Re: Packaging swftools for Debian

2005-12-16 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:24:25AM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > I was wondering, if anybody has been working on getting swftools > (http://www.swftools.org/) into Debian? Apparently, not recently. > There seems to be an old RFP > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=187275 which has >

Packaging swftools for Debian

2005-12-16 Thread Simo Kauppi
Hi, I just joined the list, so I'm sorry if this a FAQ or has been recently discussed. I was wondering, if anybody has been working on getting swftools (http://www.swftools.org/) into Debian? There seems to be an old RFP http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=187275 which has been clos

Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-16 Thread Christian Perrier
(reply-to: debian-boot) The eigth Debian Installer team meeting was held from 21:00UTC to 22:24UTC on Wednesday December 14th 2005. There were about 80 people connected to the channel during the meeting and 17 of them spoke during the meeting at least once. The full log of the meeting is availab

Bug#343670: ITP: nautilus-actions -- a nautilus extension to configure programs to launch

2005-12-16 Thread Christine Spang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christine Spang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nautilus-actions Version : 0.99 Upstream Author : Frederic Ruaudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.grumz.net/index.php?q=node/8 * License : GPL Description :

Re: curso interativo maq.HP12 c

2005-12-16 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
English speakers: Hector is asking about a course on a specific HP calculator. I am telling him debian-devel has nothing to do with it, and also explaining he should use English. Em Sex, 2005-12-16 às 17:14 -0200, Hector escreveu: > Prezados senhores:Como poderia ter acesso a este curso,com > mate

Re: urgency='low' testing propogation only 5 days for gtk+2.0?

2005-12-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:10:11PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > It is my understanding that an urgency='low' upload defines a 10 day > delay in testing propogation, unless overridden by hints. > > However, yesterday's gtk+2.0 upload indications only a 5 day delay. > Why? > > http://packages.qa.d

Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>Mh, what's "more gracefully" in the light of fs corruption? > return -EIO; In this case you wouldn't even be able to read data from the disk which is not affected by the inconsistencies. If the FS driver switches to readonly mode, that's possible at least. Personally I like

urgency='low' testing propogation only 5 days for gtk+2.0?

2005-12-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
It is my understanding that an urgency='low' upload defines a 10 day delay in testing propogation, unless overridden by hints. However, yesterday's gtk+2.0 upload indications only a 5 day delay. Why? http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gtk+2.0.html Please Cc me. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
a bug in gtkpod or the kernel (FS Panic). >>>Maybe an FS error on your iPod? Did you try to reformat or dosfsck it? >> Even then, the filesystem code should handle corrupt filesystems more >> gracefully. > >Mh, what's "more gracefully" in the light of fs corruption? return -EIO; thro

Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> a bug in gtkpod or the kernel (FS Panic). >>Maybe an FS error on your iPod? Did you try to reformat or dosfsck it? > Even then, the filesystem code should handle corrupt filesystems more > gracefully. Mh, what's "more gracefully" in the light of fs corruption? The driver

Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> I have Debian Sid with 2.6.15-rc5, I wonder if this could be either with a >> bug in gtkpod or the kernel (FS Panic). > >Maybe an FS error on your iPod? Did you try to reformat or dosfsck it? Even then, the filesystem code should handle corrupt filesystems more gracefully. Jan Engelhardt --

Re: debian-menu vs. .desktop

2005-12-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:51:13PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Thomas Viehmann wrote: > >P.S.: Could someone give me a pointer about moving to .desktop and why > >it is/was considered a bad idea? (Or if it's just a not worth it/noone > >has time issue...) > > I believe it was considered a goo

debian-menu vs. .desktop

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Thomas Viehmann wrote: >P.S.: Could someone give me a pointer about moving to .desktop and why >it is/was considered a bad idea? (Or if it's just a not worth it/noone >has time issue...) I believe it was considered a good idea by everyone and the consensus was that it should be done in the long ru

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-12-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:03:47PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Bernd? I dont like the prposed solution, i am looking for a more generic one. The pressing problem is to display IPV6 netstat on 80char widt correctly without truncation (#254243). I guess this will require some changes to the

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Well, after looking at http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/ , >> I concur that it's as good a general interface to buildd status as >> buildd.net, >> and much better than the http://buildd.debian.org/ interface. > >Where did you find that url? In a random maili

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think it would be nice if the reasons for long-standing packages >hanging around in the NEW queue were documented publicly, but I do >think in these cases the maintainers actually know the reasons. Well, you're right in the case of Christian Marill

curso interativo maq.HP12 c

2005-12-16 Thread Hector
Prezados senhores:Como poderia ter acesso a este curso,com material/apostilas e ou manual de forma a poder utilizar basicamente e corretamente esta calculadora financeira e seus recursos? Desde já,obrigado pela atenção Héctor

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Russ Allbery wrote: >Assuming that what you say above is correct and FFMPEG is the only issue >(and I have no reason to doubt you), And if it's not, it would be really nice if the ftpmasters let someone know. > I agree that xvidcap and ffmpeg >should be treated the same. However, that is not evid

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-12-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 11/29/05, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/29/05, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:08:23PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > And nearly four months later, the package has 92 bugs, 16 with patch > > > and a lot even without a single

Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2005 18:19 schrieben Sie: > |>Actually. Issue fixed. It is really odd that a dosfsck fixed it. I'm glad it helped. :-) > |i dont see how that is odd.. if the filesystem was somehow corrupted > |dosfsck would have corrected it. > Odd how it got "corrupted" and odd on w

RE: Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Bonilla, Alejandro
|On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 10:32 -0600, Bonilla, Alejandro wrote: |> Gunter, |> |> Actually. Issue fixed. It is really odd that a dosfsck fixed it. |i dont see how that is odd.. if the filesystem was somehow corrupted |dosfsck would have corrected it. Odd how it got "corrupted" and odd on why i

RE: Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 10:32 -0600, Bonilla, Alejandro wrote: > Gunter, > > Actually. Issue fixed. It is really odd that a dosfsck fixed it. i dont see how that is odd.. if the filesystem was somehow corrupted dosfsck would have corrected it. > ;-) > > Thanks, > > .Alejandro > > ||Alejandr

Re: AgSync

2005-12-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 16 December 2005 16.49, Robin wrote: > Is AgSync still being actively developed for Debian ? > I have searched for info and this is the only place I have seem an > info for AgSync... Looking at the changelog of the Debian package (

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:02:01PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > (The contact addresses and machine up/down statuses are a valuable part of > > buildd.net which *isn't* there, but that's another matter entirely, which > > requires different and additional work.) > The graphs are also no

RE: Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Bonilla, Alejandro
Gunter, Actually. Issue fixed. It is really odd that a dosfsck fixed it. ;-) Thanks, .Alejandro ||Alejandro Bonilla wrote: ||> I have Debian Sid with 2.6.15-rc5, I wonder if this could be ||either with a ||> bug in gtkpod or the kernel (FS Panic). || ||Maybe an FS error on your iPod?

Re: Removing gtksee package

2005-12-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 12 December 2005 14.48, Nico Golde wrote: > So what do you think should I request a removal or wait for > an adopter? Upstream dead, a few annoying bugs, replacements available in Debian. I think quite a clear case. Since it still works, I would not do the wrapper thing Goswin sugges

Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > I have Debian Sid with 2.6.15-rc5, I wonder if this could be either with a > bug in gtkpod or the kernel (FS Panic). Maybe an FS error on your iPod? Did you try to reformat or dosfsck it? Greetings, Gunter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

[EMAIL PROTECTED] offline

2005-12-16 Thread Mark Purcell
I'm moving house and am told it could be 15 days before I have broadband on at the new location. So I maybe offline for the duration. Please NMU as necessary, but include the details in the BTS. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

AgSync

2005-12-16 Thread Robin
Is AgSync still being actively developed for Debian ? I have searched for info and this is the only place I have seem an info for AgSync... Thanks in advance :)

make-kpkg

2005-12-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi, I see that the new make-kpkg creates a linux-image which now goes along with the debian names that moved from kernel-image to linux-image. Cool. One thing is that I do a lot, is to test linux-2.6-git, and making different kernel names for the kernels is really a pain, even I would have to edi

RE: Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Bonilla, Alejandro
|Alejandro Bonilla wrote: |> I have Debian Sid with 2.6.15-rc5, I wonder if this could be |either with a |> bug in gtkpod or the kernel (FS Panic). | |Maybe an FS error on your iPod? Did you try to reformat or dosfsck it? I doubt it, I mean, it works well in Windows and while playing. It is only

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So for various reasons the buildd.net status code is not considered ready > to be integrated on buildd.debian.org, either by its author or by its > maintainer or by Ryan Murray. Fine, I understand. > > Well, after looking at http://buildd.debian.org

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to congratulate our ftp-master team on their ability to timely > process packages progressing through the NEW queue. > > [1] > > I think you are an excellent example of people who are too busy for Debian. >

gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi, I have Debian Sid with 2.6.15-rc5, I wonder if this could be either with a bug in gtkpod or the kernel (FS Panic). Whenever I try to sync my Ipod it comes up and says the FS is Write-Procteted or Read-Only. (This is on the gtkpod interface) "Error opening '/media/IPOD/iPod_Control/Music/F15/g

Re: named pipes programming problem

2005-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > > I'm new to the group and am seeking your advice on my Debian Linux C++ > programming problem with named pipes. > > Two programs are involved. One is myProgram.cc, which reads user's > input from keyboard and prints to the screen. The other program > is main.

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Ok, lets take an example: Where is the source thrown at you for >> www.debian.org? > >> It isn't. You have to ask around, get to know or dig deep along the >> links to find cvs.debian.org. > > Funny, I

Re: Removing gtksee package

2005-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The package is in a fairly good state but has some annoying > bugs [1]. So I played a bit with gqview which seems be a > good replacement. It has all features gtksee has and a bit > more. Would it be possible to add a wraper for gqview that translates t

Re: Packages-arch-specific

2005-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:52:04AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:53:47AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > >> >> Again: what can I do with such a list? See the list below. > >> > Ch

etch release plan (was Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team)

2005-12-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:06, A Mennucc wrote: > In my opinion, considering that the release of etch is 15 months away, Please don't consider this :) No matter whether it's a lack of knowledge or disbelieving in the etch release plan (a la "it's scheduled for december so it will becom

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:24:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Much worse, there are a couple of cases where we had to NMU the > packages, either because the maintainers where inactive, or in one case > because he said "no time here, just go ahead". Except for this one case > this couldn't have b

Suggestions for vrms package?

2005-12-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, people. I'm currently one of the maintainers of the "virtual Richard M. Stallman" package (vrms), whose purpose is to indicate to the user which packages installed in his system are not Free Software. The package had active development up to 2002 and, then, it wasn't given so much atten

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:43:05AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Anthony Towns wrote: >> > If your package isn't going to be suitable for release; it should probably >> > be in experimental instead, which is even autobuilt these days. There's >> > almost no reason to have