Re: Packaging of new upstream versions in Ubuntu

> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > Such work is nice, but please notify the Debian maintainer that you > > packaged the new upstream release: > > > > * duplication of work in the free software world is useless, we have > > enough to do. > > * this will make later me

Re: Packaging of new upstream versions in Ubuntu

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:00:07PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote: > > I hope you only mean main packages here. For universe packages I > completely agree with Lucas, we should submit/follow-up "new upstream > version available" wishlist bug in Debian if we package -0ubuntuX > ve

Re: The last couple of weeks in MOTU

Hi Stephan, On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:11:24PM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > > I write this email to explain, why I'm a bit disappointed in the last couple > of weeks with the mood around our Universe. Being one in the camp that advocates "we should communicate more with and contribute back t

UVF exception request: scim-tables 0.5.6

Hello, I would like to ask UVF exception for scim-tables 0.5.6. This release actually has quite a few new features, but I would still like to see it in dapper, because: 1. The new table option feature is quite useful, along with some adjustment of the wildcard key changes, this release has some

Re: UVF exception: libgdiplus 1.1.13.2

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:10:12PM +0100, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > Hi, > libgdiplus 1.1.13.2 is mostly a bugfix release over our current version > 1.1.13. > Attached is the diffstat and changelog diff Looks mostly bug fixes, and a few new features which shouldn't affect old code, I would like to s

Re: UVF-exception: skim-1.4.4(fix bug)

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:31:47PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hello, > > Am Donnerstag, den 02.02.2006, 14:58 +0800 schrieb Zhengpeng Hou: > > skim has new upstream release , and this release can fix this bug : > > https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29255 > > can we get diffstat and changelog

UVF exception request: apt-proxy 1.9.33

ssing comma in the Depends line in debian/control. * Ubuntu specific changes: - doc/apt-proxy.conf: Set min_refresh=1s. - debian/init.d: Use LSB init-functions. - debian/install: Install into python2.4 dirs instead of python2.3. -- Ming Hua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 16

Re: UVF exception request: apt-proxy 1.9.33

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:27:43AM -0600, Ming Hua wrote: > > The debdiff from 1.9.33 to the proposed 1.9.33ubuntu1 from my merging > work is attached in malone #29267. The debian/changelog entry: > > apt-proxy (1.9.33ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low > > * Resynchronize with

Re: [UVF Exception Request] Wesnoth 1.1.1

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:56:44PM +0100, Raphaël Pinson wrote: > > I tried to connect to the official Wesnoth game server with the > current Ubuntu version (1.1) and it said that I have to be using > version 1.1.1 to access it now. > > That means it's not possible to play network games with the

Main inclusion of scim-tables (was Re: UVF exceptions for Universe - batch 4)

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 09:23:21AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:29:45AM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > > would you please consider the following Upstream Version Freeze > > exceptions discussed by the MOTUs: > > [...] > > * scim-tables (0.5.5 -> 0.5.6): improved

Re: UVF exception request: ttf-alee (6.4 to 7.1)

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:41:58PM -0600, atie wrote: > Hi, all. > > Malone bug : 6439 > ttf-alee 7.0 fixed this bug, but 7.0 had a bug too. Ask to bring in ttf-alee > 7.1. I think generally this is a good idea to fix these broken defoma hints, and the changelog looks safe. I would like to agr

Re: UVF exception request: ttf-alee (6.4 to 7.1)

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:09:54PM -0600, atie wrote: > Hi, all. > > Corrected diffstat, I hope. > > Malone bug : 6439 > ttf-alee 7.0 fixed this bug, but 7.0 had a bug too. Ask to bring in ttf-alee > 7.1. Looks good to me. Ming 2006.02.24 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu

Sync request: scim-tables 0.5.6-1

scim-tables 0.5.6-1 was approved by Matt Zimmerman [1]. Can some MOTU request this sync for me? 1. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2006-February/000440.html Thanks, Ming 2006.03.07 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: wesnoth revert proposal

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:51:09AM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > > I just talked to him and to cite him: > > so your only change of providing a "stable" multiplayer experience > is providing 1.0.2 > > and I must say I'm happy with that, especially with *-backports around. > > Who will step

Re: Problem with the field "Description" of a package

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 06:08:07PM +0200, Loïc Martin wrote: > I've managed to go through all the steps to create a signed ubuntu package, > but one : the field description of the resulting binary package doesn't > reflect the description in the file /debian/control. > My control file looks the sam

Re: Problem with the field "Description" of a package

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:44:32AM +0200, Loïc Martin wrote: > Sorry, here it is. The debian/control file looks fine to me, and it's valid UTF-8. I didn't do any test building so can't say more. > On another note, I don't know how to recognize non-UTF8 characters :) The iconv tool should do tha

Re: Packaging f-spot 0.2.2 for dapper

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:51:56PM +0200, Christoffer Sørensen wrote: > > Now, when I issue the 'sudo pbuilder build ../*.dsc' command pbuilder > starts to build but I don't get any package out. I see only warnings: What do you mean by "don't get any package out"? Did you check /var/cache/pbuild

Re: Speex on AMD64 Dapper

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:19:26PM +1000, William Grant wrote: > On Monday 23 October 2006 11:54, Jean-Marc Valin wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I hope I'm posting to the right list. > > Sorry, this isn't the right list. This is for development relating to the > universe and multiverse component

Re: motu-sru members

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:12:54PM +0100, Stefan Potyra wrote: > > I'd like to further nominate: [...] minghua, Stefan, thanks for the nomination. But I'll have to decline it, for I neither have enough time nor feel competent enough to judge changes in some random package. However, if there eve

Re: SRU TEAM Nominations

As Daniel said on IRC that he wants to see more people's opinion, I would like to add my nomination as well, based on my experience working with them (so there are people I've never worked with and don't have opinion): People who have already acceptted nomination: crimsun dholbach sire

Re: SRU TEAM Nominations

[Change email address and resend, moderator please ignore my previous mail with the same content from [EMAIL PROTECTED] As Daniel said on IRC that he wants to see more people's opinion, I would like to add my nomination as well, based on my experience working with them (so there are people I've ne

Re: motu-sru members

[Change email address and resend, moderator please ignore my previous mail with the same content from [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:12:54PM +0100, Stefan Potyra wrote: > > I'd like to further nominate: [...] minghua, Stefan, thanks for the nomination. But I'll have to decline it,

Re: MOTU todo list

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:49:29AM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:46:02AM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > > > > It'd be really cool to see people jump in there and get release upgrades > > tested early in the game so we can get packages fixed before release. > > We plan

Re: Lyx

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:03:49PM +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Lyx in debian unstable is at version 1.4.3, which fixes bugs that make > version 1.4.2 present in testing and edgy completely broken and useless. The first step is to report these bugs, if they are not reported already. Ming 2006

Re: Stable Release Updates policy

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:02:42AM -0800, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hello, > > Am Donnerstag, den 09.11.2006, 09:21 +1300 schrieb Andrew Mitchell: > > The intent of having both was to make sure that any regressions are > > caught by people who have time & the ability to upload a fix quickly, if > >

Re: More Teams, more MLs, more more more

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 04:50:38PM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > Hi, Hi Stephan, > On Saturday 11 November 2006 23:10, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > > Ming Hua wrote: > > > > > > I care about stable updates a lot, and while I am not confident to be in > > > th

Re: Virtual packages?

> Am Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:42:41 +0100 schrieb Jan Claeys: > > > This is explained in the 'debian-policy' document: > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:24:38AM +0100, Andreas Volz wrote: > Ok, I looked into > > http://www.debian.org

Re: MOTU Meeting let's do it again ;)

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:03:37PM +0100, Stefan Potyra wrote: > > Thus, I'm calling for a motu-meeting once again. The only thing in > question is the date and time yet; I guess we'll have enough things to > discuss. > > 1. proposal: This Friday, 12/15/06, 20.00 UTC > 2. proposal: Next Wednesday

Re: 'motureviewers' going out of business

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:55:17PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > > So if you want to help out, you can join either > > https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-main-sponsors > > or > > https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-universe-sponsors I see that ubuntu-dev team is a member of ubuntu-univer

Re: torrentflux package, missing dependency

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:39:14PM +0200, Jej wrote: > > The Torrentflux software requires the zip package (and tar) to download > an archive of achieved downloads. If zip is not installed nothing > happens and TF does not complain nor tests the presence of zip on the > system. > > Zip should

MOTU meeting minutes

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:28:27AM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: >The next MOTU Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, July 14th, 0:00 UTC. The meeting minutes are now available at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Meetings/2007-07-14 Following is the text version of the minutes: MOTU Meeting on U

Re: Merges - Pinging Previous Uploaders

Disclaimer: I was a non-DD Debian package maintainer before becoming an Ubuntu user and MOTU. So my opinion is probably quite biased. On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 02:48:49PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: > On 7/14/07, Jordan Mantha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Other people's merges? Nobody "owns" anyt

Re: Merges - Pinging Previous Uploaders

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:17:56AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I agree that nobody owns anything, but many/most/all of us have certain > > packages that we focus on. > > > > From a technical perspective I think you are right for most packages.

Re: Merges - Pinging Previous Uploaders

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 01:20:16PM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > > The advantage of a file in the source package is that one has it > automatically when one fetches the source. > But the big disadvantage is that one needs an upload to update that > file. As a compromise, packages using VCS for p

Re: change keyboard layout in the console with X11-Keymap

Hi Benjamin, On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:37:42AM +0200, Benjamin Kellermann wrote: > > I read on http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2006/10284.html (sorry, german > link) that it should be possible since edgy to change the keyboard > layout of the console with the X11 keymaps. > > I asked this question

Re: Suggestions on packaging a patched source tarball

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 09:57:36AM +0200, Cesare Falco wrote: > > I'm facing an unusual situation. I'm already packaging sdlmame from > a .zip upstream file. Well, you didn't know? Please review it: > http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=259 > :) > > Now I'm considering to package another Mame

Re: MOTU Council election process

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:30:35PM +0200, Stefan Potyra wrote: > > sorry, forgot the link to the polls: > > As I don't know much about either of the candidates (or can't make the connection between the name and the IRC nick), I had to search LP for the

Re: Change in the Mentoring program

I feel you are misunderstanding Scott. On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:48:00PM +0100, Cesare Tirabassi wrote: > On Sunday 25 November 2007 16:12:28 Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > That doesn't really answer my questions: > [...] > We have one proposal from Emmet, do we have any other proposals? > Do you

Re: Statement from the MOTU Council about Marco Rodrigues

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:16:54PM +, João Luís Marques Pinto wrote: > > > Just for the record, I appreciate that he has been banned. > > It is very sad one some gets banned, presumably for the lack of > quality/patient on his effort to collaborate. > It is very sad that someone cares to "rec