Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > [...] >> Urgency: low >> Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Description: > [...] >> Closes: 341420 >> Changes: >> php5 (5.2.6.dfsg.1-0.1) unstable; urgency=l

Debian bugs #600000 and #1000000 contest

2008-11-30 Thread Christian Perrier
(originally sent to -devel-announce-publicity folks, that could deserve an entry in the DPN, maybe?) > As the bug #50 mark was turned on September 24th 2008, Debian > developers and contributors need a new challenge. > > So, again, a small contest has been set up. The principle is very >

Processed: reassign from ntp-server to ntp

2008-11-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 261213 ntp Bug#261213: ntp-server: Chdir to / in cron job for selinux Bug reassigned from package `general' to `ntp'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (admi

Why is acroread so popular? (Was: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main)

2008-11-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Gunnar Wolf] > But anyway, and knowing this is not an Ubuntu list... Does anybody > know why on Earth is Acroread popular? Why isn't a PDF regularly > handled in a saner way with Evince (or kde-based lookalike) in some > distributions? It is also popular in Debian. I asked the same question over

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-11-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Does anybody > know why on Earth is Acroread popular? There are some features that are present in e.g. evince, but are, arguable though, more 'advanced' implemented in adobe reader (e.g. better zooming capabilities as alreayd someone said). however, there are two 'features' t

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apturl seems interesting, however. Debian already has aptlinex so apturl isn't needed. Might be a good idea for the two upstreams of these packages to get them merged. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-11-30 Thread Daniel Moerner
With regard to the thread proper: As far as packages that are not currently in Debian, dkms has already obviously been discussed. apturl seems interesting, however. On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen dijo [Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 04:05:09PM +

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-11-30 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 00:40:50 01.12.2008 UTC+01 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] did gyre and gimble: Md> I need to remind everybody that sadly it is a dependency of Plesk Md> (the only high quality administration panel software) so it's still Md> going to be installed anyway on many Debian servers. Md> Ma

Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 18:45 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > [I would appreciate if you respected the CoC] > > 2008/11/30 Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] > > > > php5 had an RC bug open with an obvious fix available for 3 weeks. The > > What looks obvious to you may not be obvious to

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-11-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Petter Reinholdtsen dijo [Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 04:05:09PM +0100]: > (...) > acroread acroread-escript FWIW, I find this quite strange... I know many non-FS users assume that the good PDF reader is the Acrobat PDF reader. However, I find it quite inferior both in usability and on quality to evinc

Not MIA D= (was Re: Bug#495190: no answer for 495190)

2008-11-30 Thread José Miguel Parrella Romero
Vincent Danjean escribió: Hi, Is Jose Parrella MIA ? I did not get any answer at all from him since 15 Aug 2008 (and a reminder on 29 Oct 2008). Hello, Vincent! I'm not MIA, as you might see from other Debian-related activity. I've already uploaded the latest A::CD. Let me know if you ru

Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
[I would appreciate if you respected the CoC] 2008/11/30 Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > > php5 had an RC bug open with an obvious fix available for 3 weeks. The What looks obvious to you may not be obvious to the others, please refrain from making such statements. > fix was to remov

Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, 2008/11/30 Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > On Sunday 30 November 2008 05:04, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Right, but it is a DFSG-freeness issue and those take time to >> *properly* resolve. > > That depends, sometimes removal of those bits doesnt hurt. Also, removing > those bits is

Bug#507412: ITP: liq-contrib -- contributed scripts for liquidsoap

2008-11-30 Thread Romain Beauxis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: liq-contrib Version : 08.11 Upstream Author : The Savonet Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://savonet.sf.net/ * License : GPL v2+ Programming Lang: liquidsoap Des

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-11-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 30, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qmail is dead upstream and requires a whole set of patches to even begin to > work in the manner expected of a modern MTA. Given this, the fact that this > means there is also no upstream security support, and the fact that Debian > already co

Bug#507400: ITP: libi18n-ruby -- I18n and localization solution for Ruby

2008-11-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libi18n-ruby Version : 0.1.1~git20081120 Upstream Author : The Ruby i18n Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rails-i18n.or

Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 03:29:14PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > * Non-maintainer upload. > > > * Remove exts/dbase from orig tarball (Closes: #341420) > > Do you mind at least contacting the maintainers? > > I find your upload very impolite. > php5 had an RC bug open with an obvious fix

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-11-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 06:06:38PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 04:05:09PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > comparing these lists give this list of 152 > > packages only in Ubuntu and not in Debian/main: > > acroread > It would be useful to (i) only include packag

Bug#507376: ITP: upprint -- tools for better n-up printing

2008-11-30 Thread Paulus Esterhazy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: upprint Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Peter Selinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL : http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/upprint/ License : GPL / psutils licence Programm

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-11-30 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-11-30, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kdebase-workspace-bin > kde-window-manager is in experimental. > system-config-printer-common > system-config-printer-gnome I am planning to request this split of system-config-printer quite soon, so that we when next kde

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-11-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 04:05:09PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > comparing these lists give this list of 152 > packages only in Ubuntu and not in Debian/main: > > acroread It would be useful to (i) only include packages from Ubuntu universe/main, and (ii) maybe edit it a bit to remove th

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should we try to get any of these packages into Debian/main? I think it is up to their Ubuntu maintainers or any Debian people who use them or want them in Debian to get them into Debian main/contrib/non-free. --

Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, Cyril, thanks for your reply. (I'm not even sure I should send this one, as I dont add much...) On Sunday 30 November 2008 05:24, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Huh? We are in a permanent bugsquashing party, cause we want to > > > release lenny. > Still, coordination and communication matter.

Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-11-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
To see which popular packages are missing in Debian/main at the moment, I decided to compare the list of popular pckaages in Ubuntu with the list of packages in Debian/main. The result was interesting. There are at the moment 823762 reports colleected in popcon.ubuntu.com. I decided to use 5000

Re: system users

2008-11-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Vincent Bernat] >> That is nice. We will be able to get reasonable output under ps >> command for exim4 too. > > You are right. Too long usernames are displayed numerically. ps, top and wtmp/utmp (ie w,last, etc) have user name limits. For ps and top, it seem to be the POSIX limit of 8 characte

Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 05:56:39PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > [...] > > Urgency: low > > Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Description: > [...] > > Closes: 341420 > > Changes: > >

Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-30 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 01:43:22AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Huh? We are in a permanent bugsquashing party, cause we want to release > lenny. > This is a RC bugs since three weeks, so I rather think the php-maintainers > have been unpolite leaving it open so long... for future refere

Bug#507352: ITP: qlandkartegt -- GPS mapping (GeoTIFF and vector) and Garmin GPSr management

2008-11-30 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qlandkartegt Version : 0.9.0 Upstream Author : Oliver Eichler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.qlandkarte.org/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: ITP: taglib-rusxmms -- TagLib + RusXMMS patch

2008-11-30 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 15:09:32 30.11.2008 UTC+03 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] did gyre and gimble: i> Package name: taglib-rusxmms The name is *very* misleading, due to i> The library is not limited to ID3 tags, it can be useful for any i> program working with small titles or file names in different i>

ITP: taglib-rusxmms -- TagLib + RusXMMS patch

2008-11-30 Thread ivan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: taglib-rusxmms Version: 1.5 Upstream Author: Scott Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://ktown.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib License: LGPL-2.1 Description: TagLib Audio

Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-30 Thread Ondřej Surý
2008/11/30 Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > On Sunday 30 November 2008 00:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> > Closes: 341420 >> Do you mind at least contacting the maintainers? >> I find your upload very impolite. > > Huh? We are in a permanent bugsquashing party, cause we want to release

ITP: bml -- modular, free, open source music studio (BuzzMachine loader)

2008-11-30 Thread Sebastian Dröge
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: bml Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Stefan Kost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.buzztard.org * License : LGPL 2.1+ Description : modular, free, open source music studio Hi,

ITP: bsl -- modular, free, open source music studio (BuzzSong loader)

2008-11-30 Thread Sebastian Dröge
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: gst-buzztard Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Stefan Kost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.buzztard.org * License : LGPL 2.1+ Description : modular, free, open source music st

ITP: buzztard -- modular, free, open source music studio

2008-11-30 Thread Sebastian Dröge
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: buzztard Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Stefan Kost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.buzztard.org * License : LGPL 2.1+ Description : modular, free, open source music studio

ITP: gst-buzztard -- modular, free, open source music studio (GStreamer extensions)

2008-11-30 Thread Sebastian Dröge
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: gst-buzztard Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Stefan Kost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.buzztard.org * License : LGPL 2.1+ Description : modular, free, open source music st