Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-03-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org writes: Ok. Lintian does not yet like httpd as a section, but I guess you will not reject an upload just because I listened to you ;-) Lintian is waiting for the d-d-a post saying that the new section changes have been implemented, FWIW. -- Russ Allbery

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-03-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, Joerg Jaspert dijo [Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100]: As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. Much of what we are currently doing is not visible to you as a user of this archive, but

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Joerg Jaspert, le Fri 27 Feb 2009 09:02:11 +0100, a écrit : Maybe it could be interesting to open an accessibility section? Maybe, maybe not. What packages would you put into it? Just a quick rough list (90 bin packages): accerciser at-spi at-spi-doc big-cursor brltty brltty-flite

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive (deborphan)

2009-03-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Carsten Hey c@web.de [090228 19:21]: It shouldn't be anything harder than adding 'deprecated' (non-library, deprecated software) to complement oldlibs, Adding non-library packages to oldlibs would cause these to be handled like a library by deborphan and thus possibly being falsely

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive (deborphan)

2009-03-01 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:14:34AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Carsten Hey c@web.de [090228 19:21]: It shouldn't be anything harder than adding 'deprecated' (non-library, deprecated software) to complement oldlibs, Adding non-library packages to oldlibs would cause these to be

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 21:40 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : Select one of cli-mono or ecma-cli and please also get me a short description :) How about: cli-mono -- The Common Language Infrastructure, the Mono

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:31:25PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Get me a short description for it. Compiler, libraries, and tools for OCaml: a static typed ML language implementation supporting functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming styles. You have an interesting

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-28 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:03:55PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: There are tools that understand the special meaning of the 'oldlibs' section and treat it specially; at least deborphan comes to mind, there may be others. I don't see the necessity for such a section rename, but if it happens I

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive (deborphan)

2009-02-28 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:03:39PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:03:55PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: There are tools that understand the special meaning of the 'oldlibs' section and treat it specially; at least deborphan comes to mind, there may be others. I don't

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:59:27AM +, Enrico Zini wrote: I propose 'oldlibs' to be renamed to 'deprecated'. That would also fit, for example, packages abandoned upstream, or packages that have a better alternative, but that still have users. I would expect to have so called

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Maybe it could be interesting to open an accessibility section? Maybe, maybe not. What packages would you put into it? -- bye, Joerg Getty LOL die Telefonnummer vom Arbeitsamt Mönchengladbach ist echt 404-0? Getty Soll das nen schlechter Scherz sein? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented language. java Everything about Java How about a cli section about everything related to Mono and the Common Language Infrastructure (aka .NET) ? That makes quite a

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Vincent Danjean
Joerg Jaspert wrote: gnustep gnustep* libgnustep* *.app *.framework I maintain a page.app package. It is right it is a gnustep application (ie it uses the gnustep framwork). However, I never use the gnustep environment.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Vincent Danjean
Joerg Jaspert wrote: The new sections are: ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented language. java Everything about Java videoVideo viewers, editors, recording, streaming fonts

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Vincent Danjean wrote: What about creating a 'libs' section for different languages? Something like libs-ruby, libs-perl, libs-python, libs-java, libs-r, ... This would allow to split the big 'libs' section and this avoid to put libs (ie mostly automatic pulled packages) in sections where

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means that we don't

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:19:11AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: Should Java libs be in lib or libdevel (they are both). This is one of the reasons we've wanted a Java section. I wouldn't mind a proper discussion on the pros and cons of both. That'd help me for debtags as well, where java

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 27. Februar 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means that we don't have to worry about a possible kernel update for lenny+1/2. Am I correct with that? Can you/anybody please explain how this is related to the sections?

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. I propose 'oldlibs' to be renamed to 'deprecated'. That would also fit, for example,

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Dave Holland
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:13:07AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: localization is the spelling given by the OED, so it is correct in all locales. It doesn't even list localisation as an alternative spelling. The OED lists plenty of examples of localisation and localise; whether you consider the

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 01:19 +, Sam Morris a écrit : I don’t like the name either, but can you think of a better one? We could use “mono”, but it’s the implementation name. 'clr' (common language runtime)? It's the acronym that MS uses quite a bit. CLR is the acronym for the

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Cc:ing the Debian Common Lisp mailing list. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:02:03 +0100, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org writes: Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. [...]

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 09:03 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, but cli wouldnt be my favorite name for it. I’m not sure for the section name, but here is a

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:53:04AM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-02-2009 23:10, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... Joerg Jaspert wrote: [...] The new sections are:

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Frans Pop
Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means that we don't have to worry about a possible kernel update for lenny+1/2. Am I correct with that? The sections are defined in the override

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:04:36AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: FYI, as Aaron already showed with his list, ome packages (especially the non-library ones) do not have the cl-* suffix. StumpWM is missing, for example. Note that the current language-oriented sections (python, perl, and the just

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means that we don't have to worry about a possible kernel update for lenny+1/2. Am I correct with that? The sections are defined in the

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Stefano! Cc:ing again the Debian Common Lisp mailing list, please keep it! On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:02:59 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:04:36AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: FYI, as Aaron already showed with his list, ome packages (especially the non-library ones)

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, but cli wouldnt be my favorite name for it. I would suggest c-sharp for the section. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 14:33 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, but cli wouldnt be my favorite name for it.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 14:33 +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, but

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. According to my knowledge of dak, the sections are global. Which means that we don't have to worry about a possible kernel update for lenny+1/2.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Yavor Doganov
[BTW, the only proper spelling is GNUstep -- not Gnustep or GNUStep.] Vincent Danjean wrote: I maintain a page.app package. You mean paje.app, I assume (innocent typo)? It is right it is a gnustep application (ie it uses the gnustep framwork). However, I never use the gnustep environment.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11674 March 1977, Edward Betts wrote: webfeed - RSS/Atom feed readers, aggregator and utilities Not enough packages, can stay in web, especially as that gets rid of httpds. -- bye, Joerg ftpbot cron.daily time, unlocking: slave_NEW mhy ftpbot: oh bugger off, slave_NEW isn't affected by

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Have sense to inaugurate a section with all the R modules? Nowadays many of them are in math. $ apt-cache search r- | grep ^r- | wc - l 133 Thats ok, get me a good name and short description for it please. r is not a good name, i think. -- bye, Joerg * wiggy just looking at

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
video mplayer* That is already in. vswitch* No hit for this match?! -- bye, Joerg GyrosGeier I've annoyed Ganneff enough with that package already, no reason to top it off by a build-depend on emacs for writing control files pgpLuKXMhKlrs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
You also want totem* and kaffeine*. Done. *-dbg packages could go in their own section(s) (debug, or libdebug appdebug?); otherwise, I think that they should remain with (the bulk of) the packages for which they provide debug data. All debug packages will go in the debug section. --

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Get me a short description for it. Compiler, libraries, and tools for OCaml: a static typed ML language implementation supporting functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming styles. You have an interesting definition of short, i stopped after : for now. :) (Its a different thing

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11674 March 1977, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: As I mentioned directly to override-change before encountering this message, I'd argue that my goo package is a (somewhat exotic) candidate. In general, here's a first cut at a full list, including it and your initial proposals: Thanks. -- bye,

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Like the other poster, cli is very confusing. If we have enough packages (get me a list/matches :) ), im not against a section for it, but cli wouldnt be my favorite name for it. I’m not sure for the section name, but here is a list of matches: Select one of cli-mono or ecma-cli and please

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Luciano Bello
El Vie 27 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert escribió: Thats ok, get me a good name and short description for it please. r is not a good name, i think. gnu-r ? Everything about GNU R, an statistical computation and graphics system luciano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-02-2009 08:41, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:53:04AM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: On 26-02-2009 23:10, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... Joerg Jaspert wrote: [...]

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org writes: Seeing that the change of sections could pose some technical problems (not only challenges implementing them) as well, let me ask one (possibly stupid) question: Why do we need sections at all? All that policy states is that it simplifies some

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) may or may not have written... [snip] I do believe that users are getting used to see the terms i18n/l10n, and if our users are able to find out what httpd and vcs mean, I'm pretty sure they will survive l10n. :-) Where's the t1g3r section? --

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Hello world, We also plan on adding a number of new sections. wanna-build will need to be change for this too, and will probably break if you give it an unknown section. Please wait until the list is added to wanna-build. Kurt

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 21:24 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: video mplayer* That is already in. vswitch* No hit for this match?! Holger probably meant dvswitch. Which is in NEW, anyway. Ben. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:59:27AM +, Enrico Zini wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. I propose 'oldlibs'

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 21:40 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : Select one of cli-mono or ecma-cli and please also get me a short description :) How about: cli-mono -- The Common Language Infrastructure, the Mono implementation and packages containing Common Intermediate

Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hello world, As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. Much of what we are currently doing is not visible to you as a user of this archive, but the action we talk about now is: We plan on changing

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Joerg Jaspert [Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100]: database libmysql* libdb4* I'm not sure these (and possibly *some* of the other lib* packages included in the listing) should be moved out of Section: libs. I can see how having a database section to browse can

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Frans Pop
Joerg Jaspert wrote: We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. Great. The new sections are: [...] localisationsLanguage packs I'd prefer localization. - We use en_US in

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The new sections are: Not like it is *that* important, but we now have more than 100 OCaml-related source packages in the archive, most of which are libraries for OCaml development. I don't if that warrants an ocaml section, which

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100 Joerg Jaspert jo...@ganneff.de napsal(a): database Databases [...] database postgresql* pg* sqlite* mysql* libmysql* db4.*

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Joerg Jaspert jo...@ganneff.de writes: The new sections are: [...] lisp Everything about Lisp [...] Is this just about Common Lisp, or other Lisp dialects as well? I'm mainly referring to Scheme here, as it is another Lisp dialect in (relatively) widespread use (the third

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Joerg Jaspert wrote: java Everything about Java {...} gcj* *gcj, too probably. database postgresql* pg* sqlite* mysql* libmysql* That also hits database libs. Which

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The new sections are: Not like it is *that* important, but we now have more than 100 OCaml-related source packages in the archive, most of which are libraries for OCaml development. I don't if that

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Joerg Jaspert jo...@ganneff.de wrote: lisp            (no, not in brackets)                cl-*                *-lisp                *-el Two things: First, if by Lisp you mean everything related to Lisp, then this should probably also include scheme*, not

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The new sections are: [..] videoVideo viewers, editors, recording, streaming What about renaming sound as audio? (if we introduce the video one, ) Since the (perl|python|ruby|...) sections should contains libraries,

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Not like it is *that* important, but we now have more than 100 OCaml-related source packages in the archive, most of which are libraries for OCaml development. I don't if that warrants an ocaml section, which is your call, but if it does, well, ... heads up :-) Get me a short description

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joerg Jaspert, le Thu 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100, a écrit : We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. [...] The new sections are: ruby Everything about ruby, an

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11673 March 1977, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Joerg Jaspert [Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:07:35 +0100]: database libmysql* libdb4* I'm not sure these (and possibly *some* of the other lib* packages included in the listing) should be moved out of Section: libs. I can see

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11673 March 1977, Frans Pop wrote: localisationsLanguage packs I'd prefer localization. - We use en_US in general - ize Well, I dont really care. Fine, adjusted. - Having the section name plural seems inconsistent with other sections. Dito. video [...]

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
database Databases [...] database postgresql* pg* sqlite* mysql* libmysql* db4.* libdb4* firebird* sql-*

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
lisp Everything about Lisp Is this just about Common Lisp, or other Lisp dialects as well? I'm mainly referring to Scheme here, as it is another Lisp dialect in (relatively) widespread use (the third one being Emacs-Lisp). Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp.

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:48:18PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: I don't if that warrants an ocaml section, which is your call, but if it does, well, ... heads up :-) Get me a short description for it. Compiler, libraries, and tools for OCaml: a static typed ML language implementation

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented language. java Everything about Java How about a cli section about everything related to Mono and the

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jög, On Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. [...] Cool, nice! The new sections are: I think an r section would be useful, there are

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Luciano Bello
El Jue 26 Feb 2009, Joerg Jaspert escribió: ruby                     Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented                          language. java                     Everything about Java Have sense to inaugurate a section with all the R modules? Nowadays many of them are in

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Edward Betts
How about: webfeed - RSS/Atom feed readers, aggregator and utilities akregator blam canto cl-rss claws-mail-feeds-reader dcoprss evolution-rss feed2imap firefox-sagefirefox-sage kitty liferea* magpierss miro* newsbeuter nrss olive php-xml-rss planet python-feedparser python-feedvalidator

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org writes: Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. As I mentioned directly to override-change before encountering this message, I'd argue that my goo package is a

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:50, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : ruby                     Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented                          language. java                     Everything about

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org writes: Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. One more: ikarus (which I initially overlooked because it's only available on i386 :-/). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 17:08 -0800, Kelly Clowers a écrit : On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:50, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Sam Morris
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:13:48 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 17:08 -0800, Kelly Clowers a écrit : On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:50, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 21:07 +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : ruby

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Aaron M. Ucko u...@debian.org wrote: Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org writes: Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. As I mentioned directly to override-change

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:07:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: While we acknowledge that something like debtags will make a better long-term solution, we do not think that it is ready yet to completly replace sections (e.g. because it isn't assured that all packages have tags). This is why we

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... Joerg Jaspert wrote: We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore. Great. The new sections are: [...] localisations

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Joerg Jaspert may or may not have written... [snip] The initial set of packages moved into the new sections will be found using the following matches: [snip] video [snip] *xine* Slightly over-broad, unless you want to move library packages too (but I see that

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Daniel Moerner dmoer...@gmail.com writes: chicken-bin Ah, yes, I meant to list that but forgot; good catch. mzscheme and drscheme are just plt-scheme transitional packages by now True; in that case, perhaps they should go to oldlibs until they retire altogether. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-02-2009 23:10, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... Joerg Jaspert wrote: [...] The new sections are: localisationsLanguage packs I'd prefer localization. Whereas I'd prefer localisation...

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Feb 27 02:10, Darren Salt wrote: I'd prefer localization. Whereas I'd prefer localisation... - We use en_US in general - ize ... unless you're localising for en_US. OTOH, given that that section is for localisation, localization is probably right, being localised... (-ize

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Feb 27 02:00, Enrico Zini wrote: Putting java libraries into 'java' instead of 'libs' would just make it harder for a package manager to hide libraries. Debtags will work for that, so no big deal, but at the moment 'libs' is nice because it allows me to auto-tag packages from that