"pim" is too generic for a package name

2004-03-23 Thread Number Six
I firmly believe the ancient pagan, hebrew, and Christian tradition that To Know Something's Name Is To Control It. My package is named pim. It might be aleithia (gr. "truth", literally "unhidden; to shine light on") or it might be tbpim or it might be tdb (Tom Ballard Database) or it might be

expired key

2004-03-23 Thread KELEMEN Peter
[ Please Cc: answers as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. ] Hello, I was about to vote when I realized that my GPG key has expired exactly one year ago. In private communications this didn't pose a problem, but chaning Debian password for example didn't work. My question is, how do I get a new key ac

Re: Should I recommend "less" if I use it in some scripts?

2004-03-23 Thread Number Six
(I'm hacking this reply together manually, copied from http://l.d.o/d-m; I'm not subscribed): Cosimo Alfarano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why not use sensible-pager, in debianutils (Essential: yes)? Because these scripts should run on non-Debian Linux systems as well. I want to avoid Debian-isms out

Re: Should I recommend "less" if I use it in some scripts?

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew Stribblehill
Quoting Number Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2004-03-23 11:00:30 GMT): > (I'm hacking this reply together manually, copied from http://l.d.o/d-m; > I'm not subscribed): > > Cosimo Alfarano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Why not use sensible-pager, in debianutils (Essential: yes)? > > Because these scripts s

Re: expired key

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:53:36AM +0100, KELEMEN Peter wrote: > [ Please Cc: answers as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. ] > > I was about to vote when I realized that my GPG key has expired > exactly one year ago. In private communications this didn't pose > a problem, but chaning Debian password f

Re: expired key

2004-03-23 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-23 11:31:09 + Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Typically your key is rendered useless when it expires - it's presumed that you knew what you were doing when you set the expiry, and would have changed the expiry if you'd wanted to keep using it. [...] It is suggested in th

Re: RFS: gtans - Tangram (puzzle) game using GTK+

2004-03-23 Thread Florian Ernst
[CC to debian-jr and debian-edu, as this package is part of their efforts[1][2]. Crossposting only after being advised by the Unofficial debian-mentors FAQ[3].] Dear developers, it looks like my RFS for this package[4] didn't arouse any interest so far. Thus I'll now keep maintaining my version

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Stephen Frost may or may not have written... > * Roger Leigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I used a statically-linked binary just a few days ago. I needed to resize >> an NTFS partition on a newly-delivered system which came with Windows XP. >> In the event, I was able to get a stati

RFS: makeself - utility to generate self-extractable archives

2004-03-23 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. I would like to find sponsor for my package which fixes two outstanding bugs: #239620: makeself: wrongly set architecture header Severity: *serious* #239614: makeself - Description improvement Severity: minor Here goes rest of relevant information: Package : makeself License

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040323 00:29]: > * Bernhard R. Link ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040322 21:14]: > > > Pffft. Honestly, I think that claim of end-users and local > > > administrators using static libraries is rather dated and rarely the >

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Bernhard R. Link ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040323 00:29]: > > * Bernhard R. Link ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > * Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040322 21:14]: > > > > Pffft. Honestly, I think that claim of end-users and local > > > > administrators

Re: expired key

2004-03-23 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo KELEMEN, * KELEMEN Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-23 20:54]: > In other words, > am I able to get a new key in the ring using my old key somehow? it is not possible. i read the problem on a debian mailing list. there was a person who was debian developer and now he want to be a develope

#227552 - new version upstreams and still looking for sponsor

2004-03-23 Thread Magnus Therning
I am still looking for a sponsor for Gnosis-Utils (python-gnosis): Package: python-gnosis Description: Python modules for XML processing Gnosis Utils contains several Python modules for XML processing, plus other generally useful tools: xml.pickle (serializes objects to/from XML, API compatible

RFS: tla-bash-complete - tla command completion for Bash

2004-03-23 Thread Eric Wong
I submitted this as a followup for the bug #220506, and I figured I should send it to the list in case anybody is interested or has comments. Both debs and sources are Lintian and Linda clean http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/~eric/debian/ APT URI: deb http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/~eric/d

RFS: logitech-usb-util

2004-03-23 Thread Eric Wong
I've also repackaged the logitech-usb-util package I've previously RFS'ed. http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/~eric/debian/ APT URI: deb http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/~eric/debian/ ./ deb-src http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/~eric/debian/ ./ Description: Controls special features of some

Re: uploaded my pim project to mentors.debian.net

2004-03-23 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:19:58PM -0800, Tom Ballard wrote: >Forum: >http://mentors.debian.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=35&sid=d33a77afe7960fb079f69e21927abb6f > >Also: >http://freshmet.net/projects/pim-tb >http://freshmeat.net/screenshots/45596/ >http://sourceforge.net/projects/pim-tb > >I'm working

Re: uploaded my pim project to mentors.debian.net

2004-03-23 Thread Tom Ballard
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:10:29PM +1100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Please read [0] if you haven't done so. For one, there is no ITP record > at [1]. > > [0] http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=wnpp Okay, did that

"pim" is too generic for a package name

2004-03-23 Thread Number Six
I firmly believe the ancient pagan, hebrew, and Christian tradition that To Know Something's Name Is To Control It. My package is named pim. It might be aleithia (gr. "truth", literally "unhidden; to shine light on") or it might be tbpim or it might be tdb (Tom Ballard Database) or it might be

expired key

2004-03-23 Thread KELEMEN Peter
[ Please Cc: answers as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. ] Hello, I was about to vote when I realized that my GPG key has expired exactly one year ago. In private communications this didn't pose a problem, but chaning Debian password for example didn't work. My question is, how do I get a new key ac

Re: Should I recommend "less" if I use it in some scripts?

2004-03-23 Thread Number Six
(I'm hacking this reply together manually, copied from http://l.d.o/d-m; I'm not subscribed): Cosimo Alfarano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why not use sensible-pager, in debianutils (Essential: yes)? Because these scripts should run on non-Debian Linux systems as well. I want to avoid Debian-isms out

Re: Should I recommend "less" if I use it in some scripts?

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew Stribblehill
Quoting Number Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2004-03-23 11:00:30 GMT): > (I'm hacking this reply together manually, copied from http://l.d.o/d-m; > I'm not subscribed): > > Cosimo Alfarano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Why not use sensible-pager, in debianutils (Essential: yes)? > > Because these scripts s

Re: expired key

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:53:36AM +0100, KELEMEN Peter wrote: > [ Please Cc: answers as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. ] > > I was about to vote when I realized that my GPG key has expired > exactly one year ago. In private communications this didn't pose > a problem, but chaning Debian password f

Re: expired key

2004-03-23 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-23 11:31:09 + Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Typically your key is rendered useless when it expires - it's presumed that you knew what you were doing when you set the expiry, and would have changed the expiry if you'd wanted to keep using it. [...] It is suggested i

Re: RFS: gtans - Tangram (puzzle) game using GTK+

2004-03-23 Thread Florian Ernst
[CC to debian-jr and debian-edu, as this package is part of their efforts[1][2]. Crossposting only after being advised by the Unofficial debian-mentors FAQ[3].] Dear developers, it looks like my RFS for this package[4] didn't arouse any interest so far. Thus I'll now keep maintaining my version

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Stephen Frost may or may not have written... > * Roger Leigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I used a statically-linked binary just a few days ago. I needed to resize >> an NTFS partition on a newly-delivered system which came with Windows XP. >> In the event, I was able to get a stati

RFS: makeself - utility to generate self-extractable archives

2004-03-23 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. I would like to find sponsor for my package which fixes two outstanding bugs: #239620: makeself: wrongly set architecture header Severity: *serious* #239614: makeself - Description improvement Severity: minor Here goes rest of relevant information: Package : makeself License

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040323 00:29]: > * Bernhard R. Link ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040322 21:14]: > > > Pffft. Honestly, I think that claim of end-users and local > > > administrators using static libraries is rather dated and rarely the >

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Bernhard R. Link ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040323 00:29]: > > * Bernhard R. Link ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > * Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040322 21:14]: > > > > Pffft. Honestly, I think that claim of end-users and local > > > > administrators

Re: expired key

2004-03-23 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo KELEMEN, * KELEMEN Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-23 20:54]: > In other words, > am I able to get a new key in the ring using my old key somehow? it is not possible. i read the problem on a debian mailing list. there was a person who was debian developer and now he want to be a develope

#227552 - new version upstreams and still looking for sponsor

2004-03-23 Thread Magnus Therning
I am still looking for a sponsor for Gnosis-Utils (python-gnosis): Package: python-gnosis Description: Python modules for XML processing Gnosis Utils contains several Python modules for XML processing, plus other generally useful tools: xml.pickle (serializes objects to/from XML, API compatible

RFS: tla-bash-complete - tla command completion for Bash

2004-03-23 Thread Eric Wong
I submitted this as a followup for the bug #220506, and I figured I should send it to the list in case anybody is interested or has comments. Both debs and sources are Lintian and Linda clean http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/~eric/debian/ APT URI: deb http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/~eric/d

RFS: logitech-usb-util

2004-03-23 Thread Eric Wong
I've also repackaged the logitech-usb-util package I've previously RFS'ed. http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/~eric/debian/ APT URI: deb http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/~eric/debian/ ./ deb-src http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/~eric/debian/ ./ Description: Controls special features of some