Bug#276614: ITP: libimage-rsvg-perl -- Perl binding for librsvg

2004-10-14 Thread Antonio S. de A. Terceiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libimage-rsvg-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Tom Schindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~tomson/Image-LibRSVG-0.04/ * License : "same as perl itself" Description : Perl binding for

Re: linux cookbook package

2004-10-14 Thread David Palmer
Nico Golde wrote: hi, i saw the linuxcookbook package is only available in stable (i mailed the maintainer why) but i noticed that the package isnt mantioned on the devel package of the maintainer: http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] can someone tell me why? regards nico:wq The second edition

Bug#276612: ITP: pstreams -- A C++ IOStream interface to POSIX Process I/O

2004-10-14 Thread Antonio S. de A. Terceiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pstreams Version : 0.48 Upstream Author : Jonathan Wakely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pstreams.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL Description : A C++ IOStream interface to POSIX Process I/O >From the P

ITP: ttf-essays -- TrueType font based on the typeface used in a 1743 English translation of Montaigne's Essays

2004-10-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 03:39, Carlos Perellà MarÃn wrote: > * Package name: ttf-essays > Description : TrueType font based on the typeface used in a > 1743 English translation of Montaigne's Essays I'm surprised somebody hasn't done this sooner. Fonts from 1743 have been out of cop

Bug#276606: ITP: libsub-override-perl -- Perl module used to temporarily override subroutines

2004-10-14 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: libsub-override-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Curtis "Ovid" Poe URL : http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/Sub/Sub-Override-0.05.tar.gz License : Perl Description : Perl module used to temporarily

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 02:11:07AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sun, Oct 10, 2004: > > >Is there a text describing the contract of packages providing > > mail-transport-agent? > > At least "All MTA packages must come with a newaliases program, even > if it

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-14 Thread Loïc Minier
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sun, Oct 10, 2004: >Is there a text describing the contract of packages providing > mail-transport-agent? At least "All MTA packages must come with a newaliases program, even if it does nothing, but older MTA packages did not do this so programs should no

linux cookbook package

2004-10-14 Thread Nico Golde
hi, i saw the linuxcookbook package is only available in stable (i mailed the maintainer why) but i noticed that the package isnt mantioned on the devel package of the maintainer: http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] can someone tell me why? regards nico:wq -- Nico Golde - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EM

Re: Common set of debconf templates

2004-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Sutherland wrote: > Ah yes, thanks. A little bit of testing confirms for me that merely > having a depends on a package (ssl-cert) is enough to be able to > register and ask questions from that package. Even on first install > on a clean chroot. > > So, it dosn't seem necessary to do any c

Re: Bug#276472: ITP: vco-plugins -- Anti-aliased oscillators

2004-10-14 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--==> Sam Hocevar writes: SH> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004, Free Ekanayaka wrote: >>* Package name: vco-plugins >>Description : Anti-aliased oscillators >> >>This plugin contains three anti-aliased oscillators, all based on the concept >>of using pre-computed band-limited Dirac pulse

Bug#276574: ITP: gnome-schedule -- GNOME scheduler for automatic tasks

2004-10-14 Thread David Moreno Garza
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gnome-schedule Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Gaute Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gnome-schedule.sf.net/ * License : GPL Description : GNOME scheduler for automatic tasks GNOME GUI for configu

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

2004-10-14 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
I think that you will find answers in debian-custom list. Adding it to CC field. El jue, 14-10-2004 a las 15:37 -0400, Mark Roach escribiÃ: > I am working on creating a package for UserLinux which will configure > several packages with sensible defaults for an authentication server. At > the mom

Right Way to make a configuration package

2004-10-14 Thread Mark Roach
I am working on creating a package for UserLinux which will configure several packages with sensible defaults for an authentication server. At the moment, that means samba, slapd, pam and nss, but will also include heimdal later on. My naive question is: is there currently any mechanism for forcin

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:09:01 +0100, paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:50:35PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> The clean way would be to build .deb files from the downloaded >> plugins, and to install them via the package management. > >I don't believe that everything can, wil

Re: ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

2004-10-14 Thread Joerg Sommer
Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 00:21, Robert Collins wrote: >> I think there is basically a general class of network event to represent >> these, and if ifupdown is taught it, and then dhcp, ppp, are >> hooked into it, the result would be fanastic. That class is lin

Re: ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

2004-10-14 Thread Joerg Sommer
Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 11, Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> why ppp provides its own mechanism of telling programs when the >> interface is coming up or down? Many programs register for the ppp >> mechanism, but not for the network mechanism. Where is the differen

Re: discover or alsa?

2004-10-14 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:37:07PM -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > For what it's worth, hotplug recently had a similar issue on a test > install for me: it actually loaded both OSS and ALSA drivers for my > soundcard. likewise for me. i've found that after a fresh debian install, one of the first

Re: Common set of debconf templates

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:16:27PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 02:30:32AM -0400, sean finney wrote: > I might be wrong, but I do not think so, if things were this way, debconf > shared questions as described in the debconf manual would never work at the > .config stage, b

Re: discover or alsa?

2004-10-14 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On mer, 2004-10-13 at 10:30 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > Lots of users are reporting that ALSA sound doesn't "just" work when > they install it. The cause of the problem is the fact that discover > loads OSS modules even when ALSA modules are available. This bug cannot > be worked around consisten

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can see your point of view here. Ironically, I've been assuming, > purely on names, that you are more likely to be living in an english > speaking country (as am I), whilst Sven might be less likely. More to the point, the issue isn't whether a well-behaved

Re: Bug#276472: ITP: vco-plugins -- Anti-aliased oscillators

2004-10-14 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > * Package name: vco-plugins > Description : Anti-aliased oscillators > > This plugin contains three anti-aliased oscillators, all based on the concept > of using pre-computed band-limited Dirac pulses to construct the classical > waveforms

Re: (Case 62217) Error

2004-10-14 Thread techsupport
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Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-14 Thread paddy
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:26:34PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:05:05PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > > But isn't volatile.d.o supposed to *be* the out-of-band mechanism > > > (whatever out-of-band means here)? > > > No. c

Re: ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

2004-10-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 14, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure I understand what you mean here. Are you saying that > there is no point in ifupdown providing the "up" command facility if the > "up" commands don't get run on reconnect as well as initial connect? Yes. It would be *completely* u

Bug#276495: ITP: fil-plugins -- A parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin

2004-10-14 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: fil-plugins Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Fons Adriaensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://users.skynet.be/solaris/linuxaudio/downloads/FIL-plugins-0.0.1.tar.bz2 * License : GPL Description : A parame

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-14 Thread paddy
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:51:43PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Any pre-existing piece of software (let's call it X) which interfaces > > with A must stay fully functional. New features may be added to A and > > might not be available via the o

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-14 Thread paddy
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:08:43PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:32:01PM +0100, paddy wrote: > > > > Hmm, deja vu ;) > > > > What happens to packages that become orphaned? > > What happens with a package orphaned from stable? As I understand it, the stable qa team man

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-14 Thread paddy
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:44:30PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: > paddy [u] wrote on 12/10/2004 18:14: > > >>If you put it that way, I have to agree with you. However, I would make > >>one restriction: > >>- packages in volatile have to keep their commandline (both input and > >> output) interfaces

Re: Brazil Summer Time

2004-10-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:50:44 -0300, > BTW, I've duploaded the glibc 2.3.2.ds1-18 which includes the latest > timezone data with Brazilian summer time changes. That version should > go to sarge, so this problem will be fixed in sarge/sid. > > Brazilian g

Re: discover or alsa?

2004-10-14 Thread Thomas Hood
Ian Murdock wrote: > I will add this support to discover2 as well, since it currently > suffers from the same problem as discover1 with respect to blacklisting > modules. Thanks. We will release a new version of alsa-base very shortly that makes use of this feature. -- Thomas Hood

Re: Common set of debconf templates

2004-10-14 Thread Agustin Martin
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 02:30:32AM -0400, sean finney wrote: > > yes, it'd have to be rebuilt with the new templates every time they were > updated, which is definitely a shortcoming. We did some sort of this in the ancient experimental dictionaries-common policy, before it was even made semi-o

Re: ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

2004-10-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 23:14, Richard A Nelson wrote: > I don't see how we can get this kind of support without ppp and dhcp > support... The two would be very similiar (the potential to get the > same address, or a new one). I am not sure I understand what you mean here. Are you saying that ther

Re: ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

2004-10-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 00:21, Robert Collins wrote: > I think there is basically a general class of network event to represent > these, and if ifupdown is taught it, and then dhcp, ppp, are > hooked into it, the result would be fanastic. That class is link events, > as opposed to interface ones. I.

Bug#276472: ITP: vco-plugins -- Anti-aliased oscillators

2004-10-14 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: vco-plugins Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Fons Adriaensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://users.skynet.be/solaris/linuxaudio/ * License : GPL Description : Anti-aliased oscillators This plugin conta

Re: Transitioning to Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR

2004-10-14 Thread Johannes Rohr
[Cc'ing to debian-devel. Maybe others want to comment on this. Firefox 1.0x is currently kept out of Sid/Sarge because most translations are not yet available. Therefore Sarge is likely to be released with Firefox 0.9.3] Hi, the latest news from my upstream is, that they are not going to releas

Bug#276456: ITP: nvu -- the complete web authoring system

2004-10-14 Thread Riccardo Setti
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: nvu Version : 0.50 Upstream Author : nvu team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nvu.com * License : Description : the complete web authoring system Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") is a comp

Re: packages.debian.org version discrepency

2004-10-14 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:06:03AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > The unstable link at http://packages.debian.org/freeguide shows > version 0.8, but http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/freeguide > shows version 0.7.2. Why is this? Should be fixed now. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PR

Re: packages.debian.org version discrepency

2004-10-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 5:06 PM, Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The unstable link at http://packages.debian.org/freeguide shows > version 0.8, but http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/freeguide > shows version 0.7.2. Why is this? gluck ({people,packages}.d.o}) became severe

Re: TG3 firmware report...

2004-10-14 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:30:04PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Perhaps I should construct a package for non-free which instructs users to > download Broadcom's driver; then unpacks it, and converts and installs the > firmware files appropriately? (I *am* sure that Broadcom permits > distribut

Re: Common set of debconf templates

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:09:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Brian Sutherland wrote: > > What about a rule that says: > > > > - If the package name is the same as the directory in the debconf database > > then use that package's templates take priority. > > - Else, as before. > > Suppose that:

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing Icon= line in menu files

2004-10-14 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> And before many people jump up and say: ooh, I have a nice PNG icon > there... Do not use them as-is. If I remember Bill's comment correctly, > the menu system is not supposed to work for anything but XPM now Oops. Forgot about that. However: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib/menu> grep icon * | grep p

Re: Possible mass bug filing: missing Icon= line in menu files

2004-10-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Nikita V. Youshchenko [Thu, Oct 14 2004, 11:14:04AM]: > I've already tried to write this to debian-qt-kde, but there was no reply. > > There are many packages that: > - do provide icons for programs they provide > - do provide files for /usr/lib/menu/ > - but don't have Icon= lines in

Bug#276445: ITP: mozilla-thunderbird-locale-ko -- Mozilla Thunderbird Korean Language/Region Package

2004-10-14 Thread Yooseong Yang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: mozilla-thunderbird-locale-ko Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : JoungKyun Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://oops.org/project/thunderbird/LanguagePack/ * License : GPL Description : Mozilla Thunderbird Kor

Bug#276442: ITP: mozilla-firefox-locale-ko -- Mozilla FireFox Korean Language/Region Package

2004-10-14 Thread Yooseong Yang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: mozilla-firefox-locale-ko Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Sukcheon Yoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://kldp.net/projects/mozilla/ * License : GPL Description : Mozilla FireFox Korean Language/Region Pa

Bug#276440: ITP: mozilla-locale-ko -- Mozilla Korean Language/Region Package

2004-10-14 Thread Yooseong Yang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: mozilla-locale-ko Version : 1.7 Upstream Author : Sukcheon Yoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://kldp.net//projects/mozilla/ * License : GPL Description : Mozilla Korean Language/Region Package (Include t

Possible mass bug filing: missing Icon= line in menu files

2004-10-14 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. I've already tried to write this to debian-qt-kde, but there was no reply. There are many packages that: - do provide icons for programs they provide - do provide files for /usr/lib/menu/ - but don't have Icon= lines in menu files. This results in unwanted visual effects, such as when a K

Re: Wanted BTS feature: subscription to individual bug reports

2004-10-14 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:37:37 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: >> > I can't find a way to track more-or-less easilly all bugs in BTS that I >> > am somewhat involved into. >> > >> >> If by 'involved' you mean submitted, then this might be useful: >> >>

Re: Common set of debconf templates

2004-10-14 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:16:09PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > But for shared/* debconf templates this means that all packages using that > template need to be rebuilt against the new template-providing package > after every change in its template contents. I think that is better to > split the