Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:15:00 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > > The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams; > > some thoughts from DebConf can be found here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/07/msg00083.html > > (especially point 3) > One thought captured in those notes

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:07:42 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: [Any reason why this thread happens on both -devel and -mentors?] > Josselin Mouette writes: > > It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are > > seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to > > the

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:44:18 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the > > > original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with > > > warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the > > > original

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:44:07 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > > But I have to admit that I run it very rarely because it takes way > > too long (including the time to unpack pbuilder's base.tgz). > In that case, using cowbuilder instead could work, #389223 Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.com

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:22:07 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Largely due to the need of maintaining a full chroot just for its > use, I thought piuparts had too high of a barrier of > entry/maintenance to be used by everyone. Am I completely wrong? It can use pbuilder's chroot, and pbuilder --cre

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:03:28 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > I think gregor makes a good point, and that there can be a reasonable > compromise between the two worlds of "hey, let's just use URLs in the > Bug: field" and "no, I'm too lazy, we should just use a nubmer and > refer to the Debian BTS" Th

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:36:48 -0400, James Westby wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Josselin Mouette wanted to allow bug numbers instead of URLs in the > > Bug-*/Bug > > fields. Several people expressed their preference for a simple URL field. > > Sub-thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel

Re: Bug#524998: ITP: libmqdb-perl -- MappedQueryDB toolkit for federated databases

2009-04-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:22:39 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > libdbd-sqlite3-perl (>= 1.14), libdbi-perl (>= 1.51), perl (>= > > > > 5.6.0-12) > > > > > > ^^ > > > WTH? > > aqwa『~』$ zgrep -A1 -B1 '5.6.0-12' /usr/sha

Bug#524706: ITP: libscope-upper-perl -- Perl module to act on upper scopes

2009-04-19 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libscope-upper-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Vincent Pit * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Scope-Upper/ * License : Perl (Artistic

Re: "Team uploads"

2009-04-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:52:54 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > In Debian we have several teams working on maintaining large numbers > of packages (pkg-games, pkg-perl, pkg-gnome for example). True :) > I > proposed[1] to silence the lintian NMU warnings in the case of "team > uploads"; where the person

Bug#522640: ITP: gpesyncd -- synchronisation agent for GPE PIM data

2009-04-05 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann /* Background: gpesyncd is the "missing link" between opensync-plugin-gpe and gpe-{calendar,contacts,todo}. opensync-plugin-gpe needs gpesyncd on the machine that has the gpe-* sqlite databases. Since I want to use gpe-cale

Re: Again: Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

2009-04-01 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:51:39 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > This is explained in README.Debian of this package (see svn[2]). [..] > 2. Is the information that plink was renamed to snplink visible > enough or should I rather use a debconf note to make users really > aware what they have

Re: One-time cron output?

2009-03-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:12:39 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > As an extra idea, on IRC Peter Palfrader suggested never skipping the > warning, but always sending it to syslog rather than stderr. Adding a NEWS.Debian file about the changed behaviour might be helpful too. Cheers, gregor -- .''`.

Re: Bug#519118: ITP: libcommons-java-java -- common java library used to support other developments

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:26:49 +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > > * Package name: libcommons-java-java > > Version : 1.5.5 > > Upstream Author : TiongHiang Lee > > * URL : http://onemind-commons.sourceforge.net/commons-java/ > > The libcommons-foo-java package names usually

Bug#519125: ITP: libjpfcodegen-java -- tool for generating classes from JPF plug-ins

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjpfcodegen-java Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Christopher Oezbek * URL : http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/oezbek/jpf/ [0] * License : LGPL-3

Bug#519124: ITP: libjpf-java -- Java Plugin Framework: plug-in infrastructure library for Java projects

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjpf-java Version : 1.5.1 Upstream Author : Dmitry Olshansky * URL : http://jpf.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang

Bug#519122: ITP: libjxp-java -- Java template engine/script processor

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjxp-java Version : 1.6.1 Upstream Author : TiongHiang Lee * URL : http://jxp.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang

Bug#519121: ITP: libcommons-invoke-java -- Java invocation framework library

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann * Package name: libcommons-invoke-java Version : 1.1.0 [0] Upstream Author : TiongHiang Lee * URL : http://onemind-commons.sourceforge.net/commons-invoke/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Java

Bug#519118: ITP: libcommons-java-java -- common java library used to support other developments

2009-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann * Package name: libcommons-java-java Version : 1.5.5 Upstream Author : TiongHiang Lee * URL : http://onemind-commons.sourceforge.net/commons-java/ * License : LPGL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Java

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:00:48 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >So: xcdroast does no longer work. Who is to blame (Bug entry): xcdroats > > >or wodim? > It's a bug in the xcdroast package. There is a 'cdrecord' dummy package in > unstable which provides a cdrecord compatibility symlink to wodim,

Re: Proposal of new control field: Date

2009-02-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:40:32 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Well OK, assuming network connections, one can always just do e.g., Or `who-uploads --date $package'. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, a

Best practises in team-maintaining packages - summary of the BOFs at DebConf8

2009-02-03 Thread gregor herrmann
Best practises in team-maintaining packages - summary of the BOFs at DebConf8 = Preface --- * First of all please accept my apologies - I promised to write this summary shortly after DebConf but ... * I'm posting th

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:44:01 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Personally, I'd add as a condition for this to be a reasonable > request, the fact that there should be enough packages with enough > test-only dependencies, which I'm not convinced it is the case. Are around 1200 arch:any libfoo-pe

Re: (UPDATED) mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2009-01-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:27:46 -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > Attached is the updated list, libpar-packer-perl: Ryan Niebur has kindly provided a patch, and I've built, tested and uploaded 0.982-2 with the patch included. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:45:56 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Freedom of speech is a constitutional disposition, and I don't think it is > something that could be acheive. It really is a constitutional act. > > It is also why I am against the Code of Conduct. Freedom of speech is an > utopism tha

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:04:24 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > > 2008/12/28 Lisi Reisz : > > > this topic is idiotic. For those of us who are old enough to have ^^ > > > been officially and by law down-moted to second class citizenship

Hyper-sensitive PC freaks

2008-12-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:37:35 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > But then I also thought the parody sent to > d-d-a was inappropriately sexist and offensive, so I'm apparently some > sort of censorious Nazi or hyper-sensitive PC freak or whatever the > current in-vogue terminology for people who prefer b

Bug#506233: ITP: liblchown-perl -- Perl interface to the lchown() system call

2008-11-19 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: liblchown-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Nick Cleaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org

Bug#503241: ITP: bti -- command line micro-blogging tool

2008-10-23 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: bti Version : 006 Upstream Author : Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/k

Re: #500000 24 Sep 2008 07:51:01 UTC :)

2008-09-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:02:35 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> we reached http://bugs.debian.org/50 > Who has won the "Chritian Perrier Award" for the best estimation of > time for this? Rene Mayorga. Cf. http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/09/24#bug-50-now Cheers, gregor -- .''`. H

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:21:16 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> You could run memtest86+ >> for at least 12 hours or until the first error. > Can I download an iso image of a boot CD with memtest86+ somewhere? I like systemrescuecd for that kind of stuff: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page Cheers, g

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:51:13 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Any ideas how I can start debugging this? I had something similar a few months ago, and it was related to the kernel's clocksource setting. But that was with 2.6.21 and 2.6.22, so probably doesn't apply here. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. h

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:54:09 +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > Clearly some teams will organise differently, and that's fine, but it would be > nice if we could agree a set of guidelines for using the Maintainer/Uploaders > fields consistently across teams. There were two BOFs at DebConf about team-mai

Re: cipux-storage_3.4~svn2489-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2008-08-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:06:24 +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > > I am perfectly aware that libversion-perl is available only as a virtual > > package in unstable and testing. I deliberately chose to use those > > virtual packages in order to ease backporting to Debian stable. > ftpmasters repl

Re: DPL teams survey summary summary

2008-07-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:20:00 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > As you may remember, back before I started the DPL job I promised to > run a survey. Thanks for your work! > 2. On the flip side of that, I'd also like to ask the members of the >teams that are acknowledged to perform well to help

Re: packages with perl-modules, CPAN, Policy

2008-06-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:42:34 +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: (cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please adjust accordingly) > 1. dh-make-perl > For example we build with itshelpthepackage > libwww-mechanize-perl. Excellent! The package is built. But it's > not a package, its a templ

Re: Bug#481973: ITP: libiptables-parse-perl -- Perl extension for parsing iptables firewall rulesets

2008-05-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:34:48 +0200, Franck JONCOURT wrote: > > The package psad contains a file /usr/lib/perl5/IPTables/Parse.pm. > As a matter of fact, all packages from cipherdyne are being packaged > to avoid conflicts between psad, fwsnort and fwknop. Sounds good, thanks for the clarification

Re: Bug#481973: ITP: libiptables-parse-perl -- Perl extension for parsing iptables firewall rulesets

2008-05-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 19 May 2008 22:38:16 +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote: > * Package name: libiptables-parse-perl > The "IPTables::Parse" package provides an interface to parse iptables > rules on Linux systems through the direct execution of iptables > commands, or from a file. The package psad contains

Bug#474398: ITP: libfile-pid-perl -- Perl module for pid file manipulation

2008-04-05 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libfile-pid-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Casey West, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Pid/ * License : GPL-1

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:01:30 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > I appreciate the strive to make Debian work on small machines, but it > > is reasonable to put their constraints on the whole project? > IMHO the Packages.gz file is already too large for my standard Debian > machines! I see this point

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:23:45 -0700, Karl Chen wrote: > Thoughts? What have I missed? Existing solutions or non-problem? Not a general solution probably but maybe interesting for you is the following RSS feed: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~joerg/removals/removals.rss Cheers, gregor -- .''`.

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:56:40 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > What about a bug... Bugs are our "pets" : we take care of them. > I guess I just repeat myself when I question why we need to join the > free software zoo. Is it hip? Are we hip? What's the gain? Why > bother? Ack. > A fluffy pillow

Re: dpatch -> quilt

2008-02-07 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:07:00 +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: > > * script (but svn-centric): > > > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/dpatch2quilt?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 > The script should (IMHO) make sure QUILT_PATCHES is set correctly. > (Cc'ing dmn because of this) Good catch, thanks! F

Re: dpatch -> quilt

2008-01-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:09:28 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Is there any easy conversion from dpatch to quilt for a given package > that is using dpatch? The following two links might give an idea: * manual conversion: http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/08/converting-debian-packages-from-dpatch.html

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

2008-01-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:21:41 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > About these new Vcs-* fields in debian/control: it's not clear to me > where the URLs should be pointing at. They are explained in the Developer's Reference, section 6.2.5: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-pr

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:20:59 +0100, Roland Mas wrote: > >> 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 :) > > Yes, please do so! I would like to read that. > Seconded. Also, please in

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing shared library dependencies

2008-01-17 Thread gregor herrmann
]> >libfile-spec-perl >libfilesys-df-perl >libparams-validate-perl Fixed in svn. > gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libmimetic0-dbg As Neil has already pointed out, also in this case the -dbg package depends on the non-stripped library package which h

Bug#453954: general: Lenny release goal: UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control

2007-12-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:22:50 +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > I'd suugest to include debian/copyright, too. > I'd be happy to add debian/copyright, too, but as the release goal > explicitly mentions chaneglog and control only, I think the release team > should ok it first. > (And of course the lini

Bug#453954: general: Lenny release goal: UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control

2007-12-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:37:42 +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > This bug is to track progress on the Lenny release goal "UTF-8 > debian/changelog and debian/control": I'd suugest to include debian/copyright, too. Lintian is almost ready, cf. #451689 Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.pr

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-11-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:03:34 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > While my packages are not false positive if we consider the version in > the archive, they're false positive if we consider the Debian VCS > version. Same here (both for my "own" packages and for all packages of the pkg-perl group). Che

Bug#444189: ITP: libtap-parser-perl -- Perl module for parsing TAP output

2007-09-26 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libtap-parser-perl Version : 0.54 Upstream Author : Curtis "Ovid" Poe * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/TAP-P

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:43:46 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Has there ever been a case where an RFP bug has actually stimulated anyone > into packaging a given piece of software? IIRC I have packaged a few perl modules which had RFPs. That's one of the goals of the Debian Perl Group [0] alt

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:35:30 +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: > Debian Perl Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libchemistry-elements-perl >libdbd-odbc-perl >libdigest-hmac-perl >libmath-combinatorics-perl >libmath-derivative-perl >libmath-numbercruncher-perl >libmath-spline-perl

Bug#437104: ITP: libdata-integer-perl -- Perl modules handling details of the native integer data type

2007-08-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libdata-integer-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://

Bug#437101: ITP: libscalar-number-perl -- Perl module for handling numeric aspects of scalars

2007-08-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libscalar-number-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sea

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:59:49 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > >> I tried reportbug-ng, and the interface was good, but I didn't manage > >> to send a report, as I didn't had any mail program installed, > > Ouch, probably reportbug-ng should depend on the supported mail user > > agents (Bastian, yo

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:52:07 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > > Please have a look at reportbug-ng, it might fulfill your preferences > > better. > I tried reportbug-ng, and the interface was good, but I didn't manage > to send a report, as I didn't had any mail program installed, Ouch, probably

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:23:07 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > Before, after a lot of trials and errors, I did manage to get > reportbug working, but I still get angry now and then, especially when > I choose a wrong option, as I don't know how to undo it, I must exit > the program and begin from s

Re: Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:35:07 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: (cc'ing the ITP bug to have this opinion documented there, too) > | How is iodine different from nstx? > - Works on !i386 > - Source code that does not make me cry and run away. > It's slightly less performant (in my experience), but I st

Re: Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:57:01 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Description : tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server > How does it compare to nstx ? On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:05:18 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > How is iodine different from nstx? Thanks for your questions. I've

Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: iodine Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Bjorn Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Ekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.kryo.s

Re: Filing FTBFS bugs and packages in NEW

2007-06-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:31:48 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > There are already RSS feeds for NEW. > where? it is not linked from new.html I know at least: Packages entering NEW: http://people.debian.org/~filippo/NEWrss/new_in.rss Packages leaving NEW: http://people.debian.org/~filippo/NEWr

Re: BTS subscription fixed

2007-05-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 14 May 2007 01:01:07 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The mechanism that allows to subscribe to bug reports in the Debian BTS > has been broken for some time (how long exactly is unknown). About half a year I'd guess ... > The problem only affected bug reports for which no "mailing list" exis

Bug#423619: ITP: libfontbox-java -- Java Font Library

2007-05-13 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libfontbox-java Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : fontbox.org * URL : http://www.fontbox.org/ * License

Re: pbuilder + local backports question

2007-04-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:09:54 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > In most cases, I want all build-deps to be installed from etch. > However, sometimes some particular packages are wanted from other > repository (where previously build backports are located). If I understand correctly you want t

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:39:26 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 > binary packages required by Policy: the SONAME, the -dev, the -dbg and > a -doc package. (Libraries for perl or other non-compiled languages > would be exempt from -dbg p

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:22:37 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > dmidecode output is a big problem. It includes machine UUID and serial > > numbers. > Yes. > Perhaps we only want to collect a subset of that information, or at > least warn the admin about the issues. I'd suggest to show the per

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:39:32 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I may be wrong, I don't know, but in my opinion a ping to call back home > > even if the user said `No' is a evil behaviour and Debian should avoid it. > I agree. If the user says "no", we should do nothing. Full ack. > [ ] N

Re: Debhelper and variable substitution in *.install files etc.

2007-03-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:19:21 +0100, Paul Cager wrote: >/usr/share/java/thing.jar -> /usr/share/java/thing-1.2.3.jar > The rules file already has "PACKAGE" and "VERSION" variables (parsed > from the changelog). It would be really nice if the config files could > use variable substitution, so t

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:33:30 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > you always have the problem that you > might miss new configuration flags or you have to adapt the > new file manually from your old backup and "merge" the > changes. Ack, that's annoying IMO. > What about the possibility to view the pa

Re: Roundcube

2007-02-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:27:26 -0200, Fernando M.M. wrote: > Althought i have already seen some old discussion about packing the > webmail Roundcube (1) i have not found the package using the > package search (2). [..] > Is someone working on it? Seems so: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c

Bug#411880: ITP: libglazedlists-java -- java list transformation library

2007-02-21 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libglazedlists-java Version : 1.7.0 Upstream Author : publicobject.com, O'Dell Engineering Ltd. * URL

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:22:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > But Manoj says the 'maintainer ping' was tried and was > not liked. So I guess some other method need to be found. Just out of curiosity: What exactly was this "maintainer ping" and why was it disliked? gregor -- .''`. http://info.com

Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?

2007-01-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:03:03 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [pkg-ruby] > Maintainer: "main responsible person for the package" (ie best contact > point) > Uploaders: the team mailing list, + all the members of the team > (auto-generated using a cdbs rule) It's interesting that you bring thi

Bug#404519: ITP: libpdfbox-java -- Java PDF library

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libpdfbox-java Version : 0.7.3 Upstream Author : "www.pdfbox.org" * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/

Bug#404515: ITP: libjgraph-java -- graph component for Java

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjgraph-java Version : 5.9.2.1 Upstream Author : Gaudenz Alder * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgraph/ * L

Bug#404513: ITP: libjempbox-java -- XMP Compatible Java Library

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjempbox-java Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : "www.fontbox.org" * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/j

Bug#404512: ITP: libmicroba-java -- set of JFC (Swing) components

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libmicroba-java Version : 0.4.4 Upstream Author : Michael Baranov * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/microba/ * L

Bug#404511: ITP: libspin-java -- transparent threading solution for non-freezing Swing applications

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libspin-java Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Sven Meier * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/spin/ * License

Bug#404510: ITP: libjgoodies-looks-java -- library with Swing look&feel implementations

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjgoodies-looks-java Version : 2.1.1 Upstream Author : Karsten Lentzsch * URL : http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:45:31 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: > I would prefer, however, to keep the package name as "sixpack" rather than > change it. Just FYI: There is a package called 'sixpack' containing a BibTeX editor [0] but it's only 1) in my private repository and 2) in Ubuntu. I never trie

Re: how can download and run checklib

2006-10-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:47:48 +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > I also couldn't find in the FAQ [3] any reference about how to > download checklib. > [3] http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/faq.html > How can download and run checklib? On http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/ the last line says: "

Re: want to contribute

2006-10-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:39:18 -0500, Arvind kumar wrote: > I am using debian linux for quite some time and quite impress by it. I want > to contribute to its development . > Please give me some pointers . I looked at website , it not quite clear how > to start Take a look at http://www.debian.org/

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:20:30 +0200, Izak Burger wrote: > >xv was removed from Debian over five years ago due to licensing issues, so > >I'm afraid you're likely to have to rebuild it yourself against xorg in > >order to make it work. > Oh yes, I remember it now. It is an image viewer/manipulator

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:24:40 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > You can actually look at what different layouts look like, by using the > "xkbprint" tool and a compiled xkb keymap (see xkbcomp, or fetch it from > your running X server). Or xkeycaps. gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.a

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:52:58 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > A "-" might work on the numeric > > keyboard but it is often even hard enough to find the '=' > would it be kooky to use numbers instead of letters and then have the > help screen show what the number mean: eg. > task=001 # sets gnome desk

Bug#388569: general: always printed in letter format

2006-09-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:13:27 +0200, gerhard oettl wrote: > Since updating to etch some weeks ago i was not able to print > from firefox, because always letter format is requested on the > printer panel. Do you have /etc/papersize and what is its content? $ cat /etc/papersize a4 $ Cf. also man

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:59:11 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > * sendemail -- does what it says. > -- Small and written in perl -- maybe the Debian Perl Group would like it? AFAIK at the moment the DPG only maintains Perl modules. > Meanwhile, I don't suppose I could convince the Debian Perl Grou

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:58:31 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > (There are quite a few more -perl and -ruby packages, but I'm not quite sure > which ones have been picked up.) The lib*-perl packages are all already in the Debian Perl Group's svn repository and will be uploaded soon. gregor --

Bug#387628: ITP: libdatetime-format-mysql-perl -- Parse and format MySQL dates and times

2006-09-15 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libdatetime-format-mysql-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : David Rolsky * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-

Bug#387629: ITP: libdatetime-format-builder-perl -- Create DateTime parser classes and objects

2006-09-15 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libdatetime-format-builder-perl Version : 0.7807 Upstream Author : Kellan Elliott-McCrea * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modu

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:00:06 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > >I was planning on starting the wide adopting process to the group, Fine, I had the same idea. > >but > >if you can help, much better. Ack. > I have no experience with maintaining within a group, but I will be > happy to learn :) J

Bug#352653: RFP: libmail-domainkeys-perl -- Perl DomainKeys implementation

2006-08-14 Thread gregor herrmann
Anything new regarding libmail-domainkeys-perl? I'd really like to see this module in Debian. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to

Re: Bug#381568: ITP: med-fichier -- Library to exchange meshed data

2006-08-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:27:23 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >* Package name: med-fichier > >MED-fichier (Modélisation et Echanges de Données, in English Modelisation > >and Data Exchange) is a library to store and exchange meshed data or > >computation results. It uses the HDF5 file format to s

Re: Bug#378996: ITP: vulcan -- chess variant inspired by a certain well-known science fiction TV series

2006-07-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:54:16 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Hi, > * Package name: vulcan > Version : 0.2 > Upstream Author : Mauro Persano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.fzort.org/mpr/projects/vulcan/ > * License : GPL > Description : chess variant i

Re: Bug#374088: ITP: openmovieeditor -- a simple non-linear video editor

2006-06-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:43:10 +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > * Package name: openmovieeditor > Version : 0.0.20060326 > Upstream Author : Richard Spindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://propirate.net/oracle/zipfiles/ This URL just gives me an empty page. Linked fr

Re: Bug#372239: ITP: Nmap::Parser - parse nmap scan data with perl

2006-06-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:50:32PM -0400, Joshua D. Abraham wrote: > * Package name : Nmap::Parser > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~apersaud/Nmap-Parser-1.05/Parser.pm I guess the package should be named libnmap-parser-perl like all other Perl module packages. Cf. also http://www.debian.org/doc/

Re: jabref destiny

2006-06-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:33:14PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > The problem from my point of view is that it builds in my normal > > environment (with the Sun Java jre/jdk installed) but not in a > > pbuilder chroot (because the Sun Java packages require a "Yes, I > > agree with this licen

Bug#370485: ITP: libdata-random-perl -- Perl module to generate random data

2006-06-05 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdata-random-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Adekunle Olonoh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~adeo/Data-Random-0.05/Random.pm * License

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:46:30AM -0700, Zak B. Elep wrote: > >* libdigest-hmac-perl, libdigest-sha1-perl, libdigest-md2-perl, > > libdigest-perl, libio-interface-perl, libio-socket-multicast-perl, > > libnet-xwhois-perl, libvideo-capture-v4l-perl > I'd like to take these up. Oops, I just saw yo

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