xburst-tools at mentors

2012-09-20 Thread Bart Martens
Hi Xiangfu Liu, I don't find version 201206 on the upstream website. Where did you get it ? http://mentors.debian.net/package/xburst-tools How is progress on donating/lending a suitable device to a sponsor for getting bug 613610 fixed ? Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Processed: RFS: winswitch/0.12.16+svn20120916-1 [ITP]

2012-09-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: RFS: redmine-plugin-markdown/2.0.1+git20120821-1 [ITP]

2012-09-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#661664: marked as done (RFS: pyswisseph/1.77.00.0+dfsg-2 [ITP] -- Python extension to the Swiss Ephemeris)

2012-09-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#671277: marked as done (RFS: openastro.org/1.1.25+dfsg-4 [ITP] -- Fully featured Open Source Astrology software)

2012-09-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#661665: marked as done (RFS: openastro.org/1.1.25+dfsg-4 [ITP] -- Fully featured Open Source Astrology software)

2012-09-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: xburst-tools at mentors

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 07:06 +, Bart Martens wrote: I don't find version 201206 on the upstream website. Where did you get it ? He is upstream, I expect he created it and uploaded it to mentors but forgot to upload it to the website. How is progress on donating/lending a suitable device

Re: Bug#613610: xburst-tools at mentors

2012-09-20 Thread Xiangfu Liu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/20/2012 03:31 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 07:06 +, Bart Martens wrote: I don't find version 201206 on the upstream website. Where did you get it ? Here it is:

Bug#688111: marked as done (RFS: git2cl/2.0+git200808271242-2)

2012-09-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: How to re-add removed packages

2012-09-20 Thread Tz-Huan Huang
Hi Arno and Boris, On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Boris Pek tehnic...@yandex.ru wrote: Hi, I'd like to maintain some packages, which are removed in sid now. (scim-hangul, scim-sunpinyin, scim-pinyin, scim-array). How should I do? Should I send a WNPP bug report as a usual new package,

Re: How to re-add removed packages

2012-09-20 Thread Tz-Huan Huang
Hi Thomas, On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: Hi, scim-sunpinyin has been removed by its maintainer because it is buggy and crashes. Please don't reintroduce it, there's already ibus-sunpinyin that works perfectly. Thanks for the information. However, I

Re: How to re-add removed packages

2012-09-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/20/2012 04:28 PM, Tz-Huan Huang wrote: Hi Thomas, On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Thomas Goirandz...@debian.org wrote: Hi, scim-sunpinyin has been removed by its maintainer because it is buggy and crashes. Please don't reintroduce it, there's already ibus-sunpinyin that works

pkgkde-gensymbols / Std-Vers: 3.9.4 and § 8.6 for C++ libs

2012-09-20 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am trying to update one of my package to Std-Vers: 3.9.4. In particular I am looking at §8.6 which now recommends symbols files. According to recent post on -dev handling of c++ libs should be done using pkgkde-gensymbols. So I followed instructions from:

Bug#677935: Bug#505924: cwm

2012-09-20 Thread James McDonald
On 16 Sep 2012, at 14:18, Nicholas Bamber nicho...@periapt.co.uk wrote: Hi Nicholas, Thanks for your comments! So here are some stupid questions for starters: 1,) I'm running LXDE and openbox and I know nothing about X11. How do I get cwm working? Could I have that in a README.Debian file

Bug#686046: marked as done (RFS: scscp-imcce/0.7.0+ds-1 [ITP] -- IMCCE SCSCP C Library)

2012-09-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: pkgkde-gensymbols / Std-Vers: 3.9.4 and § 8.6 for C++ libs

2012-09-20 Thread José Manuel Santamaría Lema
Mathieu Malaterre ma...@debian.org $ pkgkde-gensymbols -V -plibgdcmMSFF2.2 -v2.2.1 -Osymbols.amd64 -edebian/tmp/usr/lib/libgdcmMSFF.so.2.2.1 The name of the package is wrong, isn't it? I guess the name of the package should be libgdcm2.2, thus this command works for me for the current version

Re: pkgkde-gensymbols / Std-Vers: 3.9.4 and § 8.6 for C++ libs

2012-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Mathieu Malaterre ma...@debian.org writes: I am trying to update one of my package to Std-Vers: 3.9.4. In particular I am looking at §8.6 which now recommends symbols files. According to recent post on -dev handling of c++ libs should be done using pkgkde-gensymbols. You may want to read:

Bug#677935: Bug#505924: cwm

2012-09-20 Thread Nicholas Bamber
James, I am delighted to hear from you. I followed your advice and it works. I can see the attraction of using cwm this way. However it might just be a step too far for me as copy and paste seems not to work. I have managed to get cwm sort of working. If I edit

Re: New Maintainer Question: Upgrade to Sid?

2012-09-20 Thread Eric
How would I build a package without a .dsc file using cowbuilder? Eric On 9/19/2012 1:47 AM, Boris Pek wrote: Hi, Sounds like a good idea. Which (pbuilder or cowbuilder) would you recommend? I recommend cowbuilder. It's much faster and it less pull a hard drive. (Last is important for me as

Re: New Maintainer Question: Upgrade to Sid?

2012-09-20 Thread gustavo panizzo gfa
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 05:04:04PM -0700, Eric wrote: How would I build a package without a .dsc file using cowbuilder? 2 ways: - dpkg-source -b on parent dir - pdebuild on the sources dir i found pdebuild+cowbuilder a very nice combination -- 1AE0 322E B8F7 4717 BDEA BF1D 44BB 1BA7 9F6C

Re: New Maintainer Question: Upgrade to Sid?

2012-09-20 Thread Eric
It works. Thanks! Now, on a related note, how would I find someone to upload my package to Debian unstable? The package already exists, but I just took over as maintainer. Eric On 9/20/2012 6:54 PM, gustavo panizzo gfa wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 05:04:04PM -0700, Eric wrote: How would

Re: New Maintainer Question: Upgrade to Sid?

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Eric wrote: Now, on a related note, how would I find someone to upload my package to Debian unstable? The package already exists, but I just took over as maintainer. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ -- To

Re: New Maintainer Question: Upgrade to Sid?

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Eric wrote: Now, on a related note, how would I find someone to upload my package to Debian unstable? The package already exists, but I just took over as maintainer. Bah, pressed send too early, anyway I wanted to link to these pages:

vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dear all, Which of vector format of pic are FOSS? such as svg? --mohsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1348191014.4830.71.camel@debian

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Which of vector format of pic are FOSS? such as svg? The format of vector images isn't relevant, the license is what makes a vector image FOSS or not. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Mike Dupont
the license of the software that is used to read the format is relevant, not just the license of the data. there are people who publish data in dw g format which cannot be read by free software in some versions (see the libredwg project) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:11:52AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Which of vector format of pic are FOSS? such as svg? The format of vector images isn't relevant, the license is what makes a vector image FOSS or not. And often, the

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Which of vector format of pic are FOSS? such as svg? The format of vector images isn't relevant, the license is what makes a vector image FOSS or not. That's only half-true. A non-free license

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Adobe Illustrator, for example, saves its vector data in a format which cannot effectively be edited in anything else. That means that, no matter the copyright license of the resulting document, it would be disingenuous to call the document

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Mike Dupont
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: python-uniconverter can output Adobe Illustrator format, so that isn't the best example, but point taken thanks for the tip, i did not know about that. but there is no promise that a give file will be covertable, just because it

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Mike Dupont wrote: thanks for the tip, i did not know about that. but there is no promise that a give file will be covertable, just because it can convert existing files does not mean it will work when you need it. Indeed, just as there is no guarantee that

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Mike Dupont
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Indeed, just as there is no guarantee that GCC is be able to compile your source code the difference is that if you accept AI files the file might be viewable with AI when they send it, but there is no one checking if it is

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Christopher Howard
On 09/20/2012 05:30 PM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dear all, Which of vector format of pic are FOSS? such as svg? --mohsen The SVG format is an open standard and is internally formatted as human-readable text. It is readable not only by a lot of graphics software, but now all the