Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
No. It is not up to the Debian maintainer to decide that some contributor has written enough of the code to also be mentioned in the (C) lines in a particular file. But as soon as upstream lists them either in a file header or the AUTHORS file the Debian maintainer has to copy that

Accepted xbindkeys-config 0.1.3-2 (source amd64)

2009-03-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:46:17 +0100 Source: xbindkeys-config Binary: xbindkeys-config Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.1.3-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org Changed-By: Joerg Jaspert jo

Re: Missing licenses in upstream source files

2009-03-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11693 March 1977, Dominik Smatana wrote: Or should I edit these files and add missing licenses (copy paste from main file)? Talk to upstream. Unless you have written the files it is *NOT* yours to declare them being licensed in whatever way. -- bye, Joerg vorlon hmm, I should fill in the

Re: Section changes in the archive

2009-03-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11690 March 1977, Norbert Preining wrote: Can please move texlive-doc-el from the section lisp to the section doc, it is definitely not a lisp file but only documentations in Greek. Haha. Yeah well. Seems i missed that. Furthermore, you have moved cm-* to fonts. Maybe

Re: Section changes in the archive

2009-03-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11690 March 1977, Timo Jyrinki wrote: There are also at least aspell-el and openoffice.org-l10n-el, which are certainly not Lisp unless Greek has a lot of parentheses :) It seems the priority of the -el match was a little above what it should have been. :) Well, there is a reason we do

Re: Section changes in the archive

2009-03-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11690 March 1977, Raphael Geissert wrote: php                      Everything about PHP Does everything really means everything? At least the following are missing: php5-adodb libphp-adodb libmarkdown-php I haven't looked at others. It should. PHP was a late addition, so we might have

Re: libpoppler3 missing in unstable

2009-03-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
As the current RM Master ;) I see two realistic possibilities: 1) Someone just write me a mail if I should some part of the cruft report or ping me on IRC. This would of course scale to a few cases only. Inacceptable. The latest cruft report was done by me for example. Having someone mail

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Maybe it could be interesting to open an accessibility section? Maybe, maybe not. What packages would you put into it? -- bye, Joerg Getty LOL die Telefonnummer vom Arbeitsamt Mönchengladbach ist echt 404-0? Getty Soll das nen schlechter Scherz sein? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented language. java Everything about Java How about a cli section about everything related to Mono and the Common Language Infrastructure (aka .NET) ? That makes quite a

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means that we don't have to worry about a possible kernel update for lenny+1/2.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11674 March 1977, Edward Betts wrote: webfeed - RSS/Atom feed readers, aggregator and utilities Not enough packages, can stay in web, especially as that gets rid of httpds. -- bye, Joerg ftpbot cron.daily time, unlocking: slave_NEW mhy ftpbot: oh bugger off, slave_NEW isn't affected by

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Have sense to inaugurate a section with all the R modules? Nowadays many of them are in math. $ apt-cache search r- | grep ^r- | wc - l 133 Thats ok, get me a good name and short description for it please. r is not a good name, i think. -- bye, Joerg * wiggy just looking at

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
video mplayer* That is already in. vswitch* No hit for this match?! -- bye, Joerg GyrosGeier I've annoyed Ganneff enough with that package already, no reason to top it off by a build-depend on emacs for writing control files pgpLuKXMhKlrs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
You also want totem* and kaffeine*. Done. *-dbg packages could go in their own section(s) (debug, or libdebug appdebug?); otherwise, I think that they should remain with (the bulk of) the packages for which they provide debug data. All debug packages will go in the debug section. --

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Get me a short description for it. Compiler, libraries, and tools for OCaml: a static typed ML language implementation supporting functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming styles. You have an interesting definition of short, i stopped after : for now. :) (Its a different thing

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11674 March 1977, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: As I mentioned directly to override-change before encountering this message, I'd argue that my goo package is a (somewhat exotic) candidate. In general, here's a first cut at a full list, including it and your initial proposals: Thanks. -- bye,

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, but cli wouldnt be my favorite name for it. I’m not sure for the section name, but here is a list of matches: Select one of cli-mono or ecma-cli and please

Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hello world, As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. Much of what we are currently doing is not visible to you as a user of this archive, but the action we talk about now is: We plan on changing

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Not like it is *that* important, but we now have more than 100 OCaml-related source packages in the archive, most of which are libraries for OCaml development. I don't if that warrants an ocaml section, which is your call, but if it does, well, ... heads up :-) Get me a short description

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11673 March 1977, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Joerg Jaspert [Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100]: database libmysql* libdb4* I'm not sure these (and possibly *some* of the other lib* packages included in the listing) should be moved out of Section: libs. I can see

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11673 March 1977, Frans Pop wrote: localisationsLanguage packs I'd prefer localization. - We use en_US in general - ize Well, I dont really care. Fine, adjusted. - Having the section name plural seems inconsistent with other sections. Dito. video [...]

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
database Databases [...] database postgresql* pg* sqlite* mysql* libmysql* db4.* libdb4* firebird* sql-*

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
lisp Everything about Lisp Is this just about Common Lisp, or other Lisp dialects as well? I'm mainly referring to Scheme here, as it is another Lisp dialect in (relatively) widespread use (the third one being Emacs-Lisp). Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp.

Re: Bug#515793: ITP: CGIT -- C-code Web Front-end to GIT

2009-02-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I have already packaged this. I was going to submit an ITP and upload it through a sponsor in the next days. This is one reason why an ITP is expected *before* beginning work. Yea, indeed. I completely forgot about it, sorry. How did you package it? If it includes the git source do not

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
That way one could tell, even when offline, if a package hasn't been updated in ten years. I hope we don't have any of those. And those that we have, we can also spot them by old Standards-Version in lintian warnings. If anyone can suggest me a decent heuristics to spot a 'rotting'

Re: Data packages.

2009-02-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Also, I'd suggest (if we get it), we also use it for things like videos of talks about Debian, that kind of things. No. -- bye, Joerg lenny schneidet nie chilis und wascht euch dann _nicht_ die hände und reibt euch dann an der nase. lenny uargs, wie das brennt lenny hammer. das ist ja

Re: RFC: Creation of a PostgreSQL database schema for wanna-build data

2009-01-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I am not a dak hacker, nor an ftpteam or wanna-build guy. That being said, it looks like a lot of the information you store and the functions for comparison look an awful lot like the stuff dak currently has. Does it make sense to consolidate, and expand dak to handle the extra things you

Re: merkel fs issues

2009-01-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11631 March 1977, Anthony Towns wrote: There seem to be some issues with the ftp mirror on merkel: $ pwd /srv/ftp.debian.org/ftp $ ls -l dists/sid/Contents-powerpc.diff/ | tail -n2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 archvsync archvsync 2053 Jan 14 13:40 Index ?- ? ? ? ?

Re: merkel fs issues

2009-01-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Umh... This might be the cause, then. Our mirror sync has died three days in a row - At 16:37, 15:49 and 17:36 (GMT-6): From where are you pulling? -- bye, Joerg Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. -- Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man -- To

Re: merkel fs issues

2009-01-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Umh... This might be the cause, then. Our mirror sync has died three days in a row - At 16:37, 15:49 and 17:36 (GMT-6): From where are you pulling? syncproxy.wna.debian.org Completly different machine, so not the cause for your trouble. -- bye, Joerg Linus: Wenn Darl McBride die Macht

Re: FTP team name

2009-01-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I think that the name of FTP team or ftpmasters which we often use is slightly misleading to people we are not aware of each and every bit of how the project works. And there are many people who contribute to Debian more occasionnaly than those core folks who know everything about our

Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome

2009-01-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
IMO, it would make sense to merge Debian sections into a debtags facet so that you can have multiple sections when it makes sense. The facet could still be controlled by ftpmasters if that was desired. And aptitude could use that facet to keep a logical tree but a package could then appear

Re: Can DMs use ssh.upload.debian.org?

2009-01-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11623 March 1977, Jörg Sommer wrote: I'm a Debian Maintainer and would like to use the upload of packages via scp. Is this service available for Debian Maintainers? Where do I have to place my public ssh‐key? As this needs a login to a Debian machine, no. -- bye, Joerg Free Beer is such

Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome

2009-01-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I don't remember using sections in over 4 years of Debian usage, though I had already used GNU/Linux for a few months before I switched to Debian. But I doubt even a user new to GNU/Linux would use them much. Everyone that uses a tool like aptitude does use them much. I guess similar is true

Re: Debian planet

2009-01-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I will be importing planeta's subscribers list into /es soon and re-direct URL and feeds, because that's how the people wanted it, their way or highway. It would be nice if you wait until we can set up some not strict but needed rules about the content we want in planet/es. Well, I *hope*

Re: Debian planet

2009-01-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Since planet.d.o now supports multiple languages, what about closing the old planet*.debian.net services? http://planeta.debian.net/ http://planet-fr.debian.net/ http://planet.debian.net/ Those initiatives were useful because they proved that they were needed, but multiplying the

Re: Debian planet

2009-01-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
We add them to planet.debian.org when they request it. The Spanish people did so, the french not. It would be good if they do, to keep it sane in one place, but thats not our call. Please note that by Spanish people you mostly mean a few developers who, paraphrasing Joss, were in pain due to

Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome

2009-01-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
What is the correct usage of this section? Is it for packages that is related to the desktop itself or is it for packages that links against kdelibs ? Should a game using kdelibs go to section:games or section:kde? games. should a web browser using kdelibs go to section:web or

Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome

2009-01-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I guess we actually need to consider what the sections are good for. Asking in a random irc channel at least didn't reveal any real answers. So what about killing the concept of sections entirely ? Sure, if at some point a replacement is suitable and *well integrated* into those Debian tools

Changes to the DM code

2009-01-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hey, if you are a DM uploading your packages, please pay extra attention in the next few days. We just changed the underlying code in our archive software to be less awkward. While we did test that (using the help from Eugene V. Lyubimkin (thanks)) there might be cases not covered by our tests.

Override changes standard - optional

2008-12-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi after some discussion within the ftpteam we just modified a few override entries (15 to be exact). The following packages moved from standard to optional: strace sharutils policycoreutils tcsh python-support python-newt mtools mtr-tiny finger libustr-1.0-1 libsemanage1 libdb4.7

Re: Override changes standard - optional

2008-12-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Is there any rationale from these internal discussions about why these tools have been demoted? It's hard to refute an argument that hasn't been presented. It was a discussion taking some time with us looking at the packages and then seeing how many of us are in favour. The policy

Re: Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
We already have these packages: fdupes perforate AFAIK, they do not replace files, they just find them. Wrong, fdupe from perforate does link them together if one wants to. Imagine you have two backups, each on a different filesystem. Now you want to have them both on one filesystem.

Dinstall and mirror push frequency

2008-12-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi as announced a bit earlier[1], I just changed the frequency of our dinstall run, and as such the frequency of the mirror pushes too. We are now having 4 runs/pushes a day. The runs start at [01|07|13|19]:52 (every 6 hours, starting at 1:52), the mirror push follows approximately an hour

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11603 March 1977, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. :( Sorry to hear that. Whoever is your follower *will* have a hard time. As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a petition for the DAM to have me

Re: Possibly excessive lintian warnings

2008-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
The only thing that's been seriously discussed with an eye to implementation, so far as I know, is to automatically reject on the basis of a hand-selected and very limited subset of Lintian tags, which would probably not affect anything that you're doing and which would certainly not

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
By what process will the selection of lintian tags be submitted to the project for review and approval prior to implementation as a hard reject? I think that's a pretty good question. I don't think we need a very formal process, but as a Lintian maintainer, I'd kind of like people to

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I have a list of tags. In Extremadura I had other ftpteam members and a lintian maintainer look at it. Whenever this gets implemented this list will be made public and then have a place on ftp-master.d.o webpage somewhere. And everyone can comment on it. So it was already decided that it was

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
It surprises me that the only solution to that problem seems to be to add more people to the FTP team, so that the processing bandwidth will improve. That is the only solution which will help. That's not true. Sre. And the world dies tomorrow. We imposed that reviewing step to

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Joerg Jaspert wrote: someone that not only complains on lists but actually wants to do work. just to make sure: is this targeted at me? No. -- bye, Joerg My first contact with Linux was with SuSE 6.3. A friend of mine installed it on my pc, and just take me a couple of hours to reinstall

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-11-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11583 March 1977, Gerrit Pape wrote: As i got asked for the complete text of the rejection mail, as the thread start only had a partial quote, here it is. --8schnipp-8--- From: Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: netqmail_1.06

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ban [Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume make-up discount]

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
There currently isn't a ban in place.[1] [...] 1: Thankfully, it hasn't been required yet I am confused: And because of that I've asked the listmasters to block him from posting to d-d-a. Where is the truth? The truth is that you cant read or parse english. :) I've asked is not I told

/tools removed from mirrors

2008-11-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi with the next mirror run the /tools directory will be gone from Debian mirrors. It contained *old* tools to help DOS users to install Linux and AFAIk wasn't really used for anything anymore anyway. And noone complained when I asked about it in August this year, so now its gone. In case

Re: /tools removed from mirrors

2008-11-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
And noone complained when I asked about it in August this year, so now its gone. Uh, I wasn't yet subscribed to debian-devel at the time and thus wasn't aware of that goal. It sure is still useful for blind people booting from a DOS bootdisk with a screen reader (still so far the only

Re: Bug#503096: ITP: alpaca -- GnuPG file handling for Emacs

2008-11-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hence the question goes as: considering that the next release of Debian is most likely going to be released with Emacs (= 23.1), which is integrated properly with EasyPG, do we need alpaca in Debian? I believe the answer is «no». I think that the alpaca package isn't meaningless even if

Re: Bug#503096: ITP: alpaca -- GnuPG file handling for Emacs

2008-10-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11548 March 1977, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: How about integrating/merging alpaca into EasyPG? Anyway, alpaca is a different implementation and well maintained by the other developer. I think that the alpaca package isn't meaningless even if less people use alpaca than EasyPG. There is the

Re: access to people.debian.org

2008-10-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11536 March 1977, Norbert Preining wrote: On So, 12 Okt 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: http://db.debian.org/doc-mail.html Thanks. Was it always like that that changes could only be made vie email? I don't remember doing that, but then it was quite some time ago. This way exists for *years*

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Please always only use the symbolic names for the places to upload to (ie ftp.upload.debian.org and ssh.upload.debian.org), do not use any machine name directly. Queues may move at any time, without further notice and the symbolic names will be updated. What conceivable reason is there

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Instead, you seem to be saying, how could anyone be so stupid as to use a non-symbolic name? when nobody is actually being that stupid. We're just using the symbolic name we were told to use the last time the names were changed. I never intended to say that and my initial mail didnt do that

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Please always only use the symbolic names for the places to upload to (ie ftp.upload.debian.org and ssh.upload.debian.org), do not use any machine name directly. Queues may move at any time, without further notice and the symbolic names will be updated. What conceivable reason is there for

Re: DELAYED queue and upload hostname

2008-09-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11514 March 1977, Mike Hommey wrote: To untie the upload queue from the archive DSA setup an alias to be used for future uploads. Please change your configuration of dput, dupload or whatever you use to no longer use ftp-master.debian.org but ftp.upload.debian.org instead. Are default

Re: DELAYED queue and upload hostname

2008-09-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11514 March 1977, Julien Cristau wrote: 1) I use Tollef's DELAYED queue mostly for 0-day because it's accessible over ssh, so I can rsync files over which is more reliable than ftp on a bad link. It sounds like you're removing the possibility to use that (I know I can rsync files to some

Re: DELAYED queue and upload hostname

2008-09-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11514 March 1977, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Joerg Jaspert wrote: Only problem is - if someone goes and uploads a NEW package there it would get us in trouble, as we would distribute it before it got its inspection if we really can do that. So if that ever happens it needs some extra code

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-09-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
| Perhaps the DELAYED queue should be moved out of ~tfheen to a more | neutral directory? | ACK on all this request, which I was going to write almost identically :-) | Cc-ing ftpmaster. | We sure can move it back into ftpmasters hands sometime in the not too | distant future. I just

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-09-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Perhaps the DELAYED queue should be moved out of ~tfheen to a more neutral directory? ACK on all this request, which I was going to write almost identically :-) Cc-ing ftpmaster. We sure can move it back into ftpmasters hands sometime in the not too distant future. -- bye, Joerg Some NM: If

Re: Upcoming changes to supported architectures

2008-08-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11478 March 1977, Steve Langasek wrote: - If an architecture fails to be included in 2 successive official releases, it is moved out of the official archive (and away from the ftp-master.debian.org host). - We (as in ftpteam) are happy to help in any possible way in a move

tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi unless someone has a *very* good reason (and is willing to do the work) we are planning to kick the tools/ directory from our mirrors, as well as the dftp*.gz files in project/misc. Reason: - They are useless nowadays. If someone wants to install Debian from a windows system they use some

Deprecating (and deactivation) of an archive feature?!

2008-08-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi currently our archive has the feature(?) that a source package in component a (like main) can build a binary package in component b (like contrib).[1] Now, this feature is blocking (or making it way harder) to do some database re-designs we want to do for the central archive database, so we

projectb users - we want you

2008-08-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi as we are currently planning database changes en masse to the projectb, please, everyone that is using the database (via its copy on merkel mostly, i think): Please login to merkel and add yourself to ~joerg/projectb.users (the file is mode 666, so everyone with login is able to do it). List

Re: Debian Project News - July 21st, 2008

2008-07-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11454 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote: *) I assume that the priority of -dbg packages is extra s/I assume that// s/$/!/ Does it mean that not being extra is a bug, that the persons with write access to the `override' file will systematicly set the priority of -dbg packages to `extra',

sysklogd/rsyslog switch

2008-07-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Heya World, I just did the requested switch, sysklogd/klogd are now priority extra, rsyslog (not its -mysql -pgsql packages) are now priority important. If something else, like Tasks or so, needs to be changed too: Whoever needs to do that please do it. Thanks. -- bye, Joerg [ New Maintainer

Re: Policy or best practices for debug packages?

2008-07-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11439 March 1977, Theodore Ts'o wrote: *) I assume that the priority of -dbg packages is extra s/I assume that// s/$/!/ *) What section should -dbg packages be placed into? Should it be the section that the parent package is in, or something like devel? Currently usually the same as

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11424 March 1977, Francesco Poli wrote: Important disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. Those are *totally* and absolutely unimportant and a waste to write. Could people please stop always writing them, its fairly clear by itself that debian-legal does NOT do any lawyers work (and

Re: Bug#485553: ITP: charybdis -- fast, scalable irc server

2008-06-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11412 March 1977, William Pitcock wrote: So, in a nutshell, nobody in the current IRCd development community cares about perceived GPL+OpenSSL compatibility issues, so only Debian does, which is ok, but that's not so useful when Debian is already shipping packages linked against OpenSSL

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11404 March 1977, Mike Bird wrote: Artificially lowering the RC count in Testing is not always preferential to keeping Testing in a state amenable to testing. You say yourself that it's not artificially as RC bugs in new packages don't get that easily in testing anymore... Removing

Re: Bits from the ftp team

2008-05-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11401 March 1977, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Some time after this mail we will give a few tasks to those who volunteer to test their ability and then (maybe) have a few new members in our team in the not too distant future. I would suggest that developing a patch for

Large data packages in the archive

2008-05-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi, one important question lately has been What should we do with large packages containing data, like game data, huge icon/wallpaper sets, some science data sets, etc. Naturally, this is a decision ftpmaster has to take, so here are our thoughts on it to facilitate discussion and see if we

Re: Large data packages in the archive

2008-05-25 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11397 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote: I have a question about the sources: for big datasets, would it be acceptable that the source package does not contain the data itself but only a script to download it? Since the source packages are not to be autobuilt and the binary packages only

Re: extensive patching

2008-05-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11387 March 1977, Martin Uecker wrote: Nevertheless, the right thing in my opinion would have been to propose a patch, wait until it is accepted, and then to package the new upstream version. If you want that - build an own distribution. Or well - an LFS. Because thats *not* what a

Re: Bug#480718: buildd.emdebian.org: Unable to update gnome-vfs, new version fails to cross build

2008-05-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11382 March 1977, Neil Williams wrote: Package: general Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In preparation for a pseudo-package, buildd.emdebian.org, I'm filing Yes, as flooding -devel with lots of useless stuff (for -devel) is *THE* way to get those responsible for pseudo packages

Bug#479953: uniform header for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11379 March 1977, Cameron Dale wrote: Is that a bug, or were my assumptions wrong? FWIW, I think using real (not pseudo) mail headers is a mildly better solution, but I'm happy either way. Bug, should be in (real) headers. :) -- bye, Joerg Karnaugh Guy I wrote this thing but it really

Bug#479953: uniform header for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11378 March 1977, Peter Eisentraut wrote: I think it would be very nice to press these into some common form, such as X-Debian: BTS X-Debian: DAK X-Debian: PTS X-Debian: BTS-link Maybe there is a quasi-standard for constructing these X- headers. While I think most of daks mails do have

Re: Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11375 March 1977, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: As an alternative, could I just start from Ra source, and then in debian/rules obtain r-base's orig.tar.gz, untar it and then apply the Ra sources to it? Or is that too fragile? No. Do not assume that there is *any* network connectivity at build

Re: Please think and test before setting a mailing list as Maintainer:

2008-04-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11361 March 1977, Christian Perrier wrote: I happen to often send mails to package@packages.debian.org while conducting my NMU campaigns for l10n bugs hunting. From time to time, I still get such mails rejected because the said package uses a mailing list as Maintainer:. I did hate that

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: This does not need to happen before fall 2008. But then it would be nice if we could move it then. Who is in charge of the debian.org servers for this matter? Who would have guessed - its DSA, the admins of our machines. -- bye, Joerg Ganneff kde

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: As soon as that part is done I would like to consider moving the service to an official Debian machine. I've been sponsoring hardware for mentors.debian.net for the last years. In my opinion the mentors server has become an established resource and

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: One problem with hosting it on a debian.org machine is that this might include software not checked by an ftpmaster/assistant, which might very well be undistributable by Debian. Which is a *BAD* thing to do on a debian host. IMO not very likely to

Re: ITP: ttf-linex -- Free fonts for education and institutions

2008-03-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11320 March 1977, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: Description : Free fonts for education and institutions This package will provide free true type fonts that have been developed by Juan José Marcos and, later, donated to the gnuLinEx project. These fonts are very focused on

Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11311 March 1977, Romain Beauxis wrote: Hey, reading you I figured out that all newcomers are required to have contributions in Debian, which means *new packages*. No, it doesn't mean new packages. It means contributions. -- bye, Joerg A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the

Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
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 a tool to log your

Bug#467039: RFP: garmintools -- A Linux interface to the Garmin Forerunner GPS units

2008-02-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: garmintools Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Dave Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL or Web page : http://code.google.com/p/garmintools/ * License : GPLv2 Description : A Linux interface to the Garmin Forerunner GPS units

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11303 March 1977, David Paleino wrote: Ehm... using a better wording? I wont. Its an RFP, and I just copied the text from upstreams homepage. Whoever packages it might take whatever they want. -- bye Joerg exa And mind you, I have always been respectful to every debian developer

Re: Processing of .changes files by dak

2008-02-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11293 March 1977, Thomas Viehmann wrote: somewhere else etc. to map key fingerprints to Debian accounts. Add @debian.org and you get an email address (let's not care about people disabling it). ANY solution *HAS* to care about this, there is no way you can sanely think that [EMAIL

Re: pre-building NEW packages, when they only introduce new binary packages

2008-02-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11293 March 1977, Philippe Cloutier wrote: Lets jump in here, even if not all points address your mail only. If by disfavour you imply that it's intentional that NEW packages aren't built before being accepted, I think you're wrong. I think it would require not completely trivial changes.

Re: Backport of debhelper

2008-02-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11286 March 1977, Thomas Goirand wrote: I saw that there is now a new debhelper package version 6 in SID. I have been told by my sponsor to have a dependency to it, and set my compatibility level to 6. This is quite ok, but I need to maintain my package for Etch. I did a quick backport of

debhelper compat levels (was: Backport of debhelper)

2008-02-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
[forced change to debhelper v6 compat] Do not follow the advice of that sponsor, look for a different sponsor instead. Only ever update the debhelper dependency if you really use a feature of the new version. Now, as this raised some comments on IRC, lets clarify it a bit: - compat mode v1

Re: Backport of debhelper

2008-02-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11286 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: In any event, perhaps the advice you provide in your other mail in this thread should be included in the Debian developer reference. Want to write the wishlist bugreport? -- bye Joerg Debian is about free speech. beer once brewed can no longer

Re: Sources of dak ?

2008-01-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11278 March 1977, Roger Leigh wrote: http://ftp-master.debian.org/bzr/ Why isn't this on bzr.debian.org? Why should it be there? Its in /srv/ftp.debian.org on the ftp-master host, *the* central place for all ftpmaster related things. -- bye Joerg SUSE = Soll Unix Sein, Eigentlich. --

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11278 March 1977, Holger Levsen wrote: So we decided to switch to syslog-ng for now. On the #debian-release channel some people claimed, that syslog-ng is not a drop-in replacement, while other said so. I don't know :) Please explain here. Other options would be rsyslog (which Fedora

Bug#462152: O: smake -- Schily make.

2008-01-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi i want to get rid of this package. Want it? Take it, but careful, its Upstream is JS. If noone in a week or so - removing is also nice. Package: smake Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 268 Maintainer: Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED

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