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

2003-07-12 Thread Thomas Viehmann
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 library for creating and accessing dynamic arr

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

2003-07-12 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 08:25:57AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > There's someone on d-mentors wanting to adopt this. As in the BTS: > > Debian Bug report logs - #172772 > ITA: judy -- C library for creating and accessing dynamic Oh dear, Ted T'so just uploaded it and assumed maintainership...

Re: Kernel question: initrd/cramfs

2003-07-12 Thread Herbert Xu
Nenad Antonic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Apparently, there is a bug (at least from my perspective) which > prevents initrd/cramfs in stock kernels, which has been arround for > years. On the other hand, this bug gets fixed in every version of debian Why are you trying to use initrd anyway

Re: Movie

2003-07-12 Thread Michael Strain
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Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-12 Thread Stefan Gybas
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: [junit-freenet (#165504), orphaned 264 days ago] When I look at the cvs, two classes have been commited 8 month ago, the other 23 month ago!.. I will adopt this package but I won't upload a new version. I have asked for its removal instead (#200949). Let's see which other us

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

2003-07-12 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > As of today, I've been awaiting > DAM approval now for 155 days, with no end to the wait in sight. I've > already adopted one orphaned package (Jabber) and made significant > improvements to it. However, the 150+ day wait for DAM approval has > deterred me from look

FWD: Bug#200905: dh_installdocs: don't install empty doc files

2003-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
This strikes me as a good idea, unless someone has a legit reason to include an empty documentations file in a package. So speak up if you do. Maybe a zero length TODO could be considered to have some implied meaning, but I've seen zero length everything including AUTHORS and README and NEWS.

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

2003-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
Joshua Kwan wrote: > > >svgalib (#173471), orphaned 205 days ago > > > Description: Console SVGA display libraries > > Of all those people, someone surely has an interest in this. Or > > perhaps it's time to just drop this crash-inducing security-scary > > package? > > This one kind

Won't package [was: Re: ITP: libjdbc-stdext-java -- JDBC 2.0 Optional Package from SUN]

2003-07-12 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
After some more investigations: 1° this library is in classpath package and in the j2(sdk|re)1.4 package; 2° it's non-free (I knew but...); 3° it's needed by tomcat4 (by the way of libcommons-dbcp-java) but t4 will depend on j2(sdk|re)1.4. -- Arnaud Vandyck, STE fi, ULg Formateur Ce

Won't package [was: Re: ITP: libjta-java -- JTA is the JavaTM Transaction API from Sun]

2003-07-12 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
After some more investigations: 1° this library is in classpath package and in the j2(sdk|re)1.4 package; 2° it's non-free (I knew but...); 3° it's needed by tomcat4 (by the way of libcommons-dbcp-java) but t4 will depend on j2(sdk|re)1.4. -- Arnaud Vandyck, STE fi, ULg Formateur Ce

Re: Kernel question: initrd/cramfs

2003-07-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:04:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Nenad Antonic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apparently, there is a bug (at least from my perspective) which > > prevents initrd/cramfs in stock kernels, which has been arround for > > years. On the other hand, this bug gets fixed in eve

BSP in Debcamp.

2003-07-12 Thread David Martinez Moreno
Hello, guys. Here in Debcamp we decided that we're going to kill as many bugs as possible (and even releasing sarge if we work hard ;-) during the entire Debcamp, so we'll apply approx. BSP rules and a DELAYED/4-day policy. If anybody is going to start bitching...well, we decide

strange BTS behaviour with bug #200180

2003-07-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, by accident I discovered bug #200180 at the fdutils bug report page http://bugs.debian.org/fdutils I was surprised to see this, because I never got a notification for this bug via email (despite the fact that I'm the package maintainer). The BTS claims to have sent the norification m

Re: FWD: Bug#200905: dh_installdocs: don't install empty doc files

2003-07-12 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:07:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > This strikes me as a good idea, unless someone has a legit reason to > include an empty documentations file in a package. So speak up if you > do. Maybe a zero length TODO could be considered to have some implied > meaning, in my mind, i

Re: strange BTS behaviour with bug #200180

2003-07-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:50:16PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote: > I was surprised to see this, because I never got a notification for > this bug via email (despite the fact that I'm the package maintainer). I've had this happen to me a few times in the past. I'd always ascribed it to my personal e-

Re: strange BTS behaviour with bug #200180

2003-07-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:50:16PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote: > by accident I discovered bug #200180 at the fdutils bug report page > > http://bugs.debian.org/fdutils > > I was surprised to see this, because I never got a notification for > this bug via email (despite the fact that I'm the pac

Re: strange BTS behaviour with bug #200180

2003-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Mark Brown writes: > I've had this happen to me a few times in the past. Same here (though not recently). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Bug#200985: ITP: jed-extra -- Collection of useful JED modes and utilities

2003-07-12 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-12 Severity: wishlist * Package name: jed-extra Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Many * URL : http://jedmodes.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description : Collection of useful JED modes and utilities T

Re: BSP in Debcamp.

2003-07-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:28:18PM +0200, David Martinez Moreno wrote: > Hello, guys. Here in Debcamp we decided that we're going to kill as > many bugs > as possible (and even releasing sarge if we work hard ;-) during the entire > Debcamp, so we'll apply approx. BSP rules and a DELAYED/4

help wanted with 'ntp' packages

2003-07-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
I am unable to spend as much time updating the 'ntp' packages as they deserve, and so I would like to find someone suitable to either join me in working on them, or take them over outright. There are a number of open bugs that need to be addressed, and I'm completely unhappy with the current defa

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

2003-07-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:58:55PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 08:25:57AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > There's someone on d-mentors wanting to adopt this. As in the BTS: > > > > Debian Bug report logs - #172772 > > ITA: judy -- C library for creating and accessing dyna

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

2003-07-12 Thread Robert Jördens
Matthias Urlichs wrote: Oh guys. I'm waiting some 500 days now. I think that's a record (the current is around 470). And I'm still working and contributing. Some nice other DDs stepped forward and wrote mails to the DAM but that didn't cause anything. Robert. As of today, I've been awai

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

2003-07-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 05:06:45PM +0200, Robert J?rdens wrote: > Oh guys. I'm waiting some 500 days now. I think that's a record (the > current is around 470). And I'm still working and contributing. Some > nice other DDs stepped forward and wrote mails to the DAM but that > didn't cause anything

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

2003-07-12 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
> No, you've been waiting 188 days (as of today) for DAM according to: Hm, there are two possibilities: a) I'm blind b) You're wrong because... > 2002-01-04. I'm only referring to the time since the application was its... *January*2002* and today is *July*2003* - its about year and half. R

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

2003-07-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:23:55PM +0200, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: > > No, you've been waiting 188 days (as of today) for DAM according to: > > Hm, there are two possibilities: > > a) I'm blind > b) You're wrong Ahh I'm indeed wrong, misread the year both times. You have amazing patience if you

Re: Deconf and shared questions

2003-07-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:20:12AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Given that the check is done before asking any question in the > postinst, if you do install all three of the packages, the first one > whose postinst runs shall ask the question, and create the file; > subsequently, the o

ITP: knutclient -- A KDE client for monitoring UPSs using NUT - the Network UPS Tools

2003-07-12 Thread Arnaud Quette
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-12 Severity: wishlist * Package name : knutclient Version: 0.6.1 Upstream Author : Daniel Prynych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.alo.cz/knutclient-pop-en.html * License : GPL Descript

Re: Bug#200332: O: netpbm -- Graphics conversion tools

2003-07-12 Thread Michael Karcher
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:40:04PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > As you said, we should make at least a silent transition. IMHO we > should split netpbm to a netpbm-legacy (to where all the programms are > transfered) and then substitut the programms on a step-by-step basis > with wrappers to usabl

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

2003-07-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:58:55PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 08:25:57AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: >> > There's someone on d-mentors wanting to adopt this. As in the BTS: >> > Debian Bug report logs - #172772 >> > ITA: judy

Re: BSP in Debcamp.

2003-07-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:28:18PM +0200, David Martinez Moreno wrote: > > Hello, guys. Here in Debcamp we decided that we're going to kill as > > many bugs > > as possible (and even releasing sarge if we work hard ;-) during the entire > > Debcamp, so we'll appl

Re: Bug#200332: O: netpbm -- Graphics conversion tools

2003-07-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:56:55PM +0200, Michael Karcher wrote: > Also usable means that the program is not imagemagick. I am really sick > of tools that read any image they should process (even for something > simple like shrinking) in 48 bit true color into memory. The netpbm tools > are far mo

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

2003-07-12 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 23:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:58:55PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 08:25:57AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > >> > There's someone on d-mentors wanting to adopt this. As

Re: [Debian-au] Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-12 Thread Craige McWhirter
Anand, I know I'd be keen to see a Debian version of this: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/item/satchel01 as well as some decent t-shirts. Perhaps others'd be interested too? On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 17:36, Anand Kumria wrote: > Hi all, > > [ forward as required ] > > I'm planning on doing so

problem setting up interlibrary dependencies

2003-07-12 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
I'm running into difficulties getting vibrant6 [1] to comply with the new policy requiring full inter-library dependencies. The source of the complication is that two of the libraries come in OpenGL and non-OpenGL variants, but certain intervening libraries are OpenGL-agnostic and therefore come i

Qt3 still broken (compat-headers), what to do?

2003-07-12 Thread Ben Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi ho, it's time for another rant from me regarding the libqt3-compat-headers split. This time my ex-housemate has been hit by the problem: she's just started working with Qt, and lo and behold she received a missing header compile error. She did

Re: problem setting up interlibrary dependencies

2003-07-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:05:54PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > I'm running into difficulties getting vibrant6 [1] to comply with the > new policy requiring full inter-library dependencies. The source of > the complication is that two of the libraries come in OpenGL and > non-OpenGL variants, but

Re: Qt3 still broken (compat-headers), what to do?

2003-07-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:51:07PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > It seems then that our options are as follows. > (i) Wait for the Qt maintainers to upload a fix. > (ii) Do an NMU for Qt, despite the fact that this bug is not release-critical. > (iii) Resort to the technical committee. > (iv) Keep t