RFS: tcng (updated) (1 RC, 3 non-RC bugs)

2008-01-23 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! I seem to have issues getting hold on the previous sponsor (busy/bus/SA ?), and there's a number of bugs that could use uploading. The updated package can be found at: dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tcng/tcng_10b-2.dsc The issues fixed are: * FTBFS on amd64: It appears

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-09-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:55:44AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Woh, it's great to hear from you. I'm afraid I've been lazy too, you should be shown ready patches instead of hearing that's mostly working... If you do work on patches, please make sure they're against current bzr; there have

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-09-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 07:03:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:50:53AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: (Colin, CC-ing you as I'm not sure if you're of aware of this long thread, and both man-db and groff are your territory...) I wasn't aware of it, thanks. Sorry

Re: RHS: libterm-ansicolor-ruby

2007-08-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:02:57PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: The Fungi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, I can't imagine an ANSI library would be anything more than a few dozen string constant definitions, unless you wanted man tput (no point in hardcoding a few dozen string

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-14 Thread Adam Borowski
(Colin, CC-ing you as I'm not sure if you're of aware of this long thread, and both man-db and groff are your territory...) On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:25:27PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: I proposed Colin to work on it during Debconf, but still had no time to do it. Could you tell us if

Re: RHS: libterm-ansicolor-ruby

2007-08-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:53:12PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: * Deepak Tripathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-14 20:44]: libterm-ansicolor-ruby - Ruby library that colors strings using ANSI escape sequences [...] I am a bit curious why should someone not want to use curses but ansi

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:13:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any such description file would work only as long as you hard-code any fonts, and somehow provide them for any potential reader. Without this, wcwidth() is as good as you can get

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

2007-08-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 08:12:24PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 08:09:06PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: There's an important difference between beat the program with a large cluestick and beat the person with a large cluestick. Adam's assertion was only that the former was

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:24:08AM +0100, David Given wrote: Ben Finney wrote: [...] That sounds like a bug. I was under the impression that the default encoding of everything in lenny was supposed to be UTF-8. What tool is it that has this different default encoding? Well, I tried

Re: RFS: tstat

2006-08-22 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:37:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:21:47AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display

Re: RFS: tstat

2006-08-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:21:47AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: Sandro Tosi wrote: * Package name: tstat IANAL (I am not a lawyer), but I wonder if we shouldn't ask debian-legal about these license clauses for erf.c: 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this

RFS: chameleon-cursor-theme

2006-07-18 Thread Adam Borowski
Meep? Whee? Hey, lookie! Shiny! RFS: * Package name: chameleon-cursor-theme Version : 0.5-1 Upstream Author : Giuseppe Benigno ebengio (at) gmail.com * URL (upstream) : http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=38459 * License : GPL Section : x11

Re: RFS: bashish -- Theme environment for text terminals

2006-07-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:58:26PM +0200, Thomas Eriksson wrote: * Package name: bashish The package is lintian clean. Er...? lintian -i bashish_2.0.5-1_i386.changes |wc -l 30 To be a bit more exact: lintian bashish_2.0.5-1_i386.changes -i|head E: bashish: shell-script-fails-syntax-check

Re: RFS: bashish -- Theme environment for text terminals

2006-07-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:58:26PM +0200, Thomas Eriksson wrote: * Package name: bashish Basic usability test: Installed the package. Ran it as user (TERM=linux, SHELL=bash): a dialog popped up, asking whether to install it. Agreed. Got asked to restart the shell:

Re: RFS: bashish -- Theme environment for text terminals

2006-07-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:50:20PM +0200, Thomas Eriksson wrote: However, I am unable to reproduce your errors shell-script-fails-syntax-check, what I'm blindly guessing is that lintian complains (rightfully so, albeit sh -n produces no error since it is linked to bash :)) that the ksh

Re: RFS: bashish -- Theme environment for text terminals

2006-07-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 10:03:56PM +0200, Thomas Eriksson wrote: 2006/7/15, Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on many terminals, some of bashish themes don't work well, miss some glyphs, etc. This kind of things is impossible to detect -- at least not in any portable or semi-portable way

Re: two different packages with the same source tarball/name

2006-07-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 02:34:41PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: is it possible to have two different binary packages with the same source package name (but different upstream versions of the source)? No. The package with the later version will overwrite the earlier one, and this will cause the

RFS: vtgamma -- gamma correction for Linux console

2006-07-11 Thread Adam Borowski
Meep? I am looking for a sponsor for my package vtgamma. It contains a tool to set gamma correction on the Linux console, and a simple interactive utility to find out what an appropiate gamma value would be. lintian : clean linda: clean pbuilder : clean piuparts : clean ITP : #377939

Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:54:43AM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: E: Couldn't download slang1a-utf8 pbuilder: debootstrap failed Use pbuilder and cdebootstrap from http://www.backports.org/ . To do that, put: deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main in your

Re: RFS: ipbt

2006-07-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:19:15PM -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote: On 7/5/06, Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:28:59PM -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote: * Package name: ipbt ipbt - Fast, advanced ttyrec player Oops, on just loading a typical NetHack

Re: RFS: ipbt

2006-07-05 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:28:59PM -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote: * Package name: ipbt ipbt - Fast, advanced ttyrec player Oops, on just loading a typical NetHack recording: real1m36.499s user1m35.050s sys 0m0.648s Something is terribly wrong here, as my very inefficient

Re: kbtin (new)

2006-06-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:55:40PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The ITP is #213361. The package is foo-clean; the packaging is trivial (clean autotoolage). What is this foo package you keep talking about? I know

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:36:59AM +, Alan Baghumian wrote: * Package name: xfardic First, it would be nice if the subject could contain the package's name. Perhaps the m.d.n boilerplate could include it. The big four tests: * lintian: I'm afraid there are four issues, all in

Re: [RFS] cmarrows

2006-06-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:10:53PM +0200, Matej Kosik wrote: Uff. I wrongly assumed that software available on the internet without any restrictions (no licensing information, no public domain statement ) could be considered to be public domain. As you say, it is not true. Thus, the original

Re: RFS: tcng (adopting)

2006-06-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:18:05AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for tcng, another package of Matthias Urlichs that I'm adopting. RC bugs: [...] * conflict for the binary name tcc, also found in the package tcc; it's RC per Policy 10.1. The upstream renamed

RFS: hashalot (adopting)

2006-06-19 Thread Adam Borowski
Whee!? I'm adopting hashalot, one of the packages Matthias Urlichs recently gave away. He doesn't have the time nowadays, so it would be nice if someone could sponsor this package. It's a simple package with straightforward packaging. My changes: * a cleanup of debian/rules *

RFS: tcng (adopting)

2006-06-19 Thread Adam Borowski
Whee!? I'm looking for a sponsor for tcng, another package of Matthias Urlichs that I'm adopting. This upload fixes two unreported RC issues, introduces a new major upstream release and fixes 5 of 6 bugs in the BTS. RC bugs: * FTBFS outside pbuilder * conflict for the binary name tcc, also

RFS: kbtin (new)

2006-06-19 Thread Adam Borowski
Whee!? I'm looking for a sponsor for my pet package kbtin, an extended beyond recognition fork of tintin++. And, unlike any other MUD client in Debian, kbtin can be used to play a popular game named dpkg-buildpackage when piping the output through less and friends doesn't cut it. At least, less

RFS: dnscruft (new)

2006-06-19 Thread Adam Borowski
Whee!? In an attempt to infringe on commercial free speech, I'm looking for a sponsor for a new package, dnscruft. It feeds bind9 a list of domains like: * doubleclick.net * googlesyndication.com and a plethora of other advertisers, spammers, win32 spyware spewers, phishers and other miscreants

Re: RFS: llk-linux (bug #373754)

2006-06-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:11:54PM +0800, Wei Mingzhi wrote: * Package name: llk-linux Description : LianLianKan game for GNU/Linux Well, and (released) Debian, what OS it is? The name and desc of your package doesn't make any sense to me -- the -linux part is totally redundant.

Re: RFS: llk-linux (bug #373754)

2006-06-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:11:54PM +0800, Wei Mingzhi wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package: Good luck! As it's in my interest to save the time of actual DDs, let me help you with the more obvious issues. * Package name: llk-linux * Of course, the issue I mentioned

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:11:32AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I don't think any part of packages (description or separate field) are the correct place for the Homepage field. Yes, that's because it's an unneeded duplication of what's already present in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. The description

Re: RFS: urw-garamond-no8

2006-06-03 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 01:10:25PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:10:29PM +0200, Florent Rougon a écrit : The files pertaining to the Debian packaging are (c) 2006 Kevin Bube.

Re: Non-english license and documents

2006-05-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:30:50PM +1000, Jamie Jones wrote: In the event of any license related issues perhaps caused by mis-translation, the Japanese version is the canonical version that must be followed. Isn't this the case only if someone else than the author translated the license? --

Re: Non-english license and documents

2006-05-22 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:32:18PM +0800, Ying-Chun Liu wrote: Second, the javadoc documents coming with the source files are Japanese. Should I prune the documents or include them? How do I include them? Please, keep them. Removing documentation is a disservice to the users, even if only a

Re: RFS: dnscruft

2006-05-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:45:15PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:09:40AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Let's say that the previous post contained some references about the sites this package blocks. If I made murphy autolearn the package's name to mark it as spam, will I

RFS: d.n.s.c.r.u.f.t. (name mangled because of s.a. :p)

2006-05-11 Thread Adam Borowski
Yeah, I've made it. pasc kilobyte: hah pasc X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.1 required=4.0 tests=AWL,DRUGSPAM,DRUGSPAM2, pasc DRUGSPAM3,DRUGS_ERECTILE,IMPRONONCABLE_1,MANY_EXCLAMATIONS, pasc MURPHY_DRUGS1,SUBJECT_DRUG_GAP_C,SUBJECT_DRUG_GAP_VIA autolearn=spam pasc I'm surprised you

Re: building rpms on debian system?

2006-04-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Ek Zindagoi wrote: I would like to build rpms on a debian system for use on a redhat system. Can I do that on a debian system ? As a short-term solution, you can cheat by making a Debian package and using alien --to-rpm. However, if anyone tries to put your RPMs into one

Re: RFC/RFS music123 package

2006-04-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Maxime Robache wrote: I'm looking for comments and for a sponsor concerning the music123 package I just adopted. 1. As it's a maintainer upload, the version number should be 15, not 14.3 -- the latter is used for source NMUs. 2. You may want to add support for other

Re: kqemu package

2006-04-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Would you know any project to make a kqemu Debian package? I know there is already a qemu, I just subscribed to the ML, but how about kqemu? The problem is, you are not allowed to distribute kqemu. So, the only thing you will be legally

Re: kqemu package

2006-04-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Martin Kelly wrote: Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Would you know any project to make a kqemu Debian package? I know there is already a qemu, I just subscribed to the ML, but how about kqemu? It is not open source... you would have to put it in the non-free section.

Re: RFS: KildClient - Powerful MUD client with a built-in Perl interpreter

2005-12-31 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Package name: kildclient Kildclient supports the MCCP (Mud Client Compression Protocol) protocol, versions 1 and 2, to reduce the necessary bandwidth. I hope that you're aware that MCCP is a security hole. It assumes that the server

RFS: kbtin -- A text-based MUD client

2005-09-27 Thread Adam Borowski
Do ITPs get their birthday presents? It would be cruel to have #213361 spend its bday in the cramped, smelly BTS. The last RFS ended in a small flamewar holy warwith heretics who dared to claim that tinyfugue (tf) is usable... Right, try to get tf to: * play a game like dpkg-buildpackage or

Re: Remove files not needed anymore

2003-10-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:26:09AM +0200, Daniel Gubser wrote: Where do I best remove files (config, helpers, etc) which are not needed anymore from previous versions? In postinst or rules? Removing users files in rules is a non-sense.

Re: Remove files not needed anymore

2003-10-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:26:09AM +0200, Daniel Gubser wrote: Where do I best remove files (config, helpers, etc) which are not needed anymore from previous versions? In postinst or rules? Removing users files in rules is a non-sense.

Re: RFS: kbtin (try #2)

2003-10-13 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:04:26AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Windows users typically use zMud and Mushclient, and among Unix people the most popular one is ancient tinyfugue -- dead upstream for 4 years I'm sorry, but you've just tripped my FUD

RFS: kbtin (try #2)

2003-10-12 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi mentors! Judging from several active MUD/MUSH/M*-server packages, that kind of games is not dead yet -- and servers are worthless without decent clients. Windows users typically use zMud and Mushclient, and among Unix people the most popular one is ancient tinyfugue -- dead upstream for 4

Re: RFS: kbtin (try #2)

2003-10-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:04:26AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Windows users typically use zMud and Mushclient, and among Unix people the most popular one is ancient tinyfugue -- dead upstream for 4 years I'm sorry, but you've just tripped my FUD

RFS: kbtin (try #2)

2003-10-12 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi mentors! Judging from several active MUD/MUSH/M*-server packages, that kind of games is not dead yet -- and servers are worthless without decent clients. Windows users typically use zMud and Mushclient, and among Unix people the most popular one is ancient tinyfugue -- dead upstream for 4

RFS: kbtin

2003-10-05 Thread Adam Borowski
Hello, folks! As the person I asked for sponsoring didn't reply to my mails, could someone of you check and upload my package? (Just simple sponsoring, I'm not going to apply for NM yet...). I've put the package on http://kbtin.sf.net/debian/, and it's lintian- and linda-clean. The thing is a

RFS: kbtin

2003-10-05 Thread Adam Borowski
Hello, folks! As the person I asked for sponsoring didn't reply to my mails, could someone of you check and upload my package? (Just simple sponsoring, I'm not going to apply for NM yet...). I've put the package on http://kbtin.sf.net/debian/, and it's lintian- and linda-clean. The thing is a

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: El martes, 9 de septiembre de 2003, a las 14:27, Andreas Barth escribe: What about, having the choice of building against both the stable and the unstable version of a library, choosing the stable

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: El martes, 9 de septiembre de 2003, a las 14:27, Andreas Barth escribe: What about, having the choice of building against both the stable and the unstable version of a library, choosing the stable

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:37:40AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Adam Kessel wrote: I've written a fairly simple command-line shuffle music file player. Despite its simplicity, I find it quite handy, and I don't think there's any

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:37:40AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Adam Kessel wrote: I've written a fairly simple command-line shuffle music file player. Despite its simplicity, I find it quite handy, and I don't think there's any

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Adam Kessel wrote: I've written a fairly simple command-line shuffle music file player. Despite its simplicity, I find it quite handy, and I don't think there's any other package out there (in Debian or not) that does quite what it does. The main feature is that it keeps

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Mike Schacht wrote: I am not an official debian developer, but I maintain a couple of packages. One of them, kdirstat, is already in the official distribution. I intend to apply as a NM

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Mike Schacht wrote: I am not an official debian developer, but I maintain a couple of packages. One of them, kdirstat, is already in the official distribution. I intend to apply as a NM

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