Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:53:37PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 23:48:21 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Although not very probably, until now Debian used to support static linking > > (libdev packages provide .a files, and depend on libdev packages that > > pro

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Anibal Avelar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.0805 +0100]: > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Penguin_Fat.gif > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Jhas.png > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/little_pinguin.jpg > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/calimero.jpg > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/A

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Anibal Avelar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/08, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2008-02-24 at 19:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Sam Hocevar [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: > > >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to > > > the FreeBSD logo

Re: Extending fortunes-debian-hints package

2008-02-25 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 09:39 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > > Feel free to pass it to me for adding your hints into > > > package. > > > > Would it make sense to make a page in the wiki about it? That might > > make it easier for peo

Re: Extending fortunes-debian-hints package

2008-02-25 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > Feel free to pass it to me for adding your hints into > > package. > > Would it make sense to make a page in the wiki about it? That might > make it easier for people to add hints :) Great idea. Please check: http://wiki.debian.org/For

Re: Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:57 AM, nic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to send 2 messages but I guess they failed because of the > attached files (~ 6 mb)? so where can I put the drafts? citation below. If you don't have your own server, try one of these sites: http://www.google.com/search?

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-25 Thread Edward Allcutt
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:05:46AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Aaron M. Ucko said: > > Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > BTW, I think that hg is now the only VCS package which is not maintained > > > in its > > > own VCS format. (or are there

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:31:10PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:34:55 +1100, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> > >> > No matter what you want to say about your featu

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Julien Cristau said: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 23:48:21 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > Although not very probably, until now Debian used to support static linking > > (libdev packages provide .a files, and depend on libdev packages that > > provide depende

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-25 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Aaron M. Ucko said: > [migrating to -curiosa] > > Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > BTW, I think that hg is now the only VCS package which is not maintained in > > its > > own VCS format. (or are there other packages, too?) > > $ apt-cache showsr

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:56:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > No, it does not. If branch A has > pi = 2.34567; >and branch B has > pi = 3.14159; > > No matter how much quilting you do you cannot reconcile the > fundamental conflict in the final. Either pi is 3.14159; o

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I stopped providing static libraries in all my library packages quite a > while back. No one used them, and they were just needless bloat. I > can't say I would be upset if we dropped all the static libraries from > the entire archive--is there actually

Bug#467502: ITP: xotcl -- Extended Object Tcl (XOTcl) is an object-oriented scripting language based on Tcl

2008-02-25 Thread Stefan Sobernig
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefan Sobernig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xotcl Version : 1.6.0+ Upstream Author : Gustaf Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Zdun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xotcl.org/ * License : BSD Programming La

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:48:21PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | > > > libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package > > > dependency. It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev | > > > libcurl3-gnut

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Timothy G Abbott
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Frank K??ster wrote: Uh, you can dpkg-divert conffiles, but not generally configuration files, since many won't even be known to dpkg. I must admit I'm a bit sceptical about a proposal on configuration, written by someone who lets this important distinction slip by... No,

Re: Mass bug filing: perl 5.10 and the "remove empty /usr/lib/perl5 dir" bug

2008-02-25 Thread Niko Tyni
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:03:59PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > [crossposted to debian-{devel,[EMAIL PROTECTED]; > Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] This still applies. > Summary: around 400 *-perl packages have a debian/rules bug that > makes them FTBFS with perl 5.10, currently in experimenta

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: debimg - debian-cd in Python

2008-02-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Reply-To: set to debian-cd list ] Hi Julian, On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:17:46PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >Dear Debian Developers (and other readers), > >debimg will be a free alternative to debian-cd, written >in Python. I hope you're not meaning to imply that debian-cd itself is _not

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 19:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]: > >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to > > the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian > > project (in

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:11:05AM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > >> While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | > >> libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package > >> dependency. It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev | > >> libcurl3-gnutls-d

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Luk Claes
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hi > > I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. > Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, > however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manually > written in debian/control file. The

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:56:09PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > >> I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. >> Resulting library package dependency is calculated using >> ${shlib:Depends}, however libdev package dependency on >> libcurl4-gnutls-dev is m

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:25:06PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Humm > > > > And why not a marmot ?? Screw marmots. What about a human? I would suggest this one: http://people.debian.org/~amaya/wallpapers/dsc01074.jpg -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor:

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:48:21PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > > While it is easy for build-dependency (just use > > > > libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here > > > > with libdev package dependency. It should depend not on > > > > libcurl4-gnutls-dev | lib

ANNOUNCEMENT: debimg - debian-cd in Python

2008-02-25 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Dear Debian Developers (and other readers), debimg will be a free alternative to debian-cd, written in Python. Attached are the file lenny.list, which is a "data file" (see comments in file), and debimg.cfg which is the main configuration file. Please tell me if you do not like one the listed th

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
[migrating to -curiosa] Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, I think that hg is now the only VCS package which is not maintained in > its > own VCS format. (or are there other packages, too?) $ apt-cache showsrc rcs | grep Vcs Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rfranc

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-25 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Vincent Danjean wrote: > > mercurial in now imported in the PAPT repo: > Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/python-apps/packages/mercurial/trunk > Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/python-apps/packages/mercurial/trunk Please add a / at the end (at least for VCS-Browser, which does not really work

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 23:48:21 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Although not very probably, until now Debian used to support static linking > (libdev packages provide .a files, and depend on libdev packages that > provide dependent .a files). That's not true, afaik. If you're linking st

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:48:21PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | > > > libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package > > > dependency. It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev | > > > libcurl3-gnut

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> > While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | > > libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package > > dependency. It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev | > > libcurl3-gnutls-dev, but on exact one that was actually used when > > building package. > >

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Feb-08, 10:30 (CST), Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mercurial in now imported in the PAPT repo: > Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/python-apps/packages/mercurial/trunk Oh, the irony. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operati

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:56:09PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. > Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, > however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manually >

Re: conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:56:09PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hi > > I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. > Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, > however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manua

conditional dependency?

2008-02-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hi I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manually written in debian/control file. The build package dependency is valuable si

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 17:58 +, James Westby wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:19 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > "Dirty history" is not only tolerated, but the *only* sane option with, > > lesse... rcs cvs svn darcs tla baz (bzr?) > > bzr supports both ways of working, either cleaning up, or

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Preserving history is part of it, but not the objective. Sometimes you just > have to plain clean up the mess, so as to be able to see anything of value > through it. As people ofthen do when using file based ChangeLog. People doesn't put

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:15:10PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Note that also doesn't indicate how many were actually fixed. We have > > nothing that look like bugzilla's NOTABUG or INVALID. > > It would be nice if we had this, actually, and it wouldn't

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 19:24 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Given that our admin is already a weasel and our browser is an ice > weasel, it would only be logical to use this fluffy and beautiful > animal > as a mascot. And (real) foxes are great! -- Corsac signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread nic
hi, I tried to send 2 messages but I guess they failed because of the attached files (~ 6 mb)? so where can I put the drafts? citation below. nic > hi, > > here are 2 drafts attached. the debi-ant and the > 'ameisenbaer' (ant-eater). look at > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Anteater01.jp

Re: Extending fortunes-debian-hints package

2008-02-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/2/25, Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I have adopted package fortunes-debian-hints (#465936). The package > contains various 'hints' regarding Debian system as name of package > suggested. > > I therefore request to send 'hints' you encountered during your > experience wi

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:07:20 +0200, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> We had a chicken[1]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. > I loved the chicken. I had a character. That would be the animal at: http://lintian.debi

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On lun, 2008-02-25 at 10:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> ucf, from its DESCRIPTION in its man page, seems to handle the case of >> shipping a configuration file upstream that may also be locally >> modified, but I don't see where it handles merging i

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon February 25 2008 9:31:15 am Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Right. Well said. > > > > This however doesn't changes the value of logical changes. I doubt > > git.git people would accept patches like: > > > > "Now it compiles again" > > "Ouch! Syntax error

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:19 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > "Dirty history" is not only tolerated, but the *only* sane option with, > lesse... rcs cvs svn darcs tla baz (bzr?) bzr supports both ways of working, either cleaning up, or preserving the history as is. It has rebase support through a p

Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Habashy
I am logged in as root, and i try to su as a user : user1 ; I get the following error: rmachine:/home/user1/Maildir/cur# su user1 Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 10:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > The problem is this: both krb5-kdc and krb5-admin-server have /etc/default > files that control various aspects of the startup of the servers, such as > whether a krb524d is run and what level of Kerberos v4 support is enabled > in the KDC.

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le dimanche 24 février 2008 à 19:46 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> The ones that are overwritten completely that I'm aware of contain only >> settings managed by debconf, or (as is the case for krb5-kdc and >> krb5-admin-server) explicitly ask wheth

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 16:25 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > And why not a marmot ?? > > It's a nice beautifull little animal, and, according to WP, > "Marmots typically live in burrows, and hibernate there through the winter. > Most marmots are highly social, and use loud whistles to communicate w

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:06:31PM +, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 25/02/2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > I'm planning to write a textual version of what I demonstrated at > > FOSDEM, with some more ideas that I had talking with Julien Cristau > > on the grass after. > > Please, pretty please

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2008-02-25 at 15:58 +0100, nic wrote: > hi together, > > I'm not quite sure how to properly use this debian-list (I should have > read before, I know...). > > I spontaneously thought of an ant: It works hard, it's tough, well, and > with a fat grin on its face. just a first idea: the 'debi

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Dirty history" is not only tolerated, but the *only* sane option with, > lesse... rcs cvs svn darcs tla baz (bzr?) > > Only the git and hg people seem to care (and the git people a lot more than > hg people). After you get used to get branches with p

Extending fortunes-debian-hints package

2008-02-25 Thread Kartik Mistry
Hi all, I have adopted package fortunes-debian-hints (#465936). The package contains various 'hints' regarding Debian system as name of package suggested. I therefore request to send 'hints' you encountered during your experience with Debian till now which can be helpful to our users and develope

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-25 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:15:10PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > Note that also doesn't indicate how many were actually fixed. We have > nothing that look like bugzilla's NOTABUG or INVALID. It would be nice if we had this, actually, and it wouldn't be hard, right? Just define a convention for a ne

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon February 25 2008 9:31:15 am Otavio Salvador wrote: > Right. Well said. > > This however doesn't changes the value of logical changes. I doubt > git.git people would accept patches like: > > "Now it compiles again" > "Ouch! Syntax error" > "First try to get it done" > ... > > It's much nicer

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun February 24 2008 1:46:59 pm Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I vote for clean history and a bissectable tree, and I think it is worth > the effort. But I am no dpkg developer, this is a thing you guys have to > find an agreement among yourselves. See [1] for why this behavior stinks.

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 25/02/2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I'm planning to write a textual version of what I demonstrated at > FOSDEM, with some more ideas that I had talking with Julien Cristau > on the grass after. Please, pretty please, include graphics. Be it ASCII art-like drawings, or gitk screenshots, with

Bug#467258: general: Net-install CD still defaults to asking for CD in aptitude

2008-02-25 Thread Frans Pop
Chip Norkus wrote: > When installing Debian from the small net-install CD it shouldn't ask for > the installation > media by default in aptitude. This is small but kind of irritating when > working on a fresh debian system in remotely. This is already no longer the case if you use the Lenny insta

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Monday 25 February 2008 15:58:16 nic, vous avez écrit : > hi together, > > I'm not quite sure how to properly use this debian-list (I should have > read before, I know...). > > I spontaneously thought of an ant: It works hard, it's tough, well, and > with a fat grin on its face. just a first ide

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <...> > And AFAICT, the kernel works in the very same way. What gets rebased > though, are the bugfixes patches that come by 2 or 3, and that add no > value when added as a specific branch. Usually those in git.git are > applied on top of the 'maint' b

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 16:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> Yet, rebasing is still routinely performed in the Linux kernel >> development. > > What I find interesting and rather amusing here is Linus talking > negatively about rebase: in p

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance"): >> However you haven't made it easy to merge your code... you repository is a >> mess to proof-read and the cleaning work that you don't want to do has >> thus to be done by Guillem. >

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-25 Thread Otavio Salvador
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2/ Otavio was sort of acknowledging it as a good thing but a good thing > that should be delayed for an unknown amount of time waiting for a fix on > apt's side while the lack of fix didn't seem to create important problems > > Under those conditions,

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread nic
hi together, I'm not quite sure how to properly use this debian-list (I should have read before, I know...). I spontaneously thought of an ant: It works hard, it's tough, well, and with a fat grin on its face. just a first idea: the 'debiant'. Just playing with words. I tried some rough sketches,

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Miriam Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2008/2/25, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, nic wrote: >> > to cut the longway short: I'm iterested, but don't know how it works or >> > how I could contribute. >> >> I don't know what needs to be explained... yo

Re: Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: sportman resistance like runners, swimmers, skiers, mountain bikers, etc... Pytrainer works with your GPS fitness device and it is be able to Ehm... using a better wording? Hmm, I also care for content. Perhaps I'm to old fashioned but I c

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/2/25, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, nic wrote: > > to cut the longway short: I'm iterested, but don't know how it works or > > how I could contribute. > > I don't know what needs to be explained... you don't need any special > status to contribue a ma

Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, nic wrote: > to cut the longway short: I'm iterested, but don't know how it works or > how I could contribute. I don't know what needs to be explained... you don't need any special status to contribue a mascot, just find the idea, create the picture, send it to us and wai

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 13:42 +0100 schrieb David Paleino: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:38:07 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > > > Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:00 +0100 schrieb Holger Levsen: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 2

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:38:07 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:00 +0100 schrieb Holger Levsen: > > Hi, > > > > On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > >We had a chicken[¹]

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:00 +0100 schrieb Holger Levsen: > Hi, > > On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > >We had a chicken[¹]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. > > >[¹] Technically sp

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 25 February 2008 08:15, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >We had a chicken[¹]. We spent years actively getting rid of it. > >[¹] Technically speaking it was a penguin. But it was a youthful > >penguin, rebelling agains

Re: [errata] How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:40:31 +0100, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:33:48AM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> When it comes to specific patches of yours, I really believe that > I really *don't* >

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:33:48 +0100, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:37:07AM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:17:10 -0500, David Nusinow >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:08:17PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:35:13 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.25.0828 > +0100]: >> I am not opposed to it. If you can somehow magically create a tool >> that can linearize the feature branches, more power to you. I >> per

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 24 février 2008 à 19:46 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > The ones that are overwritten completely that I'm aware of contain only > settings managed by debconf, or (as is the case for krb5-kdc and > krb5-admin-server) explicitly ask whether you want to manage the > configuration file thro

Re: [errata] How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:33:48AM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > When it comes to specific patches of yours, I really believe that I really *don't* believe > topic branches like you advertise them are the best answer. Git makes -- ·O· Pierre H

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:37:07AM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:17:10 -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:08:17PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > The problem is that you a

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:38:03AM +, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > I vote for clean history and a bissectable tree, and I think it is worth > > > the > > > effort. But I am no dpkg developer, this is a thing you guys have to find > > > an agreemen

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread nic
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:16:28 +0100 Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I would like to set up a Debian Marketing Team, whose work would > be to organise all the promotional stuff (logos, t-shirt designs, > wallpapers, etc.) so that the project can officially endorse good > designs, and

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > I vote for clean history and a bissectable tree, and I think it is worth the > > effort. But I am no dpkg developer, this is a thing you guys have to find > > an agreement among yourselves. > > You vote for the mad route. Sorry, but it makes absol

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.25.0828 +0100]: > I am not opposed to it. If you can somehow magically create a > tool that can linearize the feature branches, more power to you. I > personally find the prospect highly unlikely; and I would like to see > some co

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-02-25 Thread Frank Küster
Timothy G Abbott MIT.EDU> writes: > Anders Kaseorg and I created a system of CDBS modules (which we've > tentatively packaged as the config-package-dev package) for creating > Debian configuration packages. By configuration packages, we mean > packages that configure an existing Debian system

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing > debian/control Dependsfield??"): > > I won't revert anything unless you come up with some proof that this > > causes severe issues that will disturb the lenny release process. >