Hi,
Now that the focus is turning onto debconf'ing packages, I am
going to ask a question that has been plaguing me whenever I start
thinking about debconfing some of my packages.
I have at least two packages now (dist and mailagent) that can
use, and thus care about, the organ
Hi folks,
I won't apologize for the long email. When I started writing this I
hoped it would be rather short. The fact that it isn't only tells me
that I was right -- about two years ago. I can't believe that the QA
people can say, with a straight face, that they are willing to maintain
th
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> I won't apologize for the long email. When I started writing this I
> hoped it would be rather short. The fact that it isn't only tells me
> that I was right -- about two years ago. I can't believe that the QA
> people ca
i have this simple shell script called list-rc.d
hosted here http://mirrorlynx.com/download.php
it doesnt do what chkconfig does but its usefull for doing
something like chkconfig --list on redhat.
- calvin
Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux
(Unknown source)
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:49:46 +0200, Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>> calc (#175399), orphaned 186 days ago Description: An advanced
>> calculator and mathematical tool for Emacs Reverse Depends:
>> riece-ndcc
> Maybe the maintainer of riece-ndcc cares about this?
I use
Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> >judy (#172772), orphaned 210 days ago
> > Description: C library for creating and accessing dynamic arrays
> > Reverse Depends: libjudy-dev
> I thought that bogus bogofilter depended on this for building...
Iirc (but I only fol
I suspect 'leightweight' is not the spelling you want. The correct
english spelling is lightweight if you mean "something that weighs
relatively little or less than average"
Stephen Quinney
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:57:15PM +0200, Oliver Kurth wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: unavailable; repo
Czy znana jest data (nawet przybliżona) wydania kolejnej wersji
stabilnej (3.0r2) debiana ?
Jeśli tak to prosiłbym o jej podanie.
Pozdrawiam serdecznie,
Grzegorz Zalewski
Luc Besson zaprasza na najszybszą komedię lata "TAXI 3"
< http://fil
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-11
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: libdata-hexdump-perl
Version : 0.02
Upstream Author : Fabien Tassin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/FTASSIN/
* License : "same terms
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:55:49AM +0100, Stephen Quinney wrote:
> I suspect 'leightweight' is not the spelling you want. The correct
> english spelling is lightweight if you mean "something that weighs
> relatively little or less than average"
Thanks, I'll change that.
It was copied and pasted f
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:36:22PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote:
*SNIP*
>10 bug fixed
> 100 million users
Hmm... That is very much people. That is about 150 times more than the
number of people on this planet.
> 1000 installations
> 1 lines of code
>
> I'd welcome any fee
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-11
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: opengroupware.org
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.opengroupware.org/
* License : GPL, LGPL
Description : Groupware server to in
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >g5 (#165500), orphaned 264 days ago
> > Description: gtk-based 5-in-a-row game
>
> Not an attractive one?
It's still gtk1 and uses O and X characters to display the pieces,
so "not attractive" is probably the correct description.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >docbook-to-man (#154590), orphaned 347 days ago
> > Description: Converter from DocBook SGML into roff -man macros
> > Reverse Depends: gtk-doc-tools
>
> If gtk-doc-tools depends on this, perhaps the GTK+ fol
--
Mvg,
Jo Voordeckers
Imagine-IT.BE
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:44:12AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:44:06PM -0400, James Michael Greenhalgh wrote:
> >
> > > > > 100 million users
> > > > > 1000 installations
> > > >
> > > > I would recommend to exchange these last two lines. More installation
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-11
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: jack-rack
Version : 1.4.1
Upstream Author : Bob Ham
* URL : http://pkl.net/~node/jack-rack.html
* License : GPL
Description : LADSPA plugin rack
Jack Rack is a LAD
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> >junit-freenet (#165504), orphaned 264 days ago
> > Description: basic reimplementation of the JUnit unit testing
> > framework
>
> Ah... Java...
>From the author:
This is a basic reimplementation of the JUnit unit
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:10:33PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:11:13AM +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> | > 100 million users
> | > 1000 installations
> |
> | I would recommend to exchange these last two lines. More installations
> | than users?
>
> If yo
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2003 18:35, Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) wrote:
> > * URL : http://www.some.org/
> > * License : GPL2
> > Description : linux audio developers configuration and connection API
> >
> > LADCCA is a session ma
Hi,
Are there any .debs available for openoffice 1.1 beta? Has nyone made
them?
package list in unstable/editors has openoffice 1.0.3 only.
Regards,
Karunakar
--
A Reasonable man adapts himself to the world
An Unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself
So all progress in the world dep
At 9:13 pm, Friday, July 11 2003, Craig Sanders mumbled:
> you're all making a big mistake. those numbers were obviously binary, not
> decimal.
>
2 architectures? Rght.
--
Steve
advice to insomniacs: autoconf macro references can be coma-
On 11-Jul-03, 02:21 (CDT), Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Because it's damn near impossible to get the things removed.
Huh? Submit a bug report against ftp.debian.org, and ask that the
package be removed. What's so hard about it?
I suppose there might be an issue the original ma
Steve Greenland wrote:
> Or perhaps we should just decree that no unmaitained packages go out
> in a stable release. At the beginning of the freeze, mark all the WNPP
> packages for removal (along with their dependencies :-)), and then see
> if we can inspire some reaction.
Good idea! An even bet
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté :
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:58:54 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:31:39AM +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
> > > Dan Jacobson (2003-06-28 07:57:55 +0800) :
> > > > Gentlemen, after I installed "Debian GNU/Linux", I found I had to
> > > >
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté :
>
> > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:58:54 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > One question: what's the point? Surely you want the best, not
> > > necessarily the GNU version (which might be an incredi
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:21:18PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> At 9:13 pm, Friday, July 11 2003, Craig Sanders mumbled:
> > you're all making a big mistake. those numbers were obviously binary, not
> > decimal.
> >
> 2 architectures? Rght.
Little endian and big endian. Or CISC and
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >wavtools (#155263), orphaned 342 days ago
> > Description: WAV play, record, and compression
>
> Just like sox! Not really...
Well, wavtools is a pile of crap, as detailed by Daniel Kobras in
#97589. I just filed for its removal.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >py-xmlrpc (#161224), orphaned 296 days ago
> > Description: Implementation of the XML-RPC protocol for Python
>
> Let me guess... the snake lovers came up with something better?
py-xmlrpc is integrated into the Python
Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Anand Kumria wrote:
> >10 bug fixed
> > 100 million users
>
> Hmm... That is very much people. That is about 150 times more than the
> number of people on this planet.
Give the world time. The population is still increasing. Just
planning for the future. :-
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> I can't believe that the QA people can say, with a straight face,
> that they are willing to maintain this pile of dung until someone
> shows up. If we have so many maintainers and there are more at the
> burg's doors pili
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:16:30PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
>
> > Aside from the joke, we are talking about a package available also
> > for Debian GNU/_Linux_, aren't we?
>
> Fine, but then it can't be task-gnu-_only_.. maybe task
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >gphone (#161708), orphaned 293 days ago
> > Description: X/GTK-based internet telephone.
> I'd thought there'd be more people interested in this kind of thing...
There's newer, vastly more widely implemented stan
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > >gphone (#161708), orphaned 293 days ago
> > > Description: X/GTK-based internet telephone.
>
> > I'd thought there'd be more people interested in this kind of thing...
>
> There's newer, vastly more widely impleme
Hi ..
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:02:46PM +0530, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> Are there any .debs available for openoffice 1.1 beta? Has nyone made
>them?
>package list in unstable/editors has openoffice 1.0.3 only.
Have a look at experimantel ... ;)
Jan
--
.''`.Jan-Hend
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:32:01AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> Huh? Submit a bug report against ftp.debian.org, and ask that the
> package be removed. What's so hard about it?
I wish it would be that easy. I haven't read the thread, but I'm
willing to bet someone has already declared me
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:34:23PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > >gphone (#161708), orphaned 293 days ago
> > > > Description: X/GTK-based internet telephone.
> >
> > > I'd thought there'd be more people int
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-11
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: xd3d
Version : 8.0.1
Upstream Author : Francois Jouve
* URL : http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/~jouve/xd3d/
* License : GPL
Description : Visualization tool for 2D a
I'm releasing these things now... have them in development and use for
a couple weeks/months now.
A Python module for doing debsigs-type package signatures and
verification thereof. Uses and included module for GnuPG file
signatures and verification.
It also includes a miniscript that, given a .
Jean Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There no ext2 nor ext3 modules on your initrd.img-2.4.22-pre3c0, are
> those filesystems compiled in the kernel ?
ext2 is compiled in the kernel:
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
After a few days, let me summarise:
a) 2.4.21 kernel as it is in debian kernel-sour
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 03:13, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I use this package, and am interested in adopting it, except
> that I note that Colin Walters states that:
>
> > I am orphaning the calc package; it is now included in the GNU Emacs
> >
> > CVS, and will be in the coming
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:34:23PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> So, you mean, this is not the package our users should be looking at
> when they search for a VoIP application? It's not only orphaned but
> not even used? *HINT* *HINT*
It would be nice to see some popularity-contest data
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:47:10PM +0200, J?rgen A.Erhard wrote:
> I'm releasing these things now... have them in development and use for
> a couple weeks/months now.
>
> A Python module for doing debsigs-type package signatures and
> verification thereof. Uses and included module for GnuPG file
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:47:10PM +0200, J?rgen A.Erhard wrote:
> I'm releasing these things now... have them in development and use for
> a couple weeks/months now.
>
> A Python module for doing debsigs-type package signatures and
> verification thereof. Uses and included module for GnuPG file
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:32:01AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 11-Jul-03, 02:21 (CDT), Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Because it's damn near impossible to get the things removed.
>
> Huh? Submit a bug report against ftp.debian.org, and ask that the
> package be removed
> But apparently I was under the wrong impression about which branch of
> Emacs development was going to be released. I committed calc to what
> was HEAD at the time, and I thought that was going to become 21.3, but
> there was a different branch slated for release. Anyways, calc will be
> in 21.
Hi all,
I was looking for old posts, because I was sure that this must have
been discussed before, but I could not find any.
When a package removal is requested, there is a bug filed against
ftp.debian.org. Following procedures, the maintainer should also know
about it (either filing it himself o
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:34:47PM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote:
[...]
> However, for other people browsing the BTS, and for orphaned
> packages, it would be much nicer if there was a bug filed against the
> package itself, or some remark on bugs.debian.org/package that its
> removal is requested. Ther
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:34:47PM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote:
> - The BTS is made aware of this, e.g. by having it possible to file a
> bug against two packages at once.
This is already possible, but it isn't displayed quite properly because
of some indexing problems. I hope this can be fixed at
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective
> Packages wrote:
> >gnome-objc (#165642), orphaned 263 days ago
> > Description: objective-c bindings for gtk/gnome (obs.)
> > Reverse Depends:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective
> Packages wrote:
> >judy (#172772), orphaned 210 days ago
> > Description: C library for creating and accessing dynamic arrays
> > Reverse Depe
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective
> Packages wrote:
> >py-xmlrpc (#161224), orphaned 296 days ago
> > Description: Implementation of the XML-RPC protocol for Python
>
> Let me guess.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:15:31PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective
> > Packages wrote:
> > >judy (#172772), orphaned 210 days ago
> > > Description: C
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