Re: how to communicate removals (Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-09 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2011, 15:35:35 schrieb Holger Levsen: So, removals needs to be done, but they also need to be communicated _well_ (else where then on -testing-changes, thats a dump, not communication). In addition to what you said, packages.d.o should not forget about removed packages

Re: Debug output etc, cluttering the terminal

2010-08-18 Thread Josef Spillner
In data mercoledì, 18. di agosto 2010 11:00:04, Goswin von Brederlow ha scritto: Those are DEBUG messages. They are not relevant or usefull for 99.9% of all users and the only thing they do is annoy. Some of them have been around for years so clearly they are not something anyone is working

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-16 Thread Josef Spillner
In data lunedì, 16. di agosto 2010 12:35:29, Ian Jackson ha scritto: : Adam Borowski writes (Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF): On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:54:07PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: git://foo.bar.org/meow#debian At least, neither git clone, merge nor fetch

Re: Debug output etc, cluttering the terminal

2010-08-15 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Samstag, 14. August 2010, 19:59:50 schrieb Michael Welle: Hello, what is the reason that many applications clutter the terminal with output that is obvisously debug output? Lets take digikam as an example: In the specific case of Digikam and other KDE applications, you can run

Re: Debug output etc, cluttering the terminal

2010-08-15 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Sonntag, 15. August 2010, 14:19:05 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: I would guess they still fill up the .xsession-errors file, though? At least for me, that file is mostly useless due to: « ...Too much output, ignoring rest... » as the last line. Yes they would, because the applications

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-13 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Donnerstag, 12. August 2010, 16:36:56 schrieb Ian Jackson: This is easy: you just publish two trees, rather than two branches in the same tree. (It's a shame that there isn't a syntax for git clone which checks out a particular branch.) The --branch option to git-clone is going to

Re: When the init.d script exist, the service should be operational

2010-08-03 Thread Josef Spillner
In data martedì, 3. di agosto 2010 10:45:41, Petter Reinholdtsen ha scritto: If you maintain a package with a service started during boot using a init.d script, please make sure your service is operational when the init.d script exits. There are two disadvantages to this approach: It decreases

Re: When the init.d script exits [typo fixed], the service should be operational

2010-08-03 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010, 18:24:09 schrieb Steve Langasek: ... only between services that have declared a dependency relationship, which should obviously *not* be started in parallel. In the example given by Petter, dhcpd runtime-depends on pdns through some configuration option. This is

Re: Bug#590853: ITP: your-freedom -- The your-freedom.net client

2010-08-02 Thread Josef Spillner
In data lunedì, 2. di agosto 2010 12:38:48, Martín Ferrari ha scritto: This description sounds like a marketing blurb (in fact, it is copied verbatim from the webpage), I think that's not good for a Debian package. IMO it should just explain what is this for, and highlight that it is a paid

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

2010-07-22 Thread Josef Spillner
In data giovedì, 22. di luglio 2010 17:24:43, Nicholas Bamber ha scritto: Okay so that's what I learnt in school today. Could we have a link to it on the from page? There is room in that red menu bar. Actually I tried to look for it under support and various other places, but I could not find

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-21 Thread Josef Spillner
In data giovedì, 22. di luglio 2010 02:07:16, Raphael Geissert ha scritto: The problem with HTTP submissions is that there must be able to connect to the server when the cronjob is run. Or, alternatively, use any of the thousand message queuing systems which are shipping with Debian which

SOA base component packaging

2009-06-28 Thread Josef Spillner
Hello, I'm currently working on system integration of services and components for service-oriented architectures. Among them are a few commonly used base components which would be useful to have in Debian, and the rest would rather go into a derivative/pure blend due to their specialisation

Accepted ggz-client-libs 0.0.14-3 (source i386)

2008-02-02 Thread Josef Spillner
Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ggzcore-bin - GGZ Gaming Zone: various command-line helper programs libggzcore-dev - GGZ Gaming Zone: core client frontend library - development files libggzcore9 - GGZ Gaming Zone: core client frontend

Accepted ggz-server 0.0.14-3 (source i386)

2008-02-02 Thread Josef Spillner
: Debian GGZ Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ggz-game-servers - GGZ Gaming Zone: game servers collection ggzd - GGZ Gaming Zone: main server libggzdmod++-dev - GGZ Gaming Zone: game backend class library - development files libggzdmod

Accepted ggz-docs 0.0.14-3 (source all)

2007-12-21 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:59:42 +0100 Source: ggz-docs Binary: ggz-docs Architecture: source all Version: 0.0.14-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian GGZ Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL

Accepted meta-ggz 0.0.14-1 (source all)

2007-06-19 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:20:04 +0200 Source: meta-ggz Binary: ggz Architecture: source all Version: 0.0.14-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian GGZ Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL

Accepted ggz-sdl-games 0.0.14-1 (source i386 all)

2007-05-20 Thread Josef Spillner
] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ggz-sdl-games - GGZ Gaming Zone: game clients collection for SDL ggz-sdl-games-data - GGZ Gaming Zone: game clients collection for SDL Changes: ggz-sdl-games (0.0.14-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream version. Files

Accepted ggz-utils 0.0.14-1 (source i386)

2007-05-19 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 07:54:55 +0200 Source: ggz-utils Binary: ggz-utils Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.14-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian GGZ Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner

Accepted ggz-txt-client 0.0.14-1 (source i386)

2007-05-18 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 22:09:15 +0200 Source: ggz-txt-client Binary: ggz-txt-client Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.14-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian GGZ Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef

Accepted ggz-kde-client 0.0.14-1 (source i386)

2007-05-17 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:43:54 +0200 Source: ggz-kde-client Binary: ggz-kde-client Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.14-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian GGZ Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef

Accepted ggz-gtk-games 0.0.14-1 (source i386 all)

2007-05-15 Thread Josef Spillner
] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ggz-gtk-games - GGZ Gaming Zone: game clients collection for GTK+ ggz-gtk-games-data - GGZ Gaming Zone: multimedia data for game clients for GTK+ Closes: 422803 Changes: ggz-gtk-games (0.0.14-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream

Accepted ggz-grubby 0.0.14-1 (source i386)

2007-05-14 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 21:02:05 +0200 Source: ggz-grubby Binary: ggz-grubby Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.14-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian GGZ Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner

Accepted ggz-txt-client 0.0.13-4 (source i386)

2006-11-18 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:22:49 +0100 Source: ggz-txt-client Binary: ggz-txt-client Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.13-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian GGZ Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef

Accepted ggz-gtk-games 0.0.13-4 (source i386 all)

2006-09-22 Thread Josef Spillner
] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ggz-gtk-games - GGZ Gaming Zone: game clients collection for GTK+ ggz-gtk-games-data - GGZ Gaming Zone: multimedia data for game clients for GTK+ Closes: 388273 Changes: ggz-gtk-games (0.0.13-4) unstable; urgency=high . * Remove gtk

Accepted ggz-server 0.0.13-1 (source i386)

2006-07-18 Thread Josef Spillner
: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ggz-game-servers - GGZ Gaming Zone: game servers collection ggzd - GGZ Gaming Zone: main server libggzdmod-dev - GGZ Gaming Zone: game backend library - development files libggzdmod4 - GGZ Gaming

Accepted ggz-gtk-client 0.0.13-1 (source i386)

2006-07-18 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:39:00 +0100 Source: ggz-gtk-client Binary: ggz-gtk-client libggz-gtk0 libggz-gtk-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted ggz-kde-games 0.0.13-1 (source i386 all)

2006-06-26 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:50:19 +0200 Source: ggz-kde-games Binary: ggz-kde-games-data ggz-kde-games Architecture: source i386 all Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted ggz-sdl-games 0.0.13-1 (source i386 all)

2006-06-26 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:50:19 +0200 Source: ggz-sdl-games Binary: ggz-sdl-games-data ggz-sdl-games Architecture: source i386 all Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted ggz-txt-client 0.0.13-1 (source i386)

2006-06-25 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 21:14:43 +0200 Source: ggz-txt-client Binary: ggz-txt-client Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner

Accepted ggz-gtk-games 0.0.13-1 (source i386 all)

2006-06-25 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:39:00 +0100 Source: ggz-gtk-games Binary: ggz-gtk-games ggz-gtk-game-data Architecture: source i386 all Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted ggz-kde-client 0.0.13-1 (source i386)

2006-06-25 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:04:23 +0200 Source: ggz-kde-client Binary: ggz-kde-client Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner

Accepted ggz-docs 0.0.13-1 (source all)

2006-06-05 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:54:27 +0200 Source: ggz-docs Binary: ggz-docs Architecture: source all Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted ggz-grubby 0.0.13-1 (source i386)

2006-06-05 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:39:00 +0100 Source: ggz-grubby Binary: ggz-grubby Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL

Accepted ggz-gnome-client 0.0.13-1 (source i386)

2006-06-05 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 02:22:48 +0200 Source: ggz-gnome-client Binary: ggz-gnome-client Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner

Accepted ggz-client-libs 0.0.13-1 (source i386)

2006-04-02 Thread Josef Spillner
Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ggzcore-bin - GGZ Gaming Zone: various command-line helper programs libggzcore-dev - GGZ Gaming Zone: core client frontend library - development files libggzcore7 - GGZ Gaming Zone: core client frontend library

Accepted libggz 0.0.13-1 (source i386)

2006-03-26 Thread Josef Spillner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:39:00 +0100 Source: libggz Binary: libggz2 libggz-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josef Spillner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josef Spillner [EMAIL

Re: Package verification

2003-10-08 Thread Josef Spillner
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 09:04, Andreas Metzler wrote: 'chown -R ...' accidentally excuted in the wrong directory comes to my mind. Or filesystem corruption after a hard crash. But then not only files from packages, but also user files are subject of corruption. Using a tool like

Re: Question about libcdda_paranoia

2003-10-08 Thread Josef Spillner
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 16:58, Henning Moll wrote: Is this a bug in k3b? Should k3b try to dlopen 'libcdda_paranoia.so.0' instead? Is there a standard for so-naming (which is respected by all/ most Gnu/Linux distributions)? Shared object files that are private to a project are usually not

Re: On package description quality

2003-10-05 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 05 October 2003 17:10, Tom wrote: Whether or not an app is GTK1, GTK2, Tcl/Tk, or QT3 makes a big difference to this. So yes, the library doesn't matter, but the core feature set is kinda relevant. Maybe you could find another way to describe it. That's what package tags can be

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-20 Thread Josef Spillner
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 13:30, Russell Coker wrote: KDE 1.x was quite usable, while many of the beta releases in the 2.x and early 3.x series weren't... That's why they're called betas :) I don't think this whole discussion fits in here, for 2 reasons: - the KDE conference (which will

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-07 Thread Josef Spillner
On Thursday 07 August 2003 09:51, Yven Johannes Leist wrote: I think not even that is exactly true either, since the skills required to get a cvs account for KDE are surely somewhat above our NM checks[1]. You usually need to have a whole application written by yourself to get an account, and

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Josef Spillner
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 18:55, Ian Hickson wrote: Without meaning offense, that is a very selfish attitude. The number of future debian users is *significantly* larger than the number of existing users, unless something drastic happens to either humanity or debian itself. Why should everyone

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Josef Spillner
On Saturday 02 August 2003 09:01, Alastair McKinstry wrote: I disagree. We should ship ASAP despite, or even because of, older milestones. With RC bugs and d-i (as is) fixed, Sarge would still be an improvement on current stable, woody: the longer between releases the less useful the distro

Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

2003-07-31 Thread Josef Spillner
On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:27, Sam Hocevar wrote: And HTML makes it even harder since very few pages are valid, but that DeCSS utility uses only regexes anyway. Technically, using RegExps for CSS will not only become maintenance hell, but would also limit the usability of such a script for

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-06-30 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 30 June 2003 15:36, Josip Rodin wrote: And this proves exactly what? Someone who knows shit all about awk sure as hell ain't gonna learn it from that help output. Nor are they supposed to! More along the lines of behaving nicely on the command line, i.e. to support --help and

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-02 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 02 June 2003 04:06, Russell Coker wrote: However if an icon looks good at 100dpi then surely when doubled it should look just as good at 200gpi. One thing to consider as well is that while in the past X11 was the only windowing system available, there are a few others out there now.

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-02 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 02 June 2003 04:22, Chris Cheney wrote: This was done as a request by someone prior to my maintainence of KDE, long ago KDE had its own separate Debian submenu as well. Many people seem to think the way it is done currently is better than the separate Debian sub-menu. Also, ripping

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-01 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 01 June 2003 20:02, Bernhard R. Link wrote: It is related. Heck, this specification even gives in the example the Icon as .png-file. While using .xpm-only for menus is really long-lasting standard, with no reason to stop this... One day, SVG icons might be used, so there has to be

Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-21 Thread Josef Spillner
On Tuesday 20 May 2003 15:22, Theodore Ts'o wrote: (Of course, this still doesn't answer the question of whether anyone would ever want or use locale support to be enabled during the initial boot sequence, such that the boot messages come up in the local language) You don't have a dad who

Re: Do we need policy changes?

2003-04-20 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 20 April 2003 10:09, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Apart from telling various and sundry people about it, have you done anything? This is free software. If it scratches youtr itch, fix it. And send patches. The original author stated that it occurs that upstream rejects UTF-8 fixes

Re: Maintainers with excessive old RC bugs

2003-04-14 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 14 April 2003 09:44, Andrew Suffield wrote: This is a sorted (worst offenders first) list of maintainers who have excessive numbers of old RC bugs open against their packages. Bugs ... Josef Spillner Your script is buggy, fix it :-) Are sponsored NMUs allowed in case of RC bugs

Re: Stupid use of debconf award

2003-04-14 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 14 April 2003 14:13, Josselin Mouette wrote: Please, kick out all those questions. They have nothing to do here and should be replaced by either configuration files or autodetection. There have been 4 bug reports for more than 6 months asking for this and you haven't even replied to

Re: Bug#122642: ITP: ggz -- gaming network system

2002-04-21 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 21 April 2002 18:30, Daniel Burrows wrote: I see that 0.0.5 has been released this last week. Would it be possible for someone to ITP these now? (I'm not too picky about who :) ) Packages for woody and sid are all available at http://mindx.dyndns.org/debian/. Feel free to