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: 357 (new: 65)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 90 (new: 5)
Total number of packages request
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:31:32PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Excellent points made by both of you.
> Here are some things that occur to me quickly:
> 1) Large projects using $DVCS and making it easy for people that aren't
> familiar with $DVCS to learn how to participate in that project. He
Le Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:54:09PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig a écrit :
> What about the following (happy flaming...): Let's just pick
> openoffice.org. Rene needs help. It has 340 open bugs. We're
> somewhere around 1000 DDs. Makes 3 developers per bug. Let's just
> randomly form teams of 3 from
[...]
> Some people really like mentoring and training others and find that
> immediately rewarding. Those people are wonderful and deserve all the
> praise we can give them. For the rest of us, I think it's often a lot
> to expect of people. That sort of training is in many respects
>
David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is something that's been bugging me for a while now. As our
> software packages get larger and larger, we need more people to take
> them on. To do this, we need more people willing to work with such large
> and difficult codebases. Unfortunately, t
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On Thursday 21 February 2008 8:22:49 pm Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, David Nusinow wrote:
> > We could deal with this problem if we were better at training and
> > recruiting people to work on such things. We've been lucky in the
> > XSF lately in getting enough
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Someone reported a bug against lockfile-progs, and while
> investigating I noticed a couple of things about liblockfile that
> didn't seem quite right.
After further investigation, it looks like a lockfile created on a
noatime (or relatime?) filesystem,
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:24:37PM -0800, William Francis wrote:
> I have a package that I made which does a dpkg-divert in the
> 'preinst' on a couple of config files and then installs replacements
> from them. However, even though the dpkg-divert has run (and I've
> verified it does move it to t
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In some cases, particularly when the Depends can be satisfied by
> different sets of alternatives, this change could have the effect of
> changing the packages actually pulled in by apt-get or aptitude. I will
> be happy to post a couple such examp
Hi
You can use
apt-get -y --force-yes apache2
Thanks
Deepak Tripathi
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:52:24AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:24:37PM -0800, William Francis wrote:
> > > Is there a
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le vendredi 22 février 2008 à 02:10 +0900, Paul Wise a écrit :
>
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > OTOH, maybe you're just too incompetent for that.
> >
> > I
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:52:24AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:24:37PM -0800, William Francis wrote:
> > Is there a way (short of piping in /usr/bin/yes or something similar)
> > to make that go away? Eventually I'll use something like puppet to
> > manage these files b
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:24:37PM -0800, William Francis wrote:
> Is there a way (short of piping in /usr/bin/yes or something similar)
> to make that go away? Eventually I'll use something like puppet to
> manage these files but for now this happens to be the easiest way. If
> I do answer 'Y' it
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: hex2bin
> Version : 1.0.6
> Upstream Author : Jacques Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://sourceforg
Hi dpkg maintainers, developers,
(Please follow up only to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
I've just noticed that packages I've built recently have had the list of
Depends reorganized into ASCIIbetical order in the generated binary
.debs. I guess this was the next logical step after having dpkg-dev
re-order
I have a package that I made which does a dpkg-divert in the
'preinst' on a couple of config files and then installs replacements
from them. However, even though the dpkg-divert has run (and I've
verified it does move it to the name I specify), I still get a message
that looks like this:
(this is
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, David Nusinow wrote:
> We could deal with this problem if we were better at training and
> recruiting people to work on such things. We've been lucky in the
> XSF lately in getting enough hands to get the work done, but I don't
> think there's any clear forumla from our experie
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:20:42AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Does it reflect badly on you? Probably not, since you're the only person
> maintaining OOo and you've asked for help. But I think it unquestionably
> reflects poorly on Debian. Though of course we are a volunteer project, so
> it
David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IANAL, but I've read what I stated somewhere on the net. After some
> googling:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_symbol
>
> Citation:
>
> "Because the © symbol has long been unavailable on typewriters and
> ASCII-based computer systems, it has
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: hex2bin
Version : 1.0.6
Upstream Author : Jacques Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/hex2bin/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Descr
> Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> OTOH, maybe you're just too incompetent for that.
> >
> > Insulting contributors really isn't helpful Josselin.
> >
>
> But the same it true the other way around. Imho it's also not ok
Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> OTOH, maybe you're just too incompetent for that.
>
> Insulting contributors really isn't helpful Josselin.
>
But the same it true the other way around. Imho it's also not ok to
insult DDs publ
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:52:02PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Perhaps not, but it does not matter. I have now idea about his
> status. But I do know that your message is read by a lot more than
> jidanni, and those readers probably do not know any more about his
> status as a contributor
[Josselin Mouette]
>> Insulting contributors really isn't helpful Josselin.
>
> Indeed, but jidanni is not a contributor.
Perhaps not, but it does not matter. I have now idea about his
status. But I do know that your message is read by a lot more than
jidanni, and those readers probably do not k
Le vendredi 22 février 2008 à 02:10 +0900, Paul Wise a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > OTOH, maybe you're just too incompetent for that.
>
> Insulting contributors really isn't helpful Josselin.
Indeed, but jidanni is not a contributo
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OTOH, maybe you're just too incompetent for that.
Insulting contributors really isn't helpful Josselin.
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Le jeudi 21 février 2008 à 05:11 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
> With the new style of "mass tirage" of bugs,
>
> The user submits a bug;
> while (sleep 1 year) {
> He gets a message asking him to verify if the bug still exists;
> He perhaps especially reinstalls the package that he long
Hi,
John Goerzen wrote:
> > > blackholes. I submit a bug, and never hear anything from Debian
> > > maintainers
> > > except for periodic triage stuff when a new upstream comes out.
> >
> > Sorry, that's not fair at all.
>
> The two bugs I see in src:openoffice.org with my name on them are:
>
On Thu February 21 2008 9:19:14 am Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> John Goerzen wrote:
> > I have learned that certain well-known packages (OpenOffice, say) are
> > bug
>
> OpenOffice isn't in Debian. If you mean OpenOffice.org, I feel obliged to
> answer this now, because you complely underestimat
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Package name: naist-jdic
Version: 0.2.0~preview1
Upstream Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Masayuki Asahara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yuji Matsumoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL: ht
Hi again,
> See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419523 for a RFH open >
> for looong.
Oh, and note that I *did* reply to the offers there, but that didn't turn out
(except Lior and and Tim Richardson with their bug triage of *OLD* bugs which I
am very thankful for)
Regards,
Hi all,
On Do, 21 Feb 2008, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> I am barely keeping up with *new* bugreports and updating the packages,
> keeping them buildable, backporting fixes from upstream etc.
We from the Debian TeX Team have a very similar problem. There are about
300 bugs taken over from teTeX time
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:23:10PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.21.0020 +0100]:
> > The difference here being that feature branches are, in my experience,
> > changes against the pristine upstream source. The merging of different
> > feature b
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> With the new style of "mass tirage" of bugs,
triage.
> The user submits a bug;
> while (sleep 1 year) {
> He gets a message asking him to verify if the bug still exists;
> He perhaps especially reinstalls the package that he long ago stopped
> using &&
> He v
Hi,
John Goerzen wrote:
> I have learned that certain well-known packages (OpenOffice, say) are bug
OpenOffice isn't in Debian. If you mean OpenOffice.org, I feel obliged to
answer this now, because you complely underestimate a) how many people maintain
OOo (hint: 1) and b) how many time even k
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:10 PM, William Pitcock
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'll be happy to help with this package.
Hi, I'll help with this package too, because I use Mercurial everyday.
Let's maintain it in:
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonAppsPackagingTeam
?
There are many good
also sprach James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.21.0020 +0100]:
> The difference here being that feature branches are, in my experience,
> changes against the pristine upstream source. The merging of different
> feature branches is done in some integration branch. Quilt patches are
> a depend
also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.20.1722 +0100]:
> I have to take care of it manually once. That is the first time
> I setup the integration branch that merges in changes from the
> overlapping feature branches. This is not a big deal, because the
> human has
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On Thu February 21 2008 12:51:42 am Ben Finney wrote:
> "Paul Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm very bad at doing this myself, but it is equally important for bug
> > submitters to triage their own bugs, especially if they have lots or
> > many old ones.
>
> It's important for bug submitter
Package: wnpp
I've neglected libjsw for far too long; I just don't have any real interest
in maintaining it these days (and anyway it's ages since I last used a
joystick, and even then it was an old one with a standard DB9 connector).
searchandrescue and oxine depend on libjsw, and bug 458774 say
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Some bugs are of dubious quality, but one must accept that in the end, it's
> > still impressive. :)
>
> Note that also doesn't indicate how many were actually fixed. We have
> nothing that look like bugzilla's NOTABUG or INVALID.
Indeed. One could chec
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:09:11PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Yeah, it must be really hard to be an heavy bug filer.
> >
> > * 1552 Outstanding
> > * 136 Forwarded
> > * 10 Pending Upload
> > * 1 Fixed in NMU
> >
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Yeah, it must be really hard to be an heavy bug filer.
>
> * 1552 Outstanding
> * 136 Forwarded
> * 10 Pending Upload
> * 1 Fixed in NMU
> * 69 Resolved
Note that if you look at his archived bugs you have to add:
* 2010 Resolved
> I'd suggest expanding what RDF is, at least in the long description. Even
> better would be expanding it in the synopsis of course.
I disargree with you on this point. If the user doesn't know what RDF is they
certainly don't want to install the package and knowing the definition isn't
going
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:44:00AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Sorry, this is precisely rationale I fight against. Just saying "if you
> don't know what this is, you don't need this" defeats the purpose of
> packages descriptions.
In the general case maybe but for this I disagree. For highly
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080221 08:36]:
> Or also sometimes refrain themselves of filing nitpicking bugs for
> corners cases which noone will ever meet. Or when doing thissend
> *patches*.
>
> Where resources are low, adding more noise to an already noisy pile of
> bugs is just
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On to, 2008-02-21 at 08:44 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Sorry, this is precisely rationale I fight against. Just saying "if you
> don't know what this is, you don't need this" defeats the purpose of
> packages descriptions.
I completely agree. There are lots of scenarios in which one might n
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Michael Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: rush
Version : (no official release yet)
Upstream Author : Adam Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://rush.heroku.com/
* License : (needs to be clarified)
Program
Ciao Giacomo,
Il giorno Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:46:35 +0100
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
> David Paleino wrote:
>
> > Not really. AFAIK "(C)" has no legal validity, while "Copyright" and "©"
> > have.
>
> I really don't agree:
> "(C)" is a symbol, as "ff", "fl", "..." are e
David Paleino wrote:
Il giorno Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:44:13 +0200
Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
Fakeroot-ng is copyrighted (C) 2007-2008 by Shachar Shemesh
...
At least superficially, the copyright file lives up to all of the
requirements that lintian asks for.
Lintian versio
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