Bug#508985: ITP: libmysqlcppconn-dev -- MySQL C++ Connectivity library

2008-12-17 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rene Engelhard * Package name: libmysqlcppconn-dev Version : 1.0.2 snapshot Upstream Author : MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems Inc. * URL : http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Connector_C++ * License : GPL v2 with "FLOSS exception" P

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-17 Thread Julien BLACHE
Josselin Mouette wrote: Hi, > Maybe that’s because I maintain packages with a large audience, but I > don’t find that effect very important. You're right about the large audience, it does make quite a difference. > Actually I don’t think we should recommend testing at all to desktop > users.

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-17 Thread Julien BLACHE
"Daniel Moerner" wrote: Hi, > Obviously, having more users test unstable is good. However, I agree > that it's not necessarily a big issue. A good deal of RC-bugs are > related to FTBFS, security advisories, package conflicts, and the > like. These bugs can pop up independently of how much te

Re: Bug#508901: ITP: dicom3tools -- Tools for handling DICOM files, with conversion from proprietary formats.

2008-12-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:14:29PM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:06:40PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >> > On mar, 2008-12-16 at 13:57 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> > > Description : Tools for han

Building Debian from Sources

2008-12-17 Thread Mustafa KYR
Hello, I am a new engineer and I was just a debian user in my former life. I want to build debian linux from sources to understand it all. I spent lots of time during search about it. Do we have a script or sth else in sources cd. I want to create whole linux which is in installable cd. Please give

Gtk1.2/Imlib/gnome-lib packages (Long)

2008-12-17 Thread Barry deFreese
Hi folks, Just in case anyone cares/is interested, here is some work I have been doing on packages using Gtk1.2, Imlib, gnome-libs, or any combination thereof. Obviously some packages fall within more than one rdepend/rbdepend. gnome-libs: bluefish Actually built with gtk2 but still bui

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Dec 14 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:02:17AM +, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > >> -- >> Choice 2: Allow Lenny to release with proprietary firmware [3:1] >> == == = = == ==

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:02:17AM +, Debian Project Secretary wrote: >> And FWIW I still believe this vote is an horrible mix-up of really >> different things, is completely confusing, and I've no clue how to vote. >>

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Actually I don’t think we should recommend testing at all to desktop > users. Why? >Except during freeze times, I find unstable to be much more > usable, and keep testing for (non-production) servers. IMHO, there i

Bug#509017: ITP: libclass-c3-adopt-next-perl -- drop-in replacement for NEXT, using Class::C3 to do the hard work

2008-12-17 Thread eloy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyżaniak (eloy)" * Package name: libclass-c3-adopt-next-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Florian Ragwitz C * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-C3-Adopt-NEXT/ * License : Dual (Perl): GPL/Artistic

Re: Building Debian from Sources

2008-12-17 Thread Cavit Cahit VURAL
Hi, please check http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ regards CC Vural > Hello, > I am a new engineer and I was just a debian user in my former > life. I want to build debian linux from sources to understand it all. > I spent lots of time during search about it. Do we have a script or > sth else in

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Dec 15 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thomas Weber writes: >> Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 10:06 + schrieb Steve McIntyre: > >>> I've been talking with Manoj already, in private to try and avoid >>> flaming. I specifically asked him to delay this vote until the numerous >>> problems with i

Bug#509021: ITP: gdcm -- DICOM library

2008-12-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: gdcm Version : 2.0.10 Upstream Author : Mathieu Malaterre * URL : http://gdcm.sourceforge.net * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C++, C#, Python, Java Description : DICOM libr

Bug#508992: ITP: pvrg -- JPEG implementation from Standford

2008-12-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: pvrg Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Andy C. Hung * URL : ftp://havefun.stanford.edu:pub/jpeg/JPEGv1.2.tar.Z. * License : PUBLIC DOMAIN LICENSE Programming Lang: C Description

Why the gr_lenny ballot is the way it is

2008-12-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This whole set of discussions and proposals started a couple of months ago, when concerns were raised about firmware blobs, dfsg violations, and the release. This, after a round of disuccion, led to three proposals on how the release should be conducted, in view of firmware blobs c

Re: Bug#508990: ITP: dicomscope -- DICOMscope - DICOM Viewer

2008-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/17/08 03:29, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: dicomscope Version : 3.5.1 Upstream Author : OFFIS DICOM Team * URL : http://dicom.offis.de/dscope.php.en * License : Copyright (C) 1994-20

Re: Bug#508992: ITP: pvrg -- JPEG implementation from Standford

2008-12-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/17/08 03:57, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Mathieu Malaterre >> >> >> * Package name: pvrg >> Version : 1.2.1 >> Upstream Author : Andy C. Hung >> * URL : ftp://ha

Re: Building Debian from Sources

2008-12-17 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Mustafa KYR wrote: > Hello, > I am a new engineer and I was just a debian user in my former life. I want > to build debian linux from sources to understand it all. I spent lots of > time during search about it. I'm not sure how much building from source will help your understanding, but anyway, ht

Re: Bug#508992: ITP: pvrg -- JPEG implementation from Standford

2008-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/17/08 03:57, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: pvrg Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Andy C. Hung * URL : ftp://havefun.stanford.edu:pub/jpeg/JPEGv1.2.tar.Z. $ mtr havefun.stanford.edu Couldn

Re: Bug#508725: ITP:pmwiki -- easy of use wiki-based system

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:16:37PM -0500, Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas wrote: > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Package: pmwiki > Severity: wishlist > Owner: cristian paul peñaranda rojas > > * Package name : pmwiki > Version : 2.2.0 > Upstream Author : Patrick R

Re: Gtk1.2/Imlib/gnome-lib packages (Long)

2008-12-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Barry deFreese wrote: sqlrelay Some of the binaries have decent popcons. We could probably either port sqlrelay-config-gtk or just remove that binary for now. I'd also strongly vote for only droping this specific binary in case this would be a Gtk 1.2 removal blocker b

Re: Bug#508990: ITP: dicomscope -- DICOMscope - DICOM Viewer

2008-12-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/17/08 03:29, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Mathieu Malaterre >> >> >> * Package name: dicomscope >> Version : 3.5.1 >> Upstream Author : OFFIS DICOM Team >> * URL

Bug#508990: ITP: dicomscope -- DICOMscope - DICOM Viewer

2008-12-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: dicomscope Version : 3.5.1 Upstream Author : OFFIS DICOM Team * URL : http://dicom.offis.de/dscope.php.en * License : Copyright (C) 1994-2004, OFFIS Programming Lang: C, C++ Descrip

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:54:40PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Thomas Weber writes: > >> Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 10:06 + schrieb Steve McIntyre: > > > >>> I've been talking with Manoj already, in private to try and avoid > >>> flaming. I

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Dec 17 2008, David Weinehall wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:54:40PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 15 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: >> >> > Thomas Weber writes: >> >> Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 10:06 + schrieb Steve McIntyre: >> > >> >>> I've been talking with Manoj a

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >If there is sufficient support, we could also scrap the current > vote, change our ballot, add options to it, or something, and restart > the vote, but that would need a strong grass roots support (I do not > think the secretary

Bug#509063: ITP: libproxy -- automatic proxy configuration management library

2008-12-17 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort * Package name: libproxy Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Nathaniel McCallum Alex Panait * URL : http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-17 Thread Drew Parsons
> > GTK+ 1.2 has been deprecated upstream for 6 years. There is no security > support for it, and no new applications using it have been out for quite > a long time as well. > > > Here is a first list of packages that could either be removed right now > because they seem to have replacements, or

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Brian May
Margarita Manterola wrote: If we do all this, we would be voting: A) If we trust or not the release team on making the right choices of which bugs to ignore and which not (regardless of this being firmware issues or what have you). This is from now on, not just for Lenny. B) If we want to allo

Re: Gtk1.2/Imlib/gnome-lib packages (Long)

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Barry deFreese wrote: > Just in case anyone cares/is interested, here is some work I have been doing > on packages using Gtk1.2, Imlib, gnome-libs, or any combination thereof. The playdv binary from libdv-bin can be dropped until it is ported to GTK+ 2, bug filed

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:45, Brian May wrote: > Margarita Manterola wrote: > > If we do all this, we would be voting: > > > > A) If we trust or not the release team on making the right choices of > > which bugs to ignore and which not (regardless of this being firmware > > issues or what h

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 10:55, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > The Fedora vs RHEL model that Red Hat uses has some benefits. > > The Fedora and RHEL is: > > Fedora: a somewhat equivalent of Debian Testing. The rules for updating > a package even after a version is released are way more laxed than