Re: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale

[Michelle Konzack] > Hello Maintainers, > > It seems there is a common problem while setting up the correct UNICODE > locale in systems. As the posster in the attached message has written, > he has setup his locale to "zh_CN.utf8" which is wrong, but as he has > written too, the output of "locale

Bug#468462: ITP: lmt -- lustre monitoring tool

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Winnertz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lmt Version : 2.1.0-1chaos * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmt/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : lustre monitoring tool LMT is a Lus

Work-needing packages report for Feb 29, 2008

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: 353 (new: 3) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 89 (new: 1) Total number of packages requeste

Re: Bits from DEHS

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:07:07PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > > * New upstream version notifications > > Since yesterday DEHS started sending notifications to the 'summary' > > tag/keyword of the PTS when it finds a new upstream version. > > Wa

Re: Bits from DEHS

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:07:07PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > * New upstream version notifications > Since yesterday DEHS started sending notifications to the 'summary' > tag/keyword of the PTS when it finds a new upstream version. Was this blessed by the PTS admins before it was deployed?

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:02:39PM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > Debian is about having the possibility of choosing between many options > for the same thing No, Debian is *about* having a *good*, free operating system. Having lots of choices is a side effect of Debian's organization, it's not

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:11:48 +1300, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> Yes. Feature branches are effectively forking a particular version >>> of a project - this is not a problem, and is essential for efficient >>> development. People jumbling together changes in

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Yes. Feature branches are effectively forking a particular version of >> a project - this is not a problem, and is essential for efficient >> development. People jumbling together changes in "trunk" branches is >> perhaps one of the worst upshots of the 2002-2006 or so

Re: Bug#467097: ITP: eficas -- ASter Command FIle Editor

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:09 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:41:05AM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > > Upstream Author : EDF / R&D > > Please include the full name of the author(s). EDF is the usual name of the company whose logo appears on the upstream web site

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 20:02, William Pitcock wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:47 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: [snip] >> Even there, it looks very much like other "very small" webservers, >> such as boa, bozohttpd, cherokee, fnord, lighttpd, micro-httpd, >> mini-ht

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:47 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Guus Sliepen dijo [Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:55:08PM +0100]: > > > Monkey is a Web Server written in C based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol. The > > > objective is to develop a fast, efficient, small and easy to configure > > > webserver. > > > Althou

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:35:30 +1300, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> Feature branches don't magically allow you to avoid merge conflicts >>> either, so this is a red herring. Once you've resolved the conflict, >>> then it becomes just another change. This change

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

Guus Sliepen dijo [Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:55:08PM +0100]: > > Monkey is a Web Server written in C based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol. The > > objective is to develop a fast, efficient, small and easy to configure > > webserver. > > Although it is very small and does not need much system resources, it

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Feature branches don't magically allow you to avoid merge conflicts >> either, so this is a red herring. Once you've resolved the conflict, >> then it becomes just another change. This change can become a diff in >> a stack of diffs. > > This whole message is a r

Re: Bug#468408: ITP: libgenome -- toolkit for developing bioinformatic related software

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:36:34PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: libgenome > Version : 1.3.0 > Upstream Author : Aaron Darling >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others > * URL : > h

Re: Bug#467249: man-db/groff and locales

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:10:32PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:30:55PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:21:41PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > >man-db really does have some special-casing here. Trust me. It was > >necessary at the time. There a

Re: Bug#467249: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:30:55PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:21:41PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: man-db really does have some special-casing here. Trust me. It was necessary at the time. There are a finite number of known aliases for the very small number of locales in

Re: Bug#467249: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:21:41PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:42:30AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > It seems there is a common problem while setting up the correct UNICODE > > locale in systems. As the posster in the attached message has written, > > he has setup

Bug#468421: ITP: libtest-xml-simple-perl -- easy testing for XML

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtest-xml-simple-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Joe McMahon, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-XML-Simple/ * License : GPL+Artistic

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

Ian Jackson writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)"): > It is very unfortunate for git that most of its advocates want to > adopt these almost unmanageable development practices along with the > revision control software. I'd like to expand on this, and partly

Re: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:42:30AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Maintainers, > > It seems there is a common problem while setting up the correct UNICODE > locale in systems. As the posster in the attached message has written, > he has setup his locale to "zh_CN.utf8" which is wrong, but

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

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > Mark Brown writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg > maintenance)"): > > I've no idea if anyone involved would consider it acceptable but might > > merging the triggers branch into the mainline with --squash be a > > suitable comprimi

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

Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)"): > As soon as you edit commits, they'll get a new id, and thus you'll disrupt > merging. As I thought. What I am trying to achieve is to use git in the proper way: that is, in a way which makes merging

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

Mark Brown writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)"): > I've no idea if anyone involved would consider it acceptable but might > merging the triggers branch into the mainline with --squash be a > suitable comprimise? This would give a single commit discarding th

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: Timothy G Abbott writes ("Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System"): So, our goal is to provide our users with the same opportunities to override our configuration defaults as they would have had if Debian had been providing them instead. Using the Deb

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

Timothy G Abbott writes ("Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System"): > So, our goal is to provide our users with the same opportunities to > override our configuration defaults as they would have had if Debian had > been providing them instead. Using the Debian packaging system for this > con

Bug#468408: ITP: libgenome -- toolkit for developing bioinformatic related software

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libgenome Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Aaron Darling >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://asap.ahabs.wisc.edu/software/software-development-libraries/libgenome.html

Re: apt-get and SOCKS!

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:53 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:39:06AM +0100, Edward Tjornhammar wrote: > > apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? > > I have no experience with SOCKS other than that I use it daily in > > conjunction with firefox and

Re: apt-get and SOCKS!

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:39:06AM +0100, Edward Tjornhammar wrote: > apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? > I have no experience with SOCKS other than that I use it daily in > conjunction with firefox and ssh. I think it is a feature which could > be of use to other

Bug#468381: ITP: commithooks -- Hooks to inject VCS commits into bug-tracking systems

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: commithooks Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> et al * URL : http://software.complete.org/commithooks * License : GPL and BSD Programming L

Uzeneted erkezett!

Udv!:) Tudom, hogy nem szeretsz ilyen leveleket kapni, de hidd el most az egyszer megeri elolvasnod, mert sok levelet kapunk vissza hogy majdnem kitorolte de azert csak megerte elolvasni, mert fantasztikus az oldal amit ajanlunk, es tenyleg az! Nalunk tiszta tartamat kapsz, semmi reklam semmi

Re: Intent to hijack pyicqt

Hi On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:32:50 +0100 Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I waited for a new version + waited for the final end of migration to > google-code-base. Unfortunately I am quite busy at the moment but my > intention was to get a new version ready before end of february - which > wa

Re: Intent to hijack pyicqt

Hi, I waited for a new version + waited for the final end of migration to google-code-base. Unfortunately I am quite busy at the moment but my intention was to get a new version ready before end of february - which was the last deadline you mentioned. Nevertheless - I totally understand your

Intent to hijack pyicqt

Hi package was only initially uploaded and then no bug fixes happened, what lead to completely broken package which I fixed by NMU in October 2007. Patrick promised to work on the package in December 2007 (see bug #453959 [1]), but nothing happened and I did not get any reply on my emails since t

FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale

Hello Maintainers, It seems there is a common problem while setting up the correct UNICODE locale in systems. As the posster in the attached message has written, he has setup his locale to "zh_CN.utf8" which is wrong, but as he has written too, the output of "locale -a" show it. I have many cust

apt-get and SOCKS

This might not be the correct place but here goes.. apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? I have no experience with SOCKS other than that I use it daily in conjunction with firefox and ssh. I think it is a feature which could be of use to others as well since it woul

Fwd: Introduction

Note: forwarded message attached. - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.--- Begin Message --- andrew warri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:00:40 -0800 (PST) From: andrew warri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get and SOCKS!

Hi Edward, * Edward Tjornhammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-28 12:26]: > This might not be the correct place but here goes.. > > apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? [...] No idea but nothing prevents you from using for example tsocks. Kind regards Nico -- Nico

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

On 28/02/2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Who said I didn't? But maybe it was in private IRC > discussions/mails. And maybe I didn't talk to all of them about that > neither, so I'm biaised. Because you said that your previous claims were based on your personal impressions rather than anything else?

apt-get and SOCKS!

This might not be the correct place but here goes.. apt-get provides http_proxy and ftp_proxy support but why not SOCKS? I have no experience with SOCKS other than that I use it daily in conjunction with firefox and ssh. I think it is a feature which could be of use to others as well since it wou

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

On 28/02/08 at 11:36 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 28/02/2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > 2) | * Inspire young developers to begin participating in open > >| source development; > > > 3) | * Help open source projects identify and bring in new > >| developers and committers; > > >

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

How about a potato as a mascot? It is a staple in many diets, it dovetails nicely with the Toy Story leitmotif running through debian versioning, and is malleable allowing it to look like a lot of things, i.e. with a face, a swirl on its belly, etc. The logos are fantastic and should not be cha

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

On 28/02/2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > 2) | * Inspire young developers to begin participating in open >| source development; > 3) | * Help open source projects identify and bring in new >| developers and committers; > 5) | * Give students more exposure to real-world software >|

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

On 28/02/08 at 10:54 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > BTW, it might be relevant to check GSOC's FAQ to see what it is about. > > , > | Google Summer of Code has several goals: > | > | * Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of > | all; > | * Inspire young developers t

Bug#468315: ITP: efreet -- Implementation of the freedesktop.org specs for use with E17/EFL

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Luebbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: efreet Version : 0.0.3.042 Upstream Author : Carsten Haitzler and the e17 devel team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.enlightenment.org/ * License : BSD Programming L

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

On 28/02/2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Nice claims. Pointers? > > I agree that this is mainly based on personal perception (but that's > not really my fault: no final report about what students did (in > detail) are available). OK. So you lack info, thus assume people failed. Nice. Steve already

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

On 28/02/08 at 01:09 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:17:56AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > I really can't figure out what you're saying, here. AFAICS, we had > > > significantly *better* results when choosing GSoC projects submitted by > > > existing Debian contri

Bug#468314: RFH: k3b -- A sophisticated KDE CD burning application

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request a co-maintainer for K3b. There are often quite a few bugs which take some time to investigate and attempt to reproduce before forwarding upstream (and following up). It's not a huge amount of work, but it would be quite nice to split the work with someo

Bug#468311: ITP: octave-pkg-dev -- helper for building Octave packages

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: octave-pkg-dev Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-octave/octave-pkg-dev/trunk/?rev=0&sc=0 * Licens

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:17:56AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I really can't figure out what you're saying, here. AFAICS, we had > > significantly *better* results when choosing GSoC projects submitted by > > existing Debian contributors. Where are these failures you're talking > > about?

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:53:17PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:42:17AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum > wrote: > > (1) Forbid DDs and people in the NM process waiting for > > FD/DAM to apply as students. > What if we do this, and still do not get many new people > applying? How ab