Bug#386079: ITP: libsnmp-multi-perl -- Perform SNMP operations on multiple hosts simultaneously

2006-09-05 Thread Arne Goetje
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arne Goetje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsnmp-multi-perl Version : 2.1-1 Upstream Author : Karl ("Terminator rAT") Schilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~tpg/SNMP-Multi-2.1/Multi.pm * License

potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
Hi DDs, I am trying to get Scott's upstart daemon into Debian [0][1][2]. It's an alternative to sysvinit, but there's still quite a bunch of packages which depend on sysvinit. These dependencies were introduced a while back to work around an invoke-rc.d issue, and from all I can tell, they are leg

Re: Bug#386060: ITP: c++-annotations -- The C++ Annotations tutorial by Frank B. Brokken

2006-09-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:33:56AM +0200, Frank B. Brokken wrote: > The C++ Annotations are a tutorial intended for knowledgeable users of C (or > any other language using a C-like grammar, like Perl or Java) who would like > to know more about, or make the transition to, C++. The C++ Annotations d

Re: Bug#386060: ITP: c++-annotations -- The C++ Annotations tutorial by Frank B. Brokken

2006-09-05 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:21, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:33:56AM +0200, Frank B. Brokken wrote: > > The C++ Annotations are a tutorial intended for knowledgeable users of C > > (or any other language using a C-like grammar, like Perl or Java) who > > would like to know

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 05, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to file (normal) bugs to ask the maintainer to remove > the dependency, and per our Developers' Reference 7.1.1 I am > soliciting comments. 11 packages is hardly a mass bugs filing and this is a bug regardless of the upstart issu

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1330 +0200]: > 11 packages is hardly a mass bugs filing and this is a bug > regardless of the upstart issue. Please go on. The devel ref says to contact -devel for more than 10 bugs. Anyway, I shall wait until tomorrow and if I don't hear a

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:44:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1330 +0200]: > > This may be a good time to remind maintainers that often > > a versioned conflict may be more appropriate than a versioned > > dependency. > Right. Most of

Re: Bug#386060: ITP: c++-annotations -- The C++ Annotations tutorial by Frank B. Brokken

2006-09-05 Thread Frank B. Brokken
George Danchev wrote: > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:21, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > This sounds interesting but why is it useful to have a package? > > Well, because it is easier for Debian users to search for, install, upgrade > such books. Basically on the same line wrt packaging are the c

Re: Bug#385866: ITP: ttf-vlgothic -- Japanese TrueType font from VineLinux

2006-09-05 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:02:58 +0900 Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please paste the full debian/copyright information. OK, here is. This package was debianized by Hideki Yamane (Debian-JP) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:51:33 +0900. It was downloaded from http://d

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1344 +0200]: > Anyway, I shall wait until tomorrow and if I don't hear any > objections, I'll go ahead. The list is down to seven packages that need updating. I shall thus send out the bugs now. Sorry for the noise. -- Please do not sen

Re: Accepted lynx-cur 2.8.6pre2-1 (source i386 all)

2006-09-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >* There was no time to upload 2.8.6dev19 because 2.8.6pre2 was released > so soon. Thanks - I put out pre.1 on Thursday since I anticipated not having time yesterday to work on it, but decided that the feedback from pre.1 was doable for Sunday.

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > Here is the list of packages that depend on sysvinit. For packages > marked with (*), I already have the maintainers' consent. > > sysv-rc-conf This one needs to depend on sysv-like link farm functionality (as opposed to, say, file-rc style). If up

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Mark Brown wrote: > invoke-rc.d. IIRC doing something more obvious caused upgrade issues at > the time due to issues with having both sysv-rc and file-rc. invoke-rc.d was added to sysv-rc and file-rc at almost the same time, we didn't botch THAT transition at all, thank you v

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > system since stable. Any initscript package that does not provide > invoke-rc.d (and doesn't piggyback on the one from sysvinit or file-rc) has I do mean "init script subsystem" package, of course. Not regular packages that have initscrip

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1526 +0200]: > This one needs to depend on sysv-like link farm functionality (as > opposed to, say, file-rc style). If upstart provides symlinks, > then we need a virtual package. If it doesn't, sysv-rc-conf needs > to keep

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:28:43AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Mark Brown wrote: > > invoke-rc.d. IIRC doing something more obvious caused upgrade issues at > > the time due to issues with having both sysv-rc and file-rc. > invoke-rc.d was added to sysv-rc and

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:28:43AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Mark Brown wrote: > > > invoke-rc.d. IIRC doing something more obvious caused upgrade issues at > > > the time due to issues with having both sysv-rc and f

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1526 > +0200]: > > This one needs to depend on sysv-like link farm functionality (as > > opposed to, say, file-rc style). If upstart provides symlinks, > > then we need a virtual

[DCCIT2006] Talk soppressi

2006-09-05 Thread Marco Bertorello
Ciao * Ad oggi, mi trovo a dover sopprimere diversi talk: * DebianPAit: Una distribuzione per la P.A. * Migrazione a DEBIAN nella P.A. * Le politiche di debian perchè sono talk orfani (ovvero il relatore non si sa chi sia) * Debian: Strumenti di Gestione (Claudio Moratti) a causa della impossi

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1614 +0200]: > invoke-rc.d is a maintainer script compatibility layer to > interface to the initscript subsystem (that happens to guarantee > some functionality that some initscript subsystems don't provide > natively while at

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1614 > +0200]: > > invoke-rc.d is a maintainer script compatibility layer to > > interface to the initscript subsystem (that happens to guarantee > > some functionality that some i

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.05.1645 +0200]: > You're always welcome to use the init-ng alioth project to discuss > ideas and do upstart development, you know. It is completely > on-topic there. Right. We're moving there. Anyone interested, please follow!

Re: [DCCIT2006] Talk soppressi

2006-09-05 Thread Marco Bertorello
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:30:06 +0200 Marco Bertorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciao * ops! sorry me, this mail was for [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-( sorry me, again -- Marco Bertorello System Administrator http://bertorello.ns0.it signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#386138: ITP: mpop -- a POP3 client

2006-09-05 Thread Carlos Martin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlos Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mpop Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Martin Lambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mpop.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : a P

Bug#386146: ITP: libconfig-file-perl -- Parses simple configuration files

2006-09-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libconfig-file-perl Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Config * License : GPL+Artistic Descriptio

Re:[DCCIT2006] Talk soppressi

2006-09-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * Compilazione del Kernel su Debian (Rappa Mauro) > > perchè i relatori non mi hanno confermato la loro presenza. Scusate, ma sono pressimo! confermo la mia presenza! se possibile, lo terrei il sabato pomeriggio! Ciao *!

Buildd maintenance for dummies

2006-09-05 Thread Luk Claes
Hi I recently took over the buildd maintenance of signy.farm.ftbfs.de, a mips buildd for experimental, sarge-backports, sarge-volatile and non-free (whitlisted packages). I actually started in helping with the buildd maintenance of odin.farm.ftbfs.de which is a similar buildd for sparc. As newbie

Re: Bug#386138: ITP: mpop -- a POP3 client

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos Martin wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Carlos Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: mpop > Version : 1.0.2 > Upstream Author : Martin Lambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://mpop

Re: Bug#386138: ITP: mpop -- a POP3 client

2006-09-05 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:23:27 +0200 Carlos Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- snip -- > * Package name: mpop > Version : 1.0.2 > Upstream Author : Martin Lambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://mpop.sourceforge.net > * License : GPL > Programming Lan

Re: Buildd maintenance for dummies

2006-09-05 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 07:58:18PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Hi > > I recently took over the buildd maintenance of signy.farm.ftbfs.de, a mips > buildd for experimental, sarge-backports, sarge-volatile and non-free > (whitlisted packages). I actually started in helping with the buildd > maintenanc

Linking a static library with -fPIC for flex

2006-09-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Starting with version 2.5.31-18 of flex we have started providing a static library compiled with position independent code, namely, libfl_pic.a, in addition to the normal libfl.a library. This is my mail, in accordance to §10.2 of the Debian policy. The problem is with pack

Re: Buildd maintenance for dummies

2006-09-05 Thread Roger Leigh
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Luk, > I recently took over the buildd maintenance of signy.farm.ftbfs.de, a mips > buildd for experimental, sarge-backports, sarge-volatile and non-free > (whitlisted packages). I actually started in helping with the buildd > maintenance of odin.farm.ftbf

Re: dh_python and python policy analysis

2006-09-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is version 1.05 of the draft, now with typo fixes, and some initial policy support for partial upgrades for pure python public modules that are trying to drop support for older versions of python. The idea is that error cases are minimized if we do not drop a version of python

Re: dh_python and python policy analysis

2006-09-05 Thread Otavio Salvador
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Copyright (c) 2006 Manoj Srivastava > >Revision History >Revision 1.0.5 4^th November 2006 Setember? -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R -

Bug#386206: ITP: fedora-directory-server -- An LDAP server designed to manage large directories of users and resources

2006-09-05 Thread Sven Herzberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sven Herzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fedora-directory-server Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : * URL : http://www.directory.fedora.redhat.com/ * License : GPL + exceptions: http://directory.fedora.redhat.co

minutes of debburn/cdrkit team meeting, 2006-09-05

2006-09-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
The debburn/cdrkit maintainers held an IRC meeting on #debburn on irc.debian.org, Tuesday, 2006-09-05, 19:00 UTC. 26 people were in the channel. Participating and "actively lurking": * Joerg Jaspert, developer / project admin * Eduard Bloch, developer * Steve McIntyre, developer * Peter