Re: Announcing debtags.debian.net

2012-01-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Enrico, thanks for the rewrite! I did not tested everything but I think I dectected a small inconsistency compared to former behaviour. On the Blends pages I'm using links to debtags like: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/edit.html?pkg=gbrowse which is rewritten to http://debtags.deb

Re: Providing a dummy web server package in Debian (Removing web server dependencies from web apps)

2012-01-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:20:23PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > The overall benefit over our virtual package system, possibly in > addition to equivs seems flexible enough. Why do we tailor incomplete > special case solutions instead of recommending equivs more popularly? > > I say incomplete, becaus

Re: [Long] UEFI support

2012-01-07 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Steve Langasek, 2012-01-07 01:08+0100: >> It is also worth noting that an amd64 PC will probably support x64 UEFI >> only, so given that there is probably no UEFI-base x86 PCs, there is no >> point in creating corresponding images. > > Your terminology is a bit muddled here. If you mean "there wi

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 03:19:21PM +0100, Mathieu Parent wrote: > Because ruby has an embedded web server (webrick), so it doesn't > require one (but it is better for performance and more). PHP also got one recently. Bastian -- Change is the essential process of all existence. -

Bug#654964: ITP: shelxle -- graphical user interface for SHELXL

2012-01-07 Thread Daniel Leidert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: shelxle Version : 1.0.513 Upstream Author : Christian B. Huebschle * URL : http://ewald.ac.chemie.uni-goettingen.de/shelx/ * License : LGPL-2.0

Re: Bug#654896: ITP: xul-ext-debianbuttons -- Buttons for querying Debian-related pages with Iceweasel/Firefox

2012-01-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 05:32:20PM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > * Package name: xul-ext-debianbuttons > * URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/debian-buttons/ > Description : Buttons for querying Debian-related pages with > Iceweasel/Firefox > > Debian buttons is

Re: Bug#654896: ITP: xul-ext-debianbuttons -- Buttons for querying Debian-related pages with Iceweasel/Firefox

2012-01-07 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 13:02:28 +0100 Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 05:32:20PM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > > * Package name: xul-ext-debianbuttons > > * URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/debian-buttons/ > > Description : Buttons for querying Debia

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 12:34:24PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 03:19:21PM +0100, Mathieu Parent wrote: > > Because ruby has an embedded web server (webrick), so it doesn't > > require one (but it is better for performance and more). > > PHP also got one recently. Right.

Bug#654970: ITP: drwright -- Known as typing break in GNOME 2

2012-01-07 Thread Savvas Radevic
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Savvas Radevic * Package name: drwright Version : 3.2.3 Upstream Author : Richard Hult * URL : http://git.gnome.org/browse/drwright * License : GPL-2.0+ Programming Lang: C, Python (I think) Description : Known

Re: Bug#654896: ITP: xul-ext-debianbuttons -- Buttons for querying Debian-related pages with Iceweasel/Firefox

2012-01-07 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Adam Borowski, 2012-01-07 13:02+0100: > It appears to do exactly nothing a simple keyword can't do. That is correct, but it does not mean it is not useful. Assuming you put a bug number into the clipboard, for instance by double-clicking it on some IRC channel, let us compare: * in both case, you

Re: Bug#654896: ITP: xul-ext-debianbuttons -- Buttons for querying Debian-related pages with Iceweasel/Firefox

2012-01-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 02:03:56PM +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Adam Borowski, 2012-01-07 13:02+0100: > > It appears to do exactly nothing a simple keyword can't do. > > That is correct, but it does not mean it is not useful. > > Assuming you put a bug number into the clipboard, for instance by

Re: Bug#654896: ITP: xul-ext-debianbuttons -- Buttons for querying Debian-related pages with Iceweasel/Firefox

2012-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > Actually, I use epiphany precisely because it does this and > iceweasel does not. Epiphany can provide a toolbar with multiple buttons > with a text entry box next to each one because that means I can put a > number into the box via the middle

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Daniel Baumann > it's not policy incompliant if e.g. php5 would install > /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/whatever containing a virtualhost definition. > the reason why nobody would do that, is, that it's just wrong and > unreasonable to do such a thing (where e.g. aliases and directory > directive

Re: bits from the DPL for December 2011

2012-01-07 Thread Lior Kaplan
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Auditor work ramping up > --- > > We've almost always been struggling for transparency in Debian budgets. > The money dealings we do at SPI are quite visible, but other assets, as > well as money hosted at other truste

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Daniel Baumann >> it's not policy incompliant if e.g. php5 would install >> /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/whatever containing a virtualhost >> definition. the reason why nobody would do that, is, that it's just >> wrong and unreasonable to do such a thing (where e.g. a

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-01-07 at 09:15am, Russ Allbery wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > ]] Daniel Baumann > > >> it's not policy incompliant if e.g. php5 would install > >> /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/whatever containing a virtualhost > >> definition. the reason why nobody would do that, is, that it's > >>

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > On 12-01-07 at 09:15am, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Tollef Fog Heen writes: >>> ]] Daniel Baumann >> it's not policy incompliant if e.g. php5 would install /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/whatever containing a virtualhost definition. the reason why nobody woul

Re: Bug#654896: ITP: xul-ext-debianbuttons -- Buttons for querying Debian-related pages with Iceweasel/Firefox

2012-01-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 10:45:38PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > When I switched from galeon I also wanted galeon style smart bookmarks > and had to reimplement them as a hard-coded extension: > > http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2011/11/04/migrate-from-galeon-to-iceweasel-firefox/ > > I would love it

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-01-07 at 09:42am, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > On 12-01-07 at 09:15am, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Tollef Fog Heen writes: > >>> ]] Daniel Baumann > >> > it's not policy incompliant if e.g. php5 would install > /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/whatever containing a

Re: Source package without a binary

2012-01-07 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Guillem, Am Samstag, den 07.01.2012, 02:40 +0100 schrieb Guillem Jover: > That's what I did for the last posixtestsuite 1.5.2-4 upload, and > while the “dummy” binary package might seem a bit worthless, it has > some advantages; it keeps the maintainer build log, something the buildd > network

zram Usage as Default in Debian (?)

2012-01-07 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I recently setup zram (for compressed swap space in RAM) on an older low RAM machine. I was quite happy with the result and started now to do the same setup also on my other machines. I am wondering if anybody is investigating, if debian should do that by default when installing a new m

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > On 12-01-07 at 09:42am, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm not sure that it really violates Policy, mostly because we don't >> have any Policy guidance about web applications at all right now. But >> I think it's fairly obvious that it's not a sane thing to do to camp on >> a

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-01-07 at 11:33am, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > On 12-01-07 at 09:42am, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I'm not sure that it really violates Policy, mostly because we > >> don't have any Policy guidance about web applications at all right > >> now. But I think it's fairly

Bug#655010: ITP: missing-manpages -- manual pages for software missing them

2012-01-07 Thread brian m. carlson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "brian m. carlson" * Package name: missing-manpages Version : 1 Upstream Author : brian m. carlson * URL : https://github.com/bk2204/missing-manpages * License : GPL-2/Apache-2.0/CC-BY-SA-3.0 tri-license Programming La

Re: zram Usage as Default in Debian (?)

2012-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I recently setup zram (for compressed swap space in RAM) on an older low RAM > machine. I was quite happy with the result and started now to do the same > setup also on my other machines. I am wondering if anybody is investigating, > if debian

Re: zram Usage as Default in Debian (?)

2012-01-07 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/01/2012 01:48, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I recently setup zram (for compressed swap space in RAM) on an older low RAM > machine. I was quite happy with the result and started now to do the same > setup also on my other machines. I am wondering if anybody is investigating, > if de