Re: "cupsys" renamed to "cups", please adjust your (build-)depends

Hi Bernhard, Bernhard R. Link [2008-06-12 18:23 +0200]: > How about using this transition to move some binaries between package > boundaries? Especially having some programs with generic names in -client and > some in -bsd seem to be a problem for some users (like #405827). I do not agree to this

Considerations for lilo removal

Hi, I am wondering if it is a good idea to remove lilo entirely. At the moment, lilo has been pulled from testing, and the code is in a shape where a grave bug (bug #479607) is unlikely fixable without severe refactoring of the codebase. With grub being stable and grub2 approaching stability itse

esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

Frans Pop [2008-06-15 20:39 +0200]: > Also, the package has had uploads of new upstream versions to Ubuntu > without getting similar uploads in Debian, but even there not by its > Debian maintainer who AFAIK is an Canonical employee. esound should *so much* die completely. It has very poor soun

Re: Bug#486429: ITP: eternallands-music -- the music package for Eternal Lands, a free MMORPG

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 02:15 +0100, Paul Broadhead wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Paul Broadhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: eternallands-music > Version : 1.6.0 > Upstream Author : Radu Privantu and Maura Privantu > * URL : http://ww

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

Hi, On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 11:18 +1000, Brian May wrote: > I tried to upload what I have so far to Debian experimental so that > others can look at it (I hate being the sole maintainer of such a > complicated package). I think this is within the scope of experimental, > for anything that is expe

Bug#486429: ITP: eternallands-music -- the music package for Eternal Lands, a free MMORPG

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Broadhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: eternallands-music Version : 1.6.0 Upstream Author : Radu Privantu and Maura Privantu * URL : http://www.eternal-lands.com * License : (Free to distribute) Programming

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

Russ Allbery wrote: This seems to imply that you no longer have a file named rfc3454.txt? You want to strip all the text out of that file except for the table, but leave the table in the tree still named rfc3454.txt. This would imply understanding what needs to be extracted. For rfc3454.txt,

Bug#486428: ITP: eternallands-sound -- the sound package for Eternal Lands, a free MMORPG

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Broadhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: eternallands-sound Version : 1.6.0 Upstream Author : Radu Privantu and Maura Privantu * URL : http://www.eternal-lands.com * License : (Free to distribute) Programming

Bug#486427: ITP: eternallands-data -- the data package for Eternal Lands, a free MMORPG

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Broadhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: eternallands-data Version : 1.6.0 Upstream Author : Radu Privantu and Maura Privantu * URL : http://www.eternal-lands.com * License : (Artwork is not free to use for any

Bug#486422: ITP: eternallands -- the client package for Eternal Lands, a free MMORPG

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Broadhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: eternallands Version : 1.6.0 Upstream Author : Radu Privantu * URL : http://http://www.eternal-lands.com/ * License : (QTPL) Programming Lang: (C, C++) Description

Bug#486425: ITP: bomstrip -- strip Byte-Order Marks from UTF-8 text files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: bomstrip Version : 8 Upstream Author : Mechiel Lukkien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xs4all.nl/~mechiel/projects/bomstrip/ * License : public domain Programming

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

(d-qa CCed because of the status of esound; please CC me on replies) On Friday 13 June 2008, you wrote: > There are plenty of other examples. Here's a few of my favorites (look > up what packages depend on these libs yourself): > - libadns1 -> libadns1-bin (test tools/utils) > - libdjvulibre21 ->

Bug#486376: ecl: /usr/lib/libecl.so doesn't provide a SONAME

Package: ecl Version: 0.9j-20080306-1 Severity: normal Tags: help Hello, lintian complains about a missing SONAME for /usr/lib/libecl.so: --8<---cut here---start->8--- E: ecl: sharedobject-in-library-directory-missing-soname usr/lib/libecl.so N: N: A shared

Bug#486371: ITP: r-cran-nws -- GNU R package for NetWorkSpaces / Sleigh

Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-nws Version : 1.6.3 Upstream Author : REvolution Computing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with support and contributions from Pfizer, Inc. * URL or Web page : http://nws-r.sourceforge.net/ *

Bug#486368: developers-reference: please add an example of how to rename a binary package

Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.0 Severity: wishlist Hello, this started at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00309.html. On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:27:02 +0200, Frank S. Thomas wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2008 18:22, Christian Perrier wrote: >> Quoting Luca Capello ([EMAIL P

Re: 37.5% boot time reduction in Lenny is possible (recipe)

Hello! Thanks for an interesting post! It seems insserv has come quite some way since late last year when I tried to use it last time. I tried your tips on a workstation (indy) and a laptop (atropos) and in the end it resulted in going from 34 to 14 and from 57 to 27 seconds respectively. (That w

Bug#486320: ITP: mousetweaks -- mouse accessibility enhancements for the GNOME desktop

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mousetweaks Version : 2.22.2 Upstream Author : Gerd Kohlberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://live.gnome.org/Mousetweaks/Home * License : GPL Programming Lang: C