Work-needing packages report for Jan 25, 2008

2008-01-24 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 333 (new: 15) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 93 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-24 Thread Andreas Tille
[changed mailing list from debian-project to debian-devel because I'd regard it a debian-devel topic] On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: I think: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/a_problem_with_tools/ is a big one that deserves attention. It's been a low-level grumble for quite

Re: Bits from DEHS

2008-01-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote: It's been some time since DEHS[1] had some 'big' changes (probably since its creation). Here's a list of changes that have been done lately: I don't know how to file wishlist bug reports but I would like to be able to file one saying: Please lis

Fixing watch file (Was: Bits from DEHS)

2008-01-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote: It's been some time since DEHS[1] had some 'big' changes (probably since its creation). Here's a list of changes that have been done lately: Many thanks for your work on. Note that there are some packages shipping a watch file which reports an inc

Bits from DEHS

2008-01-24 Thread Raphael Geissert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, It's been some time since DEHS[1] had some 'big' changes (probably since its creation). Here's a list of changes that have been done lately: * "new" look&feel DEHS' website now has a look similar to other *.d.o pages. More restyling will b

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-24 Thread Raphael Geissert
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > - Close them. However, they might still affect stable or oldstable. So > closing them without a version might lead people to thinking that the > bug is solved. And I'm not sure that closing them with a version is a > solution either: there's no version we can use t

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-24 Thread Colin Tuckley
Ian Jackson wrote: > We have been adopting the practice of removing such things from the > source tarballs too. Personally I think this is a waste of our time, > unless the files are very large or there is some other reason why > leaving them in is especially harmful. > > One reason why it might

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-24 21:08]: > I think that the BTS learns the hierarchy of packages' versions by > parsing the changelogs. Would your plan work even if the version is a > fake one (not in any changelog)? At least it's what Don told me to do: "it's probably good enough

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Kumar Appaiah writes ("Re: postscropt document without source"): > It is a hand-made one, following the _same_ format which Camm used for > the earlier refblas. Refer these: > > 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-toolchain/2007/12/msg00012.html > 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-toolchain/2007/12/

Re: postscropt document without source

2008-01-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Colin Tuckley writes ("postscropt document without source"): > Obviously I can remove the postscript file from the binary package, but is > this sufficient or do I also need to remove it from the source package - > which implies re-packaging the .orig.tar.gz We have been adopting the practice of r

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/01/08 at 21:04 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-24 20:44]: > > What's the best way to deal with bugs from packages that are removed > > from unstable? Currently, they are not closed when a package is removed. > > I can see two solutions: > > - Clo

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-24 20:44]: > What's the best way to deal with bugs from packages that are removed > from unstable? Currently, they are not closed when a package is removed. > I can see two solutions: > - Close them. However, they might still affect stable or oldstable.

How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, What's the best way to deal with bugs from packages that are removed from unstable? Currently, they are not closed when a package is removed. I can see two solutions: - Close them. However, they might still affect stable or oldstable. So closing them without a version might lead people to

Re: Bug#462027: ITP: libactiverecord-ruby -- library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby

2008-01-24 Thread Jeff W
On 24-Jan-08, at 9:37 AM, Adam Majer wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:35:06PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: Have you spoken with the rails package maintainer about this and your other ITP? Having duplicate copies of the same code lying around in the archive is something th

Re: Bug#462027: ITP: libactiverecord-ruby -- library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby

2008-01-24 Thread Adam Majer
Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:35:06PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: >> Have you spoken with the rails package maintainer about this and your >> other ITP? Having duplicate copies of the same code lying around in >> the archive is something the security team has said they are activel

Re: Bug#462027: ITP: libactiverecord-ruby -- library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby

2008-01-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:35:06PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > Have you spoken with the rails package maintainer about this and your > other ITP? Having duplicate copies of the same code lying around in > the archive is something the security team has said they are actively > discouraging. Split

Re: beep-media-player transition options

2008-01-24 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:49 +, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:22:46PM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > > > We (Audacious package maintainers) would like to provide a transitional > > package for beep-media-player, since it is now removed in Lenny. We feel > > that audacious

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-24 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
So it seems not handling bugs status well across releases... I thought that that is the purpose of specifying tags with release names so they do not even appear in list of bugs for others (ie etch bugs in dist=unstable), but they do (example is again that fail2ban http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pk

Partnership Investment.

2008-01-24 Thread Mr . Desmond Otisa
Dear Sir, I am arranging to come over to your country with some large sum of money for an investment. I will be flying in few days. However, I do not know any investor in your country who I may trust to handle the business for me as I am a foreigner. Secondly, I am afraid of bringing

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 24/01/2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Wasn't m68k supposed to be ignored by the BTS, since it's no longer a > released arch? It's already ignored by testing transitions AFAIK. ISTR that it's the case for hurd-i386 (and it might be “only for”). Ah, references: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] and below.

Re: beep-media-player transition options

2008-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:22:46PM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > We (Audacious package maintainers) would like to provide a transitional > package for beep-media-player, since it is now removed in Lenny. We feel > that audacious is a sufficient replacement for BMP, as it's BMP's > logical succes

Re: idea: allow package combinations as alternative dependencies, e.g. a | b + c

2008-01-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
[Changes the title to make sure we are talking about dependencies.] Martijn van Oosterhout schrieb: IIRC from logic, a | (b&c) == (a|b) & (a|c), which means you should be able to represent the above using: gnome-office | openoffice.org, gnome-office | openoffice.org-gnome From logic you seem

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Re: idea: allow package combinations as alternatives, e.g. a | b + c

2008-01-24 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Jan 24, 2008 10:05 AM, Fabian Greffrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now my idea is, that only both packages together, i.e. openoffice.org > *and* openoffice.org-gnome, will make a good substitute for > gnome-office. The Debian package management is currently not able to > deal with this situati

idea: allow package combinations as alternatives, e.g. a | b + c

2008-01-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: dpkg Severity: wishlist Hello, I'd like to share an idea with you that arose in my head when I tried to install the gnome meta-package. I allready had gnome-desktop-environment and (many packages of ) openoffice.org installed. The gnome package wanted to pull in gnome-office, but I t

Re: late at night... can't think -- why is my bugs are not closed?

2008-01-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/01/08 at 07:09 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 22:39 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > Well... as Neil pointed it seems not to be the case -- m68k arch is > > still -1 but now it is "resolved". > > Where are you seeing it as "resolved"? It's still listed as