Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)

2006-02-15 Thread Miles Bader
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You won't be able to stay away from tcl/tk for too long if you want GUIs, > > Huh? My desktop is 100% tk-free... Yeah, me too; I actually use that as one criterion to decide whether I really want to install some random borderline useful utility... :-)

Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)

2006-02-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:46:30AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Jari Aalto wrote: > > Not so fast. If the light weight system is to be kept as small as > > possible, the additional tcl/Tk libraries would not be welcomed. > You won't be able to stay away from tcl

Re: Size matters. 7zip. Again.

2006-02-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > What about using .tar.7z files to fix those problems? What about writing a gzip-like utility using the improved 7zip compression, and doing that the way bzip and gzip are done (a very sane library we can call directly from inside apps, and a command-lin

Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)

2006-02-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Jari Aalto wrote: > Not so fast. If the light weight system is to be kept as small as > possible, the additional tcl/Tk libraries would not be welcomed. You won't be able to stay away from tcl/tk for too long if you want GUIs, but I see your point. > GTK at least is common to

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

2006-02-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is not to day that Python is bad - It has better OO, which Perl > unfortunately negletted fromt he very starts. Now, talk about Perl OO > and that's hairy!. Actually, Python *also* ignored OO at the beginning. It has grafted it on, but since real OO

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

2006-02-15 Thread Miles Bader
Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl syntax is elegant, efficient and Python's regexp handling is > nowhere as intuitive as needed for day-to-day tasks where the poer is > needed. Efficient, perhaps, but _elegant_?!? HAhahahahah1hahah3$I17-e87 Perl is an utter mess, with a few nice

Processed: /usr/doc/*

2006-02-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#353051: ITP: pootle -- Web-based translation and translation management tool

2006-02-15 Thread Nicolas François
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Nicolas François" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pootle Version : 0.6.3.20060126 Upstream Author : David Fraser, translate.org.za * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/translate * License : GPL Description :

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Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 21:28, Frans Pop wrote: > + href="http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=""+group%3Alinux.debian.bugs.dist";> Hmm. Quotes within quotes probably won't work, so this is better: http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=+group%3Alinux.debian.bugs.dist";> pgpauf7f

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 20:56, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 15, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This kind of thing is not possible currently. Do you think it is a > > good implement such a feature? Currently bugs.kde.org allows this > > (searching for strings in the bug rep

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

2006-02-15 Thread Jari Aalto
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:19 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > >> And if we followed the the line of argument you are pressing >> uncritically, we'd bloat essential/base with gazillions of >> interpreters from people too lazy or incom

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-15 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:10 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hi > >I wanted to report a minor bug on kicker using reportbug package > tool. But then it forces me to read a huge number of bug titles (around > 647 of them) most of which were not filed against kicker. For example it > shows

Re: Size matters. 7zip. Again.

2006-02-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > There are more alternatives: http://rzip.samba.org/ >From the same web page: "rzip is not for everyone! The two biggest disadvantages are that you can't pipeline rzip (so it can't read from standard input or write to standard output), and that it

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 15, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This kind of thing is not possible currently. Do you think it is a good > implement such a feature? Currently bugs.kde.org allows this (searching > for strings in the bug reports without worrying about package names etc.,). You use goog

Re: Size matters. 7zip. Again.

2006-02-15 Thread Jari Aalto
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > #include > * Lars Wirzenius [Wed, Feb 15 2006, 10:42:02AM]: > >> (Once we use .tar.bz2, the sizes will be even smaller.) > > I cannot remember a clear consens from the "Size matters" thread, and > IMO we should go for 7zip at least for source packages.

Re: Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:25:07PM +0300, =?UTF-8?Q? =D0=9F=D0=BE=D1=80=D1=82=D0=BE=D0=BD_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=9B=D1=8C=D0=B2=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=B8=D1=87 ?= wrote: > First, I suggested .zip just for an example. There are other similar > archivers with bigger compression ratio. > > > One

Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)

2006-02-15 Thread Jari Aalto
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 03:35 -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:07:45AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: >> > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > >> > > > On Tue, 20

Re: Size matters. 7zip. Again.

2006-02-15 Thread Aurelien Jarno
John Goerzen a écrit : On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:45:21PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include * Lars Wirzenius [Wed, Feb 15 2006, 10:42:02AM]: (Once we use .tar.bz2, the sizes will be even smaller.) I cannot remember a clear consens from the "Size matters" thread, and IMO we should go for

Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)

2006-02-15 Thread Jari Aalto
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Can you all provide more information on > >> "too buggy that we refuse to support it" >> full of malloc(FIXED_NUM) > >> So that I can take this to upstream. Is there improvements >> that you would like to propose? I noticed that later.

Re: Size matters. 7zip. Again.

2006-02-15 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:45:21PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Lars Wirzenius [Wed, Feb 15 2006, 10:42:02AM]: > > > (Once we use .tar.bz2, the sizes will be even smaller.) > > I cannot remember a clear consens from the "Size matters" thread, and > IMO we should go for 7zip at least

limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-15 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi I wanted to report a minor bug on kicker using reportbug package tool. But then it forces me to read a huge number of bug titles (around 647 of them) most of which were not filed against kicker. For example it shows bugs against kdeprinter, kate, konsole etc., Why is this so? I think it

New sbuild release 0.38

2006-02-15 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi folks, sbuild 0.38 has been released; the changelog follows at the end of this message. It's tagged in CVS as sbuild_0_38, and has been uploaded to experimental. It is also available at http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/sbuild-0.38/ If you are a user of sbuild, it would be greatly appreciated

Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)

2006-02-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jari Aalto [Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:13:36 +0200]: > The HELO argument may be funny, It says something about the author. > but the package seems to work okay. This list weight GUI version of > sending mail (in contrast to console based ones; mutt etc.), is very > small application that is suitabl

Size matters. 7zip. Again.

2006-02-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Lars Wirzenius [Wed, Feb 15 2006, 10:42:02AM]: > (Once we use .tar.bz2, the sizes will be even smaller.) I cannot remember a clear consens from the "Size matters" thread, and IMO we should go for 7zip at least for source packages. Eduard. -- For any stupid thing chosen at random, yo

Re: Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Портон Виктор Львович <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not always. For example, apache2 package is split into two packages: > apache2 and apache2-doc (and also apache2-dev and several others). To > Build apache2 binary package most of documentation files are not > needed. In the case of apache2 downl

Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Портон Виктор Львович
First, I suggested .zip just for an example. There are other similar archivers with bigger compression ratio. >> 3. Users could be then able to mount a .zip file from the Debian FTP server >> and compile a package directly from the server. This would reduce download >> I deem some about 50% compa

Contact Centre - Partnership enquiry

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Re: [Pbuilder-maint] pbuilder, xvfb and nonexisting /tmp/.X11-unix

2006-02-15 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Please recreate base.tgz for this to take effect. > What's the issue? Sorry, I missed the changelog entry (it took a while for me to trigger that bug and someone else using a newer chroot but probably pbuilder/stable had the same problem but I didn't think of him not us

Re: pbuilder, xvfb and nonexisting /tmp/.X11-unix

2006-02-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > Daniel Schepler wrote: > > Have you tried just recreating base.tgz with an up-to-date pbuilder? > Ah, no. Cool. I'll have to file a wishlist item against pbuilder to > update its configuration upon update. One problem is that currently policy-rc.d is just stuffed in without any version con

Re: [Pbuilder-maint] pbuilder, xvfb and nonexisting /tmp/.X11-unix

2006-02-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > I'm seeking advice on the following problem: > - xvfb-run bails out on nonexistant / not root-owned /tmp/.X11-unix, > - a/my pbuilder chroot won't have /tmp/.X11-unix, > - I need some X (xvfb is fine) to build libaqbanking (glade-2 code > generation needs X bug). > > A working work-aro

Bug#352953: ITP: pyqonsole -- X terminal emulator written in python

2006-02-15 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Fayolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pyqonsole Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Logilab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.logilab.org/projects/pyqonsole * License : CeCILL Description : X term

Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

2006-02-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-02-07 14:40:52, schrieb Ian Jackson: > 2. The package fixes a critical bug which can lead into data loss, > data corruption, or an overly broken system, or the package is broken > or not usable (anymore). > > That seems to be true in this case. I think a system which gets the > clock

Re: Library interface version question

2006-02-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm wrote: >>You are supposed to write an appropriate shlibs file, as described in >>policy �8.6. Have you done so? > My file is currently automatically generated by dh_shlibdeps, and says > "libargtable2 0 libargtable2-0". No it isn't.

Re: Changing menu item name

2006-02-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Chandan M. C. wrote: > Hai , > > Is it possible to change the menu name ... I need to change the "debian > menu" what is appearing in "Applications" start menu of gnome ... Instead > of debian menu I need some other name ... How and whr I can change If > I want to change in source in which pk

Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2006-02-15 kello 04:00 +0500, Victor Porton kirjoitti: > Here is my plan how to reduce Debian servers load and users Debian packages > download bandwidth: > > 1. Package in .zip (or a similar format) instead of .tar.{gz,bz2} Picking a random package: -rw-rw-r-- 1 liw liw 18113820 Mar 18 2

Bug#352912: marked as done (general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS)

2006-02-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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