Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze / new lilo upstream

2010-06-06 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de wrote: Russell Coker russ...@coker.com.au wrote on 2010-06-05 22:30: On Wed, 26 May 2010, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: You're missing the point. The main selling point to management is that Linux is free. If they have to

Re: Bug#583257: ITP: haskell-gnomevfs -- Binding to the GNOME Virtual File System library

2010-05-26 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:07:22PM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva mar...@debian.org * Package name: haskell-gnomevfs Version

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-23 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: (blah blah blah blah) Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become lilo upstream, it's going away. William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-22 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where lilo can reliably determine the payload size. This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the way that lilo's stage2 loader

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-03-24 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - Thomas Goirand tho...@gplhost.com wrote: But xen-tools have be removed from Squeeze, so I suppose it will be more difficult to create new installations (require much more work to replace the xen-create-image script). Well, I've been maintaining dtc-xen since Lenny, and it does

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-03-24 Thread William Pitcock
Hello, - Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:29 +0100, Olivier Bonvalet wrote: But xen-tools have be removed from Squeeze, so I suppose it will be more difficult to create new installations (require much more work to replace the xen-create-image

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-03-24 Thread William Pitcock
- Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 17:58 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: But xen-tools have be removed from Squeeze, so I suppose it will be more difficult to create new installations (require much more work to replace the xen-create-image script).

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
- Josip Rodin j...@entuzijast.net wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 01:23:07AM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: I am looking into packaging xenner already as a backup plan if I cannot manage to fix some major reentrancy problems in the Xen dom0 code (Xensource 2.6.18 patches, the pvops

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote: First of all, I'd like to say a big THANKS to all the people maintaining Xen within (in of course also outside) Debian; you really saved us lots of money and energy (which is both, electrical and that personal one). [...] 4)

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread William Pitcock
- Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net wrote: Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake because KVM requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. Xen is

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread William Pitcock
- Gabor Gombas gomb...@sztaki.hu wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get the upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and obviously the pv_ops dom0 patches still need

Accepted lilo 1:22.8-8 (source i386 all)

2009-08-03 Thread William Pitcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:54:10 -0500 Source: lilo Binary: lilo lilo-doc Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1:22.8-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Changed-By: William

Accepted dsyslog 0.6.0 (source i386)

2009-07-24 Thread William Pitcock
Maintainer: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Changed-By: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Description: dsyslog- advanced modular syslog daemon dsyslog-dbg - advanced modular syslog daemon - debug dsyslog-module-gnutls - advanced modular syslog daemon - GnuTLS support dsyslog-module

Accepted audacious-plugins 2.1-1 (source i386)

2009-07-14 Thread William Pitcock
: low Maintainer: Debian Audacious Packagers pkg-audacious-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Description: audacious-plugins - Base plugins for audacious audacious-plugins-dbg - Audacious-Plugins debug symbols audacious-plugins-dev - Useful

Accepted audacious 2.1-1 (source i386)

2009-07-13 Thread William Pitcock
: low Maintainer: Debian Audacious Packagers pkg-audacious-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Description: audacious - small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats audacious-dbg - audacious media player (debugging symbols

Bug#532831: ITP: python-greenlet -- lightweight in-process concurrent programming

2009-06-11 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org * Package name: python-greenlet Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Bob Ippolito b...@redivi.com * URL : http://undefined.org/python/#greenlet * License : MIT Programming Lang: C

Bug#532140: ITP: python-eventlet -- high performance network library using coroutines

2009-06-06 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org * Package name: python-eventlet Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Linden Research, Inc. eventlet...@lists.secondlife.com * URL : http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Eventlet * License

Accepted audacious-plugins 2.0.1-2 (source i386)

2009-06-04 Thread William Pitcock
Maintainer: Debian Audacious Packagers pkg-audacious-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Description: audacious-plugins - Base plugins for audacious audacious-plugins-dbg - Audacious-Plugins debug symbols audacious-plugins-dev - Useful virtual

Accepted audacious-plugins 2.0.1-3 (source i386)

2009-06-04 Thread William Pitcock
: low Maintainer: Debian Audacious Packagers pkg-audacious-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Description: audacious-plugins - Base plugins for audacious audacious-plugins-dbg - Audacious-Plugins debug symbols audacious-plugins-dev - Useful

Accepted audacious 2.0.1-1 (source i386)

2009-06-01 Thread William Pitcock
: low Maintainer: Debian Audacious Packagers pkg-audacious-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Description: audacious - small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats audacious-dbg - audacious media player (debugging symbols

Re: fstrcmp

2009-05-31 Thread William Pitcock
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 11:04 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Peter Miller: I've been considering turning my fuzzy string compare function into a library. I would certainly welcome that. Would you be willing to relicense it under a more permissive license, so that we don't have to worry

Accepted audacious-plugins 2.0.1-1 (source i386)

2009-05-30 Thread William Pitcock
Maintainer: Debian Audacious Packagers pkg-audacious-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Description: audacious-plugins - Base plugins for audacious audacious-plugins-dbg - Audacious-Plugins debug symbols audacious-plugins-dev - Useful virtual

Re: Should we remove OpenMotif?

2009-05-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 22:03 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: Hi folks, As some of you may already know, I have been doing a lot of package removals and QA work. One of the ones I ran across lately is OpenMotif. It has been orphaned since 2006 and has several bugs against it. However, it

Bug#527094: ITP: polkadot -- continuous integration server for debian packaging

2009-05-05 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org * Package name: polkadot Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org * URL : http://polkadot.dereferenced.org/ (not yet up) * License : GPLv2

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:05 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Montag, 27. April 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: Interestingly you did it again, ignoring the list Code of Conduct. As it sadly happens many times every day. And as long as there are no means to enforce it (either pure social

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-18 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 14:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: William Pitcock wrote: neno...@petrie:~$ sudo yum -c ak-bootstrap.conf --installroot=/home/nenolod/bootstraptest install centos-release yum ak-bootstrap 100% |=| 1.1 kB 00:00

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 16:25 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Luk Claes wrote: Thomas Goirand wrote: Hi, I'm sorry that it took us so much time to make a working yum package, but we were quite overloaded with our work, taking over all the customers of another web hosting company (taking

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 21:11 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: William Pitcock wrote: I call bollocks here. I am using the version of yum in stable right now to yield perfectly working virtual machine filesystems. How is it broken when it is working as expected on production servers

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 11:05 -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: As the silent co-maintainer of lilo I believe I should now voice my thoughts on this I too believe that lilo should belive that lilo should be remove *at some point* but now is not the time. So I restate my willingness to take over fully

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 16:22 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Nenolod: sorry for the other mail. William Pitcock wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:06 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, William Pitcock neno...@sacredspiral.co.uk wrote: Lilo upstream is dead

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:41 -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: No this means I take over the package try to cou ntact upstream etc ^^ THERE IS NO UPSTREAM ANYMORE. If you're not willing to become upstream and wish to take it over, then we

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:46 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): I'm not sure where the original mail comes from, but IMO this should be From lilo package BTS which I was tracking for l10n purposes. So I just happened to notice William's answer to a bug

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 22:20 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, William Pitcock said: The only way it is feasible to do so is to drop all of the Debian patches. Without this, upstream is not cooperative with us. Why is this? See my other mail, basically, lilo upstream

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 10:52 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, William Pitcock said: The only way it is feasible to do so is to drop all of the Debian patches. Without this, upstream is not cooperative with us. Why is this? I think

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:06 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, William Pitcock neno...@sacredspiral.co.uk wrote: Lilo upstream is dead (no release in quite a while), but the lilo maintainer has also been seen as saying in various mailing lists etc, that since

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 16:17 +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:03:10 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Romain Beauxis wrote: I also use lilo for /boot on LVM and I also clearly remember that was the major reason for the previous

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:09 +0100, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Otavio Salvador may or may not have written... Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: [snip] Anyone remember the fairly big upset when lilo was removed from testing around D-I Lenny Beta2? I also share the feeling that

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:44 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: [...] I do not have time to manage the removal at this point, but it will be gone by June. Has the package already been offered for

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:26 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting William Pitcock (neno...@dereferenced.org): lilo is due for removal anyway due to being unmaintained upstream and the widespread availability

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:40 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: William Pitcock wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:26 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting William Pitcock (neno...@dereferenced.org): lilo is due

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:06 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:02:04PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov un...@debian.org wrote: OS I also share the feeling that a lot of people still uses LILO; if OS possible I do belive it should be kept. I use lilo, I like lilo. I don't

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:19 +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:06:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: || On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:02:04PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov un...@debian.org wrote: || I use lilo, I like lilo. || I don't like grub because it has unlogically

Accepted dsyslog 0.5.0 (source i386)

2009-04-03 Thread William Pitcock
: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Changed-By: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Description: dsyslog- advanced modular syslog daemon dsyslog-dbg - advanced modular syslog daemon - debug dsyslog-module-gnutls - advanced modular syslog daemon - PostgreSQL support dsyslog

Accepted libdownload 1.3-1 (source i386)

2009-03-28 Thread William Pitcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:07:53 -0600 Source: libdownload Binary: libdownload-dev libdownload1 Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Changed

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 21:30 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Oops... I strongly suggest providing a wrapper that matches netstat's format as closely as possible (even bug-for-bug if possible). Netstat is probably among the most used tools by sysadmins and programmers alike, both for software we

Re: HD TV as Monitor

2009-03-13 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, Is it 720p or 1080i or 1080p? The following modeline makes my 720p 32 HDTV happy: |SubSection Display |Depth 24 |Modes 1680x1050 |EndSubSection William On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 16:04 -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: I have a Samsung 42 HD TV. It has a

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-12 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:56 +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Karl Ferdinand Ebert kfeb...@gmail.com * Package name: tmux Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Nicholas Marriott n...@users.sf.net * URL :

Re: Bug#517790: ITP: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

2009-03-03 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:42 +0100, Sylvain Rochet wrote: Hi, On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:02:08AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: What does this have over PowerDNS? Probably nothing, else that I am using it and packaging it for my own and thought that it would be a good idea

Re: Bug#517790: ITP: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

2009-03-03 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:59 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:10:21PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:02:08AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: What does this have over PowerDNS? Probably nothing, else that I am using it and packaging

Re: Bug#517790: ITP: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

2009-03-02 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 03:19 +0100, Sylvain Rochet wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvain Rochet grada...@gradator.net * Package name: mydns Version : 1.2.8.26 Upstream Author : Howard Wilkinsin how...@cohtech.com * URL : http://mydns.pl/ *

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-01 Thread William Pitcock
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 23:35 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 01 mars 2009 à 22:31 +0100, Michelle Konzack a écrit : I have 35 TEAC CD-Burner, 18 TraxData and a bunch of Yamaha. All they are SCSI and not a singel one is working with wodim. The same goes for my 4 DVD burners

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-28 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 17:54 +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 12:43 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joerg_Schilling I notice that Joerg's Wikipedia page is rather bare. Instead of spending time covering all the old arguments on this list,

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 00:18 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: The fork distributed by Debian may however be called dubious: - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be legally

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 15:47 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Before Eduard Bloch made insane modifications, the code was GPLv2 and legal. Now the cude is undistributable because of modifications in the fork that are incompatible with the Copyright law. See my bug report from December 2006.

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 11:56 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: William Pitcock neno...@sacredspiral.co.uk wrote: The fork distributed by Debian may however be called dubious: - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be legally

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 12:26 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: William Pitcock neno...@sacredspiral.co.uk wrote: are some Debian maintainers that rather attack software authors instead of colaborating. It is impossible to collaborate when you add invariant sections to the code. Well

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 12:38 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:56:38AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: William Pitcock neno...@sacredspiral.co.uk wrote: 2. I am not convinced that there is any legal issue with the fork

Re: Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-02-25 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:28 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: Hi, I'm looking at getting a video card, and I want to know what video card that has 3D acceleration to get. Normally I'd ask on -users but as the subject says I want to know what video cards will still have acceleration when the

Re: PlayOnLinux in contrib

2009-02-18 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 19:30 +0100, Bertrand Marc wrote: Mehdi Dogguy a écrit : If it's GPLv2+ and doesn't depend on proprietary software, why it cannot be in main? Does it depend on proprietary things? Regards, As it is now, PlayOnLinux makes the user install Microsoft fonts. You can

Re: AW: Bug#515130: ITP: unrealircd -- Unreal IRC Server

2009-02-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 07:56 +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Rondal wrote: Hi, UnrealIRCd has many licensing and code-quality issues which would block it's inclusion in a Debian release. I admit that the sourcecode is not of the highest quality, but I do not see where it will

Re: Bug#515663: ITP: kmess2 -- Windows(R) Live(R) Messenger(R) Client for KDE4.

2009-02-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 20:38 +0100, Rafael Belmonte wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: kmess2 Version: 2.0alpha Upstream Author: Diederik van der Boor URL:

Re: AW: Bug#515130: ITP: unrealircd -- Unreal IRC Server

2009-02-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:37 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 09:00:22PM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: There is also questions concerning why you would want to package something that has effectively a dead upstream, and many code flaws which could result in security

Re: AW: Bug#515130: ITP: unrealircd -- Unreal IRC Server

2009-02-15 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 12:50 +0100, Rondal wrote: Hi, UnrealIRCd has many licensing and code-quality issues which would block it's inclusion in a Debian release. I admit that the sourcecode is not of the highest quality, but I do not see where it will block inclusion into Debian.

Re: AW: Bug#515134: ITP: ircservices -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ

2009-02-15 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 13:59 +0100, Rondal wrote: retitle 515134 ITP: ircservices-church -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ Hi, See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=424844 . Inclusion of ircservices in Debian may be

Re: Bug#515130: ITP: unrealircd -- Unreal IRC Server

2009-02-13 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 21:37 +0100, Stefan Becker wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefan Becker ron...@cyberspirits.eu * Package name: unrealircd Version : 3.2.7 Upstream Author : Carsten Munk (stske...@unrealircd.com), Dominick Meglio

Re: Bug#515134: ITP: ircservices -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ

2009-02-13 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 21:52 +0100, Stefan Becker wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefan Becker ron...@cyberspirits.eu * Package name: ircservices Version : 5.1.14 Upstream Author : Andrew Church achu...@achurch.org * URL :

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-03 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 23:43 +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:35:48 +0900 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: How about letting the person doing the installation write the labels if they want to use LABEL and use UUID by default. Or as a third option, put everything in

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-02 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:09 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Mike Hommey dijo [Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 10:46:11AM +0100]: A good option would be to use LABEL or UID instead. However I am not sure if that has some drawbacks as well: - for uuid the system is less forgiving if you swap disks

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-01 Thread William Pitcock
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 00:19 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article 87bptnccj6@mid.deneb.enyo.de you wrote: What needs to be done so that these two issues can be fixed? | Disk devices may change on reboot A good option would be to use LABEL or UID instead. However I am not sure if

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-01 Thread William Pitcock
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 10:46 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:22:07AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 00:19 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article 87bptnccj6@mid.deneb.enyo.de you wrote: What needs to be done so that these two issues can

Accepted sockstat 0.3-1 (source i386)

2009-01-31 Thread William Pitcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:08:22 -0500 Source: sockstat Binary: sockstat Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org Changed-By: William Pitcock neno

Bug#513322: ITP: mupen64plus -- plugin-based N64 emulator

2009-01-27 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org * Package name: mupen64plus Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Blight rich...@fascinationsoftware.com * URL : http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang

Bug#511994: ITP: pacman-package-manager -- minimalist package manager using tarballs and scripts

2009-01-15 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org * Package name: pacman-package-manager Version : 3.2.2 Upstream Author : Judd Vinet jvi...@zeroflux.org * URL : http://www.archlinux.org/pacman * License : GPL Programming Lang

Bug#511997: ITP: libdownload -- library for downloading files from HTTP/FTP

2009-01-15 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org * Package name: libdownload Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com * URL : http://www.archlinux.org/pacman * License : BSD Programming Lang: C

Re: Bug#511980: ITP: Plumi -- Plumi is a Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone.

2009-01-15 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 11:22 +1100, Andy Nicholson wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Nicholson a...@engagemedia.org * Package name: Plumi Package names need to be lowercase. Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Andy Nicholson a...@engagemedia.org * URL

Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome

2009-01-02 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 13:43 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: I guess we actually need to consider what the sections are good for. Asking in a random irc channel at least didn't reveal any real answers. So what about killing the concept of sections entirely ? The primary user of section: is

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-21 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 23:04 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: The above article concerns the damage that Josselin's actions cause to the Debian project. D-d-a is not that different from other parts of Debian, bad behaviour in other forums also hurts the project. I think that flame-war

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 19:08 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 05 décembre 2008 à 21:43 -0600, Raphael Geissert a écrit : Alain Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] gsnes9x = visualboyadvance ? C'mon, there are at least 15 years between the two consoles. And nope,

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 20:42 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: You forgot xmms. It is still heavily used and there are no alternative for it. (It is just such a application as xv - very old but there are no alternative that completely replace it (in all facets).) There's not? There's at least 20

what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 20:51 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Can you advise me on how to get out of that dilemma? Stop trying to get qmail into Debian? or Take on upstream development of qmail and solve all the problems (whether qmail will then be recognisable compared to the existing

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 23:57 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Friday 28 November 2008 22:42, William Pitcock wrote: I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of Debian, but publicized within the community as an unofficial repository for things like qmail

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 02:19 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Saturday 29 November 2008 01:57, William Pitcock wrote: What I propose is something more along the lines of Gentoo's sunrise overlay... a repository that anyone can get upload access to provided that they understand

Bug#507233: ITP: appliancekit -- tools for managing, creating and deploying software appliances

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: appliancekit Version : 0.131 Upstream Author : William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://appliancekit.systeminplace.net/ * License : ISC Programming Lang: Python

Accepted lilo 1:22.8-7 (source i386 all)

2008-11-15 Thread William Pitcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:01:59 -0600 Source: lilo Binary: lilo lilo-doc Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1:22.8-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: William Pitcock [EMAIL

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 15:29 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: On Montag, 10. November 2008, Guus Sliepen wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched http://screenshots.debian.net [...] Have

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-30 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:52 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: But regardless, Debian has promised that Debian is only free software. Then why does Debian have non-free? Is that not part of Debian? Does this mean that non-free should move to a third-party repo like certain other repos out there

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-10-30 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 10:34 +, Robert Lemmen wrote: hi everyone, the current situation concerning firmware blobs and dfsg-freeness is a bit sad, among other things because there really isn't too much we can do about it in the short run. so how about some practical proposal that we can

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 10:38 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:22 +, Anthony Towns wrote: Thomas: your continued inaction and unwillingness to code an acceptable solution to this issue, in spite of being aware of the problem since at least 2004 -- over four years

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:30 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:59 -0500, William Pitcock wrote: If we waited for a release to be 100% perfect, it will likely take several more years. The good news is that the amount of inline firmware in the kernel is decreasing. So

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread William Pitcock
release and not to add anything to that list? I would be entirely happy with that. But I have just been told by William Pitcock that apparently we are required somehow to support new hardware with non-free software too. So it's not a decreasing list, it's an accordion list with no real

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:36 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 16:27 -0500, William Pitcock wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:20 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 23:28 +0300, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Would it be a good compromise between SCs #1, #3

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:03 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, those who contribute to Debian must be dedicated to ensuring future releases of Debian support the latest available hardware at time of release. That's news to me. Where

Bug#500525: ITP: dronebl-tools -- tools for accessing the DroneBL rpc2 webservice

2008-09-28 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: dronebl-tools Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://dronebl.org/doc/dronebl-tools * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python

Accepted libaosd 0.2.5-1 (source i386)

2008-09-13 Thread William Pitcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:00:42 -0500 Source: libaosd Binary: aosd-cat libaosd-dev libaosd2 libaosd-text2 Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.2.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted audacious 1.5.1-4 (source amd64)

2008-08-30 Thread William Pitcock
Audacious Packagers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: audacious - small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats audacious-dbg - audacious media player (debugging symbols) audacious-dev - audacious development files libaudclient1 - audacious dbus

Accepted dsyslog 0.4.0 (source i386)

2008-08-30 Thread William Pitcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:31:17 -0500 Source: dsyslog Binary: dsyslog dsyslog-module-mysql dsyslog-module-postgresql dsyslog-dbg Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.4.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: William Pitcock

Re: Bug#497056: lsb-base: /lib/lsb/init-functions NON-DSFG Licence ?

2008-08-29 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 18:30 +0300, root wrote: Package: lsb-base Version: 3.2-19 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.1 Please investigate if files included in lsb-base conform to DFSG. A lincense change to GPL would be better suited for Debian. Policy / 2.1. The Debian Free

Re: Is it a user error to use lilo?

2008-08-27 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, Using latest initramfs-tools with lilo works for me, provided that the new large-memory feature is enabled. As maks says, user error applies here. William On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:43 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi fellow developers,

Re: Is it a user error to use lilo?

2008-08-27 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 15:41 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Harrasing LILO users by silencing bugreports about problems[2] using it is the wrong approach. If LILO is officially unsupported by Debian (not only by kernel team and/or initramfs-tools maintainer) we should drop that

Re: Is it a user error to use lilo?

2008-08-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:53 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have both GRUB and LILO installed, there will be problems. That is infact, a bug. They should Conflict with each other to ensure that only one can be installed at a time

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