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2006-04-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 22 Apr 2006, Loïc Minier outgrape: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> There are two use cases that any pager directive must address: >> 1) The program is going to generate output which must be piped to >> a pager >> 2) The program want to send a file to the user. > I agree that

Soliciting keys for the debconf6 keysigning party in Oaxtepec

2006-04-22 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
Hello, This is the second call for keys for the debconf6 keysigning party in Oaxtepec. In less than two weeks is the last date to send your key(s). If you intend to participate in the debconf6 keysigning party in Oaxtepec, please send your ascii armored public key as explained at [0] or, alterna

bug reopen

2006-04-22 Thread Andrew Donnellan
reopen 142164 thanks Spammers. Mess it up for everyone, -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Member of Linux Australia - http://linux.org.au Debian user - http://debian.org Get free rewards - http://e

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. [...] > My guess is that there is an ABI change involved and thus I have to > rename the package to libgtkdatabox-0.5.2.0-X . My question is: > What is the right choice for 'X' if I skipped several upstrea

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:10:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. Until now there > was no request for an update of the upstream version and I had > personal reasons to stay with an outdated version. Now I was > asked to package the latest ve

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Joe Smith wrote: > > "Andreas Tille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Hi, >> >> I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. Until now there >> was no request for an update of the upstream version and I had >> personal reasons to stay with an outdated version.

Bug#364360: ITP: kwin-style-crystal -- semi transperant window decoration

2006-04-22 Thread Sune Vuorela
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kwin-style-crystal Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Sascha Hlusiak spam84 (at) gmx.de * URL : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13969 * License : GPL, LGPL

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Joe Smith
"Andreas Tille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. Until now there was no request for an update of the upstream version and I had personal reasons to stay with an outdated version. Now I was asked to package the late

[Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. Until now there was no request for an update of the upstream version and I had personal reasons to stay with an outdated version. Now I was asked to package the latest version and the library is probably not important enough to keep different v

Re: libglew1: Newer upstream version is available

2006-04-22 Thread Arnaud Quette
2006/4/22, Marcelo E. Magallón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 4/22/06, Joost Yervante Damad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > An 1.3.4 package is about to be uploaded by Marcello. > > Actually I did upload it on Friday morning... didn't it make to the > archive? *sigh* seems not! I've quickly done some

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-22 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Sat, Apr 22, 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Please read again the original report, the submitter wanted to have > > a pipe of commands in $PAGER, he said this worked in the past, and > > works on other distros. He did not want to simply be able to use > > $PAGER on a file or to

Re: Bug#364317: ITP: weather-util -- command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

2006-04-22 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 08:02:20PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > You might (with your upstream hat on) take a look at (python-)pymetar, > a nice python module that can retrieve METAR data from all around the > world. Thanks! I actually looked at it before I started writing my util, and it looks

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:29:06PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > We would still need a way to reset the set of keyword of this > > > email when the maintainer changes. > > > > Or have simpler rules: you can't change the set of key

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-22 Thread Jeff Stevens
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 09:57 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Amateur radio is the dumb name, for people who are confused by > what the practioners call it -- HAM radio. Perhaps, as others have suggested, this is a locale specific issue. In the US, you won't find "ham" in the FCC rules [1

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Henning Makholm wrote: > I don't care much for mouse clicks, but "80x25 characters and a 8-bit > font" The debian installer uses a unicode font on systems where the kernel supports it (which for i386 systems, is most of them). -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#4222: dig in the wrong package?

2006-04-22 Thread Derek
I just apt-get installed dnsutils on Sarge 3.1 and dig was included,   but I am using a NZ deb mirror   - derek

Re: Bug#364317: ITP: weather-util -- command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

2006-04-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 05:36:29PM +, The Fungi wrote: > * Package name: weather-util > Description : command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and > forecasts > > This utility is intended to provide quick access to current weather > conditions and forecasts. Presently, it is

Bug#364317: ITP: weather-util -- command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

2006-04-22 Thread The Fungi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeremy Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: weather-util Version : 1.1-1 Upstream Author : Jeremy Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://fungi.yuggoth.org/weather/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python D

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 22 April 2006 01:27, Henning Makholm wrote: > I don't care much for mouse clicks, but "80x25 characters and a 8-bit > font" is a very low common denominator for the amount of text one can > show on the screen when selecting packages or answering complex > debconf questions. The 8-bit-ne

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And for those who still are complaining about the installer not being > graphical: please, guys, there's more than your x86 machines. Keep that > in mind. And where is the difference between a mouse click and a return > key (yes, it's - mostly - that

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would be in favor of a tighter integration between the PTS and the > @packages.debian.org email address too for example. > > I could implement a default subscription to the PTS for package > maintainers but you first need to solve several problems:

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 22 Apr 2006, Loïc Minier spake thusly: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 363250 is more about documenting the semantics of $PAGER (whether >>> it can uses sh syntax, or whether it's a command with parameters >>> separated with spaces), to be documented in man man, and/or >>>

Re: Bug#358695: ITP: latex-utils -- utilities for LaTeX/xfig

2006-04-22 Thread Nikolaus Schulz
Hello Vincent, In linux.debian.devel, you wrote: > I retry: > > Package name : latex-compile Hmm, IMO the package does not actually compile latex sources; providing Makefile snippets (and LaTeX macros for easy inclusion of xfig images) is a different thing. Now I guess that xfig images ar

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > We would still need a way to reset the set of keyword of this email > > when the maintainer changes. > > Or have simpler rules: you can't change the set of keyword for > @p.d.o. > > If a maintainer wants some special set of keyword, he can still > subsc

Re: nasty libgnutls11 bug still present (affects exim4 and libnss-ldap)

2006-04-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 4/19/06, Daniel Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the very least, could you please reopen bug #325971 so that people > can find out what's wrong with their server. AIUI, anybody can reopen a bug report. It's not considered nice if the maintainer disagrees, but as a rule, for a real bug yo

Bug#364266: ITP: libclass-delegator-perl -- Perl module for a simple and fast object-oriented delegation

2006-04-22 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nacho Barrientos Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libclass-delegator-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~dwheeler/Class-Delegator-0.06/ * License

Bug#364258: ITP: lzma -- Default and general compression method of 7z format in 7-Zip program

2006-04-22 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Mohammed Adnène Trojette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lzma Version : 4.39 Upstream Author : Igor Pavlov * URL : http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Default and

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-22 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > #363250 is more about documenting the semantics of $PAGER (whether > > it can uses sh syntax, or whether it's a command with parameters > > separated with spaces), to be documented in man man, and/or policy. > Err, we should define how it be

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:38:53AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > - when the maintainer changes, we logically need to unsubcribe the > > > previous. So this must be recorded somewhere. (it's not a > > > subscription like the others

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 21 Apr 2006, Loïc Minier spake thusly: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Here is my solution for using vim + script as a pager; similar >> mechanisms can be used to use plain vim as PAGER as well. > > Nice, I suggest filing a new bug against vim to propose this as a > c

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:46:36PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > > > I'll go look at adding the PTS to pkg-xfce now anyway. > > Thanks! > > Except as discussed on IRC in #alioth it sends to the first packag

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-22 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:13:53AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1145044383 past the epoch, Linas ??virblis wrote: > > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > > > Amateur radio is the dumb name, for people who > > > are confused by what the practioners call it -- > > > HAM radio. >

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I guess more people are interested in that, but this should be > different keyword triggered when debian-release marks a package for > bin-NMU, but not for the >10 separate uploads. I tend to agree. In fact I have a wishlist bug to show the bin-nmu on

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > - when the maintainer changes, we logically need to unsubcribe the previous. > > So this must be recorded somewhere. (it's not a subscription like the > > others) > > Isn't that a non issue if you subscribe @p.d.o ? I didn't thought of subscribing t

Re: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system

2006-04-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Frank, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Here comes the usual comment: Please make sure to follow the Debian TeX >>> Policy Draft in /usr/share/tex-common/. >> >> Xindy does not provide any tex, style or class files. > > Aren't there an

Re: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system

2006-04-22 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Agustin, Agustin Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:43:12PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: >> % export ACLOCAL=/bin/true AMTAR=/bin/true AUTOCONF=/bin/true \ >> AUTOHEADER=/bin/true AUTOMAKE=/bin/true MAKEINFO=/bin/true >> % dpkg-buildpackage ... >> >> but this l