Re: Bug#462792: ITP: failmalloc -- demonstrate what really happens if memory allocation fails

Quoting Hideki Yamane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > Hi, > > I want to package "failmalloc" library that leads interesting function > for making robust program, made by GNU GRUB author. > >Package name: failmallo

Re: Bug#463029: ITP: synce-sync-engine -- Synchronization Engine for Windows Mobile devices

Quoting Jonny Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jonny Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: synce-sync-engine > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Ole André Vadla Ravnås <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

Quoting William Pitcock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Users are very good at missing these jokes. > > > > -Rob > > Yes, I hadn't thought of that. I'll just refer to it as a "an advanced > and powerful syslog daemon" in the short description then. Without the leading article, then, please...:-). See

Re: Bug#463002: ITP: doomsday -- GPL licensed engine for classic doom, heretic, hexen and strife which provides updated 3d graphics and network gameplay

Quoting Hash C. Borger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Hash C. Borger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: doomsday > Version : 1.9.0-beta5.2 > Upstream Author : Jaakko Keränen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.example.o

Re: Bug#463462: ITP: libsys-lastlog-perl -- Provides a moderately Object Oriented interface to lastlog

Quoting Jorge Salamero Sanz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jorge Salamero Sanz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > >Package name: libsys-lastlog-perl >Version: 1.5 >Upstream Author: Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Fwd: ITP: latencytop -- A tool for developers to visualize system latencies

Quoting Fathi BOUDRA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > * Package name: latencytop > > Version : 0.3 > > Upstream Author : Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://www.latencytop.org/ > > * License : GPL-2 > > Description : A tool for developers to vis

Re: Bug#463584: ITP: rubyripper -- an open-source secure ripper for Linux

Quoting Carlos Laviola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: rubyripper > Version : 0.5.0 > Upstream Author : Bouke Woudstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/rubyri

Re: Bug#463597: ITP: libdb4.6-ruby -- Interface to Berkeley DB 4.6 for Ruby

Quoting Scott Kitterman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > * Package name: libdb4.6-ruby > Version : 0.6.2 > Upstream Author : Guy Decoux <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#463666: ITP: tomoe -- Tomoe - A handwriting recognition engine

Quoting NIIBE Yutaka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Description : Apparently your proposed synopsis for the package is "-- Tomoe - A handwriting recognition engine". May I suggest a simpler and more "standard" one: handwriting recognition engine signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#463724: ITP: python-twitter -- A python wrapper around the Twitter API

Quoting Mauro Lizaur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp Owner: Mauro Lizaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist > > > * Package name: python-twitter > Version : 0.5 > Upstream Author : DeWitt Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/python-tw

Re: Bug#463806: ITP: pgtop -- display PostgreSQL performance information like top

Quoting Noah Slater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: pgtop > Version : 0.04 > Upstream Author : Jeremy D. Zawodny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~cosimo/pgtop-0.0

Re: Bug#463806: ITP: pgtop -- display PostgreSQL performance information like top

Quoting Noah Slater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:52:03PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I'd suggest to phrase this "PostgreSQL performance monitoring tool" or > > any other way to avoid a verb sentence... > > Sure thing, sounds se

NMU campaign for control|changelog encoding issues

Quoting Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (in d-d-a) > * UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control > > Only 40 packages still use obsolete charsets in their changelog or > control files. Please check if your package is listed on the lintian > tag pages: > http://lintian.debian.org/rep

Re: Bug#463862: ITP: ipafont -- Japanese high quality TrueType font

Quoting Hideki Yamane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:43:27 -0600 > William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This should be ttf-ipafont. > > Yes, binary package name is ttf-ipa, but source package name > is ipafont. Is there a reason to not use "ttf-ipafont" as source packa

Re: Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon

Quoting Alexandre Rossi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Alexandre Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: deejayd > Version : 0.6.2 > Upstream Author : Mickaël Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://mroy31.dyndns.org/~roy/

Re: Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon

Quoting Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> I suggest "media player daemon" or "media playing daemon"...but anyway > >> drop the leading article (DevRef 6.2.2) > >> > >> > > > > "media player daemon" may be confusing with mpd. "daemon which plays > > media in the background" may be better. > >

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

Quoting Alberto Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Alberto Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: vagalume > Version : 0.5 > Upstream Author : Alberto Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://people.igalia.com/berto/

Re: Bug#464159: ITP: ktsuss -- gtk wrapper for su

Quoting Yves-Alexis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > * Package name: ktsuss > Version : 1.2 > Upstream Author : David B. Cortarello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ktsuss > * L

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

Quoting Alberto Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:56:05AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > Description : A GTK+-based Last.fm client > > > > "Last.fm" isn't really clear for anybody. I suggest using a more >

Re: Bug#464388: RFP: alfresco -- open source enterprise content management

Quoting Carlos Izquierdo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > >Package name: alfresco > Version: 2.1 > Upstream Author: Alfresco Software, Inc. > URL: http://www.alfresco.com/ > License: GPL with F

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

Quoting Alberto Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:57:21PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > > "graphical GTK+-based client for Last.fm media service" > > > Is it necessary to say it's graphical provided that it&#

Re: Bug#464392: ITP: libdebian-package-make-perl -- Perl extension for autobuilding Debian packages

Quoting Hilko Bengen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Owner: Hilko Bengen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: libdebian-package-make-perl > Version : 0.01 > Upstream Author : myself > * URL or Web page : not published yet > * License : GPL2+ >

Re: ITP: opencascade -- CAE platform library and scripting engine

Quoting Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > Package name: opencascade > Version: 6.2.0 > Author: Open Cascade SAS (OCC), a French software services company > URL: http://www.opencascade.org/ > License: Open CASCADE Technology Public License, includes tria

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

Quoting maximilian attems ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > but currently willing to work on i'd nack fjp requests. > of course if no progress has been made in a month, > his request is more then reasonable. I slightly disagree. Not that I have doubts about your commitment, but this entire discussion sh

Re: ITP: libjs-prototype -- is a JavaScript Framework

Quoting Marcelo Jorge Vieira (metal) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: ! > > * Package name : libjs-prototype > Version: 1.6.0.2 > Upstream Author: Sam Stephenson > * URL: http://www.prototypejs.org/ > * License: MIT-style license

Re: Bug#464392: ITP: libdebian-package-make-perl -- Perl extension for autobuilding Debian packages

Quoting Hilko Bengen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just had a look at what the other kids are doing: > > dpkg: package maintenance system for Debian > dpkg-dev: package building tools for Debian > apt: Advanced front-end for dpkg > This is Debian's next generation front-end for the dpkg package >

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Being >> something not really end user-oriented, that would have to be a >> "hidden" task (not shown as a choice by tasksel) that one could choose >> with the appropriate D-I boot option. > > Hmmm, why hidden? In how far are other tasks more or less u

Re: Bug#464392: ITP: libdebian-package-make-perl -- Perl extension for autobuilding Debian packages

Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > dh-make: tool that converts source archives into Debian package source > > > dh-make-perl: Create Debian packages from perl modules > > > Well, them doing this does not necessarily mean they are right. > > .debs are commonly referred to as "Debia

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

Quoting Alberto Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So we have: > > "A small GTK+-based client for the Last.fm online radio" > "A GTK+-based client for the Last.fm online radio" > "A small client for the Last.fm online radio" I'd go for the second choice (you half-convinced me, guys)without the l

Re: Bug#464766: ITP: squirrelmail-compatibility -- Squirrelmail plugin used by other plugins to work with older SM versions

Quoting Jan Hauke Rahm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: squirrelmail-compatibility > Version : 2.0.9 > Upstream Author : Paul Lesniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.squ

Re: Bug#464857: ITP: prima -- is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development

Quoting Bas Zoetekouw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: prima > Version : 1.24 > Upstream Author : Dmitry Karasik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Anton Berezin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Va

Re: Bug#464863: ITP: qca2-plugin-cyrus-sasl -- SASL support for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture

Quoting Matthew Rosewarne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > >Package name: qca2-plugin-cyrus-sasl > Version: 2.0.0~beta3 > Upstream Author: Justin Karneges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL: http://delta.affini

Re: Bug#464901: ITP: pcre-light -- a lightweight GHC library for Perl 5 compatible regular expressions

Quoting Recai Oktaş ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Recai Oktaş" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: pcre-light > Version : 0.3.1 > Upstream Author : Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.example.org/ > * License

Re: Bug#464954: ITP: ixp4xx-microcode -- non-free firmware for the ixp4xx ethernet

Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The nslu2 needs non-free firmware for its ethernet. This is currently > distributed in the d-i installation images on slug-firmware.net. s/ethernet/Ethernet? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#464957: ITP: html-xml-utils -- manipulate HTML and XML files

Quoting Daniel Leidert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > * Package name: html-xml-utils > Version : 4.4 > Upstream Author : Bert Bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *

Re: Bug#464863: ITP: qca2-plugin-cyrus-sasl -- SASL support for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture

Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Description: SASL support for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture > > I suggest removing the extra capitalization for "cryptographic" and > "architecture". > Hmmm, yes. I missed the relation with the &

Re: Bug#464901: ITP: pcre-light -- a lightweight GHC library for Perl 5 compatible regular expressions

Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Description : a lightweight GHC library for Perl 5 compatible > > > regular expressions > > > Being lecc cryptic would help, here. > > > I suggest expanding "GHC" if possible, at the expense of "Perl 5" > > "lightweight" and/or "compatible

Re: Bits of the gnome 1.x removal effort

Quoting Pierre Habouzit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi there, > > I'm working for about a month to remove all the old bits of gnome 1.x > from Debian for lenny. There was about 40 packages affected not so long > time ago, it's 13 now (about half were migrated or dropped the > dependency one way or

Re: Bug#465369: ITP: golearn -- Debian educational browser

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: golearn > Version : 0.2 > Upstream Author : Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> & Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > * URL

Re: Bug#465334: ITP: speed-game -- A fast paced space-invader style arcade game

Quoting Martijn van Iersel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Martijn van Iersel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: speed-game > Version : 1.00 > Upstream Author : Shawn Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.talula.d

Re: Where to put idesk in Menu Structure?

Quoting Anibal Avelar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I can't see a suitable alternative for idesk, I think would be a good > idea a new section called inside Screen called Toys or Hacks. For now > the option more related could be Games/Toys but I think it isn't a > good option because it isn't a game. >

Re: Is Christian Meder MIA?

Hi Walter, sorry for not answering last year. I'm not completely MIA just terribly slow and very very low profile. I still intend to update the Debian aegis package. Sorry again for being unresponsive, Christian On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 12:38 +0100, Walter Fra

Re: Bug#465660: ITP: extreme-tuxracer -- Arcade game featuring tux the penguin, snow ice and fishes

Quoting Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: extreme-tuxracer > Version : 0.4.0 > Upstream Author : Pawel Drewniak, Guillaume Martres and others > * URL : http:/

Re: Bug#465691: ITP: CinePaint is a painting and retouching tool primarily used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching and dust-busting

Quoting a. kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "a. kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: CinePaint > Version : 0.22-3 > Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * URL : www.cinepaint.org > * License : CinePaint conta

Re: Bug#465689: ITP: cinebench -- CinePaint is a collection of free open source software tools for deep paint manipulation and image processing

Quoting a. kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "a. kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: cinebench > Version : 0.22-3 > Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * URL : www.cinepaint.org > * License : GPL - LGPL - M

Re: Bug#465809: ITP: hpt -- Creates a TCP tunnel through http and https proxies

Quoting Russell Stuart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Russell Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: hpt > Version : 1.1 > Upstream Author : Russell Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.stuart.id.au/russell/files/ht

Re: Bug#465813: ITP: cyclone -- Safe dialect of C

Quoting François-Denis Gonthier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Owner: François-Denis Gonthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: cyclone > Version : 1.0/CVS > Upstream Author : Dan Grossman, Trevor Jim, Greg Morrisett et al. > * URL or Web page : h

Re: Bug#465813: ITP: cyclone -- Safe dialect of C

Michael Tautschnig a écrit : >> I suggest "C-like compiler with improved security checks" >> >> "dialect" is faily trivial language for me, which is IMHO not suitable >> for a package description. >> > > I disagree - dialect is the proper technical term here. Well, some rationale would help to b

RFH: users/developers with Canadian Multilingual keyboards

To properly deal with #464799 which requests support for Canadian Multilingual keymap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Canadian_Multilingual_Standard) in the installer (and therefore in console-data), I need someone with the knowledge of such keyboard/keymap to test the console keymap

Re: Bits of the gnome 1.x removal effort

Quoting Anibal Avelar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi. I'm working on this programs (to porting to gtk2): > > > > Sergio Rua: gmanedit (ready 80%) Please also correct the debian/changelog encoding in that package. I could

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

Quoting Paul Wise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm very bad at doing this myself, but it is equally important for bug > submitters to triage their own bugs, especially if they have lots or > many old ones. A ping, some extra info, anything get the bug closer to > being fixed. Or also sometimes refrain

Re: Bug#466728: ITP: python-trio -- RDF utilities

Noah Slater a écrit : >> I'd suggest expanding what RDF is, at least in the long description. Even >> better would be expanding it in the synopsis of course. > > I disargree with you on this point. If the user doesn't know what RDF is they > certainly don't want to install the package and know

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

Quoting Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: pytrainer > Version : 1.5 > Upstream Author : Fiz Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * URL or Web page : http://pytrainer.e-oss.net/ > * License : GPLv2 > Description : Free S

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

> Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: pytrainer > Version : 1.5 > Upstream Author : Fiz Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * URL or Web page : http://pytrainer.e-oss.net/ > * License : GPLv2 > Description : Free Sport Training Center > > Pytrainer is

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [Sam Hocevar] > > Development news > > > > > >Last month Petter Reinholdtsen (pere) gave some news about his > > project of improving the init system [3]. This is almost as simple as > > adding LSB headers to your init scrip

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

Quoting Lars Wirzenius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm not advocating stuffed animals for Debian mascots. I'm fine with a > pillow, a tie, and a tutu. I proposed Lars Wirzenius wearing nothing but a tie and a tutu, and holding a pillow with a swirl on it, as the official Debian mascot. signature.

Re: mass ITPs

Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? > > That would defeat a lot of the purpose of the ITPs (like look

Re: Mass bug filing: non-UTF8 debian/{control.changelog}

if necessary). > > I should remark here that almost all of the work was done by Christian > Perrier. I merely reported most of the bugs; Christian fixed most of > them. Sure but your work helped *a lot* for this. I just found those issues a few weeks and decided that I would give

Re: ITP: ttf-linex -- Free fonts for education and institutions

Quoting José L. Redrejo Rodríguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: José L. Redrejo Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Package name: ttf-linex > Version : 2.0 > Upstream Author : Juan José Marcos > URL : http://gata.linex.org/trac/br

Re: ITP: ttf-linex -- Free fonts for education and institutions

Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > >> This (still quite informal) group tries to gather people >> maintaining font packages in Debian (and CDDs). > > "and CDDs" is redundant, because CDDs are included in

Re: ITP: ttf-linex -- Free fonts for education and institutions

vu: Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uploaders: Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here, Davide is the package maintainer. I've been added to Uploaders as well as E

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Or use the aptitude frontend for package management which will show such > packages under the header "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages". Thanks for reminding this very obvious feature which helped me removing about 20 obsolete packages from my laptop

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

Quoting Neil Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Please can this 'trend' be stopped here and now? > > The Packages.gz file is already enormous (especially for Emdebian > purposes or other low resource units) and adding yet more fields to Couldn't there be an opportunity somewhere to have some possib

Re: triggers wishlist

Quoting Mike Bird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Designing and implementing triggers was a lot more work, and a lot more > serious work, than merely merging a git branch. Once you start to learn > some programming you'll understand the difference. Dear Mr Bird, I have no idea who you are and what you

A few hints to devels calling for debconf translations updates

Quoting Alexander Wirt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (in -i18n, Alexander called for an update of ipvsadm templatesI use this as a good start for more general comments. Please don't CC him to answers as I suspect he's subscribed to -devel) Some comments: > Dear Debian I18N people, > > I would like

Re: Bug#473998: ITP: debian-faq -- The Debian FAQ

(usual dilemna: who to put in answer to an ITP...using the bug number and -devel to avoid too many CC) Quoting Cyril Brulebois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 02/04/2008, Joost van Baal wrote: > > In this package you will find the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ, which gives > > frequently asked questions (with

(English-speaking) Canadian users: default to US or "Canadian multilingual" keymap?

I'm seeking advices for #475482. console-data recently got a new keymap, namely "ca-multi", which features the "Canadian multilingual" keymap. This keymap is standardized by standard bodies in Canada and seems to be available from several hardware vendors. My understanding is that local official

Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

(keeping CC, just in case) > console-tools is currently preferred over kbd and installed by default > (on 97.41% of all machines according to popcon). > > Given the comments of Michael and Alistair, it seems clear to me that we > should move away from console-tools (back) to kbd. Also, Michae

Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:23:56PM +, Michael Schutte wrote: > > As d-i has been brought up: Moving from console-tools to kbd does not > > affect the installer; > > localechooser would need to be changed to install kbd rather than > console-tools. >

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

Quoting Kai Wasserbäch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > on the 1st of April I wrote an e-mail to James Troup offering my help in > hunting You shouldn't have done this on 1st of April as you could then have received an answer. > So my question is: Is James known to be inactive? Are there others c

Re: intend to hijack GnuPG

(moving to -devel as -release is not meant to be a discussion list Please note this is not directed at your post, which was appropriate for -release but my comments are IMHO not. CC'ing you in case you're not subscribed to -devel) Quoting Laszlo Boszormenyi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Various peop

Please think and test before setting a mailing list as "Maintainer:"

I happen to often send mails to @packages.debian.org while conducting my NMU campaigns for l10n bugs hunting. From time to time, I still get such mails rejected because the said package uses a mailing list as "Maintainer:". This is of course one of the keys of collaborative maintenance but, pleas

Re: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#478328: ITP: samba4 -- LanManager-like fileserver and active directory server

Quoting Jelmer Vernooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jelmer Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a plan we discussed with Jelmer at the SambaXP conference. (for people less involved in samba stuff, Jelmer is, along with Andrew Bartlett, one of the two "lead"

Re: Hi all

Quoting Yannik Stadelmaier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all! > > I'm not new to Linux (I use it since about SuSE 7.3 or sth like that). > For a few months i helped the german kubuntu community as moderator in > the biggest german kubuntu forum. Then i changed my main system back to > Debian (i used i

Re: How to handle Debian patches

Quoting Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 16 May 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > > Coming up with a complex set of requirements that everyone has to follow > > up front in their workflow[1] is not going to yeld the best results, and > > I think that's my core reason for disliking Raphael's pr

RFH: Bug #481575: courier: FTBFS

During the l10n NMU campaign, some work was done on "courier", in the usual "l10n NMU" way: -send an intent to l10n NMU -wait for 10 days to get a reaction -send a call for l10n updates and new translations -wait for 8 days -build the NMU However, building the NMU fails and lead to /me reporting

Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

Quoting Stephen Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This will allow the use of the mouse both in a virtual > console and in X. Not only that, but "hot swapping" Not to mention the various remarks that have been made, I would like to enhance that ppl who use the Linux console on a regular basis (which

Re: Debian Menu transition status

Quoting Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 1) About 60% of menu files had been updated to the new menu sections. > There are still 672 packages to update. > >

Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

Quoting Ben Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > > > Given most people don't use the console ever > > Where is your data for this assertion? Probably too wide generalization by Lennart. My own assertion was that people who use the console *on an enough re

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

Quoting Steve Greenland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 12-Jun-08, 13:57 (CDT), "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bug was closed by maintainer with note "it is not a bug". Is he right? > > Banshee's maintainer isn't (and can't) be responsible for other packages > recommends. Not bl

Re: Correct way to rename a binary package

Quoting Luca Capello ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi there! > > As explained at [1], I'm in the process of renaming the binary package > cl-hunchentoot to hunchentoot to more closely follow upstream. Since > cl-hunchentoot is not in Etch, if I'm not wrong the new transitional > package can be dropped a

Re: Pre-Depends addition for debconf on package rar

Quoting Martin Meredith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As mrvn pointed out to me earlier, rar's licence should be displayed to > the user before the package is installed. > > To this end, I plan to add a preinst script which displays the licence > to the user, and lets them agree or disagree to the licenc

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

Quoting Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 11424 March 1977, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > Important disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. > > Those are *totally* and absolutely unimportant and a waste to write. I disagree. For the very first time after too may years of electronic

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

Quoting Franklin PIAT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > That's true, IMHO. The funny (and *angering*) thing is, those users who > actually notice triggers are likely to complain : > > "Why the Hell do you run those triggers, it wastes my time !" Are you basing this assumption on somethign really experienc

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

Quoting Charles Plessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Maybe "Processing triggers" could be replaced by a 2-3 word summary of > >> what the trigger is really doing? > > > What about "Processing delayed configuration"? > > Well, I was originally thinking about someting specific for each > trigger, but y

Linking libxxx.so to libxxx_r.so? dpkg-shlibdep doesn't like it...

brary on a different Linux distribution would run on Debian then? thanks, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Coordinating efforts to get a new kernel in testing?

During the last meeting of the D-I 'team' (ahem) which logs can be read from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings, the situation of the kernel packages wrt testing transition was raised. Apparently, having a new kernel in testing (whether this is 2.6.30 or whatever other funky new versi

Re: Call for keys for keysigning in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain during DebConf9

Quoting Aníbal Monsalve Salazar (ani...@v7w.com): > >[0] http://people.debian.org/~anibal/ksp-dc9/ksp-dc9.html > > This is a reminder. The deadline is in about two days. What about publishing what you already got? That could help those of us who want to check if their mail was properly received

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Call for k eys for keysigning in Cáceres , Extremadura, Spain during DebConf9

Quoting Aníbal Monsalve Salazar (ani...@v7w.com): > >What about publishing what you already got? That could help those of us who > >want to check if their mail was properly received on your side.. > > http://people.debian.org/~anibal/ksp-dc9/names.html > > If you have sent your keys and your nam

Re: Coordinating efforts to get a new kernel in testing?

Quoting Luk Claes (l...@debian.org): > > Could this be prioritized by the involved teams (mostly kernel and > > release, I'd guess) or are there already some plans for this to > > happen? > > There are no plans to force anything in like some propose in such > situations as there is no clear plan

Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

e was that libmysqld.a (the embeddable MySQL server) should be included in other shared libraries, like one from Modestas' Amarok package. bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

Am Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:18:23 +0100 schrieb Roger Leigh : > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:10:11PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > Hello > > > > In the Cc'ed bug report we were asked to created a libmysqld-pic > > package that only contains libmysqld_pic.a which s

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

Hello On 2009-07-21 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:40:17AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > Am Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:18:23 +0100 > > schrieb Roger Leigh : > > > If other libraries are including this library, then why is libmysqld > > >

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

Am Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:13:55 + (UTC) schrieb Philipp Kern : > On 2009-07-21, Christian Hammers wrote: > > First, thanks for the long answer, Wouter! > > > > To wrap it up: > > * static libraries are a PITA in case of security problems > > * static libraries

Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > So: what should I do? I'm thinking about orphaning the package as a > first step, and if nobody takes care of it as much as it is needed, > just remove it from the distribution. Packaging would still be > available in a git repository, so if someone som

Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > 4) http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.blender.devel/19895 > > Patch to add support for system-wide FTGL. I kind of get flamed for > thinking about using something else than what blender provides. And > who cares about shared libraries anyway, th

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

Quoting Siggy Brentrup (deb...@psycho.i21k.de): > > This can be done by *anyone*, DDs and non, and all are encouraged to > > do so. It's fundamental to have reports: without them we have a false > > sense of spam-free mailing lists, when we all know it's not true. > > And if for whatever reason s

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

Quoting Siggy Brentrup (deb...@psycho.i21k.de): > > look it up yourself: > > http://lists.debian.org/archive-spam-removals/review/stats.html (my > > user is morph...). So, are you going to help us kill spam (reporting > > it) or no time for this? > > So you're Debian's Mr. Antispam, my humble apo

Re: Is Christian Meder MIA?

Am Mittwoch, den 08.07.2009, 18:40 +0200 schrieb Walter Franzini: > Hi, > > in the past months I've tryied without success to contact Christian > Meder (ch...@absolutegiganten.org), the maintainer of the aegis package, > offering my help. > > As a Debian and Aegis user

Situation of long threads in -devel (was: Re: An apology to the mailing list and Charles Plessey)

I take this message from Manoj as an opportunity: > Hi, > > Inadvertently, a draft copy of an email written in anger, and > not meant to be actually sent, was sent to the mailing list, instead > of a more reasoned response. > > For that I apologize. You may see from the second

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