Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 10 août 2007 à 04:48 +0200, David Lopez Zajara (Er_Maqui) a > écrit : >> I've read the complete thread, and i understand who the main reason from >> the mantainers are these. But, in the other hand, have the reason

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

Le Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 04:00:18PM +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > > As you don't seem to have understood at all, let me repeat it: XMMS is > unmaintained. Dear Josselin, why do you write this while it has been said the contrary and that visiting www.xmms.org strongly supports the fact that

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As you don't seem to have understood at all, let me repeat it: > > XMMS is unmaintained. GTK+ 1.2 is unmaintained. Anyone who wants > > to see xmms remain in Debian should take over maintainership for >

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To developers who sponsor packages (and sponsees), a checklist of things to verify before sponsoring packages has been created, and is included below. While the checklist is not exhaustive, it does underline some of the comon problems found in sponsored packages which are sometimes not caught. ht

Bug#437177: ITP: ta-lib -- common functions for the technical analysis of financial market data

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco van Zwetselaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ta-lib Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Mario Fortier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ta-lib.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C/C++ Description

Bug#437179: ITP: libsoundgen -- Simple sound generator library for GPE

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsoundgen Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Nils Faerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Des

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Julien BLACHE wrote: > I really don't see the problem in keeping xmms around until there's > a viable alternative. There's no problem so long as there as someone who is actually willing to maintain it and be responsible for both it and GTK+ 1.2. Unless you are willing to step

UTF-8 man pages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to package a simple tool that wants a Japanese string in its man page. It would appear that currently, man pages use fixed encodings that vary depending on which locale's man page is being looked up; English uses ISO-8859-1, so it's not

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Persuade Heimdal upstream to provide an soname that uniquely identifies > this library in the face of other, pre-existing libgssapi packages, and > barring that, add a Debian-specific soname component to it? That's a bit unfair to Heimdal given that th

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 04:53:32PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > [4 letter words deleted] > === cut === > # sudo dpkg -i libgssapi2-heimdal_1.0.1-1_i386.deb > >

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:25:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Yeah, but figuring out what changes we need is part of the problem -- I'm > guessing there's some reason why we didn't go that route in the first > place and that it won't just work without some changes, and I have no > NFSv4 environme

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

On 07-Aug-07, 18:53 (CDT), "David Lopez Zajara (Er_Maqui)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, we can you read on this thread, the point isn't to make an > remaked-xmms on audacious, its makes users switch to another player. I wish people would stop saying this. Nothing is going remove xmms from *yo

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:53:09AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> My preference would be to dump the UMich GSSAPI library and link >> nfs-common directly against MIT Kerberos, which doesn't conflict with >> Heimdal. > If you file a bug against n

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:53:09AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > My preference would be to dump the UMich GSSAPI library and link > nfs-common directly against MIT Kerberos, which doesn't conflict with > Heimdal. If you file a bug against nfs-common with what Build-Depends or other changes you need

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [4 letter words deleted] Yup. The UMich GSSAPI thing causes no end of problems. Thankfully, upstream is working on making it go away; in the meantime, we're going to have a serious problem since installing it at priority standard (which is what's going on

Re: Simplify installation of non-free?

I demand that Manoj Srivastava may or may not have written... > On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:56:24 +0100, Darren Salt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> You want iwl3945. Newer firmware is needed, but you can throw away >> that user-space daemon. :-) > __> apt-cache search iwl3945 > __> The firmware, a

Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:50:53 +0200, Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Indeed, it looks at me that one of most exciting and challenging goals > would be to outline (and hence describe in a detailed manner) all of > the different existing styles and compare them after several points of > view,

Re: Simplify installation of non-free?

On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:56:24 +0100, Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You want iwl3945. Newer firmware is needed, but you can throw away > that user-space daemon. :-) __> apt-cache search iwl3945 __> manoj -- if it GLISTENS, gobble it!! Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you don't seem to have understood at all, let me repeat it: XMMS is > unmaintained. GTK+ 1.2 is unmaintained. Anyone who wants to see xmms > remain in Debian should take over maintainership for both, including > upstream maintenance and all that it

Bug#437116: ITP: e-uae -- The Egalitarian Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator (uae fork)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephan Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: e-uae Version : 0.8.29-WIP4 Upstream Author : Richard Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C. Descri

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

Le vendredi 10 août 2007 à 04:48 +0200, David Lopez Zajara (Er_Maqui) a écrit : > I've read the complete thread, and i understand who the main reason from > the mantainers are these. But, in the other hand, have the reason of > gtk1.2 removal porposal. I understand this, but, i say who of the > gi

Bug#437104: ITP: libdata-integer-perl -- Perl modules handling details of the native integer data type

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libdata-integer-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/autho

Bug#437101: ITP: libscalar-number-perl -- Perl module for handling numeric aspects of scalars

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libscalar-number-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~