Re: Bug#449097: Bits from the ftp team

2008-05-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 30 May 2008, Josip Rodin wrote: > They live in the same namespace *in the BTS*. They don't live in the > same namespace in dak, the Packages files, or the users' systems > (except by way of reportbug(1), which is an interface to the BTS). We just have to be careful that we never allow a ps

Re: Bits from the ftp team

2008-05-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11401 March 1977, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Some time after this mail we will give a few tasks to those who >> volunteer to test their ability and then (maybe) have a few new members >> in our team in the not too distant future. > I would suggest that developing a patch for > http://bugs.debian

Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

2008-05-30 Thread Stephen Powell
Since my initial post I have done some research on the subject of mouse support in the Linux kernel. I can see now why my suggestion was met with such strong opposition: it goes counter to the direction the kernel has been going since 2.5. With such a sweeping redesign of mouse support since 2.4,

Re: Bits from the ftp team

2008-05-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 30 May 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Some time after this mail we will give a few tasks to those who > volunteer to test their ability and then (maybe) have a few new members > in our team in the not too distant future. I would suggest that developing a patch for http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-

Re: Bits from the ftp team

2008-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:03:15AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > On 2008-05-30 10:32:00.00 Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - We added some new and long-awaited pseudo packages. > > >Speaking of which, can you please also do the right thing and give > >the Debian pseudo-packages li

Bug#483721: ITP: qcontrol -- hardware control for QNAP TS-109 and TS-209

2008-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qcontrol Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Byron Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://qnap.nas-central.org/index.php/PIC_Control_Software * License : GPL Programming L

Bug#483719: ITP: python-scikits-openopt -- Python module for numerical optimization

2008-05-30 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-scikits-openopt Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : Dmitrey Kroshko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthieu Brucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-05-30 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, Interesting matter ! Multiarch :-) I have experienced the same treatment from binutils maintainer, he did not answer to my mails or bug reports (393841,432772). Tired of this and as it is an upstream matter i sent a patch upstream and it got accepted. For my surprise, it is very close to 3

Bug#483717: ITP: pkcs11-data -- Manage PKCS#11 data objects

2008-05-30 Thread Max Vozeler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Max Vozeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pkcs11-data Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://alon.barlev.googlepages.com/pkcs11-utilities * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang:

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-30 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri May 30 2008 10:20:51 Russ Allbery wrote: > Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > All packages on live servers and workstations are installed with "dpkg > > -i" to ensure we're using a tested combination. We could manually copy > > the package lists or "apt-get install foo=x.y.z" but "dp

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ssh test-box > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > tests > ssh live-server > apt-get update > ... sometimes gets a slightly different package list Oh, yes. That's certainly true. > The only time we use apt-get is as a convenience when testing differen

ITP: libarchive-any-perl -- Perl module to deal with file archives in any format

2008-05-30 Thread Ernesto Hernandez-Novich
Package: wnpp * Package name: libarchive-any-perl Version: 0.0932 Upstream Author: Clint Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Archive-Any/ * License: GPl/Artistic Description: The Archive::Any module allows a Perl program to create, manipulate, read, and write differe

Bug#483685: ITP: pkcs11-dump -- Dump PKCS#11 token content

2008-05-30 Thread Max Vozeler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Max Vozeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pkcs11-dump Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://alon.barlev.googlepages.com/pkcs11-utilities * License : BSD-3, BSD-like for PKCS#

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-30 Thread Wolf Wiegand
Hi, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Wolf Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maybe it should be mandatory to always have a transition package for > > packages which are being removed from the archives? For example, when > > package X_0.1 is to be removed from the archive, there has to be a >

Bug#483661: ITP: r-cran-amelia -- R package for handling missing data

2008-05-30 Thread Chris Lawrence
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: r-cran-amelia Version : 1.1-29 Upstream Author : James Honaker, Gary King, Matthew Blackwell * URL : http://gking.harvard.edu/amelia/ * License : GPLv2 or later Programm

Bug#483656: ITP: libsub-identify-perl -- Retrieve names of code references

2008-05-30 Thread eloy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyżaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsub-identify-perl Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Rafael Garcia-Suarez (rgarciasuarez at gmail dot com) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-Identify/ * Lice

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 29 May 2008 at 11:56:37 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Simon McVittie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However, the "no rule to make tmpl/*.sgml" issue still exists, as a > > relic of the old build process. [...] > Sounds to me like the first thing to try would be to just regenerate all > of t

Re: Bits from the ftp team

2008-05-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
On 2008-05-30 10:32:00.00 Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - We added some new and long-awaited pseudo packages. Speaking of which, can you please also do the right thing and give the Debian pseudo-packages list to the BTS admins, where this really belongs, so that this too can stop

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Wolf Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> For some time now, I have been thinking about the problem of packages >> which are removed from the archive at some point, without an (enforced) >> transition to a new package name. Users of such packages keep them >> aroun

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 11:56 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Simon McVittie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here's how gtk-doc *used to* work: > > > > * gtk-doc parses source code and writes out skeletal tmpl/*.sgml > > * svn ci -m 'initial version of gtkdoc templates' tmpl > > * upstream doc author

Re: Bits from the ftp team

2008-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:08:42AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > - Britney, *the* central tool of the release team to manage the testing >distribution, finally lives with the release team[9], where it belongs >to, and is no longer run by us. It's very good to see such decentralization. Do

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:17:44PM +0200, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > James Vega wrote: > > As of version 0.4.11, this does happen. From the NEWS file: > > * Command-line updates in aptitude will now list packages that are > > newly obsolete. This doesn't work when a