Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (tfh...@err.no):
> Yay, this is great news. I'll be updating systemd to depend on the new
> version. Thanks a lot for all your work, it's much appreciated. :-)
Yes, that had to be said. I'm witnessing Roger's work from quite far,
I just read the wiki page about the trans
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Perrier
* Package name: fonts-ukij-uyghur
Version : 20110217
Upstream Author : Uyghur Computer Science Association
* URL : http://www.ukij.org/fonts
* License : LGPL-3, OFL
Description : fonts for Uyghur
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org):
> If anyone wants to help there, more info here:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/OldPkgRemovals#defoma
>
> Main blockers are Xorg, ghostscript and the other remaining backends
> (libwmf, vflib3).
Would you agree for us to be advocates of this release goal, Paul?
Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org):
> I fully support this, and I’d like indeed to remove some more obsolete
> libraries for wheezy. We should start with HAL and gnome-vfs, which are
> big things. Along the way I’d like to get rid of the least used GTK2
> libraries in favor of their GTK3 c
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
> Hello,
>
> I need some help from Australian people.
I finally settled for listing states. That seems to be the most
unnderstandable option (including for foreigners who happen to arrive
in AU).
This will also be consistent with s
Quoting Ben Finney (ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au):
> Christian PERRIER writes:
>
> > I'm just not fond of "Australia/Sydney" presented as a choice, I'd
> > rather have "New South-Wales".
>
> (Regardless of what you choose, FYI it's “New
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org):
> I agree with the other Australians in the thread; the east-coast
> timezones are currently all the same but might not be in the future so
> we shouldn't rely on them being the same and we should allow selection
> of Australia/Sydney vs Australia/Melbourne.
Su
Hello,
I need some help from Australian people.
Debian Installer includes (in tzsetup) a way to choose a timezone
among multiple timezones, when users have picked a country that has
more than one timezone.
I'm currently working on this as things change constantly in such
matters.
As preliminary
Quoting Stéphane Glondu (glo...@debian.org):
> > Specifically, I'm looking for a way to easy track all of the team's
> > repositories, update them all, etc. It seems that the Debian Games team
> > uses mr (according to http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS). Are there
> > alternatives worth considering
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org):
> ### i18n
>
> There are many language tasks in tasksel. It might be good to have
> the task packages be moved out of tasksel; I don't know if it'd make
> sense to have individual language teams maintain them, or what.
Many teams are definitely too small to
Quoting Max Kellermann (m...@duempel.org):
> I'm the upstream maintainer of the Music Player Daemon project, and
> receive a number of support requests / bug reports from Debian users
> who use the outdated version 0.15.12 of "mpd", currently in testing.
> These bugs were already fixed in newer ma
(keeling only lists CC'ed)
Quoting Andreas Tille (andr...@an3as.eu):
> What I'm missing in the summary and what was probably not discussed is
> another user oriented service: ddtp.debian.net. Translating
> descriptions of packages^Wapplications is IMHO quite important to do the
> last final ste
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
> Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
>
> > I have ready NMUs for most of the affeted packages. I can upload them
> > soon.
>
> My plans are to upload before the end of the upcoming week-end an NMU
> for eac
Quoting Mike Bird (mgb-deb...@yosemite.net):
> You have no idea what configurations are in use on stable servers.
>
> You have no idea how many stable servers you're going to break.
You're right. No Debian developer is involved in large institutions or
corporations where hundreds of such server
Quoting Adam D. Barratt (a...@adam-barratt.org.uk):
> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 19:43 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > My plans are to upload before the end of the upcoming week-end an NMU
> > for each of the affected package(s).
> >
> > I currently have:
>
> fw
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
> I have ready NMUs for most of the affeted packages. I can upload them
> soon.
My plans are to upload before the end of the upcoming week-end an NMU
for each of the affected package(s).
I currently have:
astk_1.8.0-1.2
bandwidthd
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
> Many of these packages errors are direct or indirect consequences of
> my l10n work during the lenny-squeeze release cycle.
>
> Direct when the last uploaded version is an NMU of mine..
>
> Indirect when a maintainer uploaded a
Quoting Julien Cristau (jcris...@debian.org):
> bindgraph 0.2a-5.1 fr.po
>
> Jose Luis Tallon
>bindgraph
This one is a false positive: the French translation has a double
question mark, which is "only" a typo of the translator and therefore
doesn't deserve a fixed upload.
(guess who is th
Quoting Julien Cristau (jcris...@debian.org):
> Hi,
>
> recent versions of mutt convert attachments to their declared charset
> when saving them to disk (bug#537061). In particular, this means that a
> file with non-ascii characters, but wrongly sent with charset=us-ascii,
> would be converted to
Quoting Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org):
> It looks like you forgot what was happening before 6 months ago, which
> we should really not be reproducing. (and here, mostly, I'm thinking
> about the time-based freezed announced for december... 2009).
Which is why I think that visible "improvement"
Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli (lea...@debian.org):
> varying degrees of flame-ness. Also, still IIRC, the release team has
> already acknowledged that they intend to work on improving various
> aspects of the release process, including communication, for the next
> release cycle. What is then the po
Quoting Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (alexan...@schmehl.info):
> If I remember correctly, that was discussed some years ago, and the
> outcome of the discussion was, that as our translation teams lack the
> ressources, non English speaking users should contact their respective
> -user-foo mailing lis
Quoting Otavio Salvador (ota...@ossystems.com.br):
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 19:01, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> > next Debian Installer meeting will take place on IRC, OFTC network, #debian-
> > boot, 2 weeks after previous meeting .
> > It is scheduled for next Wednesday - 2010.12.01, 20:00 UTC [1
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org):
> I also expressed my regret to not have enough time to work on it myself
> (I'm currently trying to get this patch to work though...).
That is definitely useful. I'd suggest however to coordinate this in
-boot as there seem to be other people working on
Quoting Michael Banck (mba...@debian.org):
> > > Do you consider that WPA support is a "fancy new thing" ???
> >
> > You're free to do a play on his words, of course. From the point of d-i
> > development it would be a new feature, yes.
>
> Sure, but Christian's words were quite dismissive as w
Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at):
> level of maturity which I expect from something having the brand Debian. My
> current idea would be to develop the WPA functionality as far as I can without
> the help of others, encourage testing by willing victims ah I mean subjects
> ;-)
>
Quoting Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (j...@computer.org):
> not just translating d-i, but translating the manual, the Release
> Notes (which are far from complete) and some other things. Two or
> three new strings are peanuts and should not deter a new feature.
Thank you for volunteering doing my jo
Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at):
> Well the patch is dated in 2008, so yes, people should have been quicker
> voting and working for this feature.
And this is a growing problem with D-I: the project's life is nearly
zero for months at times where the development could happen
Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at):
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:15:01AM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Am 01.11.2010 13:51, schrieb Christian PERRIER:
> >
> > >>> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to anno
Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org):
> Christian PERRIER, le Mon 01 Nov 2010 12:03:51 +0100, a écrit :
> > Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org):
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Actually, partman will even just refuse to setup partitions.
>
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org):
> On 10/31/2010 03:00 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta
> > release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze.
>
> Great, thanks for the huge work.
>
> I was wondering if there will be WP
severity 528914 serious
thanks
Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org):
> Hello,
>
> Actually, partman will even just refuse to setup partitions.
Additionnall, a test today with beta1, on a 1GiB disk (virtual
machine) and the "separate home" partman-auto recipe lead to failure
because of
> > Debian should improve translation linguas.Quando used for
> > other help topics were all in English! Despite the selected language is
> > Portuguese from Brazil!
>
> Christian PERRIER
>
> It seems that you are well qualified to help with that. Christia
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org):
> > How about the "root" group?
>
> Any already-existing group is going to have the problem that some sites
> will already be using it for something else. We put all sysadmins in
Isn't that the same for any kind of clever group name we'll find?
Unless we
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
> > On the other hand, is it really necessary a new group? Can't adm or
> > operator
> > be overloaded with this new functionality? (think Ockham's razor).
>
> No. Both of those groups also have other meanings.
How about the "root" group?
sign
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
> Sorry if that annoyed you, that was definitely not the intent.
I feel the duty to mention that Piotr and I had a brief exchange
privately and that he made clear he had no specific "anger" towards me
or my announcement. He rather want
Quoting Piotr Ożarowski (pi...@debian.org):
> I already only scan -private and -devel mailing lists once a week or so
> (due to spam), I was expecting important information on -devel-announce
> so I stopped doing what I was doing (see below), opened announce
> mailbox and was annoyed by the fact t
Quoting Piotr Ożarowski (pi...@debian.org):
> Subject: Debian bugs #70 and #100 contest
> To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org
>
> seriously? Isn't debian-priv...@l.d.o for all the off-topic mails?
Who told this is off-topic?
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Quoting Neil McGovern (n...@halon.org.uk):
> Yes, it would. And so would expecting people to read the mail. Given
I think that what confused people is that former calls for votes had
this Reply-To field setup. Thankfully you did send this mail so, when
time came to vote (after reading the GR), I
Quoting Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk):
> Christian PERRIER writes ("Re: Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Debian Report"):
> > Aller suggérer un manque de transparence ou de la négligence est
> > insultant.
>
> I disagree, at least about transparen
Quoting Obey Arthur Liu (art...@milliways.fr):
> > (That said, THANKS for doing it, I imagine it's quite a bit of work and
> > I share your enthusiasm that it looks like many of the students will stay
> > with Debian even after the GSoC projects are "finished".)
>
> Thanks. We all hope they (
Quoting Filipus Klutiero (chea...@gmail.com):
> I must still thank you for sending a report. My first reaction was
> "Finally", I am just disappointed by the content.
I am disappointed by your followup and insistance.
To make it clear (sorry readers, you'll need a translation tool but I
need to
Quoting Marco d'Itri (m...@linux.it):
> I would like to know the process which lead to selecting these figures.
Apparently, just like many other things in the project: the folks
doing the work (and appointed for this by the project through the DPL)
examine the situation, make plans and decisions
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
> A single package I'm comaintainer of that has a backports.org backport has
> received at least 12 bug reports to the BTS over the past year referencing
> bpo versions (not counting any that might have been retargeted using
> found/notfound after being
Quoting Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net):
> How often do people make use of the information, and what for?
When it comes at me: never.
I very much prefer having the "previous original version" comments
(lines starting with #|) that help *a lot* spotting what changed in a
fuzzy string (intelli
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
Quoting posion bit (poison...@gmail.com):
> I'm not going to fill a lot of little bugs for this, I expect debian
> scripts to be designed following some simple bash best practices.
By what miracle do you expect this to happen (assuming you have a
point somewhere) if you don't file bugs?
Do you e
Quoting Thomas Weber (twe...@debian.org):
> Launchpad is for. I mean, we don't have the information for the 120
> other derivatives there, either (should we ever have that, I'm not sure
As a side comment: we should maybe some day stop faking ourselves by
just seeing Ubuntu as "Yet Another Deriva
Quoting Otavio Salvador (ota...@ossystems.com.br):
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > I wonder whether we (in D-I) could add t-p-u to the list of proposed
> > repositories when users install testing. We already propose security
> &g
bug report against apt-setup. I suggest this is
done post-squeeze.
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org):
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org):
> >
> >> > Hmhm, out of curiosity, why is t-p-u “way riskier”.
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org):
> > Hmhm, out of curiosity, why is t-p-u “way riskier”.
>
> Mostly because there isn't any large pool of systems using t-p-u the way
> there is for unstable, so the aging process where we get testing in
> unstable before migrating the package never happens.
Quoting Sylvestre Ledru (sylves...@debian.org):
> * is it possible to use debconf this way ?
If you end up doing so, I'd insist strongly for a review to happen on
debian-l10n-english. I suspect that the text of debconf templates
might be tricky to write
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Quoting Michael Welle (mwe012...@gmx.net):
> Hello,
>
> what is the reason that many applications clutter the terminal with
> output that is obvisously debug output? Lets take digikam as an
> example:
(I read most other comments in this thread before writing this)
I have to concur to everything
(keeping everything CC'ed...dunno if that's what's expected)
Quoting Neil McGovern (ne...@debian.org):
> pkg-clamav-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Bcc:
> Subject: ClamAV supportability in stable releases
> Reply-To:
>
> Hi,
>
> The release team have been asked to remove ClamAV from testing (a
Quoting Julien BLACHE (jbla...@debian.org):
> Are there any reasons or objections against moving the ACL utilities to
> /bin, alongside their traditional UNIX counterparts? Note that libacl is
> already installed in /lib.
>
> If not, I'll file a bug against the acl package asking for the utilitie
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
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
Quoting Tobias Quathamer (to...@debian.org):
> Am Sonntag, den 20.06.2010, 18:24 +0200 schrieb Christian PERRIER:
> > Quoting Ola Lundqvist (o...@inguza.com):
> > > Hi Christian
> > >
> > > Anyone who take this package over is free to complete this. :-)
> &g
Quoting Ola Lundqvist (o...@inguza.com):
> Hi Christian
>
> Anyone who take this package over is free to complete this. :-)
Other iso-codes maintainers, would you agree?
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Quoting Ola Lundqvist (o...@debian.org):
> Hi fellow debian developers
>
> I have found out that I have less time for Debian than before.
> Therefore I would like someone to take over some of my packages.
> You can see the list of RFA bugs that I have submitted to
> WNPP.
>
> Bug#586406: RFA: cou
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
Sorry for the followup in an -announce mailing list, but my announce
(which was written offline) includes an error:
> [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/l10n
The right link is http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/i18n
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Quoting John Wong (jo...@wonghome.net):
> I can not mount the samba server with this option "credentials" a few
> days ago.
> It can work before, and if i use options "user=myname" and type the
> password, it still can work.
.../...
> dpkg -l | egrep -i '(smb|samba)'
The involved package is cifs
Quoting Klaus Ethgen (kl...@ethgen.de):
> Hi,
>
> cause of the recent umask disaster I decided to start a repository for
> packages which are insecure in debian distribution.
>
> You can find this repository at ftp://ftp.ethgen.de/pub/debian-security
> (deb ftp://ftp.ethgen.de/pub/debian-security
> Christian Perrier
>console-common (U)
> warning: script console-common/init.d/keymap.sh possibly missing
> dependency on $remote_fs
I wonder what in keymap.sh is triggerring this. TTBOMK,
/etc/init.d/keymap.sh is meant to work without /usr being mounted
&
Quoting Stanislav Maslovski (stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com):
> > Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
> > lilo upstream, it's going away.
>
> That is why I love reading d-dev. Some debian developers are so good
> at argumentation!
Everybody has time constrain
Quoting Ana Guerrero (a...@debian.org):
> I know this is done with the best intentions but if you think the package
> is in bad shape or neglected by the maintainer then it might better write
> to mia@, debian-qa@ or open a bug asking whether the package should be
> orphaned (or even removed).
Quoting Christoph Anton Mitterer (cales...@scientia.net):
> Neither to speak about the fact, that in the 17 years debian exists
> now,... no majority missed that "feature" (apparently).
I bet this will improve over time, until the day nobody is using
Debian anymore (hence nobody missing the featu
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org):
> >> you must not understand how user-private groups work at all
>
> > Well I guess I do,...
>
> Given your complaints, actually, you don't appear to.
Is there a mail in this thread that would explain all this?
From your own words, it seems that most ne
Quoting Yaroslav Halchenko (deb...@onerussian.com):
> Description: advanced normalization tools for brain and image analysis
> Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTS) is an ITK-based suite of
> normalization, segmentation and template-building tools for quantitative
> morphometric analysis.
>
> be
Quoting Tomasz Muras (tom...@muras.eu):
> Hi,
>
> Hopefully a very quick questions (please CC me in response):
> * should I use cdebconf for new packages, or debconf?
Well, as Neil already answered: none of these. Your package should
work with both. If you're using debhelper, that's easy to achie
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org):
> Laurent Léonard writes:
>
> > I'm not really aware about the hardware problem there was on
> > ries.debian.org (solved by changing the mainboard ?), but I'm surprised
> > there is no 6, 12 or at least 24-hours on-site support included with a
> > 20 000 do
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org):
> Looking at the upstream code, it downloads a file off the ISO website
> and converts that to python:
>
> http://bitbucket.org/smileychris/django-countries/src/tip/django_countries/bin/regenerate.py
>
> I wonder if the ISO considers that file to be copyright
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
(following up on Steve's mail but that's more a summary of my own
feelings about this topic)
> Fundamentally, I don't think that's a responsible decision for the dpkg
> maintainers to make. You're making busywork for maintainers, and conflict
> for you
Quoting Anders Jenbo (and...@jenbo.dk):
> Hi i was handed "Debian installer level 1" to translate, I completed it
> back in 6 of December, 2009. but i have not been able to get in contact
> with the person who has the danish commit privileges for Debian since
> then.
>
> the following is to emails
Quoting Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org):
> and it might meant again supplementary changes in the infrastructutre if
> people want to see those descriptions translated (but I'm not convinced
> we need translations on Sources, users of those are mostly developers
> contrary to Packages).
Thos
Quoting Ben Finney (ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au):
> Sounds great, with the minor caveat that I'd rather not have the vars
> using different terms from what is already used to describe those
> fields. Instead, (bikeshed mode activate) I'd prefer
> ‘${source:Description:synopsis}’ and ‘${source:Descr
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Debian Samba Maintainers
Package name: cifs-utils
Version : 4.0rc1
Upstream Author : Jeff Layton and the Samba Team
URL : http://www.samba.org/~jlayton/cifs-utils/
License : GPL-3
Programming Lang: C
Descriptio
Quoting Dmitry E. Oboukhov (un...@debian.org):
> PW> As an example of the practical effects of flags in the context of
> PW> Debian; a number of years ago we lost our kernel maintainer, partially
> PW> because KDE in Debian included a flag of a country the maintainer (and
> PW> his government) dis
Quoting Dmitry E. Oboukhov (un...@debian.org):
> There are many packages in debian contain flag images.
I think this whole thread answeredsomething that wasn't asked in
your question (is is good or bad to use flags). Flags *are* used,
whether we like it or not...or whether this is a good idea
Quoting jida...@jidanni.org (jida...@jidanni.org):
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianTaiwan/MiniDebCamp
Thanks for sharing. That would deserve being announced on
debian-events- but there's currently only -eu and -na
Writing this, I winder whether there is a need to separate Debian
events in North A
Quoting James Westby (jw+deb...@jameswestby.net):
> On Tue Dec 15 16:26:12 + 2009 Steffen Moeller wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just received a request to upload a series of packages for Debian that
> > are already available for Ubuntu.
> >
> > Is there a policy document on how to give appropri
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Perrier
Package name: ttf-levien-typoscript
Version : 000.001
Upstream Author : Raph Levien
URL : http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/ofl.html
License : OFL
Programming Lang: FontForge
Description
retitle 560989 ITP: ttf-levien-museum -- metal Centaur fonts revival family
thanks
Quoting Christian Perrier (bubu...@debian.org):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Christian Perrier
>
>
> * Package name: ttf-museum
After deep thinking with myself, I dec
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Perrier
* Package name: ttf-museum
Version : 001.002
Upstream Author : Raph Levien
* URL : http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/museum.html
* License : OFL
Programming Lang: Fontforge
Description
Quoting Marek Artur Penther (marekpent...@aol.com):
> When Debian started to mean 'closer to windows'?
> I want to use Debian, because I love this OS, but developers cutting this
> love
> by abadoning i386 arch. Sorry, but Windows making bigger minimal requirments,
> and not Debian. And now it's
Quoting Kurt Roeckx (k...@roeckx.be):
> > * I don't think we need more than 2 of these. They are still
> > useful for servers or when some disaster happens in the GUI, but
> > who opens 6 console sessions nowadays?
>
> I still have 12 console sessions open, and use screen t
Quoting Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org):
> - Adding Firefox to Camino:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384721
> Where we can see that dbaron is against it.
IMHO, with not very convincing arguments. And no sign of answer about
the real potential problem: would that be another tradem
Quoting Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org):
> This browser is based on the Firefox source-code, with minor
> modifications
>
> Yes, the UA string is a pretty minor modification.
As this thread shows, not for end users. Whatever importance this
might have, if our goal is to benefit our users, an
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
> You're free to fight for this if you like, but this is very much a "make the
> mountain come to Mohammed" situation - the number of code monkeys writing
> bad web apps is enormous, and all of Debian's users together are unlikely to
> make a dent in thi
Quoting Christoph Haas (h...@debian.org):
> There are a few bug reports open but most of them are already forwarded to
> the upstream developer. The package might just need some love by uploading
> updated debconf translations, tidying up the init.d script etc. So it's not
> in a terribly bad shap
Quoting Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org):
> Considering the fact that this thread has only been here for a few
> hours,[1] I'm going to hold off at least for a few days to entertain
> objections. But hearing none, I'll implement this when I get a chance.
Not sure that's really needed as you made
Quoting Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net):
> - When doing talks about something at Debconf or at another conference,
> take the opportunity to review and improve the corresponding dev-ref
> section. (That applies to the i18n chapter of dev-ref, which is
> apparently badly outdated).
Quoting mli...@stacktrace.us (mli...@stacktrace.us):
> Could someone please point me to a discussion on the pros and cons of upstart
> that was not funded by that spacecowboy shuttleworth?
I see absolutely zero point in throwing out partly aggressive remarks
in this thread.
Scott, who initiate
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (p...@hungry.com):
> I expect you will get this if you use HTTP to submit and any HTTP
> proxy specified using the HTTP_PROXY variable in
> /etc/popularity-contest.conf. The only identity submitted would be
> the random ID generated by popcon to make sure the weekly re
Quoting self:
Of course, when replying to this mail, please feel free to correct the
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Despite the current incertainties about the planned release date, I
think it is now time to launch the l10n NMU campaign for squeeze.
The key page for this is
http://i18n.debian.net/debian-l10n/l10n-nmu/nmu_bypackage.html
It lists packages that have at least one l10n bug report opened and
ranks t
(from a discussion in debian-devel, where Ashish Bista from Central
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Tribhuvan
University, Nepal, was requesting for Debian CDs or DVDs)
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org):
> Unfortunately there don't appear to be any Debian CD/DVD vendor
Quoting Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org):
> As far as Debian is concerned, we should simply use po4a on all our
> own manual pages like dpkg is doing.
Maybe the requirement for man pages to be localized and up-to-date
should be restricted to Debian-specific packages?
Otherwise, I expect man
Before people "blindly" update their Standards-Version, I deeply
suggest looking at this item:
> * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the
> original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with
> warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in
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