Re: Automatic ITP closing.

2009-09-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:34, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear David, > > In 2005 you started an effort to close old WNPP bugs that do not get resolved: > http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/1127503245.4308.5.ca...@cerdita > > Apparently, this was stopped in 2008. Can you confirm that it is intentio

Re: Automatic ITP closing.

2009-09-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear David, > > In 2005 you started an effort to close old WNPP bugs that do not get resolved: > http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/1127503245.4308.5.ca...@cerdita > > Apparently, this was stopped in 2008. Can you confirm that it is intentional > or > did it just get un

Automatic ITP closing.

2009-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear David, In 2005 you started an effort to close old WNPP bugs that do not get resolved: http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/1127503245.4308.5.ca...@cerdita Apparently, this was stopped in 2008. Can you confirm that it is intentional or did it just get unnoticed by everybody? The reason I ask

Re: Changes in the maintenance of the Developers Reference

2009-09-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Bill Allombert wrote: > debian-de...@l.d.o could be a better channel for the developers-reference > discussions, though with the downside of yet more outside traffic than > debian-policy. Not really - d-devel is a way too messy list for a useful discussion. Not sure if there is a better list to

Re: Faster boot by running init.d scripts in parallel

2009-09-21 Thread Tino Keitel
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 13:52:59 -0700, lkcl wrote: [...] > some years back, richard lightman wrote depinit. it's a complete > replacement for sysvinit, and it's a parallel initialisation system. > > unlike sysvinit, it caught _all_ signals on applications. > > i installed it several times, a

Re: Please help with checking the boot and shutdown script ordering

2009-09-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl] > Couldn't that be added as a check to lintian? Sure, for this particular problem, which at most affect 14 scripts. For the general case, it is not possible for lintian to know which package a given init.d script dependency belong to. Quite a lot of lintian checks are

Bug#547720: ITP: dizzy -- graphics demo that makes you dizzy using rotating textures

2009-09-21 Thread Maximilian Gass
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Maximilian Gass * Package name: dizzy Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Lars Stoltenow http://penma.de/code/dizzy * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ (Perl) Programming Lang: Perl Description : graphics demo that makes you dizzy u

Bug#547711: ITP: libpoe-test-loops-perl -- Perl test suite for POE event loops

2009-09-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpoe-test-loops-perl Version : 1.022 Upstream Author : Rocco Caputo * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/POE-Test-Loops/ * Lic

Re: Of the use of native packages for programs not specific to Debian.

2009-09-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:46:08AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >>> On native package the debian/changelog is also used for upstream >>> changelog: upstreams tend to package their packages as native. >> [...] >>> Thus non debian spe

Re: Please help with checking the boot and shutdown script ordering

2009-09-21 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Petter Reinholdtsen schrieb: > Another new resource is piuparts, which will detect packages with > inconsistency between the package dependency and the init.d script > dependency - like a script requiring $portmap while the package do not > depend on portmap. Couldn't that be added as a chec

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, James Vega wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: > >> And people know that the package is built automatically. All users I > >> know especially opted in to using the package instead of freshcl

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-21 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: >> And people know that the package is built automatically. All users I >> know especially opted in to using the package instead of freshclam for >> some-or-other reason. > > WHERE is that

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: > And people know that the package is built automatically. All users I > know especially opted in to using the package instead of freshclam for > some-or-other reason. WHERE is that information published? I don't see it in the package description, and I don'

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-21 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-09-21, Hilko Bengen wrote: > I have written and maintained scripts that download signature file > updates for several commercial antivirus scanners and built packages for > them -- which is pretty much the same thing that clamav-getfiles does. > 10 updates to the signature files per day ar

Bug#547686: ITP: libconvert-color-perl -- Color space conversions and named lookups

2009-09-21 Thread Maximilian Gass
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Maximilian Gass * Package name: libconvert-color-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Paul Evans * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Convert-Color/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ (Perl) Programming Lang: Perl Descri

Please help with checking the boot and shutdown script ordering

2009-09-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
As was announced earlier, Squeeze will be using dependency based boot sequencing to order the init.d scripts. The current dependencies are fairly good, but work is still needed to weed out the last bugs in the ordering. Automatic systems are in place to detect the most grave problems and inconsi

Bug#547667: ITP: nasty -- Helps you to recover the passphrase of your GPG key

2009-09-21 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz * Package name: nasty Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Folkert van Heusden * URL : http://www.vanheusden.com/nasty/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Helps you to recover the

Re: Seeking advice on packaging of pion-net

2009-09-21 Thread Robert Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Banck wrote: > > Did you try to discuss the library versioning scheme with upstream? pion-net is built on boost's asio. I'd be very suprised if they even _can_ offer a stable ABI with no symbol pollution from asio etc. :) - -Rob -BEGIN P

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Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-21 Thread Hilko Bengen
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: >> As long as you do not expect me to manually sign every single upload, > Why not? ClamAV, like about every other antivirus scanner, is used to fight rapidly moving targets. It relies on current -data files to provide any

Bug#547659: ITP: rephrase -- Specialized passphrase recovery tool for GnuPG

2009-09-21 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz * Package name: rephrase Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Phil Lanch * URL : http://www.roguedaemon.net/rephrase/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Specialized passphrase reco

Re: Changes in the maintenance of the Developers Reference

2009-09-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:56:37AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > Following a discussion on debian-de...@l.d.o[1], the way the Developers > Reference[2] is maintained has been changed, with the aim to make it > more public and easier for people to contribute. > > Changes to developers-ref

Re: Possibly hijacking netcdf

2009-09-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:54:50AM -0700, Warren Turkal wrote: > I told someone to go ahead feel free to take it over. I don't remember who. /me probably :) > I clearly don't have the time to do a proper job of this. I don't even use > netcdf anymore, so I don't really have much motivation to pac

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:52:48 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >The time complaining in this thread could probably better spent by >talking to ftpmas...@d.o and implementing a solution btw. Why do I need to actively talk to ftpmaster when it's them wanting to implement changes to a setup which has been imp

Re: Seeking advice on packaging of pion-net

2009-09-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:17:43PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Source: pion-net > Binary: libpion-net-dev, libpion-net-2.1.8, libpion-common-2.1.8, > libpion-net-2.1.8-dbg, libpion-common-2.1.8-dbg, libpion-net-doc > > The problem, as I see it, with this arrangement is, that when a new > up

Re: Possibly hijacking netcdf

2009-09-21 Thread Warren Turkal
I told someone to go ahead feel free to take it over. I don't remember who. I clearly don't have the time to do a proper job of this. I don't even use netcdf anymore, so I don't really have much motivation to package it. I did start packing the newest version, but I didn't make any real progress.

Possibly hijacking netcdf

2009-09-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Hi folks after at least other 2 messages sent without answer in the past year and half and the latest below (with the same result at this moment), I'm going to hijack the netcdf package in order to move forward with version 4. If someone had objections about, please talk now or never :) - Fo