Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-31 Thread Praveen A
2010/8/31 Paul Wise p...@debian.org: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Matthias Klumpp matth...@nlinux.org wrote: new wiki pages have been created. (I basically took the information from Fedora) Please move them under the PackageKit namespace, so...

Debian and Patents (was: Re: RFS: packagekit)

2010-08-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In aanlktimrba0hxth3kq-fik9g57m8iqbzcjf1f0ryy...@mail.gmail.com, Praveen A wrote: I was reading through the wiki and found this, * Debian does not include software that is encumbered by software patents. This statement is correct for Fedora, but we have many *known* patent encumbered software

Re: Debian and Patents (was: Re: RFS: packagekit)

2010-08-31 Thread Praveen A
2010/8/31 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net: I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due to legal risk to SPI.  I get my ffmpeg and mp3 stuff from the debian-multimedia repositories which, while good, are not official. apt-cache policy libmad0 ffmpeg

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Praveen A prav...@gmail.com writes: I was reading through the wiki and found this, * Debian does not include software that is encumbered by software patents. This statement is correct for Fedora, but we have many *known* patent encumbered software in our repos like mp3 codec, ffmpeg etc. So

Re: RFS: faenza-icon-theme

2010-08-31 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Hello :) What about the other parts? Just to have an idea of where this is going to... It was always my personal opinion that when it comes to themes Debian was always a superb distro, but it always seemed looks were disregarded. I believe Squeeze is one of the most important releases in Debian

RFS: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (updated package)

2010-08-31 Thread Julien Viard de Galbert
Dear mentors, dear X Strike Force members and dear Raphael Geissert (previous mainainer) I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:0.2.904+svn842-1 of my package xserver-xorg-video-openchrome. It builds these binary packages: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome - X.Org X server -- VIA display

Re: RFS: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (updated package)

2010-08-31 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 15:19:40 +0200, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: I'm writing to both X Strike Force and Mentors as my previous questions to X strike force [1] did not get any response I'm guessing X Strike Force is too bust with the release and bugs in other packages to mentor a newbie

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:26:25 +0800, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Matthias Klumpp matth...@nlinux.org wrote: new wiki pages have been created. (I basically took the information from Fedora) Please move them under the PackageKit namespace, so...

Re: Debian and Patents (was: Re: RFS: packagekit)

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:12:37 +0530, Praveen A prav...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/31 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net: I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due to legal risk to SPI.  I get my ffmpeg and mp3 stuff from the debian-multimedia repositories

Re: Debian and Patents

2010-08-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-31 09:42 +0200, Praveen A wrote: 2010/8/31 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net: I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due to legal risk to SPI.  I get my ffmpeg and mp3 stuff from the debian-multimedia repositories which, while good, are not

RFS: flightgear, fgfs-base and simgear (updated packages) and 16 new flightgear related packages (attempt two)

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Baines
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor or many sponsors for my new and updated FlightGear related packages. I have included a summary of all the information in one email to make it easier to read and understand. The updated packages are flightgear, fgfs-base and simgear, all moving to the

re: packaging help

2010-08-31 Thread almagro
I am working with this tutorial to understand better the debian packaging process: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/337/Rolling_your_own_Debian_packages_part_2 it all goes well until I try to build the package from source. I am getting errors regarding SVN and APR (I think they

Re: conffiles

2010-08-31 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 31 August 2010 05:54:26 Russ Allbery wrote: Zvi Dubitzky d...@il.ibm.com writes: Is there a way to put something in DEBIAN directory that will trigger the poped up question when overwriting config files (during package installation) before running dpkg-deb --build to

Re: Default Configuration Issues

2010-08-31 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le samedi 14 août 2010 14:16:14, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : In general, a change in behavior can be handled gracefully with some time for transitions, so that they users can adapt to that (before that becomes the default) and with a conspicuous notice (say, in NEWS). Hurmm. This makes

Re: RFS: gnocky

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Mailänder
Dear mentors, This is an update in both program version and packaging: * Package name: gnocky * Version : 0.0.7 * Upstream Author : Igor Popik http://thrull.com (founder, retired), Danielle Forsi (took over development) http://www.forsi.it

Re: Default Configuration Issues

2010-08-31 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le mardi 31 août 2010 19:17:17, Dominique Dumont a écrit : I can come up with a scheme to upgrade fluxbox config file, but I wonder if modification of /home/*/fluxbox/ files is acceptable when upgrading a package? I've seen in a more recent thread that user files are off-limit... I guess

Re: RFS: faenza-icon-theme

2010-08-31 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi. On Aug 30 2010, Rogério Brito wrote: On Aug 30 2010, Adnan Hodzic wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/faenza-icon-theme/faenza-icon-theme_0.7.dsc Oh, there's one obvious thing that I didn't catch in the previous look at your package: it is a Debian native package

Re: packaging help

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:45:28PM +, alma...@comcast.net wrote: I am working with this tutorial to understand better the debian packaging process: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/337/Rolling_your_own_Debian_packages_part_2 it all goes well until I try to build the

Re: conffiles

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:47:09AM +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: Is there a way to put something in DEBIAN directory that will trigger the poped up question when overwriting config files (during package installation) before running dpkg-deb --build to generate the packge OR is there a

RFS: pidgin-twitter (new upstream release, 2nd try)

2010-08-31 Thread debian
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package pidgin-twitter. * Package name: pidgin-twitter Version : 0.9.2-1 Upstream Author : Yoshiki Yazawa (@yazuuchi) y...@honeyplanet.jp * URL : http://www.honeyplanet.jp/pidgin-twitter/ * License : GPL

Re: Default Configuration Issues

2010-08-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Dominique Dumont domi.dum...@free.fr wrote: Le mardi 31 août 2010 19:17:17, Dominique Dumont a écrit : I can come up with a scheme to upgrade fluxbox config file, but I wonder if  modification of /home/*/fluxbox/ files is acceptable when upgrading a package?

Re: RFS: pidgin-twitter (new upstream release, 2nd try)

2010-08-31 Thread Mauro Lizaur
2010-09-01, deb...@vdr.jp: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package pidgin-twitter. * Package name: pidgin-twitter Version : 0.9.2-1 Upstream Author : Yoshiki Yazawa (@yazuuchi) y...@honeyplanet.jp * URL :

Re: Debian and Patents

2010-08-31 Thread Reinhard Tartler
I was asked to comment on this as FFmpeg maintainer in Debian. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:34:10 (CEST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In aanlktimrba0hxth3kq-fik9g57m8iqbzcjf1f0ryy...@mail.gmail.com, Praveen A wrote: I was reading through the wiki and found this, * Debian does not include

Re: Debian and Patents

2010-08-31 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:30:28 (CEST), Sven Joachim wrote: AFAIK Debian's ffmpeg package does not disable any decoders, only encoders are stripped. So playing wmv/mp3/whatever works out of the box, but to create your own mp3 files you need an uncrippled third-party ffmpeg version. FFmpeg

Re: Debian and Patents

2010-08-31 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:00:16 (CEST), Matthias Klumpp wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:12:37 +0530, Praveen A prav...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/31 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net: I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due to legal risk to SPI.  I get