Re: To adopt or not to adopt: smstools

2006-11-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Patrick Schönfeld wrote: Now i asked the maintainer of this package, if he lost time on this project or something like that. He did not respond. But he seems to be active otherwise and i know he might be busy because of the upcoming release. But how to go on with

Re: RFS: renrot - a program to rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags

2006-11-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 07 Nov 2006, Andy Shevchenko wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:59:03PM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: First, create your ITP with reportbug wnpp. Then select the number 1 (ITP) and start to fill the required fields. After entering some info about your package, just send

Re: Parallel invocation of postinst script causing a bug?

2006-11-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Frank, On Mon, 06 Nov 2006, Frank Küster wrote: So it seems two postinst script were running at the same time (note that tetex-bin depends on tetex-base). Furthermore, the second one seems to have no parent except init, while the other one has dpkg --configure tetex-base tetex-bin...

Problem with preload libraries

2006-10-19 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I accidentally came upon the following bug in at least two different places that use LD_PRELOAD libraries: The LD_PRELOAD libraries have exported functions that are *not* part of the list of functions that the library is trying to override. Specifically, this is applicable to

Re: Problem with preload libraries

2006-10-19 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, I accidentally came upon the following bug in at least two different places that use LD_PRELOAD libraries: Please be careful while using Reply since I wrongly typed debian-qa's address. Sorry about this. Regards, Kapil

Re: Does a DD become solely responsible for abandonware in Debian?

2006-10-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote: After some email lobbying and many months of waiting, more than may seem evident from the atttached email exchange below, I have managed to convince the authors of LiDIA http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/LiDIA/ to

Re: want to adopt craft

2006-10-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Arvind kumar wrote: First thing I need is access to latest CVS code for craft package (only read permission will do ). As far as I could make out from debian.org , there is some strict guide line and lengthy procedure to be followed Any one can get me some clue on

RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-10-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, As requested earlier on 9nd October: Could someone please sponsor a New Maintainer upload of swish++? http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-1.dsc or http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-1.dsc Features

Re: When is the Freeze of Etch?

2006-10-13 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Michelle Konzack wrote: I have this question, since some of my applications do not work under Etch/Sid because missing updates from some Packages. For example: xdialog 2.3 is availlable since 4 monto and in Debian it is only 2.2 which has MANY bugs, which are solved in

RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-10-08 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, As requested earlier on 2nd October: Could someone please sponsor a New Maintainer upload of swish++? http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre6.dsc or http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre6.dsc

Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-10-02 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
: On (26/09/06 17:26), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre5.dsc and http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/swish++/ Hi, I have a few more comments, Thanks. * You say The file COPYING is the Library GPL text

Re: Building a program with the library shipped in Debian, not in orig.tar.gz

2006-09-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:10:34AM +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : At 1158313616 past the epoch, Charles Plessy wrote: EMBOSS is shipped and built with its own copy of libpcre. As a result, the EMBOSS Debian package contains some files

RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-09-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote: On (21/09/06 12:47), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Consequently, I have newer versions at: http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre4.dsc Your debian/copyright is still not quite right. You can't say

Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-09-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote: On (20/09/06 15:00), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, Could someone please sponsor a New Maintainer upload of swish++? http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre3.dsc or http://http

Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-09-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote detailed comments on my packaging of swish++. Consequently, I have newer versions at: http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre4.dsc or

RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-09-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Could someone please sponsor a New Maintainer upload of swish++? http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre3.dsc or http://http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre3.dsc Features specific to this upload ---

Re: dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)

2006-09-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, George Danchev wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 07:45, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/dvipng/dvipng_1.8-0.2.diff.gz http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/dvipng/dvipng_1.8-0.2.dsc http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/dvipng/dvipng_1.8

Re: dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)

2006-09-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, George Danchev wrote: Just to let you know that these are 'Not Found'. Why don't you upload to mentors.debian.net instead ? Regarding mentors.debian.net. I was unable to sign-up since the confirmation message didn't

Re: dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)

2006-09-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, George Danchev wrote: Just a comment: your debian/rules clean target calls top-level Makefile's distclean target which depends on dvipng.1 target which calls unknown program of texi2pod.pl (probably a hack for local usage by the upstream authors, which is not

Re: dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)

2006-09-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote: On (16/09/06 15:40), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hi, package looks good. I just have a couple of points. * Why 1.8-0.3? Why not -0.1? I already uploaded 1.8-0.[12] earlier to various public places for people to check earlier so I wanted

dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)

2006-09-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I wrote earlier on 03 Jul 2006: I would like someone to sponsor an adoption/hijacking or NMU'ing of a more recent version of dvipng than is available in the Debian archive. (Package description: dvipng -- convert PNG graphics from DVI files) I have not received any responses. A

Re: RFS: jabbin

2006-08-29 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 8/25/06, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, I don't think that __GNUC__ actually guarantees the presence of /dev/random. So this patch does not seem to be correct. (Although /dev/random, if you have it, is probably a better

Re: Help with watch file

2006-08-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello Nelson, On Sat, 05 Aug 2006, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: On 8/4/06, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I guess the watch file syntax is correct. Maybe some network problem at your side or at ftp.genetics.wustl.edu? Consider passive mode on/off ? Yes, it was this. Using

Re: When to split a package?

2006-07-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: Creating more binary packages certainly has some sort of cost (The size of the packages file, at least). How do I estimate those costs? How do I estimate the savings gained from splitting? (number of archs) * (size of _all.deb)? I

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 07 May 2006, Florent Rougon wrote: Yaroslav Halchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .pdf.gz versions. And at least I would expect all -doc packages to have uncompressed .pdfs since neither of the pdf viewers to me experience handle transparent decompression of pdf.gz I know

Re: Build/test environment

2006-02-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jonathan Niehof wrote: have other things to do with my computers :) so I'd rather not have testing or unstable accidentally run roughshod over my filesystem--what's the (or a) preferred way of setting up a test environment? New partition? UML? chroot with

Re: RFS: yics

2006-01-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Chris Howie wrote: I have packaged YICS and uploaded my debianization of it to http://www.yics.org/debian , and now I am seeking a sponsor to upload this to debian. The people in #debian-mentors have done some basic checking of the package. It is generally a

Re: RFS: cue2toc

2006-01-08 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Sheesh, On Sat, 07 Jan 2006, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I believe that file format compatibility is something Free Software should strive toward, and I would love to see cue2toc be sponsored! CUE is a common format for describing CDs' table-of-contents. cue2toc is a program to convert

Re: debian usability more

2006-01-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 07 Jan 2006, Michele Lazzarini wrote: I'm a simple user. I have just installed Debian. Well, What i can do with it? What i can learn about it? Where i can find the knowledges i need? Good idea. There is somewhere someone that collect these ideas about Debian? How about

Re: RFS: bmeps, command line tool for converting bitmap images to eps-files

2006-01-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Anders, On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Anders Lennartsson wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for a set of deb-packages of bmeps and the libraries. I am not a DD so I cannot sponsor your upload but here are some comments on your package. This application is a tool to convert various bitmaps to

RFS: elvis - powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor

2006-01-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I've prepared a new maintainer upload of elvis and it is available at http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/elvis/elvis*4adopt3* (If someone agrees to sponsor this I will of course up the version to 2.2.0-5.) As I explained in my ITA the reasons for adopting this package are:

Re: RFS: tex4ht

2005-12-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Norbert, On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Norbert Preining wrote: On Fre, 09 Dez 2005, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: But there is tex4ht-common and not -files! Please before uploading be so nice and make an upgrade/remove/install/purge/install-cycle test. Sorry. I thought I had checked it! I

RFS: tex4ht

2005-12-08 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
an upload since the release of sarge. Details follow. Regards, Kapil. ==pkg details for tex4ht Source: tex4ht Binary: tex4ht tex4ht-common Architecture: source any all Version: 20051130-1 Maintainer: Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Kapil Hari Paranjape

Re: RFS: tex4ht - A system for generating hypertext using TeX

2005-12-01 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Mentors, On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Package: tex4ht Version: 20051122.2010-1 Where: http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/tex4ht/tex4ht*20051122.2010* http://mentors.debian.net/debian

Re: RFS: tex4ht

2005-11-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello once again, On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hi, I realise that I have not given the full information as required by a RFS. Package: tex4ht Oops missed giving the new version number Version: 20051106.1516-1 Thanks, Kapil. -- signature.asc

Re: RFS: tex4ht

2005-11-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Upstream has made available a newer version fixing all except wishlist/minor bugs. Package: tex4ht Version: 20051122.2010-1 License: LPPL Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML) TeX4ht is a highly configurable TeX-based authoring system for

RFS: tex4ht

2005-11-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hi, TeX4ht: is a flexible system for converting TeX/LaTeX/conTeXt and other TeX dialect files into various dialects of hypertext such as HTML/XML and so on. A new version (version number 20051106.1516-1) of tex4ht is available under: http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/tex4ht/ I am

including images for documentation

2005-11-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I have added some documentation to a Debian package (tex4ht) that I maintain. This documentation is not part of upstream and includes some images. Source for this documentation+images is also part of what I have added to the upstream source. Is there some way to include the images in the

Re: including images for documentation

2005-11-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Frank, On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Frank Küster wrote: Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way to include the images in the debian package? uuencode/uudecode Regards, Frank Thanks. I was unnecessarily imagining a more complicated situation/solution. Regards

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

2005-09-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, We are getting quite out of context here but... On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Therein lies the beauty of mathematics. There are an uncountable infinity of files whose sum is d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e :-) Actually it is a countable infinity since files are

Re: DP Manual question: why is 11.8.5 so dated?

2005-07-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear John Hendrickson, First of all, please use a less combative tone. It might help people view your question more sympathetically. On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:55:46AM -0700, John Hendrickson wrote: 11.8.5 Packages providing fonts States /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ must be used. KDE, GNOME,

Removing alternatives

2005-04-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
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RFS: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

2005-04-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
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Splitting package

2005-04-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I am currently the maintainer (non-DD) of tex4ht. This package consists of only two (!) compiled executables and a large number of Arch: all files. At least in etch I would like to split this package as suggested in best packaging practice (Debian Ref). But that location gives hints about

Re: RFS: drip

2005-04-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:01:07AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ and http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control and http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html an old copy of the later is available at:

Re: RFS: ITA: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

2005-02-19 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
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Re: RFS: ITA: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

2005-02-19 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
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Re: RFS: ITA: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

2005-02-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
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Re: RFS: ITA: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

2005-02-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:04:51PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Thanks to Frank and Vassilii for all the comments. I have made changes and will soon put up newer versions at the following location: http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/tex4ht/ I have put up the promised

Re: RFS: ITA: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

2005-02-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Frank, On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:39:46PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I have put up the promised newer version. The versioning scheme has reverted to MMDD.HHMM for the pre-upload period. wget http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian

RFS: ITA: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

2005-02-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
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