Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Paul Wise (au) for fixing #479607 (still to be uploaded) :D cookies :D On the serious side, as I wrote in the bug report, I'm not as familiar with debconf and maintainer scripts as I should be in order to fix t

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Why not, but note that local breweries are not that common around the > world as they are (IIRC) in Germany. At least they weren't that common > in Italy, but that's compensated by home-made liquors usually :) So > let's generalize it to whatever liquid containing alc

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:48:21PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Let's make it a Beer Sprint. The winners receive a package with the > local brew from the people who didn't manage to fix their bugs. I'm > offering German beer to five winners, just as Joss did for cookies. Why not, but note th

Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

2008-10-31 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:41:14AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: general > Severity: serious > Justification: DFSG > > raff.debian.org uses a Compaq Smart 5i RAID card. A flash memory is used > to store the firmware. While the firmware is freely downloadable (as in > beer) on HP website

Re: For those who care about bts-link: call for adoption

2008-10-31 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Pierre Habouzit 2008-10-30 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:52:58PM +, Christoph Berg wrote: > > Re: Pierre Habouzit 2008-10-30 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Anyways, the information is: I don't intend to maintain or run bts-link > > > anymore[2], it is up for adoption. If the B

Bug#504134: ITP: ssvnc -- Enhanced TightVNC viewer with SSL/SSH tunnel helper

2008-10-31 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ssvnc Version : 1.0.20 Upstream Author : Karl J. Runge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ssvnc.html * License : GPL 2 Programming Lang: C, She

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >=2E.. hence, given that Lenny hasn't been release yet, when are we gonna > make another one? :) Let's make it a Beer Sprint. The winners receive a package with the local brew from the people who didn't manage to fix their bugs. I'm offering German beer to five winners, j

Re: Possibility for dependencies against specific kernel modules

2008-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 05:07:44PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> Exactly because of the option of using custom built kernels, virtualbox >> does not depend on the Debian modules packages, but only recommends >> them (which IMO is correct: the Debian module package will be instal

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:39:47PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > the lenny Bug Sprint is over. I think it is a mitigated success. ^^^ this I think it was a great success, it has proven that fun/game is a good motivation among hackers, and that initiatives like this should be done more frequ

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:39:47PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The following people deserve a honorable mention for dealing with their > bugs. > * Gaudenz Steinlin for proposing approaches for #488669 (this is > still work in progress) Oh thanks for the honorable mention. I wi

Re: Possibility for dependencies against specific kernel modules

2008-10-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 05:07:44PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Bastian Blank wrote: > > Because of some recent events, I thought about the possibility for > > packages to depend against kernel module packages. As we don't want to > > dictate the usage of Debian provided kernels, we need a last resort

Re: can a kernel in main depend on firmware in non-free to work?

2008-10-31 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Alexandre Oliva] > That's why packages that contain Free Software along with > documentation under licenses that don't pass the DFSG end up split > into separate packages. Keeping the documentation that didn't pass > the DFSG wasn't deemed acceptable, neither was moving the whole > package to no

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 31/10/08 at 13:39 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The following people definitely deserve cookies. They provided patches > for long-standing RC issues which are all fixed or soon to be. > * Lucas Nussbaum (fr) and Emmanuel Bouthenot (fr) for working > together on #501800/#496954

Re: Possibility for dependencies against specific kernel modules

2008-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
Bastian Blank wrote: > Because of some recent events, I thought about the possibility for > packages to depend against kernel module packages. As we don't want to > dictate the usage of Debian provided kernels, we need a last resort > fallback to the modules source. Exactly because of the option o

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:39:47PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > * Sean Finney (us) for downgrading #501574 and fixing #267040 i'm in .se, actually :) sean signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is Christian Sánchez still active?

2008-10-31 Thread José Miguel Parrella Romero
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damyan Ivanov escribió, en fecha 31/10/08 02:08: > [Cc me on replies, thanks] > > Hi Jose and Anibal, > > You did sponsor packages for Christian Sánchez before, do you know if > he is still active in Debian or how could I contact him? Hello, I've

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-10-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:01:18PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:33 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > So if any of the hardware that requires non-free firmware to operate and > > currently works in etch was to not work with Lenny, then that's > > completely unaccepta

Re: Bug#484656: Fw: gnome, kde, xfce use non-policy main menu

2008-10-31 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, while reading the forwarded messages in the BTS, I am supporting Bill to continue maintaining "menu" since the "desktop" is hit by to many limitations. I have an Add-On to "menu" called "tdfvwm-menu" which is currently not updated since I have some problems here in France...

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joss wrote: > >The following people failed to fix the bugs they were assigned, but the >issues were either too complex or already tackled by other people. They >are encouraged to contribute to the baking effort, still! > * Josselin Mouette (fr) for not fixing the hppa kernel (I will >b

Re: Possibility for dependencies against specific kernel modules

2008-10-31 Thread Kel Modderman
On Friday 31 October 2008 22:20:26 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008 à 12:44 +0100, Bastian Blank a écrit : > > Because of some recent events, I thought about the possibility for > > packages to depend against kernel module packages. As we don't want to > > dictate the usage of

Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi folks, the lenny Bug Sprint is over. I think it is a mitigated success. A success since a number of RC bugs were fixed, but mitigated by the small number of players. I’d like to thank all players for their contributions. The game was not really fair since some issues were much easier to deal w

Re: Possibility for dependencies against specific kernel modules

2008-10-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008 à 12:44 +0100, Bastian Blank a écrit : > Because of some recent events, I thought about the possibility for > packages to depend against kernel module packages. As we don't want to > dictate the usage of Debian provided kernels, we need a last resort > fallback to the mo

Possibility for dependencies against specific kernel modules

2008-10-31 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks Because of some recent events, I thought about the possibility for packages to depend against kernel module packages. As we don't want to dictate the usage of Debian provided kernels, we need a last resort fallback to the modules source. My first solution was something like the following

Re: can a kernel in main depend on firmware in non-free to work?

2008-10-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 30 octobre 2008 à 17:37 -0200, Alexandre Oliva a écrit : > It does make a difference when the components don't quite form an > inseparable unit, but rather they're just put together in a single > tarball for convenience. Kernel modules are not really separable from the kernel image. You c

Re: can buildd logs be sorted (again)?

2008-10-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 20:02 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > [1] I promised Christoph Berg that I am going to write a PHP extension, > actually > an interface, to libapt's functions; but I haven't been lucky enough to find > the docs (libapt-pkg-doc isn't what I expected). If somebody can point me