Bug#434465: ITP: vbrfix -- tool to correct MP3 files with incorrect Variable BitRate information

2007-07-23 Thread Rogério Brito
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Rogério Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vbrfix Version : 0.24 Upstream Author : William Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.willwap.co.uk/Programs/vbrfix.php * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ D

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread andrew holway
Slightly like watching a group of boys poking a nearly dead dog. On 23/07/07, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:38:04PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Do you really think this is a decision that was made lightly? The > > pro

Re: New Debian Menu & Apps/Tools

2007-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Davide Truffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was looking at the new menu structure to adopt it into my package, > fbpanel[1], that before it was in Apps/Tools. Now this section is been > removed and there's nothing else like this. I don't see an obvious place for this one either. Window Manage

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Bernhard R. Link [Sat, Jul 14 2007, 04:26:50PM]: > * Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070714 14:44]: > > #include > > I also suggest moving away from the Debian menu files to .desktop files > > because of more flexible format. Therefore, if the menu using packages > > support the new

Re: New Debian Menu & Apps/Tools

2007-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would not separate "Applications" and "Games" whatsoever. [...] This doesn't really help the original poster, who doesn't have control over the menu hierarchy, and also doesn't really help get the menu hierarchy changed, since that requires discussion

Re: New Debian Menu & Apps/Tools

2007-07-23 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Eduard Bloch may or may not have written... > #include > * Davide Truffa [Mon, Jul 23 2007, 10:34:53PM]: >> I was looking at the new menu structure to adopt it into my package, >> fbpanel[1], that before it was in Apps/Tools. >> Now this section is been removed and there's nothing e

Re: New Debian Menu & Apps/Tools

2007-07-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Davide Truffa [Mon, Jul 23 2007, 10:34:53PM]: > Hi all, > > I was looking at the new menu structure to adopt it into my package, > fbpanel[1], that before it was in Apps/Tools. > Now this section is been removed and there's nothing else like this. > These are the actual sections: > >

New Debian Menu & Apps/Tools

2007-07-23 Thread Davide Truffa
Hi all, I was looking at the new menu structure to adopt it into my package, fbpanel[1], that before it was in Apps/Tools. Now this section is been removed and there's nothing else like this. These are the actual sections: Applications -> Accessibility Amateur Radio

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:39:10PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > OK, not being a SPARC expert myself, I'd still like to see a list of > issues or bugs which are worth dropping a whole sub-architecture. > > Maybe some of them don't even require a SPARC guru to fix them? Maybe > some are "easy" enough

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:45:31PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > A legitimate question is whether the xinetd configuration format is a good > format. Are there, or will there be, even more "extended" inetd:s? apt-cache search shows at least: inetutils-inetd - Internet super server micro-inet

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> However, even more importantly than the discussion of possible solutions, > we need an implementation. If you have a solution, please *implement* it > (and in a way that doesn't make large parts of Debian buggy, which means > being backwardly compatible) and I bet you'll be able to build a cons

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 23, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Packages containing servers that can be started from inetd should all provide > an xinetd configuration file in /etc/xinetd.d. They will instantly work with Way too much work, and "better support for xinetd" is not something important enoug

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-23 Thread Bart Martens
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 09:30 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, the list is a HTML page, with every package having a link. The > > link points to the RFS message in the Debian Mentors archive. > > > > See it at: > > http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/M

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Boy, what an old bug! > This has been discussed some times[1], but no conclusion reached. I'd > like to suggest (again, probably) the following: As near as I can tell, the reason why no conclusion has been reached is because no one has written the co

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Boy, what an old bug! This has been discussed some times[1], but no conclusion reached. I'd like to suggest (again, probably) the following: Packages containing servers that can be started from inetd should all provide an xinetd configuration file in /etc/xinetd.d. They will instantly work with

Bug#434395: ITP: wotsap -- OpenPGP Web of Trust analyzer and pathfinder

2007-07-23 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: wotsap Version: 0.6 Upstream Author: Jörgen Cederlöf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jc/wotsap/index.html License: GPL Description: OpenPGP Web of Trust

Bug#434390: cdbs: class for generating buildfiles from clean autotool-files

2007-07-23 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Package: cdbs Version: 0.4.49 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Was thinking how to generate debian packages from a totally clean source tree. So I made this class, and though perhaps it should be included into cdbs (or in simlar form). -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unsta

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-23 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 20.07.2007, 18:03 +0200 schrieb Michelle Konzack: > Am 2007-07-15 22:57:10, schrieb Daniel Leidert: > > Am Samstag, den 14.07.2007, 12:44 -0400 schrieb Joey Hess: > > > Until there is one, I don't see any reason why I should accept patches > > > adding menu files to my packages. > >

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.23.1611 +0200]: > Well quite possibly, but maybe $HOME/bin/mutt if they're > built their own self-patched mutt, or something similar. I > similarly use a wrapper in $HOME/bin in order to make > epiphany and friends launch mutt properly (a script

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:47:46PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > It shouldn't be a huge problem to provide the option you > want, but since it is a rather exotic (I assume most > people just use a mail client), it isn't currently of high > priority for me. Well quite possibly, but maybe $HOME/bi

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread Ben Finney
Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:38:04PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Do you really think this is a decision that was made lightly? The > > problem is, and that has been mentioned before, that *there is no > > upstream maintainer* for sparc32. Unless some people

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread Chris Newport
Uwe Hermann wrote: Well, I just saw three or more sparc32 patches being committed to Linus' git tree today or yesterday, so that may not be quite correct. You are missing the point. Those patches were created by enthusiastic users fixing the problems that they have experienced. Until someo

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:38:04PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Do you really think this is a decision that was made lightly? > The problem is, and that has been mentioned before, that *there is no > upstream maintainer* for sparc32. Unless some people step up and ensure > that upstream issues _are_

Bug#434360: ITP: purifyeps -- creates EPS files usable in TeX and pdfTeX

2007-07-23 Thread Hilmar Preusse
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: purifyeps Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Scott Pakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/support/purifyeps/ * License : LPPL Programming Lang: Perl

Re: Bug#434206: ITP: moe -- powerful text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character encodings

2007-07-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 23/07/07, Adam Borowski wrote: > GNU Moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean, text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII [snip] Yeah, but I would rather mention whether it's a console or X one in the very first sentence. In the TODO for the next upload. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel

RFA: xinetd -- replacement for inetd with many enhancements

2007-07-23 Thread Thomas Seyrat
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I am looking for someone to adopt the xinetd package. I can't find time to fix the open bugs, upstream is not really active anymore (no new version since Oct. 2005), and I do not use the software as much as I used to. Please feel free to ping me (keep me Cc:-ed), th

Bug#434335: ITP: [PACKAGE] -- soap library for the lua language version 5.1

2007-07-23 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: lua-soap Version: 1.0b Upstream Author: Kepler Team URL: http://keplerproject.org/luasoap License: MIT/X Description: soap librar

Re: Bug#434206: ITP: moe -- powerful text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character encodings

2007-07-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 04:22:41PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Package: wnpp > * Package name: moe > Description : powerful text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character > encodings > > GNU Moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean, text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII > character encodings. It has

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-23 Thread Frank Küster
Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, the list is a HTML page, with every package having a link. The > link points to the RFS message in the Debian Mentors archive. > > See it at: > http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/Mentors/output.html I fear there are some false positives. For examp