Bug#592689: ITP: turtleart -- a LOGO-like tool for teaching programming

2010-08-11 Thread Luke Faraone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Gallagher * Package name: turtleart Version : 93+git20100803.9bee2c4 Upstream Author : Walter Bender * URL : http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Desc

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-11 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 11.08.2010 at 17:48:09 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Toni Mueller wrote: > > in debian/control, like eg. > > Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... > This is the info which IMHO belongs to PTS and should stay there. after rethinking the issue, I agree that it's better to not add a

Bug#592668: ITP: autopack -- Message packing for MPI made easy

2010-08-11 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: autopack Version: 1.3.2 Upstream Author: Raymond Loy URL: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/autopack/ License: Free software Description: Autopack is a mes

Re: Usage of /var/lib for databases not properly described in policy

2010-08-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:15:49PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > > > /var/my_super_duper_database > > > > and keep the data there? I do not actually intend to do so, but > > shouldn't this be fixed somewhere in the policy. FHS[1] is not > > giving any explicite advise here and

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 03:15 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > I was curious so... > $ for f in /bin/* /sbin/*; do if [ "`file $f | grep ELF`" != "" ] ; then > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x46bad000) > libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0xb7856000) > > Are these bugs just waiting to bite, or

Re: Usage of /var/lib for databases not properly described in policy

2010-08-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 22:29 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I just tried to give some advise about proper placement of database > files in a Debian package and I was sure I could simply link to the > relevant paragraph in policy but there is none. Is the usage of > /var/lib/ just a reasonable habit

Re: eXtplorer web file manager packaging work and SWFUpload packaging

2010-08-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > 2/ Ask for help for packaging swfupload ... > How to fix the SWFUpload issue: > - --- > The SWFUpload is a client side file upload tool that uses a combination ... AFAICT the source code is ActionScript 3 so you

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 08/11/2010 06:47 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: Russ Allbery writes ("Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF"): * Part of Joey's motivation is that if you look at GitHub, the people using it a lot consider Git to be a source package format, I've been doing that for some non-Debian work. It tu

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Russ Allbery > | After a discussion on IRC, I organized a BoF at DebConf10 to discuss new > | source formats, specifically 3.0 (git). Below are the notes from that > | discussion. I tried to take reasonably comprehensive notes, but I'm sure > | that I missed things

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF"): > * Part of Joey's motivation is that if you look at GitHub, the > people using it a lot consider Git to be a source package format, I've been doing that for some non-Debian work. It turns out to be incredibly convenient, if you'

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery | After a discussion on IRC, I organized a BoF at DebConf10 to discuss new | source formats, specifically 3.0 (git). Below are the notes from that | discussion. I tried to take reasonably comprehensive notes, but I'm sure | that I missed things. Other participants, please add a

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:27:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > After a discussion on IRC, I organized a BoF at DebConf10 to discuss new > source formats, specifically 3.0 (git). Below are the notes from that > discussion. I tried to take reasonably comprehensive notes, but I'm sure > that I miss

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-11 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi, Toni Mueller wrote: > in debian/control, like eg. > > Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... This is the info which IMHO belongs to PTS and should stay there. > I have found out that there are other ways to get at the bug reports > for some random package, but this could probably simplify things f

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread James Vega
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:27:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> source.debian.org is working on importing source packages into a Git >> repository and storing the history as one revision per new source package >> upload. > > That gives a

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:27:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > source.debian.org is working on importing source packages into a Git > repository and storing the history as one revision per new source package > upload. That gives a 404. source.debian.net doesn't, but gives you a page with as full

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Finney
Toni Mueller writes: > while working on a package I'm going to sponsor, it occurred to me > with all the DD, DM and sponsoring going on, that I'd like to have a > field in debian/control, like eg. > > Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... In the source package stanza, or the binary package stanza? >

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:53:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Bruce Sass writes: > >> Note that there is /lib/libcrypt* (at least here). This is just the more >> optimized flavour the ld.so picks when the cpu supports it. > > libcrypt != libcrypto. Ups, sorry

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 18:08 +, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Steve Langasek debian.org> writes: > > > But again, as Thomas points out, you can address this use case with much > > less per-package effort. A centralized ten-line shell script would be > > enough to locate all the installed packages on

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [100811 05:27]: > If you're implementing 3.0 format, please don't hard-code the extensions that > you "know" will be found in source packages, because as we add additional > files listed in *.dsc, we may add other types of files. Please be carefull with adding new extensions. Those

Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

2010-08-11 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, while working on a package I'm going to sponsor, it occurred to me with all the DD, DM and sponsoring going on, that I'd like to have a field in debian/control, like eg. Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... to have some...@debian.org automatically subscribed to the bugs for this package, much

Re: chromium-browser from experimental has included h.264 by default?

2010-08-11 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
On 08/10/2010 09:25 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> > Chromium isn't meant to be released with Squeeze. We'll reevaluate for >> > Squeeze+1. > Is that still the case? No, it isn't. Please see #581265 and in particular message #32, #37 and #44 Cheers, Giuseppe. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP