Re: Writing manpages (was: Re: Man and UTF-8.)

2009-11-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Joachim. On Nov 18 2009, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:30:33 -0200 schrieb Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: But what do you people use to edit manpages that you maintain frequently? I find the simplest way is to use *ManEdit*. Is this the same as gmanedit (that's the

Re: Writing manpages (was: Re: Man and UTF-8.)

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Wise
2009/11/18 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: On Nov 18 2009, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: I find the simplest way is to use *ManEdit*. Is this the same as gmanedit (that's the only one that seems to be available in the archives)? I remember having used it some ages ago and I wasn't impressed, but

Re: Writing manpages

2009-11-18 Thread Ben Finney
Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes: OK, since the project strongly advises for the availability of manpages (and I love manpages), comes the question: what do you people use to type manpages? Type the page as a reStructuredText document, then render it to a manpage with ‘rst2man’

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes: With TeX, BTW, we have some extensions (or even reimplementations) that allow us to type things in UTF-8 directly, instead of using escape sequences like in older TeX (e.g., Rogério instead of Rog\'erio, in utf-8 or in latin1, though some care should be

Re: Writing manpages

2009-11-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes: OK, since the project strongly advises for the availability of manpages (and I love manpages), comes the question: what do you people use to type manpages? POD. But then, I wrote the tools that convert POD to *roff, so I would. The best so far that I

Re: Writing manpages

2009-11-18 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:33:22 -0200 wrote Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: I find the simplest way is to use *ManEdit*. Is this the same as gmanedit (that's the only one that seems to be available in the archives)? I remember having used it some ages ago and I wasn't impressed,

Re: RFS: php-net-ipv6

2009-11-18 Thread Bas Roos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I have persuaded a debian developer to have a look at my package and, if it is of sufficient quality, sponsor it. Therefore I am no longer looking for a sponsor for my package :-) Kind regards Bas Roos Bas Roos wrote: Dear mentors,

Re: Writing manpages

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de wrote: I have checked the repository:  * manedit is in Lenny and Squeeze manedit has been removed from squeeze since February.  * gmanedit is only in Etch and Squeeze Now I have installed the Squeeze version of gmanedit.

Re: Writing manpages

2009-11-18 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:56:10PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Type the page as a reStructuredText document, then render it to a manpage with ‘rst2man’ [...] Awesome! This thread already had me thinking, There should be a reST to TROFF/GROFF path--if there's not I guess I'll write one. I, too, had

Re: RFS: xfe (updated package - new upstream release)

2009-11-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Joachim. On Nov 16 2009, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Ok, I have to include intltool in the build dependencies. Please can you say me the other minor things, so I can check them, too. Well, this is just a quick look at the package: * the debian/README file talks about installation of some

Re: Writing manpages

2009-11-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Russ. On Nov 18 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: Yup. :) And there's a nice Emacs mode for POD that does coloration and whatnot. (There is for *roff as well, but I hate typing *roff directly.) Well, it seems that we have two strong contenders: POD and reST. Things look brighter for a more

RFS: windowlab (updated package)

2009-11-18 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.38-1 of my package windowlab. It builds these binary packages: windowlab - Small and simple Amiga-like window manager The package appears to be lintian clean. It also builds well using pbuilder. The upload would fix these bugs:

Re: RFS (3rd try after 2nd unanswered): wmaker-data (updated package)

2009-11-18 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 18:14:09 Simon Richter wrote: Hi, [...] Uploaded. Thanks :) It was just taking dust. I will restart improvement now. There is a lintian warning that a build dependency on a recent enough version of debhelper is missing, this should be fixed in the next upload

Re: RFS: xfe (updated package - new upstream release)

2009-11-18 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello Rogério, Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:56:08 -0200 schrieb Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: oh oh, so a long list! * the debian/README file talks about installation of some programs; this is useless if you are installing a precompiled package, because you, the maintainer, will have

Re: RFS (3rd try after 2nd unanswered): wmaker-data (updated package)

2009-11-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:44:49PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: Reject Reasons: wmaker-data_0.9~3-3.dsc refers to wmaker-data_0.9~3.orig.tar.gz, but I can't find it in the queue or in the pool. wmaker-data_0.9~3-3.dsc refers to wmaker-data_0.9~3.orig-iconsPaul.tar.gz, but I

Re: RFS (3rd try after 2nd unanswered): wmaker-data (updated package)

2009-11-18 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 23:17:57 Simon Richter wrote: Hi, On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:44:49PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: Reject Reasons: wmaker-data_0.9~3-3.dsc refers to wmaker-data_0.9~3.orig.tar.gz, but I can't find it in the queue or in the pool.

RFS: wixi

2009-11-18 Thread Elías Alejandro
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package wixi. * Package name: wixi Version : 1.10-1 Upstream Author : Kess Remmelzwaal k.remmelzw...@planet.nl * URL : http://wixi.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2 Section : utils It builds these

Re: Writing manpages

2009-11-18 Thread Ben Finney
The Fungi fu...@yuggoth.org writes: I, too, had resolved recently to start maintaining all my project documentation in reST. Not that I find building/editing manpages directly in vi to be that hard, but it's still laborious and time-consuming. I'll be happy to contribute fixes to this for any

Re: Writing manpages

2009-11-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
Ben Finney wrote: The Fungi fu...@yuggoth.org writes: I, too, had resolved recently to start maintaining all my project documentation in reST. Not that I find building/editing manpages directly in vi to be that hard, but it's still laborious and time-consuming. I'll be happy to contribute

Re: RFS: windowlab (updated package)

2009-11-18 Thread Barry deFreese
Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.38-1 of my package windowlab. It builds these binary packages: windowlab - Small and simple Amiga-like window manager The package appears to be lintian clean. It also builds well using pbuilder.

Re: RFS: xfe (updated package - new upstream release)

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Wise
2009/11/18 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: * in patch 01_no-mount-warning.patch, only linux is checked. What about  the kFreeBSD's? Any bug with them is now considered release critical.  Please, see if my comments apply or if they can be ignored. A clarification to this: FTBFS bugs are only

Re: RFS: xfe (updated package - new upstream release)

2009-11-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Joachim. On Nov 18 2009, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:56:08 -0200 schrieb Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: oh oh, so a long list! Well, I thought that you wanted some comments. :-) I still have not understand the difference between README and README.Debian. Perhaps

RFS: youtube-dl (updated package, support for 1080p videos)

2009-11-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, people. I just received a bug report telling me that youtube has made 1080p (aka Full HD resolution) videos available. I have just updated youtube-dl to grab those movies if you select to download the best quality video available. The package is at: dget