symlinks bug: fixed upstream

2008-12-09 Thread Dan Langille
With reference to: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00347.html mtx-changer.Adic-Scalar-24 has been fixed in the Bacula repository. Committed revision 8134. NOTE: the code wasn't part of Bacula proper. It's one of the examples we supply. http://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/vie

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I think that you have a good point: if removed in Lenny+1, GTK+1.2 will > still be apt-gettable for around three years, and then hopefully forever from > snapshots.debian.org. And archive.debian.org, which includes

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:03:31AM +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > Why are people so unwilling to use oldstable Le Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:48:29AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf a écrit : > Well, you can perfectly keep a cluster of Woody > machines for a long time! OK, I think that you have a good point: i

Re: Bug#508249: ITP: libio-pager-perl -- pipe output to a pager if destination is a TTY

2008-12-09 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 19:21:18 + brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:19:42AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > >* Package name: libio-pager-perl > > Version : 0.05 > > Upstream Author : Jerrad Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist

Bug#508316: ITP: maven-jar-plugin -- Maven Jar plugin

2008-12-09 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: maven-jar-plugin Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming

Re: Bug#508311: ITP: maven-archiver -- Maven Archiver

2008-12-09 Thread Torsten Werner
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09/12/2008): >> * Package name: maven-archiver >> Description : Maven Archiver > > No kidding‽ Do you have any better description? The title of the homepage is 'About Maven A

Re: Bug#508311: ITP: maven-archiver -- Maven Archiver

2008-12-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09/12/2008): > * Package name: maven-archiver > Description : Maven Archiver No kidding‽ Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#508311: ITP: maven-archiver -- Maven Archiver

2008-12-09 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: maven-archiver Version : 2.3 Upstream Author : Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-archiver * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang:

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 19:32:27 + David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well perhaps what is needed is a way of marking a package as > deprecated, and this was what I was trying (badly) to achieve. > Better to be explicit. Maybe "Section: oldlibs" needs to be more forcefully expressed? "

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:52:44 + > > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not remove the -dev packages first. > > That would make every reverse dependency instantly buggy with > release-critical FTBFS bugs! No thanks! It must be po

Re: Bug#508249: ITP: libio-pager-perl -- pipe output to a pager if destination is a TTY

2008-12-09 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:19:42AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: * Package name: libio-pager-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Jerrad Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Pager/ * License : other - Thou shalt not claim ownership of

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:52:44 + David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not remove the -dev packages first. That would make every reverse dependency instantly buggy with release-critical FTBFS bugs! No thanks! It must be possible to build all packages in Lenny only from the Debian so

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 05 December 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > GTK+ 1.2 has been deprecated upstream for 6 years. There is no security > support for it, and no new applications using it have been out for quite > a long time as well. > > > Cheers, Why not remove the -dev packages first. That way n

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Barry deFreese
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 08 décembre 2008 à 08:25 -0600, William Pitcock a écrit : On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 19:08 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Gah, I thought it was able to handle SNES ROMs. The correct answer would probably be zsnes, although it only works on i386. Actua

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:48 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > As for scientific software, nobody will find the time or the money to > > upgrade > > from GTK1.2 to GTK2 only for the beauty of it. People are rewarded on their > > new > > developments, not on code maintainance. > > Agree. But people mi

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Barry deFreese
Hi folks, In case any of you are interested/care. Just for kicks I started digging through many of the r(b)depends for gtk+1.2. I have posted my notes here: http://people.debian.org/~bdefreese/gtk+1.2_rdepends_notes Yes, I know the format is hideous, sorry. I have already done some RM:s

Re: ITP: IPC::System::Simple -- Run commands simply, with detailed diagnostics

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > * Package name: libipc-system-simple-perl > Calling Perl's in-built system() function is easy, determining if it > was successful is hard. Let's face it, $? isn't the nicest variable in > the world to play with, and even if you do check it, pr

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Charles Plessy dijo [Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:48:34AM +0900]: > seecurity is of course important, but as I was told during the last DPL > debate, > it is possible to opt out support from the security team, which is only for > Stable anyway. > > Buffer overflows are not the same issues when viewin

Bug#508273: ITP: libcatalyst-controller-html-formfu-perl -- Catalyst integration for HTML::FormFu

2008-12-09 Thread Brian Cassidy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcatalyst-controller-html-formfu-perl Version : 0.03007 Upstream Author : Carl Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Controller-HTML-FormFu/ *

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09/12/2008): > Fortunately, porting to GTK+ 3 is going to be *much* easier. I’ll post > something about it as soon as the upstream release plans are official. SCNR: 2to3.py Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 06:40:48PM -0600, Raphael Geissert a écrit : > > There's a testing security team in case you were not aware of it. Stable and Testing security teams make great work. It is just a shame that random developers write "package X could annoy the security team(s)" instead of "I

Re: New ftpteam member

2008-12-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:23:04AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > > Want to volunteer and possibly join too, to get some non-german blood in? Hi all, I offer my help for the copyright checking. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 09 décembre 2008 à 14:08 +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard a écrit : > On top of this, asking a scientist for updating the software for a new > version of a toolkit will come as an extra burden. Scientists will see > this as endless quest for your own shadow. When they've finally gotten > around to

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 02:08:48PM +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Neil & Gunner, > > Thank you for your long, detailed and convincing postings in this > thread. I really appreciate it! The argument that finally made me > surrender was that time is perhaps better spent

Bug#508262: ITP: libcatalyst-component-instancepercontext-perl -- Moose role to create only one instance of component per context

2008-12-09 Thread Brian Cassidy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcatalyst-component-instancepercontext-perl Version : 0.001001 Upstream Author : Guillermo Roditi (groditi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Com

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
Dear Neil & Gunner, Thank you for your long, detailed and convincing postings in this thread. I really appreciate it! The argument that finally made me surrender was that time is perhaps better spent helping upstream authors make the conversion. So I guess we're on the same page now. And I'd be cr

Re: ITP: autodie -- Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope

2008-12-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Speaking about scope, name collision, etc.… Jeremiah Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09/12/2008): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Jeremiah C. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: libautodie-perl that is the name that should be in the first part of your ITP subject. Di

Bug#508249: ITP: libio-pager-perl -- pipe output to a pager if destination is a TTY

2008-12-09 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libio-pager-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Jerrad Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Pager/ * License : other - Thou shalt not claim

Re: New ftpteam member

2008-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:23:04AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: And they said that there was no German cabal? :P Want to volunteer and possibly join too, to get some non-german blood in? I'm disappointed: I expected a reply in German :-P Das kom

Re: New ftpteam member

2008-12-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:23:04AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >>> And they said that there was no German cabal? :P >> Want to volunteer and possibly join too, to get some non-german >> blood in? > I'm disappointed: I expected a reply in German :-P Das ist etwas später