Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Gunnar Wolf writes: > Ok. Lintian does not yet like httpd as a section, but I guess you will > not reject an upload just because I listened to you ;-) Lintian is waiting for the d-d-a post saying that the new section changes have been implemented, FWIW. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-03-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, Joerg Jaspert dijo [Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100]: > As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, > now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. > Much of what we are currently doing is not visible to you as a user of > this archive,

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Joerg Jaspert, le Fri 27 Feb 2009 09:02:11 +0100, a écrit : > > Maybe it could be interesting to open an accessibility section? > > Maybe, maybe not. What packages would you put into it? Just a quick rough list (90 bin packages): accerciser at-spi at-spi-doc big-cursor brltty brltty-flit

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive (deborphan)

2009-03-01 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:14:34AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Carsten Hey [090228 19:21]: > > > It shouldn't be anything harder than adding 'deprecated' > > > (non-library, deprecated software) to complement oldlibs, > > > > Adding non-library packages to oldlibs would cause these to be >

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive (deborphan)

2009-03-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Carsten Hey [090228 19:21]: > > It shouldn't be anything harder than adding 'deprecated' > > (non-library, deprecated software) to complement oldlibs, > > Adding non-library packages to oldlibs would cause these to be handled > like a library by deborphan and thus possibly being falsely displaye

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:59:27AM +, Enrico Zini wrote: > I propose 'oldlibs' to be renamed to 'deprecated'. > > That would also fit, for example, packages abandoned upstream, or > packages that have a better alternative, but that still have users. I would expect to have so called trans

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive (deborphan)

2009-02-28 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:03:39PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:03:55PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > There are tools that understand the special meaning of the 'oldlibs' > > section and treat it specially; at least deborphan comes to mind, > > there may be others. I d

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-28 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:03:55PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > There are tools that understand the special meaning of the 'oldlibs' section > and treat it specially; at least deborphan comes to mind, there may be > others. I don't see the necessity for such a section rename, but if it > happen

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:31:25PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> Get me a short description for it. > > "Compiler, libraries, and tools for OCaml: a static typed ML language > > implementation supporting functional, imperative, and object-oriented > > programming styles". > You have an interesti

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 21:40 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : >> Select one of cli-mono or ecma-cli and please also get me a short >> description :) > > How about: > > cli-mono -- The Common Language Infrastructure, the Mono implement

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 21:40 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > Select one of cli-mono or ecma-cli and please also get me a short > description :) How about: cli-mono -- The Common Language Infrastructure, the Mono implementation and packages containing Common Intermediate Langua

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:59:27AM +, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid > > growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. > I propose 'oldl

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 21:24 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> video > > mplayer* > > That is already in. > > > vswitch* > > No hit for this match?! Holger probably meant dvswitch. Which is in NEW, anyway. Ben. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Hello world, > > We also plan on adding a number of new sections. wanna-build will need to be change for this too, and will probably break if you give it an unknown section. Please wait until the list is added to wanna-build. Kur

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) may or may not have written... [snip] > I do believe that users are getting used to see the terms i18n/l10n, and if > our users are able to find out what httpd and vcs mean, I'm pretty sure > they will survive l10n. :-) "Where's the t1g3r section?"

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Tautschnig writes: > Seeing that the change of sections could pose some technical problems > (not only challenges implementing them) as well, let me ask one > (possibly stupid) question: Why do we need sections at all? > > All that policy states is that it simplifies some handling of pack

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-02-2009 08:41, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:53:04AM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) > wrote: >> On 26-02-2009 23:10, Darren Salt wrote: >>> I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... Joerg Jaspert wrot

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Luciano Bello
El Vie 27 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert escribió: > Thats ok, get me a good name and short description for it please. > "r" is not a good name, i think. gnu-r ? Everything about GNU R, an statistical computation and graphics system luciano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough >> packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, >> but cli wouldnt be my favorite name for it. > I’m not sure for the section name, but here is a list of matches: Select one of cli-mono or ecma-cli and pl

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11674 March 1977, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > As I mentioned directly to override-change before encountering this > message, I'd argue that my goo package is a (somewhat exotic) > candidate. In general, here's a first cut at a full list, including > it and your initial proposals: Thanks. -- bye,

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> Get me a short description for it. > "Compiler, libraries, and tools for OCaml: a static typed ML language > implementation supporting functional, imperative, and object-oriented > programming styles". You have an interesting definition of short, i stopped after : for now. :) (Its a different

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> You also want totem* and kaffeine*. Done. > *-dbg packages could go in their own section(s) (debug, or libdebug & > appdebug?); otherwise, I think that they should remain with (the bulk of) the > packages for which they provide debug data. All debug packages will go in the debug section. --

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> video > mplayer* That is already in. > vswitch* No hit for this match?! -- bye, Joerg I've annoyed Ganneff enough with that package already, no reason to top it off by a build-depend on emacs for writing control files pgpLuKXMhKlrs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> Have sense to inaugurate a section with all the R modules? Nowadays > many of them are in "math". > $ apt-cache search r- | grep "^r-" | wc - l > 133 Thats ok, get me a good name and short description for it please. "r" is not a good name, i think. -- bye, Joerg * wiggy just looking at g

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11674 March 1977, Edward Betts wrote: > webfeed - RSS/Atom feed readers, aggregator and utilities Not enough packages, can stay in web, especially as that gets rid of httpds. -- bye, Joerg cron.daily time, unlocking: slave_NEW ftpbot: oh bugger off, slave_NEW isn't affected by dinstall :-)

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Yavor Doganov
[BTW, the only proper spelling is "GNUstep" -- not "Gnustep" or "GNUStep".] Vincent Danjean wrote: > I maintain a page.app package. You mean paje.app, I assume (innocent typo)? > It is right it is a gnustep application (ie it uses the gnustep > framwork). However, I never use the gnustep envir

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid >> growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. > According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means > that we don't have to worry about a possible kernel update for > lenny+

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 14:33 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> > Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough >> > packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, >> > but cli

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 14:33 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough > > packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, > > but cli wouldnt be my favorite name for

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough > packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, > but cli wouldnt be my favorite name for it. I would suggest "c-sharp" for the section. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Stefano! Cc:ing again the Debian Common Lisp mailing list, please keep it! On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:02:59 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:04:36AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: >> FYI, as Aaron already showed with his list, ome packages (especially the >> "non-library"

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means > > that we don't have to worry about a possible kernel update for > > lenny+1/2. Am I correct with that? > > The sections are define

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:04:36AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > FYI, as Aaron already showed with his list, ome packages (especially the > "non-library" ones) do not have the cl-* suffix. StumpWM is missing, > for example. Note that the current language-oriented sections (python, perl, and the ju

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Frans Pop
Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means > that we don't have to worry about a possible kernel update for > lenny+1/2. Am I correct with that? The sections are defined in the overr

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:53:04AM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 26-02-2009 23:10, Darren Salt wrote: > > I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... > >> Joerg Jaspert wrote: > [...] > >>> The new sections are:

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 09:03 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough > packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, > but cli wouldnt be my favorite name for it. I’m not sure for the section name, but here is

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Cc:ing the Debian Common Lisp mailing list. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:02:03 +0100, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Joerg Jaspert writes: >> Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as >> well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. [...] > cl-* FY

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 01:19 +, Sam Morris a écrit : > > I don’t like the name either, but can you think of a better one? We > > could use “mono”, but it’s the implementation name. > > 'clr' (common language runtime)? It's the acronym that MS uses quite a > bit. CLR is the acronym for

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Dave Holland
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:13:07AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: > localization is the spelling given by the OED, so it is correct in all > locales. It doesn't even list localisation as an alternative spelling. The OED lists plenty of examples of "localisation" and "localise"; whether you consider

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid > growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. I propose 'oldlibs' to be renamed to 'deprecated'. That would also fit, for example

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 27. Februar 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: > According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means > that we don't have to worry about a possible kernel update for > lenny+1/2. Am I correct with that? Can you/anybody please explain how this is related to the sections?

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:19:11AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: > Should Java libs be in lib or libdevel (they are both). This is one of > the reasons we've wanted a Java section. I wouldn't mind a proper discussion on the pros and cons of both. That'd help me for debtags as well, where java li

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid > growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means that we don't

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Vincent Danjean wrote: > What about creating a 'libs' section for different languages? > Something like libs-ruby, libs-perl, libs-python, libs-java, libs-r, ... > > This would allow to split the big 'libs' section and this avoid to put > libs (ie mostly automatic pulled packages) in sections wher

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Vincent Danjean
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > The new sections are: > > ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented > language. > java Everything about Java > videoVideo viewers, editors, recording, streaming > fonts

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Vincent Danjean
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > gnustep > gnustep* > libgnustep* > *.app > *.framework I maintain a page.app package. It is right it is a gnustep application (ie it uses the gnustep framwork). However, I never use the gnustep environment. Up

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object >> oriented >> language. >> java Everything about Java > How about a "cli" section about everything related to Mono and the > Common Language Infrastructure (aka .NET) ? That make

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> Maybe it could be interesting to open an accessibility section? Maybe, maybe not. What packages would you put into it? -- bye, Joerg LOL die Telefonnummer vom Arbeitsamt Mönchengladbach ist echt 404-0? Soll das nen schlechter Scherz sein? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Feb 27 02:00, Enrico Zini wrote: > Putting java libraries into 'java' instead of 'libs' would just make > it harder for a package manager to hide libraries. Debtags will work > for that, so no big deal, but at the moment 'libs' is nice because it > allows me to auto-tag packages from th

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Feb 27 02:10, Darren Salt wrote: > > I'd prefer "localization". > > Whereas I'd prefer "localisation"... > > > - We use en_US in general -> "ize" > > ... unless you're localising for en_US. OTOH, given that that section is for > localisation, "localization" is probably right, being locali

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-02-2009 23:10, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... >> Joerg Jaspert wrote: [...] >>> The new sections are: >>> localisationsLanguage packs >> I'd prefer "localization". > Whereas I'd prefer "l

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Daniel Moerner writes: > chicken-bin Ah, yes, I meant to list that but forgot; good catch. > mzscheme and drscheme are just plt-scheme transitional packages by now True; in that case, perhaps they should go to oldlibs until they retire altogether. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.ed

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Joerg Jaspert may or may not have written... [snip] > The initial set of packages moved into the new sections will be found > using the following matches: [snip] > video [snip] > *xine* Slightly over-broad, unless you want to move library packages too (but I see that

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... > Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid >> growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. > Great. >> The new sections are: > [...] >> localisations

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > While we acknowledge that something like debtags will make a better > long-term solution, we do not think that it is ready yet to completly > replace sections (e.g. because it isn't assured that all packages have > tags). This is why

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Joerg Jaspert writes: > >> Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as >> well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. > > As I mentioned directly to override-change before encountering this > me

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Sam Morris
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:13:48 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 17:08 -0800, Kelly Clowers a écrit : >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:50, Josselin Mouette >> wrote: >> > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : >> >> ruby Everything

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 17:08 -0800, Kelly Clowers a écrit : > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:50, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > >> ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object > >> oriented > >>

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Joerg Jaspert writes: > Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as > well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. One more: ikarus (which I initially overlooked because it's only available on i386 :-/). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.ed

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:50, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : >> ruby                     Everything about ruby, an interpreted object >> oriented >>                          language. >> java                     Everything about Java > >

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Joerg Jaspert writes: > Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as > well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. As I mentioned directly to override-change before encountering this message, I'd argue that my goo package is a (somewhat exotic) candi

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Edward Betts
How about: webfeed - RSS/Atom feed readers, aggregator and utilities akregator blam canto cl-rss claws-mail-feeds-reader dcoprss evolution-rss feed2imap firefox-sagefirefox-sage kitty liferea* magpierss miro* newsbeuter nrss olive php-xml-rss planet python-feedparser python-feedvalidator python-p

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Luciano Bello
El Jue 26 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert escribió: > ruby                     Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented >                          language. > java                     Everything about Java Have sense to inaugurate a section with all the R modules? Nowadays many of them are i

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jög, On Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, > now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. [...] Cool, nice! > The new sections are: I think an r section would be useful, there ar

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented > language. > java Everything about Java How about a "cli" section about everything related to Mono and the

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:48:18PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > I don't if that warrants an "ocaml" section, which is your call, but > > if it does, well, ... heads up :-) > > Get me a short description for it. "Compiler, libraries, and tools for OCaml: a static typed ML language implementatio

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> lisp Everything about Lisp > Is this just about Common Lisp, or other Lisp dialects as well? I'm > mainly referring to Scheme here, as it is another Lisp dialect in > (relatively) widespread use (the third one being Emacs-Lisp). Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just li

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> database Databases > [...] >> database >> postgresql* >> pg* >> sqlite* >> mysql* >> libmysql* >> db4.* >> libdb4* >> firebird* >> sql-

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11673 March 1977, Frans Pop wrote: >> localisationsLanguage packs > I'd prefer "localization". > - We use en_US in general -> "ize" Well, I dont really care. Fine, adjusted. > - Having the section name plural seems inconsistent with other > sections. Dito. >> video > [...] >>

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11673 March 1977, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Joerg Jaspert [Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100]: > >> database >> libmysql* >> libdb4* > I'm not sure these (and possibly *some* of the other lib* packages > included in the listing) should be moved out of Section: libs.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joerg Jaspert, le Thu 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100, a écrit : > We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid > growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. > >[...] > > The new sections are: > > ruby Everything about ruby,

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> Not like it is *that* important, but we now have more than 100 > OCaml-related source packages in the archive, most of which are > libraries for OCaml development. > I don't if that warrants an "ocaml" section, which is your call, but > if it does, well, ... heads up :-) Get me a short descrip

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > The new sections are: [..] > videoVideo viewers, editors, recording, streaming What about renaming sound as audio? (if we introduce the video one, ) Since the (perl|python|ruby|...) sections should contains libraries, m

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > lisp            (no, not in brackets) >                cl-* >                *-lisp >                *-el Two things: First, if by Lisp you mean everything related to Lisp, then this should probably also include scheme*, not just Common Li

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> The new sections are: > > Not like it is *that* important, but we now have more than 100 > OCaml-related source packages in the archive, most of which are > libraries for OCaml development. > > I don't i

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > java Everything about Java {...} > gcj* *gcj, too probably. > database > postgresql* > pg* > sqlite* > mysql* > libmysql* That also hits database libs.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Joerg Jaspert writes: > The new sections are: [...] > lisp Everything about Lisp [...] > Is this just about Common Lisp, or other Lisp dialects as well? I'm mainly referring to Scheme here, as it is another Lisp dialect in (relatively) widespread use (the third one being Emacs

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100 Joerg Jaspert napsal(a): > database Databases [...] > database > postgresql* > pg* > sqlite* > mysql* > libmysql* > db4.* > libdb

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > The new sections are: Not like it is *that* important, but we now have more than 100 OCaml-related source packages in the archive, most of which are libraries for OCaml development. I don't if that warrants an "ocaml" section, which

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Frans Pop
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid > growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful > anymore. Great. > The new sections are: [...] > localisationsLanguage packs I'd prefer "localization". - We use en_US

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Joerg Jaspert [Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100]: > database > libmysql* > libdb4* I'm not sure these (and possibly *some* of the other lib* packages included in the listing) should be moved out of Section: libs. I can see how having a database section to browse c

Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hello world, As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. Much of what we are currently doing is not visible to you as a user of this archive, but the action we talk about now is: We plan on changing t