Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

are mostly younger and less experienced, and more likely volunteers than subsidized or salaried to work on Mozilla. You told us a lot assumptions. Do you have any statistics that support your theory? -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: New Developer

. Are you passionate about specific application? You could look at those. Are these packages up-to-date? -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: ffmpeg vs libav: Please clarify the situation

for this claim? -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

to modified to honour this? Is it too onerous to patch them all? Just a thought. Removing or manipulating deb-src lines does seem easier. Commenting/Uncommenting deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list seems much simpler/easier. -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

when you run apt-get source with disabled apt-src entries? -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: non-free software in Ubuntu

how small exactly ;-o), etc. Could those packages be candidates for the multiverse section ? Yes, but IANAL. Your license needs to allow distribution. -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

rar extraction (was: Thinking about SRU)

multiverse package. I recommend to try unar instead. It's a free software tool that can extract all kind of rar files. file-roller supports unar in Ubuntu 12.10. -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Thinking about SRU

of fixes are covered by the SRU policy. If IBus 1.4.2 is just a bug-fix release of upstream's 1.4.x branch, a SRU update should be doable. Just someone needs to prepare the update, do all the paperwork (test cases, analyze the regression potential). -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer -- Ubuntu

Re: CMake and Ruby1.9 for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

are welcome to get involved and follow the SRU process [2] instead of waiting for an Ubuntu developer to do it. We tend to be busy with a lot of stuff. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer

Re: CMake and Ruby1.9 for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

likely to get accepted than trying to push a new upstream version. So I guess having a PPA for your own use is the best solution. Using a PPA is a quicker and less time consuming solution for yourself. Following the SRU process takes more time, but then everyone can benefit from it. -- Benjamin

Re: Request for Package Synchronization in 12.10

://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: Cache Folder as tmpfs

to the same screen. Any reason why? Have you checked the permissions? -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

of us. Now it's time for me to do something productive. -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Python startup time (was: Brainstorming for UDS-P)

: 3.22 Ruby:0.28 Shell: 0.10 ZShell: 0.22 C#: 2.55 Java:5.69 You can get your own measurements by running: bzr branch lp:~bdrung/+junk/startup-time cd startup-time make install all -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Long time no see auto-text could be improved

if a bug affects upstream and how to forward a bug upstream. Then the user can push the bug further than just waiting. -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Really miss my panel applets.

(hopefully) very soon (bug #793709 [1]). [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/793709 -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Natty Feature Freeze

exception can be given if the benefits overweights the risks. -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Sync Request process questions

incorporate the Debian changes or similar). I have one concern: Will the user request properly connected to an Ubuntu developer, who converts the bug to a sync request or who does the merge? -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc

How to handle sponsor request not suitable for the current release period

://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/ -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Reintroducing packages throught -proposed

karmic and it was recently reintroduces in maverick. Therefore the package isn't in lucid, but many 3rd party application still depend on it. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter

Re: project for installation

A. machine A is configured (/etc/apt/sources.list) to get the archive from the local directory instead from the internet. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu

Re: eclipse-pde missing extension point org.eclipse.ui.newWizards

extension point org.eclipse.ui.newWizards. When I download eclipse for plug-in developers from eclipse.org and run it, this error does NOT appear. So I guess something must be wrong with the eclipse package in the repository. Please file a bug report with ubuntu-bug eclipse-pde. -- Benjamin

Re: Progress-bar Menu for Indicator Applet?

to close or 'hide' all of the little dialogues they end up with for long-running tasks, and have everything nicely grouped in their panel. Thoughts? Nice idea. I like it. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist

Re: glibc version in Ubuntu 10.04!

list is not the right place to discuss it. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Why was arc-colors removed from the Lucid repositories?

in the repositories. They're just graphics. Why remove them? We removed arc-colors, because the GDM theme is no longer usable. The wallpaper should go into shiki-colors. Feel free to open a bug report against shiki-colors. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer

Re: too many virtual terminals by defaut

proposal seems to me to have no advantages, yet would disadvantage people who actually use multiple VTs and would depart needlessly from standards/tradition. Which amount of RAM do these additional four terminals consume? -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer

Re: Unable to set vga mode on alternate install Lucid 10.04

installing. Does anybody know of the method to change the vga/graphics mode at install time on the Lucid 10.04 alternate cd? Today I used vga=771 with an lucid desktop amd64 image. This may work for the alternate CD. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer

Re: ntfs-3g in Lucid

and provide all the needed information. We have already a merge request [1] and Colin Watson is working on it. BTW, syncs and sync request are only for unmodified packages. We need to do a merge, if the package was modified in Ubuntu. [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/513197 -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu

Re: Patch for qemu

it upstream (to the QEMU devs or Debian) or do you want to know how to get the patch included into Ubuntu? -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Thunderbird 3 for lucid

Am Donnerstag, den 28.01.2010, 07:49 -0500 schrieb Jonathan-Marc Lapointe: Please, include Thunderbird 3 in Lucid. You can follow the progress by watching the bug report https://launchpad.net/bugs/314668 You can subscribe to this bug, mark it affecting you, and silently watch it. -- Benjamin

Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu

. But sometimes it won't boot, destroy your MBR, or eat your data, ... You can use the development version, but not for a production system. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: Why package coq-doc is not updated into Ubuntu?

the requestsync tool), which I have done for you now: https://launchpad.net/bugs/508116 -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: Versioning for VLC in Lucid Universe

) a week ago (2010-01-06), but not build due to an old dependency (vlc requires a newer version of a library). Two days ago (2010-01-12) it was build. That's the difference you saw. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description

Re: Versioning for VLC in Lucid Universe

Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2010, 18:34 -0500 schrieb Mars Forest: Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2010, 12:43 -0500 schrieb Forest Mars: Taking a look at http://packages.ubunut.com/lucid/graphics/vlc it indicates the version there is 1.0.4. However when I install

Re: proper procedure regarding bug reports

) [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: proper procedure regarding bug reports

, not the absence (except for the few mathematical verified programs). -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development

measurements to prove your point. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

supported Ubuntu versions

supported on the server, but not on the desktop any more. Is this behaviour the correct one? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/559761 -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Bug#559761: ITP: release -- provides information about the current releases

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com * Package name: release Version : 0.1 (native) Upstream Author : Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com * License : GPL v3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : provides information about

Re: ubuntu-releases package

Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 16:28 -0500 schrieb James Westby: On Sun Nov 22 19:16:57 -0500 2009 Benjamin Drung wrote: Introduce a ubuntu-releases package. This package will have a list of all known Ubuntu releases. A small script will give you the needed information, based on the releases

Re: ubuntu-releases package

Am Sonntag, den 06.12.2009, 03:53 -0500 schrieb James Westby: On Mon Nov 23 18:22:55 -0500 2009 Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 16:28 -0500 schrieb James Westby: Have you considered making something similar for Debian (though it's a problem that bites less

Re: ubuntu-releases package

Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 16:28 -0500 schrieb James Westby: On Sun Nov 22 19:16:57 -0500 2009 Benjamin Drung wrote: Introduce a ubuntu-releases package. This package will have a list of all known Ubuntu releases. A small script will give you the needed information, based on the releases

ubuntu-releases package

tools would use ubuntu-release instead of using hardcoded values. Then only one package needs an update, if Mark announce the next codename. I am willing to write this script and to maintain it. What do you think about it? -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer

Re: Errors during update process

conclusive. The failed installation of libequinox-osgi-java is bug #455023 [1] and it is already fixed with eclipse 3.5.1-0ubuntu7. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

eclipse packages in karmic

? -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: eclipse packages in karmic

and after that we will work on getting eclipse into Debian. We have pdt on the to do list, so this plug-in will probably be available in lucid. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter

Re: Universe wish: wormux from Debian testing

please update these newer packages to universe? The 0.8.4 and 0.8.5 releases each fixed lots of bugs. Please file a bug report for this sync. You can use the requestsync tool for it. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Apport Hooks Task Force

Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 15:53 -0400 schrieb Andrew SB: As someone who would be willing to write hooks and incorporate them into a package, looking at a bug list of over 16,000 wouldn't give me any idea where to start. Start with packages with = 50 bugs open. Look at audacity, eclipse,

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

On Mon Jun 1 04:15:19 BST 2009 Remco wrote: I have a file here of 701.2 MB, which is 735270912 bytes. Now, if it really *were* 701.2 MB, then it would be 70120 bytes. So that's clearly base 2, which should be MiB. That is what the bug report is about. Using MiB for values, wich are base 2.