Re: RFS: dictconv (updated package)

2007-08-13 Thread Francesco Namuri
Hi, I've updated the package with the ITP bug. Cheers, francesco Il giorno sab, 21/07/2007 alle 18.34 +0200, Francesco Namuri ha scritto: Hi, I've made a dictconv deb, It builds these binary packages: dictconv - Dictconv convert a dictionay file type in another dictionary file The

Re: RFS: eterm-themes

2007-08-13 Thread Francesco Aloe
Hi mentors, eterm-themes is an orphaned package and because this I am interested in adopting it, but i need a sponsor :) Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.3.20060329-2 of my package eterm-themes. It builds these binary packages: eterm-themes - Themes for

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-13 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russ Allbery wrote: [...] What I was trying to get at earlier is that I believe groff can't handle UTF-8 input. So fixing B, if I'm correct, is certainly not local to man-db. I believe that fixing groff to handle multibyte character sets

RFS: libgtkol (updated package)

2007-08-13 Thread Francesco Namuri
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.4-1.1 of my package libgtkol. It builds these binary packages: libgtkol-docs - GTK C++ Object Layer - documentation libgtkol1 - GTK C++ Object Layer - shared libraries libgtkol1-dev - GTK C++ Object Layer - development files The

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-13 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 08:44:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Issues to fix = A. man output B. groff processing C. man input Fixes for A. and B. are mostly local to man-db, fixing C. would be a Debian-wide issue. What I

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-13 Thread Ben Finney
David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The standard encoding for Japanese man pages is EUC-JP That's no more true than the standard encoding for English text is ASCII. The world is moving to Unicode encodings, though legacy encodings will remain for some time. They're also both equally

stripping by upstream

2007-08-13 Thread Kevin Coyner
Recently I've had a bug filed against a few of my packages about final binaries being stripped even though DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip is set (in an autobuild process). The bug goes on to say that it could be that upstream is stripping the files. Such is the case with my packages. Upstream does

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-13 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Finney wrote: [...] The standard encoding for Japanese man pages is EUC-JP That's no more true than the standard encoding for English text is ASCII. The world is moving to Unicode encodings, though legacy encodings will remain for some time.

Re: RFS: eterm-themes

2007-08-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:24:34PM +0200, Francesco Aloe wrote: Hi mentors, eterm-themes is an orphaned package and because this I am interested in adopting it, but i need a sponsor :) Hello Francesco, There are several issues: 1) eterm-themes is not orphaned but RFA'ed. This means I am still

Re: stripping by upstream

2007-08-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recently I've had a bug filed against a few of my packages about final binaries being stripped even though DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip is set (in an autobuild process). The bug goes on to say that it could be that upstream is stripping the files. Such is

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current Debian groff can produce UTF-8 output only for a narrow range of characters, ones which happen to be present in 8 bit charsets. It cannot handle UTF-8 input at all; on the other hand, Red Hat's version seem to be working just fine. Yeah, I

Re: stripping by upstream

2007-08-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:14:23 -0400 Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I've had a bug filed against a few of my packages about final binaries being stripped even though DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip is set (in an autobuild process). The bug goes on to say that it could be that

Re: stripping by upstream

2007-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Such is the case with my packages. Upstream does strip in the Makefile. Aside from editing the Makefile using dpatch, is there anything else that is easily done to correct this? I know this seems straightforward, but I just wanted to ask before I start

Re: RFS: eterm-themes

2007-08-13 Thread Francesco Aloe
Hi Bill, i must apologize because i have done a mistake,a newbie error, i didn't want hijack your package for asking a ransom. True is that this package isn't orphaned but RFA'ed, I wrote on your Bug report logs - #313183 a month ago without reciving an answer, so i supposed (and that was my big

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-13 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russ Allbery wrote: [...] Okay, your analysis matches what I thought was going on. However, David Given seems to be seeing something else where some man pages are already encoded in UTF-8. So I guess I'm confused as to what's going on and what

Re: stripping by upstream

2007-08-13 Thread Patryk Cisek
On Monday 13 August 2007 19:38:35 Russ Allbery wrote: Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Such is the case with my packages. Upstream does strip in the Makefile. Aside from editing the Makefile using dpatch, is there anything else that is easily done to correct this? I know this seems

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wll... unfortunately man-db uses ISO-8859-1 for C and POSIX locales, so transcoding would be required. You do get lintian warnings if you try to use ISO 8859-1 characters in man pages currently. Unfortunately, a lot of people just ignore those

Re: RFC/RFS: aptjail: Powerful chroot() generator for Debian systems

2007-08-13 Thread Francois-Denis Gonthier
Hello, The description of your project has somehow piqued my curiosity. But, as Neil Williams said, I think you need to explain to us how is it different from (c)deboostrap. What can you program do that I couldn't do with a trivial shell script? What have you solved that would go beyond

Re: RFC: irrlicht

2007-08-13 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 10/08/07, Giovanni Mascellani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All'incirca Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:47:01 -0500, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] sembrerebbe aver scritto: Hello everybody, I've finally prepared the irrlicht package. As I wrote many hacks to get dpkg-buildpackage successfully

Re: stripping by upstream

2007-08-13 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Kevin Coyner wrote: Such is the case with my packages. Upstream does strip in the Makefile. Aside from editing the Makefile using dpatch, is there anything else that is easily done to correct this? Different strokes for different folks. I got away with redefining

Re: RFC: irrlicht

2007-08-13 Thread Raphael
On 10/08/07, Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) It appears that the irrlicht engine is incompatable with the libjpeg engine that comes with debian. I have attached a log with errors. This is from compiling, and then running, 02.Quake3Map. However, after checking the versions, it seems