Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:15:31PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective > > Packages wrote: > > >judy (#172772), orphaned 210 days ago > > > Description: C

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective > Packages wrote: > >py-xmlrpc (#161224), orphaned 296 days ago > > Description: Implementation of the XML-RPC protocol for Python > > Let me guess.

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective > Packages wrote: > >judy (#172772), orphaned 210 days ago > > Description: C library for creating and accessing dynamic arrays > > Reverse Depe

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Work Needing Prospective > Packages wrote: > >gnome-objc (#165642), orphaned 263 days ago > > Description: objective-c bindings for gtk/gnome (obs.) > > Reverse Depends:

Re: Package removals and the BTS

2003-07-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:34:47PM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: > - The BTS is made aware of this, e.g. by having it possible to file a > bug against two packages at once. This is already possible, but it isn't displayed quite properly because of some indexing problems. I hope this can be fixed at

Re: Package removals and the BTS

2003-07-11 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:34:47PM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: [...] > However, for other people browsing the BTS, and for orphaned > packages, it would be much nicer if there was a bug filed against the > package itself, or some remark on bugs.debian.org/package that its > removal is requested. Ther

Package removals and the BTS

2003-07-11 Thread Lukas Geyer
Hi all, I was looking for old posts, because I was sure that this must have been discussed before, but I could not find any. When a package removal is requested, there is a bug filed against ftp.debian.org. Following procedures, the maintainer should also know about it (either filing it himself o

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread John Paul Wallington
> But apparently I was under the wrong impression about which branch of > Emacs development was going to be released. I committed calc to what > was HEAD at the time, and I thought that was going to become 21.3, but > there was a different branch slated for release. Anyways, calc will be > in 21.

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:32:01AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 11-Jul-03, 02:21 (CDT), Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Because it's damn near impossible to get the things removed. > > Huh? Submit a bug report against ftp.debian.org, and ask that the > package be removed

Re: Package signatures tools

2003-07-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:47:10PM +0200, J?rgen A.Erhard wrote: > I'm releasing these things now... have them in development and use for > a couple weeks/months now. > > A Python module for doing debsigs-type package signatures and > verification thereof. Uses and included module for GnuPG file

Re: Package signatures tools

2003-07-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:47:10PM +0200, J?rgen A.Erhard wrote: > I'm releasing these things now... have them in development and use for > a couple weeks/months now. > > A Python module for doing debsigs-type package signatures and > verification thereof. Uses and included module for GnuPG file

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:34:23PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > So, you mean, this is not the package our users should be looking at > when they search for a VoIP application? It's not only orphaned but > not even used? *HINT* *HINT* It would be nice to see some popularity-contest data

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 03:13, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I use this package, and am interested in adopting it, except > that I note that Colin Walters states that: > > > I am orphaning the calc package; it is now included in the GNU Emacs > > > > CVS, and will be in the coming

Re: Kernel question: initrd/cramfs

2003-07-11 Thread Nenad Antonic
Jean Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There no ext2 nor ext3 modules on your initrd.img-2.4.22-pre3c0, are > those filesystems compiled in the kernel ? ext2 is compiled in the kernel: CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y After a few days, let me summarise: a) 2.4.21 kernel as it is in debian kernel-sour

Package signatures tools

2003-07-11 Thread Jürgen A . Erhard
I'm releasing these things now... have them in development and use for a couple weeks/months now. A Python module for doing debsigs-type package signatures and verification thereof. Uses and included module for GnuPG file signatures and verification. It also includes a miniscript that, given a .

Bug#200892: ITP: xd3d -- Visualization tool for 2D and 3D unstructured meshes

2003-07-11 Thread Denis Barbier
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-11 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xd3d Version : 8.0.1 Upstream Author : Francois Jouve * URL : http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/~jouve/xd3d/ * License : GPL Description : Visualization tool for 2D a

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:34:23PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > >gphone (#161708), orphaned 293 days ago > > > > Description: X/GTK-based internet telephone. > > > > > I'd thought there'd be more people int

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:32:01AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Huh? Submit a bug report against ftp.debian.org, and ask that the > package be removed. What's so hard about it? I wish it would be that easy. I haven't read the thread, but I'm willing to bet someone has already declared me

Re: debian packages for openoffice 1.1beta?

2003-07-11 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:02:46PM +0530, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote: > Are there any .debs available for openoffice 1.1 beta? Has nyone made >them? >package list in unstable/editors has openoffice 1.0.3 only. Have a look at experimantel ... ;) Jan -- .''`.Jan-Hend

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > >gphone (#161708), orphaned 293 days ago > > > Description: X/GTK-based internet telephone. > > > I'd thought there'd be more people interested in this kind of thing... > > There's newer, vastly more widely impleme

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >gphone (#161708), orphaned 293 days ago > > Description: X/GTK-based internet telephone. > I'd thought there'd be more people interested in this kind of thing... There's newer, vastly more widely implemented stan

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:16:30PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > Aside from the joke, we are talking about a package available also > > for Debian GNU/_Linux_, aren't we? > > Fine, but then it can't be task-gnu-_only_.. maybe task

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I can't believe that the QA people can say, with a straight face, > that they are willing to maintain this pile of dung until someone > shows up. If we have so many maintainers and there are more at the > burg's doors pili

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Anand Kumria wrote: > >10 bug fixed > > 100 million users > > Hmm... That is very much people. That is about 150 times more than the > number of people on this planet. Give the world time. The population is still increasing. Just planning for the future. :-

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >py-xmlrpc (#161224), orphaned 296 days ago > > Description: Implementation of the XML-RPC protocol for Python > > Let me guess... the snake lovers came up with something better? py-xmlrpc is integrated into the Python

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Lukas Geyer
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >wavtools (#155263), orphaned 342 days ago > > Description: WAV play, record, and compression > > Just like sox! Not really... Well, wavtools is a pile of crap, as detailed by Daniel Kobras in #97589. I just filed for its removal.

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:21:18PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > At 9:13 pm, Friday, July 11 2003, Craig Sanders mumbled: > > you're all making a big mistake. those numbers were obviously binary, not > > decimal. > > > 2 architectures? Rght. Little endian and big endian. Or CISC and

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:58:54 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > One question: what's the point? Surely you want the best, not > > > necessarily the GNU version (which might be an incredi

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-11 Thread Mathieu Roy
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:58:54 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:31:39AM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > > > Dan Jacobson (2003-06-28 07:57:55 +0800) : > > > > Gentlemen, after I installed "Debian GNU/Linux", I found I had to > > > >

RE: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Steve Greenland wrote: > Or perhaps we should just decree that no unmaitained packages go out > in a stable release. At the beginning of the freeze, mark all the WNPP > packages for removal (along with their dependencies :-)), and then see > if we can inspire some reaction. Good idea! An even bet

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Steve Greenland
On 11-Jul-03, 02:21 (CDT), Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because it's damn near impossible to get the things removed. Huh? Submit a bug report against ftp.debian.org, and ask that the package be removed. What's so hard about it? I suppose there might be an issue the original ma

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 9:13 pm, Friday, July 11 2003, Craig Sanders mumbled: > you're all making a big mistake. those numbers were obviously binary, not > decimal. > 2 architectures? Rght. -- Steve advice to insomniacs: autoconf macro references can be coma-

debian packages for openoffice 1.1beta?

2003-07-11 Thread Guntupalli Karunakar
Hi, Are there any .debs available for openoffice 1.1 beta? Has nyone made them? package list in unstable/editors has openoffice 1.0.3 only. Regards, Karunakar -- A Reasonable man adapts himself to the world An Unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself So all progress in the world dep

Re: Bug#200770: ITP: ladcca -- linux audio developers configuration and connection API

2003-07-11 Thread guenter geiger
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2003 18:35, Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) wrote: > > * URL : http://www.some.org/ > > * License : GPL2 > > Description : linux audio developers configuration and connection API > > > > LADCCA is a session ma

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:10:33PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:11:13AM +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote: > | > 100 million users > | > 1000 installations > | > | I would recommend to exchange these last two lines. More installations > | than users? > > If yo

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >junit-freenet (#165504), orphaned 264 days ago > > Description: basic reimplementation of the JUnit unit testing > > framework > > Ah... Java... >From the author: This is a basic reimplementation of the JUnit unit

Bug#200855: ITP: jack-rack -- LADSPA plugin rack

2003-07-11 Thread Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU)
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-11 Severity: wishlist * Package name: jack-rack Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Bob Ham * URL : http://pkl.net/~node/jack-rack.html * License : GPL Description : LADSPA plugin rack Jack Rack is a LAD

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:44:12AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:44:06PM -0400, James Michael Greenhalgh wrote: > > > > > > > 100 million users > > > > > 1000 installations > > > > > > > > I would recommend to exchange these last two lines. More installation

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Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >docbook-to-man (#154590), orphaned 347 days ago > > Description: Converter from DocBook SGML into roff -man macros > > Reverse Depends: gtk-doc-tools > > If gtk-doc-tools depends on this, perhaps the GTK+ fol

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >g5 (#165500), orphaned 264 days ago > > Description: gtk-based 5-in-a-row game > > Not an attractive one? It's still gtk1 and uses O and X characters to display the pieces, so "not attractive" is probably the correct description.

Bug#200851: ITP: opengroupware.org -- Groupware server to integrate with office suite products and groupware clients

2003-07-11 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-11 Severity: wishlist * Package name: opengroupware.org Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.opengroupware.org/ * License : GPL, LGPL Description : Groupware server to in

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:36:22PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: *SNIP* >10 bug fixed > 100 million users Hmm... That is very much people. That is about 150 times more than the number of people on this planet. > 1000 installations > 1 lines of code > > I'd welcome any fee

Re: Bug#200793: ITP: libdaemon -- leightweight C library for daemons

2003-07-11 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:55:49AM +0100, Stephen Quinney wrote: > I suspect 'leightweight' is not the spelling you want. The correct > english spelling is lightweight if you mean "something that weighs > relatively little or less than average" Thanks, I'll change that. It was copied and pasted f

Bug#200843: ITP: libdata-hexdump-perl -- dump data as hexadecimal values

2003-07-11 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-11 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libdata-hexdump-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Fabien Tassin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/FTASSIN/ * License : "same terms

Nowa dystrybucja

2003-07-11 Thread Grzegorz Zalewski
Czy znana jest data (nawet przybliżona) wydania kolejnej wersji stabilnej (3.0r2) debiana ? Jeśli tak to prosiłbym o jej podanie. Pozdrawiam serdecznie, Grzegorz Zalewski Luc Besson zaprasza na najszybszą komedię lata "TAXI 3" < http://fil

Re: Bug#200793: ITP: libdaemon -- leightweight C library for daemons

2003-07-11 Thread Stephen Quinney
I suspect 'leightweight' is not the spelling you want. The correct english spelling is lightweight if you mean "something that weighs relatively little or less than average" Stephen Quinney On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:57:15PM +0200, Oliver Kurth wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; repo

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >judy (#172772), orphaned 210 days ago > > Description: C library for creating and accessing dynamic arrays > > Reverse Depends: libjudy-dev > I thought that bogus bogofilter depended on this for building... Iirc (but I only fol

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:49:46 +0200, Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> calc (#175399), orphaned 186 days ago Description: An advanced >> calculator and mathematical tool for Emacs Reverse Depends: >> riece-ndcc > Maybe the maintainer of riece-ndcc cares about this? I use

list-rc.d

2003-07-11 Thread Calvin Wong
i have this simple shell script called list-rc.d hosted here http://mirrorlynx.com/download.php it doesnt do what chkconfig does but its usefull for doing something like chkconfig --list on redhat. - calvin Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux (Unknown source)

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I won't apologize for the long email. When I started writing this I > hoped it would be rather short. The fact that it isn't only tells me > that I was right -- about two years ago. I can't believe that the QA > people ca

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi folks, I won't apologize for the long email. When I started writing this I hoped it would be rather short. The fact that it isn't only tells me that I was right -- about two years ago. I can't believe that the QA people can say, with a straight face, that they are willing to maintain th

Deconf and shared questions

2003-07-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Now that the focus is turning onto debconf'ing packages, I am going to ask a question that has been plaguing me whenever I start thinking about debconfing some of my packages. I have at least two packages now (dist and mailagent) that can use, and thus care about, the organ