Re: Bug#533265: apt or aptitude update at the beginning of a Lenny upgrade

2009-08-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Nicolas François wrote: > I propose to only recommend updating aptitude (this will update apt > anyway), and add a note for the users who prefer to use apt-get rather > than aptitude. Fine for me. You can also include both apt and aptitude on the command-line if you want to en

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:16:58AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote on debian-med list[1] but the discussion should be here on debian-devel (Reply-To is set): > > Once we are at the topic of web tools: I'm really waiting for an answer > > from you why you think that mgltools fit in your categories Fr

Bug#543316: ITP: arista -- multimedia transcoder for the GNOME Desktop

2009-08-24 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: arista Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Daniel G. Taylor * URL : http://programmer-art.org/projects/arista-transcoder * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : multi

Bug#543321: ITP: immv -- Rename multiple files interactively

2009-08-24 Thread Marco Herrn
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco Herrn * Package name: immv Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Marco Herrn * URL : http://immv.berlios.de/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Rename multiple files interactively immv allow

Bug#543320: ITP: dnsruby -- a DNS client library

2009-08-24 Thread Ondřej Surý
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ondřej Surý" * Package name: dnsruby Version : 1.35 Upstream Author : Alex D. * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/dnsruby/ * License : Apache Software License Programming Lang: Ruby Description : a DNS client

Re: Registry for cache directories (to save backup space)

2009-08-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:31:56PM +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:43:11 +0800 > Paul Wise wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: > > > > > while watching rsnapshot doing a backup of my laptop, I thought: > > > Wouldn't it be fine, to have a regi

Re: New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-24 Thread Roland Mas
Hi again, It has been brought to my attention that the URLs for the FusionForge branches I mentioned in my previous email were broken. Here are the correct ones: http://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/bzr/users/lolando/fusionforge/patches/scmrefactor-4.8 http://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/bzr/users/

Re: New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-24 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas, 2009-08-24 14:15:18 +0200 : > For reference, the Darcs plugin is complete (thanks to Sylvain Le > Gall), so it should be usable as a base. The Git plugin is mostly > complete, and should only be missing the parts about the repository > browser and the code to map email address to lo

Re: Bug#533265: apt or aptitude update at the beginning of a Lenny upgrade

2009-08-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/24/2009 02:16:10 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Nicolas François wrote: > > I propose to only recommend updating aptitude (this will update apt > > anyway), and add a note for the users who prefer to use apt-get > rather > > than aptitude. > > Fine for me. You can also inc

Re: Registry for cache directories (to save backup space)

2009-08-24 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 23/08/2009 Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:31:56PM +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:43:11 +0800 > > Paul Wise wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: > > > > > > > while watching rsnapshot doing a backup of my laptop, I t

Bug#543377: ITP: babeld -- a loop-free distance-vector routing protocol

2009-08-24 Thread Stephane Glondu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephane Glondu * Package name: babeld Version : 0.96 Upstream Author : Juliusz Chroboczek * URL : http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : a loop-free di

Bug#543378: ITP: ahcpd -- the Ad-Hoc Configuration Protocol

2009-08-24 Thread Stephane Glondu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephane Glondu * Package name: ahcpd Version : 0.50 Upstream Author : Juliusz Chroboczek * URL : http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/ahcp/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : the Ad-Hoc Confi

Bug#543382: ITP: ed2k_hash -- A tool for generating ed2k-links

2009-08-24 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz * Package name: ed2k_hash Version : 0.3.3 Upstream Author : Tim-Philipp Müller * URL : http://ed2k-tools.sourceforge.net/ed2k_hash.shtml * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C Description : A

Re: Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

2009-08-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2009-08-23 Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On lördagen den 22 augusti 2009, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: >> Magnus Holmgren writes: >>> * Self-contained, no dependencies (except libc), thanks to code >>> included from the PolarSSL project. >> From a Debian perspective, that's a policy violation, not a f

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-24 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julien BLACHE (jbla...@debian.org) [090823 11:53]: > Please go ahead with that. It's going to be much much easier to remove > the .la files if we have a coordinated effort and it'll greatly reduce > the potential for breakages. So, I have now a first list of affected packages (see below). This l

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-24 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090824 22:25]: > So I'd recommend maintainers of packages with: > > 1. "no flag" to remove the la-file on next occasion > > 2. only "dependency_libs" to remove their la-file RSN, because they >block removal of the la-files on another package (this flag

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-24 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Andreas Barth wrote: > Updated the list and put it on http://alius.ayous.org/~aba/la-view.txt > and updated in () the packages that depend on the current package. Can you also create a dd-list list? Thanks, Emilio signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#543423: ITP: ltsp-docs -- LTSP Documentation

2009-08-24 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vagrant Cascadian * Package name: ltsp-docs Version : 0.99+bzr87 Upstream Author : Scott Balneaves * URL : http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LtspDocumentationUpstream * License : GPL2 Description : LTSP Doc

Bug#543426: ITP: opendkim -- An open-source DKIM library and mail filter implementation

2009-08-24 Thread Mike Markley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Markley * Package name: opendkim Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : The OpenDKIM project * URL : http://www.opendkim.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : An open-source DKIM library and mail

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andreas Barth] > The idea is to ask all maintainers of the 672 packages to drop their > *.la-file unless really needed, and any maintainer of any package to > empty the dependency_libs. As far as I know, there are 3 ways to handle static linking: 1) Document somehow what a real link line will lo

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Samuelson writes: > As far as I know, there are 3 ways to handle static linking: > 1) Document somehow what a real link line will look like, or let people >figure it out on their own; > 2) libtool; > 3) pkg-config. > So, my upstream does not ship .pc files. I've thought about creating

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Wise
I've just sent libtool upstream a mail referencing this thread and also my dependency_libs_shared idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/08/msg00218.html Hopefully they will implement something useful so that static linking with libtool is still viable. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debi