Launching and l10n NMU campaign for the squeeze release cycle

Despite the current incertainties about the planned release date, I think it is now time to launch the l10n NMU campaign for squeeze. The key page for this is http://i18n.debian.net/debian-l10n/l10n-nmu/nmu_bypackage.html It lists packages that have at least one l10n bug report opened and ranks t

Re: Launching an l10n NMU campaign for the squeeze release cycle

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Bug#542913: ITP: libmakefile-dom-perl -- Perl DOM implementation for Makefiles

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mikhail Gusarov * Package name: libmakefile-dom-perl Version : 0.004 Upstream Author : Agent Zhang * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Makefile-DOM/ * License : Perl (Artistic and GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Descript

Bug#542914: ITP: liblocale-maketext-gettext-perl -- Perl module bridging gettext and Maketext localization frameworks

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mikhail Gusarov * Package name: liblocale-maketext-gettext-perl Version : 1.28 Upstream Author : imacat * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext-Gettext/ * License : Perl (Artistic and GPL) Programming Lang:

Bug#542916: ITP: libmakefile-parser-perl -- Simple Perl makefile parser

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mikhail Gusarov * Package name: libmakefile-parser-perl Version : 0.211 Upstream Author : Agent Zhang * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Makefile-Parser/ * License : Perl (Artistic and GPL) Programming Lang: Perl De

Bug#542919: ITP: publican -- Tool for publishing material authored in DocBook XML

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mikhail Gusarov * Package name: publican Version : 0.99 Upstream Author : Jeff Fearn * URL : https://fedorahosted.org/publican/ * License : Perl (Artistic and GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Tool for pu

Bug#542918: ITP: libxml-treebuilder-perl -- Perl XML parser providing a tree of XML::Elements similar to HTML::Element

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mikhail Gusarov * Package name: libxml-treebuilder-perl Version : 3.09 Upstream Author : Sean M. Burke * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-TreeBuilder/ * License : Perl (Artistic and GPL) Programming Lang: Perl D

Re: Launching and l10n NMU campaign for the squeeze release cycle

Christian Perrier wrote: > Despite the current incertainties about the planned release date, I > think it is now time to launch the l10n NMU campaign for squeeze. I agree that it's probably not a bad timing to start a l10n NMU campaign. > The process is roughly the following: > > - warn the main

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

Hi, A larger version of this idea exists in the iso-codes package, with the iso-code subdivision codes for all countries, see /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166-2.xml For each US state it has the 2nd-level code , so US-MI is Michigan, for example. Similar 2nd-level codes exist for each cou

Re: Launching and l10n NMU campaign for the squeeze release cycle

On 22/08/09 at 11:59 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > > Of course, at any time of the process, things may be negotiated with > > the maintainer, and adapted to his|her work process...including fully > > abandoning the NMU intent..:-) > > > > This time, I'll look closer at packages I intend to NMU. Probab

udev 146 in experimental

I uploaded to experimental[1] udev 146, considering the major changes I recommend extended testing by anybody who can, especially d-i developers. Current status: "installs and boots in a kvm image". It will make mdadm uninstallable until it will be fixed to use blkid. udev now will use the Consol

mdadm and udev (was: udev 146 in experimental)

also sprach Marco d'Itri [2009.08.22.1402 +0200]: > I uploaded to experimental[1] udev 146, considering the major changes I > recommend extended testing by anybody who can, especially d-i > developers. > Current status: "installs and boots in a kvm image". > > It will make mdadm uninstallable unt

Registry for cache directories (to save backup space)

Hi, while watching rsnapshot doing a backup of my laptop, I thought: Wouldn't it be fine, to have a registry of cache directories that shouldn't be backed up? While you can exclude /var/cache, there are still many GB of data in ~/.mozilla/firefox/.../Cache ~/.strigi ~/.thumbnails ~/.cddb ~/.cach

Re: Registry for cache directories (to save backup space)

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: > while watching rsnapshot doing a backup of my laptop, I thought: Wouldn't it > be fine, to have a registry of cache directories that shouldn't be backed up? ... > So a debian package could register all the places, where it puts caches and a >

Bug#543118: ITP: python-cloudfiles -- Python interface to Rackspace CloudFiles service

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Shuler Package name: python-cloudfiles Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Cloud Files URL : http://github.com/rackspace/python-cloudfiles/ License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python

Bug#543146: ITP: zaz -- arcade action puzzle game

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz * Package name: zaz Version : 0.2.6 Upstream Author : Remigiusz Dybka * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/zaz/ * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : arcade action puzzle game Za

Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Magnus Holmgren * Package name: pdkim Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Tom Kistner * URL : http://duncanthrax.net/pdkim/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : cryptographically identify the sender of e

Re: udev 146 in experimental

On Saturday 22 August 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I uploaded to experimental[1] udev 146, considering the major changes I > recommend extended testing by anybody who can, especially d-i > developers. I've done a quick basic installation test on i386 (in VirtualBox). Nothing fancy. I've not seen a

Re: Registry for cache directories (to save backup space)

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:43:11 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: > > > while watching rsnapshot doing a backup of my laptop, I thought: > > Wouldn't it be fine, to have a registry of cache directories that > > shouldn't be backed up? > ... > > So a debia

Re: Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

Magnus Holmgren writes: > * Self-contained, no dependencies (except libc), thanks to code included > from the PolarSSL project. >From a Debian perspective, that's a policy violation, not a feature! Please arrange for it to use an external PolarSSL installation. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (a

Bug#543166: ITP: atheist -- A general purpose command-line testing tool.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Cleto Martín Angelina" Package name: atheist Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : David Villa URL : http://arco.esi.uclm.es/svn/public/prj/atheist License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Python Description : A gene

528194-d...@lists.debian.org

Hi, Given how much in flux the plans are for multi-arch, I would rather wait until plans solidify before making changes to the packaging. manoj -- Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. Sir Walter Raleigh Manoj Srivastava 1024D/BF24424C pr

Re: udev 146 in experimental

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:02:52PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > udev now will use the ConsoleKit database to set ACLs on devices, this > will allow removing all non-standard groups from the rules (#516149). Before concluding that ConsoleKit obsoletes these groups, please compare with

Re: 528194-d...@lists.debian.org

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:50:19 -0500 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Given how much in flux the plans are for multi-arch, I would > rather wait until plans solidify before making changes to the > packaging. General request: when adding a mailing list to the discussion of a bug report, please