Work-needing packages report for Jun 23, 2006

2006-06-23 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: 303 (new: 25) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 85 (new: 3) Total number of packages request

Re: Patch cplay to use mplayer with speed-control

2006-06-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Daniel, > Hi everyone, > > I tried patching cplay to use mplayer(>=1.0pre7) which can also do > speed-control on audio-files. My patch creates and uses a fifo to control > mplayer and adds some keybindings to cplay (decr: [, incr: ], reset: =). > > I tried to write the patch as clean and stab

NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, It's nice that people spend extra time in taking care of the packages of others, for example when they upload a NMU to fix serious or important issues, however this is not always desired or required immediately. I suppose some people think the green flag has been waved for NMUin

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le ven 23 juin 2006 16:33, Loïc Minier a écrit : > PS: DELAYED is fine, even if that might mean that the work might be > made twice, once by the NMUer, and once by the maintainer. delayed upload means that the NMUer sent his patch to the bug report, and then the maintainer can start from that to

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:33:50PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It's nice that people spend extra time in taking care of the packages > of others, for example when they upload a NMU to fix serious or > important issues, however this is not always desired or re

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > delayed upload means that the NMUer sent his patch to the bug report, > and then the maintainer can start from that to do his work. so it's > basically *not* doing the work twice :) delayed upload means the NMUer lost the time to prepare the NMU ev

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:33:50PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Probably the biggest reason why I feel this extra time would be useful > > is because the new Python Policy and the tools supporting it saw > > non-negligible changes

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:43:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:33:50PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Probably the biggest reason why I feel this extra time would be useful > >

additions to dpkg-architecture

2006-06-23 Thread Volker Grabsch
Dear Debian Developers, I've been pleased to summarize some ideas for the general public. More details and sources can be found at the end of this mail. I'm not subscribed to all lists, so please CC any replies to me. -- I p

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:43 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Yes: > http://www.ouaza.com/wordpress/2006/06/23/the-python-transition-can-continue/ > > I wonder if I should make a second announce on -devel-announce just to > make it clear to everybody. At the lease I would appreciate (as a python ap