jmdns accepted upstream

2009-11-20 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am just wondering if I missed any steps. jmdns was uploaded to debian a couple of days ago and it still says: todo: mentors.debian.net has version 2.1-1 of this package, you should consider sponsoring its upload. Last time a package was offically uploaded, somehow the one on

Re: jmdns accepted upstream

2009-11-20 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:30:00AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Last time a package was offically uploaded, somehow the one on mentors detected that, and got removed automatically. Normally this is the case, but there was some work on mentors a few days ago that might have disturbed it,

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

2009-11-20 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello Rogério, Am Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:45:42 -0200 schrieb Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: You should still give a hint (a short phrase is enough) that other people worked on the package and give them credit. Done. * you can remove comments from the watch file. Some lines came from

RFS: iptotal (updated package)

2009-11-20 Thread Ignace Mouzannar
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.3-10 of my package iptotal. The package was converted to the 3.0 (quilt) packaging format. It builds these binary packages: iptotal- monitor for IP traffic, not requiring SNMP The package appears to be lintian clean (except

Re: RFS: iptotal (updated package)

2009-11-20 Thread Barry deFreese
Ignace Mouzannar wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.3-10 of my package iptotal. The package was converted to the 3.0 (quilt) packaging format. It builds these binary packages: iptotal- monitor for IP traffic, not requiring SNMP The package

RFS: p2c (QA upload, RC bug fix)

2009-11-20 Thread Ruben Molina
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.21alpha2-3 of my package p2c. It builds these binary packages: p2c- Pascal to C translator The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: - 437730 (wishlist, nostrip) - 552828 (serious,

Re: RFS: p2c (QA upload, RC bug fix)

2009-11-20 Thread Barry deFreese
Ruben Molina wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.21alpha2-3 of my package p2c. It builds these binary packages: p2c- Pascal to C translator The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: - 437730 (wishlist,

Re: RFS: p2c (QA upload, RC bug fix)

2009-11-20 Thread Ruben Molina
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Barry deFreese wrote: Ruben Molina wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.21alpha2-3 of my package p2c. Uploaded, thank you! Thanks a lot! Ruben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, George Danchev wrote: Not that I can help with the surveys, but you may want to compare your compressor to the practical tests and comparisons found at [1], and eventually update your debaday article with the results. [1] (URLs might be wrapped)

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
ERSEK Laszlo wrote: A trivial reason to use bzip2 is to decompress a file downloaded from the internet. If you have a multi-core CPU and the file was compressed with standard bzip2, you might want to use lbzip2. Perhaps even automatically. If you download and decompress with bzip2, it takes

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: Decompressing concurrently with the download is faster than both: it takes a total of max(download_time,bzip2_time). The download is usually the slowest, so we can just say it takes download_time. On my machine, standard bunzip2 consumes about 3.6

Re: Writing manpages: patch submitted to Developers Reference.

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I submitted the attached patch as bug #557298. Thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread, and have a nice week-end! -- Charles Index: best-pkging-practices.dbk === --- best-pkging-practices.dbk (révision 6986)

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: I *really* feel my work between lbzip2-0.15 and lbzip2-0.17, both upstream and packaging, is down the drain. At the very least this work was of use to _you_ --- so it is not down the drain. I was pestering the bzip2 and tar package maintainers

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
ERSEK Laszlo wrote: On my machine, standard bunzip2 consumes about 3.6 MB compressed input per second. I subscribed to a mid-level residential internet package. I've just downloaded a kernel tarball from kernel.org (199.6.1.164, Redwood City, CA - Budapest, Hungary), wget has been showing a

How to properly register a program in KDE/GNOME

2009-11-20 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, I'm trying to get FreeMind files to be properly opened with FreeMind within KDE/GNOME (and probably other freedesktop compatible desktops), e.g. click in Konqueror on a FreeMind file (shown with the FreeMind icon) and FreeMind is opened with the file. I'm quite at the end of my