Bug#507233: ITP: appliancekit -- tools for managing, creating and deploying software appliances

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: appliancekit Version : 0.131 Upstream Author : William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://appliancekit.systeminplace.net/ * License : ISC Programming Lang: Pyth

Re: cdebconf, and a versioned dependency on debconf

2008-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:51:26PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Solutions? > a) Do not depend on cdebconf as an alternate; in which case the upgrade > works fine, but the future transition to cdebconf gets hairier. > b) depend on cdebconf, but check which variant is present, and

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo?

2008-11-28 Thread Matt Arnold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raphael Geissert wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > [...] >> The ideal way to handle this would be to have a single repository. PPAs >> solve a different problem, which is giving contributors and developers a >> playground to publish their in-progress p

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo?

2008-11-28 Thread Matt Arnold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Friday 28 November 2008 23:57:09 Holger Levsen, vous avez écrit : >> On Friday 28 November 2008 22:42, William Pitcock wrote: >>> I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of >>> Debian, but publici

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread Raphael Geissert
William Pitcock wrote: [...] > > The ideal way to handle this would be to have a single repository. PPAs > solve a different problem, which is giving contributors and developers a > playground to publish their in-progress packages. This is more about > getting packages to users in an efficient way

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Friday 28 November 2008 23:57:09 Holger Levsen, vous avez écrit : > On Friday 28 November 2008 22:42, William Pitcock wrote: > > I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of > > Debian, but publicized within the community as an unofficial repository > > for things like

cdebconf, and a versioned dependency on debconf

2008-11-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is an issue that bit me recently. ucf relies heavily on debconf to do its job, and thus depends on it. Way back when, it was told to me that we arte going to move to cdebconf, which at some point will be the preferred way. In the meantime, to facilitate the future transition,

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 02:19 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 29 November 2008 01:57, William Pitcock wrote: > > What I propose is something more along the lines of Gentoo's "sunrise" > > overlay... a repository that anyone can get upload access to provided > > that they under

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:28:58 +0900 Paul Wise wrote: > Infrastructure should be similarly supported and hosted by mainly > non-DDs; buildds, porting machines and so on. Actually I was thinking about something similar yesterday. Asa non-DD it is very hard to reproduce bugs from arches you don't own

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/11/29 Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > DDs would be discouraged from participating since they should be > supporting packages/etc within Debian instead. I'm not exactly sure about this. I have quite a lot of packages that I made for my own usage but I don't have time or interest in maintaini

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:42 AM, William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of > Debian, but publicized within the community as an unofficial repository > for things like qmail, packages unwanted in Debian proper for the time >

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 29 November 2008 01:57, William Pitcock wrote: > What I propose is something more along the lines of Gentoo's "sunrise" > overlay... a repository that anyone can get upload access to provided > that they understand basic Debian policy and have established that they > will be non-ma

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 23:57 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 28 November 2008 22:42, William Pitcock wrote: > > I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of > > Debian, but publicized within the community as an unofficial repository > > for things lik

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 28 November 2008 22:42, William Pitcock wrote: > I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of > Debian, but publicized within the community as an unofficial repository > for things like qmail, packages unwanted in Debian proper for the time > being, etc. d

what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 20:51 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Can you advise me on how to get out of that dilemma? > > Stop trying to get qmail into Debian? > or > Take on upstream development of qmail and solve all the problems > (whether qmail will then be recognisable compared to the existin

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-11-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:12:42 + Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm quite surprised how the inclusion of qmail and related > packages into sid is handled, or rather not handled, by the > ftpmasters. Just because a package is free software does not mean it automatically qualifies f

Bug#507176: ITP: freespeak -- A frontend to online translator engines for GNOME.

2008-11-28 Thread Luca Bruno
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luca Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: freespeak Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Luca Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freespeak.berlios.de/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description :

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-28 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Frank Küster wrote: > >> http://christian-morgenstern.de/dcma/Der_Werwolf > > Try > > # apt-get install fortunes-de > $ fortune -m Werwölfe > > to see even the plural version ... > > Hope this makes a funny end to this story

qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-11-28 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I'm quite surprised how the inclusion of qmail and related packages into sid is handled, or rather not handled, by the ftpmasters. Within a time-frame of six months I received exactly one rejection mail in response to two uploads of the packages, a reply to the rejection mail, and three mails

Bug#507155: ITP: hexec -- Command line tool to hook into exec calls

2008-11-28 Thread Alexander Block
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hexec Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Alexander Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/hexec/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Descrip

Re: Info on Planet Debian

2008-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 25 November 2008 20:30, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > > See http://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian > Don't you think it would be nice linking this in the planet page? Done so now. Tiago, Florian, if you still want to be added to planet, feel free to send me an email with your feed u

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2008-11-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 391246 buildd.debian.org Bug#391246: buildd.d.o: Buildds should consider changing $HOME Warning: Unknown package 'buildd.debian.org' Bug reassigned from package `general' to `buildd.debian.org'. > reassign 463643 buildd.debian.org Bug#463643: