Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-01 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 01.11.2004, 10:58 +0100 schrieb Frank Küster: >- a README.Debian-source file added to the orig.tar.gz I think this is should be done, or any other way that clearly marks the .tar.gz as modified (even if only files are removed, it is a modification). Anyone downloading a .o

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Joachim Breitner
nice pictures (sunrise, tree loosing trees). The program could then offer a link to a website where the user can easily download .tar.gz'ed themes which can be installed using drag 'n drop - and everyone would be happy. With regards, nomeata -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 03.12.2004, 22:55 -0600 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:55 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Thursday 02 December 2004 19:21, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We could have ftp.debian.XX (where XX is the country code) be a cname > > pointing > > to

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 04.12.2004, 05:49 -0600 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > That might have been me. > It was Cesar Martinez Izquierdo. Ok, so it was _also_ me :-) > > I also suggested using DebTags as the > > categorizing mechanism for that. > > Maybe the 2 could be used i

Bug#296448: ITP: poc -- MP3 streaming server and tools

2005-02-22 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: poc Version : 0.4. Upstream Author : Manuel Odendahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.bl0rg.net/software/poc/ * License : BSD Description : M

Bug#347807: ITP: xara -- a vector drawing program

2006-01-12 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xara * URL : http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ * License : to be released as GPL Description : a vector drawing program The makers of the long-around Windows XaraX vector d

Prelimary Debian Packages

2006-02-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, As promised, I worked on packaging XaraLX for debian. I have put a simple package for debian unstable on http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/xaralx/xaralx_0.svn20060223-1_i386.deb Please not that the source package is not yet available, as the source is not yet released. Please report non-pack

Re: Drop the minor release number

2005-07-10 Thread Joachim Breitner
Am Freitag, den 08.07.2005, 17:05 +0200 schrieb Eduard Bloch: > There is really no reason for having a "minor release > number after dot" in the Debian version, it justs leads people to > pointless discussions like this one. Well, your suggestion sounds pointless to me. I like it though. Skip the

Debian Bug Subscription Feature

2005-07-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Something that I have been missing for along time is the posibility to subscribe to single bugs in our bugtracking system. Two years ago, at Oslo, I created a patch to debbugs that would add that feature, but due to slow communication with the debbugs team and probably not enough persistence o

Debian Packages for XaraLX

2006-03-25 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi everybody, on http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/xaralx/, you can find debian source and binary (i386) packages for XaraLX[1], the recently GPL-freed vector drawing application. The packages are there for public review of both the program itself and the packaging work. Please note that until Xa

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-26 Thread Joachim Breitner
debcamp in Oslo... Joachim -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Homepage: http://www.joachim-breitner.de JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C | ICQ#: 74513189 Geekcode: GCS/IT/S d-- s++:- a--- C++ UL+++ P+++ !E W+++ N-- !W O? M?>+ V? PS++ PE PGP++ t? 5? X- R+

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Is there something similar for exim (woody version)? I don't care too much about the incoming bandwidth, but more about the resources that the spam and virus checks consume, especially during these spam virus waves. So I could add a (hopefully) cheap check at MTA level to reject these mails un

Re: Bug#192101: We need gnucash in stable

2003-09-26 Thread Joachim Breitner
s previously been compiled for in testing; ? Am Di, den 16.09.2003 schrieb Joachim Breitner um 16:52: > Am Di, 2003-09-16 um 16.33 schrieb James A. Treacy: > > I tried this before the last release and the archive maintainers were > > not receptive to the idea(**). If we can get the a

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-02 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Do, den 02.10.2003 schrieb Peter Makholm um 12:38: > - Gnome > - KDE I just wondered how far your understanding of these goes? Only the base environment, or also those applications that don't really belong to - for example - the official Gnome distribution, but are needed to make the com

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-02 Thread Joachim Breitner
Am Do, den 02.10.2003 schrieb Joachim Breitner um 16:55: > I just wondered how far your understanding of these goes? Uh. Please don't get it wrong, and consider the .de in my mail address. I am not at all saying that you don't understand something. Merely, I wonder what you _meant_

Reformatted Ubuntu Patches Repository

2005-07-17 Thread Joachim Breitner
way for Debian maintainers to look for possible useful patches from Ubuntu. Greetings, Joachim Breitner -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata sig

Bug#333690: ITP: prefixsuffix -- gui application that renames batches of files

2005-10-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: prefixsuffix Version : 0.5.0+cvs.2005.06.18 Upstream Author : Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://prefixsuffix.sourceforge.net/ * License

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 11.03.2008, 05:23 -0700 schrieb Karl Chen: > Thoughts? What have I missed? Existing solutions or non-problem? > How can we move towards implementing something like this? What > other ideas are there for dealing with disappearing packages? A solution that’s possible without

Re: Bug#479440: ITP: funpidgin -- A pidgin fork

2008-05-05 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 05.05.2008, 01:19 -0400 schrieb Kevin Mark: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:28:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:24 +0300, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > *

Re: Paid help for DDs and Debian infrastructure?

2009-07-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 11:17 +0200 schrieb Steffen Moeller: > * the web-pages team might possibly need more helping hands to implement > what they want > to implement and/or to coordinate the translations etc .. so they could get > some more > graphical skills in or .. they would need

Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

2009-10-17 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, just an idea that occured to me right now when filing a bug against a package where I already know that it’s an upstream bug, but I don’t want to spend time finding out * where the upstream bugtracker

Re: Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

2009-10-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 19.10.2009, 11:20 +0200 schrieb Olivier Berger: > Le samedi 17 octobre 2009 à 23:27 +0200, Joachim Breitner a écrit : > > just an idea that occured to me right now when filing a bug against a > > package where I already know that it’s an upstream bug, but I do

FP: dita-ot -- transforms DITA content (maps and topics) into deliverable formats

2009-11-10 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, it seems that RFPs are not forwarded to d-devel any more, and that my List-CC to debian-sgml did not work, so here is the RFP I just filed at http://bugs.debian.org/555635 * Package name: dita-ot Version : 1.4.1 * URL : http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/ * License

Bug#560178: ITP: unicode-screensaver -- screensaver displaying unicode characters

2009-12-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joachim Breitner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I’m about to upload this to Debian: * Package name: unicode-screensaver Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Joachim Breitner * URL : http://www.joachim

Re: Bug#560178: ITP: unicode-screensaver -- screensaver displaying unicode characters

2009-12-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 19:37 +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:48:00PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > It works with xscreensaver or gnome-screensaver. > > Did you found any trick how it works with xscreensaver? For myself the > greatest

Re: Bug#561688: ITP: turbotail -- drop-in replacement for tail, using FAM for following files

2009-12-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 19.12.2009, 17:24 +0100 schrieb Christian Dietrich: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Christian Dietrich > > > * Package name: turbotail > Version : 0.3 > Upstream Author : Folkert van Heusden > * URL : http://www.vanheusden.com/turbo

http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/ still used?

2007-05-30 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, I am wondering if anyone still uses the re-ordered ubuntu patches provided by the Utnubu team at http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/ If nobody finds this useful, I’d probably do the alioth admins a favor if I stop the cronjob. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitn

Debian on the FreeRunner -- now official

2008-08-15 Thread Joachim Breitner
But don’t worry – I’m sure there are some bugs left for you! Please send replies and further discussion to the smartphone-standards[5] mailing list, but note that you have to subscribe to that list first. Enjoy! Joachim Breitner on behalf of the pkg-fso team: Philipp Kern

Re: Debian on the FreeRunner -- now official

2008-08-15 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 15.08.2008, 14:37 -0300 schrieb Paul Wise: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the FSO packaging team of the Debian project[1] is happy to announce > > that we have started to provide installation

Re: Processing of haskell-x11-extras_0.4-1.1_i386.changes

2007-10-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, I just got this message, and I don’t know what to do with it. I uploaded haskell-x11-extras_0.4-1_i386.changes to NEW a while ago, and it’s still there. Maybe some buildd? Or did someone try to sneak in a package? Greetings, Joachim Am Samstag, den 20.10.2007, 00:22 + schrieb Archive Adm

Bug#459593: RFA: dmraid

2008-01-07 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi everyone, the utnubu team maintains a few packages, but it turned out be not a good maintance team, so are want to give our packages away. One of the more important packages maintained by us is dmraid, with very few open bugs, a new version to be packaged and pr

Bug#459596: RFA: gtimelog

2008-01-07 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi everyone, the utnubu team maintains a few packages, but it turned out be not a good maintance team, so are want to give our packages away. One of these packages is gtimelog. gtimelog provides a time tracking application to allow the user to track what they work

Bug#459597: RFA: timer-applet -- timer applet - a countdown timer applet for the GNOME panel

2008-01-07 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi everyone, the utnubu team maintains a few packages, but it turned out be not a good maintance team, so are want to give our packages away. One of these packages is timer-applet The package description is: Features include: . * Quickly set a time and the ap

Debian Packaging advancements

2010-01-10 Thread Joachim Breitner
[CC’ing debian-devel because this is partly a call for contributions :-] Hi, today, I continued in my quest to make a proper Debian package out of Serna. For now, I ignored the issue of the convenience code copies in the source code and focused on getting a properly buildable package. The four re

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 03.02.2010, 16:25 -0600 schrieb Matt Zagrabelny: > I read through the git-buildpackage docs and also a HOWTO by Russ > Allbery [1] regarding git and Debian packaging. I am wondering if those > who use git to manage their source package development are also using > the debian/p

Re: experimental buildd link gone?

2010-02-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 13.02.2010, 11:12 -0600 schrieb Steve M. Robbins: > The "links" box of the PTS used to have a link to the experimental > buildd logs. I think I used it last week but today it is not > there; c.f. http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gmp.html > > How can I see the logs? it’s only

Bug#573605: ITP: libnss-gw-name -- nss module that names the current gateway’s IP address

2010-03-12 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joachim Breitner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I programed this little helper and plan to upload it to Debian shortly. * Package name: libnss-gw-name Version : 0.1-1 Upstream Author : Joachim Breitner * URL

Bug#574692: ITP: haskell-ltk -- leksah tool kit

2010-03-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joachim Breitner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: haskell-ltk Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Juergen "jutaro" Nicklisch-Franken * URL : http://www.leksah.org/ * License : GPL P

Bug#574690: ITP: haddock-leksah -- a documentation-generation tool for Haskell libraries

2010-03-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joachim Breitner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: haddock-leksah Version : 2.6.0 Upstream Author : Juergen "jutaro" Nicklisch-Franken * URL : http://leksah.org/ * License

Bug#574693: ITP: haskell-leksah-server -- metadata collection for leksah

2010-03-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joachim Breitner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: haskell-leksah-server Version : 0.8.0.2 Upstream Author : Juergen "jutaro" Nicklisch-Franken * URL : http://leksah.org * License

Bug#574691: ITP: binary-shared -- sharing for the binary package

2010-03-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joachim Breitner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: binary-shared Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Juergen "jutaro" Nicklisch-Franken * URL : http://www.leksah.org/ * License

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi joey, Am Sonntag, den 13.06.2010, 10:59 -0400 schrieb Joey Hess: > Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Would this be something that could be used by default in Debian, maybe > > for squeeze+1? > > You're suggesting making the package standard priority. This is not a >

Re: all twitter client should support OAuth before they will drop Basic Auth in August

2010-06-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 28.06.2010, 23:40 +0900 schrieb Hideki Yamane: > As I reported in Bug#587420, all twitter client should support OAuth since > twitter > will discard basic auth. If they not, we should drop them from Squeeze > release. > > These lists are assumed to be affected packages (go

Re: Bug#587918: libnss-myhostname: Please do not depend on both libc6 and libc6-amd64

2010-07-03 Thread Joachim Breitner
e DVD.. The cause can be found on > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=libnss-myhostname;ver=0.2-4;arch=i386;stamp=1277126824>: > > Package: libnss-myhostname > Version: 0.2-4 > Architecture: i386 > Maintainer: Joachim Breitner > Installed-Size: 84 > Dep

Re: Bug#587918: libnss-myhostname: Please do not depend on both libc6 and libc6-amd64

2010-07-03 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Bernhard, Am Samstag, den 03.07.2010, 11:55 +0200 schrieb Bernhard R. Link: > BTW: speaking about the different subarchitectures. Perhaps it would make > sense to move the debian/rules code I've written for libnss-extrausers > to some common file (perhaps in dpkg-dev or somewhere else), > so it

Re: RFH: How to compile swf files from source

2010-08-05 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 17:25 -0500 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > [Peter Samuelson] > > Source code is a means to an end. The end is the ability of the end > > user to customize the software. If you get source code but no way to > > build a new .swf file from it, this end is not served. >

Re: mass bug filing: packages not installable on any architecture

2010-08-05 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Ralf, Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 01:50 +0200 schrieb Ralf Treinen: > http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/results/unstable/latest/every/list.php with magic-haskell-doc there has been a mistake during package rename. I’ve brought up the issue on debian-haskell. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachi

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-25 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 25.09.2010, 00:18 +0200 schrieb Adam Borowski: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:55:32PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > > What about building this architecture:all package only in binary-indep? > > Like in the attached patch... This way, the buildds won't try to build them. > > >

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-25 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 25.09.2010, 17:04 +0200 schrieb Adam Borowski: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 03:03:51PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > Uhm, but shouldn't that massive multi-hour _building_ of data be in a > > > "build" (specifically, "build-indep&quo

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-26 Thread Joachim Breitner
Am Sonntag, den 26.09.2010, 08:50 + schrieb Philipp Kern: > On 2010-09-26, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > On Sa, Sep 25, 2010 at 21:59:51 (CEST), James Vega wrote: > >> No, it builds all the content for arch:all and non-arch:all, but only > >> creates the non-arch:all binaries. The issue is that

Re: Bug#606449: ITP: cnagios -- terminal interface for viewing nagios host and service objects

2010-12-10 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Bernhard, Am Donnerstag, den 09.12.2010, 12:03 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Hauser: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Bernhard Hauser > > * Package name: cnagios > Version : 0.27 > Upstream Author : Steve Rader > * URL : ftp://noc.hep.wisc.edu/pub/src/cnagio

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 15.01.2011, 10:29 + schrieb Philipp Kern: > On 2011-01-15, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: > > The best option to fix this issue I can see is if it was possible to do > > binNMUs > > for Arch: all packages. There are some options to workaround the fact that > > we >

Re: Bug#611315: ITP: channel-server -- channel server for XMPP-based decentral social networking

2011-01-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Jonas, Am Freitag, den 28.01.2011, 00:41 +0100 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jonas Smedegaard > > * Package name: channel-server > Version : 0.0.1 > Upstream Author : Stephan Maka > * URL : https://github.com/astro/channel

Re: Upstart and sysvinit in packages - Policy needed

2011-02-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 14.02.2011, 13:57 +0100 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > I believe we need to come up with a way where most or all package > maintainers (perhaps those handling kernel events and early boot stuff > should be expected) only need to maintain one boot setup for their > package, and t

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

2011-02-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, thanks for the heads-up. Am Montag, den 14.02.2011, 18:17 +0100 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > 3. Port your applet to GTK3 and the new D-Bus API. The bindings for > Python and C# will probably not work either, so you might have > to start with them. do you have some pointe

Re: Upstart and sysvinit in packages - Policy needed

2011-02-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
hould rather be quiet. I tried following this road and did not manage to push it enough (though not because it wasn’t possible, rather due to lack of time and motivation). Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: m...@joachim-breitner.de Homepage: http://www.joachim-breitner.de IC

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-06 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 28.02.2011, 19:12 + schrieb Roger Leigh: > Agreed. Note that we now support strict 'first-only' alternatives > handling with the 'apt' and 'aptitude' resolvers. See the notes for > 0.60.0 and 0.60.1 pertaining to resolvers here: > > http://git.debian.org/?p=buildd-tools/s

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-06 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 06.03.2011, 16:41 +0100 schrieb Olaf van der Spek: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I have a bit a bad feeling about not being able to use alternatives in > > build-depends. For example at the moment, we are renaming a self-hosti

"epollCreate: unsupported operation" on buildd hosts

2011-03-08 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear Devel list, updating the GHC haskell compiler to the newest version in Debian is causing surprisingly many problems. With one of those, I am totally at a loss to understand it, especially as I cannot reproduce it. Basically, the new GHC compiler uses the epoll system call where available, wh

Re: "epollCreate: unsupported operation" on buildd hosts

2011-03-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 09.03.2011, 10:22 +0100 schrieb Julien Cristau: > epoll_create1 was added in 2.6.27, afaict. If that's what haskell is > using, then it's not unexpected to have it fail on 2.6.26. good shot, thanks! From ./libraries/base/System/Event/EPoll.hsc: (this line does not start wit

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 11.03.2011, 09:58 + schrieb Neil Williams: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800 > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > > >get-build-deps > > > > > Is this an alias for "apt-get build-dep $1"? > > > > No, it's a to

Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Am Do, den 09.10.2003 schrieb Branden Robinson um 05:17: > http://people.debian.org/~rene/exa-log-24-07-2003 Just wanted to thank rene for recording that, it was a interesting reading for the evening, and certainly better than German TV. I especially like these parts: 15:39 * Madkiss grins 15:39

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, what if we stick to our principle "the maintainer knows best" and provide the infrastructure for source only uploads, but leave it to the maintainer whether he wants to do so. Some here think buildd'ed packages are better, some think their building the packages themselves is better. So just th

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am So, den 19.10.2003 schrieb Andrew Suffield um 21:08: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:57:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > The proposal was "All packages should be built in an artificial > environment of this form". I have pointed out that this is a > braindamaged idea. Well, any maintainer tha

Re: Bug#221709: ITP: at76c503a-source -- at76c503a driver source

2003-11-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mi, den 19.11.2003 schrieb Oliver Kurth um 21:28: > See, the copyright holder has no problem if those files are distributed. > They will not care. I can also reconfirm this by asking them. So the > problem is if this can still comply with the DFSG. So the exception > should be made by Debia

Re: Bug#171693: ITP: wondershaper -- a script to set up QoS, mainly for home users

2002-12-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
as 2.4.20 hits sid). If someone wants to NMU it, go ahead. MfG Joachim -- Joachim Breitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.joachim-breitner.de JabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ UIN: 74513189 GPG-Keyid: 4743206C Terrorists can take my live. Only the government can

Time to package simpleinit?

2003-04-26 Thread Joachim Breitner
ems with sysvinit or similar, and I would like to know who thinks he is capable of helping me? Are there people that might help me when it comes to file bug against packages with /etc/init.d scripts? Thx for your attention Joachim aka nomeata [1] http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/boot-s

Re: Time to package simpleinit?

2003-04-27 Thread Joachim Breitner
ing update-rc, then there is a duplicity (information to update-rc and /sbin/init-* scripts called in the /etc/init.d/-scripts). Joachim aka nomeata Am Sam, 2003-04-26 um 22.28 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > * The /etc/init.d/ scri

Re: Time to package simpleinit?

2003-04-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
e, the traditional system V > runlevels could be implemented, and the dependencies could have been > implemented in a structured comment block, for full backwards > compatibility. I've been told that SuSE's init scripts system does > this, while also providing full automatic dynamic

DebConf 3 for New Maintainers

2003-05-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
something to hack with. Would I find a task there, or should I make sure I have one beforehand? Do I have to bring my own PC? What are your experiences, and what would you suggest a debian (the project, not the distro) newbie? Joachim -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Homepage: http

Re: DebConf 3 for New Maintainers

2003-05-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mit, 2003-05-14 um 14.22 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On 14 May 2003, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I am considering going to DebConf 3. Now Oslo is not really close (I > > live in southern germany), and being a High School student, I would have > > to argue with my principa

Re: "thanks" messages on mailing lists/bug reports

2014-06-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 27.06.2014, 15:45 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > I recently started contributing to debian. > Before that, most of my writing with people I don't know personally > through the internet was on Stack Exchange. > On Stack Exchange, messages that only consist of thanking people or

Re: DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2014, 13:02 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > > Maybe a “gift” job for a Debian Contributor would be to put together > > a “DD’s cheat card”, with infos about how to contact DSA, WB team, > > etc. – nothing about the how-to of packaging, but about the orga‐ > > nisational

Re: DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 14.07.2014, 08:49 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > Kibi wrote: > >Joachim Breitner (2014-07-13): > >>Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2014, 13:02 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > >> >> [10]https://www.debian.org/intro/organization > >>not

Re: DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-26 Thread Joachim Breitner
Am Samstag, den 26.07.2014, 15:59 +0200 schrieb Philipp Kern: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:58:59AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Am Montag, den 14.07.2014, 08:49 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > > > Kibi wrote: > > > >Joachim Breitner (2014-07-13): > > &

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear Pietro, Am Montag, den 18.08.2014, 23:51 +0200 schrieb Pietro Abate: > On 18/08/14 18:10, Sven Bartscher wrote: > > If we have a package, which doesn't migrate to testing, we usually > > check the "Why does package X not in testing yet?" page or the PTS. > > Usually they do a great job in te

Re: incoming.debian.org opens its doors to the public

2014-08-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 17.08.2014, 00:07 +0200 schrieb Ansgar Burchardt: > First, the archive used by buildds is now publically accessible in > http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd/. This location provides access > to all recently uploaded packages, split into individual suites, and > provides t

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 19.08.2014, 12:46 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > That's a bit more tricky than it seems, due to limitations in wget. > wget doesn't support the -N (only download if remote file if newer) > together with -O. So if I rename them wget won't be able to check their > timestamps.

Re: Proper notation for common licenses

2014-09-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, FTWIW, the copyright format specification https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-field explicitly states: Use of a standard short name does not override the Debian Policy requirement to include the full license text in debian/copyri

Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging

2014-11-03 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 03.11.2014, 15:40 + schrieb Ian Jackson: > There are probably a lot of things missing. If you know about some > corner of Debian tooling which has exciting syntax, please add the > information you have. apt-get supports appending - to a package name in its argument to ins

Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging

2014-11-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 04.11.2014, 14:26 + schrieb Ian Jackson: > Joachim Breitner writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging"): > > Am Montag, den 03.11.2014, 15:40 + schrieb Ian Jackson: > > > There are probably a lot of things missing. If you

Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.4.2 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Dear developers, currently a Debian source package specifies its build dependencies in debian/control; this information gets copied by dpkg-source to the .dsc file. From there it reaches the Source

Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Bernd, Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 10:32 +0200 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: > > I would like to see more flexibility in dpkg-source as to where the > > effective build depends come from. My use case are (as you might guess) > > Haskell packages. If you look at > > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/

Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 11:10 +0200 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: > > The only problem I see with this is that if the build dependencies can > > only be calculated after a full build, building source and binaries > > requires two builds (and a third one if debuild -tc is used). (Maybe > > less

Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-17 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, it seems that my idea is not well received; point taken, and I do like the alternative about debian/rules creating debian/control in the clean target. Nevertheless :-) Am Sonntag, den 17.06.2012, 13:39 +0200 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > I think that the sources-subvars target must functio

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-22 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 22.09.2012, 10:06 +0200 schrieb Ansgar Burchardt: > During the FTPMaster meeting last week we have implemented the new > interface for managing DM permissions[1]. very cool stuff, this makes DMs much more useful in teams with a large amount of packages, thanks a lot! Would it

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 23.09.2012, 15:59 +0200 schrieb Joerg Jaspert: > The DM flag (and in future ACL) shows that one trusts that one DM to do > a good job on that one package. Extending it like "this DM may upload > all packages of [whateverbiglist]" is just wrong. > > > (Of course this is just co

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 24.09.2012, 00:26 +0800 schrieb Thomas Goirand: > On 09/23/2012 11:49 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Also, the real time-consuming work for us is when we > > need to upload all>450 packages with no source change, or a trivial > > one. > Someone

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-24 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 24.09.2012, 11:59 -0500 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > [Joachim Breitner] > > Would it be possible to extend the syntax to specify lists of > > packages not by name, but by Maintainer, > > e.g. pkg-haskell-maintainers@l.a.d.o? Bonus points if such an > &g

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-06 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 06.06.2013, 12:24 +0200 schrieb Philipp Kern: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 09:10:39PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > > I think, most of developers are clever enough to define, whether the > > built failed "accidentally" and needs to be restarted, or it requires > > some fixing an

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 11.07.2013, 17:48 +0800 schrieb Paul Wise: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Lars Meyser wrote: > > This is also my personal reading of the license, I would like to hear others > > opinions before I start filing bugs. > > Perhaps you missed "if you modify the Program" in i

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 11.07.2013, 13:41 + schrieb Jeremy T. Bouse: > I would find > having the Debian package install a tarball that could be linked to and > downloadable from the end user to be unnecessary duplication if all that > would be needed would be a link then why not just have th

Re: On accepting pre-generated doc from upstream

2013-07-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 18.07.2013, 14:45 +0200 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:35:46PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > wrote: > > - Using the full source tarball. Saddly this means having to compile most > > of > > it in order to get the tools for buildi

Re: asking for advice: all dependencies incl. version numbers

2013-08-22 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear Illes, Am Donnerstag, den 22.08.2013, 17:47 +0200 schrieb FARKAS, Illes: > This is a researcher asking for advice. > > > I'd like to download/parse for each version of each debian package > which other package versions it depends on. > > > Do you think this information available in mana

Re: Bug#646804: ITP: cheermeup -- Send affirmative messages to the user via the notification library

2011-10-27 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 27.10.2011, 20:43 +0200 schrieb Enrico Zini: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 04:07:57PM +, Thomas Thurman wrote: > > In case it helps anyone's decision, I think the list of affirmative > > messages is short enough to > > include here: > > > > It is okay to express your needs

Re: [Pkg-scala-maint] Binary blobs in source packages

2011-12-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 13.12.2011, 19:29 +0100 schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: > You mean having a circular build-dependency? That isn't great :/ > I've seen some packages doing that (don't recall which right now) but > didn't like it, tbh. ghc does, for instance. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata"

Re: [Pkg-scala-maint] Binary blobs in source packages

2011-12-15 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2011, 17:44 + schrieb Wookey: > I anyone is aware of packages where it really isn't possible to do an > automatic bootstrap without a circular dependency (for the initial > bootstrap build), I would like to know about it. again, GHC comes to mind. When I ported it

Re: many packages fail to build twice in a row again

2011-12-21 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 20.12.2011, 21:36 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: > On 20/12/11 at 22:01 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > With recent dpkg(-source) changes, many packages are again failing to > > build twice in a row, because of uncommitted upstream changes. Fixing > > this was a lenny relea

Re: Bug#636679: ITP: apitrace -- tool for debugging OpenGL applications and drivers

2011-12-27 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 26.12.2011, 07:12 +0100 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > Joachim Breitner (05/08/2011): > > sounds very interesting. But I wonder if the name could be a bit more > > specific, like opengl-trace or graphics-api-trace, as it does not seem > > to trace arbitrary A

Source package without a binary

2012-01-05 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear devel, I have an interesting case for a hypothetical „source package without binary packages“: The haskell compiler comes with an extensive test suite. This test suite 1. is distributed separately from the sources, 2. takes a long time to run and 3. partly depends on libraries

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