A few Debian packages use cz for lang code name for Czech

2004-12-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Hello, I just discovered that 4 Debian packages incorrectly use cz for the language code for Czech: http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/cz (of course, the correct code is cs) I reported a bug against each of those, but wanted to let you be aware of that. I think you need to check what

Re: A few Debian packages use cz for lang code name for Czech

2004-12-14 Thread Miroslav Kure
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:55:35AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Hello, I just discovered that 4 Debian packages incorrectly use cz for the language code for Czech: http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/cz (of course, the correct code is cs) I reported a bug against each of

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Michael K. Edwards
me Ian Murdock (quotes out of order) If the LSB only attempts to certify things that haven't forked, then it's a no-op. Well, that's not quite fair; I have found it useful to bootstrap a porting effort using lsb-rpm. But for it to be a software operating environment and not just a

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Goswin von Brederlow | I think something like Failure: firmware not loaded or Failure: | path/firmware: No such file or directory counts as a dependency. Nobody's said that the driver has to load the firmware. The firmware might well be loaded by first booting to some other OS, then into

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Simon Richter | (If the firmware used by this tool really is Free Software, my | apologies. However, in that case, the firmware still does not appear to | be available in Debian.) | | The tool is generic, hence I cannot make any assumptions on the | freeness of any firmware that may be

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Kenneth Pronovici | I think what you're forgetting (or at least ignoring) is that designing | hardware is not exactly like designing software. The process is | similar, yes, but it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. At the | least, this is because testing your hardware implementation is

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: (and it really was him this time -- sorry about last time; hand-quoting is tricky stuff): Is the pseudo source file enough for BSD or Artistic license? It's enough for BSD. (Which doesn't actually require source.) On the same subject but going in a totally different

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:17:24AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Kenneth Pronovici | I think what you're forgetting (or at least ignoring) is that designing | hardware is not exactly like designing software. The process is | similar, yes, but it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. At

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-14 Thread Frank Küster
Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, [quoting Josh Triplett] Package: misdn-utils Version: 0.0.0+cvs20041018-4 Severity: serious misdn-utils contains a utility loadfirm, for loading firmware onto ISDN devices. Unless this firmware is Free Software with source, which did not

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:52:05AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: Completely and utterly wrong in my case. I'm exactly the sort of person that you apparently think should like dselect, but I think aptitude is _far_ superior, for both experts and newbies. The competition isn't even close.

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di, 14-12-2004 te 02:24 +, schreef Andrew Suffield: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:57:19PM -0500, Brendan wrote: On Monday 13 December 2004 14:50, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: My surmise is that we'd need an effort like that,

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:58:52AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Simon Richter | (If the firmware used by this tool really is Free Software, my | apologies. However, in that case, the firmware still does not appear to | be available in Debian.) | | The tool is generic, hence I

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
Any commercial software company will tell you exactly the same thing about software: testing is not free. Testing is not free only in the sense that a *vendor* might lose clients if said clients are the *testers*... Historically, lots of clients are performed free testng for vendors. I'm

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Shouldn't this be moved to -legal? No. -legal is useful for determining whether a given piece of code meets the DFSG or not. It doesn't make policy decisions. -project is a better place for non-technical discussion of this sort of thing. -- Matthew

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
To design software, all you need is a fully functional computer. To design hardware, you need to create and test a prototype every once in a while. That'll cost you. Your logic doesnt follow. Why, then, isn't Be (BeOS) still around ? Plenty of fully functional computers around at the

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di, 14-12-2004 te 07:48 -0500, schreef Chasecreek Systemhouse: To design software, all you need is a fully functional computer. To design hardware, you need to create and test a prototype every once in a while. That'll cost you. Your logic doesnt follow. Why, then, isn't Be

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, It's fine for software in main to be able to do stuff with non-free data; that's not the issue. The question is whether there *exists* any free data that it works with, and if not, whether that's a problem. I don't believe that is a problem. We don't ship the non-free data, we just allow its

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Ian Murdock
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 00:44 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Besides that the LCC sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea, passing around binaries only makes sense if you can't easily reproduce them from the source (which I defined very broadly to include all build scripts and depencies), and

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Bluefuture
Try to take a look to this http://lists.duskglow.com/open-graphics/ about problems, solutions and ASIC vs FPGA proposed for a real project to build a open design 2d/3d graphic card. Cheers, Blue.

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Ian Murdock
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:07 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: If this is what's going to happen, then the first time a security fix comes along in one of those binaries the system suddenly isn't LCC-compiant anymore (due to the fact that different distributions handle security updates differently

Bug#285617: ITP: libxbox0 -- Shared library to allow xbox-linux applications to utilise the Xbox hardware

2004-12-14 Thread dmp
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-12-14 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libxbox0 Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : David Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.xbox-linux.org * License : GPL Description : Shared library to allow xbox-linux

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Ian Murdock
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 14:33 -0600, John Hasler wrote: Why don't standard ABIs suffice? Because the LSB bases its certification process on a standard ABI/API specification alone, and this approach simply hasn't worked. -- Ian Murdock 317-578-8882 (office) http://www.progeny.com/

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Michael Poole
Chasecreek Systemhouse writes: To design software, all you need is a fully functional computer. To design hardware, you need to create and test a prototype every once in a while. That'll cost you. Your logic doesnt follow. Why, then, isn't Be (BeOS) still around ? Plenty of

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Bluefuture
Another interesting link is Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software on Linux: http://www.linuxeda.com/ Cheers, Blue.

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Ian Murdock
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:57 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 06.15, Gunnar Wolf wrote: John Goerzen dijo [Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:40:51PM -0600]: we could participate in this organization even if we didn't take their packages? That is, perhaps we could

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:07:12PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 03:49 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:39:55PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: You've just described the way the LSB has done it for years, which thus far, hasn't worked--while there are

Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread Marco Nenciarini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: expocity Version : 2.6.2-1 Upstream Author : Martin Grimme [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.pycage.de/software_expocity.html * License : GPL Description : An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
[Please Note that I'm not trying to create a hardware holy war. Of all the OSes I have used and upon all the architectures I have built - both commercial and non-commercial -- Debian has consistently delivered a great wholistic, as well as holistic, system solution.] On 14 Dec 2004 09:03:20

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marco Nenciarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.14.1533 +0100]: expocity is an effort to integrate an efficient means of switching between applications into the window manager metacity, similar to Exposé(tm) on Apple's OS-X. enlighten us non-Darwinists: what does Exposé do? How does

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread Christian Surchi
== Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:33:43 +0100 From: martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity == enlighten us non-Darwinists: what

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo all! Seeing this discussion wander in many directions, please consider what is acutally under discussion here: Bruce: I would not suggest that Debian commit to using LCC packages at this time. We should participate for a while and see how many changes we'd have to make and whether the

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* [ 14-12-04 - 15:33 ] Marco Nenciarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Description : An enanced Window Manager based on metacity s/enanced/enhanced/ expocity is an effort to integrate an efficient means of switching between applications into the window manager metacity, similar to

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 04:43:11PM +0100, Christian Surchi wrote: == Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:33:43 +0100 From: martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:57:20PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: And no, I can't confirm or refute the numbers, which is why *I* didn't comment on whether they were realistic. You might want to try that sometime. I cannot figure out what mail you were reading. -- .''`. ** Debian

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Tuesday, 14 de December de 2004 16:33, martin f krafft wrote: enlighten us non-Darwinists: what does Expos do? How does this differ from tabs as provided e.g. by fluxbox. Similar to Kompose: http://kompose.berlios.de/kompose_0.4.jpg pgp40arFgR6uG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Michael Poole
Chasecreek Systemhouse writes: On 14 Dec 2004 09:03:20 -0500, Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardware design has very different and higher third-party costs than software design, and the cost to make and test minor revisions can be a significant fraction of the cost to do the

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:20:53PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: I think what you're forgetting (or at least ignoring) is that designing hardware is not exactly like designing software. The process is similar, yes, but it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. At the least, this is

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 15:33 +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: expocity Version : 2.6.2-1 Upstream Author : Martin Grimme [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.pycage.de/software_expocity.html * License : GPL

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 14/12/2004 Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: Personally I'm not buying it. Hardware costs what it does for the same reasons as software -- to advance the state of the art and to create better hardware (or software as the case may be.) I personally don't think that the price of products in a

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Ian Murdock
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 06:16 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:07:12PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 03:49 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Well, my first question is why, irrespective of how valuable the LSB itself is to them, any ISV would choose

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:17:24AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Kenneth Pronovici | I think what you're forgetting (or at least ignoring) is that designing | hardware is not exactly like designing software. The process is | similar, yes, but it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. At

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Isaac Clerencia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.14.1610 +0100]: Similar to Kompose: http://kompose.berlios.de/kompose_0.4.jpg I fail to see the innovative component. What am I looking for? also sprach Christian Surchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.14.1643 +0100]: also sprach Steve Kemp

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 17:43 +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 14/12/2004 Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: Personally I'm not buying it. Hardware costs what it does for the same reasons as software -- to advance the state of the art and to create better hardware (or software as the case may be.)

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 06:10:08PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Damn, and I run about 60 applications simultaneously and never lose overview with fluxbox or ion. I must be doing something wrong. This seems to me to be a sloppy way to work. If all these apps are doing significant amounts of

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:51:43PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:57:20PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: And no, I can't confirm or refute the numbers, which is why *I* didn't comment on whether they were realistic. You might want to try that sometime. I

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Ian Murdock | On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:07 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: | If this is what's going to happen, then the first time a security fix | comes along in one of those binaries the system suddenly isn't | LCC-compiant anymore (due to the fact that different distributions | handle

Re: binary NMUs and version numbers

2004-12-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: 1.rc 1.rc2 1.rc+b1 1.2-1~beta 1.2-1~beta2 1.2-1~beta+b1 1.2~beta-1 1.2~beta-1+b1 1.2~beta2-1 Keeping the Debian revision simple is a Good Thing. Adding the implicit '0' that dpkg assumes on versions ending in

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.14.1825 +0100]: Damn, and I run about 60 applications simultaneously and never lose overview with fluxbox or ion. I must be doing something wrong. This seems to me to be a sloppy way to work. If all these apps are doing significant

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
[Yes, replying to myself.] On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:05:44AM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:17:24AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Kenneth Pronovici | I think what you're forgetting (or at least ignoring) is that designing | hardware is not exactly like

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ian Murdock dijo [Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:53:54AM -0500]: (snip) The ISVs have spoken. They want to support as few ports as possible, because those ports cost money. They also want to support as much of the market as possible, and the current reality is that many of those markets are out of

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread Frank Küster
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sprach Christian Surchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.14.1643 +0100]: also sprach Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.14.1651 +0100]: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/expose/ quote: Admit it, Mac OS X has you spoiled. Youve become so used

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 06:33:31PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: You must have had horrible experiences with your computer. I am sorry. Not at all. I've just never been a fan of having a thousand windows open. I keep 4 terminals tiled on 1 desktop, use screen to background things, and use a

Re: /var/log on Debian systems

2004-12-14 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: On all my Debian systems, /var/log seems like a big pile of dumps without much consistency. Especially, while 0640:root:adm seems to be a commonly accepted guideline, proggies like aptitude, scrollkeeper, X, xdm, fontconfig, and many others basically just dump their

Re: /var/log on Debian systems

2004-12-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.14.1955 +0100]: be a commonly accepted guideline, proggies like aptitude, scrollkeeper, X, xdm, fontconfig, and many others basically just dump their files world-readable into there. What's so private in these log files that they

having trouble with xdm/xfs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9?

2004-12-14 Thread Branden Robinson
[Followups set to debian-x.] Hi folks, I just wanted to bring the following information to the attention of those who may be frustrated by problems with the latest xdm and xfs packages. [...] [14 December] XFree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9 sneaked out with a couple of small but annoying bugs in it.

Re: Drop testing

2004-12-14 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello I may write exactly the same thing as Steve Langasek but I just have to tell why I would like to keep testing. On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:56:36PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h Some improvements have already been proposed by Eduard Bloch and Adrian Bunk: freezing

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

2004-12-14 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello I assume that my answer is a bit late as you wrote this in october. I have written a package, dysyco that do similar things to what you want. Take a look. I may have misunderstood you. // Ola On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:37:27PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: I am working on creating a package

Bug#285682: ITP: xbox-blink -- Tool to manipulate the front-panel LED on the Microsoft Xbox

2004-12-14 Thread dmp
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-12-14 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xbox-blink Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : David Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.xbox-linux.org * License : GPL Description : Tool to manipulate the front-panel

Bug#285681: ITP: libxbox-dev -- Libxbox-dev provides the headers for libxbox0 and the libxbox.so symlink

2004-12-14 Thread dmp
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-12-14 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libxbox-dev Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : David Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.xbox-linux.org * License : GPL Description : Libxbox-dev provides the headers

ITP: wrapperfactory.app -- Application wrappers configuration tool for GNUstep

2004-12-14 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: wrapperfactory.app Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Raffael Herzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : ftp://ftp.raffael.ch/software/GNUstepWrapper/ * License : GNU GPL Description : Application wrappers

Re: /var/log on Debian systems

2004-12-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:55:59 +0100, Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's so private in these log files that they should not world readable? A local user can look at usage patterns and formulate a plan of attack. A badly written CGI can leak server data across the public Internet.

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

2004-12-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello I assume that my answer is a bit late as you wrote this in october. I have written a package, dysyco that do similar things to what you want. Take a look. I may have misunderstood you. // Ola On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:37:27PM -0400, Mark

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

2004-12-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Goswin von Brederlow] Actually that is forbidden by policy. A package may not change another packages conffiles. Actually, the policy forbids the _maintainer scripts_ of a package to change another packages conffiles. It does not forbid a script in a package to change another packages

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:34:17AM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 00:44 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Besides that the LCC sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea, passing around binaries only makes sense if you can't easily reproduce them from the source (which I defined

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Bruce Perens
Ron Johnson wrote: The *price* of product has *nothing* to do with how much it *cost* to create. In a purely competitive market the price of goods would approach their cost. The system of "intellectual property" is a barrier that prevents certain goods from becoming commodities. There

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Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 14:42 -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: The *price* of product has *nothing* to do with how much it *cost* to create. In a purely competitive market the price of goods would approach their cost. The system of intellectual property is a barrier that

Re: Bug#285681: ITP: libxbox-dev -- Libxbox-dev provides the headers for libxbox0 and the libxbox.so symlink

2004-12-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
First, please don't send mails to the BTS with a local address. Le mardi 14 décembre 2004 à 20:06 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-12-14 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libxbox-dev Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : David Pye

Re: Bug#285681: ITP: libxbox-dev -- Libxbox-dev provides the headers for libxbox0 and the libxbox.so symlink

2004-12-14 Thread David Pye
Hi, On Tuesday 14 December 2004 23:35, Josselin Mouette wrote: First, please don't send mails to the BTS with a local address. Le mardi 14 décembre 2004 à 20:06 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a Yes, how I cursed that one, once I realised it had got out. I sent three ITPs, and one made it out

Re: Bug#285681: ITP: libxbox-dev -- Libxbox-dev provides the headers for libxbox0 and the libxbox.so symlink

2004-12-14 Thread David Pye
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 23:35, Josselin Mouette wrote: Why do you need to make it a separate source package? No, no, ignore my last email. I 'get it' now. It for some reason escaped my notice that the ITP needed only to be raised against the source package, and not the multiple binary

Re: Bug#285681: ITP: libxbox-dev -- Libxbox-dev provides the headers for libxbox0 and the libxbox.so symlink

2004-12-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:49:55PM +, David Pye wrote: Ah. So that's what I did wrong, maybe. The two packages build from the same source. Does that mean a single ITP is necessary? I have not raised ITPs before, so was not sure exactly. That's it. With a few rare exceptions (that

Re: binary NMUs and version numbers

2004-12-14 Thread Anthony Towns
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: 1.rc 1.rc2 1.rc+b1 1.2-1~beta 1.2-1~beta2 1.2-1~beta+b1 1.2~beta-1 1.2~beta-1+b1 1.2~beta2-1 Adding the implicit '0' that dpkg assumes on versions ending in alpha chars would solve both

Bug#285705: ITP: libifp -- library for communicating with iRiver iFP audio devices

2004-12-14 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libifp Version : 0.1.0.11 Upstream Author : Geoff Oakham * URL : http://ifp-driver.sourceforge.net/libifp/ * License : GNU GPL Description : library for communicating with iRiver iFP audio devices libifp

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-14 Thread Miles Bader
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other problem with aptitude is touted as a design feature: it tends to be all-or-nothing. Either you use it always or you don't (automatic removal thingie). This becomes a problem when multiple persons use different interfaces for adding

Bug#285707: ITP: quodlibet -- audio library manager and player for GTK+

2004-12-14 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: quodlibet Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.sacredchao.net/~piman/software/quodlibet.shtml * License : GNU GPL Description : audio library manager and player

Re: Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Wichmann, Mats D
Joey Hess wrote (on debian-devel): My experience as a developer who's tried to write an app to use the LSB (only the init script interface) is that it's poorly enough specified and/or implemented divergently within the spec to the point that I had to test my implementation on every LSB

Re: binary NMUs and version numbers

2004-12-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: That'd mean REJECTing uploads whose versions match [^0-9]+[a-z][0-9]+$ presumably. ^ ^ First + is literal, second + is one or more. One should be escaped.

Help needed with debconf

2004-12-14 Thread Arne Gtje ()
Hi list, I need some help with debconf, especially for the config and postinst scripts. I tried to craft my own ones for my font package and when I try to install the package the postinst script exits with status 10. What does this mean? Further more, the dialog I have created in config gets

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Bruce Perens
Kenneth Pronovici wrote: Aha, I see where you found this in my original note (although you didn't quote it). In that paragraph, thousands of dollars was just an example for illustration, although I chose the magnitude of the cost from one of the links Bruce posted (I recall seeing a $5400

Accepted hylafax 1:4.2.0-16 (powerpc all source)

2004-12-14 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:53:10 +0100 Source: hylafax Binary: hylafax-doc hylafax-server hylafax-client Architecture: source all powerpc Version: 1:4.2.0-16 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Giuseppe Sacco [EMAIL

Accepted xzgv 0.8-3 (i386 source)

2004-12-14 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:23:47 -0500 Source: xzgv Binary: xzgv Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Theodore Y. Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Theodore Y. Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted ocamlgsl 0.3.5-1 (powerpc source)

2004-12-14 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:51:07 +0100 Source: ocamlgsl Binary: libocamlgsl-ocaml-dev libocamlgsl-ocaml Architecture: source powerpc Version: 0.3.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Sylvain Le Gall [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted ocaml-fileutils 0.3.0-3 (powerpc source)

2004-12-14 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:55:32 +0100 Source: ocaml-fileutils Binary: libfileutils-ocaml-dev Architecture: source powerpc Version: 0.3.0-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Sylvain Le Gall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By:

Accepted xmail 1.20-5 (i386 source all)

2004-12-14 Thread Radu Spineanu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:42:06 +0200 Source: xmail Binary: xmail xmail-doc Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.20-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Radu Spineanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Radu Spineanu [EMAIL

Accepted logjam 4.4.0-6 (i386 source)

2004-12-14 Thread Ari Pollak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:14:17 -0500 Source: logjam Binary: logjam-xmms logjam Architecture: source i386 Version: 4.4.0-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ari Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ari Pollak [EMAIL

Accepted beep-media-player 0.9.7-1 (powerpc source)

2004-12-14 Thread Michiel Sikkes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:31:43 +0100 Source: beep-media-player Binary: beep-media-player-dev beep-media-player Architecture: source powerpc Version: 0.9.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michiel Sikkes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted base-files 3.1.1 (i386 source)

2004-12-14 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:06:00 +0100 Source: base-files Binary: base-files Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Santiago Vila [EMAIL

Accepted gtk-gnutella 0.95-2 (i386 source)

2004-12-14 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 04:45:08 +1100 Source: gtk-gnutella Binary: gtk-gnutella Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.95-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted db4.3 4.3.21-11 (all source)

2004-12-14 Thread Clint Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:28:16 -0500 Source: db4.3 Binary: libdb4.3++-dev libdb4.3 libdb4.3-java libdb4.3-dev libdb4.3-tcl libdb4.3++ db4.3-util db4.3-doc Architecture: source all Version: 4.3.21-11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium

Accepted asn1-mode 2.7-4 (all source)

2004-12-14 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:23:23 + Source: asn1-mode Binary: asn1-mode Architecture: source all Version: 2.7-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted mozilla-firefox-locale-tr 1.0 (all source)

2004-12-14 Thread Recai Okta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:53:48 +0200 Source: mozilla-firefox-locale-tr Binary: mozilla-firefox-locale-tr Architecture: source all Version: 1.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: critical Maintainer: Recai Oktaş [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By:

Accepted fet 3.9.20-1 (i386 source)

2004-12-14 Thread Radu Spineanu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 01:22:50 +0200 Source: fet Binary: fet Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.9.20-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Radu Spineanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Radu Spineanu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted xdu 3.0-12 (i386 source)

2004-12-14 Thread Remi Vanicat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:03:21 +0100 Source: xdu Binary: xdu Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.0-12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Remi Vanicat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Remi Vanicat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description:

Accepted msc 1.1.0-2 (all source)

2004-12-14 Thread W. Borgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:05:45 + Source: msc Binary: msc Architecture: source all Version: 1.1.0-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description:

Accepted kvirc 2:2.1.3.1-2 (i386 source all)

2004-12-14 Thread Robin Verduijn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:32:19 -0500 Source: kvirc Binary: kvirc-doc kvirc-dev kvirc-data kvirc Architecture: source i386 all Version: 2:2.1.3.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Robin Verduijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted greylistd 0.6 (all source)

2004-12-14 Thread Tor Slettnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:35:49 -0800 Source: greylistd Binary: greylistd Architecture: source all Version: 0.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Tor Slettnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Tor Slettnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted kaffe 2:1.1.4.PRECVS6-1 (powerpc all source)

2004-12-14 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:48:51 +0100 Source: kaffe Binary: kaffe-dev kaffe-common jikes-kaffe kaffe-pthreads-profile kaffe-pthreads kaffe-doc kaffe kjc kaffe-jthreads Architecture: source all powerpc Version: 2:1.1.4.PRECVS6-1

Accepted pmp-common 2 (all source)

2004-12-14 Thread Joe Wreschnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:11:08 -0600 Source: pmp-common Binary: pmp-common Architecture: source all Version: 2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted gst-python 0.8.1-1 (i386 source)

2004-12-14 Thread Joe Wreschnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:11:50 -0600 Source: gst-python Binary: python-gst Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL

Accepted zoph 0.3.3-10 (all source)

2004-12-14 Thread Edelhard Becker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:55:48 +0100 Source: zoph Binary: zoph Architecture: source all Version: 0.3.3-10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Edelhard Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Edelhard Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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