Can/should debconf notes still be used?

2007-05-28 Thread Frank Küster
Hi all, in the past the use of debconf notes has been discussed, and it seemed to be general consensus that they are mostly useless (or misused), but that there are still a couple of legitimate uses which prevent their removal from debconf (or making them a no-op) [1] Now I am at the point where

Bug#426482: ITP: kaa-base -- Base Framework for Kaa Modules

2007-05-28 Thread Jeremie Corbier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeremie Corbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kaa-base Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Authors: Jason Tackaberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freevo.org/kaa * License

Re: removing 'printtool' from archives

2007-05-28 Thread Paul Wise
On 5/27/07, A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But I think that 'printtool' has outlived its usefullness: its database of printers (that is actually contained in the package 'printfilters-ppd', for some strange reason) is outdated; Have all of the printer files (especially the older ones) in

Re: [Pbuilder-maint] A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > d-i uses the following hack to figure out where to download udebs from > when building installation media: > > grep '^deb[ \t]' $(SYSTEM_SOURCES_LIST) \ > |grep -v '^deb[ \t]cdrom:' \ > |grep -v > '\(security.debian.org\|volatile.debian.\(

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for > > pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. So > > I'd like to have some default guessing to happen. Preferably I don't > > want to ask via debconf, since users should have already answered the > >

Re: New package containing binaries with same name as some from the packages cons, pscan and hsffig.

2007-05-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:36:05AM -0700, H. S. Teoh a écrit : > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:15:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Dear Hwei, Uwe and John, > > > > I did not manage to contact you in private (see below), therefore by > > policy 10.1 I have to move the discussion on debian-devel (

Bug#426417: ITP: tmexpand -- text-macro processing script to create HTML and SGML documents

2007-05-28 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tmexpand Version : 0.1.2.0 Upstream Author : John E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/jed/tmexpand * License : GPL Programming Lang: S

Re: New package containing binaries with same name as some from the packages cons, pscan and hsffig.

2007-05-28 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:15:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear Hwei, Uwe and John, > > I did not manage to contact you in private (see below), therefore by > policy 10.1 I have to move the discussion on debian-devel (copy sent > to debian-med). We (the members of the pkg-emboss project on

Re: [DRE-maint] Ruby section

2007-05-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Vincent Fourmond dijo [Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:34:29AM +0200]: > Hello dear debian Ruby developpers ! > > If you are interested in having a ruby section (after all, we make > up nearly half of the interpreter section) and if you didn't do it > yet, please second the proposal for the creation

Re: compiling packages

2007-05-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 06:14:46AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > 1. Change the Makefile and/or debian/rules as necessary to add -g to the > compilation options. Most already do that. > 2. In debian/rules, comment out the instruction to strip the binaries > (such as dh_strip). No, use the enviro

New package containing binaries with same name as some from the packages cons, pscan and hsffig.

2007-05-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Hwei, Uwe and John, I did not manage to contact you in private (see below), therefore by policy 10.1 I have to move the discussion on debian-devel (copy sent to debian-med). We (the members of the pkg-emboss project on Alioth) have uploaded a new package in the experimental section of Debian,

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:49 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 19:43, Joey Hess wrote: > > d-i uses the following hack to figure out where to download udebs from > > when building installation media: > > Note that this can result in multiple sources. If you want only one, this > hack

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Frank Küster
"Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:56:12AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> Yes, you simply submit a bug report with a patch, and wait for a couple >> of year for it to be applied. >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=www

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:56:12AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > Yes, you simply submit a bug report with a patch, and wait for a couple > of year for it to be applied. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=www.debian.org&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable&include=patch

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 09:39:31AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, if I did use emdebian, I would be mirroring > > anything I need, and would be rather upset if emdebian tools would > > insist on clogging my network connection (which I might not

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Frank Küster
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 01:53, David Nusinow wrote: >> The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is >> that it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. > > Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but >

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 May 2007 22:42:41 +0300 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On su, 2007-05-27 at 20:06 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Unless your own mirror supports all Debian architectures, you will > > still need a primary for emdebian-tools. Do you test build your own > > Debian packages a

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 May 2007 20:53:18 +0100 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:25:50AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for > > pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. > > So I'd like