Bug#524787: ITP: unicorn -- Drivers and applications for the Bewan ADSL PCI ST and USB modems

2009-04-19 Thread Nick Leverton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nick Leverton This is really an ITA for the existing unicorn and unicorn-source packages which were somewhat precipitately removed from Debian two weeks ago. * Package name: unicorn Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Frode Isaksen * URL

Re: Bug#524787: ITP: unicorn -- Drivers and applications for the Bewan ADSL PCI ST and USB modems

2009-04-22 Thread Nick Leverton
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:10:26AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Nick Leverton (19/04/2009): > > This is really an ITA for the existing unicorn and unicorn-source > > packages which were somewhat precipitately removed from Debian two > > weeks ago. > > Well, I don

Re: Bug#524787: ITP: unicorn -- Drivers and applications for the Bewan ADSL PCI ST and USB modems

2009-05-02 Thread Nick Leverton
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:49:46PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Nick Leverton (22/04/2009): > > Thanks for your interest in my IT(re)P and your comments. > > No problem. > > > Of the stated reasons for removal: > > > > > | Please remove unicorn: >

Re: Bug#666715: ITP: dedupdedup -- find duplicate programs for finding duplicate files

2012-04-01 Thread Nick Leverton
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 04:40:22PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 05:08:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Ben Hutchings > > > init systems? > > > > aekeech6 can, at least. > > Given that yours is written in C and is therefore inflexible, and mine's > in Python and

Re: even root cannot read my symlinks!

2012-09-08 Thread Nick Leverton
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 01:54:20AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 06:06 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > I see. > > Who knows what they'll break next. > > Do you use any particular obscure features that I could suggest? Networking, keyboards, rotating media ... Nick -

Bug#696690: ITP: mp3cat -- reads, writes, splits and combines MP3 files

2012-12-25 Thread Nick Leverton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nick Leverton * Package name: mp3cat Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Tom Clegg * URL : http://tomclegg.net/mp3cat * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : reads, writes, splits and combines MP3 files

Re: Who is (co-)maintaining lcdproc package ?

2011-03-23 Thread Nick Leverton
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:48:48PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Depending on your answers, I'll upload a new version with an updated > maintainer/uploader list. (and with a correction in the bug list which is > missing commas) Hi Dominique and all, My situation is uncertain at the moment an

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-07 Thread Nick Leverton
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:33:33PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Josselin Mouette writes: > > > We already have $pkglibdir and $pkgdatadir for those. There is no > > technical need for a new directory in /usr, and it doesn’t improve > > anything for users. > > Possibly not for the users

Re: info please (on transitions and dependency levels)

2011-11-16 Thread Nick Leverton
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:19:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Packages in level 2 build-depend on packages in level 1 (and so on up > the stack), so in general level 1 needs to be built before level 2. > > (This is mostly only of practical interest to people managing these > transitions, thou

Re: info please (on transitions and dependency levels)

2011-11-16 Thread Nick Leverton
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 02:21:37PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:54:02PM +0000, Nick Leverton wrote: > > > > Is there a usual way to generate the dependency level lists ? I ask > > because I have a transition coming up for one of my packages, >

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Nick Leverton
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:48:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > There is no one way to deal with this, we should only deal with this > on a case-by-case basis and use a number of strategies. ... > encourage our upstreams to rename and or work it out between them. If > they are willing, great,

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-01 Thread Nick Leverton
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 05:14:41PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 01/01/2012 03:11 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Thomas Goirand writes: > >> The other sane way is to mark files not in /etc as conffiles. It > >> semantically sux a bit, but if we have no choice because of upstream > >> decisions (

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-27 Thread Nick Leverton
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:46:07AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > While I agree that forking upstream is not necessarily the right thing > to do, allow me to ask some things just so I understand things > better... > > Do I understand you correctly that an empty configuration file in /etc > wil