Re: system users

2008-11-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du samedi 15 novembre 2008, vers 10:16, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : >> On some systems like OpenBSD, all those users are starting with >> underscore to avoid collision with real users. On Debian, I have never >> seen this, even for pac

Re: system users

2008-11-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du samedi 15 novembre 2008, vers 14:02, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : >> On some systems like OpenBSD, all those users are starting with >> underscore to avoid collision with real users. On Debian, I have never >> seen

Re: system users

2008-11-16 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Vincent Bernat wrote: >>> On some systems like OpenBSD, all those users are starting with >>> underscore to avoid collision with real users. On Debian, I have never >>> seen this, even for packages that comes from OpenBSD (like openntpd >>> which uses "ntpd"). Is there some drawback

Re: system users

2008-11-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-16 11:41 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Unfortunately, by default, NAME_REGEX does not allow the use of > underscore. The user needs to be created with --force-badname. Why is that unfortunate? IMO it is good if system users have "bad" names since that makes clashes with name

Bug#505862: ITP: multiprocessing -- process-based "threading" interface

2008-11-16 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: multiprocessing Version : 2.6.0-0.1 Upstream Author : R Oudkerk / Python Software Foundation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/ * License

Re: system users

2008-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:49:12AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Hi! > > ,[ http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts ] > | A collision free way to name system accounts should really be mentioned > | in Debian policy to stop this uncontrolled growth of different methods. > `-

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-16 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/11/15 Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/11/11 Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Good idea. 110x80 would be a nice size for the thumbnails. I think it would be better to try to keep a 4:3 ratio. >>> I disagree; the aspect ratio of th

Bug#505878: ITP: libfunambol-cpp-client-api -- cross-platform syncml client stack

2008-11-16 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libfunambol-cpp-client-api Version : syncevolution-0.8.1 Upstream Author : Funambol Inc. * URL : http://core.forge.funambol.org * License : AGPL Programming Lang: C++

ITP: jakarta-jmeter -- Load testing and performance measurement application.

2008-11-16 Thread Onkar Shinde
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: jakarta-jmeter Version : 2.3.2 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java

RFH: who should get this bug?

2008-11-16 Thread Leo 'costela' Antunes
Hey, I have no idea which package should get this minor bug[0] about some characters covering the underscore that marks an activation key. My best guess would be either libpango or libgtk2.0, but I'm at a loss here. Opinions? Cheers [0] http://bugs.debian.org/501864 -- Leo "costela" Antunes [i

Re: ITP: jakarta-jmeter -- Load testing and performance measurement application.

2008-11-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load I would remove the "desktop" and add "with optional GUI" Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Nov 16 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 04:24:18PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Hm, no, the impression that I got from this discussion that at least >> several people here think the result of "Further discussion" is: > > Let me observe that the fact that "several

Re: RFH: who should get this bug?

2008-11-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 16 novembre 2008 à 15:45 +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes a écrit : > I have no idea which package should get this minor bug[0] about some > characters covering the underscore that marks an activation key. My best > guess would be either libpango or libgtk2.0, but I'm at a loss here. > Opin

Re: Bug#503096: ITP: alpaca -- GnuPG file handling for Emacs

2008-11-16 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
reassign 503096 emacs-goodies-el retitle 503096 emacs-goodies-el: please include alpaca.el thanks On November 3, 2008 at 1:08PM +0100, zack (at debian.org) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 08:51:55PM +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > > I don't intend to push alpaca into the Emacs main tree. Plea

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Nov 16 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Manoj Srivastava [Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:38:56 -0600]: > >> That does not seem to make sense. Either you have >> 'none of this non-free crap in the archive ever' >> or you have >> 'the release team downgrades these bugs and includes non-

Re: RFH: who should get this bug?

2008-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/501864 > > That would be libgtk2.0-0, but I can't reproduce that. The underscore is > displayed further down over the g here (both GTK+ 2.12 and 2.14). I'm able to reproduce it, with transmi

Re: RFH: who should get this bug?

2008-11-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 16 November 2008 15:45, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > I have no idea which package should get this minor bug[0] about some > characters covering the underscore that marks an activation key. My best > guess would be either libpango or libgtk2.0, but I'm at a loss here. > Opinions? I

Re: RFH: who should get this bug?

2008-11-16 Thread Leo 'costela' Antunes
[no need for CC] Josselin Mouette wrote: > That would be libgtk2.0-0, but I can’t reproduce that. The underscore is > displayed further down over the g here (both GTK+ 2.12 and 2.14). What font are you using? I can reproduce the problem here using Sans size 9, but it doesn't happen using Nimbus S

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 16 November 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I think we can be reasonably sure that the current spate of > discussions is about releasing Lenny. For this action, any of the > ballot options will have a distinct decision; and the ballot should > have _all_ the possible courses of

Hi its me Joyce, how are you today?

2008-11-16 Thread Joyce Donaldson
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi,i have accpted you as my gud friend,so reply and let us knw each other more ok am Joy and u? - Joyce Donaldson

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18:26PM +0100, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Thumbnail (<= 160x120 pixels): > http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/PACKAGENAME > (this URL returns a dummy thumbnail if no screenshot was found) Just one quick question: will there eventua

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Nov 16 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 15 novembre 2008 à 19:39 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : >> > Hm, no, the impression that I got from this discussion that at least >> > several people here think the result of "Further discussion" is: >> > >> > i Do we require source f

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Nov 16 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I think we can be reasonably sure that the current spate of >> discussions is about releasing Lenny. For this action, any of the >> ballot options will have a distinct decision; and the ballot

Re: system users

2008-11-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette fin de matinée radieuse du dimanche 16 novembre 2008, vers 11:46, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : >> On some systems like OpenBSD, all those users are starting with >> underscore to avoid collision with real users. On Debian, I have never >> seen this, even for p

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-16 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sonntag, 16. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18:26PM +0100, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Thumbnail (<= 160x120 pixels): > > http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/PACKAGENAME > > (this URL returns a dummy thumbnail if no screens

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-16 Thread Raphael Geissert
Christoph Haas wrote: [...] > > There should be a way to select what screenshot you want. I'm saving the > version number along with the screenshot. So in theory I could tell which > one is for a newer version of the software than the other (although I'd > have to 'dpkg --compare-versions' because

Bug#505924: ITP: cwm -- a lightweight and efficient window manager for X11

2008-11-16 Thread Recai Oktaş
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Recai Oktaş" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cwm Version : 20081115 (CVS snapshot) Upstream Authors: Marius Aamodt Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> et al. * URL

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:42:19AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I do not think throwing options out because they are not of a > narrow and limited scope is right. The proposer and sponsors can > withdraw them, if they think the scope is too broad for the problem at > hand. No one els

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Nov 16 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:42:19AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I do not think throwing options out because they are not of a >> narrow and limited scope is right. The proposer and sponsors can >> withdraw them, if they think the scope is

Re: Bug#505924: ITP: cwm -- a lightweight and efficient window manager for X11

2008-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/16/08 15:38, Recai Oktaş wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Recai Oktaş" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cwm Version : 20081115 (CVS snapshot) Upstream Authors: Marius Aamodt Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:46:27PM +0100, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sonntag, 16. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18:26PM +0100, Christoph Haas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Thumbnail (<= 160x120 pixels): > > > h