Bug#334246: RFA: xpenguins -- little penguins walk on your windows

2005-10-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051016 17:18]: > I request an adopter for the xpenguins package. [..] > This is a nice package for a prospective maintainer to take. I would like to take it! I love it, especially I like to show it during events via beamer on a big screen ;) However: I

Bug#333224: gnome-terminal-data can't be removed, when gconf2 is allready removed

2005-10-10 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: gnome-terminal-data Version: 2.10.0-2 Severity: normal Hi! While remastering (and therefore shrinking) a chroot for a live system I couldn' remove gnome-terminal-data, since gconftool-2 from the package gconf2 was missing (since I allready removed that): == # LANG=C apt-get re

Bug#333221: xmaxima: Any reason for dependency on maxima-doc

2005-10-10 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: xmaxima Version: 5.9.1-9 Severity: minor Hi! I noticed that xmaxima depends on maxima-doc, and I wonder why. Using xmaxima rarly I don't know it as good as you do; the reason for me to write this bugreport is, that I'm currently mastering a live system which shouldn't use that much spa

Bug#332257: enlightenment: Please add .desktop file, so e16 will be listed in gdm

2005-10-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: enlightenment Version: 1:0.16.7.2-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: Patch Hi! I don't know about other display managers but at least for gdm you need a special .desktop file, so e16 will be listed in the list of available sessions. I attached an example (shameless copied from pwm2), which seem

Bug#331528: ITP: debinstaller -- a graphical frontend for installing local .deb packages

2005-10-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * grayman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051004 23:24]: > > I have to disagree. dpkg can print very complex messages, which most > > users certainly will not understand, even if they can read =P > And what is your point here exactly? Debinstaller is not good enough, > because it dont spit user friendly

Bug#331636: ITP: scorereadingtrainer -- Trainer for reading music notes

2005-10-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Steffen! * Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051004 12:02]: > * Package name: scorereadingtrainer Might be the late hour, but I found that package name uneasy to read. Since upstream is using space seperations on his homepage, wouldn't it be worth to think about naming the package e.g.

Bug#132446: ITP: bashburn -- A simple shell script to burn CDs

2005-09-14 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Carlos Parra Camargo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050914 00:01]: [ bashburn packages ] > No, i make a package but it breaks many thing about the debian policy. > > The package itself it's ok but upstream source do a lot of things in > the system... that aren't "clean". Uhm... I didn't took a d

Bug#325622: Debian destroyed my 30GB Maxtor

2005-08-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hallo Sam! [ In case you don't understand german: Someone believed you might be able to express yourself clearer in german. If that's not the case, you can simply ignore this mail (and perhaps tell us, if it would be simpler, if we use an other language to communicate with you ] * x <[

Bug#323004: startup errors.

2005-08-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Mohammed! * Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050814 00:52]: > $ ppracer [..] > error evalating language-settings file > /usr/local/share/ppracer/translations/languages.tcl : falsecouldn't read file > "/usr/local/share/ppracer/translations/languages.tcl": no such file or > directory > e

Bug#307434: Planet Penguin Racer problems

2005-08-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Laura and Laura's dad! * Laura Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050812 00:18]: > I (David Bruce) am Laura's dad. We are having trouble with > PlanetPenguinRacer (the successor to TuxRacer). Upon starting a course, > the view perspective switches to looking back at the penguin instead of > lookin

Bug#307434: Planet Penguin Racer problems

2005-08-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Laura and Laura's dad! * Laura Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050812 00:18]: > I (David Bruce) am Laura's dad. We are having trouble with > PlanetPenguinRacer (the successor to TuxRacer). Upon starting a course, > the view perspective switches to looking back at the penguin instead of > lookin

Bug#311479: Progress on Nexuiz

2005-06-28 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! So far I didn't made much progress on the Nexuiz packages. Mainly because I'm currently on the road a lot, and Nexuiz doesn't support my iBook. I probaly won't be able to test packages on my i386 at home before the end of DebConf. So, if someone else wants to stepp in feel free to take over

Bug#313492: Fedora's patch

2005-06-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! As promised earlier on -devel, you'll find the patch, the Fedora guys seem to use attached. Wasted quite some time, when trying to reproduce this bug on the wrong OS... Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html --- xscreensav

Bug#313595: ITP: htpdate -- daemon to synchronize the local time via HTTP from a webserver

2005-06-14 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: htpdate Version : 0.8.2 Upstream Author : Eddy Vervest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.clevervest.com/htp/development.html * License : GPL

Bug#311479: ITP: Nexuiz -- 1st person 3d shooter

2005-06-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi René! * René van Bevern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050601 11:23]: > > Well... since the downloadable zip ist with 161MB quite large (140MB > > game date, 4MB sources, some binaries), this might become an inofficla > > package at my private repository, seems to be a bit too big for the > > archive ;)

Bug#311479: ITP: Nexuiz -- 1st person 3d shooter

2005-06-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: Nexuiz Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Nexuiz Team * URL : http://www.nexuiz.com/ * License : GPL Description : High End 1st person 3d shooter (copy past

Bug#310573: ppracer much slower than tuxracer

2005-05-24 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! [ adding the bug and it's submitter to CC, I'm to lazy to send out the nearly same mail twice ;) ] * Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050524 21:44]: > I am running Debian testing which has recently transitioned from tuxracer > to ppracer 0.3.1. > > The game has slowed by at least an order of mag

Bug#188748: zabbix

2005-05-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Michael! * Michael Ablassmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050514 22:48]: > If there are any other people (an already-debian-developer would be nice > to have as im still stuck in the nm queue) are interested in doing so, i > would be happy to create a project on alioth. Sorry, neither I am a debia

Bug#309686: tuxracer in sarge should really be replaced by the transition package to planetpenguin-racer

2005-05-20 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Steve! * Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050519 13:34]: [ tuxracer in sarge ] > I'm going to go ahead and push the tuxracer dummy packages into sarge, since > AIUI this is still your preference as the maintainer. Yes, that was my preference. Thank you very much! Yours sincerely, Alexa

Bug#309686: tuxracer in sarge should really be replaced by the transition package to planetpenguin-racer

2005-05-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050518 22:20]: > Package: tuxracer > Version: 0.61-6.4 > Severity: serious > Tags: sarge > > This might technically not be a RC bug, but for not forgetting it: > > I don't see any reason for shipping sarge with the obsolete > package in sarge instead of the

Bug#188748: zabbix

2005-05-14 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050512 16:18]: > Does anyone know if zabbix will be available on debian via apt-get in > the future ? > www.zabbix.org > > I use it now for over a year and it's really a great program! There has been an ITP (intent to package) to create packages. See http://bu

Bug#281596: small transistation of a dead upstream game before or after sarge?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! I know, we are quite late with this, I know that the "last call for uploads" has been send a couple of days ago and I know, that the auto builders are quite busy these days. That's why I'm quite unsure what to do in this situation. As you might know, the game tuxracer is dead by upstream, al

Bug#281596: ppracer packages in sid

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Oliver M. Bolzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050407 04:35]: > I've tried the ppracer package on AMD64 and they work great. Nice to hear :) > As tuxracer is totally dead upstream and ppracer is in my eyes > the proper successor, I'd like to proceed to get the current tuxracer packages > removed

Bug#302745: planetpenguin-racer from official debian mirrors segfaults on start while package from http://www.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~schmehl/debian/ starts and works fine

2005-04-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050405 18:14]: > planetpenguin-racer from official debian mirrors segfaults on start > while package from http://www.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~schmehl/debian/ > starts and works fine ! Now that you pointed me to it: The i386 Packages indeed seem to

Bug#302745: planetpenguin-racer: Segfaults on start

2005-04-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Brian! * Brian S Enyart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050405 05:30]: > > Interesting... I'll attach one with nearly everything (sound, automatic > > detection of support resolutions) turned off. Cold you try that one > > please? > I didn't see any attachment. Did you send one yet? Sorry, indeed I fo

Bug#302745: planetpenguin-racer: Segfaults on start

2005-04-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Brian S Enyart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050403 04:01]: > > Could you please do the following: > > - Open your ~/.ppracer/options in an editor > Houston, we have a problem. There is no .ppracer directory, > and no options file. I see nothing about how they're supposed > to be created. Oh. In

Bug#302745: planetpenguin-racer: Segfaults on start

2005-04-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Brian! * Brian S Enyart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050402 20:29]: > Startup temporarily takes over the screen, then > looks like this: > > $ ppracer [..] > Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) Could you please do the following: - Open your ~/.ppracer/options in an editor - Nea

Bug#281596: ppracer packages in sid

2005-04-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Oliver, Hi Roland, Just for the record: My ppracer packages gone through NEW and are now available in Debian sid. They seem to work quite well for me (tested on powerpc and i386), but could need some additional testing. And I wonder, what to do now... Yours sincerely, Alexander signatu

Bug#300774: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: /lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/source is a symlink to non-existing directory

2005-03-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc Version: 2.6.8-11 Severity: normal Hi! Just found an broken symlink in the kernel I got installed on my iBook: /lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/source is a (probaly on most systems) broken symlink to /home/luther/debian/build/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8-2.6.8/tmp/ke

Bug#299400: "xpenguins stop" menu entry doesn't stop xpenguins

2005-03-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: xpenguins Version: 2.2-2 Severity: important Hi! I just installed a new Debian sarge system, choosing only the Desktop environment task. After that I installed xpenguins. Although there is a "xpenguins stop" menu entry in gnomes Debian menu, it doesn't work, there are still new penguin

Bug#292899: cron-apt: french manpage is installed in wrong section

2005-02-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050131 10:49]: > > $ dpkg -L cron-apt|grep fr > > /usr/share/man/man8/cron-apt.fr.8.gz > > > > I think that should be: > > /usr/share/man/fr/man8/cron-apt.1.gz > Not /usr/share/man/fr/man1/cron-apt.1.gz ? Well, honestly I should mention, that don't use cron-a

Bug#292899: cron-apt: french manpage is installed in wrong section

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: cron-apt Version: 0.1.1 Severity: minor Hi! The french manpage is installed into the wrong section: $ dpkg -L cron-apt|grep fr /usr/share/man/man8/cron-apt.fr.8.gz I think that should be: /usr/share/man/fr/man8/cron-apt.1.gz Your sincerely, Alexander -- System Information: Debia

Bug#292375: debroster: Please make it runnable on machines without X at all

2005-01-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: debroster Version: 1.11 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi Matthew! I think it would be nice if you could run debroster on a simple text console, for example on the not so fast Alpha we are having here to show Debian on an other architecure. This could be archived by a if [ -z "$DISPLAY

Bug#292362: debroster doesn't show non iso-8859-1 names of maintainers correct

2005-01-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: debroster Version: 1.11 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi Matthew! The names of maintainers with non iso-8859-1 characters in their names (for example "Noèl Köthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" are not displayed properly. The attached patch fixes this simply but calling Eterm / xterm with utf-8 in

Bug#200923: Status of this bug?

2005-01-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! What is the status of this bug? I just stumbled over it and was about to report it, when I saw, that it has allready been reported nearly 1 2/3 years ago. IMHO this find doesn't makes any sense, and I wonder why after your fist comment nothing happend. Can't you just remove this find or mar

Bug#291796: ITP: planetpenguin-racer -- another 3D racing game featuring Tux, the Linux penguin

2005-01-25 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050124 13:37]: [ ITP of a new tuxracer ] > > It is based on the GPL version of TuxRacer. [..] > > Oliver, as the current maintainer of tuxracer. Would you like to > > comment an my intentions? Any hints or usefull suggestions? > If this is a fork and tuxr

Bug#291796: ITP: planetpenguin-racer -- another 3D racing game featuring Tux, the Linux penguin

2005-01-23 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: planetpenguin-racer Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : planetpenguin.de Crew / Volker Stroebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://projects.planetpenguin.de/racer/ * License : GPL Description : another 3D rac

Bug#291682: Please add size of sources to www.debian.org/mirror/size

2005-01-22 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi! Could you please add the size of all sources to www.debian.org/mirror/size ? Currently it just states the overall size, and the size of the different architectures. I just learned via trial and error, that the partition I wanted to use was to smal

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