Work-needing packages report for Mar 24, 2006

2006-03-24 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 269 (new: 29) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 85 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

Re: Bug#358695: ITP: latex-utils -- utilities for LaTeX/xfig

2006-03-24 Thread Frank Küster
Hi Vincent, hi d-d, Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Package name: latex-utils > Description : utilities for LaTeX/xfig I think the package name is unfortunate, and the short description doesn't help much. "latex-utils" could just as well be a collection of nifty LaTeX s

Re: Release Date Update

2006-03-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
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Re: Australian timezone (australasia) update for this weekend

2006-03-24 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 3/23/06, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > The Australian timezone change is a couple of days away. If you are > running servers depending on acurrate time, you will need to check > or update them. Quick question: If there's an update to the stable libc due a secur

Re: Australian timezone (australasia) update for this weekend

2006-03-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Martijn, On Friday, 24 Mar 2006, you wrote: > On 3/23/06, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The Australian timezone change is a couple of days away. If you are > > running servers depending on acurrate time, you will need to check > > or update them. > > Qui

Re: freetype package

2006-03-24 Thread Anthony Fok
Will Newton wrote: This package hasn't had a maintainer upload in 12 months. It is currently at version 2.1.7 whilst upstream is in the process of releasing 2.1.10. These new releases include some quite critical bugfixes and visual improvements. Is this package being actively maintained? I vol

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etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread A Mennucc
hi everybody According to the latest [1] Microsoft announcement, Vista will be released in Jan 2007; according to our schedule [2], Etch may be released in Dec 2006. If we accomplish it, it will be a great feat: Debian will (possibly) show it is able to relase two versions of its distribution si

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10603 March 1977, A. Mennucc wrote: [...] Nice. > I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who > work hard to this end). We wont, im sure. -- bye Joerg Snow-Man: Please don't talk to me. You have demonstrated yourself sufficiently. There is a serious matte

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2006-03-24 kello 19:41 +0100, A Mennucc kirjoitti: > I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who > work hard to this end). The best form of thanking is hacking. Translate something[0], write a patch to fix a bug[1], write a manual page[2], test the installer[3]. To misq

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Brett Parker
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:41:39PM +0100, A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who > work hard to this end). Coo - who's got the time machine? Releasing Etch in Dec 2005 could be somewhat tricky without it. *grin* Brett. -- T

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Luk Claes
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10603 March 1977, A. Mennucc wrote: > > [...] > > Nice. > > >>I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who >> work hard to this end). > > > We wont, im sure. Can you please elaborate on specific problems you think will not be solved on time? C

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2006-03-24 kello 21:04 +0100, Luk Claes kirjoitti: > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 10603 March 1977, A. Mennucc wrote: > >>I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who > >> work hard to this end). > > > > We wont, im sure. > > Can you please elaborate on specific problems

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10603 March 1977, Luk Claes wrote: >>>I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who >>> work hard to this end). >> We wont, im sure. > Can you please elaborate on specific problems you think will not be > solved on time? Hundreds of them. > PS: Please, don't send this kin

Re: Уникальные семинары!

2006-03-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:06, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: [challenge response email systems] > Would I be wrong in deciding not to make this > confirmation? Easy enough: if you receive a confirmation request identifying the message far enough for you to decide that it was spam with your email

Re: We want to honestly apoligize to the whole Debian Community

2006-03-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 23 March 2006 00:56, Frans Pop wrote: > Myself, I'm a KDE user currently, so why do I not propose to sync > Debian's release to their release schedule? Or why not MySQL, or Apache > or ...? Because I happen to know that releasing Debian involves a bit > more than waiting for random ups

Re: freetype package

2006-03-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! No idea what this [below] is about exactly, but are you aware of the newly formed Debian fonts task-force? Mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings -- vbi On Friday 24 March 2006 19:19, Anthony Fok wrote: > Will Newton wrote: > > This package hasn't had a maintainer upload in 12 month

Moving GFDL documentation to non-free

2006-03-24 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, The Emacs documentation is going to be moved to non-free since it is GFDLed with invariant sections. I'd like know how packagers who have the same problem usually handle this, especially the non-free package. The simplest way I can see is to take the pristine tarball and rename to foo-non-fr

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread A Mennucc
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:07:48PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10603 March 1977, A. Mennucc wrote: > > I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who > > work hard to this end). > > We wont, im sure. :-> gotme but in the beginning of the email I got it right :-) "

Re: Moving GFDL documentation to non-free

2006-03-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 24 Mar 2006, Jérôme Marant told this: > Hi, > > The Emacs documentation is going to be moved to non-free since > it is GFDLed with invariant sections. > > I'd like know how packagers who have the same problem usually > handle this, especially the non-free package. > > The simplest way I can see

Re: Downtime for some debian.org machines (people, db, buildd, etc.)

2006-03-24 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:57:58PM +, James Troup wrote: > This Saturday (2006-03-25) between 13:00 - 21:00 UTC, the debian.org > machines hosted by HP are going down due to maintenance in their cage > on the power systems. The following machines and services are > affected: > > o gluck - pe

Re: Downtime for some debian.org machines (people, db, buildd, etc.)

2006-03-24 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:57:58PM +, James Troup wrote: > Hi, > > This Saturday (2006-03-25) between 13:00 - 21:00 UTC, the debian.org > machines hosted by HP are going down due to maintenance in their cage > on the power systems. The following machines and services are > affected: > > o g

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:38:40PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:07:48PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 10603 March 1977, A. Mennucc wrote: > > > I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who > > > work hard to this end). > > > > We wont, im sure. >

Bug#358897: ITP: libtext-format-ruby -- Ruby library for text formatting

2006-03-24 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Esteban Manchado Velázquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtext-format-ruby Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Austin Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/text-format/ * License : Ruby'

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi *, > I noticed on occassion on -devel and planet that folks mention in passing > that "I'll be in MN in US from MAR 01 thru 05" and I'd like to have a > beer and do keysigning. Would it be worthwhile to create a list like > 'debian-meetup' (or debian-beer-meetup x-))that woul

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi *, > > I noticed on occassion on -devel and planet that folks mention in passing > > that "I'll be in MN in US from MAR 01 thru 05" and I'd like to have a > > beer and do keysigning. Would it be worthwhi