Re: Bug#290489: ITP: Mosaic -- Lightweight World Wide Web browser for the X Window System.

2005-01-19 Thread Joshua Kwan
Riccardo Mottola wrote: I want to develop a new updated version of Mosaic, basing on mMosaic sources. Both original Mosaic (XMosaic) from ncsa and mMosaic at ENST are no longer actively developed by the original authors and I am not affiliated with them. You must be joking... If you want to hack on

Re: Editing history... (about debian/changelog in experimental)

2005-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:13:57PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Branden Robinson told me that he does changelog editing of past > revisions continuously for X, for reasons of being able to correctly > lookup when a certain bug was fixed. Especially typo's in bugnumber for > example can mak

Re: Bug#290362: www.debian.org: Please add Root to list of programs that cannot be packaged

2005-01-19 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:09:41PM -0500, Kevin McCarty wrote: > Could someone please add Root (http://root.cern.ch/) to the list of software > that cannot be packaged, http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package > the software contains what appears to be code derived from cernlib > (GPL) [

Re: Bug#291193: base-passwd: Users added in group audio, not seen though. No sound!

2005-01-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, David Mandelberg said: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:50:24PM +0200, lasse.simpanen wrote: > >>Package: base-passwd > >>Severity: normal > >> > >>Users can not have sound. They are added in audio group, but asked > >>'group "user" ' they seem not t

Bug#291308: ITP: flexloader -- utility to configure SRAM based ALTERA devices

2005-01-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: flexloader Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://flexloader.aurel32.net * License : GPLv2 Description : utility to configure SRAM based ALTERA devices flexloader is a sma

Re: Bug#291193: base-passwd: Users added in group audio, not seen though. No sound!

2005-01-19 Thread David Mandelberg
Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:50:24PM +0200, lasse.simpanen wrote: >>Package: base-passwd >>Severity: normal >> >>Users can not have sound. They are added in audio group, but asked >>'group "user" ' they seem not to be in that group! They are in >>/etc/group though. >>Yes, they h

Bug#290922: ITP: wxmaxima -- wxWindows interface for maxima

2005-01-19 Thread Rafa Rodríguez Galván
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: wxmaxima Version : 0.5.4 Upstream Author : Andrej Vodopivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : wxWindows interface for maxima wxmaxima provides a wxWi

How do audio players handle Windows play lists?

2005-01-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I received a bug report saying that cplay (a front-end for various audio players) doesn't handle playlists containing files such as .\foo.mp3 I explained to the bug submitter that Windows and Unix use different directory separators and that .\foo.mp3 is a valid name on Unix, but that this file ob

Re: /sbin/halt always changes its access rights

2005-01-19 Thread Maciej Dems
> Note that making random programs like "halt" setuid root might > be a serious security hole. True, better use sudo. This way you can allow to call halt only with precise arguments and have more control over who can call it. -- M.Sc. Maciej Dems [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adding Icons to Spider

2005-01-19 Thread Dale C. Scheetz
I have recently created an icon for the spider program and I have several implimentation questions. 1. Am I permitted to place an icon in /usr/share/pixmaps? What is the practice with subdirectories under pixmaps? (I did RTFM so if I just missed it please give me a reference) 2. When you add some

Re: /sbin/halt always changes its access rights

2005-01-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Otto Wyss] >> I've set the s attrtibute of halt since on my desktop any user may >> stop the system. But about each second month or so it's set back to >> it's original rights probably by a package upgrade. Is there a way

Bug#291263: ITP: gaim-otr -- Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging plugin for gaim

2005-01-19 Thread Thibaut VARENE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gaim-otr Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Authors: Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ * License : GPL v2 Description : Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging plugin fo

Bug#291261: ITP: libotr -- Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging Library and Toolkit

2005-01-19 Thread Thibaut VARENE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libotr Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Authors: Nikita Borisov and Ian Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ * License : LGPL Description : Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging Library and T

Re: Bug#290753: ITP: dgap -- driver for Digi Acceleport PCI multiport serial cards

2005-01-19 Thread Julien BLACHE
Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This will go into contrib; the sources up on Digi's support site also contain > the firmwares needed by the cards. I'll split the firmware files from the > source package to put them in non-free, where they belong. I'm currently > verifying that we can re

Re: xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-19 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* [ 19-01-05 - 15:57 ] Rudy Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El d?a 18/01/2005 a 12:53 Emanuele Rocca escribio ... > > > WNPP bugs for some of the -goodies need to be retitled from O: to ITP:. > > They wouldn't be ITA? Indeed. > > I found the time to check -battery-plugin and -clipman-

Re: xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-19 Thread Rudy Godoy
El día 18/01/2005 a 12:53 Emanuele Rocca escribio ... > WNPP bugs for some of the -goodies need to be retitled from O: to ITP:. > They wouldn't be ITA? > I found the time to check -battery-plugin and -clipman-plugin, and I > must admit that they're not in a good shape (ITP bugs not closed in t

Bug#291223: ITP: libphp-clam -- PHP bindings for libclamav

2005-01-19 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: libphp-clam Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Gareth Ardron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://freshmeat.net/projects/php-clam/ License : GPL Description : PHP bindings for libclamav A small module that

Re: LVM packages up for adoption

2005-01-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:11:09PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > Patrick, it might even be worth all 4 of us maintaining all the LVM > related packages (throwing lvm10 in with the rest), since Tim uses > multipath-tools, and none of us care much for lvm10. There is no debian kernel which lacks su

Re: LVM packages up for adoption

2005-01-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:11:50PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: > How should we coordinate this? Alioth is used for many debian work, so this should be sufficient. Bastian -- Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack, Captain. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#291204: ITP: graveman -- gtk graphical cd burning application

2005-01-19 Thread Miguel Angel Zarza
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: graveman Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Sylvain cresto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://scresto.site.voila.fr/gravemanuk.html * License : GPL Description : gtk graphical cd burning application Graphi

Re: xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050119 09:42]: > > Ok, since you're one of the administrators of [0], would you mind > > adding Simon, Rudy and me to the project? We can coordinate the work > > there. > > [0] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-xfce/ > Sure, I just need a list of your Alioth l

Processed: Re: Bug#291193: base-passwd: Users added in group audio, not seen though. No sound!

2005-01-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 291193 general Bug#291193: base-passwd: Users added in group audio, not seen though. No sound! Bug reassigned from package `base-passwd' to `general'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tr

Re: Bug#291193: base-passwd: Users added in group audio, not seen though. No sound!

2005-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
reassign 291193 general thanks On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:50:24PM +0200, lasse.simpanen wrote: > Package: base-passwd > Severity: normal > > Users can not have sound. They are added in audio group, but asked > 'group "user" ' they seem not to be in that group! They are in > /etc/group though. > Y

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:19:39AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Without devfs the syntax of e.g. /proc/partitions changes and anything > parsing those files needs to adapt back to the old syntax. That was a bad bug in Linux 2.4 and has been fixed in Linux 2.6 already, there even devfs kern

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:09:03PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > What that means is that you need to make about 2000 stat(2) calls to > get _anywhere_ near what's measurable by a human and about 2 to > start getting said human annoyed. I agree with you, but dont forget that this micro

Re: xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-19 Thread Andrew Lau
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:32:50AM +0100, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > > One thing that would get the ball moving again would be to check > > everything into a svn.debian.org tree so that almost anyone can > > chip in (just like in pkg-gnome). > > Ok, since you're one of the administrators of [0], w

pkg-octave project created at Alioth/Debian

2005-01-19 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
[N.B.: I am reposting the message below outside the thread initiated by Dirk Eddelbuettel. I apologize for the cross-posting, but I am trying to reach the most people I can.] The pkg-octave project has just been created at Alioth (alioth.debian.org), as well as a mailing list for general deve

Re: LVM packages up for adoption

2005-01-19 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:11:09PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > > My recommendation would be an LVM alioth project, w/ a svn or arch > (preferred) repository. I've kept track of lvm2 stuff in arch for a > number of years, it has worked well. > > Patrick, it might even be worth all 4 of us main

Re: xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-19 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* [ 19-01-05 - 04:53 ] Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be willing to help co-maintain them and get them back on the road > again. Cool. > One thing that would get the ball moving again would be to check > everything into a svn.debian.org tree so that almost anyone can chip in