Re: udev and /usr

2009-08-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 31, md wrote: > >> The issue was raised by the udev upstream maintainer along with the udev >> package maintainers of the major distributions, who all agreed that this >> configuration is not supported. > FYI, udev 146 ships usb-id and pci-id programs which read > /usr

udev and /usr

2009-08-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 31, md wrote: > The issue was raised by the udev upstream maintainer along with the udev > package maintainers of the major distributions, who all agreed that this > configuration is not supported. FYI, udev 146 ships usb-id and pci-id programs which read /usr/share/misc/usb.ids and /usr/sh

Bug#544498: ITP: libterm-encoding-perl -- Perl module to detect encoding of the current terminal

2009-08-31 Thread Christine Spang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christine Spang * Package name: libterm-encoding-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-Encoding/ * License : Perl (Artistic | GPL-1+) Programming Lang: Perl

Re: Compiling libbam.a from libbam-dev with -fPIC?

2009-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:23:39AM +0100, Stephen Gran a écrit : > This one time, at band camp, Charles Plessy said: > > Le Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:06:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:56:58AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > as per Policy § 10.2, I would lik

Bug#544486: ITP: python-keyring -- Store and access your passwords safely

2009-08-31 Thread Carl Chenet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Chenet * Package name: python-keyring Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Kang Zhang * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyring * License : PSF Programming Lang: Python Description : Store and access your pass

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Frans Pop
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 31, Bastian Blank wrote: >> I doubt that I would be able to push this port through another release >> in the current state. The consequence would by that the port dies >> completely and with it the only free and released distribution for this >> machines. > > Is this r

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: The first problem is the worst. Currently only Frans Pop and I do work on it. Frans only does the Debian-Installer part and I simply have not enough time to do the rest. The s390 architecture is quite different to anything else, so i

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Michael Casadevall wrote: I think a bigger question is where do you find hardware where you can get remote root on; I'm not very familiar with s390 or mainframes in general, but its not a piece of hardware one individual person would own. I'm aware of the Hercules

Bug#544454: ITP: libnet-bonjour-perl -- Perl module for DNS service discovery

2009-08-31 Thread Christine Spang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christine Spang * Package name: libnet-bonjour-perl Version : 0.96 Upstream Author : George Chlipala * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Bonjour/ * License : Perl (Artistic | GPL-1+) Programming Lang: Perl Descri

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Michael Casadevall
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 31, Bastian Blank wrote: > >> I doubt that I would be able to push this port through another release >> in the current state. The consequence would by that the port dies >> completely and with it the only free and released distribution

Bug#544441: RFA: enemies-of-carlotta -- mailing list manager)

2009-08-31 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I forgot the X-Debbugs-Cc in my original e-mail, sorry. Package: wnpp Severity: normal I would like to find a new maintainer for the enemies-of-carlotta package. It is a mailing list manager, of which I am upstream. I will gladly fix any bugs that exist upstream, but I do not wish to maintain the

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 31, Bastian Blank wrote: > I doubt that I would be able to push this port through another release > in the current state. The consequence would by that the port dies > completely and with it the only free and released distribution for this > machines. Is this really an important problem? D

Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks The s390 port was released with Lenny. However it is not in the best condition. There are mainly two problems which needs attention, lack of manpower and a 64 bit userland. The first problem is the worst. Currently only Frans Pop and I do work on it. Frans only does the Debian-Install

Bug#544432: ITP: ibus-table-stroke5 -- Stroke5 input method based on table engine of ibus

2009-08-31 Thread Asias He
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asias He * Package name: ibus-table-stroke5 Version : 1.2.0.20090828 Upstream Author : Caius 'kaio' Chance < k AT kaio DOT me > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ibus * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: N/A Descriptio

Bug#544427: ITP: ibus-table-ziranma -- Ziranma input method based on table engine of ibus

2009-08-31 Thread Asias He
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asias He * Package name: ibus-table-ziranma Version : 1.2.0.20090831 Upstream Author : Caius "kaio" Chance * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ibus * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: N/A Description : Ziranma inpu

Bug#544422: ITP: ibus-table-wu -- Wu input method based on table engine of ibus

2009-08-31 Thread Asias He
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asias He * Package name: ibus-table-wu Version : 1.2.0.20090831 Upstream Author : Caius "kaio" Chance * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ibus * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: N/A Description : Wu input method b

Bug#544402: ITP: r-cran-erm -- GNU R package for extended Rasch modelling

2009-08-31 Thread Julian Gilbey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Gilbey Package name: r-cran-erm Version : 0.10-2 Upstream Author : Patrick Mair and Reinhold Hatzinger URL : http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/erm/ License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: R and C Descriptio

Bug#544399: ITP: rakudo -- implementation of Perl 6 for Parrot

2009-08-31 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: rakudo Version : "2009-08" aka PDX (will probably use 0.1~2009-08-1 for the package version) Upstream Author : The Rakudo Team * URL : http://rakudo.org/ *

Re: New NM Front-desk Member

2009-08-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:49:29PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > the New-Maintainer Front-desk is happy to announce that Enrico Zini > followed our invitation to join the > team. Welcome on board and many thanks for volunteering! Yu-hu \o/ ... and thanks to the (now enlarged) FD group for their