Bug#359657: ITP: cfourcc -- Command line tool for changing FourCC in Microsoft RIFF AVI files
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cfourcc Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : mypapit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sarovar.org/projects/gfourcc * License : GPL Description : Command line tool for changing FourCC in Microsoft RIFF AVI files Identifies the codec used in AVI files (*.avi) and allows the user to change the FourCC description code (like fourcc-changer in Windows). Useful for people working with Microsoft AVI file. A Linux clone of AviC fourcc changer tool. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog
Does anybody have an opinion about this? When udev is installed for the first time on a running system the current /dev/log socket ends up in /dev/.static/ (which is not world-readable) until the next reboot. On Mar 19, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 19, Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > $ ls -l /dev/log > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 4 17:03 /dev/log -> /dev/.static/dev/log > > This only happen between the first time you install it and you reboot > the system. I am open to more solutions. Should I bind-mount the socket? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files
Re: Bill Allombert 2006-03-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please always keep the full Debian changelog information in the package. > Of course, you can move very old changelog entry to changelog.old or > changelog.1 if they cause problems, but ship them in the deb. Please don't even do that, the changelog is meant to be machine-readable, and unless there is a standard for how to access the full changelog, don't move it away. And even for humans, "less changelog" is a easier than "less changelog changelog.old" etc. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: etch before vista
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > I think a wiki would be more effective. Eww, please, no wiki. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#341344: ITP: python-urwid -- curses-based UI/widget library for Python
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #341344 Owner: Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I intend to package urwid for debian. I'm making packages now. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Building the whole Debian archive with GCC 4.1: a summary
Le Lundi 27 Mars 2006 14:57, j'ai écrit : > I haven't gotten all the way through, so I don't have a complete list. I'm > planning to start filing bugs soon, though, and I could classify them with > a usertag if you like (once I figure out how assigning them works). OK, I've started filing the bugs now, and I'll be adding usertags to put them under http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:binnmu . By the way, is there a way to assign the usertag right when I file a bug, assuming I want to keep using [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the submitter address? -- Daniel Schepler
Re: Bug#359345: ITP: dbdesigner -- DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.
On 27-Mar-06, 17:11 (CST), Guilherme Mesquita Gondim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Guilherme Mesquita Gondim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: dbdesigner > Version : 4 > * License : GPL > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4 > Description : DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that > integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, > seamless environment. That's *way* too long for a short description. It's needs to be fairly short, say <60 chars, so that it displays properly in aptitude et. al. on an 80 column screen. Also, you don't repeat the package name in the short description. Perhaps: Description: visual database design, modeling, and maintenance tool Now, usually I ding people for long descriptions that are too short, but in this case, it may be too long. Also, you duplicated the "General Information" section. Don't repeat the short description in the long description. Thing about some user browsing the packages, and consider that they'll (usually) only be able to see the first 15 lines or so without scrolling. What would you want to know? What would be sufficient to make it worth scrolling through the rest? What is trivia that is better left to the README? For example: > DBDesigner 4 compares to products like Oracle's Designer?, IBM's > Rational Rose?, Computer Associates's ERwin? and theKompany's > DataArchitect? but is an Open Source Project available for Microsoft > Windows? 2k/XP and Linux KDE/Gnome. It is release on the GPL. Let's see, it's in Debian main, so I know that it's a) Linux and b) free. The rest is advertising. I had to scroll through 30 lines to find out what database it supports. Is it really mysql only? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two
Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just to be sure, is the following enough for the BSD license? > > This software is licensed under the terms of the BSD license, > which can be found on Debian systems in the file > /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD or from > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php > > The license was modified to reflect that $AUTHOR, not the Regents > of the University of California, is the author. It feels wrong to do that, I'd copy the whole text. IMHO having the (C) Regents line in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD makes that file practically useless, except for using the text as a cut-and-paste template. The fact that every (L)GPL packages' copyright points to /usr/share/common-licenses/ is misleading. Packagers are required to put the *full* license in debian/copyright (be it a 'short' license like BSD-style, be it a long text as the GPL uses). The ability to point to another file is just a matter of convenience for a some licenses. Most new maintainers seem to get that wrong. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two
Hello! On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:06:05 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Just to be sure, is the following enough for the BSD license? [...] >> The license was modified to reflect that $AUTHOR, not the Regents >> of the University of California, is the author. > > It feels wrong to do that, I'd copy the whole text. IMHO having the > (C) Regents line in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD makes that file > practically useless, except for using the text as a cut-and-paste > template. > > The fact that every (L)GPL packages' copyright points to > /usr/share/common-licenses/ is misleading. Packagers are required to > put the *full* license in debian/copyright (be it a 'short' license > like BSD-style, be it a long text as the GPL uses). I'm not an English native speaker, but I think this is not what it's reported in the Debian New Maintainer's Guide [1] or in the Debian Policy Manual [2]. [Debian New Maintainer's Guide] 4.2 `copyright' file [...] The important things to add to this file are the place you got the package from and the actual copyright notice and license. You must include the complete license, unless it's one of the common free software licenses such as GNU GPL or LGPL, BSD or the Artistic license, when you can just refer to the appropriate file in /usr/share/common-licenses/ directory that exists on every Debian system. - [Debian Policy Manual] 12.5 Copyright information Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link. [...] Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic license, the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL should refer to the files /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic, /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL respectively, rather than quoting them in the copyright file. = Please correct me if I'm wrong :-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-dreq.en.html#s-copyright [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile pgpdnEVWLDDkb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bug#359345: ITP: dbdesigner -- DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 27-Mar-06, 17:11 (CST), Guilherme Mesquita Gondim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Guilherme Mesquita Gondim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> * Package name: dbdesigner >> Version : 4 >> * License : GPL >> Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * URL : http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4 http://www.fabforce.net/forum/ tells us: , | Dear DBDesigner4 users, | | Due to several attacks against the DBDesigner4 forum it has now been | closed down. We simply cannot understand the sick motivation of | people to attack Open Source projects. So please understand that we | will not provide any support from now on. | | We will continue to host the DBD4 download till the release of the | MySQL Workbench, its successor application that will be an official | MySQL product. Then this project will rest in peace. | | Best regards, | fabFORCE.net team ` so dbdesigner upstream is dead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:57:24PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Does anybody have an opinion about this? > When udev is installed for the first time on a running system the > current /dev/log socket ends up in /dev/.static/ (which is not > world-readable) until the next reboot. How about restarting syslog (or it's equivalent) after relocating the old /dev? glibc already has infrastructure for restarting services on upgrade, maybe udev can borrow that. Gabor -- - MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences -
Re: Maintainers Guide
Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The year really should be included. At least in the US, not having a > year in the notice appears to make the notice worthless. Quoting Title > 17 USC Sec. 401(b): Only for some pretty strange values of "worthless". AFAIU the only legal effect of the notice requirements you cite is as defined by subsection (d): if a compliant notice is present, a defendant is excluded from the defense that he did not understand that the work was copyrighted. A non-compliant notice still leaves the plaintiff in a copyright infringement suit the option of arguing that the defendant did in fact know that the work was subject to copyright. The only difference is that the defendant gets to try to convince the court that he did not recognize the notice as an assertion that copyright exists. -- Henning Makholm"*Vi vil ha wienerbrød!*" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two
Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please correct me if I'm wrong :-) That's what I intended to say, sorry if I made the impression of contradicting you. The point was that some people new to packaging seem to think that they don't have to include the full license, and if the license is something != GPL, just ignore that fact. Not getting debian/copyright right is the reason I reject most sponsor uploads on the first try. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog
On Mar 28, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about restarting syslog (or it's equivalent) after relocating the > old /dev? glibc already has infrastructure for restarting services on > upgrade, maybe udev can borrow that. Harder than it looks. There are multiple syslog daemons, how can the package know which one is installed and needs to be restarted? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug#359345: ITP: dbdesigner -- DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.
frank paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Due to several attacks against the DBDesigner4 forum it has now been > | closed down. We simply cannot understand the sick motivation of > | people to attack Open Source projects. So please understand that we > | will not provide any support from now on. [...] > so dbdesigner upstream is dead. And very security-aware, ahem. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
Re: First AMD64 Binary Uploaded
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:56:11PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For now I suggest you contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > OK, thanks; I considered that, but wasn't sure it was focused enough. > (Granted, -devel isn't that focused either, but it is more > developer-oriented.) That list should be a porters list, even though it's more abused as a user list. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:15:27PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Harder than it looks. There are multiple syslog daemons, how can the > package know which one is installed and needs to be restarted? are there really that many syslog daemons (my count is 5)? why not make a list, fire off invoke-rc.d on each of them during upgrade, and ignore the return codes? if you really cared i suppose you couldtest before calling invoke-rc.d too, but the point is i don't think it's a great deal of work to do so. sean signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: First AMD64 Binary Uploaded
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:35:23PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:56:11PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For now I suggest you contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > OK, thanks; I considered that, but wasn't sure it was focused enough. > > (Granted, -devel isn't that focused either, but it is more > > developer-oriented.) > > That list should be a porters list, even though it's more abused > as a user list. Aren't the other arch lists like that used by users? I know debian-powerpc is, at least. -- gram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#359753: ITP: diva -- Easy to use, scalable video editing software for Gnome.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: diva Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Michael Dominic K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.diva-project.org/ * License : MIT/X Description : Easy to use, scalable video editing software for Gnome. Diva is a project to build an easy to use, scalable, open-source video editing software for the Gnome desktop. Its goal is to provide users with a complete and tightly integrated set of tools that can be used to import, edit, enhance and export digital video material. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog
On 3/28/06, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:15:27PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Harder than it looks. There are multiple syslog daemons, how can the > > package know which one is installed and needs to be restarted? > > are there really that many syslog daemons (my count is 5)? why not make > a list, fire off invoke-rc.d on each of them during upgrade, > and ignore the return codes? if you really cared i suppose you > couldtest before calling invoke-rc.d too, but the point is i > don't think it's a great deal of work to do so. That doesn't sound like a clean solution. :) I doubt udev/syslog are the only packages that encounter this situation.
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Re: Bug#358695: ITP: latex-utils -- utilities for LaTeX/xfig
Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I retry:
>
> Package name : latex-compile
> Description : easy compiling of complexe (and simple) LaTeX documents
> This package provides several tools that aim to simplify the
> compilation of LaTeX documents :
> .
> LaTeX.mk: a make(1) snippets to help compiling LaTeX documents in
> DVI, PDF, PS, ... format. Dependencies are automatically tracked : one
> should be able to compile documents with a one-line Makefile
> containing 'include LaTeX.mk'. Complexe documents (with multiple
> bibliographies, indexes, glossaries, ...) should be correctly managed.
> .
> figlatex.sty: a LaTeX package to easily insert xfig figures (with
> \includegraphics{file.fig}). It can interact with LaTeX.mk so that the
> latter automatically invokes transfig if needed.
> .
> And various helper tools for LaTeX.mk
> .
> Homepage: http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/latex-utils/
That sounds much better. Some grammar/spelling corrections:
s/complexe/complex/, please don't put a space before the colons.
>> I rarely use xfig - now this sounds as if the package would indeed
>> include LaTeX macros, or can I use \includegraphics with *.fig files
>> with standard LaTeX?
>
> Does the new description answer correctly the question ?
Yes, just fine.
Be sure to follow the Debian TeX Policy draft in the tex-common package
- but I guess in your case that only means putting the style file at its
proper place, and making the documentation for it available to texdoc.
Regards, Frank
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Re: Bug#359662: libpcre3-dev doesn't install libpcre.pc, so pkg-config can't find libpcre
On 2006-03-28 Christian Ohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: libpcre3-dev > Version: 6.4-1.1 > Severity: important > Hello, > Like the subject says: The file libpcre.pc isn't installed (though it's > generated during the build), so any package searching for libpcre via > pkg-config can't find it even if the development package is installed. [...] Hello, why is this severity important, sounds like wishlist to me. Is it actually a good thing to ship the pc-file, therefore suggesting to actually use pkg-config for finding pcre? We have done well without using it for pcre for three major releases, and I seem to recall that pkg-config is still a major source for unneeded linking against indirect dependencies, mainly due to #340904. Moved to d-d. (I am subscribed, no need to cc me.) cu andreas -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work does not constitute tacit approval by the author or the publisher for any such projects, howsoever undertaken.(c) Jasper Ffforde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog
"Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 3/28/06, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:15:27PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> > Harder than it looks. There are multiple syslog daemons, how can the >> > package know which one is installed and needs to be restarted? >> >> are there really that many syslog daemons (my count is 5)? why not make >> a list, fire off invoke-rc.d on each of them during upgrade, >> and ignore the return codes? if you really cared i suppose you >> couldtest before calling invoke-rc.d too, but the point is i >> don't think it's a great deal of work to do so. > > That doesn't sound like a clean solution. :) > I doubt udev/syslog are the only packages that encounter this situation. There are a number of situations where one of a selection of packages can reasonably be installed. mail transport agent imap daemon dns server proxy server logging daemon Presumably, there is a standard way to handle the case of needing to restart a 1-of-N service handler? cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#359759: ITP: ispman -- ISP Control Panel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tim Peeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ispman Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Armand A. Verstappen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ispman.net/ * License : GPL Description : ISP Control Panel ISPMan is an ISP management system designed to meet the needs of the ever growing infrastructure that an ISP has to manage. It was originally written to manage DNS, Web Virtual hosts and Mail accounts at large ISPs. Since then it has moved to a modular structure with help from ispman-developers. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two
Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Debian Policy Manual] > > 12.5 Copyright information > > Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright > and distribution license in the file > /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file must neither be compressed > nor be a symbolic link. > > [...] > > Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic license, > the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL should refer to the files > /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic, > /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL > respectively, rather than quoting them in the copyright file. Now, Perl and a lot of Perl related packages are licensed under GPLv1. Shouldn't Debian provide the text for this one as well? Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:15:27PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Harder than it looks. There are multiple syslog daemons, how can the > package know which one is installed and needs to be restarted? glibc already checks for more than 40 packages and restarts only those that are installed. I doubt there are that many packages that needs a restart on udev install/upgrade. It's true that it is not a clean solution that udev needs to keep track of the packages that should be restarted, but this method works now while a more sophisticated method needs someone to design & implement it. Gabor -- - MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#358695: ITP: latex-utils -- utilities for LaTeX/xfig
Hi,
Frank Küster wrote:
> Hi Vincent, hi d-d,
>
> Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> * Package name: latex-utils
>> Description : utilities for LaTeX/xfig
>
> I think the package name is unfortunate, and the short description
> doesn't help much. "latex-utils" could just as well be a collection of
> nifty LaTeX style files, or something that aids in editing/index
> generation/whatever. The short description doesn't help much here.
>
>> This package provides a Makefile to compile LaTeX documents (in ps or pdf),
>> latex packages to easily include xfig figures in LaTeX documents and various
>> scripts help the Makefile to correctly and easily handle its job.
>> .
>> One great interrest of this package is that it automatically track most of
>> the
>> dependencies of the LaTeX document. We should just have to create a Makefile
>> with the single line 'include LaTeX.mk'
>> .
>> Homepage: http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/latex-utils/
>
>>From this long description, it isn't clear to me whether the "integrate
> xfig more easily" functionality or the LaTeX.mk functionality is the
> core of the package. Besides, I think the "we should have to" sounds
> weird in english, I'd rather use "One can...".
I retry:
Package name : latex-compile
Description : easy compiling of complexe (and simple) LaTeX documents
This package provides several tools that aim to simplify the
compilation of LaTeX documents :
.
LaTeX.mk: a make(1) snippets to help compiling LaTeX documents in
DVI, PDF, PS, ... format. Dependencies are automatically tracked : one
should be able to compile documents with a one-line Makefile
containing 'include LaTeX.mk'. Complexe documents (with multiple
bibliographies, indexes, glossaries, ...) should be correctly managed.
.
figlatex.sty: a LaTeX package to easily insert xfig figures (with
\includegraphics{file.fig}). It can interact with LaTeX.mk so that the
latter automatically invokes transfig if needed.
.
And various helper tools for LaTeX.mk
.
Homepage: http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/latex-utils/
>> Additional notes:
>> -
>> This software differs from latex-mk (that has recently enter the debian
>> archive) in two points :
>> 1) it allows to easily manage .fig files from latex documents
>> (ie \includegrpahics{foo.fig})
>
> I rarely use xfig - now this sounds as if the package would indeed
> include LaTeX macros, or can I use \includegraphics with *.fig files
> with standard LaTeX?
Does the new description answer correctly the question ?
>> I would appreciate any help to improve my description as I am not a
>> native english speaker.
>
> Me neither, but still willing to help - but we should first clear up the
> content...
Thank for your comments. I am waiting for the next ones (from you or
others) ;-)
> Regards, Frank
Best regards,
Vincent
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Re: Bug#359662: libpcre3-dev doesn't install libpcre.pc, so pkg-config can't find libpcre
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Metzler said: > > Like the subject says: The file libpcre.pc isn't installed (though it's > > generated during the build), so any package searching for libpcre via > > pkg-config can't find it even if the development package is installed. > [...] > > Hello, > why is this severity important, sounds like wishlist to me. > > Is it actually a good thing to ship the pc-file, therefore suggesting > to actually use pkg-config for finding pcre? We have done well > without using it for pcre for three major releases, and I seem to > recall that pkg-config is still a major source for unneeded linking > against indirect dependencies, mainly due to #340904. First, yes the bug soundss like a wishlist bug to me. Second, pkg-config _can_ cause unnecessary linkages, but only if the pc file has the worng information in it, which would be a bug in itself. There are fields for libraries or extra include paths that are needed for dynamic linking, and the same for static linking. the extra linking you are referring to is most likely caused by people putting static link information in the fields designed for dynamic linking. In and of itself, pkg-config seems like a pretty reasonable thing - it's just mostly done poorly. -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer | |`- http://www.debian.org | - signature.asc Description: Digital signature
removal of lukemftpd and lukemftp from debian
Hi all. I sent the following to Takuo KITAME on Monday, 20 March, and have yet to get a reply. Please read and comment: The lukemftpd and lukemftp packages have been replaced upstream by tnftpd and tnftp [1] and have not seen any maintainer activity since 2002. [2] The tnftp package (an ftp client) is in the archive [2], and should probably replace lukemftp. It does properly Conflict with and Replace lukemftp in debian/control. However, it also does not get any maintainer support and has had an open RC security bug with an attached patch for more than 1 year. I will prepare an NMU of the current upstream release to fix this bug ASAP. So, before I file a bug against ftp.debian.org requesting the removal of the lukemftp* packages, would anybody like to speak up in their defense? I'm willing to adopt tnftp and package tnftpd so it can replace lukemftpd, if that's what needs to happen. noah 1. http://freshmeat.net/projects/tnftpd http://freshmeat.net/projects/tnftp 2. http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lukemftp.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lukemftpd.html 3. http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tnftp.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug#358695: ITP: latex-utils -- utilities for LaTeX/xfig
Frank Küster wrote: > That sounds much better. Some grammar/spelling corrections: > s/complexe/complex/, please don't put a space before the colons. Ok, thank. I now about the space before the colons but we must put one in french. And I sometimes I do the wrong thing (in french or in english). > Be sure to follow the Debian TeX Policy draft in the tex-common package > - but I guess in your case that only means putting the style file at its > proper place, and making the documentation for it available to texdoc. I only have a few .sty that I cuurently install in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/latex-utils/ (will be latex-compile/) And in my postinst, I use dh_installtex However, it is the first time I see texdoc. The manpage does not explain how to make the documentation available. Where can I find more information ? Best regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#359662: Info received (was Bug#359662: libpcre3-dev doesn't install libpcre.pc, so pkg-config can't find libpcre)
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Re: Bug#359662: libpcre3-dev doesn't install libpcre.pc, so pkg-config can't find libpcre
On Tuesday, 28 March 2006 at 19:52, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> why is this severity important, sounds like wishlist to me.
Well, maybe 'important' is too high, but I don't think 'wishlist' really
fits. I have tried to compile a program (the cvs version of cegui) where
./configure checks for libpcre via pkg-config, and doesn't find it, even
after installing the elevopment package. I have manually copied the .pc
file and everything works.
Now what will someone do who doesn't know how to investigate a failed
./configure run? In my opinion this fits the description of 'important'
("a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without
rendering it completely unusable to everyone"), depending on the
definition of 'major'.
> Is it actually a good thing to ship the pc-file, therefore suggesting
> to actually use pkg-config for finding pcre? We have done well
> without using it for pcre for three major releases, and I seem to
> recall that pkg-config is still a major source for unneeded linking
> against indirect dependencies, mainly due to #340904.
I guess that's more for debian-devel, I only know that there are
programs that check for libpcre via pkg-config.
Christian Ohm
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Re: Release Date Update
Tollef Fog Heen dijo [Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:47:57PM +0100]: > | The premise is also weak. Man, in the summer, I want to be > | out. Day trips. Picnics. Sports. County fairs. Winter is when one > | hunkers down in the warmth of the house and codes. > > But in the winter you can go skiing! In the summer, there's no snow, > but nice and cool in the basement without having to worry about the > heat or the icky yellow thing on the sky. Man, on which world do you live? In the winter there is no snow either - But in the Summer we have rain, which makes you stay indoors in the evenings. Lets better hurry, freeze now, release by June, and go looney during Summertime! Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wrong comparisons [was: etch before vista]
A Mennucc dijo [Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:41:39PM +0100]: > hi everybody > > According to the latest [1] Microsoft announcement, Vista will be released > in Jan 2007; according to our schedule [2], Etch may be released in Dec 2006. > > If we accomplish it, it will be a great feat: Debian will (possibly) > show it is able to relase two versions of its distribution since Jul > 2002 (= woody release); whereas Microsoft seems unable to release its > own O.S. (even though XP has been out since Dec 2001, if I recall > correctly). > > Yes guys, it means > (...pseudo-stats...) > Amazing. Hi, Free and propietary software development are two beasts so far apart and so different in means, in scope and almost in every conceivable sense that I have to answer to your mail ;-) Don't try to compare "us" and "them". Don't try to turn it into a race. What if we win? What if we lose? Is OpenBSD better because it releases more often and they write all of the code (to their base system)? Are we worse because we take so damn long to release a new stable version, even if we just fix the bugs and package the software but don't always write it ourselves? Then Apple should die quite soon, as MacOS X has not seen a major update since it was born, over six years ago (it was 2000, right?) Different software development projects, different developer communities and different operating systems as a whole cater to different needs. Sometimes we can -carefully- measure certain aspects against each other, but if we want to be fair, if we don't want to be judged as FUD-machines, we should avoid hollow comparisons as this one. Some time ago, I defended Debian's long release cycle by pointing out the average user does not like to change - After all, Windows 98 is still too common everywhere (and I could still say so today, as about half of my Institute's PCs run Win98)... But I would not claim the same today. Once again, Windows and Debian are both operating systems, have both their advantages and disadvantages, but have clearly different intentions. How can we then measure up against Evil Propietary Software? Well, start by believing we are morally superior (which I do believe). Look at the sheer amount of code, and the average quality of two similar pieces of software. Yes, sometimes we will win, sometimes we will lose, but Free Software is maturing and becoming attractive every day for more people. Oh! And the best thing: If you want Debian(/Linux/*BSD/whatever) to beat Windows(/MacOS/HPUX/whatever), there is something very easy you can do: Code, document, report, fix, translate, meet, facilitate. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Release Date Update
I demand that Gunnar Wolf may or may not have written... > Tollef Fog Heen dijo [Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:47:57PM +0100]: >>> The premise is also weak. Man, in the summer, I want to be out. Day >>> trips. Picnics. Sports. County fairs. Winter is when one hunkers down in >>> the warmth of the house and codes. >> But in the winter you can go skiing! In the summer, there's no snow, but >> nice and cool in the basement without having to worry about the heat or >> the icky yellow thing on the sky. > Man, on which world do you live? In the winter there is no snow either - So... you're saying that that cold white crystalline stuff which fell last month, lay around for a few days then disappeared, leaving behind what looked suspiciously like wet ground *wasn't* snow? > But in the Summer we have rain, which makes you stay indoors in the > evenings. Probably. Or maybe the rest of the day too, if you're *really* lucky. > Lets better hurry, freeze now, Were there less cloud cover here right now, probably. ;-) > release by June, and go looney during Summertime! "That's all, folks!" -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Maintainers Guide
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:51:30PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Only for some pretty strange values of "worthless". AFAIU the only > legal effect of the notice requirements you cite is as defined by > subsection (d): if a compliant notice is present, a defendant is > excluded from the defense that he did not understand that the work was > copyrighted. Well, isn't prohibiting the "I didn't know it is copyrighted" defence the only legal effect of having the notice nowadays, anyway? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#359824: ITP: mezogis -- a graphical interface to query and analyse spatial data from postgis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: alex bodnaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mezogis Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.stambouliote.de/mezogis/ * License : GPL Description : a GUI to query and analyse spatial data from postgis mezoGIS is a GIS application, a graphical interface to query and analyse spatial data. mezoGIS does not store or compute data directly, but operates external PostGIS databases. The goal of mezoGIS is to provide a tool for geo-spatial analysis with PostGIS, through on-the-fly SQL queries as well as through larger, external plugin scripts. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes for sure, but useless zipped information is useless > anyway. And you know it's useless how? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: idea for project machines
> Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was ranting about that on irc before, and was told that this is 1) > considered to be a security risk and 2) not worth the effort. The > additional concern I had was that an automatic solution would put less > load on DSA. How about providing this access only in a Xen guest? I know we don't have Xen enabled kernels in the official repository yet, but this seems to be a feasible approach in the near future. Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal (rganesan at debian.org) | GPG Key: 1024D/5D8C12EA Web: http://employees.org/~rganesan| http://rganesan.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#359340: ITP: opencity -- a 3D city simulator game
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:15:25AM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: > OpenCity is a city simulator game project written in standard C++ > with OpenGL and SDL from scratch. It is not intended to be a clone > of any famous city simulator from Max*s. So, if you are looking to > download a free SimCity 4 like, forget OpenCity. err... Could the extended description possibly say more along the lines of what the packages does do as opposed to what it doesn't do? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#358695: ITP: latex-utils -- utilities for LaTeX/xfig
Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only have a few .sty that I cuurently install in > /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/latex-utils/ (will be latex-compile/) > And in my postinst, I use dh_installtex Do you need to register "map files, new formats, and new languages with TeX"? That's the purpose of dh_installtex. Otherwise just call mktexlsr (or "mktexlsr /usr/share/texmf/" if you install only there). > However, it is the first time I see texdoc. The manpage does not explain > how to make the documentation available. Where can I find more > information ? file:///usr/share/doc/tex-common/Debian-TeX-Policy.html/ch3.html#s-sec-documentation Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
