Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:12:52PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > >That, of course, when we're not busy handling unhelpful "ideas" or > >complaints from people who do not really understand what's going on. How > >many times more this same discussion is going to happen? > why do you assume I don't

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-10 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Yet another thread about cogito-vs-git, sorry folks. Just killfile me > if I've worn out your patience. > > > Still there? Great! > > > Background: I'm the guy who maintains the cogito package. I had a problem > a while back because my upstream package wanted to

shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-10 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Yet another thread about cogito-vs-git, sorry folks. Just killfile me if I've worn out your patience. Still there? Great! Background: I'm the guy who maintains the cogito package. I had a problem a while back because my upstream package wanted to install a program with the same name as a pro

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Qua, 2005-08-10 às 15:12 -0700, Erik Steffl escreveu: >well, OK but _now_ the best option is unstable. All I was saying that > IMO developers would help a lot by not using "it's just unstable" as an > excuse to break it (or sort of break it, like jackd does). I was not > asking for unstab

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way to fix security issues.

2005-08-10 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 11:10:04PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hello. > > As it is being currently discussed on debian-security [1], security team > has hard times supporting mozilla family of packages, because of > unfriendly upstream policy - they don't want to isolate security fixes

Re: Partition, LVM, and RAID management utility

2005-08-10 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:06:41PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: [...] > I suggest one of two things, or if there's time both! 1. Port partman > from debian-installer to make it a full fledged utility. 2. Port > whatever tool Red Hat uses [2] for this same task and package it for > Debian. I haven't

Re: Partition, LVM, and RAID management utility

2005-08-10 Thread Karl Chen
> On 2005-08-10 17:06 PDT, Shaun Jackman writes: Shaun> My sense of it is that there isn't a tool packaged in Shaun> Debian to fill this need -- although feel free to give Shaun> suggestions at this point. Evms is the best all-in-one tool for disk management I've found. However, D

Re: Would anybody miss bibtool-dev?

2005-08-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:41:17PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > I am working on taking over the bibtool package, QA-orphaned last > week. I find to my surprise that the source package builds not only a > 'bibtool' package, but also 'bibtool-dev' which contains a static > library. > I question t

Partition, LVM, and RAID management utility

2005-08-10 Thread Shaun Jackman
For for the first time since potato, I reinstalled Debian from scratch on my main box. Hoorah for dist-upgrade! One experience I took away from the installation is how impressed I was with partman, the debian-installer partition management tool. This was my first time using SATA, LVM, and RAID -- I

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > that's all I was saying! Don't break it intentionally and say "it's > only unstable, deal with it". There are perfectly legitimate reasons to deliberately break unstable. For example, I might choose to upgrade a new version of a shared library, knowin

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:56:21PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: ... No. Summarizing the above, experimental is there for people to break on purpose, while unstable is there for people to break by accident. Since that's all I was saying! Don't break it intentionally and s

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Em Ter, 2005-08-09 às 19:17 -0700, Erik Steffl escreveu: That is wat unstable is for. well, what is experimental for then? And what would you offer to desktop users? Stop that. That's how our release process works; using unstable (maybe even testing, for that

Bug#322473: ITP: deutex -- composition tool for doom-style WAD files

2005-08-10 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: deutex Version : 4.4.0 Upstream Author : André Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/deutex/ * License : GNU/GPL Version 2 Description : co

dobra ponuda

2005-08-10 Thread Trajan Antic
POZDRAV !!! Poštovani/a želeo bih da Vam ponudim jedan od načina kako da dodjete do puno para, za kratko vreme,na sasvim legalan i proveren način. U pitanju je jedan MLM REPORT posao kojeg ja radim već nekoliko godina i koji mi je za vr

Would anybody miss bibtool-dev?

2005-08-10 Thread Henning Makholm
I am working on taking over the bibtool package, QA-orphaned last week. I find to my surprise that the source package builds not only a 'bibtool' package, but also 'bibtool-dev' which contains a static library. I question the utility of the bibtool-dev package: - No packages depend or build-depe

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Ter, 2005-08-09 às 19:17 -0700, Erik Steffl escreveu: > > That is wat unstable is for. > >well, what is experimental for then? And what would you offer to > desktop users? Stop that. That's how our release process works; using unstable (maybe even testing, for that matter) for "common-use

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-10 Thread Philip Brown
> [1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts: > > #!/bin/sh > # Do the Solaris Dance: > if [ ! -d ~root ] ; then > exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 "$@" > fi > sigh.. okay, my "correction" had bugs, too :-) better as if [ ! -d ~root -a -x /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ] ; then -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-10 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:45:10AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > [1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts: > > #!/bin/sh > # Do the Solaris Dance: > if [ ! -d ~root ] ; then > exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 "$@" > fi Umm.. Ick it woudl be better as if [ -x /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ] ;

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Joe Smith
Basically this is a postscript file that is used more or less as a shared library. It is debians policy to have shared libraies used by more thasn one debian program to be seperated out into its own package, and linked against. That is the goal of this. Terry is mainly asking if packaging this as

Re: experimental bugs preventing testing transition?

2005-08-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > If you ask on http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=tetex-bin > why tetex-bin isn't in testing yet, one of the reasons is > # tetex-bin has release-critical bugs > Clicking on the "release-critical bugs" link brings you to a page that > o

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And actually I fail to see what the benefit is of having a small > postscript document showing me something about barcodes as a debian > package? Or am I missing something? The package I just took a > quick view at just contains a postscript file,

debian-devel@lists.debian.org

2005-08-10 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: crystalcursors Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Marco Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=6240 * License : LGPL Descripti

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 16:37 +0100, Terry Burton wrote: > I appreciate your efford, but please let me tell you, that it > is > a) highly uncommon to ask for a package sponsor without an url > to the > source packages. > > PostScript is an interpretted lan

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Terry Burton wrote: > PostScript is an interpretted language, so I fail to understand what you > mean by source packages in this context. That word is part of the Debian jargon. You need to learn the essentials of that jargon before you can effectively package anything for Debian. The main sourc

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Terry Burton
I appreciate your efford, but please let me tell you, that it isa) highly uncommon to ask for a package sponsor without an url to the   source packages.   PostScript is an interpretted language, so I fail to understand what you mean by source packages in this context.  b) your package is far from

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Dear Terry, * Terry Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050810 16:36]: > Okay. I've created a Debian package for Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript at > http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/libpostscriptbarcode.deb. > Are there any DDs willing to examine this and, if all is well, upload it >

Bug#322405: ITP: ldap-haskell -- LDAP Interface for Haskell

2005-08-10 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ldap-haskell Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen * URL : darcs get --partial http://darcs.complete.org/ldap-haskell * License : BSD Description : LDAP Inter

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Terry Burton
Okay. I've created a Debian package for Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/libpostscriptbarcode.deb .   Are there any DDs willing to examine this and, if all is well, upload it for me?     Thanks,   Tez  On 10/08/05, Terry Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
> > I would _NEVER_ recommend someone install Debian Unstable as a > > desktop... Testing, yes, Stable even more so. In my experience, sid breaks less than testing when used as a desktop. OTOH, I avoid doing apt{-get,itude} upgrade... I generally enter the interactive aptitude screen, press U, an

Re: Bug#322151: ITP: tablix -- high school timetable generator

2005-08-10 Thread Radu Spineanu
Robert Lemmen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:17:21AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > >>I should ask, though, why this program has to be tailored to high school >>timetables. It seems that the algorithms are likely already generic >>enough to be used in a number of other situations where resourc

Re: Bug#322151: ITP: tablix -- high school timetable generator

2005-08-10 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:17:21AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I should ask, though, why this program has to be tailored to high school > timetables. It seems that the algorithms are likely already generic > enough to be used in a number of other situations where resource > constraints are involv

ITA: Mac on Linux packages

2005-08-10 Thread Martin Loschwitz
We, Peter De Schrijver and me, hereby announce the intention to take over the Mac on Linux packages and maintain them in a sort of packaging group. -- .''`. Martin Loschwitz Debian GNU/Linux developer : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'` http://www.madkiss

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:56:21PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > >Where would you like us to do our work? This is exactly what unstable is > > errr... where would YOU like to work? In intentionally broken > unstable becuase "it's just unstable"? You surprise me. No. But th

Re: Bug#322151: ITP: tablix -- high school timetable generator

2005-08-10 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:54:03AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:02:17PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > > * Package name: tablix > > Version : 0.1.2 > > Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * URL : http://www.tablix.org > > * License

zlib* in incoming since ftp-master move

2005-08-10 Thread Noèl Köthe
Hello, since the move of ftp-master there are some zlib* packages staying in incoming. After the dinstall run they are still there and have file dates 2005-07-06 and 2005-07-20. Maybe they just have to be removed. thx. -- Noèl Köthe Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org signature.asc Description:

Bug#322356: ITP: kde-style-lipstik -- a purified KDE style based on Plastik

2005-08-10 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kde-style-lipstik Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Patrice Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=18223 * License : GPL De

Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager

2005-08-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Jeroen Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:30:22PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >> [Jeroen, you can be the owner of this ITP, if you wish so.] > I'm not a Debian developer, so I'm probably not a useful owner. You can maintain a package for Debian without

Re: experimental bugs preventing testing transition?

2005-08-10 Thread Nigel Jones
On 10/08/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:49:12PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > > On 10/08/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Testing and BTS version tracking haven't been updated to play properly > > > together yet. > > > > If i'm not mistaken,

Re: experimental bugs preventing testing transition?

2005-08-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:49:12PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > On 10/08/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Testing and BTS version tracking haven't been updated to play properly > > together yet. > > If i'm not mistaken, you could tag the bug etch, of course, this is a > very nasty/di

Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Terry Burton
Hi,   I have a PostScript resource that I am intending to package with the aim of getting it into Etch. There are an increasing number of front-end applications that are using this resource and each of these currently embeds their own instance of it. To prevent this duplication and effectively mana

Bug#322335: ITP: kdm-theme-krystal -- A KDM theme with the official KDE logo and crystal icons

2005-08-10 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kdm-theme-krystal Version : 0.0.20050330 Upstream Author : John Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=22390 * License : GPL

Unison

2005-08-10 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I wont to ask if there is something with the maintainer of unison. There are at least 3 important bugs where at least one of them can be fixed very easy as there is a working patch in the bug report. But nothing happens. The bugs are 309908, 3

Bug#322319: ITP: kde-wallpapers-lineartreworked -- Some reworks of the lineart background that comes with KDE 3.4.

2005-08-10 Thread Bastian Venthur
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kde-wallpapers-lineartreworked Version : 0.0.20050405 Upstream Author : Manicka Dharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=22079 * Licens

Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager

2005-08-10 Thread Jeroen Vermeulen
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:30:22PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Small, stable system add-on that continuously and automatically adapts > available virtual memory space to your actual memory needs. Claims disk > space > for use as swap space when needed; frees it up for use by the

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Erik Steffl [Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:01:16 -0700]: > mini rant debian-devel is not your blog. Please do refrain from ranting here in the future, at least while being a guest. This thread has made me want to scream. Please educate yourself about the details of our development model before

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 22:56 -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > So you're complaining that this jackd bug is exemplary of > "unneccessary" breakages in unstable, and yet you don't even know if > there is a good reason for this bug. You don't know if this is tied to > the gcc change. I believe that #

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:17 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: >well, what is experimental for then? Experimental is for stuff you DON'T plan to be in next stable. Or for stuff which could break next release (which is not case right now). F.E.: GNOME 2.6->2.8 transition was done in experimental in fi