Re: MIA? Fabio Rafael da Rosa

2006-01-30 Thread Otavio Salvador
Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Otavio, you seem to have been his sponsor, do you have any news from > him in the last 6 months (or since January, 1st 2005, for that > matter)? Anybody else? I didn't have any news from him. :( I think would be fine if you take over the package.

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MIA? Fabio Rafael da Rosa

2006-01-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, I still haven't heard back from Fabio Rafaek da Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, my first MIA-test contact was > 2 months ago. Otavio, you seem to have been his sponsor, do you have any news from him in the last 6 months (or since January, 1st 2005, for that matter)? Anybody else? On Thu, Dec 08, 2

Re: The Debian community should influence the next Haskell language standard

2006-01-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Isaac Jones: > I'd like to ask the Debian community to look at Haskell98 and some of > the "research" extensions[2] and give us some input as to what would > make Haskell more attractive to you. Uhm, most of the things on Debian's (as opposed to individual developer's) whishlist are quality-of-

Re: returning emeritus developer, no response from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-01-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> > so far not even a response telling me I'm in a queue. > > Is the procedure described above still the right one? > > DAM is very slow-moving these days. Probably they haven't looked at your mail > yet. Um, just in case anyone was wondering, that wasn't intended as a criticism of DAM -- I t

Re: Bug#349064: ITP: macromedia-flash-installer -- installer for Macromedia Flash Plugin

2006-01-30 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:49:09PM +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > So, one conclusion is clear : Nobody wants a second installer for the > Macromedia Flash Plugin. Efforts should go to flashplugin-nonfree. > Thanks for the comments leading to this consensus. > > Less clear to me is "what now". The

Re: Bug#349064: ITP: macromedia-flash-installer -- installer for Macromedia Flash Plugin

2006-01-30 Thread Bart Martens
So, one conclusion is clear : Nobody wants a second installer for the Macromedia Flash Plugin. Efforts should go to flashplugin-nonfree. Thanks for the comments leading to this consensus. Less clear to me is "what now". The maintainer of flashplugin-nonfree seems to be busy with other things. W

Re: Multiple package variants with CDBS?

2006-01-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:22:46 +0100, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 11:06:20AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Am 2006-01-28 13:27:11, schrieb W. Borgert: >> > I have a package that is configured and compiled two times, so >> > that two binary packages are buil

Re: Multiple package variants with CDBS?

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 11:06:20AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-01-28 13:27:11, schrieb W. Borgert: > > I have a package that is configured and compiled two times, so > > that two binary packages are built in one dpkg-buildpackage run: > > One with --enable-gnome, the second without. Is

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-30 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If people find Perl too hard (feh), and python too ugly, > regressive syntactically, and counter intuitive, and want ruby, or > scheme, or haskell, what then? Unless there is a requirement that maintainer scripts have to be shipped in an a

Bug#350582: ITP: libclass-throwable-perl -- A minimal lightweight exception class

2006-01-30 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libclass-throwable-perl Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : stevan little, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/modules/by-module/Class/Class-Th

Re: Bug#349424: ITP: xcftools -- command-line tools for extracting data for XCF files

2006-01-30 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Imagemagick in general can handle multi-layered images just fine. I'm > not sure whether this is true for its xcf module already, but the > necessary framework is certainly there. So if you don't want to keep > maintaining a separate utility, merging it

Re: Multiple package variants with CDBS?

2006-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-28 13:27:11, schrieb W. Borgert: > Hi, > > I have a package that is configured and compiled two times, so > that two binary packages are built in one dpkg-buildpackage run: > One with --enable-gnome, the second without. Is this supported > by CDBS somehow? Is there a package, that alrea

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-30 Thread Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interestingly the size is highly dependent on the architecture: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l postrm-* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ballombe ballombe 6960782 Jan 30 14:10 postrm-amd64 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ballombe ballombe 266065 Jan 30 14:09 postrm-i386 > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-30 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:26:31AM +0100, Emilio Jes??s Gallego Arias wrote: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The only (very minor) drawback is that above haskell scripts when > > compiled is about 7MB in size, but the huge gain in reliability > > I think you're somewhat joking

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:03:03AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 30 janvier 2006 à 10:20 +1100, Matthew Palmer a écrit : > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > There have already been - admittedly sporadic - proposals to rewrite > > > some key parts

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:03:03AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 30 janvier 2006 à 10:20 +1100, Matthew Palmer a écrit : > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > There have already been - admittedly sporadic - proposals to rewrite > > > some key parts

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 30 janvier 2006 à 10:20 +1100, Matthew Palmer a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > There have already been - admittedly sporadic - proposals to rewrite > > some key parts of the system, like the init scripts or adduser, in > > python. However, i

Re: Bug#350397: ITP: dblatex -- Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-01-30 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Hoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In comparison to that the dblatex development is very vivid, when one > reports a bug, in most cases it will be fixed within a few days. The > upstream author generally is very helpful and would be glad to get the > project packaged in Debian. > > I was