Re: FTP team name

2009-01-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> I think that the name of "FTP team" or "ftpmasters" which we often use > is slightly misleading to people we are not aware of each and every > bit of how the project works. > And there are many people who contribute to Debian more occasionnaly > than those "core" folks who know everything about

Re: FTP team name

2009-01-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/01/09 at 09:41 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > I don't see a big gain in renaming the role, besides the work to change > all the places where it's written down. Ok, technically we would be the > "http/rsync/ftp Archive [Master|Assistants]", but then people that get > in contact with us should u

Re: Arch:all package depending on package that isn't Arch:any

2009-01-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
(Dropping -mentors and r...@. Bcc ftpmas...@.) * Julian Andres Klode [Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:06:43 +0100]: > 2009/1/13 Neil Williams : > > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:30:08 +0100 > > "Julian Andres Klode" wrote: > >> Russ Allbery wrote: > >> > It would be nice if there were some way of telling the arch

Re: FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:11:48AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Thoughts? Flames? Knives throwing? I agree that the current name is not particularly "telling". Still, we are all used to some degree of misnomers, with which we can cope well as long as there are good descriptions of their mean

Bug#511775: ITP: lxmusic -- A lightweight music player for LXDE

2009-01-14 Thread Shan-Bin Chen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Shan-Bin Chen" * Package name: lxmusic Version : 0.2.3+svn090103 Upstream Author : Hong Jen Yee (PCMan) * URL : http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Lxmusic * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A ligh

Bug#511777: ITP: python-zhpy -- The Python language with Chinese

2009-01-14 Thread Shan-Bin Chen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Shan-Bin Chen" * Package name: python-zhpy Version : 1.7.1 Upstream Author : Fred Lin * URL : http://code.google.com/p/zhpy/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : The Python language with Chine

Bug#511772: ITP: func -- Func allows for running commands on remote systems in a secure way

2009-01-14 Thread Nima Talebi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nima Talebi * Package name: func Version : 0.24 Upstream Author : Michael DeHaan , Adrian Likins , Seth Vidal * URL : https://fedorahosted.org/func/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Description : Func

Re: FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:45:40AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:11:48AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Thoughts? Flames? Knives throwing? > > I agree that the current name is not particularly "telling". Still, > we are all used to some degree of misnomers, wi

Bug#511785: ITP: ochusha -- a GTK+ 2ch.net BBS browser

2009-01-14 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: ochusha Version: 0.6 Upstream Author: fuyu URL: http://ochusha.sourceforge.jp/ License: 2-clause BSD with LGPL libraries De

Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Goswin wrote: >Frans Pop writes: > >> Overview of available CD/DVD/Blu-ray images for Lenny >> - >> Architecture-specific images: >> * businesscard CD >> * network install (netinst) CD >> * full CD (650MB) images, users can now choose between: >>

Re: FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:45:40AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > I see much more gain in update the description of what does FTP > masters do ( http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/FTPMaster ) than in renaming > the team. Or better, having a written DPL delegation rather than an oral tradition…

Re: debtags facet for sections (Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome)

2009-01-14 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:59:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > This is one of the reasons why I find working on debtags for my packages > rather unrewarding. I have no real indication that the decisions I'm > making about what tags make sense have much in common with the decisions > everyone els

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-14 Thread Marvin Renich
* Harald Braumann [090113 16:49]: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:57:11 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > > If they remove the user on purge, that should be changed anyway. > > Well, jabber-common does remove the user jabber on purge, jabberd2, > though, doesn't. And it seems that opinions diverge on this

Bug#511801: ITP: fauhdlc -- experimental VHDL compiler and interpreter

2009-01-14 Thread Stefan Potyra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefan Potyra * Package name: fauhdlc Version : 0.1* Upstream Author : FAUmachine Team * URL : http://www.faumachine.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : experimental VHDL compiler and int

Bug#511813: ITP: subvertpy -- Alternative Python bindings for Subversion

2009-01-14 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooij * Package name: subvertpy Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Jelmer Vernooij * URL : http://launchpad.net/subvertpy * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Python Description : Alternative Python bind

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-14 Thread Harald Braumann
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:25:53 -0500 Marvin Renich wrote: > * Harald Braumann [090113 16:49]: > > Well, jabber-common does remove the user jabber on purge, jabberd2, > > though, doesn't. And it seems that opinions diverge on this matter. > > See e.g. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-14 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Harald Braumann wrote: > > Why do you need to conflict with jabber-common? > jabber-muc needs to conflict with jabber-common, until there is a > version that does not remove the user on purge. Otherwise, when > both are installed and jabber-common is purged, jabber-muc stops

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-14 Thread Marvin Renich
* Harald Braumann [090113 05:47]: > Hi, > > I'd like to package mu-conference 0.7 (multi-user chat component for > jabber). The version currently in Debian (jabber-muc 0.6.0) uses the > user ``jabber'', which is created by jabber-common, on which > jabber-muc depends. > > The new version can be

Processed: state of #172318

2009-01-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > package apt Ignoring bugs not assigned to: apt > reassign 172318 general Bug#172318: apt: Automatic appends to sources.list via webpages. Bug reassigned from package `apt' to `general'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if yo

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-14 Thread Jamin W. Collins
Marvin Renich wrote: > * Harald Braumann [090113 05:47]: >> >> AFAIK, there's no way for multiple independent packages for using the >> same user. So jabber-muc needs to create its own user. On update, >> that's no problem. The post-install script can chown the >> package's directories for the new

Re: Arch:all package depending on package that isn't Arch:any

2009-01-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:41:11 +0100 Adeodato Simó wrote: > > >> Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> > It would be nice if there were some way of telling the archive software > > >> > not to include this package in the archive index on the platforms it > > >> > doesn't support, though. If there is a way of

Re: Arch:all package depending on package that isn't Arch:any

2009-01-14 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Jan 14 19:32, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > How about using (for example) > > > > > > Architecture: all [i386 amd64 ppc] > > I should just note that this was a suggestion by Goswin von Brederlow. > > I'm wondering if the change should be made in the other direction: > > Package: acpi-supp

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-14 Thread Marvin Renich
(I'm subscribed, no need to CC me.) * Jamin W. Collins [090114 14:09]: > I'm not subscribed, haven't been following the lists for a while. The > old package should probably be removed completely in favor of the new. That's fine. I didn't know the state of jabber-muc, and didn't see any indicat

Re: Arch:all package depending on package that isn't Arch:any

2009-01-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:40:08 + Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Wed Jan 14 19:32, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > How about using (for example) > > > > > > > > Architecture: all [i386 amd64 ppc] > > > > I should just note that this was a suggestion by Goswin von Brederlow. > > > > I'm wondering

Re: Arch:all package depending on package that isn't Arch:any

2009-01-14 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Jan 14 19:56, Neil Williams wrote: > > The problem with both of these is that if acpid starts working on ppc as > > well you have to transition acpi-support-base. Ideally the solution > > shouldn't require an upload to acpi-support-base when the architectures > > of its dependencies change.

Re: Arch:all package depending on package that isn't Arch:any

2009-01-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:12:08 + Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Wed Jan 14 19:56, Neil Williams wrote: > > > The problem with both of these is that if acpid starts working on ppc as > > > well you have to transition acpi-support-base. Ideally the solution > > > shouldn't require an upload to acpi-

merkel fs issues

2009-01-14 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello, There seem to be some issues with the ftp mirror on merkel: $ pwd /srv/ftp.debian.org/ftp $ ls -l dists/sid/Contents-powerpc.diff/ | tail -n2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 archvsync archvsync 2053 Jan 14 13:40 Index ?- ? ? ? ?? dists/sid/Contents-powerpc.diff/200

Re: debtags facet for sections (Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome)

2009-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Enrico Zini writes: > What I intend to do is to form subcommittees by broad topics: "The Gnome > Guys", "The KDE Guys", "The Web Developers", "The Photographers" and so > on. Or "People who take care of tag X". > > Such groups should have the ultimate say on a set of tags, including > being able

Re: FTP team name

2009-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:45:40AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : >> I see much more gain in update the description of what does FTP masters >> do ( http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/FTPMaster ) than in renaming the >> team. > > Or better, having a written DPL delegation

Re: merkel fs issues

2009-01-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Anthony Towns dijo [Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:31:36AM +1000]: > Hello, > > There seem to be some issues with the ftp mirror on merkel: > > $ pwd > /srv/ftp.debian.org/ftp > $ ls -l dists/sid/Contents-powerpc.diff/ | tail -n2 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 archvsync archvsync 2053 Jan 14 13:40 Index > ?-

Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:32:07PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > That depends on what you mean by a multiarch Blu-ray image. The > inherent nastiness of the HFS hybrid code means that we probably won't > be able to produce BD images including powerpc at all. BD boot code is > identical to that on