Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-09 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Radio amateur also doesn't go well in en_AU. Amateur radio's better. andrew On 4/10/06, Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:48:48AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 04:46:10PM +0200, Bill Allombert w

Bug#361761: ITP: libcgi-application-plugins-perl -- Plugins for CGI::Application

2006-04-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcgi-application-plugins-perl Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Jaldhar H. Vyas (collector) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : N/A * License : GPL/Artistic Description

sudo and pbuilder: specifying environment variables to be passed on

2006-04-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, At the moment, the following environment variable needs to be allowed in order to preserve previous pbuilder behavior: DEB_* BUILD* PATH It's one possibility to ask every user to configure their sudo configuration using visudo to allow these. Is there anything besides documenting that pbuil

Re: RFA: Everything must go!

2006-04-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Shaun Jackman wrote: * Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox libnjb - Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox library gnomad2 - Manage a Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox I have a Creative Zen touch which use these so I can take them. I would rather work with someone to comaintain them though. n

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:48:48AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 04:46:10PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: >> >>> Package: debian-policy >>> Version: 3.6.2.2 >>> Severity: wishlist >>> >>> Background: >>> -- >>> The menu structure

RFA: Everything must go!

2006-04-09 Thread Shaun Jackman
* Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox libnjb - Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox library gnomad2 - Manage a Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox neutrino - GNOME shell for managing your Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox * LaTeX glosstex - prepare glossaries and lists of acronyms pic2fig - convert PIC drawings to FIG drawings

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Andreas Metzler 2006-04-09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm not aware of any package inserting its system users into > > /etc/aliases, and in fact, my sid chroot doesn't even have that file. > > They shouldn't, unless they want to receive mail for the system-user > account. If they _don't_ want to

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 19:53 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > [...] > >> And now I am wondering whether this will break existing packages. > > > Maybe not *packages*, but possibly non-Debian softwa

Re: amd64 uploads

2006-04-09 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 08:16:07PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > ok, done. > > I'd also like to alert debian-python about #351149 and #351150. Those > were fixed in a quite short period, but Lustin did not found any > sponsor. I don't know how hard he searched, but at least his packages > loo

Re: amd64 uploads

2006-04-09 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Dim 9 Avril 2006 19:56, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > Le Dim 9 Avril 2006 14:18, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : > > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:47:25PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > what's the policy about them ? > > > > > > should the packages be built for python 2.3 and 2.4 ? only for > > > 2.3 ? on

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Re: Andreas Metzler 2006-04-09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> #1 sane packages redirect mail via /etc/aliases >> #2 un-aliased mail to systemusers (e.g. spam) is not accepted and >> dumped into /var/mail/systemuser but rejected immediately (at SMTP >> time). > I

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] >> And now I am wondering whether this will break existing packages. > Maybe not *packages*, but possibly non-Debian software. non-Debian software, running in the Debian system-user id range?

Re: amd64 uploads

2006-04-09 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Dim 9 Avril 2006 14:18, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:47:25PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Le Ven 7 Avril 2006 20:33, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : > > > > A lot of the others simply need to desupport old versions of > > > > Python. > > > > > > python2.1 and 2.2 are supposed to

Re: RFS: libuninameslist -- a library of Unicode annotation data

2006-04-09 Thread Christian Perrier
> I'm sure somebody on the new pkg-fonts-devel list will take care of this. > If nobody else steps forward, I will, but I'll need somebody to look over > my shoulders as I've not packaged a library before. Neither have I..:-) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Andreas Metzler 2006-04-09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > #1 sane packages redirect mail via /etc/aliases > #2 un-aliased mail to systemusers (e.g. spam) is not accepted and > dumped into /var/mail/systemuser but rejected immediately (at SMTP > time). I'm not aware of any package inserting its system u

Re: Bug#349354: initramfs-tools - kernel -udev dependency loop

2006-04-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
This should have been fixed by udev 0.085-1 and initramfs-tools 0.53, so unless somebody will report more problems soon I will close the bug. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What library to use for manipulation iCal data from C

2006-04-09 Thread Sebastian Ley
* Alexander Sack wrote: > Any idea why libical has been removed from the archive? e.g. sunbird > uses/includes it too, so maybe it makes sense to have it back in the > archive. At that time, libical was upstream-dead, had bugs and almost every project that neede it used a customized and modified

Re: amd64 uploads

2006-04-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:47:25PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Ven 7 Avril 2006 20:33, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : > > > A lot of the others simply need to desupport old versions of > > > Python. > > > > python2.1 and 2.2 are supposed to be removed soon, but both > > currently fail to build.  Ther

Re: Proper way of closing *old* bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Cyril Bouthors
On 9 Apr 2006, Adam Majer wrote: > My question is, is it now appropriate to use the changelog as a > crutch to close bugs that have nothing to do with the upload? Adam, Apparently you still haven't understood my changelog nor my email: I haven't closed any bug that have nothing to do with the u

Bug#361662: ITP: zope-cachefu -- suite of products for speeding up Plone

2006-04-09 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jérémy Bobbio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: zope-cachefu Version : 1.0-beta Upstream Author : Geoff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://plone.org/products/cachefu * Lice

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> Hello, > >> system users like proxy, sshd or identd usually do not receive any > >> mail at all. And system-users that _do_ receive mail are usually > >> redirected to a

Re: RFS: libuninameslist -- a library of Unicode annotation data

2006-04-09 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 09 April 2006 10:45, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, [libuninameslist] > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:26:15AM +0300, K?stutis Bili?nas wrote: > > I'd be very glad if someone of you could sponsor them for me. > > Thanks for your contribution to Debian, but sponsorship requests should > go to -m

Re: pkg-config including too much crap

2006-04-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 4/4/06, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gtk+-2.0.pc's Libs only has -lgtk, it requires gdk, atk, and cairo > because of grep -ir #include /usr/include/gtk-2.0 | grep -v 'atk' (it > needs at least the Cflags). Some people go as far as saying that since > the headers are included fro

Bug#361682: ITP: dialign -- Segment-based multiple sequence alignment

2006-04-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: dialign Version : 2.1.1 Upstream Author : Burkhard Morgenstern, Said Abdeddaim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://dialign.gobics.de/ License : LGPL Description :

Bug#361600: ITP: paythyme -- desktop payroll application

2006-04-09 Thread Tristan Hill
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tristan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: paythyme Version : 20050502 Upstream Author : Thyme Software Limited <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.paythyme.org * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Python Desc

Re: What library to use for manipulation iCal data from C

2006-04-09 Thread Florian Ernst
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:41:34AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:13:54PM +0200, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: > > some KDE module[2]. Additionally, libical is not currently in Debian, while > > it > > appears to have been at some point. So, as mentioned previously, I am a

Bug#361599: ITP: thyme -- python application development framework

2006-04-09 Thread Tristan Hill
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tristan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: thyme Version : 2.6.4 Upstream Author : Thyme Software Limited <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://clocksoft.co.uk/development-tools/ * License : GPL, LGPL Programming Lang

Re: What library to use for manipulation iCal data from C

2006-04-09 Thread Alexander Sack
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:13:54PM +0200, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: > some KDE module[2]. Additionally, libical is not currently in Debian, while it > appears to have been at some point. So, as mentioned previously, I am at a > loss Any idea why libical has been removed from the archive? e.g. s

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Hello, >> system users like proxy, sshd or identd usually do not receive any >> mail at all. And system-users that _do_ receive mail are usually >> redirected to a real user by /etc/aliases. >> I do wonder whether it would be safe t

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Sam Morris
Andreas Metzler wrote: Hello, system users like proxy, sshd or identd usually do not receive any mail at all. And system-users that _do_ receive mail are usually redirected to a real user by /etc/aliases. I do wonder whether it would be safe to reject any mail for system-accounts (uid <1000 || u

System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, system users like proxy, sshd or identd usually do not receive any mail at all. And system-users that _do_ receive mail are usually redirected to a real user by /etc/aliases. I do wonder whether it would be safe to reject any mail for system-accounts (uid <1000 || uid >63434) unless it is r

Re: RFS: libuninameslist -- a library of Unicode annotation data

2006-04-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:26:15AM +0300, K?stutis Bili?nas wrote: > I'd be very glad if someone of you could sponsor them for me. Thanks for your contribution to Debian, but sponsorship requests should go to -mentors, no need to CC -devel. thanks, Michael -- anyone else such an irssi f

RFS: libuninameslist -- a library of Unicode annotation data

2006-04-09 Thread Kęstutis Biliūnas
ITP: #361538 * Package name: libuninameslist Version : 20050712 Upstream Authors: George Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://fontforge.sourceforge.net * License : BSD Description : a library of Unicode annotation data The library contains a large

Re: Proper way of closing *old* bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
Stephen Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that, in this case (and correct me if I'm wrong), the > package hasn't been updated from upstream for a long time, and so the > difference between the old version and the new version fixes the stack > of old bugs (( even though it wasn't