Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/05/2013 09:50 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > > Please check out these links if you want to make this happen. Probably > an initial target of supporting oldstable for the same length of time > as stable (instead of just a year) is a good first goal to achieve > before adding more supported suites. I a

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/05/2013 01:28 AM, alberto fuentes wrote: > The few people on the list seems happy with it. If this is working > well, it needs a little more love on debian.org and a 'testing-cut' > link in the repos pointing to latest cut, so it can be set on > sources.list and forgotten Yes, we need to adv

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Slightly different approach: However, for serious server deployments we in > Debian might want to think about supporting older releases a little longer > than atm. > > A scheme like > > veryoldstable -> oldstable -> stable -> testing -> unsta

Bug#697421: ITP: unidic-mecab -- free Japanese Dictionaries for mecab

2013-01-04 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hideki Yamane X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-de...@lists.debian.or.jp Package name: unidic-mecab Version: 2.1.1 Upstream Author: The UniDic Consortium URL: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/unidic/ License: B

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Harald Jenny
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:09:42PM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi Alberto, hi all, Hi Mike > > On Do 03 Jan 2013 19:18:27 CET alberto fuentes wrote: > > >Ubuntu has done some poor decisions but it has done some other that are > >okay. We should consider merging some of them back. > >Im thinkin

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Игорь Пашев
What is the defference: 1. Insert a new stage between "stable" and "testing" and 2. double the period of automatic migration from "unstable" to "testing"? m? :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Bug#697404: ITP: libnxt -- Simple command-line tool for Lego NXT

2013-01-04 Thread Slavko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: libnxt Version: 0.3 Upstream Author: David Anderson URL: http://code.google.com/p/libnxt/ License: GPL Description: LibNXT is an utility library for talking to the LEGO M

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Alberto, hi all, On Do 03 Jan 2013 19:18:27 CET alberto fuentes wrote: Ubuntu has done some poor decisions but it has done some other that are okay. We should consider merging some of them back. Im thinking about the 6 months release thing. Without further ado, here's the proposal pre-draft:

Re: ITA: jabberd2 -- Jabber instant messenger server

2013-01-04 Thread Willem van den Akker
Ping.. Can somebody from the XMPP or maintainers take a look at the package? https://mentors.debian.net/package/jabberd2 Thanks, Willem On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 14:16 +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote: > Hi, > > I cleaned up the code a little bit. Solved a bunch of lintian > warnings. > I tri

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread alberto fuentes
Im adding the cut-team to the loop. Original message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/01/msg00082.html On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > AFAIK there is already an ongoing effort to provide an usable updated > rolling release of Debian. > > http://joeyh.

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 01/04/2013 09:15 AM, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le vendredi 4 janvier 2013 05:44:57, The Wanderer a écrit : That doesn't seem to match my experience. I most commonly encounter apt-listbugs bug lists via 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. If I say "no" in response to the list of bugs, and then run 'apt

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 4 janvier 2013 05:44:57, The Wanderer a écrit : > > That doesn't seem to match my experience. > > I most commonly encounter apt-listbugs bug lists via 'apt-get > dist-upgrade'. If I say "no" in response to the list of bugs, and then run > 'apt-get dist-upgrade' again, I see the same l

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-04 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > On 2013-01-03 08:41, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 01:05:46PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: - Private dependencies, as they leak to rdeps. When a li

Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:59:49PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > dpkg --add-architecture i386 > apt-get update > > The installer doesn't AFAIK provide even the option to do this. (The > i386/amd64 installer images might at least be usable as multiarch APT > sources though.) So this is a