Bug#347826: ITP: fullquottel -- Tool for recognizing mails/postings in tofu/top-posting style

2006-01-12 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: fullquottel Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Toastfreeware ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * URL : http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/ * License

Bug#347828: ITP: mailtextbody -- Tool to return the body of an email message

2006-01-12 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: mailtextbody Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Toastfreeware [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/ * License

Bug#351470: ITP: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG

2006-02-04 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libmail-gnupg-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Best Practical Solutions, LLC; Robert Spier [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http

Bug#351471: ITP: libmarc-perl -- Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable Cataloging records

2006-02-04 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libmarc-perl Version : 1.07 Upstream Author : Chuck Bearden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Birthisel [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#351472: ITP: libnet-amazon-perl -- Perl framework for accessing amazon.com via SOAP and XML/HTTP

2006-02-04 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libnet-amazon-perl Version : 0.34 Upstream Author : Mike Schilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Net

Bug#353777: ITP: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-20 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: multixterm Version : 1.8 Upstream Author : Don Libes [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://expect.nist.gov/example/ * License

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:58:37PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: Title: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together ITP: #353777 Standard question: Do you know clusterssh, which does pretty much the same thing and is already in Debian? If no, I suggest you take look. Thanks

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:10:03AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Thanks for your hint, I didn't know clusterssh. Just checked it out and it does pretty much the same (and has more options), so I close the ITP for multixterm hereby. As I understand the description of clusterssh right, it

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-03-07 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:11:29PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: (shortening cc:-list) clusterssh opens xterms with ssh sessions, multixterm opens multiple xterms (with whatever contents). So if you want to control several xterms at the same time that are not ssh sessions multixterm can

Re: GPG signing of debian packages

2006-04-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:19:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg-deb: building package `sshguard' in `../sshguard_1.0.0-4_all.deb'. signfile sshguard_1.0.0-4.dsc gpg: skipped Tomas Davidek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: secret key not available gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret

Re: Bug#364317: ITP: weather-util -- command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

2006-04-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 05:36:29PM +, The Fungi wrote: * Package name: weather-util Description : command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts This utility is intended to provide quick access to current weather conditions and forecasts. Presently, it is

Re: Bug#366285: ITP: ajaxterm -- web based terminal written in python

2006-05-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:01:51AM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: ajaxterm is a web based terminal written in python and some AJAX javascript for client side. It can use almost any web browser and even works through firewalls. 1) I'm glad to see ajaxterm approaching Debian because I think it's

Bug#366554: ITP: cdck -- verifies the quality of written CDs/DVDs

2006-05-09 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: cdck Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Alexey Semenoff * URL : http://swaj.net/unix/index.html#cdck * License : GPL (2

Bug#367007: ITP: libnet-z3950-zoom-perl -- Perl extension implementing the ZOOM API for Information Retrieval via Z39.50

2006-05-12 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libnet-z3950-zoom-perl Version : 1.08 Upstream Author : Mike Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mirk/Net-Z3950-ZOOM/lib/Net/Z3950/ZOOM.pm * License

Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

2006-05-12 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: cpulimit Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Angelo Marletta [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://marlon80.interfree.it/cpulimit/ * License

Re: Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

2006-05-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Description : limits the cpu usage of a process cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you

Re: Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

2006-05-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 07:31:56PM -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: On an otherwise idle box even a process (re-)niced to 19 uses all the CPU. That might be desirable often but in other cases (e.g. when CPU temperature is an issue) you might still want to say assign this process only xy%

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:10:06PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: This option also might imply some extra bugs, but it's believed that not so many, since there are already quite a number of people with /bin/sh - /bin/dash, and they do file bugs when bashisms appear. A tool searching for

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: Using popcon would ensure that the applications which most people prefer would be the default; this is a fair and objective criterion. Interesting idea, but by my reckoning that would make ed the default editor for most people,

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:29:34PM +0200, wrote: * libdigest-hmac-perl, libdigest-sha1-perl, libdigest-md2-perl, libdigest-perl, libio-interface-perl, libio-socket-multicast-perl, libnet-xwhois-perl, libvideo-capture-v4l-perl (easy pickings; check for new Upstream) I guess these

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:46:30AM -0700, Zak B. Elep wrote: * libdigest-hmac-perl, libdigest-sha1-perl, libdigest-md2-perl, libdigest-perl, libio-interface-perl, libio-socket-multicast-perl, libnet-xwhois-perl, libvideo-capture-v4l-perl I'd like to take these up. Oops, I just saw your

Bug#370485: ITP: libdata-random-perl -- Perl module to generate random data

2006-06-05 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libdata-random-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Adekunle Olonoh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~adeo/Data-Random-0.05/Random.pm * License : Same

Re: jabref destiny

2006-06-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:33:14PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: The problem from my point of view is that it builds in my normal environment (with the Sun Java jre/jdk installed) but not in a pbuilder chroot (because the Sun Java packages require a Yes, I agree with this licence

Re: Bug#372239: ITP: Nmap::Parser - parse nmap scan data with perl

2006-06-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:50:32PM -0400, Joshua D. Abraham wrote: * Package name : Nmap::Parser * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~apersaud/Nmap-Parser-1.05/Parser.pm I guess the package should be named libnmap-parser-perl like all other Perl module packages. Cf. also

Re: Bug#374088: ITP: openmovieeditor -- a simple non-linear video editor

2006-06-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:43:10 +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote: * Package name: openmovieeditor Version : 0.0.20060326 Upstream Author : Richard Spindler [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://propirate.net/oracle/zipfiles/ This URL just gives me an empty page. Linked from

Re: Bug#378996: ITP: vulcan -- chess variant inspired by a certain well-known science fiction TV series

2006-07-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:54:16 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Hi, * Package name: vulcan Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Mauro Persano [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.fzort.org/mpr/projects/vulcan/ * License : GPL Description : chess variant inspired

Re: Bug#381568: ITP: med-fichier -- Library to exchange meshed data

2006-08-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:27:23 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: * Package name: med-fichier MED-fichier (Modélisation et Echanges de Données, in English Modelisation and Data Exchange) is a library to store and exchange meshed data or computation results. It uses the HDF5 file format to store

Re: Again: Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

2009-04-01 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:51:39 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: This is explained in README.Debian of this package (see svn[2]). [..] 2. Is the information that plink was renamed to snplink visible enough or should I rather use a debconf note to make users really aware what they have to

Bug#522640: ITP: gpesyncd -- synchronisation agent for GPE PIM data

2009-04-05 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org /* Background: gpesyncd is the missing link between opensync-plugin-gpe and gpe-{calendar,contacts,todo}. opensync-plugin-gpe needs gpesyncd on the machine that has the gpe-* sqlite databases. Since I want to use gpe

Re: Team uploads

2009-04-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:52:54 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: In Debian we have several teams working on maintaining large numbers of packages (pkg-games, pkg-perl, pkg-gnome for example). True :) I proposed[1] to silence the lintian NMU warnings in the case of team uploads; where the person doing

Bug#524706: ITP: libscope-upper-perl -- Perl module to act on upper scopes

2009-04-19 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libscope-upper-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Vincent Pit * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Scope-Upper/ * License

Re: Bug#524998: ITP: libmqdb-perl -- MappedQueryDB toolkit for federated databases

2009-04-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:22:39 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: libdbd-sqlite3-perl (= 1.14), libdbi-perl (= 1.51), perl (= 5.6.0-12) ^^ WTH? aqwa『~』$ zgrep -A1 -B1 '5.6.0-12'

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:36:48 -0400, James Westby wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: Josselin Mouette wanted to allow bug numbers instead of URLs in the Bug-*/Bug fields. Several people expressed their preference for a simple URL field. Sub-thread:

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:03:28 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: I think gregor makes a good point, and that there can be a reasonable compromise between the two worlds of hey, let's just use URLs in the Bug: field and no, I'm too lazy, we should just use a nubmer and refer to the Debian BTS Thanks

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:22:07 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Largely due to the need of maintaining a full chroot just for its use, I thought piuparts had too high of a barrier of entry/maintenance to be used by everyone. Am I completely wrong? It can use pbuilder's chroot, and pbuilder

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:44:07 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: But I have to admit that I run it very rarely because it takes way too long (including the time to unpack pbuilder's base.tgz). In that case, using cowbuilder instead could work, #389223 Cheers, gregor -- .''`.

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:44:18 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the original language.

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:07:42 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: [Any reason why this thread happens on both -devel and -mentors?] Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:15:00 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams; some thoughts from DebConf can be found here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/07/msg00083.html (especially point 3) One thought captured in those notes is to

Re: developers-reference: Improve Getting started to talk about more than New Maintainer's Guide

2009-08-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:27:05 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: Can you image to take a look at the Developers' Reference too? AFAIK the only mentioning of teams there is in 5.12. Yes, definitely. [..] I'm filing a bug against the developers-reference package for this now. Cool! Thanks for

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:33:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: The reason why I posted to both is that I see a trend in -mentors that many new contributors seem to create an artificial need as a reason to get their contributions in the distribution and choose to package a new program. I agree with

Bug#543255: ITP: libpoex-types-perl -- Perl module to provide MooseX::Types for POE

2009-08-23 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libpoex-types-perl Version : 0.091420 Upstream Author : Nicholas Perez npe...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/POEx

Re: RFC round 5: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-08-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:13:58 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Ben Finney wrote: I think that either of ‘Origin: vendor’ (for a patch created by the package maintainer) or ‘Origin: other’ would be better than omitting the field. I'd like to see the examples recommend its

Re: Roundcube

2007-02-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:27:26 -0200, Fernando M.M. wrote: Althought i have already seen some old discussion about packing the webmail Roundcube (1) i have not found the package using the package search (2). [..] Is someone working on it? Seems so:

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:33:30 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: you always have the problem that you might miss new configuration flags or you have to adapt the new file manually from your old backup and merge the changes. Ack, that's annoying IMO. What about the possibility to view the patch,

Re: Debhelper and variable substitution in *.install files etc.

2007-03-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:19:21 +0100, Paul Cager wrote: /usr/share/java/thing.jar - /usr/share/java/thing-1.2.3.jar The rules file already has PACKAGE and VERSION variables (parsed from the changelog). It would be really nice if the config files could use variable substitution, so the links

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:39:32 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I may be wrong, I don't know, but in my opinion a ping to call back home even if the user said `No' is a evil behaviour and Debian should avoid it. I agree. If the user says no, we should do nothing. Full ack. [ ] No, I do

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:22:37 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: dmidecode output is a big problem. It includes machine UUID and serial numbers. Yes. Perhaps we only want to collect a subset of that information, or at least warn the admin about the issues. I'd suggest to show the person in

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:39:26 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 binary packages required by Policy: the SONAME, the -dev, the -dbg and a -doc package. (Libraries for perl or other non-compiled languages would be exempt from -dbg

Re: pbuilder + local backports question

2007-04-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:09:54 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: In most cases, I want all build-deps to be installed from etch. However, sometimes some particular packages are wanted from other repository (where previously build backports are located). If I understand correctly you want to

Bug#423619: ITP: libfontbox-java -- Java Font Library

2007-05-13 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libfontbox-java Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : fontbox.org * URL : http://www.fontbox.org/ * License : BSD Programming

Re: BTS subscription fixed

2007-05-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 14 May 2007 01:01:07 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: The mechanism that allows to subscribe to bug reports in the Debian BTS has been broken for some time (how long exactly is unknown). About half a year I'd guess ... The problem only affected bug reports for which no mailing list existed

Re: Filing FTBFS bugs and packages in NEW

2007-06-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:31:48 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: There are already RSS feeds for NEW. where? it is not linked from new.html I know at least: Packages entering NEW: http://people.debian.org/~filippo/NEWrss/new_in.rss Packages leaving NEW:

Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: iodine Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Bjorn Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Ekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://code.kryo.se/iodine * License

Re: Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:57:01 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Description : tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server How does it compare to nstx ? On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:05:18 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: How is iodine different from nstx? Thanks for your questions. I've put

Re: Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:35:07 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: (cc'ing the ITP bug to have this opinion documented there, too) | How is iodine different from nstx? - Works on !i386 - Source code that does not make me cry and run away. It's slightly less performant (in my experience), but I still

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:23:07 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: Before, after a lot of trials and errors, I did manage to get reportbug working, but I still get angry now and then, especially when I choose a wrong option, as I don't know how to undo it, I must exit the program and begin from

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:52:07 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: Please have a look at reportbug-ng, it might fulfill your preferences better. I tried reportbug-ng, and the interface was good, but I didn't manage to send a report, as I didn't had any mail program installed, Ouch, probably

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:59:49 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: I tried reportbug-ng, and the interface was good, but I didn't manage to send a report, as I didn't had any mail program installed, Ouch, probably reportbug-ng should depend on the supported mail user agents (Bastian, you're

Bug#437104: ITP: libdata-integer-perl -- Perl modules handling details of the native integer data type

2007-08-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libdata-integer-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.cpan.org/authors

Bug#437101: ITP: libscalar-number-perl -- Perl module for handling numeric aspects of scalars

2007-08-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libscalar-number-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:35:30 +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: Debian Perl Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] libchemistry-elements-perl libdbd-odbc-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libmath-combinatorics-perl libmath-derivative-perl libmath-numbercruncher-perl libmath-spline-perl

Re: #500000 24 Sep 2008 07:51:01 UTC :)

2008-09-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:02:35 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: we reached http://bugs.debian.org/50 Who has won the Chritian Perrier Award for the best estimation of time for this? Rene Mayorga. Cf. http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/09/24#bug-50-now Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home:

Bug#503241: ITP: bti -- command line micro-blogging tool

2008-10-23 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: bti Version : 006 Upstream Author : Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people

Bug#506233: ITP: liblchown-perl -- Perl interface to the lchown() system call

2008-11-19 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: liblchown-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Nick Cleaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lchown

Hyper-sensitive PC freaks

2008-12-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:37:35 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: But then I also thought the parody sent to d-d-a was inappropriately sexist and offensive, so I'm apparently some sort of censorious Nazi or hyper-sensitive PC freak or whatever the current in-vogue terminology for people who prefer

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

2008-12-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:04:24 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: 2008/12/28 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com: this topic is idiotic. For those of us who are old enough to have ^^ been officially and by law down-moted to second class

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:45:56 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: Freedom of speech is a constitutional disposition, and I don't think it is something that could be acheive. It really is a constitutional act. It is also why I am against the Code of Conduct. Freedom of speech is an utopism that I

Re: (UPDATED) mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2009-01-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:27:46 -0800, Kees Cook wrote: Attached is the updated list, libpar-packer-perl: Ryan Niebur has kindly provided a patch, and I've built, tested and uploaded 0.982-2 with the patch included. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:44:01 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Personally, I'd add as a condition for this to be a reasonable request, the fact that there should be enough packages with enough test-only dependencies, which I'm not convinced it is the case. Are around 1200 arch:any libfoo-perl

Best practises in team-maintaining packages - summary of the BOFs at DebConf8

2009-02-03 Thread gregor herrmann
Best practises in team-maintaining packages - summary of the BOFs at DebConf8 = Preface --- * First of all please accept my apologies - I promised to write this summary shortly after DebConf but ... * I'm posting

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:40:32 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Well OK, assuming network connections, one can always just do e.g., Or `who-uploads --date $package'. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user,

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:00:48 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: So: xcdroast does no longer work. Who is to blame (Bug entry): xcdroats or wodim? It's a bug in the xcdroast package. There is a 'cdrecord' dummy package in unstable which provides a cdrecord compatibility symlink to wodim, so if a

Bug#519118: ITP: libcommons-java-java -- common java library used to support other developments

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org * Package name: libcommons-java-java Version : 1.5.5 Upstream Author : TiongHiang Lee * URL : http://onemind-commons.sourceforge.net/commons-java/ * License : LPGL-2.1+ Programming

Bug#519121: ITP: libcommons-invoke-java -- Java invocation framework library

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org * Package name: libcommons-invoke-java Version : 1.1.0 [0] Upstream Author : TiongHiang Lee * URL : http://onemind-commons.sourceforge.net/commons-invoke/ * License : LGPL-2.1

Bug#519122: ITP: libjxp-java -- Java template engine/script processor

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjxp-java Version : 1.6.1 Upstream Author : TiongHiang Lee * URL : http://jxp.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL-2.1

Bug#519124: ITP: libjpf-java -- Java Plugin Framework: plug-in infrastructure library for Java projects

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjpf-java Version : 1.5.1 Upstream Author : Dmitry Olshansky * URL : http://jpf.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL-2.1

Bug#519125: ITP: libjpfcodegen-java -- tool for generating classes from JPF plug-ins

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjpfcodegen-java Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Christopher Oezbek * URL : http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/oezbek/jpf/ [0] * License

Re: Bug#519118: ITP: libcommons-java-java -- common java library used to support other developments

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:26:49 +0100, Marcus Better wrote: * Package name: libcommons-java-java Version : 1.5.5 Upstream Author : TiongHiang Lee * URL : http://onemind-commons.sourceforge.net/commons-java/ The libcommons-foo-java package names usually refer to

Re: One-time cron output?

2009-03-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:12:39 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: As an extra idea, on IRC Peter Palfrader suggested never skipping the warning, but always sending it to syslog rather than stderr. Adding a NEWS.Debian file about the changed behaviour might be helpful too. Cheers, gregor -- .''`.

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:43:46 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Has there ever been a case where an RFP bug has actually stimulated anyone into packaging a given piece of software? IIRC I have packaged a few perl modules which had RFPs. That's one of the goals of the Debian Perl Group [0]

Bug#444189: ITP: libtap-parser-perl -- Perl module for parsing TAP output

2007-09-26 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libtap-parser-perl Version : 0.54 Upstream Author : Curtis Ovid Poe * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/TAP-Parser/ * License

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-11-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:03:34 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: While my packages are not false positive if we consider the version in the archive, they're false positive if we consider the Debian VCS version. Same here (both for my own packages and for all packages of the pkg-perl group). Cheers,

Bug#453954: general: Lenny release goal: UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control

2007-12-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:37:42 +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: This bug is to track progress on the Lenny release goal UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control: I'd suugest to include debian/copyright, too. Lintian is almost ready, cf. #451689 Cheers, gregor -- .''`.

Bug#453954: general: Lenny release goal: UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control

2007-12-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:22:50 +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: I'd suugest to include debian/copyright, too. I'd be happy to add debian/copyright, too, but as the release goal explicitly mentions chaneglog and control only, I think the release team should ok it first. (And of course the linitan

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing shared library dependencies

2008-01-17 Thread gregor herrmann
libfilesys-df-perl libparams-validate-perl Fixed in svn. gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] libmimetic0-dbg As Neil has already pointed out, also in this case the -dbg package depends on the non-stripped library package which has the needed elements. Cheers, gregor

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:20:59 +0100, Roland Mas wrote: It would be great to document in some place (devref?) why quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't think it's obvious for everybody :) Yes, please do so! I would like to read that. Seconded. Also, please include the

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

2008-01-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:21:41 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: About these new Vcs-* fields in debian/control: it's not clear to me where the URLs should be pointing at. They are explained in the Developer's Reference, section 6.2.5:

Re: dpatch - quilt

2008-01-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:09:28 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Is there any easy conversion from dpatch to quilt for a given package that is using dpatch? The following two links might give an idea: * manual conversion: http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/08/converting-debian-packages-from-dpatch.html

Re: dpatch - quilt

2008-02-07 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:07:00 +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: * script (but svn-centric): http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/dpatch2quilt?op=filerev=0sc=0 The script should (IMHO) make sure QUILT_PATCHES is set correctly. (Cc'ing dmn because of this) Good catch, thanks! Fixed.

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

2008-02-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:56:40 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: What about a bug... Bugs are our pets : we take care of them. I guess I just repeat myself when I question why we need to join the free software zoo. Is it hip? Are we hip? What's the gain? Why bother? Ack. A fluffy pillow with a

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:23:45 -0700, Karl Chen wrote: Thoughts? What have I missed? Existing solutions or non-problem? Not a general solution probably but maybe interesting for you is the following RSS feed: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~joerg/removals/removals.rss Cheers, gregor -- .''`.

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

2008-03-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:01:30 +, Neil Williams wrote: I appreciate the strive to make Debian work on small machines, but it is reasonable to put their constraints on the whole project? IMHO the Packages.gz file is already too large for my standard Debian machines! I see this point and

Bug#474398: ITP: libfile-pid-perl -- Perl module for pid file manipulation

2008-04-05 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libfile-pid-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Casey West, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Pid/ * License : GPL-1+ | Artistic Programming

Re: Bug#481973: ITP: libiptables-parse-perl -- Perl extension for parsing iptables firewall rulesets

2008-05-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 19 May 2008 22:38:16 +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote: * Package name: libiptables-parse-perl The IPTables::Parse package provides an interface to parse iptables rules on Linux systems through the direct execution of iptables commands, or from a file. The package psad contains a

Re: Bug#481973: ITP: libiptables-parse-perl -- Perl extension for parsing iptables firewall rulesets

2008-05-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:34:48 +0200, Franck JONCOURT wrote: The package psad contains a file /usr/lib/perl5/IPTables/Parse.pm. As a matter of fact, all packages from cipherdyne are being packaged to avoid conflicts between psad, fwsnort and fwknop. Sounds good, thanks for the clarification!

Re: packages with perl-modules, CPAN, Policy

2008-06-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:42:34 +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: (cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please adjust accordingly) 1. dh-make-perl For example we build with itshelpthepackage libwww-mechanize-perl. Excellent! The package is built. But it's not a package, its a template

Re: DPL teams survey summary summary

2008-07-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:20:00 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: As you may remember, back before I started the DPL job I promised to run a survey. Thanks for your work! 2. On the flip side of that, I'd also like to ask the members of the teams that are acknowledged to perform well to help us

Re: cipux-storage_3.4~svn2489-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2008-08-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:06:24 +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote: I am perfectly aware that libversion-perl is available only as a virtual package in unstable and testing. I deliberately chose to use those virtual packages in order to ease backporting to Debian stable. ftpmasters replied it

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:54:09 +0100, Noah Slater wrote: Clearly some teams will organise differently, and that's fine, but it would be nice if we could agree a set of guidelines for using the Maintainer/Uploaders fields consistently across teams. There were two BOFs at DebConf about

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