Re: Is bash-completion orphaned?

2017-09-18 Thread David Paleino
Hello, Il 18 Set 2017 13:24, "Axel Beckert" ha scritto: Since you granted the MIA team to orphan your packages as necessary, and since you seem to be the only bash-completion team member, I plan to declare bash-completion as orphaned officially after this mail. I hope you're still fine with that

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-09-29 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:26:57 +0200, Frank Bauer wrote: > Hi, Hello, > I am considering migrating my Debian testing system to a SSD to speed things > up. Since SSD lifetime is severely limited (about 5000 overwrites for > consumer grade MLC), I wanted to know beforehand, how much writes does > my

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

2012-09-09 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:21:57 +0200, Alessio Treglia wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Alessio Treglia > > * Package name: maps It would be nice if you could use a less generic name. :) Thanks, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino :

Re: Processed: reassign 660558 to wicd-daemon

2012-02-19 Thread David Paleino
reassign 660558 general thanks On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:57:12 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > # most likely related to DHCP and #609851 > > reassign 660558 wicd-daemon > Bug #660558 [general] general: hostname changed to unknownXX after > upgrading packages > Bug reassigned from pa

Re: Mistake in postrm preventing functioning of newer package (stable/testing/unstable)

2011-09-09 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:42:11 +0200, sean finney wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:37:41AM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > I just wanted to (try to) fix it for the biggest number of people possible. > > Maybe I'll just leave stable as-is, and try the solution I describe

Re: Mistake in postrm preventing functioning of newer package (stable/testing/unstable)

2011-09-09 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:21:04 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:28:09AM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > [..] > > Sadly, there's no way to ensure no one will directly upgrade from a buggy > version. This could be either caused by people not doing regu

Mistake in postrm preventing functioning of newer package (stable/testing/unstable)

2011-09-08 Thread David Paleino
Hello fellow developers, recently I uploaded a new version of bpython -- from 0.9.7.1-1 to 0.10.1-1 -- and I switched from dh_pysupport to dh_python2 in the meanwhile. However, I didn't notice a huge upgrade bug: 0.9.7.1-1's postrm inconditionally removed /usr/lib/python*/*-packages/bpython (I can

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-25 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 25 May 2011 10:48:55 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > [..] > > Yup, but I haven't looked further, since the fundamental question is > still open, TTBOMK: PET needs a cache that's written by the vcs > post-commit hook (i.e. on vasks) [and a cronjob] and that's read by > the cgi (i.e. on wag

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-25 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:25:37 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:35:00PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > > We should now be in the phase where we pretend it's done, wait for the > > complaints, > > It seems than cron jobs of users need to be reinstalled. This might not > be a b

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-09 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 9 May 2011 16:13:16 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:29:07AM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:21:21 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > I seem to remember newer NM versions (in experimental) have changed the > > > defaul

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-09 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 9 May 2011 09:45:41 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > * David Paleino [110509 04:19]: > > On Mon, 9 May 2011 11:12:53 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > > /etc may include only _static_ configuration. What you have is variable > > > state which belongs i

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-09 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 9 May 2011 11:55:39 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > Aside from privileges wicd needs or has to write in /etc, how does it > handle read-only / (including /etc)? Does it fall back to /var? No. I haven't tried, but it should be able to connect without a writable /(etc) (it already uses /var

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-09 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 9 May 2011 10:21:21 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 09 May 2011 at 09:39:07 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > I took a look at how NetworkManager handles that: it stores configuration > > using gconf, so it's not really comparable > > NM can go either w

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-09 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 9 May 2011 11:12:53 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > /etc may include only _static_ configuration. What you have is variable > state which belongs in /var. It's no different from a database, or dpkg's > status data. Static IPs, DNS servers and WEP/WPA keys for a given wireless network are

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-09 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 9 May 2011 09:39:07 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > ... Gah, I clicked "Reply" instead of "Compose". Sorry everybody. -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/

Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-09 Thread David Paleino
Hello everybody, I'm writing this mail to gather comments about a serious bug I received some time ago, for which I haven't yet had time to make a proper fix. The bug is #612918, against wicd, "Uses /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf as state file". My opinion is that wireless networks with some kin

Re: gtkpod packaging dependencies

2011-05-02 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 02 May 2011 19:54:14 +0100, phantomjinx wrote: > Hi, > > Someone with the handle 'mfv' came into the gtkpod irc channel wondering > about gtkpod dependencies as he was packaging it for debian. I put him in CC. David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino

Re: Bash-completion with triggers

2011-04-10 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:25:09 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:55:12 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le dimanche 10 avril 2011 à 12:54 +0200, David Paleino a écrit : > > > Also, we're currently targetting bash >= 3.2, so we need to

Re: Bash-completion with triggers

2011-04-10 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:55:12 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 10 avril 2011 à 12:54 +0200, David Paleino a écrit : > > Also, we're currently targetting bash >= 3.2, so we need to take care of > > backwards compatibility. > > For 2.0, we're probably

Re: Bash-completion with triggers

2011-04-10 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:24:11 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > David Paleino writes: > > I've implemented a new revision of bash-completion, which uses > > debtriggers(5) to load only relevant completions, and symlink them when > > something touches /usr/bin/, /usr

Re: Bash-completion with triggers

2011-04-10 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:11:57 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > On 2011-04-10 11:56, David Paleino wrote: > > Now, with that time spent, I suppose the objections against triggers would > > be fewer and less important. Am I wrong? :) > > I must say I'm a bit uncomfort

Re: Bash-completion with triggers

2011-04-10 Thread David Paleino
A quick update... On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:16:20 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The trigger is going to happen very often (like the man-db one) and > with a 10s impact it's very noticable... I think the time spent was the major objection, so I stripped it down to... $ time ./update-bash-completio

Re: Bash-completion with triggers

2011-04-07 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:14:31 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > On 2011-04-07 18:15, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Dpkg::Post-Invoke would be the right (best available) one. That would > > call your trigger after every dpkg invocation [...] > > This is not true, 'Dpkg::*-Invoke' script chain ar

Re: Bash-completion with triggers

2011-04-07 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:16:20 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, David Paleino wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I've implemented a new revision of bash-completion, which uses > > debtriggers(5) to load only relevant completions, and symlink

Re: Bash-completion with triggers

2011-04-07 Thread David Paleino
Hello Goswin, re-putting debian-devel in the loop, since I believe you forgot it. On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:20:34 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > David Paleino writes: > > > Hello everybody, > > I've implemented a new revision of bash-completion, which uses > >

Bash-completion with triggers

2011-04-07 Thread David Paleino
Hello everybody, I've implemented a new revision of bash-completion, which uses debtriggers(5) to load only relevant completions, and symlink them when something touches /usr/bin/, /usr/games/, /usr/sbin/, /sbin/, /bin/, and so on. For this to work, the completions have been moved out from /etc/ -

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2011: Call for votes

2011-04-01 Thread David Paleino
Hi Paul, On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 17:09:02 +1300, Paul Waite wrote: > Debian wrote: > > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 0942471d-23ab-4b5e-b5a8-02c2e74cb588 > > [ x ] Choice 1: Stefano Zacchiroli > > [ ] Choice 2: None Of The Above > > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Do

DELAYED queue broken?

2011-03-21 Thread David Paleino
Hello people, $ dput --delayed 5 mysql-gui-tools_5.0r14+openSUSE-2.2_i386.changes [..] Uploading to ftp-master [DELAYED/5] (via ftp to ftp.eu.upload.debian.org): Directory to upload to does not exist. WTF? :) I tried both with ftp.upload.d.o and ftp.eu.upload.d.o. Am I missing something? Kindl

New libgphoto2 in sid

2011-02-14 Thread David Paleino
Hello everybody, I'm planning to upload libgphoto2 2.4.10.1 to sid. There's a package currently in experimental, and I'm now asking maintainers of dependant packages (BCCed) to check whether their package compiles and works fine with it. A dd-list is attached. Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian d

Re: git-buildpackage branch names

2011-02-11 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:46:13 +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Hi, > if one manages two versions of a software : > 2.0, the latest, which goes to experimental > and 1.0.x, still maintained by upstream, going to unstable. > > What's the best way to name gbp branches ? > I thought of something like : > 2.

Re: RFA: all my packages

2011-02-11 Thread David Paleino
Hi Stefano, On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:00:58 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Decklin (2011.02.11_00:11:05_+0200) > > python-beautifulsoup and mpd need attention for proposed-updates; I > > missed getting them into Squeeze. rxvt-unicode is a total clusterfuck. > > I'm happy to take beautfulsoup (an

Re: RFA: all my packages

2011-02-11 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:03:58 +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:56, David Paleino wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:11:05 -0500, Decklin Foster wrote: > > > >> I'm looking for a new maintainer for, well, any of these. My heart is > >> n

Re: RFA: all my packages

2011-02-11 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:11:05 -0500, Decklin Foster wrote: > I'm looking for a new maintainer for, well, any of these. My heart is > not in it anymore and most of them have been neglected for a while. > Recently my free time has been taken up by other things (mainly my job) > and I forsee that cont

Re: Bug#609503: ITP: indicator-application -- Application Indicators

2011-01-10 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:55:29 +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/10/2011 01:31 AM, Alessio Treglia wrote: > > * Package name: indicator-application > > Version : 0.2.90 > > Please join pkg-ayatana on alioth and maintain the package there in bzr :) > This will help commiting

Re: Bug#602049: ITP: wicd-client-kde -- qt-kde client for wicd

2010-11-03 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 01:31:23 +0100, Iker Salmón San Millán wrote: > 2010/11/3 David Paleino > > > Iker, I see many people already reviewed your package. With my > > wicd-maintainer-hat on, I ask you to add a "Provides: wicd-client" to your > > binary package.

Re: Bug#602049: ITP: wicd-client-kde -- qt-kde client for wicd

2010-11-02 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:47:02 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Has there been any development in wicd in the last months that > suggests that packaging new wicd stuff is worth it? Due to time costraints of upstream authors, development somewhat stalled in the last months. However, I've recently been ac

Re: FYI: code.google.com downloads & uscan - fixed

2010-09-03 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:37:21 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:10:02PM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:12:28 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > > > After some discussion on how the actual links should be presented so > > > tha

Re: FYI: code.google.com downloads & uscan - fixed

2010-09-03 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:12:28 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > After some discussion on how the actual links should be presented so > that uscan can find them while still keeping the desired UI behaviour, > the links are now back in and the DEHS data for projects > hosted on code.google.com should soon b

Re: closing ubuntu bugs in changelog

2010-08-26 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:44:25 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Hi, > is there a simple way to close ubuntu bugs in the debian changelog > of a package ? Use (LP: #) > is this the proper way of doing things ? I'd say yes :) LP bugs will be closed as soon as your package gets synced. Kindly, David

Re: 3.0 (quilt) format and patches applied to "component" source

2010-06-23 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:06:07 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > That is because components are not supposed to have versions of their > own. :) If components are seperately versioned and releases then build > them seperate. > > Is it really so much more work to have 2 source packages? Seems to

Re: 3.0 (quilt) format and patches applied to "component" source

2010-06-14 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:00:28 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > Hello people, > [..] Ahah! I got it. > [..] > $ ls -1 *.gz > josm_0.0.svn3329.orig-plugins-0.0.svn21666.tar.gz > josm_0.0.svn3329.orig.tar.gz > $ doesn't accept dots. So, I changed that to *-plugins-

3.0 (quilt) format and patches applied to "component" source

2010-06-14 Thread David Paleino
Hello people, I'm trying to merge josm and josm-plugins in a single source package, so that it's easier to maintain them both. I succeeded in changing the buildsystem and doing the necessary patching to make it work; however I'm having an issue now. My layout consists in josm_X.Y.orig.tar.gz, and j

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2010 Results

2010-04-17 Thread David Paleino
Romain Beauxis wrote: > Hi, > > Le vendredi 16 avril 2010 12:28:57, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx a > écrit : >> The list of people voting is at: >> http://master.debian.org/~secretary/leader2010/voters.txt > (...) >> | 2009 | 1013 | 47.741 | 366 |361 | 43 | 35.636 | 7

Re: How does lintian detect embedded-zlib?

2010-04-13 Thread David Paleino
Hello, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Does someone know more about Lintians way of finding embedded ZLibs? >From /usr/share/lintian/checks/binaries: if ($info->field('source') ne 'zlib' and $info->field('source') ne 'klibc' and $strings =~ /(?:in|de)flate (?:\d[ \w.\-]{1,20}[\w.\-])/m) { tag "

Bug#577656: ITP: github-cli -- command-line interface to the GitHub Issues API

2010-04-13 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: github-cli Version : 0.2.8 Upstream Author : Name * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : command-line interface to the GitHub Issues

Bug#575327: ITP: httpcomponents-client -- HTTP/1.1 compliant HTTP agent implementation

2010-03-24 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: httpcomponents-client Version : 4.0.1 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://hc.apache.org/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : HTTP

Bug#575326: ITP: httpcomponents-core -- low level components to build custom HTTP services

2010-03-24 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: httpcomponents-core Version : 4.0.1 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://hc.apache.org * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : low

Bug#573611: ITP: gettext-ant-tasks -- Java internationalization (i18n) library - Ant tasks

2010-03-12 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: gettext-ant-tasks Version : 0.9.7 Upstream Author : Felix Berger * URL : http://code.google.com/p/gettext-commons/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Java

Bug#573586: ITP: mockito -- mocking framework for Java

2010-03-12 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: mockito Version : 1.8.3 Upstream Author : Szczepan Faber * URL : http://mockito.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description : mocking framework for Java

Bug#573556: ITP: oauth-signpost -- simple OAuth message signing for Java

2010-03-12 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: oauth-signpost Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Matthias Kaeppler * URL : http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : simple

Re: Bug#571041: ITP: dreampie -- advanced Python shell

2010-02-22 Thread David Paleino
Luca Falavigna wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: Luca Falavigna > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: dreampie > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : Noam Yorav-Raphael > * URL : http://dreampie.sourceforge.net > * License

Bug#568135: ITP: gpsprune -- visualize, edit, convert and prune GPS data

2010-02-02 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: gpsprune Version : 8 Upstream Author : Tim ...? [0] * URL : http://activityworkshop.net/software/prune/index.html * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Java Description : visualize

Bug#565623: ITP: colorname -- utility to associate a name to a color

2010-01-17 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: colorname Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Philippe 'demod' Neumann Gina 'foosel' Häußge * URL : http://code.foosel.org/colorname * License : GPL-2

Bug#565601: ITP: doxypy -- Python input filter for Doxygen

2010-01-17 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: doxypy Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Philippe 'demod' Neumann Gina 'foosel' Häußge * URL : http://code.foosel.org/doxypy * License : GPL-2

Re: Bug#564285: ITP: openmolar -- dental practice management software

2010-01-09 Thread David Paleino
Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that David Paleino may or may not have written... > > [snip] >> * Package name: openmolar > [snip] >> Description : dental practice management software > >> Well, a long description is yet to come :) > &

Bug#564424: ITP: pypibrowser -- graphical interface for browsing the Python Package Index

2010-01-09 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: pypibrowser Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : David Boddie * URL : http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/PyPI-Browser/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#564285: ITP: openmolar -- dental practice management software

2010-01-08 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: openmolar Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Neil Wallace * URL : https://launchpad.net/openmolar * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : dental practice management

Bug#563974: ITP: dhcpcd-dbus -- DBus bindings for dhcpcd

2010-01-06 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: dhcpcd-dbus Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Roy Marples * URL : http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd-dbus * License : BSD-2 Programming Lang: C Description : DBus bindings for

Re: Debian vs. Ubuntu source control file

2010-01-05 Thread David Paleino
Xavier Roche wrote: > [..] > > (1) Not a very common case, which can be left as is (ie. patch all > further control files) > > (2) We may want to have a namespaced control fields, such as: > > (3) Namespace specific packages ? > > (4) Ubuntu-specific optional control file ? > > (5) Something

Re: Bug#562009: ITP: python-keyring -- Python module to access the system keyring service

2009-12-21 Thread David Paleino
On Monday 21 December 2009 23:56:52, Michal Čihař wrote: > This package is already in Debian: > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-keyring Err, oops. I must have mistyped something, then. Sorry for the noise. (and not the first time today I make such mistakes. Maybe it's time to go to bed)

Bug#562009: ITP: python-keyring -- Python module to access the system keyring service

2009-12-21 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: python-keyring Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Kang Zhang * URL : http://home.python-keyring.org/ * License : PSF Programming Lang: Python Description : Python module to access the

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread David Paleino
Steve Langasek wrote: > Or do you really mean that you expect the package manager to treat removal > of 'wicd' differently based on whether the removal is triggered by > 'apt-get remove wicd' vs. 'apt-get remove dependency-of-wicd'? Exactly that, plus the fact that it is a metapackage. -- . ''

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread David Paleino
Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:00:35PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: >> However, seems like on IRC we reached kind of a consensus on the fact >> that metapackages should use Recommends instead of Depends. I plan to do >> a mass- bug filing on this issue

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread David Paleino
Steve Langasek wrote: > Those are exactly the correct semantics. It makes no sense to remove the > depends of a metapackage *and leave the metapackage installed* - what > purpose would that serve? Being able to # apt-get --purge remove wicd (thus removing any dependency/recommends/anything), w

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread David Paleino
David Paleino wrote: > [..] > So you're suggesting me to also do a "wicd" task. > In experimental I have "wicd" depending on wicd-daemon + wicd-curses|wicd- > gtk -- (it's a simple case, where the user might manually choose the > components, but it

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread David Paleino
Roland Mas wrote: > David Paleino, 2009-12-21 09:13:17 +0100 : > > [...] > >> I mean, meta-packages should *always* have their Recommends installed, >> otherwise they have no point in existing. > > If it's *always*, then… isn't your proposal point

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread David Paleino
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 09:30:04PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: >> > Ubuntu defines a special archive section, 'metapackages', which results >> > in special tagging/handling of the Depends and Recommends of the >> > package so

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread David Paleino
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 05:06:39PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: >> In fact, when removing any dependency of the meta-package, it gets >> removed as well, and all other dependencies become *leaf packages* that >> autoremove will try to remove from the sy

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread David Paleino
Daniel Burrows wrote: > [..] > I actually would prefer a Meta-Depends sort of solution. The > "dependencies" we're talking about are really not package dependencies > in the normal sense at all, and we shouldn't be confusing them with > normal dependencies. IMO, that basic conflation, while a

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread David Paleino
Andreas Metzler wrote: > David Paleino wrote: >> Andreas Metzler wrote: > [...] >> I hope no-one ever depends on a meta-package. >> Do you have any real case for this? > [...] > > kde depends on kde-core. And both are metapackages. (apart from the fact that I

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread David Paleino
George Danchev wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin writes: >> No, it doesn't. Dpkg and any sane high-level package manager won't >> consider installing/upgrading/keeping some package (meta or not) without >> all Depends installed. > > I agree. That flies directly in the face of Policy definition of Depe

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread David Paleino
Andreas Metzler wrote: > David Paleino wrote: > [...] >> With the *autoremove* command being now widely used, it can become >> difficult for a user to install a meta-package but some packages it >> depends on. > > I do not understand this, is there a word missing?

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread David Paleino
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Hello, Hello Eugene, thanks for your feedback. > David Paleino wrote: >> Implementation > [...] >> ### Package managers ### > [...] >> If any dependant package is a meta-package, as defined by this >> document, it should **N

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread David Paleino
David Paleino wrote: > Hello people, > per the DEP process described at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/, this is > the first call for comments on this proposal. > > Title: Meta-Package debian/control field > DEP: 6 > [..] Here's the full

[RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread David Paleino
Hello people, per the DEP process described at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/, this is the first call for comments on this proposal. Title: Meta-Package debian/control field DEP: 6 State: DRAFT Date: 2009-12-20 Drivers: David Paleino , Luca Bruno

Bug#555717: ITP: python-bottle -- fast and simple WSGI-framework for Python

2009-11-11 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: wnpp Version: 0.6.4 Upstream Author: Marcel Hellkamp URL: http://bottle.paws.de/ License: MIT Description: fast and simple WSGI-framework for Python Bottle is a fast and

Bug#553614: ITP: pudb -- full-screen, console-based Python debugger

2009-11-01 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: pudb Version: 0.92.13 Upstream Author: Andreas Kloeckner URL: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pudb/ License: MIT Description: full-screen, console-based Python debugger PuDB

Re: Debian Maintainers Keyring changes

2009-09-12 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:46:42 +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > The following changes to the debian-maintainers keyring have just been > activated: > > [..] > france...@namuri.it > Full name: Francesco Namuri > Added key: 20FC1C89F7B8F72408FDB4B18E2764373B30EB44 Auguri Francesco! :) And

Re: State of developers-reference

2009-09-07 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 18:40:44 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum, le Mon 07 Sep 2009 18:28:11 +0200, a écrit : > > We could simply decide that it's deprecated, and use a set of wiki > > pages to document our procedures. > > I would like to raise the fact that Internet is not available >

Re: Bug#534891: ITP: openssh-known-hosts -- known_hosts downloader for OpenSSH

2009-06-27 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:47:39 +0200, Timo Weingärtner wrote: > [..] > Upstream Author: Timo Weingärtner > URL: will go to mentors.debian.net as soon as I get the bug number This should really be upstream URL. > [..] > Description: This package allows you to download public hostke

[VAC] July - August

2009-06-26 Thread David Paleino
Hello, I did hope I could've sent this mail in a better situation, but my DSL unexpectedly stopped working a bit ago, so I'm anticipating my [VAC] message by a couple of hours :) I'm moving to the seaside home, and will probably have from limited to no connection at all, for July-August. Please fe

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-20 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:04:32 +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Sat Jun 20 09:28, David Paleino wrote: > > Now that I read Ben's mail again, I see that his concern is also about the > > Maintainer field. I suppose that should be a real name too then? Or is it ok > >

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-20 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:21:04 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2009-06-20 kello 08:56 +0200, David Paleino kirjoitti: > > Is material copyrightable under a nickname, instead of a realname? > > Yes, in all jurisdictions I am aware of. It's called a pseudonym and >

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-19 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:25:20 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > [moving to debian-devel as this is a topic broader than debian-mentors] > > Master Kernel writes: > > > Ben Finney writes: > > > > > [To be likely to have your package sponsored,] You will need to > > > identify yourself; “Master Kernel”

Re: Bug#533589: ITP: bt747 -- GPS data logger software, allows download, convert, and configure MTK Chipset Based Devices.

2009-06-19 Thread David Paleino
Hello, On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:30:31 -0500, Gustavo Andrés Angulo wrote: > This is a GPS data logger software, allows download, convert, and configure > MTK Chipset Based Devices. I own an iBlue 747a+ device, MTK-based, so here are some questions for you (I'm currently using mtkbabel) > # Downlo

Re: lrmi vs new kernels vs libx86

2009-06-16 Thread David Paleino
Sorry for re-triggering an old thread, On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:07:29 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:49:33 +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote: > > > [..] > > David, is there any chance that libx86 will be updated someday? Esp > > because upstream of v86d has an

Re: @debian.org out of working?

2009-05-23 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 23 May 2009 17:59:17 +0800, LI Daobing wrote: > Hello, > > sounds many f...@debian.org mail address is out of working (including mine). > > [..] As said on IRC: 11:33 effective spam filtering LOL -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #

Re: Bug#526993: ITP: claws-mail-debian-spam-plugin -- Claws-Mail plugin to report spam in Debian mailing lists

2009-05-04 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 4 May 2009 22:45:45 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Paleino > > * Package name: claws-mail-debian-spam-plugin > Version : 0.0.1 > Upstream Author : David Paleino > * URL : to be defined

Bug#526993: ITP: claws-mail-debian-spam-plugin -- Claws-Mail plugin to report spam in Debian mailing lists

2009-05-04 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: claws-mail-debian-spam-plugin Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : David Paleino * URL : to be defined yet :) * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : Claws-Mail plugin to

Re: make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 3 May 2009 10:14:57 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi you all, > > I am using vanilla sources to build a debian RT custom kernel using > make-kpkg. > Compiling goes very nice and ends up with a deb kernel package but make-kpkg > does't generate initrd using --initrd option! I had to gen

Re: Bug#526740: ITP: bpython -- fancy curses interface to the Python interactive interpreter

2009-05-03 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 3 May 2009 09:54:41 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Paleino > > * Package name: bpython > Version : 0.7.1 > Upstream Author : Name Argh! Upstream Author : Bob Farrell Sorry people. -- . &#

Bug#526740: ITP: bpython -- fancy curses interface to the Python interactive interpreter

2009-05-03 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: bpython Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Name * URL : http://www.noiseforfree.com/bpython/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Description : fancy curses interface to the

Re: Misc developer news (#15)

2009-04-30 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:47:11 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Raphael Hertzog schrieb: > > RFH: Removing spam from the listarchive > > --- > > > > As you all know, Lists and the Listarchive aren't 100% Spam-free. So we > > provide a 'Report as Spam' on every p

Re: Using debconf to give rights to users

2009-04-14 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:25:50 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, David Paleino wrote: > > From 1.5.9-1 then, if the user doesn't add herself to the `netdev' > > group, the GUI won't start up, firing DBus errors (#516767 is a > > clear examp

Using debconf to give rights to users (was: Re: Bug#524060: wicd: debconf should add users to the netdev group)

2009-04-14 Thread David Paleino
Hello -devel, please keep the bugreport (and its submitter) CCed -- (and the FSO team if it's relevant) On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:00:08 +0200, Salvo wrote: > Debconf could show a question for add selected users to the netdev > group, and then reload dbus service. This bug is related to the "wicd" p

Re: Needs help testing apt-xapian-index

2009-04-12 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:13:22 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello, Ciao Enrico, > I've prepared a fix for a bug that I cannot reproduce, so I'd like > others to test it before I upload: > > Preconditions: > 1. On sid or experimental Running sid/experimental on i386 here. > 2. apt-get install a

Bug#522560: ITP: bist -- chemical drawing tool

2009-04-04 Thread David Paleino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Paleino * Package name: bist Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Valerio Benfante * URL : https://gna.org/projects/bist/ http://www.autistici.org/interzona/repos_bist/ * License : GPL

Re: RFS: libnet - orphaning libnet

2009-03-30 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:12:05 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:22:46 +0200, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > > > On Friday 27 March 2009, David Paleino wrote: > > > After all, it's your choice, you should have fun working with VCS's > > >

Re: RFS: libnet - orphaning libnet

2009-03-28 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:22:46 +0200, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > Hello again, Hi Stefanos, > On Friday 27 March 2009, David Paleino wrote: > > After all, it's your choice, you should have fun working with VCS's (that's > > why I switched from SVN to Git most

Re: RFS: libnet - orphaning libnet

2009-03-27 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:33:25 +0200, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > On Friday 27 March 2009, David Paleino wrote: > > F/up set, please respect it > > (I forgot setting it in my first mail, sorry.) > > Being a user of kmail I don't really know if it is possible to easily h

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