Bug#410162: ITP: schafkopf -- a popular Bavarian card game

2007-02-08 Thread Sebastian Harl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: schafkopf Upstream Author : Dominik Seichter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://schafkopf.berlios.de/ * License : GPL Description : a popular Bavarian card game This is a KDE

Re: Bug#409563: ITP: thinkfinger -- library and utility for the SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader

2007-02-08 Thread Jon Dowland
Luca Capello wrote: ATM I don't really see any reason to create a separate package just for tf-tool, because libthinkfinger + tf-tool (binary and manpage) should generate a package around less than 50K in size. In case new tools will be added, we can split the package. Is a strong reason agains

Re: Bug#410162: ITP: schafkopf -- a popular Bavarian card game

2007-02-08 Thread Frank S. Thomas
On Thursday 08 February 2007, Sebastian Harl wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: schafkopf > Upstream Author : Dominik Seichter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://schafkopf.berlios.de/ > * License :

Re: Bug#409563: ITP: thinkfinger -- library and utility for the SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader

2007-02-08 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! Please keep d-d in the cc: header. On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:28:33 +0100, Marcus Better wrote: >> libpam-thinkfinger (depends on libthinkfinger0) >> libthinkfinger0 >> libthinkfinger-dev >> thinkfinger (depends on libpam-thinkfinger) > > (What is the thinkfinger package for, if the tool is in

Re: Bug#409563: ITP: thinkfinger -- library and utility for the SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader

2007-02-08 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:38:42 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Please do not include it in the lib package, it's a pain afterwards > when a new version with a different soname is introduced and > disallows parallel installation of those. With my non-yet-skilled-library packager hat on, I don't

Re: Bug#409563: ITP: thinkfinger -- library and utility for the SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader

2007-02-08 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:38:08 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Luca Capello wrote: >> ATM I don't really see any reason to create a separate package just >> for tf-tool, because libthinkfinger + tf-tool (binary and manpage) >> should generate a package around less than 50K in size. In case >> ne

Re: dselect memory use

2007-02-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:04:14AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > Given the dramatic increase in popularity of virtual machine technology (with > Xen being supported in Etch) it seems likely that a reasonable number of > people will want to run VMs with small amounts of memory. For example a P3

dselect memory use

2007-02-08 Thread Russell Coker
Back when 16M of RAM was considered a lot (~1996) dselect ran quite nicely on such hardware. Now it seems that dselect is unusable on 32M even though hard drives used for swap are much faster now than they used to be. Given the dramatic increase in popularity of virtual machine technology (with

Re: dselect memory use

2007-02-08 Thread Nicolas François
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:04:14AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Is it possible to reduce the memory use of dselect? There are some patches by Michel Lespinasse on: http://bugs.debian.org/395140 Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Upcoming debian meetings

2007-02-08 Thread Wookey
On 2007-02-08 16:52 +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > If you know of other meetings, locations and/or sponsors that > would be interested in hosting meetings, please let me know! Some of us are at the Free Software World conference 3.0 in Badajoz, (Speaking about the Debian Extremadura workmeetings

Re: Bug#409563: ITP: thinkfinger -- library and utility for the SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader

2007-02-08 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! This is for bug readers and d-d's information. On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:24:55 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-08 12:04]: > >> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:38:42 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >> > Please do not include it in the lib package, it's a pain

Bug#410220: ITP: wxmacmolplt -- The MacMolPlt molecular visualization program

2007-02-08 Thread Brett Bode
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brett Bode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: wxmacmolplt Version : 6.3.0 Upstream Author : Brett Bode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/MacMolPlt/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Descripti

Re: Upcoming debian meetings

2007-02-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Wookey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070208 17:48]: > On 2007-02-08 16:52 +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > If you know of other meetings, locations and/or sponsors that > > would be interested in hosting meetings, please let me know! > > Some of us are at the Free Software World conference 3.0 in Badaj

ITP: libauthen-krb5-simple-perl -- Authenticate a user/password using Kerberose 5

2007-02-08 Thread Xavier Oswald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libauthen-krb5-simple-perl Version : 0.32 Upstream Author : Damien S. Stuart, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DS/DSTUART/Authen-Krb5-Simple-0.

ITP: libauthen-simple-kerberos-perl -- Simple Kerberos authentication

2007-02-08 Thread Xavier Oswald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libauthen-simple-kerberos-perl Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Christian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CH/CHANSEN/Authen-Simple-Kerb

Re: Upcoming debian meetings

2007-02-08 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:25:32PM +, Wookey wrote: > > I suggest best initial contact is Cesar Gomex Martin: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > gomex-> gomez :) (in both surname and email address) Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Upcoming debian meetings

2007-02-08 Thread Wookey
On 2007-02-08 20:19 +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:25:32PM +, Wookey wrote: > > > > I suggest best initial contact is Cesar Gomex Martin: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > gomex-> gomez :) > > (in both surname and email address) Indeed - thank you. I have no idea how I

Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)

2007-02-08 Thread Vincent Danjean
Maarten Verwijs a écrit : > hi, > > I took the plunge and upgraded about half of the Lab here to Etch. > This is about 27 machines to date, catering almost the same amount of > users. A few days ago, I also upgraded two servers from sarge to etch. Basically, all has been fine. I just note a few

ITP memlockd

2007-02-08 Thread Russell Coker
memlockd - daemon to lock files into RAM When a system starts paging excessively it may be impossible for the sysadmin to login for the purpose of killing the runaway processes (sometimes the login program times out due to thrashing). Memlockd allows important system files (such as /bin/login,

Re: Debian in Sanger (Re: update on binary upload restrictions)

2007-02-08 Thread Roger Leigh
Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim Cutts wrote: >> What I'd actually like is some sort of non-root packaging system so that >> users could build software with decent dependency checking for their >> shared software infrastructure. Can dpkg be cajoled into doing that? > > Could you use

Re: ITP memlockd

2007-02-08 Thread Brian May
> "Russell" == Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russell> memlockd - daemon to lock files into RAM When a system Can I assume there is meant to be a full stop after RAM? It reads very differently otherwise... Russell> starts paging excessively it may be impossible for the

Re: /foo has been mounted xx times... check forced

2007-02-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:50:33PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:39:24AM +, Enrico Zini wrote: > > Hello, > > > > the feature as in the subject is nice and makes me feel safe, but > > sometimes it hits on the laptop, when booting on batteries, with people > > watch

nice logo

2007-02-08 Thread katarina
:-) openlogo-nd-50.png Description: PNG image

Work-needing packages report for Feb 9, 2007

2007-02-08 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: 351 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 85 (new: 1) Total number of packages requeste