Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread tony mancill
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, David B Harris wrote: > Hardly. Every Debian Developer has the ability to run arbitrary code as > root on everybody's system. Do you want to try and make the argument > that regardless of whether the person has proved spiteful, unstable, > mean, and just generally a jackass ..

Re: RFS: videogen 0.32-1

2003-07-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Doesn't work, changes in the script are needed because of the new > parameter syntax. What do you mean, "doesn't work"? I changed the script to conform to the new parameter syntax -- packaging things which aren't tested and can't work isn't my style. ;-) The script d

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:33:11 -0700 (PDT) tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, this thread should probably be on newmaint, so I'm cross-posting > it there. Please follow-up on newmaint. Replied to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signa

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread tony mancill
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, David B Harris wrote: > Hardly. Every Debian Developer has the ability to run arbitrary code as > root on everybody's system. Do you want to try and make the argument > that regardless of whether the person has proved spiteful, unstable, > mean, and just generally a jackass ..

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:47:57 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:42:45 -0400 > David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Getting rid of that examination would be very detrimental to Debian as a > > whole, and will likely result in some very, very unpleasant thin

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:42:45 -0400 David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Getting rid of that examination would be very detrimental to Debian as a > whole, and will likely result in some very, very unpleasant things > happening to the Debian community and to our users at some point. Given

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:50:18 +0100 "Matt Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > > 2000-12-17 - Eray Ozkural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=erayo%40cs.bilkent.edu.tr > > >* DAM Comment: H

Re: ADOPT THE ORPHAN PACKAGE ZED

2003-07-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:45:55PM +0200, Sergio Suarez wrote: > Hi Im new in debian develop and want adopt the orphan package zed, I = > need a sponsor Do you have anything to sponsor? It's all well and good to say "I want a sponsor", but unless you've got something to show us, it's unlikely any

ADOPT THE ORPHAN PACKAGE ZED

2003-07-16 Thread Sergio Suarez
Hi Im new in debian develop and want adopt the orphan package zed, I = need a sponsor Package name: zed Package description: Powerful, multipurpose, configurable text editor http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=3Dno&bug=3D188181 ---Publicidad--

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:47:57 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:42:45 -0400 > David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Getting rid of that examination would be very detrimental to Debian as a > > whole, and will likely result in some very, very unpleasant thin

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:42:45 -0400 David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Getting rid of that examination would be very detrimental to Debian as a > whole, and will likely result in some very, very unpleasant things > happening to the Debian community and to our users at some point. Given

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:50:18 +0100 "Matt Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > > 2000-12-17 - Eray Ozkural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=erayo%40cs.bilkent.edu.tr > > >* DAM Comment: H

Re: ADOPT THE ORPHAN PACKAGE ZED

2003-07-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:45:55PM +0200, Sergio Suarez wrote: > Hi Im new in debian develop and want adopt the orphan package zed, I = > need a sponsor Do you have anything to sponsor? It's all well and good to say "I want a sponsor", but unless you've got something to show us, it's unlikely any

ADOPT THE ORPHAN PACKAGE ZED

2003-07-16 Thread Sergio Suarez
Hi Im new in debian develop and want adopt the orphan package zed, I = need a sponsor Package name: zed Package description: Powerful, multipurpose, configurable text editor http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=3Dno&bug=3D188181 ---Publicidad-

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread Matt Ryan
Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > 2000-12-17 - Eray Ozkural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=erayo%40cs.bilkent.edu.tr > >* DAM Comment: Have asked applicant to get 5 sponsors. > > Read the list archives. You'll find that t

Re: RFS: videogen 0.32-1

2003-07-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Matthias! Matthias Urlichs schrieb am Wednesday, den 16. July 2003: > *Sigh* Upstream has deleted it in version 0.30. > But you're right, it makes sense to have that. > > [ Time passes ] > > OK -- I have resurrected some_modes.sh and updated the package. > If somebody can check that the too

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread Matt Ryan
Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > 2000-12-17 - Eray Ozkural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=erayo%40cs.bilkent.edu.tr > >* DAM Comment: Have asked applicant to get 5 sponsors. > > Read the list archives. You'll find that t

Re: RFS: videogen 0.32-1

2003-07-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Matthias! Matthias Urlichs schrieb am Wednesday, den 16. July 2003: > *Sigh* Upstream has deleted it in version 0.30. > But you're right, it makes sense to have that. > > [ Time passes ] > > OK -- I have resurrected some_modes.sh and updated the package. > If somebody can check that the too

RFS jetty

2003-07-16 Thread Philipp Meier
Hi, I'm looking for a sponsor for Jetty. Prelimiary packages are in the mentors repository. Jetty is a small footprint servlet engine and webserver. -billy. -- Meisterbohne Meisterbohne GbR, Küfner, Mekle, Meier Tel: +49-731-399 499-0 eLösungen Söflinger Straße 100

Re: RFS agrep

2003-07-16 Thread Marcin Orlowski
On Wednesday of July 16 2003 19:28, Luk Claes wrote: > I am glad there are no software patents in Europe (yet). Does a patent in > the US have any consequences in Europe?? No, US law got nothing to do in any supreme country except US (and thanks God). Stuff need to be patented on per country basi

Re: RFS agrep

2003-07-16 Thread Luk Claes
> > I am looking for a sponser for agrep > > (http://studwww.ugent.be/~lukclaes/debian) > > Have the patent issues been resolved? IIRC, the SHIFT-AND algorithm has > been patented, and no royalty-free license is available. Where can I find more information on that? (So I do not know if the paten

Re: RFS agrep

2003-07-16 Thread Florian Weimer
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > I am looking for a sponser for agrep > (http://studwww.ugent.be/~lukclaes/debian) Have the patent issues been resolved? IIRC, the SHIFT-AND algorithm has been patented, and no royalty-free license is available.

RFS agrep

2003-07-16 Thread Luk Claes
Hi I am looking for a sponser for agrep (http://studwww.ugent.be/~lukclaes/debian) Description: Text search tool with support for approximate patterns agrep is a version of standard UNIX grep with the following enhancements: o the ability to search for approximate patterns o it is

RFS jetty

2003-07-16 Thread Philipp Meier
Hi, I'm looking for a sponsor for Jetty. Prelimiary packages are in the mentors repository. Jetty is a small footprint servlet engine and webserver. -billy. -- Meisterbohne Meisterbohne GbR, Küfner, Mekle, Meier Tel: +49-731-399 499-0 eLösungen Söflinger Straße 100

Re: RFS agrep

2003-07-16 Thread Marcin Orlowski
On Wednesday of July 16 2003 19:28, Luk Claes wrote: > I am glad there are no software patents in Europe (yet). Does a patent in > the US have any consequences in Europe?? No, US law got nothing to do in any supreme country except US (and thanks God). Stuff need to be patented on per country basi

Re: RFS agrep

2003-07-16 Thread Luk Claes
> > I am looking for a sponser for agrep (http://studwww.ugent.be/~lukclaes/debian) > > Have the patent issues been resolved? IIRC, the SHIFT-AND algorithm has > been patented, and no royalty-free license is available. Where can I find more information on that? (So I do not know if the patent iss

Re: How to change the applicant email address

2003-07-16 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Manfred! You wrote: > could someone please tell me what to do to have my Debian email address > changed? Just send a mail to the Frontdesk. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7

Re: RFS agrep

2003-07-16 Thread Florian Weimer
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > I am looking for a sponser for agrep (http://studwww.ugent.be/~lukclaes/debian) Have the patent issues been resolved? IIRC, the SHIFT-AND algorithm has been patented, and no royalty-free license is available. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

RFS agrep

2003-07-16 Thread Luk Claes
Hi I am looking for a sponser for agrep (http://studwww.ugent.be/~lukclaes/debian) Description: Text search tool with support for approximate patterns agrep is a version of standard UNIX grep with the following enhancements: o the ability to search for approximate patterns o it is

Re: howto add patches?

2003-07-16 Thread Mohammed Sameer
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:33:53AM +0200, GCS wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to ask how can I add a patch to an existing package? I > have created debian/patches, placed my patch there. Adding a 'patch -p1 < > ..' seems to be ok for the first time. But second time, it fails, as the > source is

Re: How to change the applicant email address

2003-07-16 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Manfred! You wrote: > could someone please tell me what to do to have my Debian email address > changed? Just send a mail to the Frontdesk. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7

Re: howto add patches?

2003-07-16 Thread Mohammed Sameer
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:33:53AM +0200, GCS wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to ask how can I add a patch to an existing package? I > have created debian/patches, placed my patch there. Adding a 'patch -p1 < > ..' seems to be ok for the first time. But second time, it fails, as the > source is

Re: RFS: videogen 0.32-1

2003-07-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Eduard Bloch wrote: > If you implement the user interface in some_modes.sh (my old patch) or a > similar thing, I will sponsor it. *Sigh* Upstream has deleted it in version 0.30. But you're right, it makes sense to have that. [ Time passes ] OK -- I have resurrected some_modes.sh and update

Re: SML/NJ Packaging Difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:04:07PM -0700, Aaron Matthew Read wrote: > The smlnj package (the compiler) is implemented in sml and needs a > working implementation to build. Upstream, a set of pre-compiled > binary files (~4 MB each) are supplied for each platform. > > When I initially supplied the

Re: SML/NJ Packaging Difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Aaron Matthew Read
Matthew Danish points out that the cmucl package has itself as a build-depend. I would just have to supply a binary package that I compiled myself. It strikes me right away as being the correct solution. It would eliminate the need for binary images in the source package and doesn't require the c

Re: RFS: videogen 0.32-1

2003-07-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Eduard Bloch wrote: > If you implement the user interface in some_modes.sh (my old patch) or a > similar thing, I will sponsor it. *Sigh* Upstream has deleted it in version 0.30. But you're right, it makes sense to have that. [ Time passes ] OK -- I have resurrected some_modes.sh and update

How to change the applicant email address

2003-07-16 Thread Manfred Wassmann
Hi, could someone please tell me what to do to have my Debian email address changed?

Re: RFS: videogen 0.32-1

2003-07-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Matthias! Matthias Urlichs schrieb am Wednesday, den 16. July 2003: > The package is lintian and linda clean. > Download: http://smurf.noris.de/code/debian/unstable/source/videogen* > APT: deb-src http://smurf.noris.de/code/debian/ unstable smurf > > videogen (0.32-1) unstable; urgency=low >

Re: SML/NJ Packaging Difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:04:07PM -0700, Aaron Matthew Read wrote: > The smlnj package (the compiler) is implemented in sml and needs a > working implementation to build. Upstream, a set of pre-compiled > binary files (~4 MB each) are supplied for each platform. > > When I initially supplied the

Re: SML/NJ Packaging Difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Aaron Matthew Read
Matthew Danish points out that the cmucl package has itself as a build-depend. I would just have to supply a binary package that I compiled myself. It strikes me right away as being the correct solution. It would eliminate the need for binary images in the source package and doesn't require the c

How to change the applicant email address

2003-07-16 Thread Manfred Wassmann
Hi, could someone please tell me what to do to have my Debian email address changed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: videogen 0.32-1

2003-07-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Matthias! Matthias Urlichs schrieb am Wednesday, den 16. July 2003: > The package is lintian and linda clean. > Download: http://smurf.noris.de/code/debian/unstable/source/videogen* > APT: deb-src http://smurf.noris.de/code/debian/ unstable smurf > > videogen (0.32-1) unstable; urgency=low >