Re: Bug#304330: ITP: iscsitarget -- iSCSI Enterprise Target

2005-04-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2005-04-13 kello 14:10 +1000, Hamish Moffatt kirjoitti: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:32:02PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:33:49PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > > > Description : iSCSI Enterprise Target > > > > > > An iSCSI Target implementation supporti

Re: Bug#304330: ITP: iscsitarget -- iSCSI Enterprise Target

2005-04-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:32:02PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:33:49PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > > Description : iSCSI Enterprise Target > > > > An iSCSI Target implementation supporting 2.6 kernels, SMP, 64bit, > > dynamic configuration, iSNS and more >

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 20:48 +0100, David Pashley wrote: > On Apr 12, 2005 at 18:01, Ron Johnson praised the llamas by saying: > > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:52 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:10 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > > > > Re: sean finney in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >

Bug#304416: ITP: libsvn-notify-perl -- Subversion activity notification

2005-04-12 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nacho Barrientos Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsvn-notify-perl Version : 2.44 Upstream Author : David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~dwheeler/SVN-Notify-2.44/ * License : Perl (

Re: How to output Unicode?

2005-04-12 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vladimir Panteleev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simplified problem statement: make a program that outputs the MS-DOS > ASCII table to the console (0x32 - 0x255, without control characters). comp.os.linux.development.apps would be a more appropriate

How to output Unicode?

2005-04-12 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
Simplified problem statement: make a program that outputs the MS-DOS ASCII table to the console (0x32 - 0x255, without control characters). I mean the one containing the pseudo-graphic characters - simply writing chars 128-255 gives me 32 block characters, some math/currency symbols and then intern

Bug#304401: ITP: libstatgrab -- library providing interface to system statistics

2005-04-12 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libstatgrab Version : 0.11.1 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : LGPL

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Florian Weimer may or may not have written... > * Josselin Mouette: >> Is there any real-life use for this program? > No, especially since September ended a couple of months ago: > Tha

Re: Making new packages

2005-04-12 Thread Adam M.
Nico Golde wrote: >Hi, >if we would drop some archs now, what is the best way of >making new packages. Should we just fill in the archs which >are supported in the future too to hold the load on the >archs buildds which will be dropped low? > > No. Just leave it as any unless there is a good re

Re: Making new packages

2005-04-12 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Adam, * Adam M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-12 23:09]: > Nico Golde wrote: > >if we would drop some archs now, what is the best way of > >making new packages. Should we just fill in the archs which > >are supported in the future too to hold the load on the > >archs buildds which will be dro

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Josselin Mouette: > Is there any real-life use for this program? No, especially since September ended a couple of months ago: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Making new packages

2005-04-12 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Nico Golde wrote: > if we would drop some archs now, what is the best way of making new > packages. Should we just fill in the archs which are supported in > the future too to hold the load on the archs buildds which will be > dropped low? No. It's called proposal because it's not yet decided if

Making new packages

2005-04-12 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, if we would drop some archs now, what is the best way of making new packages. Should we just fill in the archs which are supported in the future too to hold the load on the archs buildds which will be dropped low? regards nico -- Nico Golde - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GPG: 1024D/73647CFF http://www

Re: Bug#250202: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:29:10PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > unpack: some packages unpack the upstream tarball, some do patching > > > patch: some patch the source tree, some generate patch out of it. > > 2. A policy on what target to have for optional unpacking and patching, > > and app

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread David Pashley
On Apr 12, 2005 at 18:01, Ron Johnson praised the llamas by saying: > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:52 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:10 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > > > Re: sean finney in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Is there any real-life use for this program? > > > > > >

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:17:22AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > That said, the following script is probably just as amusing, and > undoubtedly simpler: Pft, that won't make my GNOME clock show the correct date ;-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 14:28 -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > Could you enlighten me as of the reason that September 93 never ended? The original ITP gave the reference: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html In brief: in Sept. '93 AOL users came online, starting an

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:28:54 -0300 Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Pfaff wrote: > > >Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Games serve a purpose: they entertain the user. What is the purpose > >of >sdate? > > > >The same. If you are not entertained by sdate, then you do

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Humberto Massa
Ben Pfaff wrote: Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Games serve a purpose: they entertain the user. What is the purpose of sdate? The same. If you are not entertained by sdate, then you do not need to install it. That said, the following script is probably just as amusing, and undoubt

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Games serve a purpose: they entertain the user. What is the purpose of > sdate? The same. If you are not entertained by sdate, then you do not need to install it. That said, the following script is probably just as amusing, and undoubtedly simpler: #!

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:52 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:10 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > > Re: sean finney in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Is there any real-life use for this program? > > > > > > > > No. > > > > > > then please don't put it in debian. > > > > Which of

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Dan Christensen [Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:46:18 -0400]: > the command to find out which binary packages a source package > produces? $ apt-cache showsrc (bin|source)-package You need a deb-src entry in apt/sources.list for that to work. -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
reopen 304208 thanks On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:52:49AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > Why did you close #304208? Can you compile 'usermin-contrib'? > > > > > > > I was able to on Jan 30, when

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:52:49AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > Why did you close #304208? Can you compile 'usermin-contrib'? > > > > I was able to on Jan 30, when I built the package. on i386, sun's packages are much more popular than the blackd

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:03:21AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:52:49AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > > 'j2sdk1.4' is virtual package which is provided by 'sun-j2sdk1.4', > > > 'blackdown-j2sdk1.4' and 'ibm-j2sdk1.4

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:52:49AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > 'j2sdk1.4' is virtual package which is provided by 'sun-j2sdk1.4', > > 'blackdown-j2sdk1.4' and 'ibm-j2sdk1.4' all of which can be created > > with the help of 'make-jpkg' from 'java-

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Apr-12 10:52, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > I was able to on Jan 30, when I built the package. > > > I think that it is a bug if a source package cannot be compiled. > > Oh definitely. The question is why can I do it and you can't? My fault, it was a problem with my setup. I have 4 different j

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:10 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: sean finney in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Is there any real-life use for this program? > > > > > > No. > > > > then please don't put it in debian. > > Which of the other games in Debian do serve a purpose? Games serve a purpose: th

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Andreas Jochens wrote: > I tried it a few more times and finally managed to compile the > package by just changing the classpath and the javac command in > debian/rules to > > $(JAVA_HOME)/bin/javac -classpath $(JAVA_HOME)/jre/lib/plugin.jar [...] > > and pointing $(JAVA_HOME)

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: sean finney in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Is there any real-life use for this program? > > > > No. > > then please don't put it in debian. Which of the other games in Debian do serve a purpose? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signat

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Andreas Jochens wrote: > 'j2sdk1.4' is virtual package which is provided by 'sun-j2sdk1.4', > 'blackdown-j2sdk1.4' and 'ibm-j2sdk1.4' all of which can be created > with the help of 'make-jpkg' from 'java-package'. So the Build-Depends > seem to allow the use of 'sun-j2sdk1.4'.

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Apr-12 09:30, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Andreas Jochens wrote: > > When building 'usermin-contrib' on i386/unstable with sun-j2sdk1.4, > > I get the following error: > > So don't do that then. The build depends is for j2sdk1.4 (i.e. Blackdown.) 'j2sdk1.4' is virtual package which is provide

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Dan Christensen
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On my systems, wnpp-alert lists packages that I don't have installed. >> For example: >> >> # wnpp-alert >> ... >> O 279824 perlftlib -- Perl module for the FreeType library >> ... >> # dpkg -l \*perlftlib\* >> No packages found matching *perl

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:31:58AM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > Stephen Quinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > >> > I am interested in the intersection of pac

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Dan Christensen
Stephen Quinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: >> > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my >> > machines with the list of orphaned packages. >>

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Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > unpack: some packages unpack the upstream tarball, some do patching > > patch: some patch the source tree, some generate patch out of it. > 2. A policy on what target to have for optional unpacking and patching, > and apply a recommendation that is enforced on etch/etch+1 > > That should p

Re: Bug#304330: ITP: iscsitarget -- iSCSI Enterprise Target

2005-04-12 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:33:49PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > Description : iSCSI Enterprise Target > > An iSCSI Target implementation supporting 2.6 kernels, SMP, 64bit, > dynamic configuration, iSNS and more You might want to expand a few acronyms (I know what SCSI is, but what is iSCSI?

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Di den 12. Apr 2005 um 15:01 schriebst Du: > Though, rather than having a seperate package for this, it'd probably be > better to add it to some other package of small toys. Maybe not as it is like fakeroot a preload library which can have securit

Re: weird font corruption caused by scrolling

2005-04-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-09-19 12:05:40 +0300, Ismail Donmez wrote: > I can also reproduce this bug on Sid and Slackware 10 . So this is a > mozilla bug I am sure. I'm also seeing this problem, just after switching from Mozilla to Firefox *with a different configuration* (for the moment). In the screenshot, the te

Re: ddtp.d.o is not alive

2005-04-12 Thread Daniel Macêdo Batista
Is there any newness about the correct redirection of the ddtp.debian.org? []'s Em 9/4/2005, "Daniel Macêdo Batista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > >Em 7/4/2005, "Guilherme de S. Pastore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >escreveu: > >>Em Qui, 2005-04-07 à s 17:53 -0300, Daniel Macêdo Batista escreveu: >>

Bug#304330: ITP: iscsitarget -- iSCSI Enterprise Target

2005-04-12 Thread Philipp Hug
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philipp Hug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: iscsitarget Version : 0.4.6 Upstream Author : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : iSCSI Enterprise Target An

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Josselin Mouette wrote: Is there any real-life use for this program? Is there any real-life use for filters? /usr/games/jethro /usr/games/kraut /usr/games/cockney /usr/games/jive /usr/games/nyc /usr/games/ken /usr/games/ky00te /usr/games/newspeak /usr/games/eleet /usr/games/b1ff /usr/games/chef /us

Re: etch release target: SELinux?? (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-04-12 Thread paddy
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:07:13AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > If a tee-shirt with 'I > fixed the oldest bug in Debian, and all I got was this lousey tee-shirt' > helps to motivate folks -- great by me! And great for our users and > Debian! And then, as if by magic On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:59:08PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > > Is there any real-life use for this program? > > No. then please don't put it in debian. you can debianize it and host it on your web page (or send it to esr) which will still serve its novelty purpose without adding yet another

Bug#304325: linda: Please provide a more informative long description

2005-04-12 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: linda Severity: wishlist Hello, as the recent thread on -devel [0] pointed out, there is a bit of confusion about linda and lintian. IMHO it would be a good idea to provide an improved description for linda; I CCed -devel to hear also other opinions. Here it is my proposal: Linda is

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Josselin Mouette in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Description : never ending september date > > > > This package wraps the libc localtime() and gmtime() functions to output > > the > > eternal september 1993 date. > > Is there any real-life use for this program? No. Christoph -- [EMAIL

Re: etch release target: SELinux?? (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:24:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Given the fact that the current standard installation installs both gcc, > > > gdb and other development packages weighting more than that (see #301138, > > > which nobody wants to fix) > > Sorry to interupt, ju

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-12 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Josselin, * Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-12 11:53]: > Le mardi 12 avril 2005 à 08:31 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > The reason: "I just rewrite an application because the language it is > > written in." sounds a very stupid reason to me. > > Why? When you don't know Per

Re: Introducing Ichthux as a possibly new CDD

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Raphaël Pinson wrote: The situation has changed a bit since then though, since crosswire is willing to host the project. One of the questions we then come to is whether we should keep the project on Crosswire, get it to Debian, or keep both. I can not decide for yo

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:20:28AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 12 avril 2005 à 08:31 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > The reason: "I just rewrite an application because the language it is > > written in." sounds a very stupid reason to me. > > Why? When you don't know Perl, and you

Bug#304313: ITP: libqt4lab -- Qt4Lab widget plugins library

2005-04-12 Thread Fathi BOUDRA
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fathi BOUDRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hi, I'm looking for a sponsor to my qt4lab package. qt4lab is an already promising project and collaborate with qwt project. You can find my package : http://fboudra.free.fr/debian/ best regards, Fathi * Package name

Re: Introducing Ichthux as a possibly new CDD

2005-04-12 Thread Raphaël Pinson
   http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/ch-starting.en.html I've read this tutorial already. I found it very complete. Now I can't really tell much since I havn't really began the work yet. Later I might be able to better give you my opinion. Very typical situation for starting a CDD. The situ

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-12 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Emanuele, * Emanuele Rocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-12 07:53]: > * [ 11-04-05 - 22:03 ] Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-11 22:00]: > > > Why are there Vi and Emacs? > > > Why are there Perl and Python? > > [...] > > But thats

Re: etch release target: SELinux?? (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-04-12 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, April 11, 2005 21:46, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña said: > Given the fact that the current standard installation installs both gcc, > gdb and other development packages weighting more than that (see #301138, > which nobody wants to fix) I don't find that an issue. After reading that bug

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-12 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, April 11, 2005 22:26, Emanuele Rocca said: > Well some differences came out: > - linda has proper l10n strings for most errors (in German) > - different output formats > - different test sets > - linda is faster So, linda is better than lintian? Faster and localized, that sound like good

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Alexander Schmehl wrote: It doesn't for me after I heard, that foo was orhpaned. None volunteered to adopt it, but someone volunteered to write something, that does work in his prefered language. Sometimes it is easier to restart from scratch than to try to adopt an foreign t

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050412 08:31]: > >Guess some people have preferences for either languages or other. > The reason: "I just rewrite an application because the language it is > written in." sounds a very stupid reason to me. It doesn't for me after I heard, that foo was orhpaned.

Re: etch release target: SELinux?? (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Kevin Mark wrote: > > Given the fact that the current standard installation installs both gcc, > > gdb and other development packages weighting more than that (see #301138, > > which nobody wants to fix) > Sorry to interupt, just got a stupid idea, if as Javier suggests, there > are bugs that no

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 12 avril 2005 à 08:31 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > The reason: "I just rewrite an application because the language it is > written in." sounds a very stupid reason to me. Why? When you don't know Perl, and you feel like improving a software in Perl is like eating oysters with skiing g

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 12 avril 2005 à 02:40 +0200, Christoph Berg a écrit : > Description : never ending september date > > This package wraps the libc localtime() and gmtime() functions to output the > eternal september 1993 date. > . > sdate works like fakeroot (on which its code is based) by setti

Bug#304295: ITP: pdnmesh -- automatic mesh generator and solver for Finite Element problems

2005-04-12 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pdnmesh Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Sarod Yatawatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pdnmesh.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : automatic mesh gene

Re: Minimizing ld dependencies with --as-needed

2005-04-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ please cc: me on replies ] * Ron Johnson wrote: > What are the opinions of d-d's of --as-needed? > > According to this thread, the number of dependencies can sometimes > be slashed drastically. I would be much happier if someone with time would just help to put this into libtool properly as an