Re: new package wmbattmon

2006-01-18 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Michael Andraschek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-18 08:55]: therefore the programm has a config file were all these things can be adjusted after installation if they dont work with the paths specified in the program. Yes saw this but imho its not a user thing to work through the proc file

RFS: kpicosim (wnpp #344945)

2006-01-18 Thread Adrian Knoth
Hello, according to #344945 I've prepared a Debian package (my first one, I expect it to contain errors). Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kpicosim Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Mark Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.xs4all.nl/~marksix/ *

Re: new package wmbattmon

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Andraschek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nico Golde schrieb: Hi, * Michael Andraschek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-18 08:55]: therefore the programm has a config file were all these things can be adjusted after installation if they dont work with the paths specified in the

Re: How to add a localization *.po file to a package?

2006-01-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:57 -0800, Stan Vasilyev wrote: I merged your work with my changes and fixed almost all bugs in BTS. Some comments/questions: * Why did you remove the space in front of Homepage: in debian/control I intentionally placed that there. Please read the

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:38 +0100, Armin Berres wrote: There was _never_ any version of Initng in unstable. The current version (uploaded today) doesn't contain the bugs anymore. - Can you point me to a bug which is counted as open for unstable when it's clearly clearly tagged fixed for

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: In a more general sense, it's important to note that the fixed-in-experimental tag is deprecated, and definately not necessary It is kinda hard to consider it deprecated while DAK still sets it instead of doing a proper job of issuing notfound

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:29:35AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: In a more general sense, it's important to note that the fixed-in-experimental tag is deprecated, and definately not necessary It is kinda hard to consider it deprecated

Re: RFS: kpl -- data set and function plotting application for KDE

2006-01-18 Thread Ryan Schultz
Argh. The sources and package are available from: deb-src http://rschultz.ath.cx/debian unstable/source/ -- Ryan Schultz Rise above oneself and grasp the world. -- Archimedes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:29:35AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: In a more general sense, it's important to note that the fixed-in-experimental tag is deprecated, and definately not

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:00:01AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:29:35AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: In a more general sense, it's important to note

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Armin Berres
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: So, the correct way to handle this is to mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with on the first line of your message Version: fixed-version. You should close bugs like this for any you fix, regardless of in which distribution the fix will end up. OK, that's what I wanted to know.

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Frank Küster
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, as close commands ARE clearly deprecated as well, and not at all equivalent to adding a tag. We are taliking about uploads to experimental, after all. AFAIK, [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be used for unstable uploads (it already is, I

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:00 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: You mean close commands... No, as close commands ARE clearly deprecated as well, and not at all equivalent to adding a tag. We are taliking about uploads to experimental, after all. The close command was indeed

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Armin Berres wrote: Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: So, the correct way to handle this is to mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with on the first line of your message Version: fixed-version. You should close bugs like this for any you fix, regardless of in which distribution the fix will end up. OK, that's what

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Armin Berres
Thomas Viehmann wrote: Note that about everyone suggested to include Version: information which you didn't use (at least for #332783). But then, there must always be room for improvement. :) Yes, I know. That's what I learned today :) Will do it next time. Bye Armin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, as close commands ARE clearly deprecated as well, and not at all equivalent to adding a tag. We are taliking about uploads to experimental, after all. AFAIK, [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: There's currently no other way to specify a fixed-version other than mailing '-done' or using 'close. Mailing -done is not always Refer to the found and notfound commands in the BTS reference. notfound seems to do what you want, to me. Or maybe I

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: AFAIK, [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be used for unstable uploads (it already is, I think), and notfound commands to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be used instead of fixed-in-experimental tags. Wrong. notfound commands don't do anything that's at all

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: There's currently no other way to specify a fixed-version other than mailing '-done' or using 'close. Mailing -done is not always Refer to the found and notfound commands in the BTS

debian package installation - setting environment

2006-01-18 Thread Ivars Strazdins
Hello all, how do I set/change system wide environment variables when installing package? The package should go to /opt/packagename. I've been reading a lot of fighting about /opt for packages. Anyway, this seem to be the right place for 3rd party packages. Also, I cannot change this

Re: debian package installation - setting environment

2006-01-18 Thread Sam Morris
Ivars Strazdins wrote: how do I set/change system wide environment variables when installing package? The package should go to /opt/packagename. I've been reading a lot of fighting about /opt for packages. Anyway, this seem to be the right place for 3rd party packages. Also, I cannot change

SEEKING FOR A SPONSOR

2006-01-18 Thread Beyanga Peace Musiime
My name is Peace, I have been a course in the Brookes University in Management Development in Burban Coastlands Convention centre South Africa. But I am unable to meet the requirements for the course. I therefore humbly request you to sponsor me for this course. The fees is 3,000 us

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2006-01-18 Thread Beyanga Peace Musiime
I have been invited to attend a Management Development course in the Brookes University in Burban Coastlands Convention Centre South Africa, but I am unable to meet the requirements. The tuition is 3,000 us dollars. I hereby request you to sponsor me for this course. Details about the

Re: debian package installation - setting environment

2006-01-18 Thread Ivars Strazdins
Sam Morris wrote: it should really live in /usr/lib/package name. If the use of /opt is hard coded into the package then, well, that sucks. :) It is hard coded into management decision to which I really have no access whatsoever. see

Re: debian package installation - setting environment

2006-01-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Ivars, Ivars Strazdins wrote: This seem to be appropriate mailing list, please advice, if not. Unless you are talking about creating a Debian package, you probably will get more advice on debian-user. The rest of my reply below assumes that you are in fact creating a Debian package out of

Re: How to close Bugs in experimental

2006-01-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:55 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] need close or -done (and yes, katie would implement this using -done, just as it already does for maintainer uploads to unstable). If the BTS will cope

How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-18 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use a few packages, such as kernel-patch-exec-shield, which are neglected by the maintainer. What can I do to help if the maintainer is not responding to bug reports or e-mail? I have prepared patches fixing some bugs (even RC) and sent them to the

Re: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:17:48PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: I use a few packages, such as kernel-patch-exec-shield, which are neglected by the maintainer. What can I do to help if the maintainer is not responding to bug reports or e-mail? I have prepared patches fixing some bugs (even RC)

Re: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-18 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Pryzby wrote: You can mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking if the maintainer is MIA. Ah, I just noticed section 7.4 Dealing with inactive and/or unreachable maintainers in the Developer's Reference... Thanks, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: RFS: aabrowse: Server browser for America's Army game

2006-01-18 Thread Martin Meredith
Just a reminder about this package... it needs someone to wub it into debian :D Martin Meredith wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/aabrowse/ AABrowse is a Linux-native server browser/query/game-launch tool for America's Army (http://www.americasarmy.com/). It supports

Re: Custom Debian Installer

2006-01-18 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
On Mon, 2006-16-01 at 23:44 +, Colin Watson wrote: Yes; http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s07.html.en should help you out here. Note the link to the commented preseed file example, and search for 'tasksel'. snip If you mean the debian-installer source package, that's really

Re: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:17:48PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use a few packages, such as kernel-patch-exec-shield, which are neglected by the maintainer. What can I do to help if the maintainer is not responding to bug reports or e-mail?

Re: debian package installation - setting environment

2006-01-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:40:12PM +0200, Ivars Strazdins wrote: Sam Morris wrote: it should really live in /usr/lib/package name. If the use of /opt is hard coded into the package then, well, that sucks. :) It is hard coded into management decision to which I really have no access

Re: SEEKING FOR A SPONSOR

2006-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Beyanga Peace Musiime [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My name is Peace, I have been a course in the Brookes University in Management Development in Burban Coastlands Convention centre South Africa. But I am unable to meet the requirements for the course. I therefore humbly request you to sponsor

RFS: vrweb -- A VRML browser and editor

2006-01-18 Thread Stan Vasilyev
VRweb is a VRML 1 browser that you can use to browse a Virtual Reality World (WRL). This release fixes two bugs from BTS and a nasty build bug. The Debian sources are available at: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vrweb/ Thanks, Stan Vasilyev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL