Re: Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

2008-12-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > xipmsg is there for IP Messenger. Is "IP Messenger" a special protocol? I dont really see "IP"(as in Internet Protocol?) beeing a very aproperiate label. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Can we help the release by proposing package removals?

2008-12-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Charles Plessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Would it help the release team if people who want to help would file properly > argumented requests of removal for such packages? This would clear the RC > radar > and focus energy on the packages without which Debian can not consider > releasing. I

NEW processing

2008-12-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, Is the NEW queue going to get processed any time soon? There's a load of packages that are 3 weeks or more old. Thanks, -S signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Women in Open Source at SCALE 7x

2008-12-02 Thread Gareth J. Greenaway
The Linux Expo of Southern California is proud to announce their second Women in Open Source Conference. The conference will be held on February 20th, 2009 in conjunction with the 7th Annual So Cal Linux Expo. The SCALE 7X Women In Open Source conference continues last year's work in encouragin

Re: Can we help the release by proposing package removals?

2008-12-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (03/12/2008): > [blablabla for the actual question:] > Subject: Re: Can we help the release by proposing package removals? Look at debian-release@, that's already being done. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

2008-12-02 Thread LI Daobing (李道兵)
Hello, On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:43 AM, LI Daobing (李道兵) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> maybe, I did not use Bonjour. >> >> and the windows version of IP Messenger (also called "飞鸽传书" in >> Chinese) is already widely used (a

Can we help the release by proposing package removals?

2008-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, prompted by weekly news, I had a look at the RC bug page. I think that one limitation of the RC concept is that it does not distinguish: - the packages that would not be part of the release if it were to be done today, - the pacakges without which Debian will not release. Let's see fo

Re: Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

2008-12-02 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:43 AM, LI Daobing (李道兵) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maybe, I did not use Bonjour. > > and the windows version of IP Messenger (also called "飞鸽传书" in > Chinese) is already widely used (at least in China), so I want to > introduce the linux client to Debian. xipmsg is there

Re: Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

2008-12-02 Thread LI Daobing (李道兵)
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:28:22AM +0800, LI Daobing (李道兵) wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > But still: How does this relate to IM, or to older protocols like "talk"? >>

Re: Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

2008-12-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:28:22AM +0800, LI Daobing (李道兵) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But still: How does this relate to IM, or to older protocols like "talk"? > > (The Google Translation of the URL doesn't make much sense.) > > > 1. it has

Bug#507622: ITP: rpy2 -- Python interface to the GNU R language, version 2

2008-12-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: rpy2 Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Laurent Gautier * URL or Web page : http://rpy.sf.net * License : LPGL Description : Python interface to the GNU R language, version 2

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Raphael Geissert
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [...] > Except that debtags are right now for binary packages, whereas > copyright is for source packages. Err, not quite right: Policy 4.5: > Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and > distribution license in the file */usr/share/doc/pac

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Raphael Geissert
Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/12/2 Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Would something like apt-listbugs work? I know it doesnt address the >> offline issue, but seems to fit as a concept for the rest of the >> problem. > > Yep, that should be enough, as long as there is a way (with some > possible

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Miriam Ruiz dijo [Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:51:04PM +0100]: > > The solution to your problem already exists (actually, it has been > > *designed* for that): http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat > > , it "just" needs someone with the energy of finalizing the proposal > > (most likely via a

Re: Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008

2008-12-02 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-12-02 23:10]: > As there is no security support for backports I do not feel comfortable > adding this (the changes to the website were made by me and the article > for DPN was submitted by me). How come you think so? http://lists.backports.org/lurker-bpo/li

Re: Why acroread is popular (Was: Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main)

2008-12-02 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar, 2008-12-02 at 16:33 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > There's also epdfview, described as "in the lines of Evince but > without > using the GNOME libraries". > > It uses Poppler, but otherwise I have no idea how it compares to > Evince. It's really nice and light, but not as feature-rich

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/12/2 Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Would something like apt-listbugs work? I know it doesnt address the > offline issue, but seems to fit as a concept for the rest of the > problem. Yep, that should be enough, as long as there is a way (with some possible development in the future) for a

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:36:15 +0100 "Miriam Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/2 Drake Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Quoth Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2008-12-02 21:51:04 +0100: > >> Well, not exactly, you cannot easily see the copyright file before > >> installing the package, can

Re: Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008

2008-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
Holger Levsen wrote: > This (some hw works during installation but not later) can be easily > solved: by installing 2.6.26 from backports.org :-) > > Can someone please add this info to "Limitations:" section on > http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/etchnhalf ?! As there is no security support fo

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/12/2 Drake Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoth Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2008-12-02 21:51:04 +0100: >> Well, not exactly, you cannot easily see the copyright file before >> installing the package, can you? > > p.d.o appears to permit viewing copyright files of packages currently > in

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Drake Wilson
Quoth Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2008-12-02 21:51:04 +0100: > Well, not exactly, you cannot easily see the copyright file before > installing the package, can you? p.d.o appears to permit viewing copyright files of packages currently in the archive. As an example: http://packages.deb

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:51:04PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/12/2 Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [ M-F-T set to -devel ] > > > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:30:54PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > >> We should somehow tag those conflictive licenses with debtags, so that > >> users ca

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/12/2 Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [ M-F-T set to -devel ] > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:30:54PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: >> We should somehow tag those conflictive licenses with debtags, so that >> users can filter out the ones they don't wont easily. I don't object > > Except t

volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ M-F-T set to -devel ] On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:30:54PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > We should somehow tag those conflictive licenses with debtags, so that > users can filter out the ones they don't wont easily. I don't object Except that debtags are right now for binary packages, whereas copyr

Re: Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008

2008-12-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 02 December 2008 17:21, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > used. However, the kernel used for the installed system remains > unchanged at version 2.6.24. In some cases this can mean that hardware > which is supported during the installation does not work after the > reboot into the

Re: Why acroread is popular (Was: Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main)

2008-12-02 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: >> ..because I do not use GNOME and KDE and it does not suck several >> 100 MByte of useless GNOME and KDE libs! > 'evince-gtk' package pulls much less dependencies, I am using it with XFCE. Since 2.24 (which is in experimental) the evinc

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Bjørn Mork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We've discussed this at the Security Team meeting in Essen and we don't >> have a problem with qmail being included in Lenny. > You are aware of upstream's attitude towards security holes? There are > lots

Re: cdebconf, and a versioned dependency on debconf

2008-12-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:43:30AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Now, as of version 3.005, ucf started using a feaure that has > > long been a part of cdebconf, but was only ported to debconf in version > > 1.5.19, so now ucf

Bug#507575: ITP: gksu-polkit -- run X-based applications as root

2008-12-02 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gksu-polkit Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://live.gnome.org/gksu * License : GPLv3/LGPLv3 Programming L

Re: Why acroread is popular (Was: Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main)

2008-12-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 17:15 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > ..because I do not use GNOME and KDE and it does not suck several > > 100 MByte of useless GNOME and KDE libs! > 'evince-gtk' package pulls much less dependencies, I am using it with XFCE. There's al

Why acroread is popular (Was: Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main)

2008-12-02 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Michelle Konzack wrote: > ..because I do not use GNOME and KDE and it does not suck several > 100 MByte of useless GNOME and KDE libs! 'evince-gtk' package pulls much less dependencies, I am using it with XFCE. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainia

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-12-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-11-30 20:59:31, schrieb Gunnar Wolf: > Does anybody > know why on Earth is Acroread popular? Why isn't a PDF regularly > handled in a saner way with Evince (or kde-based lookalike) in some > distributions? ..because I do not use GNOME and KDE and it does not suck several 100 MByte o

Re: Free solutions for PDF annotations/shared reviews

2008-12-02 Thread Armin Berres
On Tue, 02 Dec 08 12:49, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > Anyway, I'm probably hugely off topic now. If anyone has experience with > > Free software and PDF annotations I'd love to hear about it, otherwise > > I'll try to

Re: cdebconf, and a versioned dependency on debconf

2008-12-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Now, as of version 3.005, ucf started using a feaure that has > long been a part of cdebconf, but was only ported to debconf in version > 1.5.19, so now ucf started depending on: >debconf (>= 1.5.19) | cdebconf > and this is where trou

Re: Free solutions for PDF annotations/shared reviews

2008-12-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan McDowell wrote: > Anyway, I'm probably hugely off topic now. If anyone has experience with > Free software and PDF annotations I'd love to hear about it, otherwise > I'll try to find some time to build up the SoC work and see what > happens.

Bug#507548: ITP: libtest-needsdisplay-perl -- Ensure that tests needing a display have one

2008-12-02 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtest-needsdisplay-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-NeedsDisplay/ * License : same as Perl

Re: Bug#457318: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-12-02 Thread Bjørn Mork
Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I'm quite surprised how the inclusion of qmail and related packages > into sid is handled, or rather not handled, by the ftpmasters. I downloaded the netqmail source from http://dbn.smarden.org/sid/ and looked briefly at it, to see if most of the well

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-12-02 Thread Bjørn Mork
Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We've discussed this at the Security Team meeting in Essen and we don't > have a problem with qmail being included in Lenny. You are aware of upstream's attitude towards security holes? There are lots of assumptions like "nobody will ever do ...".

Re: Free solutions for PDF annotations/shared reviews

2008-12-02 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:14:02AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:19:42PM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > That wasn't the point I was trying to make; I was asking a genuine > > question about the status of evince (and would have been delighted > > to have been pointed

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-12-02 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bernd Eckenfels: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> Personally, I'm more concerned about manual constant propagation in >> some parts of the code base (like using the integer literal 4 for the >> size of an IPv4 address), and similar coding style issues. But this >> is certainly not