Re: Summary of the DebConf firmware discussion

2015-08-30 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 03:15:07PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015, at 11:04, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > > I see how non-free firmware is needed, espacially if the installation > > can't proceed due to missing network connectivity. But aft

Re: Summary of the DebConf firmware discussion

2015-08-29 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 04:33:04PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi folks, > > As promised, here's a quick summary of what was discussed at the > Firmware discussion session in Heidelberg. This was not recorded on > video, so I can't provide a link for that. Thank you for this summary which I fi

Re: Summary of the DebConf firmware discussion

2015-08-29 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 01:15:21PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > 1. Split up non-free? > > - > > I think this needs to be additional subsets of non-free rather than > splitting up non-free, for backwards compatibility an

Re: Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
ty and performance impact. > > Currently I am using arch:any for data files which aren't be affected > with multiarch, i.e. not "same" or "foreign". For endianness-critical > data that is required to make a library working, I have to force them > to be inst

Bug#647285: ITP: musique -- Simple but sophisticated graphical music player

2011-11-01 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, musique is the new name of minitunes which is in unstable and testing at the moment. I maintain it myself. Unfortunately, upstream changed the name of minitunes to musique and released a

Re: Inactive maintainer for teamspeak packages

2011-08-15 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
...@qa.debian.org if you have concerns about maintainers being inactive or unresponsive. Hints to improve archive quality and quality of life of overworked maintainers are always welcome. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Dev

Re: TeX packages

2011-07-07 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
ed over to dpkg triggers, it just takes > someone to do the work. I think, whatever can be covered by triggers, already is. tex-common has trigger support for some time now. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-30 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
lockuser if deluser was detected in p{ost,re}rm. And while we're at it, a check for a nested adduser call as described by Roger could be added, too. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer

Re: Changed ssh key on git.debian.org

2011-05-22 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
s. Arguably, you're right, I'm just trying to point out that, as a maintainer, one should really be subscribed to d-d-a and one could have known that problems are about to arise. Anyways, git.d.o moved. That answers the question. :) Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauk

New virtual package(s) for different kinds of httpd (fastcgi etc)

2011-05-18 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
cgi, whether they are > in php, ruby, c... but they can't state that fact in their control fields. > Instead, i've seen some of them depend on apache2, whereas they can run with > any other httpd-fcgi (example: roundcube-core) > Trouble is i'm not good at argumen

Bug#626668: ITP: easystroke -- gesture recognition application

2011-05-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm * Package name: easystroke Version : 0.5.4 Upstream Author : Thomas Jaeger * URL : http://easystroke.sourceforge.net * License : ISC Programming Lang: C++ Description : gesture recognition

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
t been clear enough. That's not configuration, and they > shouldn't go in any config file. And that's already fixed. > > > http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/wicd.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/34-dont_save_useless_config.patch > > There I drop 'quality',

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
#x27;s perfectly fine. Aside from privileges wicd needs or has to write in /etc, how does it handle read-only / (including /etc)? Does it fall back to /var? Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-03 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
ng, whether we contact developers of derivatives first and then add rolling (or whatever it's going to be called), or add such thing and then promote it to developers outside Debian hoping for their interest and involvement isn't at all important while we're still d

Re: PPA

2011-05-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:16:47PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Jan Hauke Rahm (j...@debian.org) [110502 18:34]: > > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:34:02PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > * Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 18:23]: > > > > - APT entry

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:44:11PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Jan Hauke Rahm [2011-05-02 18:31]: > > > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:27:02PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > > * Jan Hauke Rahm [2011-05-02 18:23]: > > > > > > > Not that I do

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:27:02PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Jan Hauke Rahm [2011-05-02 18:23]: > > > Not that I don't understand your asking for reasons but... doesn't look > > having a large user base look somehow appealing to you? I think many DDs > &

Re: PPA

2011-05-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
regarding different problems (thinking of serializing transitions for instanced but many other examples apply), how can they share the same version number without conflicting? Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer

Serializing transitions

2011-05-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
> The first two points have gotten a lot of discussion. The third one, not so > much. I think PPAs can be used to fix that. IIRC that was one of the reasons they were brought into discussions in the first place last year (or whenever that was). Weren't they? Hauke -- .'&#x

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
hink > it's a huge no-go for the release team. I think, those in favor of advertising testing or rolling or whatever you call it have explained repeatedly that stable is still the primary target for Debian. If at some point that may change, things can be rethought but until then

Re: Debian Project mourns the loss of ...

2011-04-26 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
their acknowledgment) of the family and friends (some of which may be part of Debian). Please recpect their choice of words and information given. Thanks. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-19 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 09:43:45PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > > No. Simply answer the question: Is this VCS used by derived distros, > > > too? If not, it's Debian only. Two examples: The git repository for > &g

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
t say anything you're implying. Some misunderstanding, I guess. Debian, as a universal OS, needs to support Servers and Desktops and ... properly. Any solution thus needs to handle all those cases properly. Then add the usual Ubuntu bashing: for all who don't need that kind of universa

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

2011-04-12 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 08:21:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:07:48PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 07:47:35PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > With the patch as it stands at present, RAMRUN is deprecated. /run >

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

2011-04-12 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
;s job. Wouldn't making /run a tmpfs in every case conflict here? Or am I jumping around nonsense now...? Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `.

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
nvent another special case for Ubuntu just because they're big or fancy[TM] at the moment. And no, I definitely don't want VCS-derived-by-* for each and every derived distro to make Ubuntu not so special-cased... Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-on

Re: Proposed pre-depends addition: all multiarched libs -> multiarch-support

2011-04-04 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
ends makes it harder for apt* and dpkg to find a sensible order. But, since I cannot try it here *and* you already included the maintainers of dpkg, eglibc, etc. and the release team, who am I to object to their assessment? IOW, I guess you can read the lack of responses as silent nodding... (A

Bug#618769: ITP: logreq -- LaTeX compiling helper

2011-03-18 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm * Package name: logreq Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Philipp Lehman * URL : http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/logreq/ * License : LPPL Programming Lang: LaTeX Description

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
-existing stuff is worse than non-free... > > But, I can see how it can be useful (users, derivatives), thus I think it > just > shouldn't be the first alternative. +1 -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer

Re: squeeze-updates during Squeeze installation

2011-02-18 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
ime. I have just read a Debian 6 review[0] with the same (and other) suggestion for improvement in the installer. Maybe someone wants to take a look. Hauke [0] http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/02/14/debian-6-review/ -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :

Bug#600734: ITP: enum -- seq- and jot-like enumerator

2010-10-19 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: enum Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Sebastian Pipping , Jan Hauke Rahm * URL : https://fedorahosted.org/enum/ * License

Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 8, 2010

2010-10-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
g? > kk This is a bug due to missing stuff on the server that runs qa.d.o nowadays. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation

Re: Marius Vollmer [magit] MIA?

2010-10-04 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
to -devel like you did. It's m...@qa.debian.org. And to be more precise about IRC: on OFTC there is a channel #debian-qa where you'll usually find someone from the MIA team. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-07 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
(and *-volatile) into the main archive like they are in > > Ubuntu. > > > > Merge the backports website into www.debian.org or wiki.debian.org. > > +1 as well, I always thought that was the plan since the beginning. It's just > a new > suite and it would benefit

Bug#582897: ITP: wiki2beamer -- Tool to create LaTeX beamer presentations in wiki syntax

2010-05-24 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: wiki2beamer Version : 0.8.1 Upstream Author : Michael Rentzsch (http://www.repc.de), Kai Dietrich (m...@cleeus.de) * URL : http

Re: Too much disruptive NMUs

2010-05-23 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
process goes ahead. Of course we are happy for every orphaned package to be adpoted. I, personally, am not happy about packages being hijacked after one unanswered NMU mail to the BTS. There are maintainers who really took some time off without telling anyone. It's not good but i

Re: Too much disruptive NMUs

2010-05-23 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
from dpatch to quilt to finally switch it to 3.0 (quilt) are changes that should be done, even if they seem useful. And there are more examples. I guess the problem is, as usual, where to draw the line. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahmwww.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian

Re: Bug#578491: ITP: bley -- intelligent greylisting daemon for Postfix

2010-04-20 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:27:59AM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Evgeni Golov > Owner: Evgeni Golov > > * Package name: bley > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Evgeni Golov > * URL : http://bley.mx > * License : BSD

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-25 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:49:55PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > Responding to > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/201-lintian,-source-format-3.0-and-blog-comments.html: Thanks, Raphael, for bringing this to a proper place! > 1/ Instead of taking 30 minut

Re: Is Robert Millan MIA?

2010-03-17 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi again, On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:34:16AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > I've not seen any life out of Robert since the middle of Febuary. I'm > aware of several attempts to reach Robert, via Email or IRC [1]. All of > these have been unsuccessful. Does someone have contact with Robert > IRL? I'm

Re: Is Robert Millan MIA?

2010-03-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi Karl, On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:34:16AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > Hi all, > > cc gNewSense volunteer managers, and Paul O'Malley [project founder]) > > I've not seen any life out of Robert since the middle of Febuary. I'm > aware of several attempts to reach Robert, via Email or IRC [1]. Al

Re: Team uploads.

2010-03-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:28:11AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jan Hauke Rahm writes: > > > There is just one thing that bothers me: this new feature would invite > > teams to actually put noone in the uploaders list. The team would be > > maintainer and no real perso

Re: Team uploads.

2010-03-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi Charles, On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:40:47PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Are there other persons interested? Shall I go ahead and submit a patch to > Lintian and the Developers Reference (plus perhaps the Policy to include a > footnote containing the special changelog lines for NMU, QA, secur

Re: debian/rules clean as root or non-root?

2010-02-11 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:42:37AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > > > On 2010-02-10 21:37 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > >> Sven Joachim writes: > >> > >>> On 2010-02-10 19:02 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >>> > I often see sources where debian/

Re: common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-10 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:49:10AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:50 AM, sean finney wrote: > > > personally, beyond the aesthetically displeasing name, i'm really > > skeptical that this will accomplish anything useful. > > > > * most apps require extra config and splitting

Re: Possible MBF wrt common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-10 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 03:55:58PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > sean finney writes: > > > something that hasn't really been brought up (i mentioned it on the > > non-webapps thread in -devel already) is that this makes packages > > potentially opened in an unconfigured state. unless you can ensu

Re: Possible MBF wrt common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:21:12AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 03:23:22PM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > I still see a problem with the upgrade path for existing installations. > > I might be wrong but I think the most difficult cases are very cu

Re: common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:15:00AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 06:53:32PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Something short, generic and distro-neutral like /app/ would be my > > > personal preference if I were developing a standard for my servers. > > > Unfortunat

Re: Possible MBF wrt common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-07 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Thanks for your response, Charles! On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:09:28AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > As a maintainer of a web application, I share your worries. I never had any > user request to make it work out of the box with alternative web servers, so I > guess that my users have nothing to ga

Possible MBF wrt common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-07 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 10:21:48AM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > Okay, I understand. Now, I see two ways actually to solve this. > > > > 1. If we have a generic location for packages to drop their >

Re: common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-04 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
I'm commenting a bit between the paragraphs to sharpen my mind :) On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:09:18PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > What I was aiming to is a kind of document root which is under full > control of the package manager; hence where the sysadm cannot touch > anything by hand. That

Re: common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-04 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:03:20AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli dijo [Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:50:01PM +0100]: > > > Uhm, why postpone this so long? I'd hope we could find a consensus quite > > > soon. > > > Then, we might not be able to fix _all_ web apps until squeeze, but at

Re: What happened to ftp-master.debian.org:NEW ?

2009-10-29 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:35:31AM +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > A few days ago i uploaded a package. but > http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html hasn't contained any information > about it. Last package has a date 26 Oct. Is any script hangs up? http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-10-28 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:42:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ryan Niebur writes: > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:03:06PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 03:59:52PM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: > > >>> I completely disagree with this lintian warning and prefer to use > >>> "Au

Re: library-related policy question

2009-09-06 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 02:58:02PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Is there an statement in Debian Policy that explicitly requires higher > > > version of a shared library package to be backwards-binary-compatible > > > with previous version

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:21:37AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:59 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > > Basically > > > > > egrep '^image/(png|x-portable-pixmap)\s

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:12:30PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > egrep '^image/(png|x-portable-pixmap)\s*;\s*((\S*).*?)\s*($|;.*)' > > /etc/mailcap > > > > > A virtual package only makes

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:45:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:00:26PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:55:59PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > * Jan Hauke Rahm , 2009-07-08, 19:36: > > > >I'd like to

Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:55:59PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Jan Hauke Rahm , 2009-07-08, 19:36: > >I'd like to have a new virtual package 'x-image-viewer'. All packages > >providing that virtual package should be able to view images in common > >format

New virtual package x-image-viewer?

2009-07-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hello everybody, I'd like to have a new virtual package 'x-image-viewer'. All packages providing that virtual package should be able to view images in common formats (png, jpeg etc.). I'm thinking but that's pretty much all I can say... It's obvious that I would want all image viewers to provide t

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-22 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:22:17AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jan Hauke Rahm writes: > > Practically, I do see problems in the US, too: do you think a US court > > would grant you copyright if the only statement in a file were "(C) > > 2009, cate"? > > Expl

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-22 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:02:59AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > > > but I don't think is is usable in open source. Editors/publishers are > > required to know the real name, > > Why are editors/publishers required to know the real name? > > Maybe this is a juri

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-20 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:21:04AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2009-06-20 kello 08:56 +0200, David Paleino kirjoitti: > > Is material copyrightable under a nickname, instead of a realname? > > Yes, in all jurisdictions I am aware of. It's called a pseudonym and > tends to be explicitly reco

Re: "Team uploads"

2009-04-06 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:51:54AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > The point of team upload is precisely so that you can update the package > > and not take responsibility for a package that you don't want to > > maintain in the long run. > > > > I was in many Uploaders

Re: svn-buildpackage's future

2009-03-20 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi again, Obey Arthur Liu suggested to have this svn-bp re-engineering as a Google Summer of Code project. I'm not sure if it's big enough to "employ" a student for such a long time. I'd like to see comments on this, too. Hauke signature.asc Description: Digital signature

svn-buildpackage's future

2009-03-20 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi all, I had some talks with Eduard Bloch (the author of svn-buildpackage) and Eddy Petrisor (as a contributor listed in its uploaders field) and it seems that both of them lost their interest in svn-bp and/or are too busy to take care of current development. Some time ago I started fixing some o

Re: DEP-4: The TDeb specification.

2009-03-19 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:31:29AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > Why should 3.0 be any more difficult than 1.0 or anything that follows? > (Not that I have any particular desire to use 3.0 or quilt myself.) 3.0 > has to deal with incorporating patches and changes from the BTS, so > +t1.diff.gz is n

Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:47:28PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > On Mon, 09 Mar 2009, James Westby wrote: > >> On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:11 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> > There's nothing to specify here, dpkg-source uses all additional tarballs > >> > tha

Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:36:53PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 09 Mar 2009, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > I might be wrong here but recreating an orig tarball from the data in a > > VCS can always lead to a different tarball than the actually original > > tarball w

Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:09:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > If you're trying to recreate the tarball from a set of files, this doesn't > work as well, but that also has other problems (it doesn't give you a > reproducible tarball). I suspect that if you're storing enough additional > metadata

Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 05:52:16PM +1000, James Westby wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 16:07 +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > And how do you store that in a VCS if a second tarball includes files > > that actually overwrite files of the main orig tarball. At build time > > di

Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze

2009-03-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 05:11:59PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > In theory you can use "dpkg-source --skip-patches -x" and import > everything except the debian dir. Those are the upstream sources, I'm not > sure it's interesting to handle each upstream tarball separately. In fact, > doing so cou

Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze

2009-03-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi, since I'm working on svn-buildpackage which aims at a similar target I'm open for suggestions, so I pick some of your ideas up... On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 11:55:11AM +1000, James Westby wrote: [bzr-builddeb] > * Building a 3.0 (quilt) package worked ok. There are two things > that > wi

Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze

2009-03-05 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:19:15PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > as announced earlier during the lenny dev cycle, I would like to switch to > the new source package formats ("3.0 (quilt)" and "3.0 (native)") during > the squeeze cycle so that we can benefit from the numerous improvements. > For t

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:22:29PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Being stricter wrt testing migration is hardly going to help. What > will help is having more people actually use unstable so bugs are > uncovered before they hit testing. Sounds reasonable... so, we have to encourage ("competent") u

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:46:41PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > Of course, these problems would all also apply to a frozen distribution > like we used to have. My recollection of those times is that the long > freezes we had back then had pretty similar effects on general > development - the win fro

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-10-30 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:47:56PM +, Robert Lemmen wrote: > if i understand things correctly than option 2 is what we are trying to > do with the kernel in the moment (correct me if i am wrong), and the > only thing i am saying is that having a package A which will not work > (in some cases) w

Re: Sidux?

2008-10-16 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:21:16AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Are some DDs or -devel@ readers involved into Sidux development? I'm not involved, I just had a look... > What's their exact technical model? They duplicate the whole archive, or > just change a few packages and use the normal Debi

Bug#502021: ITP: etoolbox -- Toolbox for LaTeX class and package authors

2008-10-12 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 * Package name: etoolbox Version : 1.7 Upstream Author : Philipp Lehmann * URL : http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/e

Bug#501707: ITP: biblatex-dw -- Biblatex styles for humanities

2008-10-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 * Package name: biblatex-dw Version : 1.1h Upstream Author : Dominik Waßenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ctan.org/tex-

Re: build new source package - questions

2008-04-29 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Just a few lines about appropiate mailing lists and their languages. Hallo David, schön, dass du mit Debian eine Distribution gefunden hast, für die es sich für dich zu lohnen scheint, etwas mehr zu tun; trotzdem gibt es ein paar Regeln, an die auch du gebeten bist, dich zu halten: 1. Man sende

Bug#477973: ITP: pidgin-lastfm -- Last.FM plugin for Pidgin

2008-04-25 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 * Package name: pidgin-lastfm Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Dominik George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge

Bug#476136: ITP: squirrelmail-logger -- SquirrelMail plugin: Add logging functionality to your webmail interface

2008-04-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 * Package name: squirrelmail-logger Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Paul Lesniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL

Bug#473625: ITP: squirrelmail-viewashtml -- SquirrelMail plugin: View mails as HTML

2008-03-31 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 * Package name: squirrelmail-viewashtml Version : 3.7a Upstream Author : Seth Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.squi

Bug#473196: ITP: squirrelmail-lockout -- SquirrelMail plugin: Disallow access to users/domains

2008-03-29 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: squirrelmail-lockout Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Paul Lesniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=200 * License

Bug#468964: ITP: squirrelmail-quicksave -- Quick Save plugin for SquirrelMail

2008-03-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: squirrelmail-quicksave Version : 2.4.2 Upstream Author : Paul Lesniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=8 * License

Re: Bug#466669: ITP: squirrelmail-gpg -- GnuPG plugin for SquirrelMail

2008-02-20 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:56:05AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > * Decrypt on reading encrypted message > > * Encrypt, Decrypt, and Sign Attachments > > * Sign messages and verify signatures > > I really, really hop

Bug#466669: ITP: squirrelmail-gpg -- GnuPG plugin for SquirrelMail

2008-02-20 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: squirrelmail-gpg Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Brian G. Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=153 * License

Re: Bug#464766: ITP: squirrelmail-compatibility -- Squirrelmail plugin used by other plugins to work with older SM versions

2008-02-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hey Christian and William, first of all thanks for your thoughts! On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:01:48AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 07:54 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I suggest something like "compatibility plugin for old SquirrelMail > > versions" > > > > ...and de

Bug#464780: ITP: squirrelmail-spam-buttons -- Place "Spam" and/or "Not Spam" buttons on the mailbox message list page

2008-02-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: squirrelmail-spam-buttons Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Paul Lesniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=242 * License

Bug#464766: ITP: squirrelmail-compatibility -- Squirrelmail plugin used by other plugins to work with older SM versions

2008-02-08 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: squirrelmail-compatibility Version : 2.0.9 Upstream Author : Paul Lesniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=1

Bug#435137: ITP: sa-learn-cyrus -- wrapper for sa-learn (from spamassassin) reading spam/ham messages from cyrus-imapd mailboxes

2007-07-29 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 * Package name: sa-learn-cyrus Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Hans-Jürgen Beie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.pollux.fr

Bug#414179: ITP: avelsieve -- Sieve Mail Filters Plugin for Squirrelmail

2007-03-09 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: avelsieve Version : 1.9.7 Upstream Author : Alexandros Vellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://email.uoa.gr/projects/squirrelmail/avelsieve.php * License