Re: PLML Sgml System Package [ looking for upload ]

2004-05-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:07:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I'm looking for a sponsor to upload soon this package of mine : plml http://www.lulli.net/WEB/debian/plml_1.0-1.dsc http://www.lulli.net/WEB/debian/plml_1.0-1.tar.gz

Re: Sponsor for Ontographics?

2004-05-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:06:26PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: Does your package depend on the Blackdown JRE .deb? If so, then it would be reasonable to rely on that package's file locations. That was exactly my thought. My package depends on j2re1.4 and uses the packages file locations.

Re: Sponsor for Ontographics?

2004-05-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:47:06AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: 'official' Java package from Blackdown. I have used the Blackdown package from deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian/ ./ which works great. It's very likely, that other j2re1.4 packages (if there are any) are

Re: Virtual packages visavi Real packages

2004-05-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:05:06AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: The problem is that there's a REAL 'slapd' package on the Debian GNU/Linux APT archive(s) which seem to override _my_ virtual package(s). I would like to have my packages to override the 'original' one (they have A LOT newer

Re: OT: German police needs your help

2004-05-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:07:47AM +0200, Stephan Brendel wrote: i know, this doesn't belong to Debian Mentors, but i believe the campaign from the german police needs to be supported. I think the importance of my message trumps topicality. I've heard that sort of justification before... You

Re: OT: German police needs your help

2004-05-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:07:47AM +0200, Stephan Brendel wrote: i know, this doesn't belong to Debian Mentors, but i believe the campaign from the german police needs to be supported. I think the importance of my message trumps topicality. I've heard that sort of justification before... You

Re: Question on License

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:56:22AM +0200, Jos? Luis Tall?n wrote: The License reproduced hereunder comes from AlterMIME. It seems quite similar to a modified BSD license, but there are some points which make me suspect it could be non-free... can somebody please check it and offer some

Re: Becoming the upstream maintainer of a package

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:32:19PM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote: I'm the current maintainer for xtrlock and it was abandoned upstream years ago (1996?). I have an updated package where I rewrote the build system since the old one used Imake and some flags that no longer were relevant. I fixed a

Re: Question on License

2004-04-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:56:22AM +0200, Jos? Luis Tall?n wrote: The License reproduced hereunder comes from AlterMIME. It seems quite similar to a modified BSD license, but there are some points which make me suspect it could be non-free... can somebody please check it and offer some

Re: Becoming the upstream maintainer of a package

2004-04-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:32:19PM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote: I'm the current maintainer for xtrlock and it was abandoned upstream years ago (1996?). I have an updated package where I rewrote the build system since the old one used Imake and some flags that no longer were relevant. I fixed a

Re: Grab bag of questions

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:04:50AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: acc has a somewhat unclear license regarding distribution and modification. It includes both a EULA that sounds like a commercially purchased binary, and another license file that basically says modify it, but don't sell it,

Re: Grab bag of questions

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:19:19AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: If they're the typical .h files, /usr/include/acc would be as good a place as any. They're not, they're .acs files. I think I'm going to rename the package What are .acs files when they're at home

Re: Grab bag of questions

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:06:06AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: What are .acs files when they're at home? General data goes in either /usr/share or /usr/lib, depending on the architecture-specificity. They're uncompiled script files. It the case of the .acs files

Re: Grab bag of questions

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:14:32PM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Pending a response from Raven, would it be at all acceptable to place the acc package somewhere offsite and have the zeth package tell you where to get it, or is even that running afoul of policy? You could put zeth in contrib

Re: Grab bag of questions

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:04:50AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: acc has a somewhat unclear license regarding distribution and modification. It includes both a EULA that sounds like a commercially purchased binary, and another license file that basically says modify it, but don't sell it,

Re: Grab bag of questions

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:06:06AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: What are .acs files when they're at home? General data goes in either /usr/share or /usr/lib, depending on the architecture-specificity. They're uncompiled script files. It the case of the .acs files

Re: Grab bag of questions

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:14:32PM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Pending a response from Raven, would it be at all acceptable to place the acc package somewhere offsite and have the zeth package tell you where to get it, or is even that running afoul of policy? You could put zeth in contrib

Re: Intrest in becoming a Debian developer

2004-04-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:38:04PM +0800, Nima Talebi wrote: My name is Nima Talebi and I'd like to become a Debian developer. This would be a first port of call, I'd say: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html That should answer your first round of questions. - Matt

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:57:35PM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote: Anyhow, diogenes 0.9.9.3-4 fixes this, can you possibly confirm that the installation works as expected? Upload it to my queue (as described at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html) and I'll check it out. This still

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:57:35PM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote: Anyhow, diogenes 0.9.9.3-4 fixes this, can you possibly confirm that the installation works as expected? Upload it to my queue (as described at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html) and I'll check it out. This still

Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
I found the following problems on an initial investigation of the package: * No WNPP bug filed. * Communicates with the user via the console. Consider using debconf notes instead if it's vitally important. * If you chose one of the first three options on a question that only has two options in

Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
I found the following problems on an initial investigation of the package: * No WNPP bug filed. * Communicates with the user via the console. Consider using debconf notes instead if it's vitally important. * If you chose one of the first three options on a question that only has two options in

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-04-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:43:50AM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote: I am still looking for a sponsor for Diogenes! I am sure there is someone with some PHP/MySQL/debconf experience out there to look at the packages? Experience, probably. Time is the pressing issue. Out of interest, what does

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-04-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:14:46AM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote: I have looked through the MySource documentation and I won't claim that Diogenes has all the features of MySource, that just wouldn't be true (for instance there is no plugin mecanism in Diogenes currently). It does however, have

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-04-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:43:50AM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote: I am still looking for a sponsor for Diogenes! I am sure there is someone with some PHP/MySQL/debconf experience out there to look at the packages? Experience, probably. Time is the pressing issue. Out of interest, what does

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-04-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:14:46AM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote: I have looked through the MySource documentation and I won't claim that Diogenes has all the features of MySource, that just wouldn't be true (for instance there is no plugin mecanism in Diogenes currently). It does however, have

Re: About Package Creation... (sarge vs sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 06:12:52PM -0700, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Just how important is it that a package be created on a box running sid? I'm currently running sarge, and would like to package a program myself instead of waiting for somebody else, but I'm not sure I want to start running

Re: expired key

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:53:36AM +0100, KELEMEN Peter wrote: [ Please Cc: answers as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. ] I was about to vote when I realized that my GPG key has expired exactly one year ago. In private communications this didn't pose a problem, but chaning Debian password for

Re: expired key

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:53:36AM +0100, KELEMEN Peter wrote: [ Please Cc: answers as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. ] I was about to vote when I realized that my GPG key has expired exactly one year ago. In private communications this didn't pose a problem, but chaning Debian password for

Re: Q: why dpkg-buildpackage unsets +x for file that is in /usr/share/doc/$name/* ?

2004-03-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:22:12PM +0200, Art??ras ??lajus wrote: I am building package and file ec in /usr/share/doc/echat/ isn't executable. It's an script and makefile installs it with mode 755. What could be wrong? Probably the fact that documentation is very rarely supposed to be

Re: Q: why dpkg-buildpackage unsets +x for file that is in /usr/share/doc/$name/* ?

2004-03-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:22:12PM +0200, Art??ras ??lajus wrote: I am building package and file ec in /usr/share/doc/echat/ isn't executable. It's an script and makefile installs it with mode 755. What could be wrong? Probably the fact that documentation is very rarely supposed to be

Re: Need a sponsor to upload Bug#237028

2004-03-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: Subject says it all. Feel free to ask any clarification question. The effort involved in going to the bug report and have a good read isn't likely to be expended if I don't have any interest in the package. You might get a

Re: RFS: Bug#237028 cups-pdf - PDF printer backend for CUPS

2004-03-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:35:32PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: Subject says it all. Feel free to ask any clarification question. You might get a better response if you

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: The version for this release is 0.70-rc, and upstream says the next release will be 0.70. The obvious problem is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rc-1 lt 0.70-1 echo yes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ That won't

Re: Need a sponsor to upload Bug#237028

2004-03-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: Subject says it all. Feel free to ask any clarification question. The effort involved in going to the bug report and have a good read isn't likely to be expended if I don't have any interest in the package. You might get a

Re: RFS: Bug#237028 cups-pdf - PDF printer backend for CUPS

2004-03-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:35:32PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: Subject says it all. Feel free to ask any clarification question. You might get a better response if you

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: The version for this release is 0.70-rc, and upstream says the next release will be 0.70. The obvious problem is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rc-1 lt 0.70-1 echo yes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ That won't

Re: reactivate myself

2004-03-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:05:08AM -0500, Brian Russo wrote: At Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:20:14PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: Since you're still in db.debian.org, and not listed as an emeritus or disabled maintainer, I think all you'd have to do is get a new key in the keyring and you'd

Re: reactivate myself

2004-03-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:06:04AM -0500, Brian Russo wrote: Seriously though, Any AM's around? quietly raises hand It's not an AM you've got to convince, though. Front Desk and the keyring maintainer would be the people you'd have to convince that whatever authentication method you were going

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:50:24AM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: I'm unsure on how to apply licensing terms to RULI (GNU GPL) plus this recently created PHP4-binding. Do we have compatibility issues with the PHP license? Since your library is under the GPL, I presume that the PHP4

Re: should main package binary manpage be symlinked to package name?

2004-03-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:29:08PM -0800, Number Six wrote: If the main binary in a package is named x and the package is named x-package, should I ship (a) a manpage x.1 ? (b) a manpage x-package.[1-9]? I'm pretty sure of (a). I think the answer to (b) is no, but I'm not sure? If

Re: reactivate myself

2004-03-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Brian Russo wrote: Looking to reactivate myself, gradually. Can someone point me to the current procedure, Thanks. Since you're still in db.debian.org, and not listed as an emeritus or disabled maintainer, I think all you'd have to do is get a new key

Re: reactivate myself

2004-03-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:05:08AM -0500, Brian Russo wrote: At Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:20:14PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: Since you're still in db.debian.org, and not listed as an emeritus or disabled maintainer, I think all you'd have to do is get a new key in the keyring and you'd

Re: reactivate myself

2004-03-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:06:04AM -0500, Brian Russo wrote: Seriously though, Any AM's around? quietly raises hand It's not an AM you've got to convince, though. Front Desk and the keyring maintainer would be the people you'd have to convince that whatever authentication method you were going

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:50:24AM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: I'm unsure on how to apply licensing terms to RULI (GNU GPL) plus this recently created PHP4-binding. Do we have compatibility issues with the PHP license? Since your library is under the GPL, I presume that the PHP4

Re: should main package binary manpage be symlinked to package name?

2004-03-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:29:08PM -0800, Number Six wrote: If the main binary in a package is named x and the package is named x-package, should I ship (a) a manpage x.1 ? (b) a manpage x-package.[1-9]? I'm pretty sure of (a). I think the answer to (b) is no, but I'm not sure? If

Re: reactivate myself

2004-03-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Brian Russo wrote: Looking to reactivate myself, gradually. Can someone point me to the current procedure, Thanks. Since you're still in db.debian.org, and not listed as an emeritus or disabled maintainer, I think all you'd have to do is get a new key

Re: Where shoud I put my public key?

2004-03-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:37:24PM -0800, Number Six wrote: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-key [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, I did that. Is there a canonical-Debian way to point the world there to verify it? So they'll actually trust the .dsc? Or do I just do that in an out-of-band way

Re: can a non-buildable part remain in source

2004-03-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:38:45AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be built in main but ships a (java bytecode) binary

Re: can a non-buildable part remain in source

2004-03-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:38:45AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be built in main but ships a (java bytecode) binary

Re: looking for a sponsorship in schooling

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:27:39PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: What strikes me as odd is why people think they will get any kind of scholarship (which seems to be the objective) with such a mail. It's like spam. They send an e-mail to anything that vaguely resembles an e-mail address within

Re: can a non-buildable part remain in source

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be built in main but ships a (java bytecode) binary in the tarball. Policy prevents me from adding this to the binary debs, but my understanding of policy is that I

Re: PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:55:21PM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I would need to set up a new MySQL database (I vaguely know I could use wwwconfig, but not

Re: looking for a sponsorship in schooling

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:27:39PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: What strikes me as odd is why people think they will get any kind of scholarship (which seems to be the objective) with such a mail. It's like spam. They send an e-mail to anything that vaguely resembles an e-mail address within

Re: can a non-buildable part remain in source

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be built in main but ships a (java bytecode) binary in the tarball. Policy prevents me from adding this to the binary debs, but my understanding of policy is that I

Re: PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:55:21PM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I would need to set up a new MySQL database (I vaguely know I could use wwwconfig, but not

Re: pdfmerge

2004-03-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
Ben Young wrote: Yeah... but it was said in a quite arrogant manner. Matthew Palmer said things neatly in his first email (which I think everybody understood correctly!), then I didn't quite like the tone of his second one. Just Yeah, the second one was a little over the top. How many

Re: pdfmerge

2004-03-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
Ben Young wrote: Yeah... but it was said in a quite arrogant manner. Matthew Palmer said things neatly in his first email (which I think everybody understood correctly!), then I didn't quite like the tone of his second one. Just Yeah, the second one was a little over the top. How many

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:23:39PM +0800, Didier Casse wrote: On 02/03/04, at 15:31 +0100, Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. As for your another way of doing things: Just because there's not one exclusive right way doesn't mean

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

2004-03-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:33:39AM +0100, Philipp Gortan wrote: The proper place for the script (after doing things right) is ghostscript upstream. Take a look at pdf2ps and try to get your program next to that. There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. ok, so we know the

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

2004-03-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:33:39AM +0100, Philipp Gortan wrote: The proper place for the script (after doing things right) is ghostscript upstream. Take a look at pdf2ps and try to get your program next to that. There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. ok, so we know the

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:25:05PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: The usual description for the RULI package is: RULI stands for Resolver User Layer Interface. It's a library built on top of an asynchronous DNS stub resolver. RULI provides an easy-to-use interface for

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

2004-03-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:39:57PM +0100, Philipp Gortan wrote: Should the perl script be in the i386 architecture, or the any? Have a quick look at some other perl scripts, and see what they've got. And read the Debian Perl Policy, I would imagine it'd have some words of wisdom. - Matt --

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:44:43PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: I do intend to push the library, but I actually don't have a map of Debian applications which use SRV records. I'm planning to contact those applications (i.e. their maintainers) as soon as I find them, but I would like

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:25:05PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: The usual description for the RULI package is: RULI stands for Resolver User Layer Interface. It's a library built on top of an asynchronous DNS stub resolver. RULI provides an easy-to-use interface for

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

2004-03-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:39:57PM +0100, Philipp Gortan wrote: Should the perl script be in the i386 architecture, or the any? Have a quick look at some other perl scripts, and see what they've got. And read the Debian Perl Policy, I would imagine it'd have some words of wisdom. - Matt

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:44:43PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: I do intend to push the library, but I actually don't have a map of Debian applications which use SRV records. I'm planning to contact those applications (i.e. their maintainers) as soon as I find them, but I would like

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-02-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:38:53PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: This is my first Debian package. The bug report for the package is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234303 The tentative package files are here: http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/ruli/

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-02-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:38:53PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: This is my first Debian package. The bug report for the package is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234303 The tentative package files are here: http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/ruli/

Re: ITA with already removed packages

2004-02-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:49:54PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: libming currently has two grave bugs, one of which indicates that it needs source changes to make it work with the current PHP API. Unless you can address all of these (upstream presumed dead and the grave bugs), you should

Re: ITA with already removed packages

2004-02-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:49:54PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: libming currently has two grave bugs, one of which indicates that it needs source changes to make it work with the current PHP API. Unless you can address all of these (upstream presumed dead and the grave bugs), you should

Re: RFS: BinClock - binary clock

2004-02-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 01:35:23PM +0100, Eike zyro Sauer wrote: Matthew Palmer schrieb: I have no particular need for a software binary clock, though, as I've got a breadboard of LEDs doing the job for me. Are you going to package it? ;o) I could put in a jiffy box. - Matt

Re: RFS: BinClock - binary clock

2004-02-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 01:35:23PM +0100, Eike zyro Sauer wrote: Matthew Palmer schrieb: I have no particular need for a software binary clock, though, as I've got a breadboard of LEDs doing the job for me. Are you going to package it? ;o) I could put in a jiffy box. - Matt

Re: RFS: BinClock - binary clock

2004-02-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 01:29:50AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: I think it should be in because its a nice toy and you can practise your math skills and your brain. Not to mention that watching the binary digits tick over can be quite hypnotic. grin I have no particular need for a software binary

Re: RFS: BinClock - binary clock

2004-02-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 01:29:50AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: I think it should be in because its a nice toy and you can practise your math skills and your brain. Not to mention that watching the binary digits tick over can be quite hypnotic. grin I have no particular need for a software binary

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:08:34AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 2) Download tracking, both by count and yes I'll upload this via web browser. I'm still up in the air about whether there will be apt-getable resources, or whether pre-built binary debs

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:23:05AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: It'll probably be more timely and less bandwidth intensive to track -changes... Well, I mostly have Packages/Sources for unstable available. In my book, I prefer parsing those over automatically processing email. Also, it doesn't

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:39:31AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:42:42PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:08:34AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Maybe you could also reuse / build upon rene from the dak suite. (Maybe it's not That's

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:05:08PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: package I sponsor. I want to know if they are not able to send me a package that will build properly. I want to work with them and be Since you only get packages for sponsorship which have built in a clean

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:21:11PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: So, comments, brickbats, acclaim, whatever. Throw it at me. Well I don't think that this system as described would be of any use to me. I want to maintain a close relationship with the people whose A worthy

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:08:34AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 2) Download tracking, both by count and yes I'll upload this via web browser. I'm still up in the air about whether there will be apt-getable resources, or whether pre-built binary debs

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:23:05AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: It'll probably be more timely and less bandwidth intensive to track -changes... Well, I mostly have Packages/Sources for unstable available. In my book, I prefer parsing those over automatically processing email. Also, it

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:39:31AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:42:42PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:08:34AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Maybe you could also reuse / build upon rene from the dak suite. (Maybe it's not That's

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:05:08PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: package I sponsor. I want to know if they are not able to send me a package that will build properly. I want to work with them and be Since you only get packages for sponsorship which have built in a clean

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:45:00AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: The final question I'd like feedback on is this: how many sponsors would consider pointing their sponsees to this service, rather than whatever methods you're using now? The benefits are that other sponsors might

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:22:22AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2004 19.52, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Having a new-maintainer keyring, to which keys could get added by any AM after it has been verified, and checking the

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:21:11PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: So, comments, brickbats, acclaim, whatever. Throw it at me. Well I don't think that this system as described would be of any use to me. I want to maintain a close relationship with the people whose A worthy

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:45:00AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: The final question I'd like feedback on is this: how many sponsors would consider pointing their sponsees to this service, rather than whatever methods you're using now? The benefits are that other sponsors might

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:22:22AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2004 19.52, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Having a new-maintainer keyring, to which keys could get added by any AM after it has been verified, and checking

Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
Prompted by a comment made by one of my potential sponsees, I've been reworking my semi-automated sponsorship queue from a helps me thing to a could help lots of people thing. The comment was along the lines of wouldn't it be cool if we could remove the SPOF of sponsors, and have a group of

Re: applying patches

2004-02-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:04:39PM +0200, Radu Spineanu wrote: I have to apply a small patch to my xmail package, however i ran into different opinions while looking on how to do this. Some suggested dbs, others dpatch, others just applying the patch dirrectly to the source. I

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:11:08PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Prompted by a comment made by one of my potential sponsees, I've been reworking my semi-automated sponsorship queue from a helps me thing to a could help lots of people thing. The comment was along the lines of wouldn't

Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
Prompted by a comment made by one of my potential sponsees, I've been reworking my semi-automated sponsorship queue from a helps me thing to a could help lots of people thing. The comment was along the lines of wouldn't it be cool if we could remove the SPOF of sponsors, and have a group of

Re: applying patches

2004-02-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:04:39PM +0200, Radu Spineanu wrote: I have to apply a small patch to my xmail package, however i ran into different opinions while looking on how to do this. Some suggested dbs, others dpatch, others just applying the patch dirrectly to the source. I

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:11:08PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Prompted by a comment made by one of my potential sponsees, I've been reworking my semi-automated sponsorship queue from a helps me thing to a could help lots of people thing. The comment was along the lines of wouldn't

Re: Initial Questions

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:16:28PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: I want to adopt an orphaned package, but haven't worked with packages yet. Before I go in a completely wrong direction: Is the Debian New Maintainers' Guide (package maint-guide) a good way to start? Yep. Move from there onto the

Re: Initial Questions

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:16:28PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: I want to adopt an orphaned package, but haven't worked with packages yet. Before I go in a completely wrong direction: Is the Debian New Maintainers' Guide (package maint-guide) a good way to start? Yep. Move from there onto the

Re: RFS[4]: popfile -- Email classification tool

2004-02-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:47:00AM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote: Hi! I'm still looking for a sponsor for the popfile[1] package I made. Interesting. Have a look at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html, and if you like, contact me privately and we can discuss sponsorship. - Matt

Re: RFS[4]: popfile -- Email classification tool

2004-02-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:47:00AM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote: Hi! I'm still looking for a sponsor for the popfile[1] package I made. Interesting. Have a look at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html, and if you like, contact me privately and we can discuss sponsorship. - Matt --

Re: cryptoloop-source, anyone taking over?

2004-02-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:19:16AM +0100, Juergen Strobel wrote: The PTS shows cryptoloop-source to be orphaned, with a note that someone is intending to take over. The note is quite old now and references a bugreport which gives no further clues. Have you attempted to contact Vincent Bernat

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