Re: Reorganizando el wiki y la lista de blogs

2005-01-26 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 20.00, Antonio Ognio wrote: Saludos, Please respect that debian-mentors is an english mailing list. babelfishized: = I was reorganizing a little wiki of Debian-Peru: http://www.debianperu.org/wiki/the idea to arm our own planet with blogs is good and I believe

[RFS][ITP] Skippy, gcursor, glurp.

2005-01-26 Thread Debian
Hi, I have previously posted on this mailing list to ask for someone to get interested in my packages, without any response, hope I'll get more chance this time. all packages can be found on http://cxhome.ath.cx/debian I've made them with debhelper, following the guide provided on the debian

Skype package

2005-01-26 Thread gysmo
Hi, I have create a package for the last version of Skype. Skype is a program that allow you to phone by Internet. You can phone for free to others Skype users and you can paid to call on phone. The rate of call are low. The BIG problem is that Skype is not opensource. The company just allow to

Re: Skype package

2005-01-26 Thread Frank Küster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, I have create a package for the last version of Skype. Skype is a program that allow you to phone by Internet. You can phone for free to others Skype users and you can paid to call on phone. The rate of call are low. The BIG problem is that Skype is not

Re: Skype package

2005-01-26 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:45:46PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: No, it cannot go into Debian, and if its a binary I wouldn't even want it in non-free (because we cannot give any security support). What you could do would be to create a package that downloads the skype binary and creates a deb

RFS: alsa-tools

2005-01-26 Thread Mikael Magnusson
Hi, I have debianized alsa-tools and am looking for a sponsor. From the source package is two binary packages built, one with gui tools, called alsa-tools-gui, and the other is called alsa-tools. I would also like some help in testing the packages, since I don't have access to the needed

Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] RFS: alsa-tools

2005-01-26 Thread Dan Chen
--- Mikael Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have debianized alsa-tools and am looking for a sponsor. What is the status of alsa-tools being in Debian legally? Rather, what is debian-legal's stance on these packages? Since the firmware has been separated out into upstream's alsa-firmware,

Re: [RFS][ITP] Skippy, gcursor, glurp.

2005-01-26 Thread Lucas Wall
Niv Altivanik (Debian) wrote, On 01/26/2005 06:14 AM: [3]Glurp is a gtk2.4+ client for the MPD music player daemon. I didn't fill an ITP on Glurp because there already is a maintainer for MPD related and i feel he should just take my package as a work relief. Did

Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] RFS: alsa-tools

2005-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:40:05 +0100, Dan Chen wrote: What is the status of alsa-tools being in Debian legally? Rather, what is debian-legal's stance on these packages? Since the firmware has been separated out into upstream's alsa-firmware, there shouldn't be any problems, but it's never too

New to the packaging thing... :)

2005-01-26 Thread Jose de Paula Eufrasio Junior
Hello there, I was a user of slackware and SuSE for years, and in the last 6 months I have changed completely to Debian and I am still amazed with the apt/dpkg package management system. So I went to learn how to do a .deb :) I choose one app that I use often and followed and readed all

upgrades vs. installer packages

2005-01-26 Thread Nick Lewycky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At the moment, I'm currently developing packaging for fahclient, a distributed client for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] project. The binary is available from their website and it unredistributable. fahclient works by downloading the file from upstream and

RFS: Bustle - to do list manager with a difference

2005-01-26 Thread Fred Strauss
Hi Would someone be willing to sponsor a package i've built? The package is called bustle and is distributed under the GPL, i'm also the author of bustle. Short Description: to do list manager utilising weights to sort items Long Description: Bustle is a unique to do list manager in that you

Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] RFS: alsa-tools

2005-01-26 Thread Mikael Magnusson
Dan Chen wrote: --- Mikael Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have debianized alsa-tools and am looking for a sponsor. What is the status of alsa-tools being in Debian legally? Rather, what is debian-legal's stance on these packages? Since the firmware has been separated out into upstream's

Re: RFS: Bustle - to do list manager with a difference

2005-01-26 Thread Lucas Wall
Fred Strauss wrote, On 01/26/2005 05:41 PM: The package can be downloaded from http://www.strider.co.za/bustle_0.1.5-1_i386.deb People in this list will be interested in getting the source package and compiling it themselves. Please provide links to the dsc, orig and diff files. K. -- .''`.

Re: [RFS][ITP] Skippy, gcursor, glurp.

2005-01-26 Thread xaiki
BTW... I'm getting a 404 on the address you provided for download. Sorry, all the packages paths are wrong, so you can have them all respectively: skippy: http://cxhome.ath.cx/debian/skippy/ glurp: http://cxhome.ath.cx/debian/glurp/ gcursor: http://cxhome.ath.cx/debian/gcursor/ Sorry again,

Re: RFS: Bustle - to do list manager with a difference

2005-01-26 Thread Fred Strauss
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:50:38 -0300, Lucas Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred Strauss wrote, On 01/26/2005 05:41 PM: The package can be downloaded from http://www.strider.co.za/bustle_0.1.5-1_i386.deb People in this list will be interested in getting the source package and compiling it

Re: Reorganizando el wiki y la lista de blogs

2005-01-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Adrian von Bidder may or may not have written... On Tuesday 25 January 2005 20.00, Antonio Ognio wrote: Saludos, Please respect that debian-mentors is an english mailing list. babelfishized: Er... turned into a Babel fish? ;-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, |

Re: New to the packaging thing... :)

2005-01-26 Thread Sven Mueller
Jose de Paula Eufrasio Junior wrote on 26/01/2005 21:27: http://couve.no-ip.org/~coredump/packages/ps2client/ Already looks pretty good. A few notes however: 1) debian/copyright Please list the full URL to the upstream homepage. Though I have not checked it, I assume that ps2dev.org contains

Re: New to the packaging thing... :)

2005-01-26 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:14:50PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: Jose de Paula Eufrasio Junior wrote on 26/01/2005 21:27: http://couve.no-ip.org/~coredump/packages/ps2client/ Already looks pretty good. A few notes however: 1) debian/copyright Furthermore this file doesn't contain the

Re: RFS: Bustle - to do list manager with a difference

2005-01-26 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:04:19PM +0200, Fred Strauss wrote: http://www.strider.co.za/bustle_0.1.5-1.diff.gz Hmmm, I can't see how you need to build-depend on apt-build. The whole Build-Deps:-line seems to be just the output of that code snippet from the new maintainers guide, please

Re: [RFS][ITP] Skippy, gcursor, glurp.

2005-01-26 Thread Lucas Wall
Niv Altivanik (xaiki) wrote, On 01/26/2005 05:53 PM: Sorry, i miss-expressed myself, I meant that I don't feel like maintaining the package under my name but, propose to maintain it for this maintainer when other debian developers have approved the package quality. Sorry, I still don't understand.

Re: [RFS][ITP] Skippy, gcursor, glurp.

2005-01-26 Thread xaiki
I haven't contacted the mpd/gmpc official Debian Developer, my idea was to have my package tested and approved and then ask him if he was interested in maintaining the package, but you are right, mpd, gmpc and glurp are different softwares. I'd be really excited to maintain this package for the

Re: [RFS][ITP] Skippy, gcursor, glurp.

2005-01-26 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:14:32AM +0100, Niv Altivanik wrote: Hi, I have previously posted on this mailing list to ask for someone to get interested in my packages, without any response, hope I'll get more chance this time. I'm surpised, I thought I remembered a response. they are all

RFS: Tomboy - desktop note taking application

2005-01-26 Thread Lee Aylward
I noticed that Tomboy has already been marked as being worked on, but it has been stale for 130 days. I have been maintaining a package for my own use and have been trying to clean it up for inclusion in Debian. I was unsure if I should post another ITP for it, since there are already 2 ITPs