Accepted atl2 1.0.40.4-1 (source all)

2007-11-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:18:23 -0400 Source: atl2 Binary: atl2-source Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.40.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#452014: ITP: atl2-source -- Source for the Attansic L2 ethernet driver

2007-11-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: atl2-source Version : 1.0.40.2 Upstream Author : xiong huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/ * License

Accepted junior-games-gl 1.10 (source all)

2007-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:48:27 -0300 Source: junior-games-gl Binary: junior-games-gl Architecture: source all Version: 1.10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted junior-typing 1.4 (source all)

2007-10-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:32:39 -0300 Source: junior-typing Binary: junior-typing Architecture: source all Version: 1.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted junior-writing 1.6 (source all)

2007-10-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:16:46 -0300 Source: junior-writing Binary: junior-writing Architecture: source all Version: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted junior-arcade 1.12 (source all)

2007-10-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:38:48 -0300 Source: junior-arcade Binary: junior-arcade Architecture: source all Version: 1.12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted junior-games-net 1.4 (source all)

2007-07-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:06:01 -0300 Source: junior-games-net Binary: junior-games-net Architecture: source all Version: 1.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted tuxpaint-stamps 2007.07.01-1 (source all)

2007-07-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:01:45 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-stamps Binary: tuxpaint-stamps-default Architecture: source all Version: 2007.07.01-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted tuxpaint-config 0.0.8-1 (source i386)

2007-07-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:12:27 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-config Binary: tuxpaint-config Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.17-1 (source i386 all)

2007-07-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:58:30 -0300 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-data Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1:0.9.17-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted junior-arcade 1.11 (source all)

2007-06-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:34:36 -0300 Source: junior-arcade Binary: junior-arcade Architecture: source all Version: 1.11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Re: CDD: GastroLinux (RFC)

2007-05-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 14 May 2007 14:22:35 +0200 (CEST) Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So maybe Debian-Dinner would be better? ;-) BTW, I think we should have first something and then find an apropriate name for this something. It makes no sense to do endless naming discussions before somebody

Re: TaskSel proposal (Was: Proposal for a new CDD sub-project: Debian4Business)

2007-04-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:46:35 +0200 (CEST) Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Luis Matos wrote: IMHO the best solution would be if tasksel would have a two level selection: ... [ ] Custom Debian Distribution [ ] Debian-Edu [ ] Debian-Jr.

Accepted junior-toys 1.7 (source all)

2007-04-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:30:33 -0300 Source: junior-toys Binary: junior-toys Architecture: source all Version: 1.7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted junior-games-net 1.3 (source all)

2007-02-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:37:30 -0400 Source: junior-games-net Binary: junior-games-net Architecture: source all Version: 1.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted junior-internet 1.8 (source all)

2007-02-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:30:47 -0400 Source: junior-internet Binary: junior-internet Architecture: source all Version: 1.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted junior-internet 1.9 (source all)

2007-02-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:44:53 -0400 Source: junior-internet Binary: junior-internet Architecture: source all Version: 1.9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Re: Elive requires donation to download

2006-11-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:04:13 -0800 (PST) Ottavio Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elive http://www.elivecd.org/gb/Download/Stable/, based on Debian, requires a donation, however small, to allow downloading. I wonder if this legally sound. The DFSG explicitly specifies that licenses of our

Accepted tuxpaint-config 0.0.7-1 (source i386)

2006-10-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:00:14 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-config Binary: tuxpaint-config Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong

Accepted tuxpaint-stamps 2006.10.21-1 (source all)

2006-10-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:13:06 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-stamps Binary: tuxpaint-stamps-default Architecture: source all Version: 2006.10.21-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.16-1 (source i386 all)

2006-10-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:46:04 -0300 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-data Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1:0.9.16-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.15+0.9.16rc5-3 (source i386 all)

2006-10-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:33:05 -0300 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-data Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1:0.9.15+0.9.16rc5-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted tuxpaint-config 0.0.6+0.0.7rc5-1 (source i386)

2006-10-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:05:04 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-config Binary: tuxpaint-config Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.6+0.0.7rc5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted tuxpaint-stamps 2006.10.12-1 (source all)

2006-10-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:31:04 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-stamps Binary: tuxpaint-stamps-default Architecture: source all Version: 2006.10.12-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alfredo, alfredo diega wrote: It really pains me to write this since I have used stable for a long time. Unfortunately, I think you could use a wakeup call. Much of my hardware is never supported by you guys I can see you're frustrated.

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
alfredo diega wrote: Okay: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. According to this message at bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363967 it isn't packaged because: there is still an official statement of -release and -kernel about the policy for oot-modules in etch missing. showing it just

Re: huge wnpp bug report page

2006-08-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
Hendrik Sattler wrote: I hope that something can be done about this to make the BTS web pages more usable. Are you perhaps not aware of the much smaller indices into the BTS here? http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Testing and honesty

2006-07-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Art Edwards wrote: Unless such core pieces as the debugging tool (ddd) and the data display tool (xmgrace) are working, it is dishonest to pretend that the 64-bit version is ready for testing. It seems your expectations for our testing distribution

Accepted xpilot-ng 1:4.7.2-4 (source i386 all)

2006-07-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xpilot-ng - Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version) xpilot-ng-client-sdl - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-client-x11 - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-common - Common files

Accepted xpilot-ng 1:4.7.2-3 (source i386 all)

2006-07-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xpilot-ng - Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version) xpilot-ng-client-sdl - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-client-x11 - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-common - Common files

Accepted junior-programming 1.11 (source all)

2006-06-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:03:44 -0300 Source: junior-programming Binary: junior-programming Architecture: source all Version: 1.11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong

Accepted junior-programming 1.10 (source all)

2006-06-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:58:42 -0300 Source: junior-programming Binary: junior-programming Architecture: source all Version: 1.10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong

Accepted junior-games-gl 1.9 (source all)

2006-05-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 15:39:20 -0300 Source: junior-games-gl Binary: junior-games-gl Architecture: source all Version: 1.9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:29 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Yes. Debian shouldn't be the Linux Distribution of Cryptic Acronyms. Perhaps you missed the point earlier in the thread that Ham isn't an acronym? Also, I don't think anyone with even a passing familiarity with amateur radio seriously

Accepted xpilot-extra 4.7.2 (source all)

2006-04-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 12:53:39 -0300 Source: xpilot-extra Binary: xpilot-extra Architecture: source all Version: 4.7.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted xpilot-ng 1:4.7.2-2 (source i386 all)

2006-04-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xpilot-ng - Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version) xpilot-ng-client-sdl - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-client-x11 - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-common - Common files

Accepted tuxpaint-config 0.0.6-2 (source i386)

2006-04-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:28:04 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-config Binary: tuxpaint-config Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.6-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong

Re: New packages.debian.org

2006-03-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 19:38 +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: It checks the User-Agent string. What are the expected results for a user accessing the following URL from IE running on a W2K terminal server? I didn't notice any restrictions. http://packages.debian.org/tuxpaint Ben -- To

Accepted junior-games-gl 1.8 (source all)

2006-02-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:35:17 -0400 Source: junior-games-gl Binary: junior-games-gl Architecture: source all Version: 1.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.15b-3 (source i386 all)

2006-02-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:12:15 -0400 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-data Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1:0.9.15b-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted junior-arcade 1.10 (source all)

2006-02-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:18:09 -0400 Source: junior-arcade Binary: junior-arcade Architecture: source all Version: 1.10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted gtypist 2.7-5 (source i386)

2006-02-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:04:18 -0400 Source: gtypist Binary: gtypist Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.7-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted junior-internet 1.7 (source all)

2006-02-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:00:48 -0400 Source: junior-internet Binary: junior-internet Architecture: source all Version: 1.7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted came 1.9-2 (source i386)

2006-02-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:35:04 -0400 Source: came Binary: came Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.9-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.15b-2 (source i386 all)

2006-01-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:26:56 -0400 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-data Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1:0.9.15b-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted tuxpaint-config 0.0.6-1 (source i386)

2006-01-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:06:41 -0400 Source: tuxpaint-config Binary: tuxpaint-config Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong

Re: Debian Games Team

2006-01-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 09:15 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Miriam Ruiz wrote: We've been recently talking about creating a group to maintain games in Debian in a collaborative way. Are you aware of the Debian-Junior project. Thanks for bringing this thread to my

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.15b-1 (source i386 all)

2006-01-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:10:11 -0400 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-data Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1:0.9.15b-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted tuxpaint-stamps 2005.11.25-1 (source all)

2006-01-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:53:09 -0400 Source: tuxpaint-stamps Binary: tuxpaint-stamps-default Architecture: source all Version: 2005.11.25-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted junior-games-gl 1.7 (source all)

2005-12-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 10:57:43 -0400 Source: junior-games-gl Binary: junior-games-gl Architecture: source all Version: 1.7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Re: Bug#340631: ITP: culmus-fancy -- Type1 Fancy Hebrew Fonts for X11

2005-11-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 21:38 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Lior Kaplan] * Package name: culmus-fancy Description : Type1 Fancy Hebrew Fonts for X11 I understand that the 'culmus' package already exists, and other packages like 'lmodern' don't follow any particular name

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
With regards to the suggestion that some means be provided for admins to easily install a subset of GNOME that suits the needs of government and/or US government ... On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 01:50 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: I suppose you were joking, but in all seriousness, why does _Debian_

Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:28 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or Suggest) is configured? Testing for file contents can only tell whether it is unpacked, but that might

Re: Finding out in postinst whether some other package is configured

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:28 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or Suggest) is configured? Assuming your package does something reasonable with this knowledge ... Testing

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:20 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: It should be an easy matter not to play the games even when they are installed. Regardless, the gnome package is not necessary for the system; it is just a meta-package that depends on all the gnome-related packages. If you don't

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:51 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I think the question is: do you want all the goodies or you don't want all the goodies? Well, the problem is, when all the goodies is a significant number of packages, it is tedious to have to collect them all myself. I would not

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 20:07 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: That is what gnome-core is for: just enough of GNOME to be usable, but no real apps beyond EoG and gedit. Purposefully created for people who want to use GNOME, don't want to install all packages manually, but want some control over what

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 14:05 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I don't think there is a working way of reliably doing that. In theory, most web logs can do categories, but those are not being used consistently, and they're also not really visible on planet.debian.org in a way that lets them be

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:29 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Debian development issues is a rather broad category. Should a travel report from Debconf be included? I think it should, yet it is not at all technical. Having a single Debian development issues feed is not going to work particularly

Accepted xpilot-ng 1:4.7.2-1 (source i386 all)

2005-09-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xpilot-ng - Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version) xpilot-ng-client-sdl - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-client-x11 - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-common - Common files

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 16:01 +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:50:51PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: You haven't explained why letting other DDs know this information, which is available to them already, requires the whole world to know it. If you have some proposals

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 16:51 +0200, W. Borgert wrote: I don't like opt-out. Better opt-in: 4. Invent a new field public location info and developers who care, could enter what they think is appropriate. I'm not sure, whether I would use the field. Not just a single field, but a whole

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 17:57 +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: there are two reasaons: - while debian developers might have access to it, it's in a form that makes it hard to access it, so i doubt that anyone will look up who is living at some place when he gets there. making this more

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:00 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Right, it's not used but it's checked. But then there is still /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug, which if present will create all kinds of troubles. Let me get one more thing straight before we move on ... What's the sequence of

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:30 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On udev systems events are received by udevd, either using udevsend or (when the kernel input subsystem will be fixed) a netlink socket. /sbin/hotplug does not enter in the picture at all. Then the default udev configuration will run the

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:15 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Think hotplug events loop. So, a hotplug event could load and run code (which happen to be in conf files, and therefore cannot be diverted) in the old hotplug package. The problem you're facing, it seems, is that while code should be

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:50 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: The init file does, but /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug does not. Why is this file a conffile? I didn't see any obviously configurable parts in it. If it were either wholly be moved elsewhere (/sbin) or the guts of it moved

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 01:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: The (still not uploaded) coldplug package conflicts+depends+provides hotplug. The issue is that since all the important parts of hotplug are conffiles they are not deleted when the package is removed, and this is bad (as in the system will

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:41 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 22, Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The (still not uploaded) coldplug package conflicts+depends+provides hotplug. Aren't you missing replaces? Yes, what I actually meant was conflicts+replaces+provides. My original

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:18 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 22, Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which conf files blow things up? The reason I ask is, if it's an init Just about all of them. Almost all files in the package are conffiles. script, it should be written to exit

Accepted snowflake 0.01a-7 (source i386)

2005-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:19:21 -0300 Source: snowflake Binary: snowflake Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.01a-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 17:08 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: I offered this for adoption a while back. Nobody took up my offer. I finally uploaded xpilot-ng today (see my 3-year-old ITP #141099) and plan to make it supercede xpilot (i.e. strip the contents of the old xpilot packages to turn them

Accepted xpilot-ng 1:4.7.1-2 (source i386 all)

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xpilot-ng - Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version) xpilot-ng-client-sdl - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-client-x11 - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-common - Common files

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:46 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: It might take a bit longer for the new maintainer to be up to speed as compared to when one member of a team gets run over by a bus, but that doesn't mean the project stops. Team maintenance is only one way to accomplish the goal of

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:42 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: For low-volume, easy-to-maintain packages, it's never too late to go get a comaintainer. Or to give the package away. And I simply don't believe that 'important package' implies 'lots of work to maintain it'. I think what you're saying

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 10:08 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Mon, August 15, 2005 01:42, Ben Armstrong wrote: Why not just help improve upstream's README when you encounter poor quality work? That's what you'd do with code, wouldn't you? Requirements on upstream README and information

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 06:14 +, W. Borgert wrote: Some of the things under Dogme05 is certainly exaggeration. Sorry, if people thought I want to propose enforcement of team maintenance policy. However, team maintenance for all essential and standard is worthwhile and not un-realistic.

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:31 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: I don't think there is a way to get around this difference. There is a fairly widespread convention of putting compilation instructions in an INSTALL file, but there is no similarly widespread convention for putting information about,

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 08:54 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I don't understand why people keep saying that upstream bug reporting instructions are irrelevant to Debian. Surely I'm not the only person who wants to be able to discuss some issues directly with upstream when they're not in the

Accepted xpilot 4.5.5beta.20050814 (source all)

2005-08-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xpilot - Dummy upgrade package for xpilot xpilot-client-common - Dummy upgrade package for xpilot-client-common xpilot-client-nas - Dummy upgrade package for xpilot-client-nas

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 14:15 +, W. Borgert wrote: as a conclusion of many discussions at DebConf5, I propose to maintain all packages by teams. It's a nice ideal. It is useful to invite non-DDs, esp. upstream developers and people from Debian derivatives to participate in such teams.

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 12:55 -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: While I agree the README can be confusing, I think we do a disservice to our upstream by not including it. That's my gut feeling too. I think a better solution would be to duplicate all the important information about the software

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 16:37 +0100, Terry Burton wrote: I appreciate your efford, but please let me tell you, that it is a) highly uncommon to ask for a package sponsor without an url to the source packages. PostScript is an interpretted language,

Accepted xpilot-ng 1:4.7.1-1 (source i386 all)

2005-08-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xpilot-ng - Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version) xpilot-ng-client-sdl - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-client-x11 - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-common - Common files

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 18:46 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] xpilot I offered this for adoption a while back. Nobody took up my offer. I finally uploaded xpilot-ng today (see my 3-year-old ITP #141099) and plan to make it supercede xpilot (i.e. strip the contents

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 22:13 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Just curious: why not, in that case, upload xpilot-ng as xpilot? If the new upstream is actually the better one, it makes sense for it to go on under the label of xpilot in my opinion. I'm still holding out for the remote chance

Accepted junior-typing 1.3 (source all)

2005-08-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:29:30 -0300 Source: junior-typing Binary: junior-typing Architecture: source all Version: 1.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 18:48 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:15, Steve Greenland wrote: Thanks for the pointer, Adam, and a giant Feh! to the genius who came up with that idea. Did you even think of asking for the rationale behind the name change? Hint: check the

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 14:02 -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: Closing, it isn't a bash against the kernel team. It isn't my point, my problem is with this didn't you know, read X stupid! approach. I don't think pointing at the mailing list was an unreasonable reaction to the genius comment, which

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 19:16 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 03 August 2005 19:04, Ben Armstrong wrote: ... which, for the lazy and/or impatient starts here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/07/msg00192.html To be honest, I was thinking more of: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 01:21 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Because that information is not presented to me in aptitude, one of the preferred front ends to package management. Once the deb tags system gets integrated into the front ends, the long description can stop shouldering

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 13:45 +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: 1. Compiled programs (C, C++, Fortran 77, Ada, ...) usually run leaner and faster than do interpreted ones (Perl, Python, Ruby, ...). In general, algorithm choice is much more important than language. Also, the language the main

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 19:58 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: nstead of putting it in the first sentence, the second paragraph would be a fine place to mention details like this, satisfying both novice and advanced users. But why bother, when debtags does implemented-in does the job better? Extra

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 18:13 +0200, Nico Golde wrote: [...] I think one reason could be that some poeple would rather install a programm in a language they know and they are able to debug. Just a guess. Debtags facets[0] are better for this. Descriptions are supposed to help *ordinary* users

OT: debian mentors ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 12:21 +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Heyho, why is mentors.debian.net powered by Ubuntu? http://mentors.debian.net/ About this repository Welcome to the debian-mentors public software repository. ... Please note that this service is not run as a

Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-07-07

2005-07-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:39 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Sure. But I am talking about changes. Those are not made and then everyone is expected to abide by them. Instead, they are catalysed from common and proven strategies. True enough. But read the statement of the fact that policy

Re: Changes to the weekly WNPP posting

2005-05-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 18:40 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: I always read the announcements to look for O or RFAs of packages I use, hence I appreciate the only new entries change. Same here. However, from browsing the debian-wnpp archives, there's a lot more stuff there than I'm willing to

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 14:28 -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: Could you enlighten me as of the reason that September 93 never ended? The original ITP gave the reference: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html In brief: in Sept. '93 AOL users came online, starting an

Re: Introducing Ichthux as a possibly new CDD

2005-04-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
I'm very interested in this work. I am already involved in two different Christian ministries that might be able to make use of Ichthux, and have some ideas for others. Ben signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.14-2 (i386 source all)

2005-03-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:06:40 -0400 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-data Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1:0.9.14-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

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