hijacking imagemagick

2007-03-02 Thread Luciano Bello
Hi, The maintainer of imagemagick, Ryuichi Arafune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, didn't answer any ping [1]. So, I will hijack this package. I will comaintain [2] it with Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. A new upload is coming. luciano [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00390.html

Re: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] From Charles Cole (UK)

2007-03-02 Thread thinker
who the heck is charles cole Charles Cole wrote: > > Compliments, > > I am Charles Cole and i presently work in the London out-station office > of a world reknowed organisation. > > Please pardon my approaching you through this medium, as i ask you to > consider the issues seriously. > >

Re: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] From Charles Cole (UK)

2007-03-02 Thread thinker
who the heck is charles cole Charles Cole wrote: > > Compliments, > > I am Charles Cole and i presently work in the London out-station office > of a world reknowed organisation. > > Please pardon my approaching you through this medium, as i ask you to > consider the issues seriously. > >

Re: On management

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:58:58PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Roberto C. Sanchez] > > I am not advocating having a manager without technical competency or > > the ability to understand technical issues. Just that being a > > manager does not require being a fourth-degree blackbelt in Perl

Re: Work-needing packages report for Mar 2, 2007

2007-03-02 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du samedi 03 mars 2007, vers 00:58, Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> - I look for RFH, but see above > If you are interested in the XML/SGML (related) packages, just join the > Debian XML/SGML group :). The problem would be to find time to read all those

Re: Work-needing packages report for Mar 2, 2007

2007-03-02 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 02.03.2007, 21:32 +0100 schrieb Vincent Bernat: > I have read the recent discussion about maintainers not responding to > bug reports and about helping existant teams. This kind of report > seems to be the best way to find who need help. [..] > >docbook (#358522), reques

Re: On management

2007-03-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roberto C. Sanchez] > I am not advocating having a manager without technical competency or > the ability to understand technical issues. Just that being a > manager does not require being a fourth-degree blackbelt in Perl or > having written a textbook on C++ programming. And you think the curr

Bug#413156: ITP: libgeo-ip-perl -- Perl bindings for GeoIP library

2007-03-02 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libgeo-ip-perl Version : 1.27-1 Upstream Author : MaxMind LLC * URL : http://www.maxmind.com/ * License : GPL/Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:44 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > | if (ai->ai_next) > | continue; I believe these two lines are the source of the bug. Here's the change that introduced it: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvswe

Re: Work-needing packages report for Mar 2, 2007

2007-03-02 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hi ! I have read the recent discussion about maintainers not responding to bug reports and about helping existant teams. This kind of report seems to be the best way to find who need help. I have looked at the following bug report since I may help on the concerned packages. >apt-s

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:37:01AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:30:39AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > > And how do you help a maintainer that does not admit that he needs help? > > > > I can't believ

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 02 mars 2007 à 08:37 -0500, Theodore Tso a écrit : > So how do you help a maintainer who refuses help if it is paid? Hahaha, awesome. You don't miss any occasion, do you? Thanks, you really made my day. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code.

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:30:39AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > And how do you help a maintainer that does not admit that he needs help? > > I can't believe people are thinking such crap. > > Please show me where a current mai

Bug#413128: ITP: nist-dlmf -- NIST's Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

2007-03-02 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nist-dlmf Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dlmf.nist.gov/ * License : U.S. go

Bug#413124: ITP: webdiff -- powerful tool to check for web page updates

2007-03-02 Thread Stephan Beyer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephan Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I intend to package my tool `webdiff'. In fact, it is packaged, the ITP is just formalism. * Package name: webdiff Version : 20070302 Upstream Author : Stephan Beyer <[EMAIL PRO

Re: On management

2007-03-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 01 March 2007 22:28, Josselin Mouette wrote: > First, please keep your bullshit about dunc-tank outside this otherwise > interesting discussion. be liberal what you accept, and conservative what you send? regards, Holger pgpeWcMQwasHw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#412919: ITP: predictive -- Text completion package for Emacs

2007-03-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:43:11AM +1100, Jan Alonzo wrote: > Predictive is a minor-mode, text-completion package for Emacs. When enabled, > predictive mode exploits the redundancy inherent in languages in order to > complete words you are typing before you've finished typing them (somewhat > l

Re: On management

2007-03-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > That, I fully agree with. I also had the chance to see a good project > manager in action, and that makes a huge difference. > > I'm not convinced at all that *funding* a manager would do any good to > the project. Which is why I'm wondering if there

Re: ITH: uclibc

2007-03-02 Thread Florian Weimer
* Simon Richter: > I plan to make the package cross-buildable for all of Debian's official > plus a few unofficial architectures (armeb for example), split each > library into its own package in order to save space when installing on > an embedded system Is this really necessary? I think for emb