Re: origins of the Debian logo

2005-01-28 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 15:18 +0100, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 18:01 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > In the process of completion of my book (http://debianbook.info), > > I have one more question. Unfortunately, I am on a shitty GSM link > > right now and the av

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 24 January 2005 21:01, "SR, ESC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and don't bother replying, i've unsubbed from this list. get on with > your lives and ignore this if you can't/won't deal with it - i don't > want to deal with people that will waste my time for their petty little > politics.

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:21, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  From the point of view of behaviour in Debian lists that is > intimidating to newcomers and especially people who are shy or not very > thick-skinned, the most troubling post to this thread, in my opinion, The most shy

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:26, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not believe that being thick-skinned enough to cope with people who > are very agressive or insulting should be a requirement for involvement > in Debian.  Sadly, it seems to me that this is effectively the case. >

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-28 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:03:23PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I need three things > > 1. Is result of DDP packaged in Debian as a batch? No (but could be done :-) > 2. does it support docbook sgml/xml? CVS supports anything, automatic builds do support Docbook (you have sample Xml Makefile

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:17:18PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2005-01-28 sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:36:05PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:03:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Over the past six m

Bug#292643: ITP: cl-s-xml -- simple Common Lisp XML parser

2005-01-28 Thread D. Starner
> This XML parser implementation has the following limitations: > * It does not support CDATA. > * Only supports simple character sets. What do you mean, "simple" character sets? What's the difference between a simple character set and a complex character set? -- ___

Build-Depends: libmysqlclient-dev and buildds

2005-01-28 Thread Santiago Vila
The recent announce from Steve has reminded me of something I wanted to ask about the package name change from libmysqlclient-dev to libmysqlclient12-dev made in November: Do packages still having "Build-Depends: libmysqlclient-dev" build from source? Trying "apt-get build-dep" on them results on

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2005-01-28 sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:36:05PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:03:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > [...] > > > Over the past six months, the situation has changed > > > significantly. The mysql maintainer

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-28 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:36:05PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:03:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > [...] > > Over the past six months, the situation has changed significantly. The > > mysql maintainer, mysql upstream, and others have admirably worked through > >

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-28 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:35:11PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:41:12PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > > But may I point you to the fact that Joel just > > tried to start such a discussion (albeit only in a side note to a side > > note)? You didn't show that this was irr

Bug#292667: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited autoresponder

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Sacca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: autoreply Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Giles Lean * URL : http://www.nemeton.com.au/sw/autoreply/ * License : BSD Description : A safe, rate-limited autoresponder Autoreply is a simple autoresponder u

Bug#292666: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited auto-responder

2005-01-28 Thread Christopher Sacca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: autoreply Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Giles Lean * URL : http://www.nemeton.com.au/sw/autoreply/ * License : BSD Description : A safe, rate-limited auto-responder A safe, rate-limited autoresponder au

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Küster
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [stuff] I cannot follow you, sorry. EOT. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Bug#292653: ITP: lhs2tex -- Preprocessor to generate LaTeX code from literate Haskell sources

2005-01-28 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: lhs2tex Version : 1.9 Upstream Author : Ralf Hinze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andres Loeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.cs.uu.nl/~andres/lhs2tex/ * License : GPL Description : Preprocessor

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:03:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] > Over the past six months, the situation has changed significantly. The > mysql maintainer, mysql upstream, and others have admirably worked through > the license issues to get a license exception that meets the needs of the >

Re: Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Jan-05, 04:30 (CST), Francois Bottin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those not speaking french, this is a nigerian scam... The first I > have ever received in this language, albeit very poorly written. That's sad, because the English ones are the epitomy of prose styling, not to mention a

Bug#292643: ITP: cl-s-xml -- simple Common Lisp XML parser

2005-01-28 Thread Luca Capello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: cl-s-xml Version : 3+cvs.2005.01.27 Upstream Author : Sven Van Caekenberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://common-lisp.net/project

Bug#292645: ITP: gnomeradio -- FM radio tuner for GNOME

2005-01-28 Thread Dan Korostelev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dan Korostelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gnomeradio Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : JÃrgen Scheibengruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mfcn.ilo.de/gnomeradio/ * License : GPL Description : FM radio tu

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:41:12PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All the rational discussion has always been about what constitutes > > 'hiding', > > I have also read discussion about what we promise not to hide (before > our users, and before fell

Re: Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Küster
Francois Bottin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Selon Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> So you think spam is the revenge for colionalism? Lucky Germans, we. >> >> Namibian scam, anybody? I forgot to put some irony indicators here. > Hum... From your signature I guess you are from Switzerland

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I seem to have lost the mail I tried to send last time, rewriting. > Could you please consider contributing this to the DDP and adding it to the > DDP CVS? I'd rather not have Debian Documentation in all sort of different > places, specially documentation written by DDs. And the DDP is the

Re: try to keep a watch file into your package

2005-01-28 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--==> bluefuture writes: b> Il giorno mer, 26-01-2005 alle 09:02 +0100, Free Ekanayaka ha scritto: >>Thanks for this effort. >> >>Would it make sense to support queries of dehs by maintainer email >>address? >> >>This ways it would be easier for people to check the status of

Re: Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread Francois Bottin
Selon Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So you think spam is the revenge for colionalism? Lucky Germans, we. > > Namibian scam, anybody? Hum... From your signature I guess you are from Switzerland and do not know a lot about german history, but you should know that at a time in history Germany

Re: Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Küster
Francois Bottin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> > For those not speaking french, this is a nigerian scam... The first I have >> > ever received in this language, albeit very poorly written. >> >> Probably some automated translation, like the german variants are. > > Perhaps, but I don't think so i

eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Previously, a number of packages have had to continue to link against libmysqlclient10 in spite of the availability of libmysqlclient12 libraries from upstream's MySQL 4.0 release. Some of these have been due to the lack of a clear license exemption allowing libmyslqclient12 to be linked from GPL-

Re: Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread Francois Bottin
Selon Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Francois Bottin wrote: > > Selon etse hellene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > Bonjour Monsieur, > > > > > > > For those not speaking french, this is a nigerian scam... The first I have > > ever received in this language, albeit very poorly written. >

Re: Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Francois Bottin wrote: > Selon etse hellene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Bonjour Monsieur, > > > > For those not speaking french, this is a nigerian scam... The first I have > ever > received in this language, albeit very poorly written. Probably some automated translation, like the german va

Re: try to keep a watch file into your package

2005-01-28 Thread Bluefuture
>What do you do with packages that have uncooperative upstream and thus >a watch file is not possible? > >apg's web host, for example, doesn't support directory listings, so I >had to resort on checking the fingerprint of the download web page to >find out whether there is a new release. > >Greetin

Re: try to keep a watch file into your package

2005-01-28 Thread Bluefuture
Il giorno mer, 26-01-2005 alle 09:02 +0100, Free Ekanayaka ha scritto: > Thanks for this effort. > > Would it make sense to support queries of dehs by maintainer email > address? > > This ways it would be easier for people to check the status of their > own packages. This functionality is

Re: Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread Francois Bottin
Selon etse hellene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Bonjour Monsieur, > For those not speaking french, this is a nigerian scam... The first I have ever received in this language, albeit very poorly written. François. -- Francois BOTTIN -- "How kind," the PFY sighs. "But where will I go?" "S

Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread etse hellene
Bonjour Monsieur, Je suis une des  Responsable des billets d'échange au Département des  Remises internationales  dans une Banque.  J'écris pour solliciter votre aide et assistance pour effectuer une transaction confidentielle. J’ai découvert un compte abandonné d’une somme de 11.500.000 dollar

Re: Bug#292183: ITP: gtkpizza -- Pizza takeaway managment program written in gtk

2005-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 17:08 +0100, Guglielmo Dapavo wrote: > * URL : http://www.dapavo.it/ Sounds like an interesting project, but there's nothing there apart from a zope icon. I googled a bit but www.gtkpizza.org seems to be a domain name search holding page. Is there a homepage somew

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jan 28, 2005

2005-01-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:15:21AM +0100, Daniel van Eeden wrote: > The triggered tests: > AWL, BAYES_00, J_CHICKENPOX_13, J_CHICKENPOX_24, J_CHICKENPOX_32, > J_CHICKENPOX_33, J_CHICKENPOX_41, J_CHICKENPOX_44, J_CHICKENPOX_51, > J_CHICKENPOX_63, J_CHICKENPOX_65, J_CHICKENPOX_81, NO_REAL_NAME, TW_BD

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jan 28, 2005

2005-01-28 Thread Daniel van Eeden
My ISP's spamassasin tags the work-needing emails as spam. It is very easy to lower the spam score. One of the triggered testsis NO_REAL_NAME witch is extremely easy to circumvent. The triggered tests: AWL, BAYES_00, J_CHICKENPOX_13, J_CHICKENPOX_24, J_CHICKENPOX_32, J_CHICKENPOX_33, J_CHICKENPOX_

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-28 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:54:07AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I was kind of waiting for inclusion into the developers reference, > but the text format is different. > > libpkg-guide is written in docbook XML while > developers reference is written in DebianDoc SGML. Could you please conside