Re: documentation types

2006-02-17 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:32:51PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > And I told you that you're wrong. There is _zero_ reference to > documentation packages, doc-base, install-docs or anything else in the > quote you replied to. It only spoke about _displaying_ the > documentation. The thread is abo

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:13:04AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Xavier Roche dijo [Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:55:57AM +0100]: > > > > Fonts or documentations are not softwares, for god's sake! > > > everything that is not hardware is software > > > > So a cat is a software, or a hardware ? Do I have t

Re: {SPAM} Question about GFDL licensed works

2006-02-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Daniel Ruoso dijo [Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:17:27PM -0300]: > Hmmm... I still didn't buy this argument... But it has been argued that > it is not the intent of this license clause and that, because of that, > it would not be enforceable, as, even the text not saying that, some > other references aro

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Michael Banck dijo [Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:22:39PM +0100]: > > > > > Fonts or documentations are not softwares, for god's sake! > > > > everything that is not hardware is software > > > > > > So a cat is a software, or a hardware ? Do I have to provide the sources > > > (the DNA full sequence) if

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Xavier Roche dijo [Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:55:57AM +0100]: > > > Fonts or documentations are not softwares, for god's sake! > > everything that is not hardware is software > > So a cat is a software, or a hardware ? Do I have to provide the sources > (the DNA full sequence) if I want to give a kit

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-02-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Thomas Bushnell BSG dijo [Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:36:11PM -0800]: > > This is not to day that Python is bad - It has better OO, which Perl > > unfortunately negletted fromt he very starts. Now, talk about Perl OO > > and that's hairy!. > > Actually, Python *also* ignored OO at the beginning. > >

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Poole
Robert Millan writes: > I see. From http://cipe-win32.sourceforge.net/ : > > "CIPE-Win32 is a port of Olaf Titz's CIPE package from Linux to Windows NT." > > I think this is the cipe-source package in debian. If this driver is already > available, there's no much point in using it via ndiswr

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-17 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 23:48 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 18:00 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > First, I couldn't find any reference to a "GPLed NDIS driver" in > > > ndiswrapper's > > > we

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 17, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see. From http://cipe-win32.sourceforge.net/ : > > "CIPE-Win32 is a port of Olaf Titz's CIPE package from Linux to Windows NT." > > I think this is the cipe-source package in debian. If this driver is already > available, there's no muc

ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-02-17 Thread Guerkan Senguen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: freebsd-manpages Version : 6.0 Upstream Author : The FreeBSD Project * URL : ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-RELEASE/manpages/ * License : see bottom Description : Manual pages for a G

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 18:00 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > [...] > > > > First, I couldn't find any reference to a "GPLed NDIS driver" in > > ndiswrapper's > > website, like Michael Poole asserts: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/

Bug#353365: ITP: gt5 -- Terminal program for visual disk usage with navigation

2006-02-17 Thread Jari Aalto
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gt5 Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Thomas Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gt5 * License : GPL Description : Terminal program for vis

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-17 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 18:00 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: [...] > > First, I couldn't find any reference to a "GPLed NDIS driver" in ndiswrapper's > website, like Michael Poole asserts: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg00381.html > I assume he was talking about the CIPE drive

raptor.debian.org down

2006-02-17 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks raptor.debian.org, the s390 developer machine, is down for general maintenance until monday. skuld, the s390 experimental autobuilder is also affected. Bastian -- There are certain things men must do to remain men. -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4929.4 si

ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:49:10AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:22 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Package: ndiswrapper > > Severity: serious > > > > This package should be in contrib, not main. > > > We've had this discussion. We're not having it again.

Re: documentation types -- use common sense

2006-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I hate to see to much dogmatism around Debian. We need to use common sense. Let's not use policy as the only guiding principle. On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:34:14AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > pe, 2006-02-17 kello 01:10 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > kirjoitti: > > Docbook/XML or

Re: documentation types

2006-02-17 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:33:47PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peńa wrote: > Show me a *documentation* package (i.e. those that install documentation > under /usr/share/doc/ and use doc-base's install-docs to register > documentation files [1]) that uses that. You are pointing me to a help >

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:09:13PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Or the search machine of the choice for those who do not trust Google. > > I think most of those types are holed up in a bunker cradling a machine > gun. Or live in China. :-)

Re: documentation types

2006-02-17 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:34:14AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > pe, 2006-02-17 kello 01:10 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > kirjoitti: > > Docbook/XML or SGML conversion to HTML is easy. Proper PS / PDF generation > > is > > not that easy (depends on toolchain and local configuration) and

Re: documentation types

2006-02-17 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:47:14AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:57:54AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Pe?a > wrote: > > > > And if the administrators choice is to not want any automatically created > > > formats, he may use a docbook program that displays it from th

Re: Draft DDP policy (was: documentation types)

2006-02-17 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:58:12AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Policy says to ship HTML, else I wouldn't. > > > > Policy is somewhat out of date with respect to documentation. There's > > actually a (draft) DDP policy which covers t

Bug#353293: ITP: littlewizard -- development environment for children

2006-02-17 Thread Kari Pahula
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: littlewizard Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Marcin Kwadrans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://littlewizard.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : developme

Bug#353279: ITP: python-numpy -- Python library that adds a fast array facility to the Python language.

2006-02-17 Thread Zufus
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-numpy Version : 0.9.5 Upstream Author : SciPy Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.numpy.org Description : Python library that adds a fast array facility to the Python language. This package c

Re: documentation types

2006-02-17 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:57:54AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peńa wrote: > > And if the administrators choice is to not want any automatically created > > formats, he may use a docbook program that displays it from the SGML or XML > > source. Why not, such a tool may exist at one time or

Re: need help with minc

2006-02-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 00:10 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hello, > > I made the mistake of adding "make check" to debian/rules. Now minc > won't build on certain architectures. It builds on i386 (my > architecture), ia64, s390, and powerpc. It fails on alpha, sparc, > mips, hppa, arm, and mi

Re: documentation types

2006-02-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 00:57 schrieb Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: > > It would be great to have a new debhelper package that creates the > > previously chosen documentation formats from the provided SGML file on > > installation. > > Debhelper? You are aware that debhelper is used on packa

Re: documentation types

2006-02-17 Thread Frank Küster
Remi Vanicat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:47:11PM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote: >>> Well, i personally like very much to have all (well a lot of) my >>> documentation accessible, and searchable by dwww. For this I would w