Bug#440017: ITP: irssi-plugin-xmpp -- XMPP plugin for irssi

2007-08-29 Thread David Ammouial
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: irssi-plugin-xmpp Version: 0.13 Upstream Author: Colin Didier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://cybione.org/src/irssi-xmpp/ License: GPL Description: XMPP plugin for irssi A

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070829 00:22]: > Why should we force 7000+ source packages clean their environment > when debuild/pbuilder/sbuild etc will do that anyway? Worse, it's > not even trivial to clean environment in a Makefile. Because those source packages are a large amount of code,

libblitz - name space pollution

2007-08-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I noticed that we have a name space polution: $ apt-cache search libblitz libblitz-dev - KDE/Qt image filter library - development files libblitz0 - C++ template class library for scientific computing libblitz4 - KDE/Qt image filter library libblitz0-dev - C++ template class librar

Re: libblitz - name space pollution

2007-08-29 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi Andreas, On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:22:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that we have a name space polution: > > $ apt-cache search libblitz > libblitz-dev - KDE/Qt image filter library - development files > libblitz0 - C++ template class library for scientific computin

Re: dpkg-cross_1.99+2.0.0pre1 - eventual removal of dpkg-cross

2007-08-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:00:49 + Debian Installer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Originally sent to deban-embedded, resent to devel for a wider readership with a few clarifications for this list. Note that only pre1 has been uploaded - the diversions remain, for now, and pre2 (including the below NE

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue August 28 2007 3:11:20 pm Eduard Bloch wrote: > Oh, come on. People who put $TAPE into the default environment may also > link /dev/null to /dev/hda (or /dev/sda) and complain to the coretutils > maintainer because ln isn't unable to think for them. I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:58:17AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every platform, > if -f is not given? No. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSU

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070828 23:26]: > This thread has concentrated on fixing packages, but I would appreciate > a little insight into why someone might set TAPE in their environment by > default. Surely if you set it by default, you must realse that you're > asking any such invocation o

Bug#440082: ITP: arcload -- bootloader for SGI/ARCS machines

2007-08-29 Thread Julien BLACHE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: arcload Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Stanislaw Skowronek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/ARCLoad * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Desc

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:58:17AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > > /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every platform, > > if -f is not given? > > No. tar != gtar. I think yo

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:05:05AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: >>> I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately >>> /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every platform, >>> if -f is not given? >> No. > tar != gtar. I think you will find that answer

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2007-08-29 kello 18:00 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson kirjoitti: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:58:17AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > > /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every platform, > > if -f is not gi

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070829 18:02]: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:58:17AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > > /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every platform, > > if -f is not given? >

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:05:05AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > >>> I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > >>> /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every platform, > >>> if -f is not given? > >> No. > > tar !=

Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Hi, How does everyone feel about adding the software scsiaddgui to Debian. I cannot find anything that provides similar functionality, and if there is such a tool it is most likely Gnome or Kde specific. I have spoken with the person who has written the software and he said he would help

Re: Bug#399892: nepenthes_0.2.0-1(hppa/experimental): FTBFS: tries to use static library compiled without -fPIC

2007-08-29 Thread Luciano Bello
El Mar 17 Jul 2007, Jan Wagner escribió: > Hi Luciano, > > On Wednesday 20 June 2007 19:15, Luciano Bello wrote: > > I need your opinion and comments about: http://bugs.debian.org/399892 > > Nepenthes has a module (modulehoneytrap.so) linked with libipq (IPQ > > library for userspace), whic

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:42:01 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > How does everyone feel about adding the software scsiaddgui to > Debian. If you are going to be the Debian Maintainer for this package, you should be able to at least understand error reports from the package which is very

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed August 29 2007 11:00:50 am Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:58:17AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > > /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every > > platform, if -f is not given?

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed August 29 2007 12:16:20 pm John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:05:05AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > >>> I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > > >>> /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on ju

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:20:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >>> I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately >>> /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every >>> platform, if -f is not given? >> No. > You cite nothing to back that up, and everything I can

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Quoting Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you are going to be the Debian Maintainer for this package, you should be able to at least understand error reports from the package which is very difficult if you don't understand the interpreter output in the case of python. If you are not going to

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Quoting Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you are going to be the Debian Maintainer for this package, you should be able to at least understand error reports from the package which is very difficult if you don't understand the interpreter output in the case of python. So if I am able to

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed August 29 2007 1:28:32 pm Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:20:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > >>> I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > >>> /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every > >>> platform, if -f is not g

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:38:37PM -0500, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed August 29 2007 1:28:32 pm Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:20:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > >>> I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > > >>> /dev

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed August 29 2007 2:51:01 pm Mike Hommey wrote: > > GNU tar defaults to stdout since version 1.12, released on Apr 26, 1997. > So it's been more than 10 years that GNU tar has *not* been defaulting to > a tape device. I don't think that's accurate. GNU tar's *configure* defaults to stdout.

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Quoting Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you are going to be the Debian Maintainer for this package, you should be able to at least understand error reports from the package which is very difficult if you don't understand the interpreter output in the case of python. Consider the followin

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:42:26 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > If you are going to be the Debian Maintainer for this package, you > > should be able to at least understand error reports from the package > > which is very difficult if you don't under

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Quoting Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:42:26 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you are going to be the Debian Maintainer for this package, you > should be able to at least understand error reports from the package > which

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Quoting Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: PS. Of course you do not have time, you run off eveyone who wants to help. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-08-29 10:58 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue August 28 2007 3:11:20 pm Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > Oh, come on. People who put $TAPE into the default environment > > may also link /dev/null to /dev/hda (or /dev/sda) and complain > > to the coretutils maintainer because ln isn't unable to

Bug#440117: ITP: twitux -- a lightweight Twitter client for Gnome

2007-08-29 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: twitux Version : 0.50 Upstream Author : Daniel Morales URL : http://live.gnome.org/DanielMorales/Twitux License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Quoting Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >If you are going to be the Debian Maintainer for this package, you > >should be able to at least understand error reports from the package > >which is very difficult if you don't understand the i

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Quoting Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It's pretty simple, really. If you want to maintain packages in Debian, at least pretend to want to understand the package and pretend to want to support them through a stable release. Saying up front that you're too lazy to do even minimal support isn'

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Regarding lazy, it appears that those of this opinion have never created a distro. Indeed I am currently: 1) maintaining the project website 2) building the isos 3) uploading the isos for distribution 4) gathering lists of packages to include 5) searching for software missing in Debian which us

what happened to social contract?

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
http://www.debian.org/social_contract # Our priorities are our users and free software We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software community. We >will place their interests first in our priorities. We will support the needs of >our users for operation in many differen

RFC: dropping Linux capabilities support from pam_limits (bug #440130)

2007-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
Folks, For a long time, the Debian pam package has been carrying a local patch to add support for Linux capabilities in pam_limits. While catching up on bug triage work on the package, I've come to the conclusion that this functionality is broken, useless, and that no one actually uses it; it was

Re: what happened to social contract?

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I must have misunderstood, I thought this was what Debian was all > about. Here I come in and point out that many users do not have > everything they need or want, start a project to do something about > it, and I am met with scorn and "that would be too much extra work > for

Re: what happened to social contract?

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Quoting Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am not whining, I am questioning the validity of your claimed philosophical values. Insults do not validate your point of view. I think your problem is that you have confused "our priorities are our users..." with "our priority is everything ic

Re: what happened to social contract?

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Quoting Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Also, lest we all forget, I am a Debian user. So what you say to me you say to us all. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: what happened to social contract?

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
I am not whining, I am questioning the validity of your claimed philosophical values. Insults do not validate your point of view. I think your problem is that you have confused "our priorities are our users..." with "our priority is everything icelinux believes might help some subset of our us

Re: what happened to social contract?

2007-08-29 Thread Miles Bader
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think your problem is that you have confused "our priorities are our > users..." with "our priority is everything icelinux believes might help > some subset of our users". To which I can only say, get over yourself. Do you really expect any differen

Re: what happened to social contract?

2007-08-29 Thread icelinux
Quoting Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: We don't really have time for either sort - that is what debian-mentors and slashdot, respectively, are for. Hmm, yes I wonder what people would think were we to post the contents of our exchange on Slashdot. -- "Everything should be made as si

Re: what happened to social contract?

2007-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:34:21AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also, lest we all forget, I am a Debian user. So what you say to me > you say to us all. Neat, it's not often that one sees a fallacy of Composition on this list. +5 originality! -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: what happened to social contract?

2007-08-29 Thread Brendan
On Thursday 30 August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am not whining, I am questioning the validity of your claimed > philosophical values. Insults do not validate your point of view. "I'm not whining, I'm trolling". Ok, thanks for clearing th

Re: what happened to social contract?

2007-08-29 Thread Yasen Pramatarov
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:46:39 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hmm, yes I wonder what people would think were we to post the >contents of our exchange on Slashdot. Do you really thing this is not being read by many, many people around the world? And also indexed by search engines? d-d is not at al