Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:39:10AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 12-Mar-08, 04:21 (CDT), Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yay for portability: many compilers don't support forward static prototypes > > properly. And then we hear about using (char *)0 instead of NULL for > > port

RE: Packaging Mauve and libClustalW

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Edgar
Was this intended for me? If so, I'm not clear why... Robert. -Original Message- From: Andreas Tille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:16 PM To: Debian Developers Cc: Aaron Darling; Robert C. Edgar Bob; Todd J Treangen Subject: Re: Packaging Mauve and libClustalW

Re: Packaging Mauve and libClustalW

2008-03-12 Thread Andreas Tille
[Robert and Todd please read below about some issues about muscle] Everybody: PLease keep the debian-med mailing list in CC. We would like to build reasonable Debian packages out of a uniform source that contains all features that are needed and as less bugs as possible. The Debian-Med mailing l

Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* John Goerzen: > What is it that people don't get from git-rebase(1)? > >When you rebase a branch, you are changing its history in a way that >will cause problems for anyone who already has a copy of the branch in >their repository and tries to pull updates from you. You s

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:16 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Ian appears to have chosen to speak truth to power rather than > forking. Do you have a constructive alternative to suggest? $ echo ":/dpkg/i" >> ~/.killfile William signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 12 2008 10:26:52 Luk Claes wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: > > It would be flogging a dead horse if we didn't have the core packaging > > software maintained by an obstructive and naive programmer supported > > by someone who is more interested in pretty revision logs than good > > code. >

Re: Debian's use in the Human Genome Project mentioned in the The Guardian

2008-03-12 Thread Tim Cutts
On 12 Mar 2008, at 8:15 am, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:28:31PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: Just thought you might like to read that as a break from the flame wars. Thanks, this kind of interruptions have indeed chance of breaking flamewars :-) However, you might be in

Re: Please test ELinks from experimental

2008-03-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:35:28AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:33:12 +0200, Andrei Popescu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:51:14PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > >> I uploaded ELinks 0.12~20080127-2 a few days ago to experimental. If > >> you

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Luk Claes
Ian Jackson wrote: > William Pitcock writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, > triggers)"): >> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:06 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: >>> It's easy to see negatives such as making it harder to merge >>> long-awaited features. What positives do you see for Debian? >> Th

Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 12-Mar-08, 04:21 (CDT), Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yay for portability: many compilers don't support forward static prototypes > properly. And then we hear about using (char *)0 instead of NULL for > portability reasons, As has been explained, the problem is not replacing "0"

Re: ITP: ttf-linex -- Free fonts for education and institutions

2008-03-12 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 10 Mar 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11320 March 1977, José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez wrote: > > > Description : Free fonts for education and institutions > Please keep the "free" out of the description(s). Thats already pretty > clear thanks to the archive it should be uploaded to.

Bug#470649: ITP: libnet-nis-perl -- Interface to Sun's Network Information Service

2008-03-12 Thread Hendrik Frenzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: libnet-nis-perl Version: 0.43 Upstream Author: Rik Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ed Santiago Muñoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL:

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue March 11 2008 10:45:43 pm Guillem Jover wrote: > Anyway, after the freeze was announced it was clear that Ian was not > going to fix the branch, and because having this feature for lenny is > highly desirable I was just going to have to fix it myself and review > during that process, but got

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > And most importantly, you wouldn't contemplate deploying somewhere else an > implementation of triggers that hasn't been accepted in dpkg, because of the > danger of creating (and maintaining) a sustained incompatibility. Oh wait,

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:01:35AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:42:48 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Against the wishes of, afaict, Guillem and Raphael, Ian's made applying > > > his triggers patch dependent on: > > > > > > - reversion to two space indenting > > The

Re: Intend to hijack xchat-xsys

2008-03-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi all! > I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2] for several > bugs and many new upstream releases hold back on Debian, and he > communicated me that he is not longer interested on maintaining it any > more. > Unfortunately, my suggestion of orphaning the pkg made no differ

Re: Steffen Joeris (white@) is wanted ;)

2008-03-12 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Martin, * Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-12 11:52]: > On Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 11:39:10 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > > Does anybody know where Steffen Joeris is? > > > > He has not answered my mails for a month+ already. > > Is everything OK with him? > > IIRC: Broken la

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: The history of this change is as follows: * At some point, without any kind of discussion, Guillem unilaterally reformats several files to 8-character indents. ... Well, I don't want to interrupt your guys thrilling discussion about indentation of so

Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 12 2008 02:21:24 Pierre Habouzit wrote: > http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=122fdc0fa5fe90a7d5f6919f2d3177fd0830c360 > > Code has been refactored in a generic module to deal with usages and > so on. The functions aren't static anymore, because they *do* have a >

Re: Steffen Joeris (white@) is wanted ;)

2008-03-12 Thread Patrick Winnertz
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 09:39:10 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > Does anybody know where Steffen Joeris is? > > He has not answered my mails for a month+ already. > Is everything OK with him? Yes, his laptop is broken and he doesn't yet know when he will get it back. Furthermore he can't access in

Bug#470623: ITP: nxproxy -- NX X compression proxy

2008-03-12 Thread Matthew Johnson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Source package: nxproxy Binary package(s): nxproxy Version: 3.1.0-2-1 Licence: GPL Author: NoMachine Homepage:

Bug#470624: ITP: nxcomp -- NX X compression library

2008-03-12 Thread Matthew Johnson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Source package: nxcomp Binary package(s): libxcomp3 libxcomp-dev Version: 3.1.0-6-1 Licence: GPL Author: NoMachine Ho

Bug#470621: ITP: nxcl -- NX X compression client library

2008-03-12 Thread Matthew Johnson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Source package: nxcl Binary package(s): libnxcl1 libnxcl-dev libnxcl-bin Version: 0.9-1 Licence: GPL Author: Seb James [EMAIL PRO

Bug#470622: ITP: qtnx -- NX client for QT

2008-03-12 Thread Matthew Johnson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Source package: qtnx Binary package(s): qtnx Version: 0.9-1 Licence: GPL Author: Homepage: Description: NX cli

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 12 mars 2008 à 10:01 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : > Guillem Jover writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, > triggers)"): > > I'd like to clarify few more things, which have been brough up the past > > few days. Even if I don't usually accept open invitations to flamefest

Re: Steffen Joeris (white@) is wanted ;)

2008-03-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 11:39:10 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > Does anybody know where Steffen Joeris is? > > He has not answered my mails for a month+ already. > Is everything OK with him? IIRC: Broken laptop and no Internet connection somewhere in .au. Last time a had active smoke s

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)"): > I'd like to clarify few more things, which have been brough up the past > few days. Even if I don't usually accept open invitations to flamefests > (re the OP). Guillem emerges! At last! The key claim Guillem m

Steffen Joeris (white@) is wanted ;)

2008-03-12 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
> Maybe he could answer if you try and contact white@, rather than [EMAIL > PROTECTED] Upss.. :) sorry the typo was only in subject. I send my mails to him with the command 'Reply' so there' s no typos there. :) > Anyway, he gave away some of his packages, because of his being busy, > which might

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Ian Jackson
William Pitcock writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)"): > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:06 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > It's easy to see negatives such as making it harder to merge > > long-awaited features. What positives do you see for Debian? > > The horse is dead. Stop

Re: Steffen Joeris (while@) is wanted ;)

2008-03-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 12/03/2008, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > Does anybody know where Steffen Joeris is? > > He has not answered my mails for a month+ already. > Is everything OK with him? Maybe he could answer if you try and contact white@, rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway, he gave away some of his packages

fonts for MathML

2008-03-12 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi all, I'd like to know the situation of fonts for MathML. As far as I know, to display MathML it need some TeX fonts, Symbol fonts, and fonts of Mathematica4.1 and of MathType. (cf. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/) Mathematica and MathType are, of course, commercial applications

Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-12 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On mar, mar 11, 2008 at 09:41:57 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > [2] His most recent commit is 402 diff lines of stuff like this: > -static void usage(void) { > +void > +usage(void) > +{ You know what you're doing is FUD from the worst kind ? On mar, mar 11, 2008 at 11:37:22 +, John Go

Steffen Joeris (while@) is wanted ;)

2008-03-12 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
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Bug#470603: ITP: libclass-dbi-sweet-perl -- sweeter Class::DBI

2008-03-12 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libclass-dbi-sweet-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : many :) MAINTAINERS Fred Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AUTHORS Christian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ma

Re: Debian's use in the Human Genome Project mentioned in the The Guardian

2008-03-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:28:31PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: > Just thought you might like to read that as a break from the flame wars. Thanks, this kind of interruptions have indeed chance of breaking flamewars :-) However, you might be interested in http://times.debian.net, it is an "advertisem

Re: Please test ELinks from experimental

2008-03-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:33:12 +0200, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:51:14PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: >> I uploaded ELinks 0.12~20080127-2 a few days ago to experimental. If >> you happen to use ELinks, please test this and report any bugs etc. that

Re: Intend to hijack xchat-xsys

2008-03-12 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:19:01PM -0200, UlisesVitulli wrote: > I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2] (...) > Unfortunately, my suggestion of orphaning the pkg made no difference > to the current maintainer, as he showed no cares at all for it. If he showed no care at all for

Re: Intend to hijack xchat-xsys

2008-03-12 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:19 -0200, UlisesVitulli wrote: > I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2] for several > bugs and many new upstream releases hold back on Debian, and he > communicated me that he is not longer interested on maintaining it any > more. Tell him to orphan

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Or use the aptitude frontend for package management which will show such > packages under the header "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages". Thanks for reminding this very obvious feature which helped me removing about 20 obsolete packages from my laptop

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
Karl Chen wrote: > Good points, I also discovered Synaptic works well for manually > looking for removed packages. Notifying PTS subscribers by email > also sounds very useful. Still, I worry about the people who > don't know to check for removed packages - and aren't watching > the packages that

let's not yet hijack this package (Re: Intend to hijack xchat-xsys)

2008-03-12 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:19 -0200, UlisesVitulli wrote: > Hi debian-devel, > > I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2] Private conversation ? > for several > bugs I don't see "several bugs". http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=xchat-xsys > and many new upstream

Re: bits from the DMs/NMs/AMs?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
[sent to -devel for a wider audience] On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:54 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > [Please CC me in all replies, or reply only to me] > > We've had bits from the DPL[1][2], bits from the release team[3], bits > from the listmasters[4] and bits from other people and groups within > Debia