Re: best way to announce important changes

2005-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christoph Wegscheider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for all answers Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a conffile or just a configuration file? It is a configuration file (/etc/rsnapshot.conf) holding all options and backup points. Depending on the severity of not wanted, you

Re: RFS: (2nd try) bmon - Command-line bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

2005-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Reto Schuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:38:43PM +0100, Reto Schuettel wrote: I'm still looking for a sponsor for bmon. Finally I found somebody :). Christoph Haas has sponsored the package (thanks!). Thanks for the help! Reto Schüttel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: reporting lintian and linda overrides

2005-01-23 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:58:00PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:45:10AM -0500, Jereme Corrado wrote: One of my packages, (faqomatic) has a two non-standard directory permissions, (0755:www-data/www-data on /var/lib/fom and /var/lib/fom/meta) as they must be

Re: RFC and RFS: latex-svninfo

2005-01-23 Thread Frank Küster
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Thursday 13 January 2005 10.15, Frank Küster wrote: But you should also install the pdf or dvi files, and put them or symlinks in a place where texdoc can find them (i.e., /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/svninfo) Ok.

Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi, at first thanks Magnus and Frank for the hint to find a documentaion only package to look at. Finally I managed to get working packages, that install mbox-archives of mailinglists under /usr/share/doc/mailinglists (by the way: is this the right list for questions like this? If not just tell

Re: mediawiki package

2005-01-23 Thread Duck
Coin, I made a 1.3.9 mediawiki package recently because i wanted a stable mediawiki package, only a dirty one was available on the net, and #217571 IPT was long without result. I am not interrested in taking over the maintainership and you look like motivated, so i'm happy someone take care of

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:09:59PM +0100, Jan Kesten wrote: Hi, at first thanks Magnus and Frank for the hint to find a documentaion only package to look at. Finally I managed to get working packages, that install mbox-archives of mailinglists under /usr/share/doc/mailinglists Nice idea.

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Justin Pryzby wrote: Nice idea. Where do you get the mbox from? By now I archiving or better buliding up an archive of different mailinglists. Right now they are stored in a database for easy checking if there are new mails to be added to a specific month. Seems okay with me. Fine :-)

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 05:08:15PM +0100, Jan Kesten wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: Nice idea. Where do you get the mbox from? By now I archiving or better buliding up an archive of different mailinglists. Right now they are stored in a database for easy checking if there are new mails to

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi Justin, So, you're subscribed to a whole bunch of lists, and you store the messages yourself? Ideally, mbox files would be publically available from www.debian.org, but I can't find them if that's the case. I looked there, but I don't think there are any. That's why we startet collecting

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi Jan, Jan Kesten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I looked there, but I don't think there are any. That's why we startet collecting and syncing them (I know there are archives accessible for DDs). First idea was to put them on a server where everybody could fetch them - not 5 minutes later hey,

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 06:00:31PM +0100, Jan Kesten wrote: .deb. The .deb *is* the source package, just with a control file and a copyright file and whatever, and compressed and relocated as necessary to /usr/share/. ACK. Forgot to mention - since my package uses dh_compress the

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jan Kesten [Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:00:31 +0100]: Hi Justin, So, you're subscribed to a whole bunch of lists, and you store the messages yourself? Ideally, mbox files would be publically available from www.debian.org, but I can't find them if that's the case. http://mbox.mewes.tv/mbox/

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi Martin :-) http://mbox.mewes.tv/ exists :-) Didn't know you are subscribed here :-) So just another hello to you, I'm just writing some lines for extracting mails out of the mboxes - hopefully it will work end of the week :-) Cheers, Jan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi Jan, Jan Kesten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Didn't know you are subscribed here :-) So just another hello to you, I'm just writing some lines for extracting mails out of the mboxes - hopefully it will work end of the week :-) Big Mewes is watching you ;-) I am proud you being a member to my

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Justin Pryzby wrote: It seems its not a native package? I think the changelog is consulted to get the package version (but it must agree with the control file and the directory name?). Meh, apt-get source debian-goodies for details:) I took a look :-) And if I change the directory name

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jan Kesten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, at first thanks Magnus and Frank for the hint to find a documentaion only package to look at. Finally I managed to get working packages, that install mbox-archives of mailinglists under /usr/share/doc/mailinglists (by the way: is this the right list

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jan Kesten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Justin, ... Some thing I didn't mentioned before: dpkg-source: warning: source directory `./debian-user-german-200202' is not sourcepackage-upstreamversion `debian-user-german-200202-1' Is it better to use underscores like debian_user_german-200202?

About x.org and other packages

2005-01-23 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi you all guys !! I'm looking for a package that I like to keep it care of. I'm not sure which to take. I'm a University student from Spain and I've to say that I've a little time everyday to check for updates and things like that, so I think that I would be useful for Debian Project. hehe. I've

maint-guide update: final confirmation before upload

2005-01-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Now it is 23rd which I originally set as the target day for upload of new maint-guide packages. No serious concern has been raised and I take joy's old message to be implicit approval. Also last minutes check whether we can enable Korean PDF/PS? (Jens? Any good idea?) I will tag final

Re: About x.org and other packages

2005-01-23 Thread elijah wright
I've some questions, of course for being a newbie Debian maintainer (because I'm an advanced? Debian user), I'm not going to take care of x.org, but I'd like to see it into official Debian repositories instead of our XFree86, x.org is more powerful and It improves in many ways compatibility.

Re: About x.org and other packages

2005-01-23 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Rafael Fernández López in [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm looking for a package that I like to keep it care of. You have to find one yourself. For example, browse the WNPP bug list (if you are really interested in Debian, you know what this is) to see if there's something interesting. I've some

RFS: sam2p: convert raster images to EPS, PDF

2005-01-23 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, I am looking for comments and a sponsor for sam2p, a program to convert bitmap files (GIF,JPG,PNG,...) to Postscript or PDF. What makes sam2p interesting is that the resulting Postscript files are not much larger than the source files. This means they are much smaller than the files produced

Re: maint-guide update: final confirmation before upload

2005-01-23 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:44:31PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: Also last minutes check whether we can enable Korean PDF/PS? (Jens? Any good idea?) Korean works nice (but not perfect since English strings such as Chapter are still used) using fixlatex from DDP. I started today to prepare a

Re: About x.org and other packages

2005-01-23 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:55:13PM +0100, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi you all guys !! Hello. I'm looking for a package that I like to keep it care of. I'm not sure which to take. I'm a University student from Spain and I've to say that I've a little time everyday to check for updates

Re: About x.org and other packages

2005-01-23 Thread Ken Bloom
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:55:13 +0100, Rafael Fernndez Lpez wrote: Hi you all guys !! I'm looking for a package that I like to keep it care of. I'm not sure which to take. I'm a University student from Spain and I've to say that I've a little time everyday to check for updates and things like

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi again, Why under doc? Compare with /usr/share/keyrings/ /usr/share/images/ /usr/share/sounds/ ... Not all mailinglists would be documentary in nature. Right, then something like /usr/share/mailinglists or like that would be more appropriate indeed. Do you have a reader interface

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hello, Goswin and others, You don't have a debian-user-german-200202.orig.tar.gz so the package is detected as native package. That means that the full version (200202-1) is taken as upstream version and the directory is expected to be names such. Ok :-) (learned at lot this weekend :)

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hello, Goswin and others, You don't have a debian-user-german-200202.orig.tar.gz so the package is detected as native package. That means that the full version (200202-1) is taken as upstream version and the directory is expected to be names such. Ok :-) (learned at lot this weekend :)