Re: Testers needed: aptitude 0.4.5.2

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:48:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > * aptitude forgetting the automatic status of packages that were > > installed with old versions of aptitude. > > > > * aptitude not saving automatic states so tha

Re: Testers needed: aptitude 0.4.5.2

2007-06-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
Daniel Burrows wrote: > * aptitude forgetting the automatic status of packages that were > installed with old versions of aptitude. > > * aptitude not saving automatic states so that apt-get can see them. Any way of checking this easily? I imagine a diff of the old and new /var/lib/aptit

Re: Release team structure (was Release Team Meeting results (the Juelich Edition))

2007-06-16 Thread Andreas Barth
* Filipus Klutiero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070616 20:46]: > Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 19:19, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > Release team structure > > ~~ > > Steve Langasek, who served as Release Manager for the past two cycles, > > doesn't want to be on the hot seat anymore. As he is

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-16 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Phillip Susi wrote: > Christof Krüger wrote: >> Unfortunately, computer designers, technicians etc. are not living in an >> isolated world (well.. maybe some of them). >> No one wants to forbid the computer people to use base 2 numbers. They >> are just asked to write KiB instead of KB if they mean

Release team structure (was Release Team Meeting results (the Juelich Edition))

2007-06-16 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 19:19, Andreas Barth a écrit : > Release team structure > ~~ > Steve Langasek, who served as Release Manager for the past two cycles, > doesn't want to be on the hot seat anymore. As he is still an active member > of the release team, we decided to have

Re: What happened to Agnula.org (DeMuDi)?

2007-06-16 Thread Joseph Neal
>It would be interesting to change name Debian Multimedia to prevent > confusion with Debian-Multimedia site[1]? Piping in as a user, I can say this has caused me a bit of confusion on more than one occasion. Given that there are versions of the same packages which are alternately hosted by

Bug#429276: ITP: python-bzutils -- Python module to interact with bugzilla servers

2007-06-16 Thread Gustavo R. Montesino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Gustavo R. Montesino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-bzutils Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Gustavo R. Montesino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bug-triage.alioth.debian.org/ * License : GPL Programming

Re: Testers needed: aptitude 0.4.5.2

2007-06-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:23:27AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Hi all, > > The ported aptitude should merge its database of automatically > installed packages into the apt database -- any packages listed as > automatic in either database will become automatic. > Dude - YOU ROCK :) This is

Testers needed: aptitude 0.4.5.2

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hi all, As you probably noticed, Michael Vogt uploaded apt 0.7.2 to unstable with support for detecting automatically installed packages. I've ported aptitude to use the new apt interfaces instead of its internal implementation, and uploaded the result to experimental. The ported aptitude

Bug#429264: ITP: libkhepctrl -- a library to control khepera ii robots

2007-06-16 Thread Gonéri Le Bouder
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Gonéri Le Bouder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libkhepctrl Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Guillaume Libersat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://vcs.patapouf.org/svn/libkhepctrl/ * License : GPL Programming La

Adrian Bridgett

2007-06-16 Thread Peter Holm
Hi, Just received following: [...] Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.gmx.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 70.103.162.29_does_not_like_recipient./Remot

Bug#429250: ITP: lua-zip -- ZIP file access for the lua language

2007-06-16 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Enrico Tassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lua-zip Version : 1.2.2 Upstream Author : Copyright © 2003-2006 The Kepler Project. * URL : http://www.keplerproject.org/luazip/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C D

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-16 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 16 June 2007 04:43:53 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 17:36 -0400, Ivan Jager a écrit : > > Yes. Any time the unit is bytes. There is even a standard for it. > > I must have missed that one. Could you point us to this standard? I too would love to see that standard

Re: Release Team Meeting results (the Juelich Edition)

2007-06-16 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070616 15:43]: > I understand the wish of a short freeze, but QA need to happen on the > packages we ship, not with the package that happened to be in the > archive at the time QA occured. That is why we are Debian after all. Nobody wants to promote to not doi

Re: Release Team Meeting results (the Juelich Edition)

2007-06-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 01:19:41AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Quality Assurance (QA) checks on the archive were started very late in >the cycle. They were very useful, but the timing was very unfortunate. >We want to encourage all interested parties to start their QA checks as >ea

Bug#429226: ITP: xmonad -- lightweight keyboard-friendly tiling window manager

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Jared Dominguez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Jared Dominguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xmonad Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Spencer Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xmonad.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Haskell Descriptio

Bug#429227: ITP: dzen -- A general purpose messaging and notification program

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Jared Dominguez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Jared Dominguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dzen Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Robert Manea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Release Team Meeting results (the Juelich Edition)

2007-06-16 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Bill, * Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-16 12:44]: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 01:19:41AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > after the release is prior to the release. As we all know that, the > > Release Team members (except Steve) have met in Juelich recently to > > discuss our impressi

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 17:36 -0400, Ivan Jager a écrit : > Yes. Any time the unit is bytes. There is even a standard for it. I must have missed that one. Could you point us to this standard? > How about when you buy 80 GB of RAM, and your software says you have > 88 GB? How about buying 80 G

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 13:46 -0400, Phillip Susi a écrit : > Different disciplines often ascribe different meanings to the same > words, so there is no reason why the prefix "Kilo" can not mean 1024 in > the context of computer science, so please stop complaining about that. You cannot alwa

Re: Release Team Meeting results (the Juelich Edition)

2007-06-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 01:19:41AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Hi, > > after the release is prior to the release. As we all know that, the > Release Team members (except Steve) have met in Juelich recently to > discuss our impressions of the Etch release cycle and kick-off the Lenny > cycle. ex

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-16 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Phillip Susi a écrit : > Christof Krüger wrote: >> Unfortunately, computer designers, technicians etc. are not living in an >> isolated world (well.. maybe some of them). >> No one wants to forbid the computer people to use base 2 numbers. They >> are just asked to write KiB instead of KB if they m