Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Kartik Mistry wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package throttle. ... throttle - A bandwidth limiting pipe The cstream package (already in Debian) seems to provide the same feature. Can you please look at it and check whether throttle has some unique features so that it makes sense

RFS: looking for a new sponsor for kboincspy

2007-07-22 Thread Frank S. Thomas
Hi mentors, I'm looking for a new sponsor for kboincspy[1], a monitoring utility for the BOINC client. Former uploads of kboincspy were sponsored by Lucas Wall, whom I want to thank for his help in the past. I've prepared a new revision, 0.9.1-4, which I'd like to get uploaded. So if you are

RFS: licq-plugin-icqnd

2007-07-22 Thread Michael Domann
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package licq-plugin-icqnd. * Package name: licq-plugin-icqnd Version : 0.2beta1 Upstream Author : Joachim Staib [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://icqnd.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Section : net It

Re: RFS: looking for a new sponsor for kboincspy

2007-07-22 Thread Frank S. Thomas
On Sunday 22 July 2007 11:22:55 Frank S. Thomas wrote: I'm looking for a new sponsor for kboincspy[1], a monitoring utility for the BOINC client. [...] I've already found one, Christoph Martin kindly offered his help as sponsor. Grüße, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

RFS: moe

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package moe. * Package name: moe Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Antonio Diaz Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/moe/moe.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description:

Re: RFS: moe

2007-07-22 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 04:40:43PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package moe. Sponsored. Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: moe

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 04:40:43PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package moe. Christoph Haas has sponsored my package. Thanks a lot! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 --

Re: OK, let's build the manpages offline.

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 22.07.2007, 14:36 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: [EMBOSS manpages] Well, at the beginning I thought that there was a choice to be made between loading the buildds, having a heavy diff.gz, You can simply solve the latter by informing upstream about your solution to prepare

Re: RFS: prolog-el

2007-07-22 Thread Philipp Benner
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Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Kartik Mistry
On 7/22/07, Stefan Fritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kartik Mistry wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package throttle. ... throttle - A bandwidth limiting pipe The cstream package (already in Debian) seems to provide the same feature. Can you please look at it and check whether

Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-22 18:04]: On 7/22/07, Stefan Fritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kartik Mistry wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package throttle. ... throttle - A bandwidth limiting pipe The cstream package (already in Debian) seems to provide the

Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Kartik Mistry
On 7/22/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: throttle - A bandwidth limiting pipe The cstream package (already in Debian) seems to provide the same feature. Can you please look at it and check whether throttle has some unique features so that it makes sense to have both throttle and

Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-22 18:17]: On 7/22/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: throttle - A bandwidth limiting pipe [...] As I said, throttle is too simple with 3 or 4 command line options written in mind with simple use. While, cstream has lots of options

Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Kartik Mistry
On 7/22/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: throttle - A bandwidth limiting pipe [...] As I said, throttle is too simple with 3 or 4 command line options written in mind with simple use. While, cstream has lots of options available to configure your need. Did you look at trickle?

Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-22 18:41]: On 7/22/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: throttle - A bandwidth limiting pipe [...] As I said, throttle is too simple with 3 or 4 command line options written in mind with simple use. While, cstream has lots of options

Re: Doubts about PHP

2007-07-22 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:06:14PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: That's exactly the reason why I recommend to Depend on php5. $ apt-cache show php5 | grep Depends Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (= 5.2.3-1) | php5-cgi (= 5.2.3-1), php5-common (= 5.2.3-1) That's more than enough. *

List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
(Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) Dear Debian developers, I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an approximate list of packages which have been or have _not_ been sponsored despite an RFS to debian-mentors. The program generates bad output if the RFS mailer has

Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Kartik Mistry
On 7/22/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you look at trickle? Hmm. Looks simple/good too. Should I withdraw ITP? Yes I think so, maybe with a short comment so people can see Dear All, I am taking this RFS back. Also, ITP is retitle back to RFP. Cheers, --

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-22 19:26]: (Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) Dear Debian developers, I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an approximate list of packages which have been or have _not_ been sponsored despite an RFS to

Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-22 19:33]: On 7/22/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you look at trickle? Hmm. Looks simple/good too. Should I withdraw ITP? Yes I think so, maybe with a short comment so people can see I am taking this RFS back. Also, ITP

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:37:13PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-22 19:26]: (Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) Dear Debian developers, I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an approximate list of packages which

Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Kartik Mistry
On 7/22/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am taking this RFS back. Also, ITP is retitle back to RFP. Why retitling it to RFP if there is no need for a package? Hi, May be someone can found it useful at later stage and can package it. Cheers, --

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:37:13PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: [...] Thanks for your work! But basically you do work that already had been done by mentors.debian.net. Ok not everyone is using this service but it would be good if they would. Ah, you get beaten in the race quite often! ;-) I

RFS: libitpp (minor update)

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Mentors, I am in need of another upload of IT++, the details of which are here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/07/msg0.html The reason this update is needed is that by mistake, in the libitpp-doc package, I recommended x-www-browser instead of www-browser, which resulted in

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Ondrej Certik
The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor package maintainer (tm) didn't find a sponsor in time. Yes, that is the most difficult

Re: ITS: libitpp (minor update)

2007-07-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:18:35 +0530 Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Mentors, I am in need of another upload of IT++, the details of which are here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/07/msg0.html I'll sponsor it. The reason this update is needed is that by

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:01:20 +0200 Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor package

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 22.07.2007, 21:01 +0200 schrieb Ondrej Certik: [..] I think it would also help, if there was some official repository for unnoficial packages, so that I (as non-DD) could just upload my package to mentors (which I can now) and then just add the deb line (not just deb-src) into

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 08:23:39PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:01:20 +0200 Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Ondrej Certik wrote: The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor package maintainer (tm) didn't find a

add

2007-07-22 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
I've uploaded add, and I'm looking for a sponsor (if possible). I had problem deciding if I should do changes as a big evil patch, or if I should do it as changes to the source tree. I choosed the latter, but if that's unacceptable, I can try doing a gigantic patch. /Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Ondrej Certik
I find it easy enough to do: $ sudo apt-get update $ apt-src -bi install $package apt-src will then install the source of the package into the current working directory, then build it, and then install the resulting binaries. Thanks for the tip. This is actually very comfortable and works on

Re: add

2007-07-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Carl Fürstenberg wrote: I've uploaded add, and I'm looking for a sponsor (if possible). I had problem deciding if I should do changes as a big evil patch, or if I should do it as changes to the source tree. I choosed the latter, but if that's unacceptable, I can try doing a gigantic patch.

Re: add

2007-07-22 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 7/22/07, Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Fürstenberg wrote: I've uploaded add, and I'm looking for a sponsor (if possible). I had problem deciding if I should do changes as a big evil patch, or if I should do it as changes to the source tree. I choosed the latter, but if

Re: add

2007-07-22 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Though, at the moment, I cannot access the template, I'll do it later when the web service is back online. /Carl On 7/22/07, Carl Fürstenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/22/07, Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Fürstenberg wrote: I've uploaded add, and I'm looking for a sponsor

RFS: add

2007-07-22 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package add. * Package name: add Version : 20070214-1 Upstream Author : Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://invisible-island.net/add/add.html * License : MIT/X Section : math It builds these

Re: Doubts about PHP

2007-07-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:12:47PM +0200, Gregory Colpart wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:06:14PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: That's exactly the reason why I recommend to Depend on php5. $ apt-cache show php5 | grep Depends Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (= 5.2.3-1) | php5-cgi (=

RFS: libgettext-commons-java

2007-07-22 Thread Andreas Putzo
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libgettext-commons-java. * Package name: libgettext-commons-java Version : 0.9-1 Upstream Author : Felix Berger (Gettext Commons project) * URL : http://xnap-commons.sourceforge.net/gettext-commons/index.html *

Re: RFS: libgettext-commons-java

2007-07-22 Thread Paul Cager
Andreas Putzo wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libgettext-commons-java. * Package name: libgettext-commons-java Version : 0.9-1 Upstream Author : Felix Berger (Gettext Commons project) * URL :

Re: Doubts about PHP

2007-07-22 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:47:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: * For PHP depends, if your application is compatible with PHP4, you should let php4 and php4-cgi (because php4-cgi is not in depends of virtual package php4 in sarge): Which makes it not particularly relevant to

Re: ITS: libitpp (minor update)

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 08:14:00PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: I'll sponsor it. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

RFS: php-file (updated package)

2007-07-22 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, I am Gregory Colpart [http://wiki.debian.org/GregoryColpart] and I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3.0-1 of my package php-file. This package is being adopted. * Package name: php-file * Version : 1.3.0-1 * Upstream Author : Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tal