Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-09-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve McIntyre (Please respect my m-f-t, I read the list. :-) | I'm still unconvinced by /srv personally - we've strived for years in | Debian to make things work as much as possible straight from initial | installation, yet now we're expected to deliberately leave services | unconfigured. I

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-09-30 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
sean finney writes: > there is, it's called webapps-common[1]. unfortunately what *is* > missing is developers with time to put into maintaining it, which is > why it has not been uploaded or integrated with support for more httpd > services. That looks useful. What can I do to help? -- Stig

Re: Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Frank Küster wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > I am a newcommer to this particular bit of policy, but it occurs to me > > that the answer is to add links to the original commands to conform to > > Debian standards while leaving the upstream commands intact. > > Tha

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i and Lenny

2009-09-30 Thread Niccolò Belli
Il 30 settembre 2009 03.32, Ben Hutchings ha scritto: > It's in the Linux kernel already, but support for this particular model > appears to have been added after Linux 2.6.26. Uhm... are you sure? Can you tell me the module name? This is a pretty new controller, it is available in the UK since t

Re: Orphaning my packages...

2009-09-30 Thread francois.niederco...@laposte.net
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > >> On 29 september 2009 03:04:25, Kevin B. McCarty wrote : >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I unfortunately don't have the free time at the moment to do much for >>> the Debian Project, so I'm orphaning my packages. >>> > [...] > >>> Cernlib-related

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i and Lenny

2009-09-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:44 +0200, Niccolò Belli wrote: > Il 30 settembre 2009 03.32, Ben Hutchings ha scritto: > > It's in the Linux kernel already, but support for this particular model > > appears to have been added after Linux 2.6.26. > > Uhm... are you sure? Can you tell me the module name?

Bug#549013: ITP: tokyocabinet-haskell -- Haskell binding of Tokyo Cabinet

2009-09-30 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: TANIGUCHI Takaki Severity: wishlist * Package name: tokyocabinet-haskell Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : Tom Tsuruhara * URL or Web page : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/tokyocabinet-haskell * License : BSD Description : Haskell binding of

Bug#549043: ITP: linknx -- KNX automation platform

2009-09-30 Thread Marc Leeman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Leeman * Package name: linknx Version : 0.0.1.26 Upstream Author : jef2...@ouaye.net * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/linknx/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : KNX automation platfo

Bug#549075: ITP: libmoosex-daemonize-perl -- Moose role for daemonizing Moose-based applications

2009-09-30 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmoosex-daemonize-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Chris Prather * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Daemonize/ *

Bug#549091: ITP: up2picasa -- a command line program for uploading photo and video to picasaweb

2009-09-30 Thread Stéphane Gully
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Stéphane Gully" * Package name: up2picasa Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Stéphane Gully * URL : http://up2picasa.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: PHP Description : up2picasa -- a command lin

Re: Policy §10.4 as a d ivergence from usptrea m (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, my question triggered a lot of answers… In this message, I will first make a few clarifications, then try to summarise, and conclude with my own opition. First, I would like to underline that I am not questionning how applications should be named, or whether Debian maintainer who chose

Bug#549160: ITP: qjson -- qt-based library that maps JSON data to QVariant objects

2009-09-30 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" * Package name: qjson Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Flavio Castelli * URL : http://qjson.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL-2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : qt-based

Re: renamings to remove extensions

2009-09-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:05:29AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-send > > /command/supervise > > DJB bug. The correct answer: Difference of opinion. > (And a symlink doesn't make the software FHS-compliant.) In the case of qmail-send[

Re: Policy §10.4 as a d ivergence from usptrea m (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:28:38AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > my question triggered a lot of answers??? In this message, I will first make a > few clarifications, then try to summarise, and conclude with my own opition. Charles, thanks for the summary. > If Debian some day publishes a list o

Re: Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-30 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Tille writes: > Currently every single maintainer is forced to invent a convincing > text to educate upstream. The position of a single maintainer could be > drastically strengthened if there would be a widely accepted document > (not only in the Debian world) which gives a clear reasonin