Bug#589709: ITP: bitlespeak -- A tiny text to speech toolbar

2010-07-20 Thread Matt Arnold
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matt Arnold * Package name: bitlespeak Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : myself * URL : http://github.com/marnold/BitleSpeak * License : GPL V 3 Programming Lang: python Description : A tiny text to speech toolba

Bug#589717: ITP: colladacoherencytest -- check the coherency of COLLADA files

2010-07-20 Thread Sébastien Barthélémy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Sébastien Barthélémy" * Package name: colladacoherencytest Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. * URL : httpis://sourceforge.net/projects/colladarefinery/ * License : MIT Programming Lang:

Bug#589722: ITP: django-ajax-selects -- Library for editing fields with autocomplete.

2010-07-20 Thread Brian May
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: django-ajax-selects Version : 1.1.4 Upstream Author : Chris Sattinger * URL : http://code.google.com/p/django-ajax-selects/ * License : Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses Programming

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/18/2010 02:35 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 17:03 +, Philipp Kern wrote: >> On 2010-07-17, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> The postinst for nvidia-kernel-dkms invokes dkms, which invokes >>> lsb_release. lsb_release hasn't been configured at this point so its >>> module has

The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
The number of submissions to the Debian popularity-contest collector is falling, and has done so for some time now. This can be easily seen on http://popcon.debian.org/stat/sub-i386.png >. This is mostly caused by a fall in the number of Lenny installations, as can be seen from http://popcon.debi

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Petter: On Tuesday 20 July 2010 14:41:49 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The number of submissions to the Debian popularity-contest collector > is falling, and has done so for some time now. This can be easily > seen on http://popcon.debian.org/stat/sub-i386.png >. > > This is mostly caused by a

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 14:36:04 (CEST), Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 07/18/2010 02:35 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 17:03 +, Philipp Kern wrote: >>> On 2010-07-17, Ben Hutchings wrote: The postinst for nvidia-kernel-dkms invokes dkms, which invokes lsb_release. ls

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 02:41:49PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Anyone got any idea how to can get more machines to report to > popcon.debian.org? Or can there be some other problem causing the > fall in the number of submissions? Everyone I have spoken with regarding this who does not rep

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 02:41:49PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Anyone got any idea how to can get more machines to report to popcon.debian.org? Or can there be some other problem causing the fall in the number of submissions? I mount filesystem with "noatime" (at home and on my servers

Bug#589741: ITP: sugar-paint-activity -- Sugar Paint Activity

2010-07-20 Thread Ankur khurana
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ankur khurana * Package name: sugar-paint-activity Version : 27 Upstream Author : Ashita * URL : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Paint_act * License : GPL v2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Sugar Paint Activit

Bug#589742: ITP: sugar-irc-activity -- Sugar IRC activity

2010-07-20 Thread Ankur khurana
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ankur khurana * Package name: sugar-irc-activity Version : 6 Upstream Author : Mel Chua * URL : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XoIRC * License : GPL v2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Sugar IRC activity Thi

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 20/07/2010 16:56, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I mount filesystem with "noatime" (at home and on my servers), > and AFAIK popcon don't work with such configuration, so I don't > install it. It can at least report the installed packages, I guess? Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jesús M. Navarro] > I for one don't allow for popcon on production machines under my > control. Sad to hear that your machines are not able to influence the parts of Debian which uses the popcon.debian.org numbers to improve Debian (like the CD/DVD builds :). > I'm not going into details about

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Giacomo A. Catenazzi] > I mount filesystem with "noatime" (at home and on my servers), and > AFAIK popcon don't work with such configuration, so I don't install > it. There is no need to avoid popularity-contest just because you are mounting file systems with noatime. The set of installated pack

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Jonathan Clarke
On 20/07/2010 14:41, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The number of submissions to the Debian popularity-contest collector is falling, and has done so for some time now. This can be easily seen onhttp://popcon.debian.org/stat/sub-i386.png>. This is mostly caused by a fall in the number of Lenny insta

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Yves-Alexis Perez [100720 17:41]: > On 20/07/2010 16:56, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > I mount filesystem with "noatime" (at home and on my servers), > > and AFAIK popcon don't work with such configuration, so I don't > > install it. > > It can at least report the installed packages, I guess?

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > Lets remove all triggers from dpkg then. For things that have to run to make the package usable, yes. > Updating the Python modules for every new module package is a big waste > of time, running it as a trigger results into the described problem in a > few rare cases. Wh

Re: Last call for keys for keysigning in New York City, USA during DebConf10

2010-07-20 Thread Wookey
+++ Aníbal Monsalve Salazar [2010-07-19 14:19 +1000]: > [Resending as I've had problems posting this message] > > As part of the 11th Debian Conference in New York City, USA, there will > be OpenPGP (pgp/gpg) keysignings. If you intend to participate in the > DebConf10 keysignings, please send you

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)"): > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > > Lets remove all triggers from dpkg then. > > For things that have to run to make the package usable, yes. No. > I prefer packages to work after they've been configured. Otherwise, > Depends doe

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Packages which are awaiting trigger processing are not "configured"[1] > and do not satisfy dependencies. Triggers-supporting tools (which > includes those in lenny) always try to process triggers just as hard as > they try to do other configuration steps. The problem here

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-07-20, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 07/18/2010 02:35 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 17:03 +, Philipp Kern wrote: >>> On 2010-07-17, Ben Hutchings wrote: The postinst for nvidia-kernel-dkms invokes dkms, which invokes lsb_release. lsb_release hasn't been conf

Bug#589758: ITP: antelope -- graphical user interface for Ant

2010-07-20 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Damien Raude-Morvan" * Package name: antelope Version : 3.5.1 Upstream Author : Dale Anson * URL : http://antelope.tigris.org/ * License : Apache-1.1 Programming Lang: Java Description : graphical user interface

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/20/2010 09:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > Well, that lsb_release is written in Python is just an implementation > detail, no? So it just should not be the responsibility of the caller. It should as you can't assume that your dependencies are configured when your own package is being configure

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 21:44:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 07/20/2010 09:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Well, that lsb_release is written in Python is just an implementation > > detail, no? So it just should not be the responsibility of the caller. > > It should as you can't assume that y

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > It should as you can't assume that your dependencies are configured when > your own package is being configured (Debian Policy 3.5). That's not correct. You can assume that your dependencies are configured before you're configured unless there are circular dependencies i

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/20/2010 09:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 21:44:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> On 07/20/2010 09:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: >>> Well, that lsb_release is written in Python is just an implementation >>> detail, no? So it just should not be the responsibility of th

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed and > configured before it can be installed. In this case, you must specify a > Pre-Depends entry for the package. "Installed" here means "unpacked," not configured. There's a pending Policy bug to clarify tha

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 07/20/2010 09:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 21:44:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> >>> On 07/20/2010 09:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: Well, that lsb_release is written in Python is just an implementation d

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/20/2010 10:04 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed and >> configured before it can be installed. In this case, you must specify a >> Pre-Depends entry for the package. > > "Installed" here means "unpacked," not c

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > On 07/20/2010 10:04 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> "Installed" here means "unpacked," not configured. There's a pending >> Policy bug to clarify that. > Thanks for the clarification, I fall about that one once a year. It's very confusing right now. See the patch I sent thi

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 22:01:51 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 07/20/2010 09:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 21:44:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > >> On 07/20/2010 09:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > >>> Well, that lsb_release is written in Python is just an implement

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 20. Juli 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > I think there should be a popcon mode where it only reports the > installed packages. and it should be the default. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 20.07.2010 23:18, schrieb Holger Levsen: Hi, On Dienstag, 20. Juli 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: I think there should be a popcon mode where it only reports the installed packages. and it should be the default. Maybe the default value at d-i for popcon should be set to true (report popc

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Hi, stats are based on the "HOSTID" contain in /etc/popularity-contest.conf ? Some year ago all my virtual hosts have the same HOSTID because of the way I was using to install them (rsync...). Now my scripts take care of that, but maybe stats are erroneous on server environment because of that

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:26:13PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Maybe the default value at d-i for popcon should be set to true > (report popcon statistics). > atm it is false. Absolutely not. An installed Debian machine should be silent by default. > Yes I know, that many people (I am includ

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:02:48PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The problem here is that the package that's being triggered isn't either > of the packages that are involved, I believe. The package being triggered > is python-support, which is a dependency of lsb-release, but the package > failing

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

2010-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > As Ian has described it, yes: lsb-release is not "installed" until > after the python-support trigger is run, so dpkg will run that trigger > before trying to move up the stack and configure dkms. And since dkms > is not yet configured, nvidia-kernel-dkms won't be confi

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Anyone got any idea how to can get more machines to report to popcon.debian.org? Or can there be some other problem causing the fall in the number of submissions? One thing Fedora does for their stats tools in the install is that if you say "N

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Patrick Matthäi (pmatth...@debian.org): > Maybe the default value at d-i for popcon should be set to true > (report popcon statistics). > atm it is false. To people who would be tempted to followup on this and yell and "Thou Shalt Not Do This" with arguments about ${privacy}, I suggest th

Bug#589793: ITP: icedove-imap-acl -- Extension to manage ACLs on IMAP folders

2010-07-20 Thread FladischerMichael
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: fladischermich...@fladi.at -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: icedove-imap-acl Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Daniel Stoye * URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/176736/ * License

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (p...@hungry.com): > The number of submissions to the Debian popularity-contest collector > is falling, and has done so for some time now. This can be easily > seen on http://popcon.debian.org/stat/sub-i386.png >. Well, would that be a tremendous scoop that the number