Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:02:26PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:04:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > ... or indeed any such obfuscated patching system ...
> 
> Why do you call dpatch 'obfuscated' ? 
> Before I used it for one of my packages i quickly checked the code and it
> simply works. No big fancy stuff etc.
> 
> Did I miss a part?

Compared to simply making the source changes directly, it's obfuscated.
It's also obfuscated for users who can no longer use 'dpkg-source -x'
(as documented since the dawn of time) to see the source code from which
programs are built; instead, they have to hunt through a maze of twisty
makefiles in order to work out the correct debian/rules invocation to
produce the patched source, which is different for almost every patch
system used in Debian and is often poorly documented.

I recommend using a good revision control system instead, which offers
similar benefits to developers while leaving things clear for users.

Cheers,

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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:02:26PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:04:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > ... or indeed any such obfuscated patching system ...
> 
> Why do you call dpatch 'obfuscated' ? 
> Before I used it for one of my packages i quickly checked the code and it
> simply works. No big fancy stuff etc.
> 
> Did I miss a part?

Compared to simply making the source changes directly, it's obfuscated.
It's also obfuscated for users who can no longer use 'dpkg-source -x'
(as documented since the dawn of time) to see the source code from which
programs are built; instead, they have to hunt through a maze of twisty
makefiles in order to work out the correct debian/rules invocation to
produce the patched source, which is different for almost every patch
system used in Debian and is often poorly documented.

I recommend using a good revision control system instead, which offers
similar benefits to developers while leaving things clear for users.

Cheers,

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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Michael Schiansky
Hi!

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:04:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> ... or indeed any such obfuscated patching system ...

Why do you call dpatch 'obfuscated' ? 
Before I used it for one of my packages i quickly checked the code and it
simply works. No big fancy stuff etc.

Did I miss a part?

cu, ms

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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Michael Schiansky
Hi

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:26:56PM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> >please use dpatch to manage paches on upstream source
> Since when is the use of dpatch mandatory?
It was never and hopefully will never be.

I simply like dpatch.

cu, ms

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Re: RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-03 Thread Luciano Bello
UUpppss... sorry :(

I talked with the upstream before the ITP and he said me that he will
maintened the program and work on it. But he decide kill the
development[2].

Luciano

and sorry for my english


El vie, 03-09-2004 a las 14:37, Alejandro Exojo escribió:
> El Viernes, 3 de Septiembre de 2004 06:23, Luciano Bello escribió:
> > * URL:http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=14847
> 
> Read at the bottom of the description:
> 
> 8<-
> This is the last release of Kubication. I've discontinued it because i've 
> started writing a KDE daemon controled by a KControl Center Module for 
> replacing Kubication, which IMHO is a much better solution. I expect to 
> release it within one or two weeks. Anyway, if you find any bug in 
> Kubication, please report it, because part of Kubication source code will be 
> used in the KDE daemon.
> >8-
> 
> If upstream is no longer supporting this package, I think it should not enter 
> debian. Wait until he completes the new application, and then package it.



Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Michael Schiansky
Hi!

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:04:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> ... or indeed any such obfuscated patching system ...

Why do you call dpatch 'obfuscated' ? 
Before I used it for one of my packages i quickly checked the code and it
simply works. No big fancy stuff etc.

Did I miss a part?

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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Michael Schiansky
Hi

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:26:56PM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> >please use dpatch to manage paches on upstream source
> Since when is the use of dpatch mandatory?
It was never and hopefully will never be.

I simply like dpatch.

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Re: RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-03 Thread Luciano Bello
UUpppss... sorry :(

I talked with the upstream before the ITP and he said me that he will
maintened the program and work on it. But he decide kill the
development[2].

Luciano

and sorry for my english


El vie, 03-09-2004 a las 14:37, Alejandro Exojo escribió:
> El Viernes, 3 de Septiembre de 2004 06:23, Luciano Bello escribió:
> > * URL:http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=14847
> 
> Read at the bottom of the description:
> 
> 8<-
> This is the last release of Kubication. I've discontinued it because i've 
> started writing a KDE daemon controled by a KControl Center Module for 
> replacing Kubication, which IMHO is a much better solution. I expect to 
> release it within one or two weeks. Anyway, if you find any bug in 
> Kubication, please report it, because part of Kubication source code will be 
> used in the KDE daemon.
> >8-
> 
> If upstream is no longer supporting this package, I think it should not enter 
> debian. Wait until he completes the new application, and then package it.


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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:26:56PM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 03:08:28PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote:
> > Remarks:
> >
> >  - diff.gz
> >please use dpatch to manage paches on upstream source
> 
> Since when is the use of dpatch mandatory?

... or indeed any such obfuscated patching system ...

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Re: RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-03 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Viernes, 3 de Septiembre de 2004 06:23, Luciano Bello escribió:
> * URL            :http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=14847

Read at the bottom of the description:

8<-
This is the last release of Kubication. I've discontinued it because i've 
started writing a KDE daemon controled by a KControl Center Module for 
replacing Kubication, which IMHO is a much better solution. I expect to 
release it within one or two weeks. Anyway, if you find any bug in 
Kubication, please report it, because part of Kubication source code will be 
used in the KDE daemon.
>8-

If upstream is no longer supporting this package, I think it should not enter 
debian. Wait until he completes the new application, and then package it.

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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi,

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 03:08:28PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote:
> Remarks:
>
>  - diff.gz
>please use dpatch to manage paches on upstream source

Since when is the use of dpatch mandatory?


Nicolas



Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:36:30AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:

> That's what it does, and since it does the problem occured. Was I unclear
> in my first mail?

I must have been looking at tetex-base rather than tetex-bin, which only
replaces dvipdfm.

> Indeed when updating apt first the problem vanishes, and I guess if I'd
> used dselect in the first place, it just wouldn't have occurred (at least
> this is my impression from woody's release notes).

Yes, upgrading apt first is a good idea for woody->sarge.

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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:26:56PM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 03:08:28PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote:
> > Remarks:
> >
> >  - diff.gz
> >please use dpatch to manage paches on upstream source
> 
> Since when is the use of dpatch mandatory?

... or indeed any such obfuscated patching system ...

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Re: RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-03 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Viernes, 3 de Septiembre de 2004 06:23, Luciano Bello escribió:
> * URL            :http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=14847

Read at the bottom of the description:

8<-
This is the last release of Kubication. I've discontinued it because i've 
started writing a KDE daemon controled by a KControl Center Module for 
replacing Kubication, which IMHO is a much better solution. I expect to 
release it within one or two weeks. Anyway, if you find any bug in 
Kubication, please report it, because part of Kubication source code will be 
used in the KDE daemon.
>8-

If upstream is no longer supporting this package, I think it should not enter 
debian. Wait until he completes the new application, and then package it.

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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi,

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 03:08:28PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote:
> Remarks:
>
>  - diff.gz
>please use dpatch to manage paches on upstream source

Since when is the use of dpatch mandatory?


Nicolas


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Re: Bug#234942: tipa: /var/lib/dpkg/info/tipa.prerm

2004-09-03 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
package tipa
tags 234942 + help
thank

* Jan Behrend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-03 14:26]:

> Package: tipa
> Version: 1:1.1.beta-3
> Followup-For: Bug #234942
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think this bug is due to the following line in 
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tipa.prerm:
> 
> /usr/bin/defoma-font purge-all-all $FILE
> 
> this should say 
> 
>   /usr/bin/defoma-font purge-all $FILE

Thank you for the followup on this.  I am Cc:ing this reply to
debian-mentors because I do not know exactly what I have to do.  Please Cc:
any followup to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (as set in Reply-To:).

Your suggestion was already implemented over two years ago, as per the
following changelog.Debian entry:

tipa (1:1.1.beta-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: Remove hack for fixing the code from
prerm-defoma-hints.  The prerm script contains now purge-all and not
purge-all-all.  (This closes: #145519, thanks to Gerfried Fuchs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>).

 -- Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Thu,  2 May 2002 22:02:23 +0200

The problem is that tipa has version version 1:1.1.beta-3 in woody (i.e. the
fix above came too late). Furthermore, the sarge version of the package
contains the following "fix":

tipa (2:1.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Moved the defoma-hints file to the xfonts-tipa package.  It was
erroneously associated with the tipa package, and was causing nasty
warnings when abiword-common was installed with tipa but without
xfonts-tipa (closes: #161076).  Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

 -- Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:11:53 +0200
 
I think that I have messed too much with the prerm scripts of bothe the tipa
and the xfonts-tipa packages. Unfortunately, fixing things right now is far
beyond what I can afford from my free time budget.  Please, help me.

-- 
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Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:36:30AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:

> That's what it does, and since it does the problem occured. Was I unclear
> in my first mail?

I must have been looking at tetex-base rather than tetex-bin, which only
replaces dvipdfm.

> Indeed when updating apt first the problem vanishes, and I guess if I'd
> used dselect in the first place, it just wouldn't have occurred (at least
> this is my impression from woody's release notes).

Yes, upgrading apt first is a good idea for woody->sarge.

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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Michael Schiansky
Hi Kevin!

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:18:29PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> I am seeking a sponsor for viewglob.  

Send me private email. I'll sponsor you.

Remarks:
 - md5sum of orig.tar.gz you provide differs from upstream tar.gz [1]
   e8ffcb70a2635d88dd93505a877d31fe  viewglob-0.8.4.tar.gz

 - W: viewglob: menu-command-not-in-package /usr/lib/menu/viewglob:2
   x-terminal-emulator

 - I: viewglob: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/viewglob.1.gz:40
   
 - diff.gz
   please use dpatch to manage paches on upstream source

  1. http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/viewglob/viewglob-0.8.4.tar.gz
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Re: Bug#234942: tipa: /var/lib/dpkg/info/tipa.prerm

2004-09-03 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
package tipa
tags 234942 + help
thank

* Jan Behrend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-03 14:26]:

> Package: tipa
> Version: 1:1.1.beta-3
> Followup-For: Bug #234942
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think this bug is due to the following line in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tipa.prerm:
> 
> /usr/bin/defoma-font purge-all-all $FILE
> 
> this should say 
> 
>   /usr/bin/defoma-font purge-all $FILE

Thank you for the followup on this.  I am Cc:ing this reply to
debian-mentors because I do not know exactly what I have to do.  Please Cc:
any followup to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (as set in Reply-To:).

Your suggestion was already implemented over two years ago, as per the
following changelog.Debian entry:

tipa (1:1.1.beta-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: Remove hack for fixing the code from
prerm-defoma-hints.  The prerm script contains now purge-all and not
purge-all-all.  (This closes: #145519, thanks to Gerfried Fuchs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>).

 -- Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Thu,  2 May 2002 22:02:23 +0200

The problem is that tipa has version version 1:1.1.beta-3 in woody (i.e. the
fix above came too late). Furthermore, the sarge version of the package
contains the following "fix":

tipa (2:1.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Moved the defoma-hints file to the xfonts-tipa package.  It was
erroneously associated with the tipa package, and was causing nasty
warnings when abiword-common was installed with tipa but without
xfonts-tipa (closes: #161076).  Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

 -- Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:11:53 +0200
 
I think that I have messed too much with the prerm scripts of bothe the tipa
and the xfonts-tipa packages. Unfortunately, fixing things right now is far
beyond what I can afford from my free time budget.  Please, help me.

-- 
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RFS: helix-player

2004-09-03 Thread Thomas Maurer
Source: helix-player
Section: graphics
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Thomas Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Uploaders: Debian Helix Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), dpatch, libglib2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, 
libpango1.0-dev, libvorbis-dev, libogg-dev, libtheora-dev, libatk1.0-dev, 
libx11-dev, libxt-dev, libice-dev, libxv-dev, libxext-dev, x-dev, libsm-dev, 
python, python-gtk2, python-numeric
Standards-Version: 3.6.1

Package: helix-player
Architecture: i386 powerpc
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: The Helix Community's open source media player
 The Helix Player is a complete, free and open source media player built 
 in the Helix Community for consumers and licensed under your choice of 
 three options: open source (RPSL), commercial community source (RCSL), 
 and the free software GNU General Public License (GPL). Built using GTK, 
 it plays open media formats, like Ogg Vorbis and Theora, H.261, H.263,
 GIF, JPEG, PNG, RealText and SMIL using the powerful Helix DNA Client 
 Media Engine.
 .
 This package includes the mozilla plugin of the Helix Player.
 .
 Homepage: http://player.helixcommunity.org


Upstream home page:
 http://player.helixcommunity.org

Deb packages:
 http://helix.alioth.debian.org



Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Michael Schiansky
Hi Kevin!

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:18:29PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> I am seeking a sponsor for viewglob.  

Send me private email. I'll sponsor you.

Remarks:
 - md5sum of orig.tar.gz you provide differs from upstream tar.gz [1]
   e8ffcb70a2635d88dd93505a877d31fe  viewglob-0.8.4.tar.gz

 - W: viewglob: menu-command-not-in-package /usr/lib/menu/viewglob:2
   x-terminal-emulator

 - I: viewglob: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/viewglob.1.gz:40
   
 - diff.gz
   please use dpatch to manage paches on upstream source

  1. http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/viewglob/viewglob-0.8.4.tar.gz
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Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools

2004-09-03 Thread Brian Sutherland
Ok, so now after being shown a LOT of stuff I didn't know in round 1 
I would like to try again.

As a note for any potential sponsor I would like to say that the
creation of the libschoolbell package is probably the most likely source
of errors.

This package contains the .so (not .so.1) files for the corresponding
schoolbell package. They are not intended for use outside schoolbell and
are put under the /usr/lib/libschoolbell directory and symlinked into
/usr/share/schoolbell where they are needed.

The packages are now linda and lintian clean and can be found here:

http://www.schooltool.org/Members/jinty/debian_packaging/schoolbell-0.7/folder_contents


Excerpt from original RFS:

I am packaging schoolbell on behalf of upstream (Related to ITP#263088)
and seeking a sponsor.

Schoolbell is the first publicly available version of the Schooltool
server and is a stripped down version that only deals with 
calendaring and scheduling between groups.

This is the first wider release that people can actually test (The other
schooltool packages should follow soon).

Advertising plug for Schooltool:
Schooltool[1] is a project to develop an open source administration suite
for schools. It is privately funded by the shuttleworth foundation[2] and
arose out of a need for better governance of schools in South Africa
that do not have the resources for more expensive products. It is firmly
GPL with some imports from Zope (ZPL 2 or greater).

Personal opinion:
If we can improve the administration and management of schools,
especially in poor countries, even a little bit, that would be a very 
good thing.

[1] www.schooltool.org
[2] http://www.tsf.org.za/

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Re: RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-03 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 01:23:39 -0300
Luciano Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am not a Debian Developer, so I am looking for sponsorship.

  Neither I, so I cannot sponsor you, only provide some advices :)

> My packages for the following are available at:
> http://www.asciigirl.com/kubication/
> 
> It's my first complex package from the scratch . Plz, I need a sponsor
> with lots of patience :P

  From a quick read of you diff.gz file, you should:
  - rename file menu.ex to menu and fill it with the appropriate values.
  - set the appropriate Section in debian/control
 
  I'd suggest you to install lintian and linda packages and run your .changes
file through them, and solve all issues shown by them. Being linda & lintian
clean is a must for a package.
 
   regards,
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RFS: helix-player

2004-09-03 Thread Thomas Maurer
Source: helix-player
Section: graphics
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Thomas Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Uploaders: Debian Helix Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), dpatch, libglib2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, 
libpango1.0-dev, libvorbis-dev, libogg-dev, libtheora-dev, libatk1.0-dev, libx11-dev, 
libxt-dev, libice-dev, libxv-dev, libxext-dev, x-dev, libsm-dev, python, python-gtk2, 
python-numeric
Standards-Version: 3.6.1

Package: helix-player
Architecture: i386 powerpc
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: The Helix Community's open source media player
 The Helix Player is a complete, free and open source media player built 
 in the Helix Community for consumers and licensed under your choice of 
 three options: open source (RPSL), commercial community source (RCSL), 
 and the free software GNU General Public License (GPL). Built using GTK, 
 it plays open media formats, like Ogg Vorbis and Theora, H.261, H.263,
 GIF, JPEG, PNG, RealText and SMIL using the powerful Helix DNA Client 
 Media Engine.
 .
 This package includes the mozilla plugin of the Helix Player.
 .
 Homepage: http://player.helixcommunity.org


Upstream home page:
 http://player.helixcommunity.org

Deb packages:
 http://helix.alioth.debian.org


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Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools

2004-09-03 Thread Brian Sutherland
Ok, so now after being shown a LOT of stuff I didn't know in round 1 
I would like to try again.

As a note for any potential sponsor I would like to say that the
creation of the libschoolbell package is probably the most likely source
of errors.

This package contains the .so (not .so.1) files for the corresponding
schoolbell package. They are not intended for use outside schoolbell and
are put under the /usr/lib/libschoolbell directory and symlinked into
/usr/share/schoolbell where they are needed.

The packages are now linda and lintian clean and can be found here:

http://www.schooltool.org/Members/jinty/debian_packaging/schoolbell-0.7/folder_contents


Excerpt from original RFS:

I am packaging schoolbell on behalf of upstream (Related to ITP#263088)
and seeking a sponsor.

Schoolbell is the first publicly available version of the Schooltool
server and is a stripped down version that only deals with 
calendaring and scheduling between groups.

This is the first wider release that people can actually test (The other
schooltool packages should follow soon).

Advertising plug for Schooltool:
Schooltool[1] is a project to develop an open source administration suite
for schools. It is privately funded by the shuttleworth foundation[2] and
arose out of a need for better governance of schools in South Africa
that do not have the resources for more expensive products. It is firmly
GPL with some imports from Zope (ZPL 2 or greater).

Personal opinion:
If we can improve the administration and management of schools,
especially in poor countries, even a little bit, that would be a very 
good thing.

[1] www.schooltool.org
[2] http://www.tsf.org.za/

-- 
Brian Sutherland

"There has got to be more to life than just being really,
really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander


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RFS: libao-ruby

2004-09-03 Thread Stephan Beyer
Hi,

today I packaged 'ruby-audiooutput' by Rik Hemsley as libao-ruby and now
I am looking for a sponsor for the packages.

Upstream Homepage: http://rikkus.info/ruby_audiooutput.html
Description:
 Libao is a cross platform audio output library, currently supporting
 output to several `live' (oss, esd, alsa, nas, arts, null) and `file'
 (au, raw, wav) `devices'.
 [...]
This package offers Ruby bindings to libao.

The package files are lintian-clean and license is DFSG-conform.

btw, there was a discussion on debian-ruby about adding a ruby section
to Debian. When this becomes real, I'll change the section, of course,
as I'm also interested to keep it up-to-date regarding upstream releases 
and Debian issues :)

See:
  http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,libao-ruby

Thanks and best regards,
sbeyer


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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Kevin,

> Have you tested it?  I don't use KDE so
> can't do so myself.

Yes, it works for me. I have also briefly looked through the source 
package and found nothing to criticize. Unfortunately, I am not a DD 
either and can't sponsor it.

Cheers,
Stefan


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Re: RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-03 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 01:23:39 -0300
Luciano Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am not a Debian Developer, so I am looking for sponsorship.

  Neither I, so I cannot sponsor you, only provide some advices :)

> My packages for the following are available at:
> http://www.asciigirl.com/kubication/
> 
> It's my first complex package from the scratch . Plz, I need a sponsor
> with lots of patience :P

  From a quick read of you diff.gz file, you should:
  - rename file menu.ex to menu and fill it with the appropriate values.
  - set the appropriate Section in debian/control
 
  I'd suggest you to install lintian and linda packages and run your .changes
file through them, and solve all issues shown by them. Being linda & lintian
clean is a must for a package.
 
   regards,
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  33271 Asturias, SPAIN. - http://www.aic.uniovi.es/mones


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Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-03 Thread Frank Küster
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> > Does anybody have an idea why apt decides "Holding Back tetex-bin rather
>> > than change dvipdfm"? 
>> 
>> It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and
>> dist-upgrade the rest, it works fine.
>
> It looks like tetex-bin obsoletes dvipdfm.  It should conflict, provide and
> replace it.

That's what it does, and since it does the problem occured. Was I
unclear in my first mail? Indeed when updating apt first the problem
vanishes, and I guess if I'd used dselect in the first place, it just
wouldn't have occurred (at least this is my impression from woody's
release notes).

Regards, Frank
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Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie



RFS: libao-ruby

2004-09-03 Thread Stephan Beyer
Hi,

today I packaged 'ruby-audiooutput' by Rik Hemsley as libao-ruby and now
I am looking for a sponsor for the packages.

Upstream Homepage: http://rikkus.info/ruby_audiooutput.html
Description:
 Libao is a cross platform audio output library, currently supporting
 output to several `live' (oss, esd, alsa, nas, arts, null) and `file'
 (au, raw, wav) `devices'.
 [...]
This package offers Ruby bindings to libao.

The package files are lintian-clean and license is DFSG-conform.

btw, there was a discussion on debian-ruby about adding a ruby section
to Debian. When this becomes real, I'll change the section, of course,
as I'm also interested to keep it up-to-date regarding upstream releases 
and Debian issues :)

See:
  http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,libao-ruby

Thanks and best regards,
sbeyer


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Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Kevin,

> Have you tested it?  I don't use KDE so
> can't do so myself.

Yes, it works for me. I have also briefly looked through the source 
package and found nothing to criticize. Unfortunately, I am not a DD 
either and can't sponsor it.

Cheers,
Stefan


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Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-03 Thread Frank Küster
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> > Does anybody have an idea why apt decides "Holding Back tetex-bin rather
>> > than change dvipdfm"? 
>> 
>> It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and
>> dist-upgrade the rest, it works fine.
>
> It looks like tetex-bin obsoletes dvipdfm.  It should conflict, provide and
> replace it.

That's what it does, and since it does the problem occured. Was I
unclear in my first mail? Indeed when updating apt first the problem
vanishes, and I guess if I'd used dselect in the first place, it just
wouldn't have occurred (at least this is my impression from woody's
release notes).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie