Re: When to close bugs on old package versions

2002-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:12:38AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: setting it to Potato shows that it has either been fixed or obsoleted in more recent versions. Though the more common thing is just to close the bug unless it's frequently reported. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into

Re: When to close bugs on old package versions

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:54:14PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: But a bug marked 'potato' but that won't be fixed because it's not security critical - is that still a bug? I mean, it is an issue with the package, but because it only affects potato (or, by extension, the stable distribution,

Re: Sponsor request for numlockx

2002-05-28 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Mon, 27 May 2002 12:16:13 +0100, Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Oohara Yuuma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've just produced a package for the very simple program numlockx Ariel Shkedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] already filed ITP (see #146098). Oh right, I didn't know about ITP :) So

Re: Sponsor request for sjeng

2002-05-28 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On 25 May 2002 18:34:08 +0200, Lukas Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I built a Debian package for sjeng, a chess engine which is capable of playing several variants (suicide, crazyhouse, bughouse) in addition to normal chess. It works fine with eboard and xboard, license is GPL, and there was

Re: Sponsor request for sjeng

2002-05-28 Thread Lukas Geyer
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Oohara Yuuma wrote: On 25 May 2002 18:34:08 +0200, Lukas Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I built a Debian package for sjeng, a chess engine which is capable of playing several variants (suicide, crazyhouse, bughouse) in addition to normal chess. It works fine with

Re: When to close bugs on old package versions

2002-05-28 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Tue, 28 May 2002 09:19:26 -0500, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: No, tagging the bug 'potato' only means that it's a bug that pertains specifically to potato. There are NO RC bugs that are potato-specific, because potato is already released. ;) And for security-related bugs,

Sponsorship for GNUMP3d

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Kemp
I'm looking for a sponsor for one of my applications to help me on the road to becoming a Debian developer. The application which I'd like to start with is called GNUMP3d, and is a simple webbased streaming server for MP3's and OGG vorbis audio files. The homepage of the software is

Unidentified subject!

2002-05-28 Thread Bruno Barrera C
My name is Bruno Barrera , and im going to postulate some thing : Im a friend of a programmer , who develops a small but powerful webserver , with many features , like php and vhosts , etc. More information in http://monkeyd.sourceforge.net/ With his authorization , I made the debs packages ,

Question on build process

2002-05-28 Thread brf
Hi I grabbed the source to an abondened package. I checked the bug reports and no bugs were filed. I made all the changes to the files in the debian directory and run debuild on them. All the files were built but the .diff ? Not sure why this did not appear but my quess is that since I did

Re: Question on build process

2002-05-28 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:31:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I grabbed the source to an abondened package. I checked the bug reports and no bugs were filed. I made all the changes to the files in the debian directory and run debuild on them. All the files were built but the .diff ?

Request for sponsor for Kopete

2002-05-28 Thread Till Gerken
Hi, I'd like to package Kopete for Debian. Since this would be my first package and I am not a Debian member yet, I'm looking for a sponsor to help me get started. Kopete is a KDE IM client, it supports various protocols via plugins. Soon, version 0.4 will be released, which will be the first

Re: Request for sponsor for Kopete

2002-05-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-May-2002 Till Gerken wrote: Hi, I'd like to package Kopete for Debian. Since this would be my first package and I am not a Debian member yet, I'm looking for a sponsor to help me get started. When you have a package you have prepared from the latest sources, contact me. -- To