Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread alfredo diega
It really pains me to write this since I have used stable for a long time. Unfortunately, I think you could use a wakeup call.    Much of my hardware is never supported by you guys even though it is "free enough" to be supported by the linux kernel and other community groups like Ubuntu.  Dapper h

Bug#388607: ITP: python-htmlcalendar -- Python module for creating calendars in HTML format

2006-09-21 Thread Kevin Coyner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-htmlcalendar Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Hamish Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/htmlcalendar.html * License

new mplayer

2006-09-21 Thread A Mennucc
hi everybody I prepared a new mplayer (with help from Diego Biurrun of the mplayer team) it has version 1.0~rc1~svn19921 (note that I have decided to use the new ~ element, so this version appears to be older than 1.0rc1 or 1.0pre8 ; you may need to manually use dpkg to install it) it was uplo

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alfredo, alfredo diega wrote: > It really pains me to write this since I have used stable for a long > time. > Unfortunately, I think you could use a wakeup call. > > Much of my hardware is never supported by you guys I can see you're frustrated.

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/21/06 08:46, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Alfredo, > > alfredo diega wrote: >>> It really pains me to write this since I have used stable for a long >>> time. >>> Unfortunately, I think you could use a wakeup call. >>> >>> Much of my hardware is nev

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread alfredo diega
On 9/21/06, Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: -I can see you're frustrated.  You've invested a lot of energy intowriting this note to us about a problem you see in Debian.  Now, if itreally does pain you to write it, the least you could do is tell us what your hardware is.  Otherwise, how d

Re: Possible regression in teTeX due to license problems: Please check whether your package is affected

2006-09-21 Thread Frank Küster
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any chance you could also post the list of those with Build-Depends or > Build-Depends-Indep on these packages? Of course, sorry for forgetting this in the first place. Here's the list. And again the question: Is there a script to mass-mail to al

Bug#388523: ITP: libdb4.4-ruby -- Interface to Berkeley DB 4.4 for Ruby

2006-09-21 Thread akira yamada
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: akira yamada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdb4.4-ruby Version : 0.5.8 Upstream Author : Guy Decoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://moulon.inra.fr/ruby/bdb.html * License : Ruby's Programming Lang: C, Ruby

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
alfredo diega wrote: > Okay: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. According to this message at > bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363967 it isn't packaged > because: > > "there is still an official statement of -release and -kernel about the > policy for oot-modules in etch missing." > > showing

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:45:06AM -0500, alfredo diega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/21/06, Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >- > >I can see you're frustrated. You've invested a lot of energy into > >writing this note to us about a problem you see in Debian. Now, if it > >real

Orphaning discus (need help)

2006-09-21 Thread Ron Farrer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am orphaning the package "discus". However, I no longer have a GPG key in the keyring as it was revoked because of a GPG bug involving 4096-bit keys. So I need someone to help with getting it marked as orphaned. This message is signed with my

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:45:06 -0500 "alfredo diega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lastly, suspend doesn't work with Debian but does with Dapper. What kind of suspend? suspend-to-ram (S3), (user space) software suspend to disk? How do you trigger it? FWIW, the kernels in dapper and unstable both ha

Documentary from BBC World over FOSS and Development

2006-09-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi *, for those which do not know it already and have not seen it: http://www.apdip.net/news/fossdoc with a 37 minutes film (75 MByte, unfortunatly bad quality) http://videos.apdip.net/codebreakers.ogg works perfectly under Sarge with vlc, but MPlayer and Xine are crashing License

Re: Orphaning discus (need help)

2006-09-21 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006, Ron Farrer wrote: > Hello, Hi Ron. > I am orphaning the package "discus". However, I no longer have a GPG key > in the keyring as it was revoked because of a GPG bug involving 4096-bit > keys. So I need someone to help with getting it marked as orphaned. This > message is si

Bug#388650: O: discus -- Pretty version of df(1) command.

2006-09-21 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
Package: wnpp Severity: normal The current maintainer of discus, Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, has orphaned this package. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed instructions how to adopt a package properly. S

Re: Orphaning discus (need help)

2006-09-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
I've uploaded discus with the QA group as maintainer and filed an orphan bug. Thanks for your work on the discus package. I'm going to adopt this package. Thanks Ron for your work! Kind Regards, Sandro -- Sandro Tosi (aka Morpheus, matrixhasu) My (little) site: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org

Re: new mplayer

2006-09-21 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 9/21/06, A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi everybody I prepared a new mplayer (with help from Diego Biurrun of the mplayer team) it has version 1.0~rc1~svn19921 (note that I have decided to use the new ~ element, so this version appears to be older than 1.0rc1 or 1.0pre8 ; you may nee

Re: new mplayer

2006-09-21 Thread Yavor Doganov
Andrew Donnellan wrote: > > Since when was MPlayer acceptable in the Debian archive? I think he meant NEW, not incoming. But let's not resurrect old discussions. I was wondering, what's so important about mplayer? With totem and vlc (and I anticipate there's something similar for KDE) you have

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread alfredo diega
On 9/21/06, Thaddeus H. Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   I ask you, is thatfair? Well, I guess it isn't fair.  Look, have any of you ever sent an email out of frustration, then wish you could take it back?  I am sorry, I hope somebody will forgive me. I just need to loose my pride and switch to

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Amaya
alfredo diega wrote: > Well, I guess it isn't fair. Look, have any of you ever sent an email > out of frustration, then wish you could take it back? I am sorry, I > hope somebody will forgive me. We all have, no big deal. > I just need to loose my pride and switch to Ubuntu. No, you just need

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1158835506 past the epoch, alfredo diega wrote: > Next: SD drive, works with Ubuntu with their "free > stuuf." Probably isn't supported by policy either. Without more specifics I can't be sure, but if it's an sdhci device, the driver was merged into mainline starting with 2.6.17. I believe da

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag 21 September 2006 23:58 schrieb Amaya: > I guess you were "blessed" with an ugly piece of hardware with freedom > issues in its support. It is going to take some time until it is ready, > probably in a part of our archive that is labeled as non-free, and > maybe, as you own this hardw

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Steve Langasek
\ Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:42:27PM -0500, alfredo diega wrote: > I just need to loose my pride and switch to Ubuntu. I haven't and I know > the LUG here will laugh at me and tell me "We told you so" but what you > say is true. Different goals. What I was telling my friends was I wanted > to use t

Re: RFA libtorrent and rtorrent

2006-09-21 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
> "Qingning" == Qingning Huo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Qingning> Because of recent changes in my Real Life, I cannot spend Qingning> enough time on libtorrent and rtorrent as I would like. Qingning> Whoever want to adopt are welcome to take over their Qingning> main

Re: RFA libtorrent and rtorrent

2006-09-21 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Fontaine escribió: >> "Qingning" == Qingning Huo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Qingning> Because of recent changes in my Real Life, I cannot spend > Qingning> enough time on libtorrent and rtorrent as I would like. > Qingn

Bug#388569: general: always printed in letter format

2006-09-21 Thread gerhard oettl
Package: general Severity: important Sorry for reporting on this unspecific level, but i cannot isolate. Since updating to etch some weeks ago i was not able to print from firefox, because always letter format is requested on the printer panel. This happens independend of the input in the printe

Why are all packages getting so much bigger?

2006-09-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
While working on the Debian Edu CD building, I notice fewer and fewer of the packages we want fit on the CD any more. Everything seem to increase in size. Comparing it to the sarge versions, we are running seriously short on CD space. Here are some random examples of packagse including some dep