Re: What happened to Agnula.org (DeMuDi)?

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:44:43PM +0100, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > Did the domain expire? > > demudi.org is full of dead links now. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is dead, too. Due to a miscommunication (we still have to understand of whom with whom) the domain expired and was taken by a domain squat

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

--- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I found a document for DICOM that includes more options > cheers, > Kev > [0] http://medical.nema.org/Dicom/CP/CPack_23/cp373_lb.pdf Thanks a lot for the reference, it's a good one :) Anyway, I don't think that classification will fit Debian's needs

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

Daniel Baumann wrote: however, if you want to have latest and greatest but with stability and security as you know it from debian stable, then you are asking for the impossible. I think the problem that many people find with Debian is that they do want the stability and security of stable, but

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:00:16AM +, Paul Waring wrote: > I think the problem that many people find with Debian is that they do > want the stability and security of stable, but at the same time they > don't want to be a dozen releases behind upstream. I've seen many > occasions where there

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Ottavio, > are you suggesting that Joey(or any DD) should have announced > his/her > involvment in this type of event on a Debian mailing list? > Maybe the event was not open to the public? > Is there a mailing list where DD's mention events they are > attending on > behal

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

Sebastian Feltel wrote: > If you are aware of currently unmentioned events, news or whatever > please report [1] them. We (meaning the regular contributors to DWN) > cannot read every single Debian/Linux/FOSS-related mailing list or > website so we need your support. But _this_ is the point: the e

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I don't think he had a moral imperative to do it, but I can't see why > he or any others involved shouldn't have done it I was ill during and afterwards, and didn't have energy to mention it, although my presentation, such as it was, is up on my wiki[3]. Anyway, I was not i

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

On 1/4/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ottavio Caruso wrote: > There is a wide spread feeling (if you read LWN.net) that a lot that > happens in Debian today isn't made public. I'm boycotting feeding any useful information to LWN anymore until they retract their latest blanket insult of

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:02:16 +0100 (CET), Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Anyway, I don't think that classification will fit Debian's > needs. It's self described as "sex of a subject for clinical > purposes, such as the selection of sex-based grown metrics". To > start with, it talks abo

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 05:47:58 -0800 (PST), Ottavio Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Sebastian Feltel wrote: >> If you are aware of currently unmentioned events, news or whatever >> please report [1] them. We (meaning the regular contributors to > DWN) >> cannot read every single Debian/Linux/FOS

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

--- Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:02:16 +0100 (CET), Miriam Ruiz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Anyway, I don't think that classification will fit Debian's > > needs. It's self described as "sex of a subject for clinical > > purposes, such as the sele

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:32:52PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I'd be interested in knowing: > > * Would such an idea be feasible? Yes, it only requires somebody to code in the missing pieces (i.e. all of them) > * Would maintainers be willing to occasionally upload screenshots? I woul

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:05:03AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > > this idea has been discussed recently, I just can't remember when > > exactly though, I'd say in the late 6 monthes. Maybe you can grab some > > names of people that were involved in the first proposal there. It may > > have be

RE: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

--- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I would really appreciate any comments and suggestions on this. We discussed that idea in the Debian Games Team some time ago, and we're very interested in it. At least for games, having screenshots is something very important. Greetings,

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:41:35PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:32:52PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I'd be interested in knowing: > > > > * Would such an idea be feasible? > > Yes, it only requires somebody to code in the missing pieces (i.e.

Bug#405576: ITP: python-mako -- template library written in Python

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-mako Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Mike Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.makotemplates.org * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

On to, 2007-01-04 at 15:23 +, Andrew Saunders wrote: > On 1/4/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm boycotting feeding any useful information to LWN anymore until they > > retract their latest blanket insult of all DD's and stop being so biased. > > YMMV. > > Could you pretty please

Re: Marcelo Magallon (lib3ds maintainer) MIA?

* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-08 09:55]: > * Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-08 10:33]: > > Does anybody know if the lib3ds maintainer, Marcelo Magallon (email > > mmagallo), is still active? > > He has been busy with RL lately but things got better recently. > Signing y

Bug#405591: ITP: libtext-vfile-asdata-perl -- generic perl module to read and write vfile files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtext-vfile-asdata-perl Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : Jay Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-vFile * License : GPL Programming L

Bug#405590: ITP: libtext-vcard-perl -- parse, edit and create multiple vCards

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtext-vcard-perl Version : 2.00 Upstream Author : Leo Lapworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-vCard * License : GPL Programming Lang: Per

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

Maybe in the /debian package, there could be a package.png that is the screenshot and make them available in the mirrors (pool). maybe creating a file such as Packages.gz or an extension to it, informing that it has the screenshot available. then the user could access the pool ... or ... use so

Troubleshooting using Debian developer machines

Monotone has a bug (#404616) that seems to only affect powerpc. I don't have access to a powerpc machine myself, so I'd like to use bruckner.debian.org to troubleshoot the bug. How do I use the Etch chroot on bruckner to install monotone and its dependencies and run monotone without root access to

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

Qui, 2007-01-04 às 11:10 +, Dominic Hargreaves escreveu: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:00:16AM +, Paul Waring wrote: > > > I think the problem that many people find with Debian is that they do > > want the stability and security of stable, but at the same time they > > don't want to be a

Re: Troubleshooting using Debian developer machines

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:51:25PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > Monotone has a bug (#404616) that seems to only affect powerpc. I > don't have access to a powerpc machine myself, so I'd like to use > bruckner.debian.org to troubleshoot the bug. How do I use the Etch > chroot on bruckner to install

Re: Troubleshooting using Debian developer machines

"Shaun Jackman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Monotone has a bug (#404616) that seems to only affect powerpc. I > don't have access to a powerpc machine myself, so I'd like to use > bruckner.debian.org to troubleshoot the bug. How do I use the Etch > chroot on bruckner to install monotone and its

Re: Troubleshooting using Debian developer machines

Op do, 04-01-2007 te 13:51 -0700, schreef Shaun Jackman: > Monotone has a bug (#404616) that seems to only affect powerpc. I > don't have access to a powerpc machine myself, so I'd like to use > bruckner.debian.org to troubleshoot the bug. How do I use the Etch > chroot on bruckner to install monot

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

Luis Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Qui, 2007-01-04 às 11:10 +, Dominic Hargreaves escreveu: >> >> backports.org is, to my mind, a perfect solution to this problem; it >> allows you to selectively upgrade your favourite/important packages that >> you need, whilst retaining the stable bas

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:46:40PM +, Luis Matos wrote: > Maybe in the /debian package, there could be a package.png that is the > screenshot and make them available in the mirrors (pool). > maybe creating a file such as Packages.gz or an extension to it, > informing that it has the screensho

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

Qui, 2007-01-04 às 16:43 -0500, Matthias Julius escreveu: > Luis Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Qui, 2007-01-04 às 11:10 +, Dominic Hargreaves escreveu: > >> > >> backports.org is, to my mind, a perfect solution to this problem; it > >> allows you to selectively upgrade your favourit

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

Qui, 2007-01-04 às 16:49 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez escreveu: > - Requiring a new package upload just for screenshots (If we want to > allow user contributed screenshots, the updates to the screenshots > really need to be able to happen independently of the package > uploads. I think the "scre

RC bugs with (seemingly) simple fixes

On to, 2007-01-04 at 17:54 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > It's too long since I've done anything for Debian. I'm going to be > picking an RC bug tonight and damn well get it fixed. The bug turned out to be #392940 (a build problem in kdissert). I also closed #403356 since the submitter found out t

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm boycotting feeding any useful information to LWN anymore until they > retract their latest blanket insult of all DD's and stop being so biased. Interesting. It's usually the Fedora folks who complain about bias at LWN. Honestly, I don't see what the

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

Luis Matos wrote: > backports use testing as base for the packages. > setting up security for backports is a bit easier than for testing. Lot > less packages. > My point is, for example, when the security team lauches a DSA, it > always sees if both unstable and testing are afected. They already >

Problem with debsums and linux-modules-* packages

hi, I am not sure what to do about that. The module packages carry a md5sum for the map and dep files which are updated by depmod so when you run debsums you get a serie of mismatch. This is a problem with tools like bcfg2 since it triggers a reinstallation of the said package at each run. (bcfg2

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

Sex, 2007-01-05 às 00:57 +0100, Daniel Baumann escreveu: > Luis Matos wrote: > > backports use testing as base for the packages. > > setting up security for backports is a bit easier than for testing. Lot > > less packages. > > My point is, for example, when the security team lauches a DSA, it > >

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Debian will get the Etch release out this year. Honest. What > could possibly go wrong? Thereafter, the Debian developers will > go back to arguing about firmware in the kernel. > > Honestly, it was not my intent to insult anybody. I'm sorry if I did. >

Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

Luis Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> There could be another archive called updates.debian.org where >> selected packages go in in coordination with the security and stable >> release teams. > that would be nicier ... but that's a bit of volatile's purpose. > Although it is not very used.

Bug#405625: ITP: omfs-source -- Optimized MPEG Filesystem (OMFS) Linux kernel driver [source]

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joseph Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: omfs-source Version : 0.7.2 Upstream Author : Bob Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://linux-karma.sf.net/rio-usb.html * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C Desc

Re: RC bugs with (seemingly) simple fixes

Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Likewise, #379113 has a patch and should be simple enough for someone > with a 64-bit system to test and upload. I'm home with my 64-bit system, so I'll get this one. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Troubleshooting using Debian developer machines

Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Monotone has a bug (#404616) that seems to only affect powerpc. I don't > have access to a powerpc machine myself, so I'd like to use > bruckner.debian.org to troubleshoot the bug. How do I use the Etch > chroot on bruckner to install monotone and its de

Bug#405628: RFP: cone -- COnsole Newsreader and Emailer (a GPL'ed pine clone)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cone Version : 0.69 Upstream Author : Mr. Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ * License : GPL Description : COnsole Newsreader and Emailer (a GPL'ed pine clone) According to htt

Re: Troubleshooting using Debian developer machines

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:28:41PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Monotone has a bug (#404616) that seems to only affect powerpc. I don't > > have access to a powerpc machine myself, so I'd like to use > > bruckner.debian.org to troubleshoot the bug. How

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:41:35PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > wrote: >> - Provide an HTML interface to the pool >> If the packages names are the same I don't see the need to add yet another >> line to the debian/control file, packages.debian.org would just

Work-needing packages report for Jan 5, 2007

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: 329 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 80 (new: 0) Total number of packages requeste