Re: ITP: bzr-plugin-webserve -- web interface for bazaar-ng

2006-09-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: Arnaud Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: bzr-plugin-webserve > Version : web interface for bazaar-ng > Upstream Author : Goffredo Baroncelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL

Re: Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 02:11, Charles Plessy wrote: > > It is really unfortunate that the regulation of moderation is hidden > > under a "privacy" menu in Mailman. Maybe the most straightforward mean > > to slove this in the future would be to make the

Re: Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Unfortunately, I haven't seen much support for my position yet - most > responses are in the line of "if you don't want to be flamed, don't set > the mailinglist to moderated". I remain at "flaming your fellows never > helps the project, making requests

Re: Why not only support Sid and Testing?

2006-09-11 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 07:08, Joseph Smidt wrote: > I know I am in for an argument, but I think it is a good > question. I'm sure many of you have read Mark's blog: > http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/56. It says 76% of Debian > users run unstable and probably a fair fraction o

Re: Why not only support Sid and Testing?

2006-09-11 Thread Joey Hess
Joseph Smidt wrote: > I know I am in for an argument, but I think it is a good > question. I'm sure many of you have read Mark's blog: > http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/56. It says 76% of Debian > users run unstable and probably a fair fraction of the rest run testing. Those numbe

Re: Why not only support Sid and Testing?

2006-09-11 Thread Patrick Ruckstuhl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > > > I think we all really love running unstable. It is very fun because > it is exciting and sometimes unpredictible. Debian, in my opinion, > appeals to an ambitiuos crowd who is willing to take risks and is > not afraid to explore the inner w

Re: whitelisting @*.debian.org (was: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected)

2006-09-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:21:54PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> it's not the first time such a question is raised, I did that >> recently enough, for a foo-package I don't even remember (some >> python messages that bounced to me). that is completely i

Why not only support Sid and Testing?

2006-09-11 Thread Joseph Smidt
I know I am in for an argument, but I think it is a good question. I'm sure many of you have read Mark's blog: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/56. It says 76% of Debian users run unstable and probably a fair fraction of the rest run testing. Isn't it a cause of stress tr

Re: Why not only support Sid and Testing?

2006-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
Our users who currently use stable in various mission critical and other destabalization-averse environments (basically everyone who isn't a single desktop user) need and want stable releases which are supported by the very capable security and stable release teams. Our stable releases fill a nich

Re: Why not only support Sid and Testing?

2006-09-11 Thread Gabriel Puliatti
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 22:08 -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: > 1. Those who maintain Debian love unstable. It is the OS that offers the > most freedom. Maintaining a Stable and Oldstable seem to distract from the > focus of an ever evolving Unstable. I have an email from a developer I > will not name

Bug#387065: ITP: qsa-x11-opensource -- Cross-platform application-scripting toolkit based on Qt

2006-09-11 Thread Ruben Dario Ponticelli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ruben Dario Ponticelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: qsa-x11-opensource Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : TrollTech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.trolltech.com/product

Bug#181276: ITP: qsa-x11-free -- Cross-platform application-scripting toolkit based on Qt

2006-09-11 Thread Ruben Dario Ponticelli
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #181276 Owner: Ruben Dario Ponticelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: qsa-x11-free Version : 1.1.4 Upstream Author : TrollTech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/pub/qsa/ *

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 02:11, Charles Plessy wrote: > It is really unfortunate that the regulation of moderation is hidden > under a "privacy" menu in Mailman. Maybe the most straightforward mean > to slove this in the future would be to make the new lists unmoderated > by default? Or ask th

Re: First call for votes for the assets handling constitutional amendment GR

2006-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 02:07, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 10 September 2006 01:46, Debian-project Secretary wrote: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Oops. Sorry. pgpogZFg9RR6Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:09:26AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > Why are you even in a position that such mistakes are > possible? Why is the recipient of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > moderated at all? > Hi all, It happens because it is the default behaviour when you : - Request t

Re: First call for votes for the assets handling constitutional amendment GR

2006-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 10 September 2006 01:46, Debian-project Secretary wrote: - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- b7af2494-93e2-490e-9312-85647b0928b3 [ 1 ] Choice 1: Amend the constitution [needs 3:1] [ ] Choice 2: Further discussion - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anyt

Re: Bug#386911: ITP: Claroline -- Course Management System for Online Learning

2006-09-11 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Minor point: the package name should not contain any upper case letters :-) > 5.6.7. `Package' > > > The name of the binary package. > > Package names must consist only of lower case letters (`a-z'), digits > (`0-9'), plus (`+') and minus (`-') signs, and period

Re: orphaning Gnome 1 libraries

2006-09-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
(Added debian-gtk-gnome to the lists.) On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:24:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Now that the gnome-2 version of gnucash has migrated into testing, I'm > orphaning them. There are still a tiny number of packages that rely > on them, so they should not be peremptorily

Bug#387046: ITP: request-tracker3.6 -- extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2006-09-11 Thread Niko Tyni
Package: wnpp Owner: Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: request-tracker3.6 Version : 3.6.1 Upstream Author : Jesse Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bestpractical.com/rt/ * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: Perl Descri

orphaning Gnome 1 libraries

2006-09-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
For a while I have been maintaining the gnome-1 libraries, because gnucash was the last big package which required them. When I uploaded the gnome-2 version of gnucash into unstable, I filed RFAs for these libraries. Now that the gnome-2 version of gnucash has migrated into testing, I'm orphan

Re: Why udev does not use update-rc.d in its postinst

2006-09-11 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 11 September 2006 19:17, Frank Küster wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > > On Sep 11, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That's the version in testing, but the source package in sid also has > >> all that's needed to get it in again, unless there's a hard-to-see

Re: Linking a static library with -fPIC for flex

2006-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:09:16 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The other alternative discussed on IRC was to make /usr/lib/libfl.so > a linker script, à la libc.so. I think the below should be > sufficient, giving you PIC code when shared linking is requested by > the linker and n

Re: Why udev does not use update-rc.d in its postinst

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> There is a /etc/init.d/udev script provided by the udev package, but as >> it >> seems no entity cares to start it at boot time to populate the /dev >> directory. Are there any good reasons for udev not to call update-rc.d from >>

Re: Why udev does not use update-rc.d in its postinst

2006-09-11 Thread Frank Küster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Sep 11, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That's the version in testing, but the source package in sid also has >> all that's needed to get it in again, unless there's a hard-to-see >> subtle error. > Like the update-rc.d bug discussed here i

Re: Why udev does not use update-rc.d in its postinst

2006-09-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 11, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the version in testing, but the source package in sid also has > all that's needed to get it in again, unless there's a hard-to-see > subtle error. Like the update-rc.d bug discussed here in the last few days. -- ciao, Marco signature

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 09:14 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Are you saying stupid people can't make honest mistakes? I > would think that these are not mutually exclusive characterizations. > As for determining intelligence of an action, I would much rather > call a spade a spade. It i

Re: Why udev does not use update-rc.d in its postinst

2006-09-11 Thread Frank Küster
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > There is a /etc/init.d/udev script provided by the udev package, but as > it > seems no entity cares to start it at boot time to populate the /dev > directory. Are there any good reasons for udev not to call update-rc.d from > its post

my CDBS gallery: real-world rules samples

2006-09-11 Thread Caio Begotti
[please keep me in cc: for i am not subscribed to the 'debian-devel' list] Hello list, I think it's time to show you... this: http://cdbs.ueberalles.net It's an online gallery with all CDBS rules files used in Debian packages. There's a FAQ on the site which can answer some obvious answers but, a

Why udev does not use update-rc.d in its postinst

2006-09-11 Thread George Danchev
Hello, There is a /etc/init.d/udev script provided by the udev package, but as it seems no entity cares to start it at boot time to populate the /dev directory. Are there any good reasons for udev not to call update-rc.d from its postinst to install the necessary symlinks in place ? Nex

whitelisting @*.debian.org (was: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected)

2006-09-11 Thread Frank Küster
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's not the first time such a question is raised, I did that recently > enough, for a foo-package I don't even remember (some python messages > that bounced to me). that is completely inadequate, and whitelisting > any @bugs.debian.org From address

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:59:35 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 21:22 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:26:52PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >> > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 11:48 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> > > Any maintainer doing suc

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:26:52 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 11:48 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> > has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the >> > following reason for rejecting your request: >> > >> > "No reason given" >> Any maint

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le lun 11 septembre 2006 15:36, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > * Pierre Habouzit > > | I've already stated it, and I do it again: I do consider ok that > | the Maintainer field of some co-maintained package is a list, that > | really makes sense, but *that* list should never ever use > | sender-based

ITP: bzr-plugin-webserve -- web interface for bazaar-ng

2006-09-11 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Package: wnpp Owner: Arnaud Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: bzr-plugin-webserve Version : web interface for bazaar-ng Upstream Author : Goffredo Baroncelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://goffredo-baroncelli.homelinux.net/bazaar/bazaa

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Pierre Habouzit | I've already stated it, and I do it again: I do consider ok that the | Maintainer field of some co-maintained package is a list, that really | makes sense, but *that* list should never ever use sender-based | moderation. Does this mean you don't consider using [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le lun 11 septembre 2006 10:59, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 21:22 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:26:52PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 11:48 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > > Any maintainer doing such a braindead stupi

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:59:35AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > It's your right to have such an opinion, but it's not the question at > hand. The point I raised is: is it appropriate to assume that a fellow > maintainer is "braindead" or "stupid", or rather assume that he made an > honest mistak

Bug#386953: ITP: createrepo -- generates the metadata necessary for a RPM package repository

2006-09-11 Thread wnpp
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Cecile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: createrepo Version : 0.4.6 Upstream Author : Duke University <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/ * License : GPL Description : generat

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:22:08AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 10.09.2006, 21:22 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > > For my part, I find it pretty offensive that a mailing list that's set as > > the maintainer of a package would have mail filters configured this way in > > the first

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 21:22 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:26:52PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 11:48 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > Any maintainer doing such a braindead stupid thing - do not wonder if I > > > reject your package without any

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Sonntag, den 10.09.2006, 21:22 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > For my part, I find it pretty offensive that a mailing list that's set as > the maintainer of a package would have mail filters configured this way in > the first place. For the samba packaging team, for instance, I've taken > pains

Bug#386932: ITP: libxml-libxml-xpathcontext-perl -- Perl interface to libxml2's xmlXPathContext

2006-09-11 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexis Sukrieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libxml-libxml-xpathcontext-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Petr Pajas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~pajas/XML-