emerald 2241 1079 820 342 0 i may end up packaging this as part of the desktop-bling subproject in pkg-xorg. > 26fusion-icon 849 421 184 244

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:57:25PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > One of the lists from popcon.debian.org I find most interesting, is > the list of popular packages currently missing in Debian, > http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote>. I understand it to > list the packages our users wo

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-29 Thread Joe Smith
"Sebastian Pipping" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Would non-free be an option to all or some of them? Do we have binary only packages in Debian? My understanding is that it is possible to have binary-only packages in non-free, although I really don't know an

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-29 Thread Sebastian Pipping
* Would non-free be an option to all or some of them? Do we have binary only packages in Debian? * A mapping to current ITPs might be interesting. (Integration into http://wnpp.debian.net/) Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
One of the lists from popcon.debian.org I find most interesting, is the list of popular packages currently missing in Debian, http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote>. I understand it to list the packages our users would love to find in Debian, but which are currently missing. Some are missing