Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 6493] "simplew" Should be Granted a Commit Bit

2012-06-25 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Simple a écrit : >> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6493 >> >> --- Comment #14 from Simple 2012-06-25 10:33:14 CEST --- >> Im causing too much noiseand i never wanted this. >> Ill try to expain some confusions, my name

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 6493] "simplew" Should be Granted a Commit Bit

2012-06-25 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Simple a écrit : >> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6493 >> >> --- Comment #14 from Simple 2012-06-25 10:33:14 CEST --- >> Im causing too much noiseand i never wanted this. >> Ill try to expain some confusions, my name

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 6493] "simplew" Should be Granted a Commit Bit

2012-06-25 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Simple a écrit : > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6493 > > --- Comment #14 from Simple 2012-06-25 10:33:14 CEST --- > Im causing too much noiseand i never wanted this. > Ill try to expain some confusions, my name is Pedro Gomes, and i was more a > Windows user but i always got influenced

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer0.10-faac - package request

2012-06-19 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Simple w a écrit : > 2012/6/19 Sander Lepik : >> 19.06.2012 17:41, Simple w kirjutas: >>> As always Colin interventions are quite clarifying. >>> >>> But i thought there were more software like this, like for example >>> there was in mandriva PLF >> Most of this software is in nonfree or tainted. >

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer0.10-faac - package request

2012-06-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
nicolas vigier a écrit : > > 4) > wait until someone creates an open source version of faac. > > I'm not sure faac support is worth the complexity added by adding an > other repository, and an other duplication of packages for mplayer, > ffmpeg, mythtv, gstreamer, vlc, xine, ... > > Do you me

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer0.10-faac - package request

2012-06-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Oliver Burger a écrit : > Am 18.06.2012 11:52, schrieb Simple w: >> >> faac >> >> couldnt exist in non-free repository? > No, the problem with faac is that it contains nonfree parts and is > tainted. So it's a no-go currently. > >> I see that these packages for example in Fedora they exist in Rpm

Re: [Mageia-dev] gstreamer0.10-faac - package request

2012-06-17 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Rémi Verschelde a écrit : > 2012/6/17 Simple w : >> Hi, >> >> I have been running arist-gtk to encode video and almost all presets >> fail because it needs gstreamer-faac, please see the output: >> >> ]$ arista-gtk >> >> ** (process:3757): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype >> 'GMountMountFlags'

[Mageia-dev] audiokonverter for Mageia2

2012-05-28 Thread Philippe DIDIER
This rpm has been built and provided in core repo for Mageia2 It is missing in tainted repo : It may be built in tainted repo (adding an option to create mp3...) the srpm provides 2 patches and a spec file to allow different build (one for core one for tainted) Would it be provided in updates

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 DVD 64bits install is broken

2012-05-27 Thread Philippe DIDIER
andre999 a écrit : > John a écrit : >> On Sun, 27 May 2012 04:18:19 +0100 >> Simple . wrote: >> >> >>> 2012/5/27 Simple .: >>> 2012/5/27 John: > [...] > _You_ used a Windows application to write the image to the USB key. > If instead calling _You_

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bugzilla mass ping

2012-05-26 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Claire Robinson a écrit : > On 26/05/12 11:20, Marja van Waes wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> We have very many Cauldron bugs that aren't listed as package requests. >> >> https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?order=Importance&field0-0-0=component&query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=UNCONFIR

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: request Gimp 2.8 regarding single window interface!

2012-05-09 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thierry Vignaud a écrit : > On 7 May 2012 14:43, Thierry Vignaud wrote: >>> http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html >>> >>> shows (in known regressions section) that wacom devices no longer work >>> on gimp-2.8 and recomment people to downgrade to 2.6 if they need that >>> support. Maybe b

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: request Gimp 2.8 regarding single window interface!

2012-05-07 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Olav Vitters a écrit : > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 12:16:33PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> El lun, 07-05-2012 a las 12:04 +0200, Olav Vitters escribió: >>> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 08:27:48AM +0800, Funda Wang wrote: It already exists in updates_testing. >>> >>> This requires gegl and babl as wel

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 LiveCD contents...

2012-04-30 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Donald Stewart a écrit : > On 30 April 2012 18:08, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> 'Twas brillig, and You-Cheng Hsieh at 30/04/12 17:45 did gyre and gimble: >>> 2012/4/30 Thomas Backlund : after dropping kipi-plugins-expoblending,hugin, inkscape, the package cleanups done by blino and switching

Re: [Mageia-dev] Beta Install failure with Intel Atom 330 Nvidia Ion

2012-04-28 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Mika Laitio a écrit : > Just tried to boot (and also install) the > Mageia-2-beta3-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe2-i586-CD.iso > on Zotac Atom 330 NVIDIA Ion system and it didn't really work out. > > Install starts up just fine and it shows up the Mageia splash screen > with 2 balls on top of it. > > Then i

[Mageia-dev] Packages in Mageia liveCD

2012-04-21 Thread Philippe DIDIER
First I would congratulate everybody for the nice job done to build a quite perfect KDE Beta3 LiveCD... I only want to suggest to provide Gimp instead of hugin in the livecd : Hugin is a perfect software to built panoramic photographs but is not needed by every user ... and is limited in its use

Re: [Mageia-dev] Ping about the hypothesis to create a non-free&tainted repo

2011-12-05 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Anne nicolas a écrit : > > Please have a look on Dev meeting logs, il was decided not to create it > for now, at least before Mageia 2 is out. This was done during meeting > some weeks ago > -- > Anne > http://www.mageia.org Sorry ! My English is not fluent... I read it several times but perha

[Mageia-dev] Ping about the hypothesis to create a non-free&tainted repo

2011-12-05 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi ! There was a discussion on dev mailing list and something was said about it in meeting on september 21st http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2011/mageia-dev.2011-09-21-19.07.log.html ("faac status" begining at 19:42:50 ) This concerns faac and packages been built upon it : see bug 2833 Th

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 3431] ffmpeg security update to version 0.7.8

2011-11-24 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Funda Wang a écrit : > >> And, we will rely on current maintainer "nobody" to take care of this bug. >> > > Don't be angry ... please !!! > I know how much work you do for nobody's packages. > I just pointed a litt

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 3431] ffmpeg security update to version 0.7.8

2011-11-24 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Funda Wang a écrit : > And, we will rely on current maintainer "nobody" to take care of this bug. > Don't be angry ... please !!! I know how much work you do for nobody's packages. I just pointed a little problem about the dilemma to which you found an answer that may be discussed and that m

Re: [Mageia-dev] ffmpeg in mageia1 updates testing (revision 171164)

2011-11-24 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Funda Wang a écrit : > Yes, new x264 introduces new libmajor, which requires a mass > rebuilding of other packages. > > 2011/11/24 Philippe DIDIER : >> To Funda : >>you modified the spec file of ffmpeg : >> >> disable x264 support as x264 is too old in

[Mageia-dev] ffmpeg in mageia1 updates testing (revision 171164)

2011-11-24 Thread Philippe DIDIER
To Funda : you modified the spec file of ffmpeg : disable x264 support as x264 is too old in mageia 1 This may induce a regression (a missing feature) Why not to update libx264 before updating ffmpeg, and by this way allow to keep x264 support enabled ? Is there a problem for other pr

Re: [Mageia-dev] missing deps, lash rebuilt for texi2html

2011-10-19 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Funda Wang a écrit : > 2011/10/16 Thomas Spuhler : >> Thanks Funda. I will look it up just to learn how you did it. > The problem comes from the upgrading of swig, it tends to have such > problems when doing major upgrades. > Does it mean that packages having "BuildRequires: swig" in the spec fi

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-10-17 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : > This package is in: > > ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/SRPMS/faac-1.28-1bdk.mga1.src.rpm > > You can find a list with this package and much more in: > ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/incoming/MGA/joaquin/mageia.txt > > Regards. > Yes, I now your repo since I read y

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-10-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
andre999 a écrit : > Philippe DIDIER a écrit : >> Philippe DIDIER a écrit : >> >>> Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : >>> >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net >>>> <http://

Re: [Mageia-dev] missing deps, lash rebuilt for texi2html

2011-10-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Thomas Spuhler a écrit : >> On Saturday, October 15, 2011 07:16:19 pm Philippe DIDIER wrote: >>> Thomas Spuhler a écrit : >>>> I just rebuilt lash. In order to get it built, I had to remove >>>> -%{python_sitelib}/* &

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-10-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : >> Hello! >> >> My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net >> <http://blogdrake.net/> team. I am >> writing to you because I would like to let you know that we have >> created a repo

Re: [Mageia-dev] missing deps, lash rebuilt for texi2html

2011-10-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thomas Spuhler a écrit : > On Saturday, October 15, 2011 07:16:19 pm Philippe DIDIER wrote: >> Thomas Spuhler a écrit : >>> I just rebuilt lash. In order to get it built, I had to remove >>> -%{python_sitelib}/* >>> Can someone who uses it please test it

Re: [Mageia-dev] missing deps, lash rebuilt for texi2html

2011-10-15 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thomas Spuhler a écrit : > I just rebuilt lash. In order to get it built, I had to remove > -%{python_sitelib}/* > Can someone who uses it please test it? In the previous build (march) python-lash rpm was created it could install a directory /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ wich contained 4 file

Re: [Mageia-dev] vlc packages

2011-10-14 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Colin Guthrie a écrit : >> 'Twas brillig, and D.Morgan at 13/10/11 17:41 did gyre and gimble: >>> should be in update_testing as this is related to a CVE :/ >> >> Yeah that's what I meant... more info here: >> https://bugs.

Re: [Mageia-dev] vlc packages

2011-10-13 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Colin Guthrie a écrit : > 'Twas brillig, and D.Morgan at 13/10/11 17:41 did gyre and gimble: >> should be in update_testing as this is related to a CVE :/ > > Yeah that's what I meant... more info here: > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2267 > > And maybe in tainted/update_testing too :

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 1050] unable to read mp3 with KDE-liveCD beta2 : possible solutions

2011-10-11 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Oliver Burger a écrit : > Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2011, 02:51:58 schrieb Philippe DIDIER: > Since in core repo are how many GigaBytes of packages and you have 700MB of > space on a CD. Are you seriously asking why one package isn't included in the > CD? > I don't

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 1050] unable to read mp3 with KDE-liveCD beta2 : possible solutions

2011-10-11 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Oliver Burger a écrit : > To be honest, what are you doing about those issues you are naming on the > lists, besides complaining about them? > > Oliver > Are you talking about my bug reports on Mageia bugzilla ? I do what I am able to do. 1) I tested beta livecd and wrote bug reports, proposin

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 1050] unable to read mp3 with KDE-liveCD beta2 : possible solutions

2011-10-11 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Oliver Burger a écrit : > I'm not so sure, what should require ir, being one of those stubborn people > using phonon-xine even after all kinds of people told me I was wrong :D > But to be serious, if we add a gstreamer plugin to an application like > amarok, > we would force gstreamer upon peop

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 1050] unable to read mp3 with KDE-liveCD beta2 : possible solutions

2011-10-10 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Marja van Waes a écrit : > @ Olivier > @ Philippe > > Any news on this bug? > Same problem with Mageia1 KDE LiveCD but it seems to be an unclear patent issue ! If you use a LiveCD as a demo, and if you want to show that Mageia is able to read mp3 files : you must now first that 1) you need to h

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 1047] Build less iso's

2011-10-10 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Marja van Waes a écrit : > Has anything been decided on this request? > It was indeed more a discuss than a bug report ! Indeed, since april, final Mageia1 was published ( june 1st ) something was decided : 8 liveCD : 4 localised KDE CD ; 4 Localised Gnome CD 2 monoarch install DVD (1 for 32 b

[Mageia-dev] vlc packages

2011-10-10 Thread Philippe DIDIER
@ shlomif Hi I saw vlc.1.1.11-0.1-mga1 added in mageia1/core/backports_testing It's maybe an error as we can find the same version in mageia1/core/updates ... I looked into Revision 153535 and Revision 153536 perhaps a typo line 322 Builrequires instead of BuildRequires Maybe an explanation f

Re: [Mageia-dev] texi2html

2011-10-03 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thomas Spuhler a écrit : > On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 03:49:56 pm Philippe DIDIER wrote: >> D.Morgan a écrit : >>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Jani Välimaa > wrote: >>>> 2011/9/27 Thomas Spuhler : >>>>> On Monday, September 26, 2011 07

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeglut vs. mesa (devel requires problem)

2011-10-03 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Colin Guthrie a écrit : > Can whoever uploaded freeglut please fix the mesa require tags. > > i.e. the fact that mesa-common-devel requires the mesa > lib[64]mesaglut3-devel = 7.11 > > Cheers > > Col > Bug 2891 it seems there is only one line to modify in mesa spec file : line 18 17# freeglut

Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

2011-10-02 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Anne Nicolas a écrit : >> Hi there > >> >> As I told him, I will mentor J-C. >> >> > GOD ! > > May we promise we'll never crucify him ! ;)

Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

2011-10-02 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Anne Nicolas a écrit : > Hi there > > As I told him, I will mentor J-C. > > GOD !

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-09-30 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Samuel Verschelde a écrit : > Le vendredi 30 septembre 2011 22:21:51, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : >> it would need some more job from you, but be very kind to add a comment >> into the bug report your rpm brings an answer >> >> :) > > And preferrably not give links

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-09-30 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Here is the list of the bug reports asking for missing packages : https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=New%20RPM%20package%20request&product=Mageia&target_milestone=--- Your rpms reply to some of these requests.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-09-30 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : >> Hello! >> >> My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net >> <http://blogdrake.net/> team. I am >> writing to you because I would like to let you know that we have >> created a repo

Re: [Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia

2011-09-30 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : > Hello! > > My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net > team. I am > writing to you because I would like to let you know that we have > created a repository with a big amount of good programs for Mageia. > Our final target is to uploa

Re: [Mageia-dev] texi2html

2011-09-27 Thread Philippe DIDIER
D.Morgan a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Jani Välimaa wrote: >> 2011/9/27 Thomas Spuhler : >>> On Monday, September 26, 2011 07:33:20 pm Thomas Spuhler wrote: On Monday, September 26, 2011 08:34:30 am Anssi Hannula wrote: > On 26.09.2011 15:47, nicolas vigier wrote: >> On

Re: [Mageia-dev] sorry to break the threads (a reply to Nicolas Vigier and others that get bored with this...)

2011-09-27 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > > I hope this doesn't make you to much angry ... I saw you were not ! Thanks to everyone who helped an old and five-thumbed hands goofy Hope this will work at least for this list Regards Philippe

[Mageia-dev] sorry to break the threads (a reply to Nicolas Vigier and others that get bored with this...)

2011-09-27 Thread Philippe DIDIER
*>nicolas vigier* /Tue Sep 27 13:52:27 CEST 2011/ >Can you stop creating a new thread anytime you send an email ? I'm really sorry... It's not deliberate Whatever I tried I could never prevent Thunderbird to create a new thread when I post in mageia mailing lists. I ask for some help in

Re: [Mageia-dev] texi2html

2011-09-27 Thread Philippe DIDIER
There's indeed a wrong " Provides: texi2html " in texlive : Texlive contains nothing similar to the files that we can find in texi2html ! (previously named tetex-texi2html). and it can't because the source of texi2html is not in the srpm (and is not part of texlive's source tarbal)! This

[Mageia-dev] texi2html

2011-09-26 Thread Philippe DIDIER
changing the provides from // Provides: tetex-texi2html = 1:3.0 to Provides: texi2html //make some problem appear : http://check.mageia.org/dependencies.html : ffmpeg gcompris lash qemu quagga xen have this BuilRequires 2 solutions : - You may keep the 2 provides (//texi2html and tetex-tex

[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

2011-09-25 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi ! This was discussed on this list in july for cauldron... (after some previous discuss on avril 20th when freeglut was pushed in mageia1) bug reports were done in the end august https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2412 (thanks to all that worked on it) The whole job is done : packag

[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

2011-09-21 Thread Philippe DIDIER
First I may apologize for breaking the thread (a little technical and geographical problem...) On/Wed Sep 21 03:47:31 CEST 2011/ *Anssi Hannula* wrote : On 21.09.2011 03:14, Philippe DIDIER wrote: / Anssi Hannula wrote /Tue Sep 20 17:29:44/ : />>>/Including faac itself is no less

[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

2011-09-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Anssi Hannula wrote /Tue Sep 20 17:29:44/ : >Including faac itself is no less safe than other patent-encumbered >codecs, since the non-free parts do not forbid redistribution. The only non-free and non GPL part of FAAC is the ISO MPEG reference code which it is based on... to comply with this in

[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

2011-09-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi ! Since sunday september 18th faac is provided in tainted repos for mageia1 and cauldron after some controversy https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730 Mplayer (for the mencoder part) Libquicktime VLC Gstreamer-plugins-bad Mythtv had been imported and built in core... and in tainte

[Mageia-dev] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS!

2011-09-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
/>/> However, they are case when you have rebuild a package just in order />/> to accomodate for changes you made somewhere else. For instance, />/> rebuilding all packages linked against a given library after updating />/> this last one to a new version... / *>Well, if you don't need those ot

[Mageia-dev] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS!

2011-09-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
To illustrate what I meant : There's this thread : [Mageia-dev] Package request - Bump BZFlag to 2.4 Shlomif did the upgrade 12 minutes ago... (less than 3 hours after the discuss began, and before a bug report is written)

[Mageia-dev] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS!

2011-09-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
16.09.2011 13:44, Guillaume Rousse : /> This whole idea of 'touch a package, become its maintainer' assumes />/> than anyone modifying a package has an obvious interest in it. />/> However, they are case when you have rebuild a package just in order />/> to accomodate for changes you made som

[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

2011-07-24 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Balcaen John a écrit > Well it's more glut-devel instead of freeglut-devel :) > cf > urpmq --provides >lib64freeglut-devel > glut-devel[== 3.7] > devel(libglut(64bit)) > lib64freeglut-devel[== 2.6.0-4.mga1] > lib64freeglut-devel(x86-64)[== 2.6.0-4.mga1] You may add to the spec "Provides freeglu

[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

2011-07-23 Thread Philippe DIDIER
>- why migrate? https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20110118/002316.html https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20110420/004104.html https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-June/005920.html >- what works >- what to change when build fails >- where to go if nothing makes it build we

[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

2011-07-23 Thread Philippe DIDIER
I saw Funda could rebuild openscenegraph without -- BuildRequire : mesaglut-devel -- which is not needed anymore : openscenegraph is no more in mikala's list ! It seems that it would be interesting to try, first, to build each package without this BuildRequire (some specs have not their Build

[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

2011-07-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
It's just a reminder : there seemed to be a consensus about using freeglut instead of mesaglut (as all other distributions do, excepted Mandriva) Because of compatiblity when upgrading from Mandriva this couldn't be done for Mageia1 ... Now this might be done in cauldron : some rpms are alread

[Mageia-dev] autopano-sift-C ought to be in tainted, instead of core repository

2011-07-19 Thread Philippe DIDIER
/ What are the patents number ? />>/ / I was under the impression thathttp://www.google.com/patents?vid=6711293 is related to it, but I am not sure. That's it ! Though the author is a University professor and the owner a University, and we may suppose they won't pursue authors and distibuto

[Mageia-dev] autopano-sift-C ought to be in tainted, instead of core repository

2011-07-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
It's in the title ! The use of the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorythm allowing to find control points to build panorama with several pictures is restricted by a US patent... this algorythm is the basis of autopano-sift and autopano-sift-C ! hugin (a pano builder program) bring

[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

2011-07-12 Thread Philippe DIDIER
So there seems to be a wish for an other answer to this request : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730 Faac (and rpms built with it ) might appear at least in tainted repo ? same as they are in plf ... or in Debian squeeze multimedia repo, or in ATrpms repo for Fedora 15

[Mageia-dev] Update of mesa to git version

2011-06-22 Thread Philippe DIDIER
/ And if both glut and freeglut were installed,/ Libfreeglut3.rpm and libmesaglut3.rpm can't be installed side by side : they install the same link "glut.so.3" to glut.so.3.9.0 for the first or glut.so.3.7.0 for the second... fortunately libfreeglut3.rpm obsoletes libmesaglut3.rpm Libfreeg

[Mageia-dev] Update of mesa to git version

2011-06-22 Thread Philippe DIDIER
I also disable the mesa glut build in the same change since (if i'm not wrong) we're supposed to move to freeglut instead. Thierry Vignaud is certainly the one that is aware about freeglut versus GLUT ! He is the one that may say if you are right or wrong to do so now ! Beware of the fact

[Mageia-dev] mesaglut versus freeglut in cauldron

2011-06-14 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi ! Wonderful job done by the team (congratulations) just some problems with some missing rpms in Mageia1 : waiting for a solution to be found to add them (in backports or updates repo?) and it will be perfect ! Talking about future (whatever the release cycle will be) : Just a reminder : O

Re: [Mageia-dev] regarding tainted progress

2011-05-29 Thread Philippe DIDIER
>There s no license for win32-codecs. So unless someone can prove they >are public domain, they are still under the copyright of their owner, >and cannot be distributed. That's warez. I know that was the reason why this package is in plf for mandriva or in special repos for fedora, opensuse, ubu

Re: [Mageia-dev] regarding tainted progress

2011-05-29 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Happy to see bug 358 quite resolved and seeing tainted repo populated with new specially built rpms beside core ones (libpano; and ffmpeg, xine, vlc, mplayer, libquicktime, gstreamer )... Two little problems remain : 1) libfaac is missing ... no problem for ffmpeg : voaacenc is in the tainted r

Re: [Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

2011-04-26 Thread Philippe DIDIER
>We're not going to have the same application twice with different names in >mageia. The obsoletes/provides are needed to allow upgrades from mandriva >linux 2010.1 . The problem remains for seamonkey-enigmail-2.0.13 and seamonkey-enigmime-2.0.13 They are in the mageia repo because it seems th

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeglut last update

2011-04-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thierry Vignaud wrote : >mesa is ready to switch from itw own implementation to freeglut." I had read your spec (rev 88231) and understood you planned to... and was happy to see this ! I was aware of the problems of dependency (I posted on dev mailing list january 18th) hoping that an early op

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeglut last update

2011-04-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Thank you to provide an answer to an old Mandriva package request https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47090 in comment n°10 of this "bug" I provided a list of possible dependency problems when replacing mesaglut with freeglut hope it will be useful ! Best regards to everyone Philippe

Re: [Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

2011-04-16 Thread Philippe DIDIER
To Christiaan Welvaart You uploaded iceape 2.0.12... and it obsoleted seamonkey 2.0.13 that ennael had uploaded 2 days before... to be more precise : iceape 2.0.12 replaces seamonkey 2.0.13 iceape-irc replaces seamonkey-irc iceape-dom replaces seamonkey-dom iceape-mail replaces seamonkey-mail i

[Mageia-dev] Sophie doesn't survey "updates_testing" repos

2011-03-07 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi ! Some work for Nanardon ... http://sophie.zarb.org/distrib/Mageia/cauldron/i586 Missing repos : Core-updates_testing Core-updates_testing-src nonfree-updates_testing nonfree-updates_testing-src tainted-updates_testing tainted-updates_testing-src Best regards philippe

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-22 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Quote: rdalverny wrote on Tue, 22 February 2011 11:04 > >> Long time ago, > > How long is a "long time ago"? because every patent has a term and > here it may have expired. > Long time ago means 1999.. Actually the problem has not expired :

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
>Well, the old simple logic works... > >lets say we "abuse" the release tag, for example changing "mga" >to "mgt" >then if the user enables "tainted" (meaning he/she wants the >rpms) urpmi >will automatically get the "mgt" ones, no questions asked... > >simple, and effective. > >and since the reb

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
First I want to apologize for having cut the thread (I think it won't happen again) I have followed the discussion about tainted packages... And what I talked about (in the other thread with the same name) was about the easiness to build and use different rpms with the same spec having mdv vers

[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
> >/ Long time ago, iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit against > />/ these free algorythms inventor and photographers using them (this > />/ company is now dead because of bankruptcy but the patent problem is > />/ still live... ) > / > Well, who own the patents now ? > I don't know

[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-18 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi everybody ! Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some algorythms library to build panoramic photographs) Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...) That's one of the first patent problems we may encounter : Long time ago, iPIX, a company from USA muliplied patent lawsuit ag

[Mageia-dev] GLUT (part of mesa srpm) is not GPL... and is quite obsolete ! (bis)

2011-01-23 Thread Philippe DIDIER
I send this message again because it did not appear in the mailing-list after I sent it on january 18th As it concerns a basis rpm upon which others are built, I thought there's some emergency This seems to have at least convinced Mandriva team... and might improve Mageia too, reaching some com

[Mageia-dev] GLUT (part of mesa srpm) is not GPL... and is quite obsolete !

2011-01-23 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Hi everybody ! I don't know if it's the right place to post this, and I don't want to fill this mail list with long mesages... If someone needs to see what i'm talking about there's an old bug report on Mandriva bugzilla that was recently resuscitated (I know Thierry Vignaud had a glance on it...

[Mageia-dev] mageia sound tasks

2010-12-21 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Three talented guys already worked a lot about this for Mandriva and are registered as packagers for Mageia http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=packaging Colin Guthrie alias coling mageia(at)colin(dot)guthr(dot)ie Frank Kober alias dharanamrs goemusic at yahoo dot fr Yvan Munoz a

[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-14 Thread Philippe DIDIER
If you don't understand what are patent problems : http://eupat.ffii.org/patents/effects/ipix/index.en.html Helmut Dersch , a mathematics and physics professor in a German University created algorythms to stitch photographs into a panorama view, and proposed it as a free software (panotools) ! H