Re: Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-28 Thread Eric L.
Hi, I would tend to agree with what Paul wrote but IANAL and you should ask on debian-legal for a more authoritative answer. A few more comments below: Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 07:36:42PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote: >> (upstream) Freeplane 1.3.x will have new icons (appli

Re: Bug#736355: RFS: checkbox-ng/0.1-1 [ITP] -- Simple replacement for CheckBox

2014-01-22 Thread Eric L.
Hi, The point is probably more that the package description is relatively useless, and should rather explain that it's a test runner; what about e.g. "PlainBox based test runner"? Eric Sylvain Pineau wrote: >On 22/01/2014 18:15, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2014-01-22, Sylvain Pineau wrote: >>>

Re: Is this really the debian way ?

2014-02-09 Thread Eric L.
Hi, On 08/02/14 20:13, Roelof Wobben wrote: So they have to use some sort of "hack" to find the files of the second package. If this is the way Debian wants the packages, how can I do the same with dh7. Not too sure about this part and what the actual question is... All the parts are of a de

Bug#742309: RFS: libvarnam/3.1.3-1

2014-03-22 Thread Eric L.
Hi, I would recommend to improve the short description. The homepage states "cross platform transliterator for Indian languages" which sounds more informative to me. Eric On 22 March 2014 07:18:18 CET, Navaneeth K N wrote: >Package: sponsorship-requests >Severity: normal > > Package: sponsorsh

Bug#742309: RFS: libvarnam/3.1.3-1

2014-03-22 Thread Eric L.
avaneeth.K.N" wrote: >Hello Eric, > >Thanks for checking out the project. Where should I improve the >project description? The debain control files has proper description >about the project. Where else should I change? > >Thanks > >On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Eric L.

Re: netcdf packages

2014-03-29 Thread Eric L.
Hi, On 28 March 2014 09:20:01 CET, Dominique Dumont wrote: >On Thursday 27 March 2014 22:21:55 Nico Schlömer wrote: >The question is: how to avoid breaking the above package when upgrading >netcdf >to netcdf-c, netcdf-fortran, netcdf-cxx ? What about declaring netcdf-bin as dummy package dependi

Re: Can't push new mcron package to FTP

2014-05-01 Thread Eric L.
Hi, On 01/05/14 18:41, Dale Mellor wrote: Hello, a couple of days ago I uploaded a new version of mcron to the upload FTP server, and heard not a titter about it (it does not seem to have gone through). It is a while since I last did this... can someone help me please? To which FTP server? Usi

Re: Can't push new mcron package to FTP

2014-05-01 Thread Eric L.
Hi, On 2 May 2014 03:59:15 CEST, Paul Wise wrote: >On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Dale Mellor wrote: > >>Is this person always this condescending or am I being bullied? > >As far as I can tell there was neither condescension nor bullying in >the mail by Eric, he was simply asking for some mo

Re: Dependency

2014-05-09 Thread Eric L.
In the section TIMTOWTDI I suggest "apt-cache showpkg". Eric On 10 May 2014 03:35:02 CEST, Fernando Toledo wrote: >El 06/05/14 03:35, Jörg Frings-Fürst escribió: >> Hi, >> >> is there a way to determine in how many and in which packages a >> package is added as a dependency? >> >> >> Jörg >>

Re: Bug#740043: Powerline dans Debian

2014-05-10 Thread Eric L.
Hi, On 10/05/14 09:36, Vincent Bernat wrote: The suggestion for powerline package should not pull vim, zsh, tmux and ipython. I don't really see a use case where a user will install vim because they installed powerline. powerline enhances vim but I don't think that vim enhances powerline. You c

Re: How I can start?

2014-05-23 Thread Eric L.
Hi Andrew, you might want to start with https://www.debian.org/intro/help to decide on what you exactly want to do to work on the development of Debian, which is a rather broad concept. If indeed you want to help package software, which is the topic of this list, your next step is probably to re

Re: Bug#749152: RFS: top/2.2.3-1 [ITP]

2014-05-24 Thread Eric L.
Hi Hugo, On 24/05/14 18:35, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote: But, if you think it's buggy, I'll change it. Naturally, I can also try to speak with the Upstream to change the name of the source program but I think it will be... very long. I think, everybody agrees that it's quite buggy, but you can do both i

Re: Ubuntu packages

2014-05-25 Thread Eric L.
On 25/05/14 09:59, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: What 'bodgification' means? Let me google it for you: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bodge Eric -- I'm subscribed on debian-java, debian-mentors, pkg-java-maintainers and pkg-vdr-dvb-devel. No need to CC me on these lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: New contributor to Debian

2014-05-30 Thread Eric L.
Hi Perrin, you might want to start with https://www.debian.org/intro/help to decide on what you exactly want to do to work on contributing to Debian, which is a rather broad concept. If indeed you want to help package software, which is the topic of this list, your next step is probably to read

Re: Starting an application on login

2014-06-04 Thread Eric L.
Hi, On 4 June 2014 07:24:27 CEST, Cameron Norman wrote: >I think users installing this piece of software will expect it to be >started at boot, and we should do just that. Where I do not agree with your conclusion is that _users_ do not install software, _admins_ (aka root) do. If one user requ