how to best handle this library update?

2010-09-05 Thread sean finney
the package in question is xmlrpc-c, which provides among other things libxmlrpc-c3. this package contains runtime libraries for c and c++ applications. it has a fairly small (6, from a quick look) set of reverse dependencies. in the version in testing/unstable, these c/c++ libraries shared the

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Neil Williams (codeh...@debian.org): (of course, I mostly disagree with the initial comment as most, if not nearly all, Debian developers are now very i18n-friendly and most of the time do what's needed to make translators' work easier) > Translators don't want their work discarded, upstr

Re: backports.org moved to backports.debian.org

2010-09-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:51:12PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > You should also update your dput/dupload config, uploading to > backports-master.debian.org instead of www.backports.org > > For the next days uploads to the old location will be forwarded, but at > some point this will stop, so u

Bug#595707: ITP: zeitgeist-extensions -- extensions for the Zeitgeist engine (full-text search, geolocation...)

2010-09-05 Thread Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals" * Package name: zeitgeist-extensions Version : 0.0.6 Upstream Author : Zeitgeist Developer Team * URL : https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-extensions * License : LGPLv3+, (WTFPL) Programm

Re: backports.org moved to backports.debian.org

2010-09-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:51:12 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > You should also update your dput/dupload config, uploading to > backports-master.debian.org instead of www.backports.org http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ talks about backports.debian.org, something is confusing here :) Cheers, gre

GeoMirror for Backports? (Also, YAY! Backports is Official)

2010-09-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Apologies for the CC if it is not appropriate. Please CC me on any list replies; I am not subscribed to debian-devel. Congratulations on making backports an official part of Debian. I'm a long time user, and feel this will make stable much more attractive for many desktop users. I was wonderi

Re: backports.org moved to backports.debian.org

2010-09-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> The backports service still uses its own version of the keyring. Therefore > if you want to put packages onto backports you have to coordinate with the > backports team to have your uploads accepted. Please follow the procedure > outlined in [2]. Support for Debian Maintainers (DM) is expected

Re: backports.org moved to backports.debian.org

2010-09-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> The backports service still uses its own version of the keyring. Therefore > if you want to put packages onto backports you have to coordinate with the > backports team to have your uploads accepted. Please follow the procedure > outlined in [2]. Support for Debian Maintainers (DM) is expected

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 20:27:13 +0700 wrote: > Why Debian maintainers never generate pot files in source packages? This generalisation is undeserved. There are packages that contain up to date POT files in the source package - I maintain several. However, it does need to be only some which package t

Re: scanlite / scangui - what is the difference?

2010-09-05 Thread James Vega
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 05:51:19PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > BTW: I am missing "kooka" in squeeze. Is kooka removed from the repository? Kooka was dropped from KDE4 upstream[0][1] in 2007. [0]: http://kooka.kde.org/ [1]: http://dot.kde.org/2007/06/18/kde-commit-digest-17th-june-2007 -- Jam

Bug#595668: ITP: liblua-tokyocabinet -- Lua Bindings for the Tokyo Cabinet Database

2010-09-05 Thread Lincoln de Sousa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lincoln de Sousa * Package name: liblua-tokyocabinet Version : 1.9 Upstream Author : Fallabs * URL : http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, Lua Description : Lua Bindings for the To

scanlite / scangui - what is the difference?

2010-09-05 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear maintainers and package-team! I am a little confused, as I found two different applications which seem to be exactly the same. One is called "scangui" and is part of kde4 kipi-plugins. The other one is called "scanlite", (which is the successor of "kooka" I guess). Both are doing the same,

Bug#595656: ITP: felix-latin -- Latin-French dictionary, by Felix Gaffiot

2010-09-05 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: felix-latin Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Yves Ouvrard * URL : http://home.gna.org/felix/ * License : GPL-V3, data are in the Public Domain Programming Lang: C++ Description :

Bug#595646: ITP: lib-test-aggregate-perl -- Aggregate tests to make them run faster.

2010-09-05 Thread Antony Gelberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antony Gelberg Package name: lib-test-aggregate-perl Version : 0.363 Upstream Author : Curtis "Ovid" Poe URL : http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Test::Aggregate License : GPL / Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Desc

[i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-05 Thread davian818
Why Debian maintainers never generate pot files in source packages? It makes translation very difficult, not surprising no-one interested in translation. Is there some policy which controls that?

Bug#595639: ITP: libzeitgeist -- library to access Zeitgeist

2010-09-05 Thread Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals" * Package name: libzeitgeist Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen * URL : https://launchpad.net/libzeitgeist * License : LGPLv3, GPLv3 Programming Lang: C, Python

Re: Bug#595427: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2010-09-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl) [100905 11:04]: > It's a massive script, so the file count of 1 doesn't really matter. Also, > it needs to update more often than wine proper, as it refers to outside > locations. > > I'd vote for having it as a separate package. It'd rather make sense to cr

Bug#595631: ITP: sezen -- semantic file browser using Zeitgeist

2010-09-05 Thread Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals" * Package name: sezen Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Michal Hruby * URL : https://launchpad.net/sezen * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: Vala Description : semantic file bro

Bug#595583: ITP: qt-web-runtime -- Qt based web application framework

2010-09-05 Thread Fathi Boudra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fathi Boudra * Package name: qt-web-runtime Version : 1.2~week35 Upstream Author : Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) * URL : http://gitorious.org/qt-web-runtime * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: C++ D

Re: Bug#595427: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2010-09-05 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 10:11:08AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general, you wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Roman V. Nikolaev > > wrote: > >> Package name: winetricks > >> URL:http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks > >> Description: Quick and dirty script

Re: Bug#595427: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2010-09-05 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general, you wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Roman V. Nikolaev wrote: >> Package name: winetricks >> Version: 20100822 >> Upstream Author: Austin English , Google: Dan >> Kegel >> URL:http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks >> License: LGPL >> Description: Quick and