Re: Include justification in tagging bugs ‘$FOO-ignore’

2008-10-22 Thread Filipus Klutiero
In other words, if a tag indicates a special case, that special case should be justified with a specific explanation. I would like to see such justification expected for every such tag, enforced by the convention that tags with *no* justification provided can be summarily removed by anyone. This

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:24 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:52:28PM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > This is the part I am not comfortable with. I do not think the > > > delegates have the powers to decide w

Re: Bug Sprint - Oct 25 to Oct 30 - Register and eat cookies

2008-10-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On mar, oct 21, 2008 at 11:57:48 +, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le mardi 21 octobre 2008 à 08:53 -0300, David Bremner a écrit : >> > So downgrading bugs to non-RC severity (with appropriate rationale) >> > does not count in the great cookie contest? >> >> Of course it

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
[NO CC, please] Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:59 -0500, William Pitcock wrote: >> If we waited for a release to be 100% perfect, it will likely take >> several more years. The good news is that the amount of inline firmware >> in the kernel is decreasing. So, eventually, a

Tradititional african music

2008-10-22 Thread peter
Dear Mr Seelig, Hopefully you will excuse me mailing to you. You have the same name as my grandfather and you work for the african music archive. My grandfather preserved a lot of traditional Javanese and Thai music and did a lot of research to the origine, dance and occasion. Most of his work

Re: Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

2008-10-22 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 22 Okt 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > In the end, all these discussions showed that many people here don't > > give a piss for the users. > > Many? I only see 2 or 3 of them around. Ok, many *loud* voices ... How many times did I see that binary firmware discussion in my few years as D

packaging/support for a pseudofilesystem

2008-10-22 Thread sean finney
hey folks, i'm looking to introduce better support for various aspects of using the ps3 with debian, and amongst other things this includes better support for spufs, the kernel-based pseudofilesystem for interacting with the SPU's on ps3's cell processor. typically (i.e. in documentation and othe

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-22 Thread Thilo Six
> <- *snip* -> > >> That should be good enough to install, and then add non-free to >> sources.list > > now it gets really absurd. > > Either be "free" and clearly tell the people that you are not willing to > support their hardware or don't blame RMs for the same thing you did above.

Re: Bug#503096: ITP: alpaca -- GnuPG file handling for Emacs

2008-10-22 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Tatsuya! On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:58:11 +0200, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > * Package name: alpaca [...] > * URL : http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/cipher/ I think that a package for one single file is too much. > Description : GnuPG file handling for Emacs > `alpaca' is an Em

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-22 Thread Thilo Six
Manoj Srivastava wrote the following on 22.10.2008 15:28 <- *snip* -> > That should be good enough to install, and then add non-free to > sources.list now it gets really absurd. Either be "free" and clearly tell the people that you are not willing to support their hardware or don't bl

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-10-22 Thread LI Daobing
LinkedIn LI Daobing requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Paul, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - LI View invitation from LI Daobing http://www.linkedin.com/e/uwTRS9NuUj0vo8kjIcGBPqZTCi3vo8VBXfNSMrh

Bug#503103: ITP: libticonv -- Texas Instruments calculators charsets library

2008-10-22 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Krzysztof Burghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libticonv Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Romain Lievin * URL : http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Texas Inst

Bug#503099: ITP: tilp2 -- Texas Instruments hand-helds <-> PC communication program for X

2008-10-22 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Krzysztof Burghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tilp2 Version : 1.12 Upstream Author : Romain Lievin * URL : http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Texas Instrumen

Bug#503098: ITP: mucommander -- a lightweight, cross-platform file manager

2008-10-22 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Krzysztof Burghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mucommander Version : 0.8.3 Upstream Author : Maxence Bernard, Nicolas Rinaudo, Arik Hadas, Mariusz Jakubowski and contributors. * URL : http://www.mucomm

Bug#503096: ITP: alpaca -- GnuPG file handling for Emacs

2008-10-22 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tatsuya Kinoshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: alpaca Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Kazu Yamamoto * URL : http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/cipher/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Emacs Lisp Description : G

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:15:55PM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > And you're comfortable with ftp-master ruling DFSG-iness through NEW > > then ? I don't really see the difference. > > I would be uncomoftable with ftp-masters willfull

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Oct 21 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> acceleration, right? So the box can be installed, and is usable for >> non-gaming purposes. The drm stuff can possibly be gotten from non > > You can always use VESA, yes. I don't think the

Re: Bug#503087: ITP: openvpn-auth-ldap -- The OpenVPN Auth-LDAP Plugin implements username/password authentication via LDAP for OpenVPN 2.x.

2008-10-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Thanks, How can I close this bug? Just e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've done that with this mail, so the bug should now be closed (or will be in a few minutes time). Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Thank you to the Debian project (was: Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software)

2008-10-22 Thread Ben Finney
"Kelly Clowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As a mere user I very glad that Debian stands where it does on the > spectrum of caring about users vs caring about freedom. It is one of > the major reasons I am a user of Debian. Hear, hear. More specifically, I am very appreciative of the promise

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Oct 21 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > And you're comfortable with ftp-master ruling DFSG-iness through NEW > then ? I don't really see the difference. I would be uncomoftable with ftp-masters willfully allowing DFSG violations in main without ratification from the project as a w

Re: Bug#503087: ITP: openvpn-auth-ldap -- The OpenVPN Auth-LDAP Plugin implements username/password authentication via LDAP for OpenVPN 2.x.

2008-10-22 Thread Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr
Adam, Thanks, How can I close this bug? Thanks, Brivaldo Jr 2008/10/22 Adam D. Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr wrote: >> >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> I want to add this functionality to O

Re: Bug#503087: ITP: openvpn-auth-ldap -- The OpenVPN Auth-LDAP Plugin implements username/password authentication via LDAP for OpenVPN 2.x.

2008-10-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I want to add this functionality to OpenVPN to auth on OpenLDAP. There's already a package of openvpn-auth-ldap (packaged by Debian's openvpn maintainer) in the NEW qu

Bug#503090: ITP: packetfence -- PacketFence is a Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) system.

2008-10-22 Thread Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think Debian need to use NAS tecnology too, and no have any other implementation around this. Package name: packetfence Version : 1.7.3 Upstream Author : Brivaldo Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> U

Bug#503087: ITP: openvpn-auth-ldap -- The OpenVPN Auth-LDAP Plugin implements username/password authentication via LDAP for OpenVPN 2.x.

2008-10-22 Thread Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brivaldo Alves da Silva Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I want to add this functionality to OpenVPN to auth on OpenLDAP. Package name: openvpn-auth-ldap Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Author : Brivaldo Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://c

Bug#503082: ITP: dolfin -- C++/Python library for solving differential equations

2008-10-22 Thread Johannes Ring
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: dolfin Version: 0.8.1 Upstream authors: Anders Logg and Garth N. Wells URL: http://www.fenics.org/wiki/DOLFIN License: LGPL Description: C++/Python library for solving differential equations DOLFIN is the C

Re: Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

2008-10-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:23:35PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > As a mere user I very glad that Debian stands where it does on the > spectrum of caring about users vs caring about freedom. It is one of > the major reasons I am a user of Debian. Seconded. -- Noah Slater, http://bytesexual.org/ns

Bug#503079: ITP: instant -- simple inlining of C / C++ code in Python

2008-10-22 Thread Johannes Ring
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: instant Version: 0.9.5 Upstream author: Kent-Andre Mardal, Magne Westlie, and Martin Sandve Alnæs URL: http://www.fenics.org/wiki/Instant License: BSD Description: simple inlining of C / C++ code in Python

Bug#503077: ITP: fiat -- tabulation of finite element function spaces

2008-10-22 Thread Johannes Ring
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: fiat Version: 0.3.4 Upstream author: Robert C. Kirby URL: http://www.fenics.org/wiki/FIAT License: LGPL Description: tabulation of finite element function spaces The FInite element Automatic Tabulator FIAT

Bug#503074: ITP: ferari -- optimizations for evaluation of variational forms

2008-10-22 Thread Johannes Ring
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: ferari Version: 0.0.2 Upstream author: Robert C. Kirby URL: http://www.fenics.org/wiki/FErari License: LGPL Description: optimizations for evaluation of variational forms FErari (Finite Element rearrangemen

Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

2008-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:41:14AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: general > Severity: serious > Justification: DFSG > > raff.debian.org uses a Compaq Smart 5i RAID card. A flash memory is used > to store the firmware. While the firmware is freely downloadable (as in > beer) on HP website

Bug#503072: ITP: ufc -- unified code generation interface for form-compilers

2008-10-22 Thread Johannes Ring
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: ufc Version: 1.1 Upstream author: Martin Sandve Alnæs, Anders Logg, Kent-Andre Mardal, Ola Skavhaug, and Hans Petter Langtangen URL: http://www.fenics.org/wiki/UFC License: The UFC specification is released

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:17:37PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 22:47 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Doing so would be a violation of basic NMU policy. > The claim was, hey, nobody is stopping anyone from fixing it, if it's > not fixed, it's lame for people to complain,

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?

2008-10-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:54:41AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 22.10.2008, 08:36 +0200 schrieb Bastian Blank: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:07:52AM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > > > At least ipw2100 drivers changed firmware name if they required > > > different version, so I guess

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?

2008-10-22 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Mittwoch, den 22.10.2008, 08:36 +0200 schrieb Bastian Blank: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:07:52AM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > > At least ipw2100 drivers changed firmware name if they required > > different version, so I guess this is also used by others... > > If they need an incompatible one.

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081021 22:11]: > Luckily very few others do. How can it be "lucky" that people think it is a good idea to break the law (distributing stuff without license to do so), to trick people into breaking the law (by claiming everyone can copy Debian CD images and mi

Re: Sidux?

2008-10-22 Thread Joey Schulze
Daniel Baumann wrote: > they redone it properly from scratch by pulling out every unnecessary > crap (which we inherited from ubuntu). > > once we do the same in debian after lenny, at least grml.org, sidux and > debian can then use identical base live-initramfs and divert only in the > sysvinit p

Re: Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

2008-10-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 22 octobre 2008 à 01:14 +0200, Norbert Preining a écrit : > In the end, all these discussions showed that many people here don't > give a piss for the users. Many? I only see 2 or 3 of them around. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `'