Draft DDP policy (was: documentation types)

2006-02-16 Thread Frank Küster
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Policy says to ship HTML, else I wouldn't. > > Policy is somewhat out of date with respect to documentation. There's > actually a (draft) DDP policy which covers this already. I know, I've written > it. Where can we look at the draft?

Work-needing packages report for Feb 17, 2006

2006-02-16 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 219 (new: 27) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 92 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

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

2006-02-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2006-02-17 kello 10:58 +0900, Miles Bader kirjoitti: > "Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > actual topic of the discussion, just shut up. > > Oh get a life. It's perfectly relevant to talk about the qualities of > the languages involved. A comparative discussion about lan

Re: need help with minc

2006-02-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:10:09AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > I made the mistake of adding "make check" to debian/rules. Now minc > won't build on certain architectures. It builds on i386 (my > architecture), ia64, s390, and powerpc. It fails on alpha, sparc, > mips, hppa, arm, and mipsel

Re: documentation types

2006-02-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2006-02-17 kello 01:10 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña kirjoitti: > Docbook/XML or SGML conversion to HTML is easy. Proper PS / PDF generation is > not that easy (depends on toolchain and local configuration) and that's > what your average user typically asks for when handling large docum

need help with minc

2006-02-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, I made the mistake of adding "make check" to debian/rules. Now minc won't build on certain architectures. It builds on i386 (my architecture), ia64, s390, and powerpc. It fails on alpha, sparc, mips, hppa, arm, and mipsel. I poked around on a few of the debian machines (vore, paer, caba

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

2006-02-16 Thread Miles Bader
"Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > actual topic of the discussion, just shut up. Oh get a life. It's perfectly relevant to talk about the qualities of the languages involved. Thanks! -miles -- = (^o^; (())) *This is the cute octopus virus, please copy it into your sig s

Re: documentation types

2006-02-16 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:03:37PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:04:25AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Pe?a > wrote: > > > Moreover, I know of *no* -doc packages that provide SGML format so there > > is not that much experience (or tools) on how to automatically do wh

Re: documentation types

2006-02-16 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:43:11PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Ok, then you choose HTML and PDF. And the next user asks why he cannot get it > in the format provided by docbook2xyz (substitute xyz with any possible > value). The user always has the *source* package available to do as he pleas

Re: documentation types

2006-02-16 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:04:25AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peńa wrote: > Moreover, I know of *no* -doc packages that provide SGML format so there > is not that much experience (or tools) on how to automatically do what others > suggest (dwww integratin). IMHO SGML is losing ground in fav

Re: documentation types

2006-02-16 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:37:38PM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote: > "Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:47:11PM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote: > >> Well, i personally like very much to have all (well a lot of) my > >> documentation accessible, and searchable by

Re: documentation types

2006-02-16 Thread Remi Vanicat
"Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:47:11PM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote: >> Well, i personally like very much to have all (well a lot of) my >> documentation accessible, and searchable by dwww. For this I would want >> the html to be already generated, and I'

Re: documentation types

2006-02-16 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:47:11PM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote: > Well, i personally like very much to have all (well a lot of) my > documentation accessible, and searchable by dwww. For this I would want > the html to be already generated, and I'm probably not the only > one. Why not just create a -

Bug#353193: ITP: sqlitemanager -- Multilingual web based tool to manage SQLite databases

2006-02-16 Thread Stefani Banerian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefani Banerian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sqlitemanager Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : M

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:14:53PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > It searches for bugs on the source package, which in this case is > kdebase. You can change this behavior with --no-query-source. My guess > for the reason that --query-source is that quite frequently, especially > with libraries

Re: Bug#353117: ITP: libphp-xajax -- A PHP library to develop Ajax applications

2006-02-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Jeu 16 Février 2006 11:21, David Gil a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name : libphp-xajax should be : php-xajax. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO

Free'ing documentation: How to include doc sources missing in the orig.tar.gz

2006-02-16 Thread Frank Küster
Hello, teTeX contains a couple of documentation files that are definitely non-free (#345604) and need to be removed, but there are others that can be "made free"[1]. In other words, either they are licensed under a DFSG-compliant license, but the source is missing, or we manage to convince the au

Re: Chao ban ve may bay

2006-02-16 Thread Quelen Guillaume
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Re: documentation types

2006-02-16 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 10:04 schrieb Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:54:09PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Thus the thing to do is to provide HTML. > > I disagree, the thing to do is to provide HTML *and* an easy to print > format, that is PS or PDF. > > > I

Bug#353141: ITP: libio-capture-perl -- Abstract Base Class to build modules to capture output.

2006-02-16 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libio-capture-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Mark Reynolds sgi.com>, Jon Morgan sgi.com> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~reynolds/IO-Capture-0.05/ * License

Re: Size matters. 7zip. Again.

2006-02-16 Thread Willi Mann
"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 uses lots of memory. A typical compression run on a large file might use a couple of hundred MB of ram. If you have ram to bur

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

2006-02-16 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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$I1

Re: Security update modifies (inofficial) ABI and hidden API

2006-02-16 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Joey, On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:02:37PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > We could use some advice and help with the GnuTLS / libasn1 update > that would fix the vulnerabilities reported recently. > The fix for libasn1 adds arguments to exported function. However, > these functions are named _a

Bug#353117: ITP: libphp-xajax -- A PHP library to develop Ajax applications

2006-02-16 Thread David Gil
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : libphp-xajax Version : 0.2 Upstream Authors : Jared White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> J. Max Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xajaxproject.org/ * License

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-16 Thread Miles Bader
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or the search machine of the choice for those who do not thrust Google. I think most of those types are holed up in a bunker cradling a machine gun. -miles -- `Suppose Korea goes to the World Cup final against Japan and wins,' Moon said. `All the past c

Re: documentation types

2006-02-16 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:54:09PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Thus the thing to do is to provide HTML. I disagree, the thing to do is to provide HTML *and* an easy to print format, that is PS or PDF. > It would be nice to be able to ship, say, HTML and SGML, and then have a > quick and easy w

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Frank Küster [Thu, Feb 16 2006, 09:06:06AM]: > >> You use google groups to search the linux.debian.bugs.dist newsgroup. > > > > Maybe we should document that on the bugs.debian.org main webpage. > > Can't we include a form where you put in your search text, click search, > and the com

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

2006-02-16 Thread Frank Küster
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 thi