Bug#413289: ITP: mcs -- abstraction library and tools for the storage of configuration settings

2007-03-03 Thread Le_Vert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mcs Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sacredspiral.co.uk/~nenolod/mcs/ * License : BSD Description : abst

Bug#413286: ITP: mppenc -- Musepack lossy audio codec encoder

2007-03-03 Thread Jorge Salamero Sanz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jorge Salamero Sanz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mppenc Version : 1.16 Upstream Author : Musepack Development Team * URL : http://www.musepack.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Musepac

Re: hijacking imagemagick

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
Luciano Bello wrote: > The maintainer of imagemagick, Ryuichi Arafune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > didn't answer any ping [1]. So, I will hijack this package. I will comaintain > [2] it with Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. A new upload is coming. great, thanks you too for taking care. -- Addr

Re: [RFR] po-debconf://amavisd-new (6 strings)

2007-03-03 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
oops, wrong list should've gone to debian-l10n-dutch -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) pgpsfu7t4U5Pj.pgp Description: PGP signature

[RFR] po-debconf://boinc (3 strings)

2007-03-03 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
-- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) boinc_5.4.11-4_nl.po Description: application/gettext pgp3qHNCj8kw9.pgp Description: PGP signature

[RFR] po-debconf://amavisd-new (6 strings)

2007-03-03 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
-- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) amavisd-new_1:2.4.2-6.1_nl.po Description: application/gettext pgppErUFqy9Yf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-03 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi Ben, Thank you for the help. FWIW, I confirm that it indeed fixes an issue on my box. 1. unfortunately it probably implies that I was wrong in my estimate of connection of this issue to original old #152250. It was reported on 1:3.4p1-0.0woody1, which came out on 26 Jun 2002 whenever the patc

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 11:26:51 -0500, Roberto C Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:16:17AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >> Volunteers volunteer because of non-monetary rewards they gain from >> contributing. I should have known better to not guard against

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:50:56AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > If you're volunteering on a project and someone with more time does all the > work that involves learning, you don't end up learning much because you > don't end up solving much. > > On the other hand, if your job involves so much

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-03 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:26:51AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:16:17AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > > Volunteers volunteer because of non-monetary rewards they gain > > from contributing. > > Really? I volunteer (in addition to the altruistic re

Debian French localisation team completes the translation of debconf screens

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Perrier
(crossposted to several mailing lists. Please respect the Reply-To field) As of March 3rd 2007, all packages in Debian unstable that have translatable debconf templates are translated into French [1]. This is the result of a continuous effort in the last years and particularly the last 4.5 years,

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-03 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Saturday 03 March 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > So I understand where people are coming from when they say that they > want Debian to remain 100% fully volunteer. But first of all, that > isn't even true even now; HP is funding some DD's to work mostly on > Debian-related projects, and certainly

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:16:17AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Volunteers volunteer because of non-monetary rewards they gain > from contributing. Really? I volunteer (in addition to the altruistic reasons) because I want to learn more about Linux and Debian, which makes me a bet

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:45:47 -0500, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The principle you stated obviously tends to be the case in volunteer > organizations, true. It does not have to be the case of a paid > employee, but yes, even if the maintainer team sets the general > policy and gives d

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 03 mars 2007 à 10:45 -0500, Theodore Tso a écrit : > Well, Josselin has been very negative about the whole concept of > paying volunteers, and given that he was asking for help, and saying > that his GNOME team was drowning under bug reports, I couldn't help > but reply that if he really

Bug#413240: ITP: sshfp -- DNS SSHFP records generator

2007-03-03 Thread Julien Valroff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Valroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : sshfp Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Authors : Paul Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Jake Appelbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xelerance.com/software/sshfp/ * License

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-03 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 06:57:01PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > You forgot a single damn point: in debian, like in many projects, the > one that "do" things is often the guy that "decide" things because he's > the one there. If you put people that work 5 times more as me because > they have th

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:33:30 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > you always have the problem that you > might miss new configuration flags or you have to adapt the > new file manually from your old backup and "merge" the > changes. Ack, that's annoying IMO. > What about the possibility to view the pa

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:03:40PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 18:57 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > but I would > > obviously lessen my implication and work for other teams where I've a > > single damn chance to see my contribution to be compareable to the > > others. >

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 18:57 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > but I would > obviously lessen my implication and work for other teams where I've a > single damn chance to see my contribution to be compareable to the > others. Better a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond huh? So

edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-03 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, what about the following idea. If a configuration file is marked as conffile in a package you have the possibility to select between: - Install the new version of the configuration file from the package - Keep your current installed version of the file - View the differences This is imho