Re: /tools removed from mirrors

2008-11-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> And noone complained when I asked about it in August this year, so now >> its gone. > Uh, I wasn't yet subscribed to debian-devel at the time and thus > wasn't aware of that goal. It sure is still useful for blind people > booting from a DOS bootdisk with a screen reader (still so far the only

Re: /tools removed from mirrors

2008-11-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Loadlin-packager: CCed you, as you want to stop building the byhand > > component. > > Well loadlin should at least be kept on the installation CDs. And to my > knowledge the CD image build system fetches it from ftp mirrors... Indeed, at least the

Re: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-17 Thread Simon Phipps
Thanks for the input. On Nov 18, 2008, at 03:52, Ben Hutchings wrote: Many of the functions in portmap.c seem to correspond to rpcbind (usr/src/cmd/rpcbind) in OpenSolaris: Is it just the function prototypes that are derived, or is there derived source defining them too? The key function

Re: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 01:33 +, Simon Phipps wrote: > Try OpenGrok: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/ The documentation for portmap says that some code is derived from "the RPCSRC 4.0 and the TIRPC source distributions". The two source files labelled with Sun copyright are portmap.c and from

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe for stable it would make sense to create a "debian-screenshots" > package that could be used by all package managers wishing to provide > this or similar functionality. There is already a games-thumbnails package (

Re: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-17 Thread Simon Phipps
Try OpenGrok: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/ On Nov 18, 2008, at 01:12, Ean Schuessler wrote: I'll look into doing a pull on OpenSolaris and see what matches. Does Sun have OpenSolaris loaded into a copy of Nutch somewhere? That would be ever so useful. - "Simon Phipps" <[EMAIL PR

Re: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-17 Thread Ean Schuessler
I'll look into doing a pull on OpenSolaris and see what matches. Does Sun have OpenSolaris loaded into a copy of Nutch somewhere? That would be ever so useful. - "Simon Phipps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this in any way related to any Sun code, or is the string simply > used by the au

Re: Sun RPC libraries and other stories

2008-11-17 Thread Simon Phipps
On Nov 5, 2008, at 23:23, Michael Banck wrote: - portmap.c /* @(#)portmap.c 2.3 88/08/11 4.0 RPCSRC static char sccsid[] = "@(#)portmap.c 1.32 87/08/06 Copyr 1984 Sun Micro"; */ This is portmap-6.0, from http://neil.brown.name/portmap/ Is this in any way related to any Sun code, or is the

Re: /tools removed from mirrors

2008-11-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joerg Jaspert, le Mon 17 Nov 2008 23:53:33 +0100, a écrit : > And noone complained when I asked about it in August this year, so now > its gone. Uh, I wasn't yet subscribed to debian-devel at the time and thus wasn't aware of that goal. It sure is still useful for blind people booting from a DOS

/tools removed from mirrors

2008-11-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi with the next mirror run the /tools directory will be gone from Debian mirrors. It contained *old* tools to help DOS users to install Linux and AFAIk wasn't really used for anything anymore anyway. And noone complained when I asked about it in August this year, so now its gone. In case someon

Bug#506040: ITP: ceph -- a distributed filesystem

2008-11-17 Thread Christian Meder
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ceph Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Sage Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ceph.newdream.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : a dis

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> The proposers and sponsors of option 5 didn't propose this as an amendment >> to the current GR. Why should they have to *withdraw* the proposal in order >> to get it considered separately at a later time? > > They only need to do so to prevent it from being on

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,17.Nov.08, 08:13:55, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Let's just say, hypothetically speaking, that I'm the developer of a > GUI package manager for Debian. It would be nice (where by nice I mean > *really UBERCOOL*) if, whenever users see a list of packages, they could > see a little thumbnail

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-17 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 17 November 2008 18:13:55 Daniel Burrows wrote: --cut-- > > There is one. It uses the HTTP protocol. :) Just do an HTTP POST request > > and send the three fields like in the upload form. > > Err...when I go to upload I get a webform, not a URL to point to? How > do I generate an "HTTP

Bug#506011: ITP: python-iniparse -- module to access and modify configuration data in ini files

2008-11-17 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-iniparse Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Paramjit Oberoi * URL : http://code.google.com/p/iniparse * License : MIT Description : module to access

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:49:06AM +0100, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Montag, 17. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:46:27PM +0100, Christoph Haas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > There should be a way to select what scre

Bug#505990: ITP: libalgorithm-munkres-perl -- Extension for Munkres' solution to Assignment problem

2008-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: libalgorithm-munkres-perl Section: perl Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Algorithm-Munkres/ Package: libalgorithm-munkres-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: Extension

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Christoph Haas wrote: On Montag, 17. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: Personally, I would rather be able to provide a version number and then get the "best" screenshot you have. What is the "best"? :) I have o idea what Daniel had in mind, but I'd regard the scree

Re: Bug#505968: ITP: urlwatch -- email notifications of changes to URLs

2008-11-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:23:28PM +1300, Francois Marier wrote: > The script works out of a single directory, so no need to install > anything. State files are kept in the same folder. ...except you are packaging it, so you'll need to install the .deb, right? I don't think this sentence belongs i

Re: Bug#505968: ITP: urlwatch -- email notifications of changes to URLs

2008-11-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 17/11/08 at 04:51 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/17/08 03:23, Francois Marier wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> * Package name: urlwatch >> Version : 1.4 >> Upstream Author : Thomas Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * U

Re: Bug#505968: ITP: urlwatch -- email notifications of changes to URLs

2008-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/17/08 03:23, Francois Marier wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: urlwatch Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Thomas Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://thpinfo.com/2008/urlwatch/ * License :

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-17 Thread Christoph Haas
On Montag, 17. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:46:27PM +0100, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > There should be a way to select what screenshot you want. I'm saving > > the version number along with the screenshot. > > Personally, I would

Bug#505968: ITP: urlwatch -- email notifications of changes to URLs

2008-11-17 Thread Francois Marier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: urlwatch Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Thomas Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://thpinfo.com/2008/urlwatch/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Descriptio