John:
Thanks for your notice. Few even remember the debram
package any longer. I don't recall the last time
someone emailed me about it!
Most of what used to be the debram package is obsolete,
except that there is a data file in debram-data I
believe some still find useful. The existing
debram
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 09:55:52AM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Stéphane Glondu
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org,
> debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name: ocaml-magic-mime
> Version : 1.2.0
> Upstream Au
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 01:54:20PM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: Joost van Baal-Ilić
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: merecat
> Upstream Author : Joachim Wiberg
> * URL : https://troglobit.com/projects/merecat/
> * License : BSD 2-cl
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 09:34:36PM +0100, Pierre Gruet wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Pierre Gruet
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name: geners
> Version : 1.12.0
> Upstream Author : Igor Volobouev
> * URL : https://gen
Usually not available for immediate reply, I was online when your
email arrived.
On Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 09:09:17AM -0700, Mac Lee wrote:
> I haven't gotten a sponsor yet. Could you be my sponsor?
I would be glad.
I'll have to review your package when it's ready. A package that works
on your ow
On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 02:04:40PM +, Dave Jones wrote:
> * Package name: lg-gpio
[...]
> A request for sponsorship is (possibly prematurely!) open in #990280.
Have you got your sponsor?
I would make a nonideal sponsor, not least because Python happens to
lie mostly outside my domain. Ho
is could be interesting.
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 11:42:32AM -0700, Mac Lee wrote:
> * Package name: dedalus
> [...]
> I plan to maintain
> the package as part of the Python team and I am looking for a sponsor
> since this is my very first Debian package.
The project looks interesting. Have you got a sponsor yet?
si
> This sentence was copy/pasted from http://mumax.github.io/. I haven't really
> started working on the package yet, nor am I a regular user.
I see.
> I guess you should ask upstream rather than me, I'm just a poor packager in
> this case :-)
Thanks.
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That's a neat project.
The README.md says:
> if you don't have git:
>
> * seriously, no git?
The question is not whether one does not have git, but whether one does
not have CUDA, unfortunately.
> The Design and Verification of mumax3:
>
> http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/4/1
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 09:05:34AM +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> Diederik de Haas wrote:
> > But then the question becomes: what is the authoritative version?
>
> Was the Social Contract approved by a General Resolution?
>
> If so, then the authoritative version is the text that appeared in th
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Thaddeus H. Black"
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* Package name: mirrorrib
Version : 0.14.4
Upstream Author : Thaddeus H. Black
* URL : https://www.derivations.org/mirrorrib/
* License
Package: installation-reports
Followup-For: Bug #887139
Dear Maintainer,
Paul Gevers has asked subscribers to debian-devel-announce to try out
the debian-installer, so I tried it.
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: netinst.iso on a USB flash drive
Image version:
https://cdimage.debian.org/
> I need sponsor.
Have you got your sponsor?
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It looks interesting. Unfortunately, the description is somewhat hard
to understand.
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 03:03:51AM +0100, Roman Ondráček wrote:
> This library allows you to create models directly in C++ language using
> simulation abstractions and tools from the library.
> SIMLIB allows obje
Good notice. I believe that you are right. I don't suppose that this bug is
important enough to bother the release managers about, since the package in
question is used by almost no one, but if not before the release this bug
should be addressed after.
Thank you for the notice. I appreciate it. I
Thank you for the reminder. Poppler is always changing, isn't it?
NMUs are always okay with me, but I assume that you have better things to
do than to NMU an obscure package like my derivations. When I have some
time, I will look into the matter.
I need to update the package to the upstream versi
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Hopefully, this should be the last email Colin Darie receives
regarding this bug report. Future emails should go only
to Thaddeus H. Black.
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Hopefully, this should be the last email Colin Darie receives
regarding this bug report. Future emails should go only
to Thaddeus H. Black.
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This message is to Tim Rühsen, upstream developer of Wget,
and Noël Köthe, maintainer of Wget's Debian package.
Summary: Tim recommends that I convert my code for wget2.
Meanwhile, I can locally work around this bug. Only the
arrival of wget2 is likely to close the bu
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 09:22:19AM +0100, Noël Köthe wrote:
> My strong advise is to contact the upstream mailinglist were you will
> get the best feedback regarding patches and hints for integration.
> The upstream maintainer switched since 2010 and other developer are
> very active on the mailing
Summary: I am working on a patch which will be hundreds of
lines long. I have not yet mentioned the patch upstream.
Upstream has already heard of this bug from others.
Details follow.
A similar bug has been reported upstream as early as 2010, by
one Peng Yu. In response, upstream developer Gius
Update: bug #847216 [1] is slowing me down. I do not need a
fix for that other bug uploaded before I can proceed, but I do
at least probably need to fix that bug on my own PC.
Therefore, I am off hacking that other source.
1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847216
signatu
Package: wget
Version: 1.18-4
Severity: wishlist
Would you answer just one question today: which of these do
you prefer?
* XML
* JSON
* RFC 3986/3987 (URI percent notation)
* Some other style
I ask because I am working on a patch to let the
user --convert-links separately, without downlo
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Thanks for your work on this package, Colin. It does not look
as though any other competent person were stepping forward to
maintain the package, so I will adopt it.
si
Colin Darie writes:
> I'm not interested and I can't maintain this package anymore.
> It hasn't been updated since 2011 and needs a serious refresh :
Okay. In the unlikely event that a third competent person
wishes to adopt this package, my own time is limited, so I'd
happily yield. However, in
For information, Debian bug #837535 [1] (closed and archived)
and upstream Exim.org bug #1885 [2] (closed and tagged wontfix)
probably turn out to be instances of the Debian bug whose log
you are reading, #244724 [3].
1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837535
2: https://b
I'd like to start working toward an NMU to fix this bug, since
you seem too busy to respond at the moment. The patch would
consist mostly of a large amount of data, so the patch would be
too big to post here, but maybe I can post it elsewhere and
link from here to it; or maybe I'll find another wa
> I would appreciate if you would report this upstream. We might apply
> this patch in Debian without an exim release if upstream accepts it as
> well.
Done. [1]
[1] https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1885
Stand by. Do not act on this bug yet. I had believed that the
heisenbounces had stopped, but now I *seem* to notice another
heisenbounce.
I will investigate. This may take some time. If it develops that the
bug report is not useful, I will close it (unless you yourself have
already done so).
Than
> Full details are discussed here
> [http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/308283/18202], where a user named
> Rui F. Ribeiro cleverly discovers the fix.
The bug server's web archived does not seem to like the way I
have formatted that URL. This may work better: [1].
[1] http://unix.stackexchange.
Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.84.2-1
I doubt that this bug, which affects only some users, will be
your most urgent bug to fix. However, the fix is subtle.
Since I can now describe the fix (though I have not attached a
patch), I report the fix here. The fix can be implemented and
packaged whe
Package: w3-recs
Version: 20110107-1
Please incorporate new and revised documents from upstream.
Stefano once included a helper script in the source package to
do this, did he not?
The latest update to the package is over five years old.
That's all right -- it's no blame to you -- but W3 documen
The man-page draft should have gone in man section 7, for no
command firefox-shortcuts(1) exists.
Once you have approved the general approach and instructed me
to proceed, I'll move the page to the right section.
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looks okay, then let
me know; I would finish it. Alternately, if you prefer a
different approach, please advise.
The man page is to aid offline Firefox users, including users
who are browsing "file:///" URLs.
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Package: wnpp
Version: 0
Severity: normal
Regrettably, I seem to have become a barrier to the
timely maintenance of debmirror. For the other two
packages I maintain, this would be less important,
because few use those packages and because I doubt that
anyone else would adopt them. Those other pack
Package: debmirror
Version: 1:2.18+nmu1
Severity: normal
Regrettably, I seem to have become a barrier to the
timely maintenance of debmirror. For the other two
packages I maintain, this would be less important,
because few use those packages and because I doubt that
anyone else would adopt them. T
Sorry, friends. Obviously too busy, I am not keeping up with Debmirror
work at the moment. You have my blessing to help, to upload, to
hijack, as you think best. I regret having impeded your work in the
meantime.
I do not even have an up-to-date sid installation at the moment
against which to comp
; Hi,
>
> The latest changelog entry of debram has an illegal date format which
> causes dpkg-parsechangelog to choke (and thus the package to FTBFS).
>
> -- Thaddeus H. Black Fri, 26 June 2015 00:00:00 +
>
>
> Polic
Thank you for your bug report. I am unfortunately so busy, I cannot
respond to your report at the moment. In fact, I do not even have an
up-to-date sid installation at the moment against which to compile.
This is of course my fault, not yours.
If you have Debian upload privileges, would you fix th
Daniel:
Interesting bug report. I had not known that an extra
newline was needed there; but now that you point it
out, I see that the extra newline is standard in other
packages, and even in my own other packages. I'll add
the newline and upload again. Thanks.
I would explain why the newline w
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Yes, this does seem to be a bug.
To fix this bug right wants some refactoring. Let us
take this in stages.
Version 2.18 of debmirror (which I mean to upload as
adopting new maintainer) partly refactors the relevant
code. We'll let the partly refactored 2.18 stay in
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Adopting maintenance of debmirror, I wish to
acknowledge this bug. As Joey Hess observes in
[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625696#10],
rsync is necessary to enumerate the file list.
Notwithstanding, A Mennucc is probably right that the
rsync soluti
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Hello, Max. Hello, Steve. My name is Thaddeus Black.
I am adopting maintenance of Debian's package debmirror
in place of the late Frans Pop and the retired
Joey Hess.
During 2012, Max reported bug 619361 against debmirror:
> The fix for #619146 "Sho
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Hello, Philippe. My name is Thaddeus Black. I am
adopting maintenance of Debian's package debmirror in
place of the late Frans Pop and the retired Joey Hess.
During 2010, you reported bug 581013 against debmirror:
> debmirror ignore the section 'debian-i
For reference, the bug report (with patch)
to which I referred yesterday was #787760.
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A new maintainer of mature software like debmirror never knows which
line of the existing code, a line that *looks* inelegant or pointless,
might actually fix some obscure bug from seven years ago for a guy
who (say) uses debmirror over AX.25 in Nepal. One has to be careful
about that.
For this a
That is, if you wish to help, let me know at t...@debian.org.
(E-mail to that other address won't reach me.)
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I am hardly the ideal maintainer for this package. Nevertheless,
* I have used the package for years;
* the package is implemented in Perl, a language with which
I am familiar and which I often use;
* I have recently spent some hours to learn a little about
the package's software in
Package: debmirror
Version: 1:2.17
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Debmirror can download via ftp://, http://, https:// or rsync://, but
not via file://. That is, a command like this does not work:
debmirror --dist=stable --arch=amd64 --method=file\
--root=$SOURCE_DIRECTORY --no-check-gpg
Have you solved or worked around your Debian Bug#688828:
xserver-xorg-video-radeon: brightness controls don't work?
If so, how, please? I have precisely the same problem you have, and can
confirm similar symptoms in detail, including the unresponsiveness in
/sys/class/backlight. My machine is no
Hello Pino. Thank you for the patches. I am ill situated to process your
patches at the moment, but will be pleased to do so later. Alternately,
feel free to incorporate the patches yourself and to upload NMU at your
convenience: you need not wait for me.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Pino
Long ago, you submitted a patch to the Debian package
Debram, on which I never acted. I have had plans to
update this package, but the task gets harder and harder
and I have less and less time. I should no longer
maintain this package.
You can take over maintenance of the package if you
wish. Y
ill be the
last adjustment to the kludge. After the stable release, when time
permits, I'll probably reform the entire build procedure, but for now
the patches, and NMU if appropriate, are welcomed with thanks.]
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>
> I've prepared an NMU for debram (versioned as 1.0.3-0.2) and
> uploaded it to DELAYED/0. Please feel free to tell me if I
> should delay it longer.
>
You needn't delay. Accept my thanks, rather.
Thank you for the report, to which regrettably I cannot immediately attend.
Though no one but me is responsible to fix this bug, did someone (not
necessarily you) wish to NMU, I would not object but would thank him for it.
Incidentally, it is acknowledged that this package has outdated data. A
f
>
> I would like to close this in wheezy, so I'll NMU/5 within today or
> tomorrow.
>
Thank you, Pino. Besides your helpful NMU, which I appreciate, you are
also most diplomatic.
Incidentally, in the unlikely event that someone competent NMUs this
bug, would he, before uploading, try the build on stable lenny as well
as on sid? There is no good reason that the unmodified source should
not build its own backport.
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reopen 566340
severity 566340 minor
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Michael Bienia reports an outdated TeX-related build-dependency in my
package 'derivations'. I thank him. The latest upload treats the bug
and closes the report.
However, Frank Kuester, who knows rather more about TeX packaging than I
do, further suspect
final r0 etch release. He might wish me to send
these to him.
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o, we mathematics fans will patiently have to keep
using Abramowitz & Stegun for the time being. I do mean
to package nist-dlmf when it finally does appear.
Watch this space for further news.
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using Abramowitz & Stegun for the time being. I do mean
to package nist-dlmf when it finally does appear.
Watch this space for further news.
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d message from "Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: nist-dlmf
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Thaddeus H. Black:
>
> > * License : U.S. government issue, uncopyrighted (refer to
> > Abramowitz & Stegun, page II)
>
> Hum? The NIST web pages claim copyright AFAICT. And U.S. copyright
> only prevent the governmen
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* URL : http://dlmf.nist.gov/
*
ks for the report.
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more months. If neither
you nor anyone else adds anything new in that time, I
should close the report then.
Debram users or others reading this log are asked to add
more information in the matter, if they have any.
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+
ersity library." This strikes me as not a bad
idea.
Please proceed with your debram work as time permits.
The development aid is appreciated. (The reward for
good word is usually *more work.* Keep this up, and
Anoop and I are likely to give you a pile of new
packages to ramify.)
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preassigned by a
human (usually me). The assignment is in /usr/share/debram-data/.
Note: The etch freeze is now in its early stages but is underway,
which for complex intra-Debian Project reasons limits what you and I
can now do to debram for etch. Debram is an odd package: it gives
metadata *on* p
ou repeatedly autobuild all arch-independent Debian
packages from source? If so, good work; I am glad that you have caught
this bug.
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gt; APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
>
> Versions of packages debram depends on:
> ii debram-data 0.6.5a debram's
> architecture-independent
> ii libc62.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
>
> debram recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
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ot;, which Debian users of your
software normally would already know; but "SGL" is no
standard Debian acronym.
If "SGL" stands for "Silicon Graphics" something, then
also consider moving the binary and associated -dev to
Section: contrib.
Thank you for packaging ALPS.
-
ovide more information as requested in a
timely fashion, then please close the report. I am not
ignoring your report, but I cannot fix a bug I don't
understand and can't see. Thanks.
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ebram-data/debram.txt.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21693 Feb 20 22:27 maint.txt.gz
which is not what is listed above and which suffers no recursive
symlinks. Surely there are multiple levels of symlinks, but not more
than four levels, I think; and certainly not more than the kernel and
the standard too
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Good report. Thank you. I have swapped the p and q in
the development source per your suggestion.
I am not sure exactly when the next upload will come,
but when it does it will include your fix, with proper
credit to you in the changelog.
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On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 10:05:08AM +0200, Ren?? van Bevern wrote:
> "Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hello Thaddeus,
>
> > Given wyrd, console-only users can install and use
> > remind normally, can't they? Tk8.4 Depends on libx11-
I forgot to note the remind package version number in
the pseudo-header. Here it is:
Package: remind
Version: 03.00.24-2
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u for maintaining remind.
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diff -ruN remind-03.00.24.orig/debian/changelog remind-03.00.24/debian/changelog
--- remind-03.00.24.orig/debian/changelog 2006-0
eds) would be a plus. I will spend the time needed to
mentor the right volunteer.
Reply to me off-list (or on the BTS, but not on
debian-mentors) if interested.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Thaddeus H. Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: derivations
Version : 0.2.20051110
Upstream Author : Thaddeus H. Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://home.ntelos.net/~b-tk/derivations/
* License
; or "what
about bible-kjv?" but please don't say that; it wouldn't
be right. Out of respect and tolerance for the minority
of users who love Debian but feel differently about
moral issues than you might, please fix this, along with
any related problems you know of in the man page a
t simpler
>than the one in 1.x while being much more powerful. We thus
>encourage you to adapt your source code to it as this should not
>involve much work.
If libttf2 is obsolete, then shouldn't libttf-dev have Priority "extra"?
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for mxml.
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diff -ruN mxml-2.2-1/debian/changelog mxml-2.2-1.1/debian/changelog
--- mxml-2.2-1/debian/changelog Thu Jun 16 14:25:43 2005
+++ mxml-2.2-1.1/debian/chan
It looks interesting.
> libnoise is a portable C++ library that is used to generate coherent noise,
> a type of smoothly-changing noise.
Is "coherent noise" another name for "bandlimited noise", or is it
something else?
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ce is preferred,
then let this be further layered *atop aptitude*.
Dselect as an alternative to aptitude should probably be
deprecated by us.
If anyone should pursue this RFH further, my well wishes
go with him. Good luck.
Signing off.
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hard's patch is found at
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg01021.html].)
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Status update. Scott has perhaps been
skeptical---properly so---of my commitment to dselect
development. He does not know me, after all, and I have
contributed no patches as yet. However, matters proceed
according to plan. At present, I am very slowly reading
my way through the latest experimen
Good idea.
> Different from most other cooperation tools is the novel possibility of
> self-organisation and self-administration by the members within the virtual
> environment.
Can server and client both be installed with minimal dependencies? For
example, without xlibs?
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Good idea.
> * Package name: autoreply
> Version : 1.2
> Upstream Author : Giles Lean
> * URL : http://www.nemeton.com.au/sw/autoreply/
> * License : BSD
> Description : A safe, rate-limited autoresponder
>
> Autoreply is a simple autoresponder useful f
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