Re: Intend to hijack rrdtool

2008-02-15 Thread David Martínez Moreno
El miércoles, 13 de febrero de 2008, Bernd Zeimetz escribió: > > There *is* a pkg-rrdtool team in alioth, and a public SVN (that you see > > was having commits as of two days ago). I had problems to access my > > @debian.org address and just saw your mails today. > > I've offered to help you w

Re: Bug#465809: ITP: hpt -- Creates a TCP tunnel through http and https proxies

2008-02-15 Thread Miles Bader
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "tunnelling utility through HTTP and HTTPS proxies" > > to better fit the write style recommended in DevRef. Or with correct grammar: "utility for tunneling through http and https proxies" -Miles -- Generous, adj. Originally this word meant nobl

Re: Bug#465813: ITP: cyclone -- Safe dialect of C

2008-02-15 Thread Miles Bader
Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Description : Safe dialect of C >> >> I suggest "C-like compiler with improved security checks" > > I disagree - dialect is the proper technical term here. Though the actual thing being compackage seems to be a compiler, so: compiler f

Re: Bug#465813: ITP: cyclone -- Safe dialect of C

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Quoting François-Denis Gonthier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: wnpp > > Owner: François-Denis Gonthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: cyclone > > Version : 1.0/CVS > > Upstream Author : Dan Grossman, Trevor Jim, Greg Morrisett et al. > > * U

Re: Bug#465813: ITP: cyclone -- Safe dialect of C

2008-02-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : >> I suggest "C-like compiler with improved security checks" >> >> "dialect" is faily trivial language for me, which is IMHO not suitable >> for a package description. >> > > I disagree - dialect is the proper technical term here. Well, some rationale would help to b

Re: Meaning of the "Altering package upload rules"

2008-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:42:47AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > This is a very good idea, but the reason why source-only uploads are not > allowed is that there are concerns that if the binary package is not > used for real, the quality of the source package will drop. Within this > hypothesis, t

Re: QUESTION: Debian Policy: Manual pages

2008-02-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 14/02/2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > I thought that tag in lintian already had a note that you should add > an override if the man pages are shipped in a different package on > which this package has a dependency. Apparently I was just imagining > things. ISTR it's the case for icons in desktop/me

Bug#465895: ITP: cycfx2prog -- Cypress EZ-USB FX2 (LP) programmer

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Hermann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cycfx2prog Version : 0.41 Upstream Author : Wolfgang Wieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~wwieser/elec/periph/USB-FX2/software/ * License

Bug#465896: ITP: dfu-util -- Device firmware update (DFU) USB programmer

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Hermann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dfu-util Version : 0.0+r4067 Upstream Author : Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dfu-util * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Descrip

Re: Meaning of the "Altering package upload rules"

2008-02-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:45:45AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hence I think we should push for source upload. Stop pushing and start programming. A technical approach to this would be implementing something along the lines of http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/07/msg00544.html

FREE LINUX CDS-DVDS?

2008-02-15 Thread Ernesto Mora
Hello, I'm very interested in using the Debian Linux operating system but it's very difficult to me download the iso image cause my internet access is very limited by now, and the local connections are too slow, so I wonder if do you offer a free media program where a person could request a

Re: Meaning of the "Altering package upload rules"

2008-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
Charles Plessy wrote: > Then, because "a consensus between the Release Managers and the > developer community as a whole" has been required, a GR will be needed. > Since it is a necessary step, the writing of it may be a useful tool to > clarify arguments before presenting them to the persons in ch

Bug#465994: ITP: gamgi -- general atomistic modelling graphic interface

2008-02-15 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gamgi Version : 0.13.1 Upstream Author : Jose Carlos Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.gamgi.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : g

Re: FREE LINUX CDS-DVDS?

2008-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Ernesto Mora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > I'm very interested in using the Debian Linux operating system but it's very > difficult to me download the iso image cause my internet access is very > limited by now, and the local connections are too s

Re: control file Replaces: question

2008-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:44:20AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > If you really need to do this, you will need to divert the configuration > > files with dpkg-divert. However, you really don't want to do this. > > Rather than managing configuration files with a package, you really want >

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Re: Bug#465402: O: directfb -- direct frame buffer graphics

2008-02-15 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 16:03:04 +0100, Fathi Boudra wrote: > Otavio Salvador, Luis Mondesi and me would like to adopt directfb and > friends. Sure, I've transferred the alioth project now (you sort out the project perms). Something I forgot to say before about latest upstream release, I didn'

Re: Bootstrapping GT.M

2008-02-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm just forewarding the answer of upstream about the possibilities for the bootstrapping process ... Any comments? Kind regards Andreas. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:38:59 -0500 From: K.S. Bhaskar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL