Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-09-07 21:11:51 -0500 (-0500), Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > That is what tab completion is for. Granted, but you still have to remember what you're tab-completing, and tab completion is a bit of a moving target as you add other packages which install things with somewhat similar names in your p

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:33 PM, The Fungi wrote: > On 2012-09-07 16:40:07 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] >> The problem is that the software is called wallet, both the >> software itself and the primary client binary that users invoke. >> [...] I don't think there's another UNIX/Linux

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-09-07 16:40:07 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: [...] > The problem is that the software is called wallet, both the > software itself and the primary client binary that users invoke. > [...] I don't think there's another UNIX/Linux binary of that > name. But, of course, it's still not a

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On Fri 07 Sep 2012 21:45:54 Russ Allbery escribió: > > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer writes: > > > If you go for changing the name, kerberos-wallet or krb-wallet seems > > > quite right. > > > > It's a reasonable idea for the

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Fri 07 Sep 2012 21:45:54 Russ Allbery escribió: > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer writes: > > If you go for changing the name, kerberos-wallet or krb-wallet seems > > quite right. > > It's a reasonable idea for the current implementation, but I'd rather not > use that either because the pr

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer writes: > If you go for changing the name, kerberos-wallet or krb-wallet seems quite > right. It's a reasonable idea for the current implementation, but I'd rather not use that either because the protocol was designed to not require Kerberos. It currently is

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Fri 07 Sep 2012 20:40:07 Russ Allbery escribió: [snip] > The second question is: if I should rename it, what should I call it? > Does anyone have any suggestions that are more unique but that still > preserve the property of being a reasonably easy-to-remember command-line > tool for unsophistic

Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello all, Given that this has been keeping me from packaging for Debian some software I developed at Stanford, and I'm getting more requests for packages, I will try to get past my mixed feelings of obstinance and guilt and just ask for advice or help. :) In 2007, to replace our legacy Kerberos

Bug#686989: ITP: haskell-network-info -- listing network interfaces in Haskell

2012-09-07 Thread Joey Hess
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joey Hess * Package name: haskell-network-info * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network-info * License : BSD Description : listing network interfaces in Haskell Another library I use in git-annex. -- see shy jo

[juht...@iki.fi: Are you MIA?]

2012-09-07 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
I sent that E-Mail 2012-08-10 and I still haven't got any answer. Hence, it is obvious and evident that Debian-developer is MIA. Please, follow your own protocols to handle the situation. I think I did what I must do, already. P.S: I do not subscribe to mailing-list of Debian. - Forwarded me

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 07:17:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I've previously requested that various user-facing references to > > 'i386' and 'amd64' should be changed to the hopefully more > > understandable '32-bit PC' and '64-bit PC', with some

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-07 Thread Francesca Ciceri
Hi Ben, On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 07:17:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I've previously requested that various user-facing references to > 'i386' and 'amd64' should be changed to the hopefully more > understandable '32-bit PC' and '64-bit PC', with some success. Please > could the publicity t

Re: Files-Excluded field and security implications of uscan and debian/copyright.

2012-09-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Files-Excluded field and security implications of uscan and debian/copyright."): > Le Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 08:44:36AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > in the case of the Files-Excluded field, the contents of the field > > are directly executed. > > I mean: the conte

Bug#686949: ITP: fpgatools -- A small independent command line FPGA utilities, no GUI plain C, text-based file formats. convert floorplan from/to bitstream.

2012-09-07 Thread Xiangfu Liu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xiangfu Liu * Package name: fpgatools Version : 201209 Upstream Author : Wolfgang Spraul * URL : https://github.com/Wolfgang-Spraul/fpgatools * License : UNLICENSE Programming Lang: C Description : A small indepe

Re: Bug#686903: RFP: pass -- the standard unix password manager

2012-09-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 04:11:25AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Subject: Re: Bug#686903: RFP: pass -- the standard unix password manager I realise this text comes from upstream, but "the standard unix password manager" is IMHO misleading for this program. "A unix password manager" is more ac

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-09-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 05:18:57PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I also considered, but the information of what files are excluded when > creating > the Debian source package is not relevant to upstream. > > More simply, I think that if debian/watch would radically change its format to > YAML or

Bug#686933: ITP: libdlo -- This is the official DisplayLink Library project, libdlo. This library is an open-source implementation of DisplayLink USB graphics software.

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Franzl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Franzl * Package name: libdlo Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Greg Kroah-Hartman * URL : http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C Description : This is the official Displ

Bug#686924: ITP: casacore -- Common Astronomy Software Applications core library

2012-09-07 Thread Ole Streicher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-scie...@lists.debian.org * Package name: casacore Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : ATNF, Syndey and ASTRON, Dwingeloo * URL : http://code.google.com/p/casacore/