Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ove on. How should I proceed with this? Greetings, ¹ http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/cherokee.git;a=blob;f=debian/cherokee.preinst;h=0c39283a3d883ff68958410b8b41d0ca8b8f547c;hb=HEAD -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 pgp6iDNuSJOMK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: trayer_1.1_i386.changes REJECTED

2009-09-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
e to do packaging-specific changes while keeping track of your upstream releases? -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: trayer_1.1_i386.changes REJECTED

2009-09-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Wouter Verhelst dijo [Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:01:47AM +0200]: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 06:29:31PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Why should it be Debian-native? > > I never said it *should* be. I said it *could* be, and that whether or > not it is should be the maintainer&#

Re: Copyright infringement on ww w.rossbeazley.co.uk — Overreacting?

2009-09-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
are_ formally right, I would rather not come down with a harsh message at someone who is not really hurting any of us except for failing to provide a link back. Even the place's name is clearly personal! Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNS

Re: What is this rule for?

2009-09-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
hich adds very, very little real value. ...Or possibly we could decide on renaming /bin/ls to /bin/ls.elf in order to show what kind of file it is, and allowing for different implementations to coexist? -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: What is this rule for?

2009-09-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
for removing the extensions, > but I think this is a valid point for having one in the first place. That's the reason we sometimes diverge away from upstream: We don't cater for the exact same audience, and we might modify their chosen binary names to make things easier and more

Re: Bug#550860: ITP: gnaughty -- downloader for adult content

2009-10-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
t; My bank statements are non-free but iceweasel isn't in contrib. Shame on you, were it not for that selfish standpoint we would have a freer, more open world! -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Proposed mass prototypejs bug filing for multiple security issues

2009-10-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ically worse off than if they were statically linking a library: It leads to code duplication and cases such as this, where it becomes a serious and hard to fix security liability which not only must be hand-corrected, but must be hand-spotted. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 145

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
. o O ( Maybe a way to reach the "piuparts clean" release goal is to break piuparts so it complains less? ;-) ) -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dir-or-file-in-var-www on single-HTML file web "apps" or the like

2009-11-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
d by a command-line utility (which as of right now does not exist ;-) ) Of course... I highly value Debian's ability to have just-installed package in a state that just-works. We do have /usr/lib/cgi-bin, which achieves this goal - And I support the idea of having a /var/lib/www-root or somet

Re: common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
it is asking too much. Yes, we cannot just go from using /var/www to having its existence violate policy and making insta-RC, but as soon as the (major at least) webserves change their defaults, we can start filing wishlist bugs, pointing maintainers to this being a work in progress and expec

Re: dir-or-file-in-var-www on single-HTML file web "apps" or the like

2009-11-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Cyril Brulebois dijo [Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:54:17PM +0100]: > Gunnar Wolf (04/11/2009): > > So, given the attention to this thread: Do you judge this as > > policy-compliant? > > What makes me wonder a bit is what would happen in case several > webservers were t

Re: DEP-5: binary package affected by license $foo

2009-11-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
components (and, say, repackaged with +dfsg version) Of course, you could perfectly have source packages in main generating binary packages both in main and in contrib - But the licenses for the sources' components would all be GFDL-free anyway. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-

Re: Debian packages and upstart jobs

2009-12-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
upstart-literate, I understand that the event launched by upstart can make the initscript to be called. Just make sure that starting an already started daemon, or stopping an already stopped daemon, does not result in failure, and I guess that would be enough. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org

Re: update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
#x27;m a lousy maintainer, Debian is more at a loss at my bad work than if we had to autobuild arch:all - And arch:all can be built by any of the buildds with some cycles to spare (yes, although implementing this might have to change some processes in the wanna-build infrastructure), so m68k won't

Re: Bug#408524: If I play piano while my computer starts up, /dev/dsp disappears !

2007-01-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
bug once you've provided the > > extra information. > Sure... When in doubt just blame udev. > (Hint: README.Debian.) No, Marco, what he meant is that it's fun to actually see you rage about yet-another-bug :) (or is your personal mail address listed in README.Debian as a pressure re

Re: update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
t try? If it works we saved time. If it fails only idleing is lost. Even in the worst cases, it would mean just waiting a couple of hours until a build was detected as successful in our fastest buildds - I doubt ARM/m68k buildds are often that much time idle ;-) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMA

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
played with cowbuilder/cowdancer, but that might also fit your needs. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
enseless ... I know that well! HUH!?!? Ummmh... If that's how you really feel and I'm not failing to understand some deep sarcastic remark, I invite you to keep those packages away from Debian. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 10

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
you are not running Debian in your build system, well... I would not be surprised at having some reactions ;-) > Btw. pls stop cc'ing me! I'm subscribed and hate deleting neddless mails! Please set up the headers accordingly in your mail client :) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL

Re: DM vs DD and security

2007-03-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
est for permanently enabled access I think this would fit most of us quite nicely, and strongly help prevent breakins like the ones we have suffered. What do you say? Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
would it be better to register it as a project in Alioth? It would be located at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Josselin Mouette dijo [Sat, May 05, 2007 at 11:05:12PM +0200]: > Le samedi 05 mai 2007 à 13:00 -0500, Gunnar Wolf a écrit : > > ...Or would it be better to register it as a project in Alioth? It > > would be located at > > http://alioth.debian.org/projects/09F911029D7

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Luis Matos dijo [Sun, May 06, 2007 at 02:21:15AM +0100]: > oh ... dot com is already taken... > http://09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.com/ > > best regards Hey, if you don't have anything to do with your money now that it's taken, send it over here! ;-) --

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Bart Martens dijo [Sun, May 06, 2007 at 10:01:45AM +0200]: > > Hey, if you don't have anything to do with your money now that it's > > taken, send it over here! ;-) > > > > -- > > Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-22

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ep compiling the whole dist myself). ...Do you have the technical skills to step up and become a sparc32 porter? If so, you can keep the subarch alive. I also hate to see Debian losing support for a whole and once very popular class of hardware, but the fact is... With nobody doing this work, there is no

Re: [DRE-maint] Ruby section

2007-05-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
share). I don't think adding a new section will be of any use. Greetings, [ Cc:ing this to debian-devel, as I think that if any discussion happens regarding this bug, it needs to be project-wide. FWIW, this proposal has 4 seconds already. ] -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5

Re: i386 33meg boot iso

2007-06-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ss that requires several mail interchanges. Greetings -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
isks - And yes, we are getting a new machine :) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Is Elie Rosenblum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MIA?

2007-06-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
emoved. I'm right now filing O: bugs on all the packages. If nobody picks them up, I'll close them when importing into the pkg-perl group. Greetings, [1] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=fnord&comaint=yes -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PG

Re: who are the kernel maintainers?

2007-07-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
amd64Frederik Schueler Tools initramfs-toolsMaximilian Attems Former kernel team members Jens Schmalzing (deceased) Maybe it's not complete or up to date - please help keeping it up to date :) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF

Re: Co-Maintainer for libdbi-perl wanted

2007-07-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
without joining, if you prefer it that way... Although it would be awkward (i.e. coordinating SVN work and such) - I do recommend you to join. We won't load your back with unrelated bugs ;-) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 F

Bug#433535: ITP: libset-nestedgroups-perl -- Simple implementation of nested groups

2007-07-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libset-nestedgroups-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Alan Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Set * License : Ar

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
as a short description - And as the first line of the long description, I'd include the package name expansion - "maq (short for Mapping and Assembly with Quality)". Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fin

Re: gnome, kde, xfce use non-policy main menu

2008-07-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ld be renamed, to avoid confusion, to "not desktop-integrated" or such. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
eck it: linux-2.6 is going in today (thanks to manual hinting by luk) ) Greetings, [1] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=linux-image-2.6.25-2-vserver-amd64 [2] http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=linux-2.6 -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-

Re: Debian release versioning

2008-07-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
t 2. The DDs decided to trust the RMs. 3. There is no number 3. 4. Our priorities are our users and Free Software. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Debian release versioning

2008-07-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Linux#Version_history [3] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2008/20080609 [4] http://gwolf.org/node/1831 -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
might even get back Xen dom0 support :) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Gunnar Wolf
avirtualized hosts without the hardware features (i.e. the lesser CPUs sold nowadays) while kvm does require VMX/SVM? I have not done extensive testing yet (I'm a newbie to both approaches), but I don't feel the slowdown you mention when under kvm. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EM

Re: Xen status in lenny? and vserver?

2008-07-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Florian Reitmeir dijo [Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:39:22AM +0200]: > >openvz is actively working on namespace merge and using the emerging > >bits. their patchsize is decreasing. > > and whats about vserver? vserver support is just fine. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
people using Xen for paravirtualization, not for full virtualization. Nowadays, Xen's administration tools are still way more complete than KVM's - But I think it is in place to tell people... That KVM is the way. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
om this thread and refered sites) it should not have much impact. The important thing is for webservers not to clobber whatever the user has placed in his directory of choice - and of course, provide an easy way to change the default Web root. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
.d.n///0 So, if this gets implemented, having a field in debian/control would be unnecessary - any apt front-end showing screenshots would know exactly where to look for them (and whether to show a warning of "old screenshot" if needed). -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Joey Hess dijo [Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:59:05AM -0400]: > Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Moving from /var/www to /srv/www gains nothing - We would still have > > all webservers throwing files where they are not supposed to, to a > > user-managed directory. > > There's a

Bug#494205: ITP: libtie-dbi-perl -- Perl module for tying hashes to relational databases

2008-08-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtie-dbi-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Lincoln Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Tie::DBI * License : GPL + Artistic

Bug#495278: ITP: libacts-as-list-ruby -- Provides the capabilities for sorting and reordering elements on ActiveRecord-based lists

2008-08-15 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libacts-as-list-ruby Version : 2007.10.12 Upstream Author : David Heinemeier Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://github.com/rails/acts_as_list * License

Re: Run "guest CPUs" under Linux? I need your help

2008-09-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 28 11:13:42 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux So... Anything you might want me to run, please ask. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -

Re: RFC: DKMS - Dynamic Kernel Module Support

2008-09-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
mean to you? Do you think that everybody who bought a Nokia 810 tablet or similar uses it on a daily basis? They _are_ maintained a Debian-based system. Do regular Ubuntu desktop users know (or care) about it? Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP

Bug#499196: ITP: libimage-science-ruby -- Clean Ruby library to provide simple transformations on images

2008-09-16 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libimage-science-ruby Version : 1.1.3 Upstream Author : Ryan Davis <> * URL : http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html * License : MIT/X Programmin

Re: Bug#489132: Still relevant?

2008-09-19 Thread Wolf Wiegand
case anymore, AFAICS. > > Indeed. > > But we should still recommend an upgrade of apt/aptitude first. I cannot tell whether this is a related issue, but I tested an upgrade a couple of days ago. A clean upgrade was not possible without upgrading apt beforehand. See #498800 for details. C

Re: Bug#500671: ITP: pgtap -- Unit testing framework for PostgreSQL

2008-10-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
the Test Anything Protocol. Some pointers for it: http://testanything.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol http://www.szabgab.com/blog/2008/09/1220345643.html -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C

Bug#501137: ITP: acerfand -- Control the fan of the Acer Aspire One

2008-10-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: acerfand Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Rachel Greenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://home.strangenoises.org/~rachel/aspireone/ * License

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
14&7^O) ^S*8^S<<6))<<9,_=(map{U=_%16orE^=R^=110&(S=(unqT,"\xb\ntd\xbz\x14d")[_/16%8]);E ^=(72,@z=(64,72,G^=12*(U-2?0:S&17)),H^=_%64?12:0,@z)[_%8]}(16..271))[_]^((D>>=8 )+=P+(~F&E))[EMAIL PROTECTED],@a}';s/[D-HO-U_]/\$$&/g;s/q/pack+/g;eval -- Gu

Re: Bug#501137: ITP: acerfand -- Control the fan of the Acer Aspire One

2008-10-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Matthew Garrett dijo [Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 02:35:11AM +0100]: > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Keeps the fan from spinning constantly in the noisy Acer Aspire > > One. Provides also tools to query several machine-specific EC > > registers >

Bug#502023: ITP: libmouse-perl -- Lightweight object framework for Perl

2008-10-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmouse-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Shawn M Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mouse * License : GPL+Artistic Programmin

Bug#502237: ITP: libsys-statistics-linux-perl -- Front-end module to collect system statistics

2008-10-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsys-statistics-linux-perl Version : 0.42 Upstream Author : Jonny Schulz . * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~bloonix/Sys-Statistics-Linux-0.42/ * License : GPL+Ar

Re: Bug Sprint - Oct 25 to Oct 30 - Register and eat cookies

2008-10-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
always noticed some resemblance between him and http://tinyurl.com/fix-RC-now Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
lid, free and compatible licensing schemes - but if in West Namibia it becomes illegal to digitally manipulate photographies, we won't stop shipping photo manipulation programs. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
s!) [1] http://www.oooninja.com/2008/06/pdf-import-hybrid-odf-pdfs-extension-30.html -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-11-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ard do? You just cannot say "there is no source". That would imply the firmware is a result of your computer's creativity - and I'd seriously doubt it. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
many people are more used) in a painless and intuitive fashion. But I have yet to see a real reason (besides the work that must go into sweeping them out of the current and future kernel tree - Thanks to everybody involved into that!) for Debian to make the needed exceptions to distribute them

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
t advocate distributing them as part of Debian. And not because they are inherently evil or anything, but because Debian is not the right place to distribute them from. See what I wrote regarding the RFCs - I agree with the IETF, the RFCs server much better their purpose being non-free than if they

Re: Leverage in licensing discussions (was: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations)

2008-11-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
k or a spare CD-ROm, the installation will happily proceed. Enough for you? :) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Wolf Wiegand
other criteria. > > Currently it's a case-insensitive search over the package name and short > description. I'm open to suggestions. Browsing by section names (kde, games, mail, ...) or limiting the search to certain sections would be nice as well. Cheers, Wolf -- Ca

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
fer if we all took d-d-a as something serious, and not a proper place to post jokes of any kind. _Of course_ that Joss' post mentions sexist situations and points of view. But I don't think there is a single comma in his message meant to be taken seriously. Greetings, -- Gunn

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ctified (braiinz!), but adequate advertising would be needed to cater for us male living humans to be attracted... Food for thought... (well, that's my definition of brains anyway). BTW, I could have also felt Joss' message as a personal attack on my and my family... -- Gunnar Wolf -

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
omote the idea that "is NEW-processing taking too long? Just upload to -unsupported!" -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
> so that there is a large amount of transparency in the maintenance > process. Yes, having a VCS-based service looks as very important in my eyes. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
a DD. However, there are LOTS of software which are not up to Debian's standards in this-or-that regard. Having an infrastructure where just about anybody can upload packages (with just a legality check, I'd say) is positive. Then again... We can direct them to Ubuntu ;-) They are offering the ser

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-11-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
d lookalike) in some distributions? -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
the packages by license, or do any nice amount of transformations with it, if a sizable portion of the archive used this proposal. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27A

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
available for 2.x or not API-compatible). Should we keep obsolete, deprecated, abandoned software forever? Hmmm... Sounds like an argument for porting Debian to the C64. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
n Gtk1.2. However, many of us have the opinion that, if they are worthy enough, somebody will have the interest and time to port them to Gtk2. Try and do the same to your pet programs - you will do a much bigger service than by maintaining Gtk1.2. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 /

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
an alternative to > Motif and the ugly Xaw widget sets, and was eagerly embraced by > everyone. This is a central and historic piece of software. And, hey, libc5 is also a core piece of our collective history - The first widely distributed version of a free, GNU C library! Oh, and so i

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
to people from the Netherlands) But still, I hope you can unearth my true motivation from under my sarcasm, and discard what's worthless in my message. I think I have answered to the rest of your mail in other posts. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Gunnar Wolf
heir eight year old applications so they run on any modern-day distribution. And if they are sure their application runs with closed, secure data, and if the application is production-quality and does not need to be touched... Well, you can perfectly keep a cluster of Woody machines for a long time!

Re: Bug#508311: ITP: maven-archiver -- Maven Archiver

2008-12-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
: Maven Archiver > > > > No kidding‽ > > Do you have any better description? The title of the homepage is > 'About Maven Archiver'. Hmh, maybe «software project management and comprehension tool» would do? -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2

Re: Bug#508311: ITP: maven-archiver -- Maven Archiver

2008-12-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Torsten Werner dijo [Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:10:13AM +0100]: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmh, maybe «software project management and comprehension tool» would do? > > That describes maven itself. 'Archiver componen

Re: Bug#508311: ITP: maven-archiver -- Maven Archiver

2008-12-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
plexus-archiver. > > And plexus-archiver is? The thingy that is wrapped by maven-archiver. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
em - even if we have upstreams that understand the process of releasing Debian, it is hard to expect them to work with the madness associated with long freezes. And I do not think we will be able to avoid long freezes in the future, just because of the scale we work with - We might be able to someho

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
nny and start another ballot, only > focusing on the *real* lenny release? All other options must go into > other ballot, or more than one, let's talk about that. Rank "Further discussion" first. That's our best way to say "I think this vote is wrong". -- Gunna

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
solve A and B as well). Still... Everything lends itself to interpretation. In the case you mention, if a GR says "No" for C, then Lenny will be delayed until said problems are solved. And if then we vote "Yes" for A, they will know the firmware issue is off-limits (via a GR, of

Bug#509159: ITP: libhaml-ruby -- Elegant, easy and powerful template engines for HTML and CSS

2008-12-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: libhaml-ruby Version : 2.0.6 Upstream Author : Nathan Weizenbaum * URL : http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Elegant, easy and

Re: Is The number of stable users dropping fast?

2008-12-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
e much. And even if many of us repeat again and again to them that "d-i Beta 1", "d-i RC1" etc. don't mean "Debian Beta 1" or "Debian RC1", I see many people asking me for support using such monkiers. Those users will go back to being stable (hopefully) s

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
able to defend herself. And still, many people are willing to shut you up in her behalf. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#510136: ITP: libwirble-ruby -- extensions for the Ruby irb command line shell

2008-12-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: libwirble-ruby Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Paul Duncan * URL : http://pablotron.org/software/wirble * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : extensions for the

Re: Bug#511640: ITP: gbirthday -- GBirthday is a birthday reminder application that helps you to remember your evolution contacts' birthdays.

2009-01-13 Thread Wolf Wiegand
that this is a way too long “small” description > that won't make it very easy to actually use of it? Mraw, KiBi. My suggestion: Description: Birthday reminder for evolution's contacts Cheers, Wolf -- Wären Friseure Busfahrer, könnte man das Erreichen des Hauptbahnhofes nur

Re: merkel fs issues

2009-01-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
receive (code 30) at io.c(165) [receiver=2.6.9] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (12337115 bytes received so far) [generator] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(453) [generator=2.6.9] -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key

Re: merkel fs issues

2009-01-16 Thread Gunnar Wolf
n.org > > Completly different machine, so not the cause for your trouble. Umh... It has kept quiet, and seems to be running fine. We will be on the watch. Sergio, I got a SMART warning - We _do_ still have some spare HDDs (or money) from the last help call, right? No need to rush, but... I

Re: The evil build methods of thy libev

2009-01-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
39339, #440527. I exchanged some private mails with Ilya Zakharevich and with Bill Alombert in this regard (I might still have them somewhere, if you want to see any further reasoning)... Sadly, the only answer was to withdraw the ITPs and forget about the issue :-( -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
there are breakages, in both testing and unstable. If I wanted my users' systems to break, I'd point them towards Fedora instead ;-) Having somebody facing an uninstallable situation or a conflict indication message, although perfectly understandable and easy to work out with our current t

The status of libapache2-mod-perl2

2007-08-15 Thread Gunnar Wolf
y who wants to lead this? - Pkg-perl and/or Apache groups: Do you agree? :) - In any other case: Other takers? Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF pgpbtxMaEWWmq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The status of libapache2-mod-perl2

2007-08-16 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gunnar Wolf dijo [Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:32:30PM -0500]: > Hi all, > (...) > I'm sending this mail as an answer to #438168 - A user > (understandably) fed up by what seems to be lack of attention to a > package that is core to many people's work, libapache2-mod-perl2. I &

Re: Work-needing packages report for Aug 17, 2007

2007-08-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Rigidness :-/ Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
nly skimmed it) - Thanks for sharing! -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
rt for it... -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module

2007-09-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
rl group can refer to it without jumping through hoops) Note that the eleven-year-old timestamp seems to concern the _license_, not the module itself :) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D

Bug#442082: ITP: libcolor-tools-ruby -- Ruby library to provide RGB, CMYK and other colorspace support

2007-09-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcolor-tools-ruby Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Austin Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/color-tools/ * License : MIT/X

Bug#442084: ITP: libtransaction-simple-ruby -- A generic way to add active transaction support to objects

2007-09-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtransaction-simple-ruby Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Austin Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/trans-simple/ * License

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