Hi,
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:19:02 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > I think my work is mostly ready for unstable as it is. The last step is to
> > convince Guillem Jover, the main dpkg maintainer, to merge that in the
> > master branch. He believes that
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Total number of orphaned packages: 401 (new: 7)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 77 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requeste
Hi,
ven 31 agosto 2007, Robert Edmonds ha scritto:
> [...]
>
> The aggregator needs to either immediately stop distributing this ISO or
> provide source code for the components that require source code and
> clarify that the entire work is not under a single GPL license.
I believe -legal and per
Hi Raphael,
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:19:02 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> I think my work is mostly ready for unstable as it is. The last step is to
> convince Guillem Jover, the main dpkg maintainer, to merge that in the
> master branch. He believes that supporting odd cases encourages bad
> pra
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:00:13 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>
> Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>>
>> Has there ever been a case where an RFP bug has actually stimulated anyone
>> into packaging a given piece of software?
>
> Yes, I've closed three RFPs during the last month or so, and retitle
> another
"deb-ice" is a custom Debian distribution, described in [0] and available from
[1]. It appears to be a preseeded Debian 4.0 i386 business card ISO built
using a web-based tool called LinuxCOE[2], and the aggregator has attempted to
place the entire work under a license[3] which appears to be the G
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:02:32PM -0400, Tim Hull wrote:
>
> There are plans for an "etch + 1/2" release which would update the
> kernel and X server to support newer hardware. I don't what the status
> or timetable for this is.\
>
>
> This would be great. I'm curious who is worki
> There are plans for an "etch + 1/2" release which would update the
> kernel and X server to support newer hardware. I don't what the status
> or timetable for this is.\
This would be great. I'm curious who is working on it...
Why not use backports.org?
Well, none of what I need is there. (
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 20:05 -0400, Tim Hull wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About a month ago I inquired here as to what Debian is doing regarding
> backported updates for stable releases. I did get some good responses
> to that thread, and I see why Debian doesn't expend too much energy
> making significant upd
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Tim Hull wrote:
> I've also had to backport libgksu to get a fix for a problem which
> causes there to be an extremely high amount of CPU wakeups when gksu
> is used (as that kills battery life).
The best thing for this is to use backports.org, and in the cases
where a package
Hi,
About a month ago I inquired here as to what Debian is doing regarding
backported updates for stable releases. I did get some good responses to
that thread, and I see why Debian doesn't expend too much energy making
significant updates (like new GNOME, Xorg, etc etc) to *stable* releases -
it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Quoting Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I received at least one particular nasty reply off list.
Which has nothing to do with my messages. Please stop saying you are
quoting me when that's not true.
--
\ "Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing mor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would greatly appreciate it if anyone who does have some time would
> assist me in some manner. I understand that every suggestion I may have
> may not be the best course of action. Thanks.
Still the wrong list. Please go and stop bothering -devel. You were
pointed to
On Thu August 30 2007 09:52:13 am Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 04:47:59PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:46:47PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > > Of course, obviously---for software where there is a choice, but
> > > for software which can not be built
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Bogdan Lucaciu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: libcrypt-generatepassword-perl
Version : 0.03
Upstream Author : Jörg Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-GeneratePassword
* License : GPL
How dare you. You are effectively telling me that, because I care
about Debian users, you can tell me what I should do with the time I
devote to Debian, merely because you are a user. You are telling me
that you know better than I do what I can do to benefit Debian users.
Sorry, it doesn't work
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Quoting Micha Lenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> Hi nameless one,
> lol, I need to think up a name, hmm what shall it be? I hate having
> my name posted all over the internet.
Being anonymous is suspicious. Please use your real name, like every
single other poster on thi
First, please STOP your habit of replying to the same message 4 or 5
times. I will do you the courtesy of reading your first reply, but
probably not the rest, I just don't have that kind of time. Your
multiple replies rarely add any substance anyway.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> I think your problem is
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Debian Games Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: silvertree
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : David White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.silvertreerpg.org/
* License : GPL v2 or later
Programming Lang: C++
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:22:36AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
>> Yes. Except that you don't have to go trying to find someone. You should
>> file a RFP bug against wnpp and wait until someone has sufficient
>> interest and skills to take on the maintenance of this pac
The Debian OCaml maintenance team is looking at how to organize the
HTML documentation provided by the various OCaml packages. Our first
thought was to use doc-base, but according to the doc-base
documentation, the hierarchy is determined by the Debian menu
sub-policy (http://www.debian.org/doc/pa
Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you really suggest to take care of broken environemts, you should
> think about such ugliness:
> % cat Makefile
> # I need this, because /bin/sh is dash at me.
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> clean:
> rm bla
> ls -ld /proc//exe
> % env -i rm='()
Hi,
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:15:35 +0300, Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>>> >> Many packages FTBFS (silently!) if an environment variable TAPE is
>>> >> set.
>>> Perhaps dpkg-buildpackage should unset TAPE...?
>
>> pbuilder and other tools alr
I would greatly appreciate it if anyone who does have some time
would assist me in some manner. I understand that every suggestion I
may have may not be the best course of action. Thanks.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Albert Einstein
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I confirm, your post are mostly silly.
2 out of how many, that is hardly confirmation. Shall we take a vote?
If you want to convince everyone here that Debian does not care
about its >users
That is the way it sounds from most of the responses I have received.
Those are only the minorit
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Jean Parpaillon wrote:
> If you want to make me laugh, go on posting :-)
As a general rule, please don't encourage more off-topic posts. I know
debian-devel is pretty unique in this regard as even its regulars like
to reply to off-topic posts, but re
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:05:25AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> Opera could offer an apt reporitory for the .deb, much like skype is doing
> it.
But they do already:
grep opera /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera unstable non-free
Regards,
Andrei
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If you can't explain
One issue is that only a few programs appear in the IceWM menu. The
rest you need to know the names of and type in by hand. I can of
course create a menu if I have a prepackaged selection of software,
which is what I am working on.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:23:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > and there's precedent with the netscape communicator packages from the
> > pre-mozilla days. These were statically linked against several things
> > afaik, motif iirc.
Huh? Err, I've used IceWM in the past in debian without having to try
hard at all (apt-get install icewm... wow... that was difficult!) and
I'm currently using ion3 (guess how I installed that... oh, yes, apt-get
install ion3)... Of course, synaptics can easily be run in any of the
window managers
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Le 30.08.2007 18:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
> Quoting Maarten Verwijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> What?!?!
>>
>> You've sent 60+ silly posts to the devel-list and only *one* nasty reply
>> off list!??
>>
>> And people dare insinuate Debian Devs are
Quoting Micha Lenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi nameless one,
lol, I need to think up a name, hmm what shall it be? I hate having
my name posted all over the internet.
And here we might get to a consensus again: Actually you *do* care about
a scsiaddgui package *personally* by suggesting to inc
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> and there's precedent with the netscape communicator packages from the
> pre-mozilla days. These were statically linked against several things
> afaik, motif iirc.
One of the reasons to go to such lengths for Netscape was that at the time
there really was
Hi nameless icelinux-mate,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I also think many of those here are sabotaging Debian and the entire
> free software community with the manner in which they respond to
> newcomers. The amount of time required to "spoonfeed" as one person
> put it, a person who wants t
Quoting Maarten Verwijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
What?!?!
You've sent 60+ silly posts to the devel-list and only *one* nasty reply
off list!??
And people dare insinuate Debian Devs are rude.
One is too many.
In addition you may consider that your "perception" of silly may not
be held by the
Quoting Maarten Verwijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
a) It is silly because you perceive it to be son, a not necessarily
accurate conclusion.
b) One is too many.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Albert Einstein
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 04:47:59PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:46:47PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > Of course, obviously---for software where there is a choice, but for
> > software which can not be built from source because it is closed or
> > not redistributable once mo
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:43:16PM -0400,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks, can someone give me a few ideas of some things I
> can do with packages such as this to gather information
> before I bring then to the debian devs to work with me
> on getting the issues corrected?
I think resolvin
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:16:30AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I received at least one particular nasty reply off list.
What?!?!
You've sent 60+ silly posts to the devel-list and only *one* nasty reply
off list!??
And people dare insinuate Deb
Hi nameless one,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can understand that there may be legal reasons why such a piece of
> software is not able to be made available. I cannot understand what
> place complaints about extra work belong in the discussion. It is not
> as if I am just complaining about
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:46:47PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> Of course, obviously---for software where there is a choice, but for
> software which can not be built from source because it is closed or
> not redistributable once modified (which seems to be the case with
> Opera), putting a staticall
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:16:30AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I received at least one particular nasty reply off list.
>
Can I suggest that if you're not actually going to quote someone, you at
least remove the line that says "Quoting $name".
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:55:25AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I trying to assist with providing a higher level of functionality to
> many people who want or need to use an alternative window manager I
> highly suggest someone actually install Debian and then install one of
> these
Quoting Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I received at least one particular nasty reply off list.
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:12:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, that is why I am asking these questions.
Your very enthousiasting and energetic. This is a good thing.
However, your questions are not what this list is for.
I suggest you redirect your questions to the Debia
Quoting Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I also think many of those here are sabotaging Debian and the entire
free software community with the manner in which they respond to
newcomers. The amount of time required to "spoonfeed" as one person
put it, a person who wants to help but does not
Quoting Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] since you've picked something that involves non-free stuff,
you've immediately ruled out most of the people who're active on
this list, who're here because they want to make a completely free
operating syst
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:46:39AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> We don't really have time for either sort - that is
> >what debian-mentors and slashdot, respectively, are for.
>
> Hmm, yes I wonder what people would think were we to post the
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:34:21AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Also, lest we all forget, I am a Debian user. So what you say to me
> you say to us all.
Err, I'm a debian user too, but I don't think that anything they've said
to you they're
I have uploaded xerces-c 2.8.0 rc1 to experimental as xerces28. Their
release cycle was very fast, so during the (quite acceptable amount
of) time it took xerces28 to clear NEW, upstream has already frozen
for the 2.8.0 release which is expected out in the next few weeks. If
you use xerces27, pl
FYI, I have some similar code that works with both Darcs and Mercurial at
http://hg.complete.org/commithooks
though I have not taken the time to set it up for packaging.
On Tue August 28 2007 11:26:09 am Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Antti-Juhani Ka
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...] since you've picked something that involves non-free stuff,
> you've immediately ruled out most of the people who're active on
> this list, who're here because they want to make a completely free
> operating system, for which opera just isn't relev
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:41:10PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> # Our priorities are our users and free software
> I must have misunderstood, I thought this was what Debian was all
> about.
Which is fine, but the problem is there's so many ways of working on
those priorities that nobody can
On 8/30/07, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has there ever been a case where an RFP bug has actually stimulated anyone
> into packaging a given piece of software?
Just to add my own little example to those cited before: I recently
packaged sqlitebrowser, for which an RFP had been
Hi,
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 09:43 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:22:36AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> > Yes. Except that you don't have to go trying to find someone. You should
> > file a RFP bug against wnpp and wait until someone has sufficient
> > interest and sk
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:43:46 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Has there ever been a case where an RFP bug has actually stimulated anyone
> into packaging a given piece of software?
IIRC I have packaged a few perl modules which had RFPs. That's one of
the goals of the Debian Perl Group [0] alt
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Has there ever been a case where an RFP bug has actually stimulated anyone
> into packaging a given piece of software?
I packaged TenDRA as a result of an RFP (this predated using the BTS for
WNPP). I'd just packaged it for
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Has there ever been a case where an RFP bug has actually stimulated
> anyone into packaging a given piece of software?
The pattern I usually see is that the RFP is a signal that somebody
wants it to be done, and when someone steps up with an IT
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:22:36AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> Yes. Except that you don't have to go trying to find someone. You should
> file a RFP bug against wnpp and wait until someone has sufficient
> interest and skills to take on the maintenance of this package in
> Debian.
Has there ever
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:26:58 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> > If you are going to be the Debian Maintainer for this package, you
> > should be able to at least understand error reports from the package
> > which is very difficult if you don't un
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