Re: RFS: xfe (updated package - new upstream release)

2009-11-17 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Ok, I have to include intltool in the build dependencies. Please can you say me the other minor things, so I can check them, too. The updated version with some minor changes is now on mentors.debian.net. Now I think it is ready for uploading. Fondest regards, Joachim Wiedorn

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:31:29AM -0200, Rogério Brito a écrit : On Nov 17 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: Is there a way to put an indication in the manpage source code for the nroff parser, that the UTF-8 encoding is used? I don't know the answer to that. OTOH, if you only need to use

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org, 2009-11-17, 22:53: In the manpage I wrote, I wanted to use English guillemets (‘’). This lead to errors and I gave up, replacing them by `'. Guess what? Groff understood what I wanted and put nice Unicode guillemets in the ouptut! I am quite amazed, even if

RFS: python-slimmer

2009-11-17 Thread Janos Guljas
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package python-slimmer. * Package name: python-slimmer Version : 0.1.30-1 Upstream Author : Peter Bengtsson pe...@fry-it.com * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/slimmer/ * License : Python Software Foundation

RFS (3rd try after 2nd unanswered): wmaker-data (updated package)

2009-11-17 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9~3-3 of my package wmaker-data. My usual sponsor Mr. Oboukhov seems not to be available. He uploaded the package previously but dak didn't accept it because it is format 3.0 . Since 3.0 seems to be available now, I would like this

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Jakub Wilk wrote: * Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org, 2009-11-17, 22:53: In the manpage I wrote, I wanted to use English guillemets (‘’). This lead to errors and I gave up, replacing them by `'. Guess what? Groff understood what I wanted and put nice Unicode guillemets in the ouptut! I am quite

RFS: trend (updated package)

2009-11-17 Thread Yuri D'Elia
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2-1 of my package trend. It builds these binary packages: trend - a general-purpose, efficient trend graph The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 556503 The package can be found on

RFS: python-tornado

2009-11-17 Thread Angel Abad
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package tornado. * Package name: tornado Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : Facebook * URL : http://www.tornadoweb.org/ * License : Apache 2.0 Section : python It builds these binary packages:

Re: RFS (3rd try after 2nd unanswered): wmaker-data (updated package)

2009-11-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:44:39PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9~3-3 of my package wmaker-data. My usual sponsor Mr. Oboukhov seems not to be available. He uploaded the package previously but dak didn't accept it because it is

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Nicolas Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com, 2009-11-17, 13:45: In the manpage I wrote, I wanted to use English guillemets (‘’). This lead to errors and I gave up, replacing them by `'. Guess what? Groff understood what I wanted and put nice Unicode guillemets in the ouptut! I am quite amazed,

Re: RFS: python-slimmer

2009-11-17 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Janos, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 17:36, Janos Guljas ja...@janos.in.rs wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package python-slimmer. Did you consider joining the DPMT[1] and maintain your package there? [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonModulesTeam Cheers, --

Re: RFS: python-slimmer

2009-11-17 Thread Janos Guljas
Hello Sandro, Thanks for invitation. :) I've read some of DPMT pages at wiki and alioth and it looks like a nice place to meet and hopefully work with some Debian/Python people. As it says in Python Modules Packaging Team Policy I will create an alioth account, and request an approval to join

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:53:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:31:29AM -0200, Rogério Brito a écrit : On Nov 17 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: Is there a way to put an indication in the manpage source code for the nroff parser, that the UTF-8 encoding is used?

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Ben Finney
Jakub Wilk uba...@users.sf.net writes: * Nicolas Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com, 2009-11-17, 13:45: And sometimes annoying. I have seen command examples in manpages that used fancy Unicode quotes, and didn't work when copied and pasted into a shell. Blame the one who wrote a buggy

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Jakub Wilk uba...@users.sf.net writes: * Nicolas Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com, 2009-11-17, 13:45: And sometimes annoying. I have seen command examples in manpages that used fancy Unicode quotes, and didn't work when copied and pasted into a

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: Ye gods, that's nasty. Should be removed IMO, since '`' is not and never was an opening single quotation mark. It is in the *roff language, similar to how '' is an opening or closing quotation mark in TeX. Just because most of the characters in *roff

Packaging

2009-11-17 Thread Juan Cruz
Hi everybody, I'm new developing for linux. I'm developing a new application written on python, and i don't know how to make a .deb from it and how to upload my application to your repositories. I'll appreciate if somebody can help me. Many Thanks -- Martinez, Juan Cruz juan.c...@gmail.com

Re: Packaging

2009-11-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 15:58:44 Juan Cruz wrote: Hi everybody, I'm new developing for linux. I'm developing a new application written on python, and i don't know how to make a .deb from it and how to upload my application to your repositories. I'll appreciate if somebody can help

Re: Packaging

2009-11-17 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: TLDNR: RTFM N00B! So much for 'softer, gentler' Debian development mailing list huh? ;) (I know you weren't seriously being rude, I'm joking along) -- Nicolas I read mailing lists through Gmane. Please don't Cc me on replies; it makes me get one message on my

Re: Packaging

2009-11-17 Thread Francisco Rivas
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Tuesday 17 November 2009 15:58:44 Juan Cruz wrote: Hi everybody, I'm new developing for linux. I'm developing a new application written on python, and i don't know how to make a .deb from it and

Re: Packaging

2009-11-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 16:49:37 Francisco Rivas wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: TLDNR: RTFM N00B! is this necessary or are you kidding?.. :P Sorry, if it wasn't clear. I was just joking. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: You would have needed to take it up with Joseph Ossanna and Brian Kernighan, since *roff has worked this way since the beginning of the formatting language. Note that “blame the makers of groff” is *not* what I'm saying; they make their decisions in the

RFS: haskell-hscurses

2009-11-17 Thread Paul Bone
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package haskell-hscurses. * Package name: haskell-hscurses * Version : 1.3.0.2-1 * Upstream Authors: John Meacham john at repetae dot net : Tuomo Valkonen tuomov at iki.fi : Don Stewart

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: You would have needed to take it up with Joseph Ossanna and Brian Kernighan, since *roff has worked this way since the beginning of the formatting language. Note that “blame the makers of groff” is *not* what

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 17 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: It is in the *roff language, similar to how '' is an opening or closing quotation mark in TeX. Just as an addendum, in TeX, `` is the opening (double) quotation mark and '' is the closing quotation mark. Similarly, ` is the opening single quotation mark and

Writing manpages (was: Re: Man and UTF-8.)

2009-11-17 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 17 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: However, TTBOMK UTF-8 manpages should be OK as well, though I have found some issues with more esoteric characters. I would suggest reporting bugs or contacting the maintainer or groff upstream if you run into problems here. OK, since the project strongly

Re: RFS: haskell-hscurses

2009-11-17 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Bone pb...@csse.unimelb.edu.au writes: * Description : NCurses bindings for Haskell The name “ncurses” shouldn't be capitalised; the name of the library is lowercase AFAIK. It builds these binary packages: haskell-hscurses-doc - NCurses bindings for Haskell libghc6-hscurses-dev -

Re: Writing manpages (was: Re: Man and UTF-8.)

2009-11-17 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:30:33 -0200 schrieb Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: But what do you people use to edit manpages that you maintain frequently? I find the simplest way is to use *ManEdit*. At the beginning you can get templates for the structure of the man page. There are