Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
>> This (still quite informal) group tries to gather people
>> maintaining font packages in Debian (and CDDs).
>
> "and CDDs" is redundant, because CDDs are included in
Quoting José L. Redrejo Rodríguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: José L. Redrejo Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Package name: ttf-linex
> Version : 2.0
> Upstream Author : Juan José Marcos
> URL : http://gata.linex.org/trac/br
if necessary).
>
> I should remark here that almost all of the work was done by Christian
> Perrier. I merely reported most of the bugs; Christian fixed most of
> them.
Sure but your work helped *a lot* for this. I just found those issues
a few weeks and decided that I would give
Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Paul Wise wrote:
> > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead?
>
> That would defeat a lot of the purpose of the ITPs (like look
Quoting Lars Wirzenius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'm not advocating stuffed animals for Debian mascots. I'm fine with a
> pillow, a tie, and a tutu.
I proposed Lars Wirzenius wearing nothing but a tie and a tutu, and
holding a pillow with a swirl on it, as the official Debian mascot.
signature.
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> [Sam Hocevar]
> > Development news
> >
> >
> >Last month Petter Reinholdtsen (pere) gave some news about his
> > project of improving the init system [3]. This is almost as simple as
> > adding LSB headers to your init scrip
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: pytrainer
> Version : 1.5
> Upstream Author : Fiz Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * URL or Web page : http://pytrainer.e-oss.net/
> * License : GPLv2
> Description : Free Sport Training Center
>
> Pytrainer is
Quoting Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: pytrainer
> Version : 1.5
> Upstream Author : Fiz Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * URL or Web page : http://pytrainer.e-oss.net/
> * License : GPLv2
> Description : Free S
Noah Slater a écrit :
>> I'd suggest expanding what RDF is, at least in the long description. Even
>> better would be expanding it in the synopsis of course.
>
> I disargree with you on this point. If the user doesn't know what RDF is they
> certainly don't want to install the package and know
Quoting Paul Wise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'm very bad at doing this myself, but it is equally important for bug
> submitters to triage their own bugs, especially if they have lots or
> many old ones. A ping, some extra info, anything get the bug closer to
> being fixed.
Or also sometimes refrain
Quoting Anibal Avelar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
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>
>
> Hi. I'm working on this programs (to porting to gtk2):
>
>
> > Sergio Rua: gmanedit (ready 80%)
Please also correct the debian/changelog encoding in that package.
I could
To properly deal with #464799 which requests support for Canadian
Multilingual keymap
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Canadian_Multilingual_Standard)
in the installer (and therefore in console-data), I need someone with
the knowledge of such keyboard/keymap to test the console keymap
Michael Tautschnig a écrit :
>> I suggest "C-like compiler with improved security checks"
>>
>> "dialect" is faily trivial language for me, which is IMHO not suitable
>> for a package description.
>>
>
> I disagree - dialect is the proper technical term here.
Well, some rationale would help to b
Quoting François-Denis Gonthier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: François-Denis Gonthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: cyclone
> Version : 1.0/CVS
> Upstream Author : Dan Grossman, Trevor Jim, Greg Morrisett et al.
> * URL or Web page : h
Quoting Russell Stuart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Russell Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: hpt
> Version : 1.1
> Upstream Author : Russell Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.stuart.id.au/russell/files/ht
Quoting a. kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "a. kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: cinebench
> Version : 0.22-3
> Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * URL : www.cinepaint.org
> * License : GPL - LGPL - M
Quoting a. kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "a. kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: CinePaint
> Version : 0.22-3
> Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * URL : www.cinepaint.org
> * License : CinePaint conta
Quoting Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: extreme-tuxracer
> Version : 0.4.0
> Upstream Author : Pawel Drewniak, Guillaume Martres and others
> * URL : http:/
Quoting Martijn van Iersel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Martijn van Iersel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: speed-game
> Version : 1.00
> Upstream Author : Shawn Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.talula.d
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: golearn
> Version : 0.2
> Upstream Author : Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> & Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]>
> * URL
Quoting Pierre Habouzit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi there,
>
> I'm working for about a month to remove all the old bits of gnome 1.x
> from Debian for lenny. There was about 40 packages affected not so long
> time ago, it's 13 now (about half were migrated or dropped the
> dependency one way or
Quoting Anibal Avelar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I can't see a suitable alternative for idesk, I think would be a good
> idea a new section called inside Screen called Toys or Hacks. For now
> the option more related could be Games/Toys but I think it isn't a
> good option because it isn't a game.
>
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > Description : a lightweight GHC library for Perl 5 compatible
> > > regular expressions
>
> > Being lecc cryptic would help, here.
>
> > I suggest expanding "GHC" if possible, at the expense of "Perl 5"
> > "lightweight" and/or "compatible
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Description: SASL support for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture
>
> I suggest removing the extra capitalization for "cryptographic" and
> "architecture".
>
Hmmm, yes. I missed the relation with the &
Quoting Daniel Leidert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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>
> * Package name: html-xml-utils
> Version : 4.4
> Upstream Author : Bert Bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> The nslu2 needs non-free firmware for its ethernet. This is currently
> distributed in the d-i installation images on slug-firmware.net.
s/ethernet/Ethernet?
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Quoting Recai Oktaş ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Recai Oktaş" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: pcre-light
> Version : 0.3.1
> Upstream Author : Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.example.org/
> * License
Quoting Matthew Rosewarne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
>Package name: qca2-plugin-cyrus-sasl
> Version: 2.0.0~beta3
> Upstream Author: Justin Karneges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> URL: http://delta.affini
Quoting Bas Zoetekouw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: prima
> Version : 1.24
> Upstream Author : Dmitry Karasik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Anton Berezin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Va
Quoting Jan Hauke Rahm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: squirrelmail-compatibility
> Version : 2.0.9
> Upstream Author : Paul Lesniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.squ
Quoting Alberto Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> So we have:
>
> "A small GTK+-based client for the Last.fm online radio"
> "A GTK+-based client for the Last.fm online radio"
> "A small client for the Last.fm online radio"
I'd go for the second choice (you half-convinced me, guys)without
the l
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > dh-make: tool that converts source archives into Debian package source
> > > dh-make-perl: Create Debian packages from perl modules
>
> > Well, them doing this does not necessarily mean they are right.
>
> .debs are commonly referred to as "Debia
Quoting Marcelo Jorge Vieira (metal) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: !
>
> * Package name : libjs-prototype
> Version: 1.6.0.2
> Upstream Author: Sam Stephenson
> * URL: http://www.prototypejs.org/
> * License: MIT-style license
Quoting Hilko Bengen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I just had a look at what the other kids are doing:
>
> dpkg: package maintenance system for Debian
> dpkg-dev: package building tools for Debian
> apt: Advanced front-end for dpkg
> This is Debian's next generation front-end for the dpkg package
>
Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> Being
>> something not really end user-oriented, that would have to be a
>> "hidden" task (not shown as a choice by tasksel) that one could choose
>> with the appropriate D-I boot option.
>
> Hmmm, why hidden? In how far are other tasks more or less u
Quoting maximilian attems ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> but currently willing to work on i'd nack fjp requests.
> of course if no progress has been made in a month,
> his request is more then reasonable.
I slightly disagree. Not that I have doubts about your commitment, but
this entire discussion sh
Quoting Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Package name: opencascade
> Version: 6.2.0
> Author: Open Cascade SAS (OCC), a French software services company
> URL: http://www.opencascade.org/
> License: Open CASCADE Technology Public License, includes tria
Quoting Hilko Bengen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: Hilko Bengen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: libdebian-package-make-perl
> Version : 0.01
> Upstream Author : myself
> * URL or Web page : not published yet
> * License : GPL2+
>
Quoting Alberto Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:57:21PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> > > > "graphical GTK+-based client for Last.fm media service"
> > > Is it necessary to say it's graphical provided that it&#
Quoting Carlos Izquierdo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
>Package name: alfresco
> Version: 2.1
> Upstream Author: Alfresco Software, Inc.
> URL: http://www.alfresco.com/
> License: GPL with F
Quoting Alberto Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:56:05AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> > > Description : A GTK+-based Last.fm client
> >
> > "Last.fm" isn't really clear for anybody. I suggest using a more
>
Quoting Yves-Alexis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> * Package name: ktsuss
> Version : 1.2
> Upstream Author : David B. Cortarello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ktsuss
> * L
Quoting Alberto Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Alberto Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: vagalume
> Version : 0.5
> Upstream Author : Alberto Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://people.igalia.com/berto/
Quoting Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >> I suggest "media player daemon" or "media playing daemon"...but anyway
> >> drop the leading article (DevRef 6.2.2)
> >>
> >>
> >
> > "media player daemon" may be confusing with mpd. "daemon which plays
> > media in the background" may be better.
>
>
Quoting Alexandre Rossi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Alexandre Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: deejayd
> Version : 0.6.2
> Upstream Author : Mickaël Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://mroy31.dyndns.org/~roy/
Quoting Hideki Yamane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:43:27 -0600
> William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This should be ttf-ipafont.
>
> Yes, binary package name is ttf-ipa, but source package name
> is ipafont.
Is there a reason to not use "ttf-ipafont" as source packa
Quoting Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
(in d-d-a)
> * UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control
>
> Only 40 packages still use obsolete charsets in their changelog or
> control files. Please check if your package is listed on the lintian
> tag pages:
> http://lintian.debian.org/rep
Quoting Noah Slater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:52:03PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > I'd suggest to phrase this "PostgreSQL performance monitoring tool" or
> > any other way to avoid a verb sentence...
>
> Sure thing, sounds se
Quoting Noah Slater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: pgtop
> Version : 0.04
> Upstream Author : Jeremy D. Zawodny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~cosimo/pgtop-0.0
Quoting Mauro Lizaur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp Owner: Mauro Lizaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> * Package name: python-twitter
> Version : 0.5
> Upstream Author : DeWitt Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/python-tw
Quoting NIIBE Yutaka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Description :
Apparently your proposed synopsis for the package is "-- Tomoe - A
handwriting recognition engine". May I suggest a simpler and more
"standard" one:
handwriting recognition engine
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Quoting Scott Kitterman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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>
>
> * Package name: libdb4.6-ruby
> Version : 0.6.2
> Upstream Author : Guy Decoux <[EMAIL PROTECTE
Quoting Carlos Laviola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: rubyripper
> Version : 0.5.0
> Upstream Author : Bouke Woudstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/rubyri
Quoting Fathi BOUDRA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > * Package name: latencytop
> > Version : 0.3
> > Upstream Author : Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > * URL : http://www.latencytop.org/
> > * License : GPL-2
> > Description : A tool for developers to vis
Quoting Jorge Salamero Sanz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Jorge Salamero Sanz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
>Package name: libsys-lastlog-perl
>Version: 1.5
>Upstream Author: Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Quoting Hideki Yamane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to package "failmalloc" library that leads interesting function
> for making robust program, made by GNU GRUB author.
>
>Package name: failmallo
Quoting Jonny Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Jonny Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name: synce-sync-engine
> Version : 0.1
> Upstream Author : Ole André Vadla Ravnås <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Quoting Hash C. Borger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Hash C. Borger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: doomsday
> Version : 1.9.0-beta5.2
> Upstream Author : Jaakko Keränen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.example.o
Quoting Salvatore Ansani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Salvatore Ansani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: kde4-style-qtcurve
> Version : 0.55.2
> Upstream Author : Craig Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL :
> http://www.k
Quoting William Pitcock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Users are very good at missing these jokes.
> >
> > -Rob
>
> Yes, I hadn't thought of that. I'll just refer to it as a "an advanced
> and powerful syslog daemon" in the short description then.
Without the leading article, then, please...:-). See
Quoting Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:01:58 +0100, Holger Levsen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >It seems to me that everybody replied in favor to this idea and nobody
> >replied
> >suggesting to keep sysklogd the default. Which leads me to believe it should
> >be done
Quoting Francois Marier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> (Please CC me on your replies)
>
> What is the best way to ask for a password in a debconf prompt?
Not a direct answer but jumping in the train as it is passing in front
of me (hint: Frenglish probability high in this sentence).
I still dream of so
Quoting Lucas Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >> I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4%
> >> use dpatch. It would be great to document in some place (devref?) why
> >> quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't think it's
> >> obvious for everybody :)
openldap -> OpenLDAP
Openldap -> OpenLDAP
OpenLdap -> OpenLDAP
I haven't checked if these mistakes are often used or not,
though. Just popped in my mind while working on OpenLDAP debconf
templates..(which have no error of course).
Also, what about checking debconf templates? I think that the
prob
Would "Emacs" and "XEmacs" qualify for this check?
Even though "emacs" may make sense when talking about the command (while I
really wonder why one would mention a command in a package
description), checking for incorrect "EMacs" spelling would be good.
Please note that I found no proposal to che
Quoting Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Because the last time you all did this it got all the way to deleting
> the packages and I had to run around and clean that up. I'm asking you
> to give the maintainers a chance. That's all. Is it really that hard
> to do?
Isn't this what is h
Quoting Michal Čihař ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Okay, wget did the job and managed to download sources while I was at
> lunch, so I will look at this package. Anyway upload will probably not
> happen until utf-8 man pages will be supported.
Please note that, in the past, the login and/or passwd pack
Quoting Raphael Geissert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> For example GNOME is being spelt in some packages as Gnome, or simply gnome,
> when its right spelling: GNOME. Other project names such as Debian, KDE and
> Linux aren't being correctly capitalised.
>
> Neil Williams has requested me on #456495 to s
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> It's also, as commented already in the init script, recognized as a bug in
^^
> the associated daemon. Fixing that bug would drop the need for the sleep,
^
Quoting Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> * Show the N: line with a count of overrides per package by default and
> provide an option to suppress this output if someone wants.
>
> * Don't show the N: line by default and provide an option to turn it on.
My first reaction would have been supp
Quoting Thijs Kinkhorst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Of course i386 machines are commonly available, but the suggested procedure
> of
> making uploads by hand is undesirable (especially for stable):
>
> a) it increases chances of dirty/broken build environments;
> b) it costs time;
> c) some packages
Quoting Philippe Cloutier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>>
>> Could we consider increasign the priority of apt-listchanges so that
>> it is installed by default?
> I'm against making it standard, because currently tasksel doesn't ask if a
> recommendation should be installed, so when we make tasksel instal
From Bug#456977:
Steve Langasek commented while closing this bug report:
>
> It is recommended that you use apt-listchanges on your system, to be
> notified of package behavior changes such as this.
Could we consider increasign the priority of apt-listchanges so that
it is installed by defaul
Quoting Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'd also tend to think that generic internationalization support
> sentences are quite inappropriate into package long description.
> Support leve is generally subject to frequent changes, so why
> polluting descriptions with those things?
Su
Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi, at http://sockmel.bononia.it/~zack/homepage-field/ I'm collecting
> some numbers about the usage of the new homepage field in debian/control
> vs that of the old pseudo-field in package description.
>
> There should be all the info needed for a
Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi, at http://sockmel.bononia.it/~zack/homepage-field/ I'm collecting
> some numbers about the usage of the new homepage field in debian/control
> vs that of the old pseudo-field in package description.
>
> There should be all the info needed for a
Quoting Raphael Geissert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> This time the number of watch files to be reported is 88, reason why I'm
> posting to the list.
> I hope there won't be any objection and that nobody disagrees on me making
> an other, probably mass (depends on the watch files, not me :), bug filling
Quoting Bas Zoetekouw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi!
>
> I'm planning to file bugs for packages that use non-UTF-8 encodings in
> debian/control and/or debian/copyright.
copyright or changelog? Or both?
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Quoting Adam D. Barratt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:14 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
>
> [User: and Usertags: in reportbug-generated mails not reaching the BTS]
>
> > Sounds like a bug in reportbug to me; it's probably stripping out
> > unknown pseudoheaders.
>
> Indeed; see #4
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> A few years back, Samba upstream began using CUPS as the default printing
> system whenever CUPS support was enabled. At the time, cupsys was Priority:
> optional, and lpr as the standard Unix printing interface was Priority:
> standard (or higher), so
Quoting Neil Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> add me to the list...
>
> Is this something best done on the debian-i18n list or continue here?
debian-i18n seems more appropriate. For instance, Eddy is subscribed
there while he is not here (I pointed him to your mail, though).
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Quoting Neil Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I am therefore seeking a second layer of repository structure that
> removes all /usr/share/locale/ data from all packages in Debian,
> creates language-specific packages for each individual .mo file from
> each individual package and allies those to i
Quoting Cyril Brulebois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Descriptions can always be improved (got to work that out with the
> author, on my TODO list already). Anyway xrandr is just an interface
> to ... which will do the resize, etc.
So, it will allow my 15" screen to become a 24"? Wow, I want this to
be
Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> whe installing the recent version again. Than we at least could find
> out which package is really responsible. So is there any chance to
> find out the date when a package was installed on one side and find
> out a list of packages that was installed
(beware: wide crosspost. Please turn your brain ON to decide where you
want to reply... :-)))
Quoting Cyril Brulebois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007):
> > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> > users. It would be great if people
Quoting Romain Francoise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Willi Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Why did you not search for XS-Vcs in general?
>
> Because packages using XS-Vcs-Browse are easy to catch, you can just
> look at the Sources file and filter on 'Vcs-Browse'. Since the
> other XS-Vcs-* fi
Quoting Raúl Sánchez Siles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Raúl Sánchez Siles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: filelight-i18n
> Version : 1.0-1
> Upstream Author : Max Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.methylblue
only me and Christian Perrier and we both are
> doing this only because nobody else does.
To be precise, I personnally do no work on kbd...
I try to maintain console-common in a very low involvment mode and
with very minimal competences for doing so.
I have a better activity on console-data
Quoting Juliusz Chroboczek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> What Joey and I are specifically complaining about are three bugs that
> we have described in enough detail and that are trivial to reproduce.
> The maintainer did not send us personal mail asking for help; he sent
> us an automated mass mailing th
Quoting Pierre Habouzit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> FWIW I don't think a ping should threaten to close the bug. That is
> wrong.
Threaten, no. Suggest that it could be closed, yes.
I personnally assume the concept of being pretty "aggressive" wrt bugs
in packages that have a non manageable amount
Quoting Faidon Liambotis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Christian Perrier wrote:
> > The latter should probably be quite conservative and only detect
> > something like:
> >
> > "^ +[Hh]ome *[Pp]age:.*"
> >
> > in the package description.
> /^ (web|hom
Changes to lintian/linda are often mentioned in that discussion.
Roughly speaking, we need these tools to:
- no longer complain about "Homepage:" being an unknown field
- warn people currently using the trick of mentioning the Home Page in
the package's description and suggest them to move this t
Quoting Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Right. These are staid, old, boring, unchanging fields; and
> maintainers need not expect these to change; and putting them in policy
> means that even dpkg can't change the fields drastically fro under the
> developers.
>
> Howe
Quoting Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Actually, policy is usually the last thing that you want to
> do, in the general case. Policy is usually stable (well, not quite as
> stable as it has been this year, but work seems to be easing up a
> trifle, so expect a policy release in
Quoting Lars Wirzenius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'd start with amending the Developers' Reference, then having a test
> added to lintian and linda, and after that announcing it on
> debian-devel-announce. Then next year, after everyone's had time to
> react and upload new packages, do a mass bug fil
A recent discussion back in August, in -devel, showed that the current
common trick of using a "Homepage:" pseudo-field in binary packages'
descriptions is not really optimal.
In the discussion, it was pointed that dpkg, as of 1.14.6, supports
the use of a "Homepage:" field in debian/control.
As
Quoting Holger Levsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi,
>
> I'm happy to hear that the team maintainance aspect of this seems to have
> been
> resolved on IRC. Thanks to those involved!
Indeed. I don't know who had the initiative of setting up that IRC
discussion to solve that "dispute" but (s)he des
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Arguably if the consensus is that the default minimum password length should
> > be raised in the users' best interests, we would want to change the
> > makepasswd package's default at the same time.
>
> And we might also want to m
> Right, I know there are going to be use cases where 6 is too long for the
> minimum length, and users will need to lower the setting in
> /etc/pam.d/common-password. Do you think we need to provide some hook for
> these Debian Edu users to change the setting automatically, via preseeding
> or ot
> I apologize if my meaning was unclear; it was not meant to be rude. I
> think that looking at only the power of modern CPUs - how long it
> takes to crack a password - misses the point. If you enforce longer
> passwords than people are comfortable with, you get weaker passwords
> (or poor passw
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