Re: Installation of suggested packages: recursive or not?

2008-03-27 Thread Charles Plessy
> > Le Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:13:30AM -0700, Daniel Burrows a écrit : > > > BTW, aptitude already supports non-recursively installing Suggests, and > > > flagging them as manual at the same time: "~Rsuggests:^package$" will > > > install everything that's directly suggested by "package". > On S

Bug#473066: ITP: xfmpc -- graphical GTK+ MPD client

2008-03-27 Thread Mike Massonnet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Massonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : xfmpc * Version : 0.0.4 * Upstream Author : Mike Massonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfmpc * Licence : GPLv2 or later

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

2008-03-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 18:54 +0100, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 04:55:52PM +, Lesley Binks wrote: > > In *nix based systems rm has always meant rm - deleting files does just > > that. > > The KDE Desktop provides the option to keep this functionality or have > > temporary t

Re: Service stopping in prerm considered harmful

2008-03-27 Thread Ed Falk
For the nth time squared, an initscript MUST NOT FAIL to stop an already stopped service. How is it supposed to do that? The service isn't running, so can't be stopped, therefore the script (if called to stop it) can only fail to stop it... If the service is already stopped, then the script

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2008-03-27 Thread verify
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Package: splix

2008-03-27 Thread Patrick Ringl
Hello, the last upload of that package was at the beginning of 2007 - meanwhile there have been 4 upstream releases since that time. I'd like to know what happened to the package and in case the maintainer is not responding in time, and if nobody objects - I'd like to take the package over.

Bug#473044: ITP: teem -- Tools to process and visualize scientific data and images

2008-03-27 Thread Dominique Belhachemi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Belhachemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: teem Version : 1.10.0 Upstream Author : Gordon Kindlmann * URL : http://teem.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Tools to pr

Bug#473045: ITP: kwwidgets -- Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit

2008-03-27 Thread Dominique Belhachemi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Belhachemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kwwidgets Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : ... * URL : http://www.kwwidgets.org/ * License : BSD-style open-license http://www.kitware.com/Copyright.htm Programm

Bug#473039: ITP: python-nodebox-web -- collection of web-related Python modules

2008-03-27 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-nodebox-web Version : 1.9.2 Upstream Author : Tom De Smedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Web/ * License : GPL Programming Lang

Bug#473038: ITP: indywiki -- visual Wikipedia browser

2008-03-27 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: indywiki Version : 0.9.8 Upstream Author : Markos Gogoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://indywiki.sf.net/ * Li

Re: dpkg triggers, dpkg hijack

2008-03-27 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Thursday 27 March 2008 21:54:24 Julien BLACHE, vous avez écrit : > Faidon Liambotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In your position, I'd probably be afraid of receiving the "Joerg > > Schilling award". > > The "Sven Luther award" may be more appropriate; time will tell. Can you stop posting suc

Re: dpkg triggers, dpkg hijack

2008-03-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
Faidon Liambotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In your position, I'd probably be afraid of receiving the "Joerg > Schilling award". The "Sven Luther award" may be more appropriate; time will tell. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key availabl

Re: dpkg triggers, dpkg hijack

2008-03-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Ian Jackson wrote: I apologise for boring everyone with this again. But it has been two more weeks and Guillem is still nowhere near finishing his artwork. There has also been no effort by Guillem or Raphael to negotiate with me; they have ignored my postings to debian-dpkg. If I was approached

Re: dpkg triggers, dpkg hijack

2008-03-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
On jeu, 2008-03-27 at 19:23 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I apologise for boring everyone with this again. Good. Please stop doing it then. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `-

dpkg triggers, dpkg hijack

2008-03-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Since my semi-hijack on the 9th of March, Guillem has been hard at work repainting the bikeshed. He's been reorganising the changes between pre- and post-triggers dpkg into a different series of patches and no doubt reformatting the code too. I'm sure we'll all agree that this work is all vital.

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Wednesday 26 March 2008 16:35:51 Mike Bird, vous avez écrit : > The next DPL should have a solid plan for reversing Debian's decline. > If this means that some architectures fall by the wayside for lack of > interest then so be it.  Better to lose several 0.1% architectures > than for Debian as

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
On mer, 2008-03-26 at 08:35 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Lenny is still only at linux kernel 2.6.22, which means little support > for hardware up to a year old! Sid is not suitable for most people, > and most people lack the skills or inclination to install and maintain > a mix of Lenny and Sid. Tes

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:51AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > The OP makes an important point. Debian is losing users and relevance. > Although Debian supports a wider range of architectures than Ubuntu, > the reality is that Debian now targets a much narrower audience - the > "old hardware crowd".

Re: link trade with good blogs

2008-03-27 Thread ankit gupta
hi On 3/27/08, This is Naren Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone interested to exchange links with my following blogs.. > http://narendrasharma.wordpress.com/ > http://imatemobiles.wordpress.com > http://mobileforfune.wordpress.com/ > > let me know if anyone interested! > > Narendra > --

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Le Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:51AM -0700, Mike Bird a écrit : > > > > > Debian is losing users and relevance. > > This does not match the results of the "popcon" survey. It could be > that Debian would gain

Re: Package: splix

2008-03-27 Thread Patrick
Hello Jeroen, I asked pkg-cups for joining in order to package cups-ddk aswell. Since I am not a DD myself, it'd be kind if you sponsored the new splix package once I am done. regards, Patrocl Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:59:01PM +0100, Patrick Ringl wrote: H

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello, Le Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:51AM -0700, Mike Bird a écrit : > > Debian is losing users and relevance. This does not match the results of the "popcon" survey. It could be that Debian would gain users slower than other distributions, but this claim would need to be backed by a serious stu

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:51AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed March 26 2008 05:51:32 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:32:33PM +0530, Unni wrote: > > > Why the debian can be more interesting? More graphics, more drivers etc. > > > I think this can be done without a big

Bug#472939: ITP: libclone-pp-perl -- Recursively copy Perl datatypes

2008-03-27 Thread eloy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyżaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libclone-pp-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Matthew Simon Cavalletto at Evolution Softworks * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Clone-PP/ * License :

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:20:00PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Roberto C. Sánchez] > > > Alternatively, since Debian is an all-volunteer project you can feel > > free to volunteer to contribute the necessary changes. > > We definitely need more hands to work on the tasks in Debian, bu

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Lothar
Why would i have to put up with graphics when i run Debian on servers? I'd have to remove stuff, came Debian default with those. I prefer to add things when needed, rather than the opposite way. Debian is not only targetted at Desktop users. Ubuntu is, as far i can judge. Also, I don't feel uncomfo

link trade with good blogs

2008-03-27 Thread This is Naren Sharma
Anyone interested to exchange links with my following blogs.. http://narendrasharma.wordpress.com/ http://imatemobiles.wordpress.com http://mobileforfune.wordpress.com/ let me know if anyone interested! Narendra

Re: Fwd: Upstream's complete overhaul of the configuration file - And future handling

2008-03-27 Thread Taher Shihadeh
Sorry for being a day late, but I didn't give it much thought until now. The flow suggested by Gunnar seems sensible enough, but starting cherokee-admin at boot time makes no sense to me. May be the easiest thing would be not launching cherokee-admin at all and having the default placeholder web

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Roberto C. Sánchez] > Debian is targeted at a much wider audience using a much greater > variety of hardware in a great many more configurations. Many of > those people have no need or desire for the features you describe. And quite a lot of us Debian users have a need an desire of the features

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Ubuntu does seem to try harder to make auto detection of x86 hardware work well, while Debian tries to make sure all architectures work well, although given the scope of all that hardware, it may not be quite as automatic. To be honest: I see no rea

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 26 2008 05:51:32 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:32:33PM +0530, Unni wrote: > > Why the debian can be more interesting? More graphics, more drivers etc. > > I think this can be done without a big effort ( correct me if I am > > wrong). I suggest to make this cha

TheModelMakerShop.com news & supplies

2008-03-27 Thread TheModelMakerShop.com
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Re: ITP: libnet-dhcp-perl -- Interface for handling DHCP packets

2008-03-27 Thread Hendrik Frenzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gunnar Wolf schrieb: > Hendrik Frenzel dijo [Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:41:49PM +0100]: >> * Package name: libnet-dhcp-perl >> (...) >> Description : Interface for handling DHCP packets >> >> This module is a release of the DHCP protocol interfa

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:32:33PM +0530, Unni wrote: > I have been using debian for the last 2 years. ( i was unaware of linux b4 > that) > I installed debian etch in many machines with varying configurations. Most > of the time I was only able to install the base system with no sound, poor > reso

Bug#472915: ITP: hxq -- HXQ - a compiler from XQuery to Haskell

2008-03-27 Thread Bryan Donlan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hxq Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Leonidas Fegaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://lambda.uta.edu/HXQ/ * License : Simple permissive license (copied below) Programmin