Work-needing packages report for May 23, 2008

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: 433 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 104 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Bug#482486: ITP: libcddb-perl -- high-level interface to cddb protocol servers (freedb and CDDB)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Martín Ferrari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcddb-perl Version : 1.17 Upstream Author : Rocco Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CDDB/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Programming Lang

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Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

Osamu Aoki wrote: Shorter summary of vote data goes as: cvs 5% subversion9% git-core 3% mercurial 0.6% darcs 0.3% bzr 0.3% Does monotone not get a mention? or was monotone missed? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: packages up for adoption

Bart Martens wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 13:36 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Bart Martens wrote: > > > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > > > > them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then. >

Re: track bugs in VCS, not the other way around

martin f krafft wrote: > Let's assume for a minute that we accept that VCSs are the way > forward and start to consider how we could track bugs in the VCS, > alongside the code. > > Start to think about it this way, and stuff suddenly neatly aligns, > at least in my world. > > Suddenly you can co

Re: packages up for adoption

* Lars Wirzenius [Thu, 22 May 2008 07:59:26 +0300]: > Is acpi better than acpitool? My love will go to whichever uses /sys first. (#462305 and #463111) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debia

Re: Bug#482414: ITP: guake -- A drop-down terminal for Gnome Desktop Environment

On jeu, 2008-05-22 at 15:28 -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > AFAIK, tilda does not use VTE for it's terminal emulation, Guake does. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ldd =tilda | grep vte libvte.so.9 => /usr/lib/libvte.so.9 (0x7f69502bd000) -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: Bug#482414: ITP: guake -- A drop-down terminal for Gnome Desktop Environment

Hi, On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 21:39 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Hmh, what are the real differences with tilda? AFAIK, tilda does not use VTE for it's terminal emulation, Guake does. William signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: packages up for adoption

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:59:55AM -0500, Anibal Avelar wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi Joey. > > Im' very interested to adopt this packages: > > > archivemail Anibal, funny as it may sound, would you mind letting

Re: Bug#482414: ITP: guake -- A drop-down terminal for Gnome Desktop Environment

On jeu, 2008-05-22 at 18:08 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Description : A drop-down terminal for Gnome Desktop Environment > > Guake is a drop-down terminal for Gnome Desktop Environment, so you > just > need to press a key to invoke him, and press again to hide. > Guake supports hotkeys,

Re: packages up for adoption

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 13:36 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bart Martens wrote: > > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > > > them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then. > > > > > > aalib > > > > I'l

Re: packages up for adoption

Bart Martens wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > > them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then. > > > > aalib > > I'll adopt aalib. Both you and Anibal want this, so work something out

Re: packages up for adoption

Anibal Avelar wrote: > Im' very interested to adopt this packages: > > > archivemail > > splitvt - I use it. > > unclutter - I use it. > > xaoom ? I think would be xzoom? Yes, xzoom. Ok, please upload new versions with you as maintainer, and a few of these have unreleased changes for debhelp

Re: packages up for adoption

Michael Meskes wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 20:53:51 schrieb Joey Hess: > > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > > them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then. > > ... > > acpi > > I take this one. Hmm, thinking about it, I wonder

Re: packages up for adoption

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then. > > aalib I'll adopt aalib. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

Osamu Aoki wrote: > Then you are voting for mercurial if you participated in popcon. > > vote: number of people who use this package regularly; Note that the vote is not that reliable either: it needs atime, which is getting less and less used. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#482414: ITP: guake -- A drop-down terminal for Gnome Desktop Environment

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvestre Ledru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: guake Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Gabriel Falcão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> & Lincoln de Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://guake-terminal.org/ * License : GPL Pro

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:15:18AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > One of the most interesting thing I noticed by doing this was change in > popularity of VCS. (Just 1/2 year r so). Readers of this thread might be interested in the popularity of VCS used to _maintain_ Debian packages. Since a few days

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

* Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080522 14:36]: > The large "installed" with low "vote" may be indication that people has > found some new good alternative for a popular tool of yesterday. >(RCS -> DVCS such as git, mercurial, ...) I think this is only a part of an explanation and more suitea

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 06:11:46 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > even though it's "just" a command line utility. Who knows what > > weird, unexpected side effects there might be from running such an > > app within a tight bash loop. > > none*. And not c

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

Hi, I did not mean to say that VCS in low numbers are unpopular. Instead, my message should be understood as there are many popular VCSs and popularity of use is moving. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:27:40PM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > Dne Wed, 21 May 2008 15:10:14 -0500 > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

On Thu, 22 May 2008, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Upstream-Bug-Browser: > http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=WWW-Curl > Upstream-Bug-Submitter: > http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=WWW-Curl > > Which were furiously rejected by many people, in the usual and > friendly tone c

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

In March, I proposed adding some useful (to me) fields to the control file, along this idea: Upstream-Bug-Browser: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=WWW-Curl Upstream-Bug-Submitter: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=WWW-Curl Which were furiously rejected by many peopl

Bug#482390: ITP: unbound -- Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: unbound Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : NLnet Labs * URL : http://unbound.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python,

Re: RFH: Bug #481575: courier: FTBFS

Le jeudi 22 mai 2008 à 07:15 +0200, Christian Perrier a écrit : > From what I see, fixing that bug is probably fairly easy for anyone > with a little more clue than me. So, may I request for clued people to > have a look at this bug report and help me (and indirectly the package > maintainer) to fi