Work-needing packages report for Jun 6, 2008

2008-06-05 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 450 (new: 12) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 107 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: Changes to the ddpo-by-mail service

2008-06-05 Thread Raphael Geissert
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> And the fact that he sends one mail per e-mail instead of one mail per >> package makes it even better (far less annoying). > > Agreed, specially for people or teams who maintain lots of packages. > > Raphael, would it be possible for you

Bug#484744: ITP: dbus-1-qt3 -- backport of Qt4 D-Bus bindings for Qt3

2008-06-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dbus-1-qt3 Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Kevin Krammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.freedesktop.org/~krake/dbus-1-qt3/ * License : GPL-2+ | AFL-2.1, MIT/X

Re: Bug#484009: removed packages are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Packages *temporarily* removed from testing and thus making testing less > usable *IMHO* is not a good idea. The release team has frequently temporarily removed packages from testing to unblock transitions and allow cleaner migration of a bunch of

Bug#484717: ITP: gibak -- A better backup system based on Git

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Hedderly
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gibak Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Mauricio Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-backup-system-introduction * License : GPL => v2 and

Re: Changes to the ddpo-by-mail service

2008-06-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/06/08 at 09:41 -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ddpo-by-mail sends monthly emails (one per maintainer), containing a > > list of issues in the package that person maintain: > > How long has this been going on? I don't recall receiving any of > thes

Re: Changes to the ddpo-by-mail service

2008-06-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ddpo-by-mail sends monthly emails (one per maintainer), containing a > list of issues in the package that person maintain: How long has this been going on? I don't recall receiving any of these mails, and I don't recall unsubscribing myself. -- Ben P

Automatic debiian installation

2008-06-05 Thread Anthony
Hello, I would like to use a system to install automatically all my debian pc. But i don't know wich could be the best between FAI and PRESSEED. Somebody could explain the difference the avantage and disavantage of the two methodes...! Thank you very much Anthony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Changes to the ddpo-by-mail service

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - currently, those emails are sent once per month (at the beginning > of each month). Until the lenny release, I'd like to send them twice > per month. (on the 2nd and the 16th of each month -- the 1st of each > month i

Re: Changes to the ddpo-by-mail service

2008-06-05 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > And the fact that he sends one mail per e-mail instead of one mail per > package makes it even better (far less annoying). Agreed, specially for people or teams who maintain lots of packages. Raphael, would it be possible for you to do the same with DEHS mails? Thanks, E

Re: Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 18:36, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > No it's not. A user that prefers to have broken software rather than > no software (if the option "non broken" software is absent) should use > unstable. I mean it. > > You can easily use testing by de

Re: Changes to the ddpo-by-mail service

2008-06-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 05 Jun 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > - I'd like to send an email to people subscribed to packages on the > PTS (summary keyword). If you are maintaining packages in Debian, > you will only receive one email, with the info for the packages you > maintain and those you are subscrib

Changes to the ddpo-by-mail service

2008-06-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, ddpo-by-mail sends monthly emails (one per maintainer), containing a list of issues in the package that person maintain: - packages' testing status (is the package in testing? has it been trying to migrate for a (too) long time?) - packages build status. Did the package fail to build on s

packages with perl-modules, CPAN, Policy

2008-06-05 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
May be I'm re-inventing the wheel, if so, please criticize. I write to the Mail List and not to BTS, may be later I'l make a post to BTS. I dislike very much to watch how the admins I'm acquainted with install perl-modules with the help of the command perl -MCPAN -e shell, however there

Re: Bug#484532: ITP: festcat -- Catalan voices for festival

2008-06-05 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:01:41PM +0200, Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote: > * Package name: festcat > * URL : http://www.talp.upc.edu/festcat > > The FestCat package consists of a library providing > analysis of Catalan text, and the data to extend > Festival so that it can speak

Re: Triggers in menu

2008-06-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 04 juin 2008 à 16:33 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > The current triggers code does not call the triggered script each time a > file is touched. The triggered script is called once at the end of the > dpkg run, and once after the set of changed packages are unpacked. (I'm > not sure why th

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2008-06-05 Thread pranay baitule
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Re: Bug#484009: removed packages are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 20:34, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 04 juin 2008 à 17:13 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich a écrit : >>> update-manager >>> update-notifier > > Update-manager *does* have an unfixed RC bug, and the GNOME team is too > busy currently to

Bug#484631: ITP: scramble -- Create as many words as you can from 6 letters

2008-06-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: scramble Version : 0.9.5 Upstream Author : Shifty Games * URL : http://www.shiftygames.com/scramble/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Create a

Bug#484630: ITP: s5 -- A simple HTML-based presentation system

2008-06-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: s5 Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Eric Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ * License : public domain Programming Lang: JavaScript,

status of bazaar

2008-06-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Bazaar currently suffers from #454313, but has reverse dependencies which prevent its sane removal from testing. It looks to me that bazaar is unmaintained upstream, the last 4 uploads in Debian are NMUs, and almost nobody is using it nowadays. The r-deps are: * pybaz ; * config-manager (h

Re: Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 04 juin 2008 à 10:30 -0700, Mike Bird a écrit : > On Wed June 4 2008 09:36:07 Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=testing > > Pin-Priority: 990 > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=unstable > > Pin-Priority: 500 > > Downsides include: > >

heimdal 1.2

2008-06-05 Thread Brian May
Hello, After messing around with autoconf/automake/libtool stuff for ages, I eventually got to the point where Heimdal 1.2 started compiling. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/brian/tmp/debian/mine/heimdal/heimdal-1.2/lib/sl' Making all in wind make[3]: Entering directory `/home/brian/tmp/