RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
ress: STATUS [EMAIL PROTECTED] [AT ] STATUS ALL AT This proposal is probably not fully optimal; I may have overlooked some interesting possibilities. Any comments ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
hange > and not just closure. What about another one: building a deb of it ? I would be of interest to people basing a new dist on Debian - it would also make it easy for people willing to study it and submit small patches (eg. the "Fixed" severity) -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
is in the "To:" or "CC:" fields, ie. when he's in the *original* recipients, which is usually not the case for a bug report, addressed to "{submit,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Or do I miss something ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bil

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
t suggestion of mine ("An idea for the BTS (Was: Weeding out slink bug reports)", archive/latest/6227) to really add support for distributions in the BTS. Nobody seems interested in talking about that, though... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer &a

Re: RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
ars to be on my machine. Hm, I quite skeptic. We'll have to have eg. a try at loading the 2.0.33-compiled ones in a 2.0.34 kernel... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux

Re: RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
Wichert Akkerman writes: > Previously Yann Dirson wrote: > > It does not seem that we have currently any conventions regarding the > > packaging of kernel modules. I just tried the new alsadriver from > > slink, and, for the same reason I could not use the packaged joyst

Re: Boot Dependancies - a weird wacky wonderful new idea

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
ake a /bin/boot-make that would have small footprint both in RAM and in / ? But maybe it's not worth the time to do it ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email:

About 2.0.34 not being perfect

1998-06-12 Thread Yann Dirson
an 2.0.33 (console crashes within a few hours). As I did not receive any answer to it yes, I include it so it is know on Debian (I only sent a copy to Brandon as it's somewhat triggered under X) -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email:

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
This message is mostly aimed at netgod. Martin Schulze writes: > On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 11:14:19PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > > Many of us send a mail when going off-line for some time. This is > > however quite informal: these anouncements are posted once in

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
ould be managed easily with > the maintainerdb whose development has stopped because it was based > on a non free SQL db and the maintainers were fucked up by the rant. What db engine did they use ? We have postgresql in main... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop ma

Re: Stop vi discussion

1998-06-15 Thread Yann Dirson
x27;t know, don't have joe installed any more), uses S-lang, is emacs-likee, has vi emulation AFAIK. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Stop vi discussion

1998-06-16 Thread Yann Dirson
hat has happened to the periodic WNPP listing ? This kind of package really needs a new maintainer ! Well, IMHO, at least... Maybe I'll volunteer, but not right now... anyway it's too late for hamm :( -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & rich

RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: > Sure, but it would be nice to have some sort of a mechanism to help us > to deal with bugs and dists. > > I think that we should keep the state of each bug-report regarding > each dist (stable/frozen/unstable/experimental). Thinking backward, I don

Re: RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-22 Thread Yann Dirson
eport bugs when the hit one, and it is IMHO an important issue to let them new quickly about related reports, without forcing them to get through all the thread when not needed. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
a > > clarification about the version number in the extended description. Well, it is know solution, but with a disavantage: we don't use upstream version number... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
-- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check <http://www.

Handling of pre/alpha/beta (Was: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
t include in my 1st summary; I will probably issue an updated one shortly. A number of us are of the opinion that we should take a decision on this once and for all, and that it gets included in the Packaging Manual. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & ric

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Craig Sanders writes: > how about using "2.07pre8-1", "2.07pre8-2", and so on for the next set of > glibc pre-releases? Seems like it doesn't work: $ dpkg --compare-versions 2.07pre8-1 '<<' 2.0.8 && echo yes || echo no no -- Yann Dir

Re: RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
amm sparc identified) (hamm i386 m68k clear)" Don't know how easily the DB engine used by the BTS can deal with this data format, though. Is there some lisp query engine ? :) Each bug report in the current WWW pages could be associated with a 2-dim array showing the status. Some new

Re: RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Rob Browning writes: > Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [Note: I don't know much about the internals of the BTS; I hope this > > will be accurate enough, though] > > > > * These fields would be named by the codename of the dist >

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
deb-policy. You're welcomed to comment other points there ! Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
> > > I would advise for 2.0.7final instead. IMHO 2.0.7r looks much like an > > additional patch-level. > > Um. f comes before p in the alphabet, whereas r comes after p. > > 2.0.7final < 2.0.7pre < 2.0.7r Aïe, where did I leave my head... Craig Sanders wr

Re: JED anyone?

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
so someone else with less plans than me could have a try a jed... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more st

Re: RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
and kbd_0.96a-4. It does occur in all versions bewteen and including 0.96-1 and 0.96a-3. Filling a Fixed-in-Version field with either of 0.95-16 or 0.96a-4 would be wrong. We don't want that. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email:

Re: 19980623 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
te for the full listing ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/

Intent to package TEI P3 + LSD

1998-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
ll then to fix the last important bug on `plan' (even though it's not marked as such ;), and handle any such new bug on my hamm packages if any. Should there be no answer from me within 2 days to such a report, consider I'm too busy and feel free to do a NMR. -- Yann Dirson<[

DO NOT UPGRADE TO PLAN 1.6.1-4.2 ! USE -5

1998-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
suffered from this. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check

Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

1998-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
Alexander E. Apke writes: > I propose xbase allowing people to choose between black or white > background during postinst or maybe in some kind of xbaseconfig script. I think it's not necessary. I did not test, but the following (or a similar setting) should work well and please most peopl

Re: office package

1998-10-12 Thread Yann Dirson
to order a source CD. Any help appreciated on this. TIA, -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check <http://www.debian.org/>

e2fsprogs 1.12 into hamm ? (Was: Bug#27401: fsck.ext2 segfaults)

1998-10-15 Thread Yann Dirson
enough. Maybe it can be pushed into updates to the stable tree now. Any objection ? -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more p

Suggestions for new packages

1999-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
+ app which stores incoming calls in either an mSQL or a mySQL database, and announces the call both visually and audibly. The user can change the names on calls, and set the spoken greeting. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#924218: ITP: crazywa -- AI engine for Wa Shogi and several other variants

2019-03-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: crazywa Version : 0.0.0~git2018.08.12 Upstream Author : H.G. Muller * URL : http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=crazywa.git * License : GPL Description : AI engine for Wa Shogi

Bug#964232: ITP: fairy-stockfish -- chess variant engine derived from Stockfish, including Shogi and XiangQi support

2020-07-03 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: fairy-stockfish Version : 11.1 Upstream Author : Fabian Fichter (unknown email) * URL : https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description

Bug#964730: ITP: gpsshogi -- Shogi playing program based on OpenShogiLib

2020-07-09 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson This is rather an Intent to Resurrect, as gpsshogi was in Debian 2 releases ago. * Package name: gpsshogi Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Team GPS, feat. Daigo Moriwaki * URL : http://gps.tanaka.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Bug#964732: ITP: libosl -- library for Shogi playing programs

2020-07-09 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: libosl Version : 0.8. Upstream Author : GPS Team * URL : http://gps.tanaka.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gpsshogi/pukiwiki.php * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : library for

Bug#965022: ITP: apery -- Strong AI for playing Shogi

2020-07-14 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: apery Version : WCSC28+git20191114 Upstream Author : Hiraoka Takuya * URL : https://github.com/HiraokaTakuya/apery * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Strong AI for

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