Bug#475116: ITP: asterisk-espeak -- eSpeak text-to-speech module for Asterisk

2008-04-08 Thread Andrew Pollock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asterisk-espeak Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Francois Aucamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/asterisk-espeak * License : GPL Programming

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:01:16 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages after > > lenny w/o having to

Re: RFH: piuparts testing of the archive

2008-04-08 Thread Raphael Geissert
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > What needs to be done is: > - run installation/removal/purge tests for all packages > - run upgrade tests for all packages in etch > - make changes to piuparts to fix false positives or reduce the number > of failures by ignoring the less critical ones > - file all the

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-08 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Gabor Gombas may or may not have written... [snip] > Also, if it's the -dev package that depends on the tool and the tool > changes, then the users will get worse error messages. Unless the -dev package has a wrapper for that tool, e.g. for backward compatibility reasons. xine-confi

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-08 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:49:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > In this case, again, if my dev package requires a tool not in > build depends now, I should declare it, for the same reason -- the next > upload of the dev package might have different tools, or eliminate > tools -- and

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-08 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:47:38AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > It's also a lot of packages - does such a dependency ever become > inferred by other packages? It probably shouldn't, for your reasons > above, so this would appear to be a case for a lintian check. > If ./configure exists and calls

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-08 Thread Christoph Haas
Moin, Raphael... On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:12:25PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > This is offtopic to your questions, but I should better say this now than > forgetting about this idea: > > For the new users registration process what about making mentors: > > * require the key to be in a key

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

2008-04-08 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11348 March 1977, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > The focus of mentors.debian.net is to host source packages that are > > supposed to be sponsored. So it's not some weird multiverse non-free > > binary warez repository or something. T

Re: too many conflicts/replaces

2008-04-08 Thread Frank Küster
Nikita V. Youshchenko debian.org> writes: > > > 2008/4/4, Nikita V. Youshchenko debian.org>: > > > Martin Schr?der wrote: > > > > I'm trying to create a package that will when installed > > > > automatically replace all TeX packages on the system with our > > > > version of TeX. > > > > > >

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080407 20:19]: > > Here I have to contradict. No -dev package should ever depend on a > > compiler or linker, even if that tool was not already in > > build-essentials. > > Can you provide some rationale for this assertion? I can see why > one might

Bug#474965: ITP: libxml-feedpp-perl -- Parse/write/merge/edit RSS/RDF/Atom syndication feeds

2008-04-08 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently investigating this perl module; I'll package it or close or rename to RFP depending on how complex this stuff is. * Package name: lib

Re: debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-backports-keyring in official debian repository?

2008-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 07 April 2008 19:57, Peter Jordan wrote: > why are the keyrings of debian-multimedia.org and debian backports not > in the official repository of debian? I guess this was answered already in this thread :-) > At the moment you have to install untrusted keyrings before you can use >

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 22:12 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Any package that wants to use .pc files during its build is going to invoke > pkg-config directly, and changing your -dev package to recommend a different > means of linking to the library won't cause this reference to disappear. > That's a