Google sumer of code, need a DD

2006-05-03 Thread mariodebian
Hi all. I'm a 3 years debian user and I have presented my personal project to google summer of code. Info about project: http://soleup.eup.uva.es/mediawiki/index.php/TCOS/en Google admins say me that I need a DD to be a mentor of my project. Can anybody help me? Please send me CC of responses

Re: RFS: Templayer - HTML Templating Library for Python

2006-05-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Ian, > Templayer is available at: http://excess.org/templayer/ I've taken a look. First, there's no direct link to the source package. With some manual url manipulation I arrived there (http://excess.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/) but it's easiest for a potential sponsor to just prov

Re: ifpgui deb - review / upload

2006-05-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Jacob, > I updated the debianization in the ifpgui source package and got their > blessing to include it in debian. Could someone review my packaging and > perhaps upload it for me? :) > > You can download it from my web server here: > http://www.gnifty.net/code/ifpgui-deb/ Thanks. It

man1 or man8?

2006-05-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I can't find a consistent rule for what should go into man1 vs. man8. For instance, "apt-get" can be used as an unprivileged user to download source tarballs, but it's in man8, whereas "defoma-reconfigure", which can only be run as root, is located in man1. Under debian, bt_xml2db and bt_db2xml wi

Re: man1 or man8?

2006-05-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 16:35 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I can't find a consistent rule for what should go into man1 vs. man8. For > instance, "apt-get" can be used as an unprivileged user to download source > tarballs, but it's in man8, whereas "defoma-reconfigure", which can only be > run as r

Re: man1 or man8?

2006-05-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't 100% clear for every case. Of course, when a package is > solely useful to the system administrator to do system administrative > tasks, it should belong in 8, and if it's neither of those it's in 1. > But there's a lot in between like the exa

Re: man1 or man8?

2006-05-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 16:53 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > OK, so according to that, defoma-reconfigure being in man1 (and > /usr/bin) is a bug, because nobody but root can use it? Yes, from a cursory look I think that's a minor bug. You should file it, if the maintainer disagrees he/she wi

Re: RFS moodss

2006-05-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Thierry, On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 18:47 +0300, Thierry Randrianiriana wrote: > The source is also available at : > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/moodss/ I'm sorry that there was a delay before someone could look at your package. I unfortunately can't upload your package, sinc

Re: man1 or man8?

2006-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I can't find a consistent rule for what should go into man1 vs. man8. For > instance, "apt-get" can be used as an unprivileged user to download source > tarballs, but it's in man8, whereas "defoma-reconfigure", which can only be > run as root, is located in man1. DPKG-RECO

Re: man1 or man8?

2006-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Tyler MacDonald wrote: > tarballs, but it's in man8, whereas "defoma-reconfigure", which can only be Ups, I read defoma-reconfigure as dpkg-reconfigure. :-) -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: Templayer - HTML Templating Library for Python

2006-05-03 Thread Ian Ward
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Hello Ian, Templayer is available at: http://excess.org/templayer/ I've taken a look. First, there's no direct link to the source package. With some manual url manipulation I arrived there (http://excess.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/) but it's easiest for a pote

Re: RFS moodss

2006-05-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > debian/README.Debian: contains information that's interesting, but not > really very important for people who install the package. I'd turn it > into 'regular' documentation. README.Debian is more for major changes > that influence the behaviour of the

Re: ifpgui deb - review / upload

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > - From the description I can't decide what the iRiver iFP actually > plays. Is it music perhaps? Maybe clarify a bit more for interested > readers. > I believe it is to manage a hardware MP3 player by iRiver (similar to easyh10, which I package, but for a different hardw

Re: RFS: Templayer - HTML Templating Library for Python

2006-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 20:42 -0400, Ian Ward wrote: > When Paul Wise was kind enough to repackage my Urwid libraries I learned > that I was not creating packages the way I should be. They were mostly fine for the current python policy (although a bit overkill). I'm looking forward to a more sane

Re: Google sumer of code, need a DD

2006-05-03 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi, On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 22:55 +0200, mariodebian wrote: > I'm a 3 years debian user and I have presented my personal project to > google summer of code. [...] > Google admins say me that I need a DD to be a mentor of my project. > > Can anybody help me? I _may be_ here. The project seems inter

Re: RFS moodss

2006-05-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 18:21 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > debian/README.Debian: contains information that's interesting, but not > > really very important for people who install the package. I'd turn it > > into 'regular' documentation. README.Debia

Re: RFS: Templayer - HTML Templating Library for Python

2006-05-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 04 May 2006, Paul Wise wrote: > They were mostly fine for the current python policy (although a bit > overkill). I'm looking forward to a more sane python policy, as > described in this email: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2006/01/msg00028.html > > Who is the python policy mai