Work-needing packages report for Dec 29, 2006

2006-12-28 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: 334 (new: 4) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 90 (new: 1) Total number of packages requeste

Re: Explications needed...

2006-12-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:45:32PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > So, why : > > * does aurelien initiative causes troubles ? > > If the packages he uploads have already been built (but not uploaded) by the > autobuilders, the packages in the archive will not correspond to the public > build

Re: More orphaned Perl packages to be removed from the archive

2006-12-28 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
hi Gunnar, On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:11:54PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > I just filed bug #404896 - I'm copying it here as I hope you have some > comments regarding it: > > The following Perl modules have been orphaned (or have not been > updated) for a long time, have no reverse depend

Re: python 2.3

2006-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 December 2006 03:10, Steve Langasek wrote: > It was? I don't remember this... I certainly wanted to make sure etch > didn't release with ancient, lingering versions of python like 2.1 and > 2.2, but from a release POV I never had strong feelings about getting > rid of python 2.3, whi

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-28 Thread Joey Hess
Note that the XFCE CD originally announced in the head of this thread is actually working now. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso It won't install xdm though.. that will probably be fixed in time for next week's build, along with hopefull

Re: python 2.3

2006-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:38:05AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > An explicitely stated goal of the release team was to reduce the > number of supported python versions for the next stable release. It was? I don't remember this... I certainly wanted to make sure etch didn't release with ancient,

More orphaned Perl packages to be removed from the archive

2006-12-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, I just filed bug #404896 - I'm copying it here as I hope you have some comments regarding it: The following Perl modules have been orphaned (or have not been updated) for a long time, have no reverse dependencies, and have quite low installation count according to popcon: libbusiness-ups-pe

Re: Explications needed...

2006-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Some of the comments and questions in this thread suggest gaps in understanding of the autobuilders, which I think warrant an answer. Hopefully this doesn't lead to more flames and recriminations... On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:03:35PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Aurelien mailed debian-arm, we

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 08:32:28PM +, Thiemo Seufer wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >[snip] >> mips >> >> jealously scribbles all over the first 512 bytes > >I figure that's a DVH "Disk Volume Header" as used on SGI machines. Yup, exactly. I borrowed the layout from your own genisovh progra

Re: suspend2-userui looking for a new maintainer

2006-12-28 Thread Thomas Schoepf
Hi Arnaud, go ahead, you got it :-) Thanks! Thomas Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:00:01 +0100 Von: Arnaud Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: "Thomas Schoepf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Betreff: Re: suspend2-userui looking for a new maintainer > > "Thomas" == Thomas

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-28 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Steve McIntyre wrote: [snip] > mips > > jealously scribbles all over the first 512 bytes I figure that's a DVH "Disk Volume Header" as used on SGI machines. > mipsel > == > bytes 000-008 : 0-padding > 008-011 : magic header > 012-015 : boot mode > 016-019 : load address

Re: Request for removal of libconfhelper-perl

2006-12-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gunnar Wolf dijo [Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 12:20:13PM -0600]: > (...) > So, please comment if this package is worth keeping... Or remove it > otherwise :) Ok, so adn pointed out on IRC to me that this package is depended on by mplayer - I didn't find it, as I forgot I'm tracking Marillat's multimedia

Request for removal of libconfhelper-perl

2006-12-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Subject: ftp.debian.org: Request for removal of libconfhelper-perl Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, I'm looking at orphaned Perl packages, adopting some or trying to find which should be dropped instead. I found libconfhelper-perl to be surprisingly popular (1548 on popcon), but it's

Re: suspend2-userui looking for a new maintainer

2006-12-28 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
> "Thomas" == Thomas Schoepf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> Hi, the subject says it all. If noone wants it, I'll orphan Thomas> it on 1st of January 2007. Hello, I'm using a lot suspend2-userui, therefore I am interested by taking care of this package. Regards, Arnaud Font

Re: [OT] Looking for a program which generates binary formats decoders from a high-level description

2006-12-28 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a message of 0 lines which said: ^ It wasn't quite that short. ;-) > It seems so, thanks, but it is hard to say because the file in > http://www.bitpim.org/pyxr/c/projects/bitpim/src/protogen.py.html > seems quite underdocumented.

Re: aptitude: aptitude ignores --target-release option

2006-12-28 Thread andrey i. mavlyanov
I suppose I got related problem. Here are my /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=etch Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=sid Pin-Priority: 400 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=experimental Pin-Priority: 300 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority:

Bug#403460: ITP: gdc -- D programming language for GCC

2006-12-28 Thread Suresh Rajashekara
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #403460 Owner: Suresh Rajashekara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: gdc Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : David Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL or Web Page : http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/ Licence : GNU Gener

Bug#404782: ITP: libwebapp-ruby -- easy-to-use CGI/FastCGI/mod_ruby/WEBrick interface

2006-12-28 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: NIIBE Yutaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwebapp-ruby Version : 0.0.20061228 Upstream Author : Tanaka Akira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/webapp/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Ruby