Re: trasferimento di debian.it

2009-06-30 Thread Luca Brivio
In data martedì 30 giugno 2009 09:48:48, Marco Bertorello ha scritto:
 Il giorno 30 giugno 2009 04.50, Luca Brivioluca...@infinito.it ha scritto:
  - un qualche elemento grafico che faccia capire che si tratta di una
  pagina specifica per l'Italia;

 abbiamo il logo italiano (es. http://bertorello.ns0.it/favicon.ico
 sicuramente se ne trovano versioni migliori)

In realtà credo che sia meglio usare il logo solito (quello ufficiale di 
libero 
utilizzo) per rimanere all'interno del progetto Debian, comunque è un'idea, 
come ce ne possono essere altre...

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Re: 18 Giugno - Milano - Scienze politiche

2009-04-27 Thread Luca Brivio
In data lunedì 27 aprile 2009 12:42:11, giskard ha scritto:
 Il 18 giugno alla facolta' di scienze politiche alcuni partecipanti di
 hackmeeting
 in collaborazione con il professor Adam Ardvisson vorrebbero organizzare
 alcune presentazioni sul tema p2p economies.

 Con questo incontro si vorrebbe permettere ad alcune esperienze
 comunitarie
 come Debian di proporre il proprio modello organizzativo
 e di produzione.

 Per questa ragione vorrei sapere se c'e' qualcuno in lista interessato
 a presentare il modello comunitario di Debian in modo da offrire un
 esempio a chi partecipera' all'incontro.

Ciao giskard, al limite lo potrei fare io, però è meglio se vieni anche tu o 
qualche altro DD, di certe cose non posso avere esperienza diretta.

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Re: mass ITPs

2008-03-02 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle 19:48, sab 1 marzo 2008, Christian Perrier ha scritto:
 If someone cares to listen: when you think about ITPing each and every
 piece of FLOSS that pops around: think about *helping* people who
 maintain existing packages instead of adding even more noise to our
 noisy bunch of various crap^W software.

Just some thoughts:
- ITPing doesn't of course mean being packaging. One can have low priority on 
an ITP, and even when, once started, one finds that software isn't worth it, 
she can decide not to package it anymore...
- Helping with packages almost always requires more skills than packaging 
simple new ones, which OTOH is good for learning.
- Yeah, at least one should package use- and featureful stuff! Anyway I don't 
see *that* much ITPs for actually “unuseful” software, relative to how much 
software enters Debian...
- There's no big evidence about where exactly help is needed!

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(user)tagging wnpp bugs

2008-03-01 Thread Luca Brivio
Hello folks,
following a short discussion with Erich Schubert on the debtags-devel list[1], 
I decided to come with a simple proposal (are DEPs already active and 
useful?).

In order to have wnpp bugs better categorized (and, as such, searched, shown, 
and managed), it seems a viable option to use (abuse?) faceted usertags, like 
somebody from the Debian Science subproject already does[2][3]. These tags 
could be collected using wiki pages, and should IMHO mostly match debtags' 
ones (that would enable using them when entering debtags).

Of course, using just one ‘login’ for categorizing wnpp tags looks way more 
useful than having several teams each using a different one.

Any comments? What ‘user’ should we use?

If nothing against comes up, I'm going to use such usertags as 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and report (lots of) RFPs (and possibly some ITP!) for 
fields I am interested in.

[1] 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debtags-devel/2008-February/001764.html
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Usertags
[3] 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: (user)tagging wnpp bugs

2008-03-01 Thread Luca Brivio
Thank you for your feedback...

Alle 21:41, sab 1 marzo 2008, Don Armstrong ha scritto:
  If nothing against comes up, I'm going to use such usertags as
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] and report (lots of) RFPs (and possibly some ITP!)
  for fields I am interested in.

 I'd suggest just picking a reasonable subset of the tags

I shall see, didn't even quickly screened for applicable tags, anyway I guess 
they will be a subset of debtags + a few wnpp-specific tags. We haven't yet 
created a wiki page.

 and using the [EMAIL PROTECTED] user so the tags are visible by 
 default. 

I wasn't aware of this. It's fine to me.

 [Well, after testing using your own user, of course.]

or maybe using [EMAIL PROTECTED] again. ;-)

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Re: Bug#465660: ITP: extreme-tuxracer -- Arcade game featuring tux the penguin, snow ice and fishes

2008-02-14 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle 11:34, gio 14 febbraio 2008, Alexander Schmehl ha scritto:
 * Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080214 06:54]:
 Description : Arcade game featuring tux the penguin, snow ice and
   fishes
 
  At least uncapitalize Arcade.

 At least?  You have further improvements?  Sounds 3D racing game
 featuring Tux, the Linux penguin better for you?

Maybe e.g. make Tux the penguin slide down mountains and collect fishes?
(Tags: game::arcade, interface::3d, and perhaps game::sport:racing should 
apply, among others.)

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Re: DOAP files

2007-12-26 Thread Luca Brivio
mer 26 dicembre 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli ha scritto:

 I see two ways of serving it that seem to me much more useful: provide a
 centralized, archive-wide place, where we serve all the DOAPs of Debian
 packages. The more obvious places to me seem packages.d.o and/or the
 PTS.

BTW, I don't know what's with the Collaborative Repository of 
Meta-Informations[1]. Maybe Raphael can provide some useful insights to the 
debate.

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/CRMI

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DOAP files

2007-12-25 Thread Luca Brivio
Hi developers,

While I'm packaging morla[1], I've found in the tarball tree a little XML file 
named doap.rdf, which turned out to be a DOAP[2][3] file. An apt-file query 
(on 'sid', i386) showed me that there are at least three packages which 
install such files:

flumotion: usr/share/doc/flumotion/flumotion.doap.gz
mach: usr/share/doc/mach/mach.doap.gz
python-gst0.10: usr/share/doc/python-gst0.10/gst-python.doap

I haven't be found any quick way to search the Debian source archive for file 
names, but Google Code Search provided[4] me with a rough estimate of how 
many DOAP files are around there, in tarballs and VCSs. There are several 
dozens; what's most noteworthy, some of them belong to non-aforementioned 
softwares included in Debian. Sadly enough, they appear to have very loose 
conventions about naming (with respect to contents, at least a validator[5] 
exists, although currently only for any «pure DOAP, not DOAP in an RDF 
container»).

Now, DOAP is of course an interesting thing from the semantic web. The Apache 
Software Foundation supports[6] it. An ITP bug[7] has been filed for moap[8], 
a project maintenance tool using DOAP files. There are DOAP generators[9], 
maybe some converters, and so on. Info in these files are kind of like those 
which one may find on e.g. Freshmeat about projects. doapspace.org[10] 
collects DOAP entries, mostly generated from Sourceforge updates...

So, I don't know how these files might be useful (as sources for information 
on upstream projects, I guess). Anyway, I have some questions I'd like to see 
answered, so I may do a better job (as a prospective maintainer).

1) Should we include DOAP files from upstream in packages? (always?)
2) If so, where? (usr/share/doc sounds OK if they are only provided for sake 
of completeness, while IMVHO if we want them to be globally parsed and/or 
indexed it would be good to have an ad-hoc hierarchy under e.g. 
usr/share/doap)
3) (related to the above question) Should they have uniform names? If so, in 
what form? Should we distinguish between pure DOAP and «DOAP in an RDF 
container»?

I know you will enlighten me. :-) Thanks.

[1] http://www.morlardf.net
[2] http://usefulinc.com/doap/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOAP
[4] 
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=file%3A%28doap.rdf%7Cdoap.xml%7Cdoap%24%29
[5] http://doapspace.org/validate_form
[6] http://projects.apache.org/doap.html
[7] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422660
[8] https://thomas.apestaart.org/moap/trac
[9] http://crschmidt.net/semweb/doapamatic/
[10] http://doapspace.org

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Software italiani non internazionalizzati, con sito web solo in italiano, etc.

2007-12-11 Thread Luca Brivio
Salve gente.

Ieri ho creato una pagina [1] sul wiki di Debian per un elenco di software 
libero il cui sito web o la cui documentazione e/o interfaccia è in tutto o 
in parte disponibile soltanto in italiano (o comunque non in inglese), 
suddiviso per sezione.

L'intento è molteplice:
- fare venire più persone a conoscenza di software interessante;
- coadiuvare la pacchettizzazione di software «non internazionalizzato»;
- espandere in qualche caso la fruibilità di software che allo stato attuale è 
utile solo o precipuamente per chi sta in Italia o capisce l'italiano.
- (eventualmente) contribuire alla creazione di un repository per software 
utile solo in Italia, magari «ingombrante» per l'archivio, per cui sarebbe 
uno sforzo inutile l'internazionalizzazione...
- etc.

Editare il wiki è molto semplice, invito chiunque conosca del software 
(possibilmente libero, eventualmente anche freeware se particolarmente 
interessante) del tipo che ho citato ad inserirlo nella pagina, eventualmente 
creando nuove sezioni. Dato che spesso non è disponibile una 
descrizione «lunga» in inglese, invito chi ha la capacità e il tempo per 
farlo a creare (magari semplicemente traducendo qualcosa di già esistente) e 
linkare una pagina del tipo 
http://wiki.debian.org/PkgItalianOnly/$NOME_SOFTWARE.

Ovviamente accetto anche obiezioni e critiche, purché commisurate alla modesta 
portata del mio lavoro. ;-)

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/PkgItalianOnly/

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Bug#452422: RFP: yacy -- distributed web crawler and search engine

2007-11-22 Thread Luca Brivio
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name: yacy
  Version : 0.55
  Upstream Author : Michael Christen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://yacy.net
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : distributed web crawler and search engine

YaCy is a scalable personal web crawler and web search engine. One YaCy 
installation can organize more than 10 million documents, but YaCy can 
operate search clusters of unlimited size.

YaCy has a peer-to-peer web index exchange interface and it does not need a 
central server. Web crawls can be done collaborative with all other YaCy 
peers. Resulting indexes are organized in a distributed hash table, and 
search requests are pointed efficiently to specific, index-hosting peers.

YaCy can not only index texts from various file formats but also from 
different media contents. A search result shows interesting text, image, 
audio and video content with direct links to OGG, MP3, and video files.

Because YaCy is fully distributed, search results cannot be completely 
censored, only filtered by single peer owners. However, in a privatly 
operated search network the software provides a strong functionality to 
control the content of the search cluster. In a public search network, a user 
is anonymous because there is no central point where all search requests can 
be stored.

YaCy has a large number of users running their own peer to create a 
independent and open search engine. The standard YaCy release is configured 
in such a way that the software joins this public network. The software has a 
number of community function like a co-operative bookmark system, a news, 
blog and built-in wiki system.

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Re: deb-ice -- violating the GPL since 2007-08-14

2007-08-30 Thread Luca Brivio
Hi,

ven 31 agosto 2007, Robert Edmonds ha scritto:
 [...]
 
 The aggregator needs to either immediately stop distributing this ISO or
 provide source code for the components that require source code and
 clarify that the entire work is not under a single GPL license.

I believe -legal and perhaps -project to be the right mailing lists for this.

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Debian Packaging Handbook project mailing list

2007-08-25 Thread Luca Brivio
Hi all,

A few days ago Davide Truffa and I opened a mailing list[1] on Alioth, which 
will be used for the purpose of coordinating the writing and proofreading 
(hence Cc:ing the l10n-english list) of the packaging handbook[2].

I'd invite anybody which may be interested to subscribe. I'm also looking for 
a way to have all feeds for changes in the wiki pages sent through the 
list[3].

There has not been a lot of activity in the past weeks, but the TODO list is 
getting longer and we're going to put down several points and maybe have an 
IRC booth too, so stay tuned!

[1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
(http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging-handbook-project)
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPackagingHandbook
[3] see http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2007/08/msg00145.html and thread 
(please answer there if you can provide any idea or support!)

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Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-18 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle mer 15 agosto 2007, martin f krafft ha scritto:
 also sprach Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.08.10.1746 +0200]:
  Martin Krafft and I jointly gave a talk at Debconf about use of
   distributed version control systems for Debian packages (this is the
   quilt/dpatch/other dimension); I would be happy to help documenting
   that aspect.

 And I would be happy to contribute to any Debian Packaging Handbook
 effort, though I can't really write much these days. But I am always
 up for a chat, live, on IRC, via Email, or on the phone.

Manoj and Martin, thank you. :-)

I also can't write much by myself, just because my knowledge is so little, but 
I'm willing to contribute by now in several ways to such efforts (ATM, in my 
little spare time).

Manoj, please don't hesitate to edit that wiki page (and, at your choice, 
create new pages!).

BTW, does anybody have any concerns about the licensing?

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Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-08 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle mer 8 agosto 2007, Manoj Srivastava ha scritto:
  The goal is from my POV to produce something much more complete and
  with a different scope: while the NMG etc. are (roughly) tutorials
  targeted to people who want to make their first packages etc., the DPH
  would be a rich manual for all those who maintain packages.

 All of us who maintain packages?  Now, this is interesting,
  since there are several styles of package build systems out there
  (cdbs, yada, debhelper,plain); and even withing these are sub-genres
  (dpatch, quilt,integration/feature-branches).


 Is the goal then to include all possible manuals for all the
  styles extant? Or are you going to go for one preferred style (or a few
  preferred styles) and stick to that?

Thanks for pointing at this. :)

Indeed, it looks at me that one of most exciting and challenging goals would 
be to outline (and hence describe in a detailed manner) all of the different 
existing styles and compare them after several points of view, so that one 
can choose her/his preferred style based upon which she/he believe to better 
fit to her/his needs, rather than just the first they suggested her/him or 
that with the best documentation available or something alike. I think this 
would be also useful for mentoring.

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Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-08 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle mer 8 agosto 2007, Luca Capello ha scritto:
 Hello!

 On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:27:14 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
  One step might be to convert the New Maintainer's Guide into the
  wiki format, then importing any missing information from the Debian
  Developers' Reference to it. Putting it all in the wiki is good, so
  that it is more easily editable by everone, thereby hopefully
  keeping things up to date at all times.

 I'd still like to have something downloadable, because when I need
 to check the documentation I'm not always online.  This probably means
 that the wiki pages should be included in the existing maint-guide.

I agree with you. AFAIK, MoinMoin allow to export into DocBook, so it should 
be not too hard to make snaphots and include them in that package, after some 
checks.

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Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-08 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle mer 8 agosto 2007, Lars Wirzenius ha scritto:
 On ke, 2007-08-08 at 14:12 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
  Without that structure, and a strict policy of being *only* an index
  to existing documents, I don't see how this project would avoid
  creating yet-another-document to read, compounding the problem you
  initially described.

 I think it makes sense to start with an annotated link list, since
 that's a good way to make it quite useful very quickly, and then to
 expand it over time with original content, with the intent of replacing
 most other documents. As I see it, the wiki-based Handbook plus the
 Policy Manual (including sub-policies) should be enough.

This make sense to me. These two documents should be enough. Sub-policies that 
don't fit the Policy Manual should be included (at least at a first stage) in 
the wiki-based handbook. Furthermore, the New Maintainers' Guide should 
remain as a simple tutorial, yet the official one.

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Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-07 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle mer 8 agosto 2007, Ben Finney ha scritto:
 Thanks for taking the initiative to do this work.

Thanks for your attention.

  At this moment, we have the New Maintainers' Guide and a bunch of
  other more or less good tutorials, anyway when one wants to make an
  even simple package she/he often have to look at dozens of guides,
  tutorials, manpages, manuals etc. and not infrequently this will not
  be enough.

 Is the goal to replace those documents, or make them unnecessary for
 the developer to read? Or, rather, is it meant to be an index to the
 documentation that does exist?

The goal is from my POV to produce something much more complete and with a 
different scope: while the NMG etc. are (roughly) tutorials targeted to 
people who want to make their first packages etc., the DPH would be a rich 
manual for all those who maintain packages.

 What I can see being valuable is a document with the clearly stated
 purpose of pointing thhe reader to *other* documents, so that it
 doesn't take on the task of duplicating existing documents.

 That way, if someone starts to document some aspect of the procedure,
 it would clearly necessitate the creation of a new document for that,
 or the inclusion of that material into some other existing document.

 Without that structure, and a strict policy of being *only* an index
 to existing documents, I don't see how this project would avoid
 creating yet-another-document to read, compounding the problem you
 initially described.

One of the biggest problems we experienced is that the existing documentation, 
albeit useful and rather rich, is not coherent. I think we need something 
more homogeneous, backed by an overall design. This would not be 
yet-another-document to read, instead would substitute many other small 
(often out-of-date or contradictory) documents about major and minor topics. 
The idea is that one might maintain packages without having a lot of 
documents around all the time, just with a big manual which links to other 
documents only for reference. It seems likely that most of this manual 
already exists, and could be put together, edited, expanded and integrated 
with the permissions of its authors, or thanks to its licensing. One of main 
goals is to have a truly organic documentation.

I don't know if such a project deserves to be official, however I wish to try 
to make it work, and see how it might work.

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Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-07 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle mer 8 agosto 2007, Ben Finney ha scritto:
 Thanks for taking the initiative to do this work.

Thanks for your attention.

  At this moment, we have the New Maintainers' Guide and a bunch of
  other more or less good tutorials, anyway when one wants to make an
  even simple package she/he often have to look at dozens of guides,
  tutorials, manpages, manuals etc. and not infrequently this will not
  be enough.

 Is the goal to replace those documents, or make them unnecessary for
 the developer to read? Or, rather, is it meant to be an index to the
 documentation that does exist?

The goal is from my POV to produce something much more complete and with a 
different scope: while the NMG etc. are (roughly) tutorials targeted to 
people who want to make their first packages etc., the DPH would be a rich 
manual for all those who maintain packages.

 What I can see being valuable is a document with the clearly stated
 purpose of pointing thhe reader to *other* documents, so that it
 doesn't take on the task of duplicating existing documents.

 That way, if someone starts to document some aspect of the procedure,
 it would clearly necessitate the creation of a new document for that,
 or the inclusion of that material into some other existing document.

 Without that structure, and a strict policy of being *only* an index
 to existing documents, I don't see how this project would avoid
 creating yet-another-document to read, compounding the problem you
 initially described.

One of the biggest problems we experienced is that the existing documentation, 
albeit useful and rather rich, is not coherent. I think we need something 
more homogeneous, backed by an overall design. This would not be 
yet-another-document to read, instead would substitute many other small 
(often out-of-date or contradictory) documents about major and minor topics. 
The idea is that one might maintain packages without having a lot of 
documents around all the time, just with a big manual which links to other 
documents only for reference. It seems likely that most of this manual 
already exists, and could be put together, edited, expanded and integrated 
with the permissions of its authors, or thanks to its licensing. One of main 
goals is to have a truly organic documentation.

I don't know if such a project deserves to be official, however I wish to try 
to make it work, and see how it might work.

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Bug#434029: ITP: qfsm -- A graphical tool for designing finite state machines

2007-07-20 Thread Luca Brivio
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

--- Please fill out the fields below. ---

* Package name: qfsm
  Version : 0.44
  Upstream Author : Stefan Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://qfsm.sourceforge.net
* License : GPL
  Description : A graphical tool for designing finite state machines

 Qfsm is a graphical editor for finite state machines written in C++ using Qt.
 Finite state machines are a model to describe complex objects or systems in
 terms of the states they may be in. In practice they can used to design
 integrated circuits or to create regular expressions, scanners or other
 program code.
 
 Current features of Qfsm are: 
 - Drawing, editing and printing of diagrams
 - Binary, ASCII and free text condition codes
 - Multiple windows
 - Integrity check
 - Interactive simulation
 - AHDL/VHDL/Verilog HDL/KISS export
 - State table export in Latex, HTML and plain text format
 - Ragel file export (used for C/C++, Java or Ruby code generation)

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Bug#431824: ITP: morla -- GTK+ RDF editor

2007-07-05 Thread Luca Brivio
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Luca Brivio [EMAIL PROTECTED]


* Package name: morla
  Version : 0.12
  Upstream Author : Andrea Marchesini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.morlardf.net/
* License : GPL v2
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : GTK+ RDF editor

 Morla is a multiplatform editor of RDF documents. It is based on libnxml and
 librdf libraries. With Morla you can manage more RDF documents simultaneously,
 visualize graphs, use templates for quick writing and exec SPARQL/RDQL
 queries.
 With Morla you can import RDFS documents and use their content to write new RDF
 triples. Templates are also RDF documents, and they make Morla easily
 customizable and expandable. You can use Javascript code into your templates so
 so you can validate and change user inputs.
 Morla is also a modular software so you can add functionality about the save,
 open and view procedures.
 You can also use Morla as an RDF navigator, wandering among the net knots of
 the RDF documents present on internet exactly as we are used to do with web
 browsers.

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Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
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Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-22 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle venerdì 22 giugno 2007, Zachary Palmer ha scritto:
 Hello, all.  It has been my understanding that the reason that the
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributed computing software has not been made a Debian
 package is that the license under which it is released does not allow it
 to be free.

No, it's that the license does not allow it to be re-distributed:

 Distribution of this software is prohibited. It may only be obtained by
 downloading from Stanford's web site (http://folding.stanford.edu and pages
 linked therein). 

while often other pieces of software that allow to be distributed (and thereon 
packaged) do enter the non-free section.

 This software package has pretty much the best reason for 
 being closed source that I've encountered; they want to prevent
 falsified results from damaging the research.

Anyway this might likely not be enough for their purpose. :-( Am I wrong, 
right?

BTW, I would encourage them to (co-)maintain an unofficial Debian package with 
that software inside.

 And will people use it if I bother?

Less than 0.02% seems to have kfolding installed [1]. But I think a lot more 
people have (and run) the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client, and even more would do if 
such 
a package were provided.

 Thanks!

Thank you.

[1] source: http://popcon.debian.org/
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Re: Bug#428198: ITP: gabedit -- graphical interface to Ab Initio packages

2007-06-10 Thread Luca Brivio
Daniel Leidert wrote:
 Gabedit is a graphical user interface to computational chemistry
 packages, like:

  - GAMESS-US
  - Gaussian
  - Molcas
  - Molpro
  - MPQC
  - Q-Chem

Maybe the fact that MPQC is the only one which is free and already in Debian 
(so that this package will go in the main section) could be worth some 
highlighting (e.g. Gabedit is a graphical user interface to MPQC and to 
following proprietary/commercial software: [...], maybe also append like 
MPQC to the short description and make it Recommends: the latter). After 
all, Debian is about software freedom. :-)

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Re: Bug#425952: ITP: emacs-rails -- Emacs minor-mode for developing RubyOnRails applications

2007-05-25 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle venerdì 25 maggio 2007, Jan Michael Alonzo wrote:
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Jan Michael Alonzo [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 * Package name: emacs-rails
   Version : 0.5.99.5
   Upstream Author : Emacs Rails Team
 * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/emacs-rails/
 * License : GPL
   Programming Lang: Ruby
   Description : Emacs minor-mode for developing RubyOnRails
 applications

I think this should be merged with #418558 (RFP: rails-el -- minor mode for 
editing RubyOnRails code in Emacs). Thanks.

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Re: Bug#419951: ITP: jexcelapi -- Java API to read, write and modify Excel spreadsheets

2007-04-18 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle 01:37, giovedì 19 aprile 2007, Torsten Werner ha scritto:
   Description : Java API to read, write and modify Excel spreadsheets
  The Java Excel API is an open source Java API which allows Java developers
 to read Excel spreadsheets and to generate Excel spreadsheets dynamically.

(Sorry if this is boring) I think that at least in the long description it 
would be wise to fully qualify Excel spreadsheets, because there's no 
actual standard about them (Microsoft's as I guess? If so, either .xls or 
ECMA's OpenXML? Which version?).

Thanks,
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Re: hunting for Linux developer

2007-04-07 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle 14:05, sabato 7 aprile 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
 Hi everyone,

 *Wanted* Linux Developer

I guess debian-jobs@lists.debian.org is more appropriate for this.

Thanks.
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Re: debian rocks!

2007-02-05 Thread Luca Brivio
Il giorno Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:34:10 -0200
Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:

 skipped tasksel completely

That's bad! No idea about related efforts, but I guess one day tasksel
will not be for unexperienced users only.

 So, for now I can only thank the project for such a solid system. In
 the future, when I will be wealthier, I hope to donate regularly.

Good work is being done, I must thank all developers.
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Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Luca Brivio
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:02:55 +0100
Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Not to mention that a DVD-R can fit about three million times as much
 data as a floppy disk, which was the dominant way of distributing
 software at the time. We can continue keep playing these number
 games, but I don't really see the point :-)

Anyway, ~ 3 000 times, not ~ 3 000 000 times, sadly!

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Re: un pensiero sul libro di Martin Kraft

2005-07-20 Thread Luca Brivio
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:24:32 +0200
Samuele Giovanni Tonon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Io non condivido la tua opinione, ma sono pronto a dare la vita
 perchè  tu possa esprimerla

Il tizio sarebbe Voltaire, che però non era sempre tanto coerente...

Comunque non ho avuto la stessa impressione di Mauro. Tra l'altro si
parlava di scelte fatte in base alle leggi vigenti e non di leggi da
fare...

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Re: notizie su Il giovane hacker e la piccola strega di Luigi e Filippo Calcerano (Principato)

2005-07-05 Thread Luca Brivio
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:06:24 +0200
Luigi Calcerano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Si trasmette l'unito file con una recensione GIA' PUBBLICATA come
 notizia sul libro per ragazzi in oggetto che contamina fantasciena e
 fantasy L.C.

Magari l'hai fatto in buona fede, ma c'è chi potrebbeimbufalirsi per un
messaggio del genere...

1. Non si mandano messaggi *pubblicitari* su una lista per sviluppatori!
Al massimo la potevi mandare su debian-italian, specificando comunque
nell'oggetto OT. Ci sono comunque decine e decine di mailing list più
adatte e con molta partecipazione (vedi quelle dei LUG, ad esempio)
dove non sarebbe sgradito un piccolo messaggio anche di questo tipo.

2. Che poi non è affatto un piccolo messaggio! In 32 KB ci potrebbe
stare un capitolo di libro. A parte la risposta di Filippo

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-italian/2005/07/msg6.html

che ti vuole fare notare come sia pressoché sempre inopportuno mandare
allegati in Word, ti faccio notare che i file DOC sono molto grossi...

3. ...e molto più grossi del necessario sono messaggi in HTML come il
tuo, che per chi utilizza client testuali potrebbero peraltro risultare
illeggibili. Dato che non ti serve alcun tipo di formattazione HTML per
messaggi come questo, imposta almeno il tuo outlook perché mandi per
default messaggi in solo testo.

Grazie per la lettura, e scusa se sembriamo secchi ma queste sono liste
dove ci si vuole capire al volo senza scrivere troppo.

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Re: notizie su Il giovane hacker e la piccola strega di Luigi e Filippo Calcerano (Principato)

2005-07-05 Thread Luca Brivio
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 18:26:01 +0200
Marco Bertorello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Al massimo la potevi mandare su debian-italian,
 
 No, grazie... di spazzatura ne arriva già a sufficenza :-)

Eheh hai anche ragione, ma se proprio lui e il figlio sono così
affezionati agli utenti Debian... ;-))

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Re: un pensiero sul libro di Martin Kraft

2005-06-29 Thread Luca Brivio
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:34:09 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote:

 On Jun 29, Marco Bertorello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Non sindacavo su questo aspetto, semplicemente anche a me risultava
  che tutti i diritti riservati escludesse il prestito. 
 E sbagliate tutti e due.

Infatti. Tutti i diritti riservati credo significhi semplicemente che
nella misura del lecito l'autore e/o editore si riserva di stabilire in
un qualsiasi dato momento quali diritti concedere a terzi sul libro. Mi
sbaglio?

E comunque non mi risulta che si possa proibire il prestito a titolo
gratuito. Sarebbe come se l'azienda produttrice di un cuscino mi potesse
proibire di lasciarlo usare a chi mi dorme a fianco... Egualmente
assurdo. O no?

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