Re: Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how?

2008-12-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-20, schoappied wrote: > Hi, > > I work with Debian now for a few years. And I like to help the project > and also learn more about it... > Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how? I'm especially interested > in software for making music... Try contact the multimedia packaging t

Re: Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how?

2008-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
schoappied, le Sat 20 Dec 2008 23:48:32 +0100, a écrit : > Ok... What to do mean by 'fix bugs'? I think I'm able to build packages, > but I'm not a software developer... A lot of bugs are packaging issues. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how?

2008-12-20 Thread schoappied
Ben Finney wrote: schoappied writes: I work with Debian now for a few years. And I like to help the project and also learn more about it... Thanks for your interest! Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how? I'm especially interested in software for making music... O

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, sorry for posting to this thread once more, permit me to get this off my chest. I apologize for the disgraceful lack of civility my posts to this thread and I regret that it reduced your fun in Debian. If you are inclined to do me a favor after all of this, please don't reply to this message.

Re: Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how?

2008-12-20 Thread Ben Finney
schoappied writes: > I work with Debian now for a few years. And I like to help the project > and also learn more about it... Thanks for your interest! > Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how? I'm especially > interested in software for making music... One of the smoothest paths to imp

Re: Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how?

2008-12-20 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-12-20T21:17:27, schoappied wrote: > I work with Debian now for a few years. And I like to help the project > and also learn more about it... > Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how? I'm especially interested > in software for making music... http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ /A

Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how?

2008-12-20 Thread schoappied
Hi, I work with Debian now for a few years. And I like to help the project and also learn more about it... Can I become a Debian package maintainer, how? I'm especially interested in software for making music... Regards, \s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:13:37PM +, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:00:26PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:44:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > > As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a > > > > petitio

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 09:12:46AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > > > Or do you need to let of some steam here, because such behaviour is > > > unacceptable on Ubuntu lists? > > There's no ubuntu-legal list infested with leeches who think it's their > > business to tell Ubuntu how to interpret its o

Re: Help needed for #377468

2008-12-20 Thread Alexander Sack
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 03:50:21PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to ask for some help for the bug #377468, if possible, > please. Particularly from a mozilla-plugin wizard. > > The problem is that djvulibre in upstream is not linked against a particular > libXt > in or

Re: Missing Build-Conflicts for non-clean build environments: RC? (was: Re: Bug#508947: Lowering severity)

2008-12-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-20, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:12:48AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> >> I don't agree with your arguing. Serious is defined as "severe violation >> >> of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must" or "required" >> >> directive)". Debian policy 7.7 says:=20 >> >

Re: Missing Build-Conflicts for non-clean build environments: RC? (was: Re: Bug#508947: Lowering severity)

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:12:48AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > >> I don't agree with your arguing. Serious is defined as "severe violation > >> of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must" or "required" > >> directive)". Debian policy 7.7 says:=20 > >> |Build-Depends, Build-Conflicts > >> |

Re: Help needed for #377468

2008-12-20 Thread roucaries bastien
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> I would like to ask for some help for the bug #377468, if possible, >> please. Particularly from a mozilla-plugin wizard. > > Just having made this choice w.r.t. to nsdejavu and pthread for properly > fixing #504

Re: Help needed for #377468

2008-12-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
[dropped even more CCs] roucaries bastien wrote: > It seems other plugins have the same problem. Should I open bug report? Well, that depends a bit: a) some of the symbols in your list (NS_*) might be from stuff that can reasonably be expected to always linked into things loading the plugins

Re: Help needed for #377468

2008-12-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > I would like to ask for some help for the bug #377468, if possible, > please. Particularly from a mozilla-plugin wizard. > The problem is that djvulibre in upstream is not linked against a particular > libXt > in order to adapt against different libXt version depending

Help needed for #377468

2008-12-20 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Hi! I would like to ask for some help for the bug #377468, if possible, please. Particularly from a mozilla-plugin wizard. The problem is that djvulibre in upstream is not linked against a particular libXt in order to adapt against different libXt version depending of the browser used. The ques

Re: Bug#509242: ITP: lensfun -- LensCorrection editor plugin

2008-12-20 Thread David Bremner
Hi Mark; Sounds very interesting. I'm not (yet) a member, but I guess the pkg-phototools team on alioth would welcome you http://pkg-phototools.alioth.debian.org/ Since tehy already maintain e.g. hugin and panorama tools) (I just wanted to beat KiBi to saying that :-) d (manual resen

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-20 Thread Tim Dijkstra
> > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 41b0a520-c6c1-4e7b-8c49-74ee85faf242 > [ 3 ] Choice 1: Reaffirm the Social Contract > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Allow Lenny to release with proprietary firmware [3:1] > [ ] Choice 3: Allow Lenny to release with DFSG violat

Re: Missing Build-Conflicts for non-clean build environments: RC? (was: Re: Bug#508947: Lowering severity)

2008-12-20 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:12:48 + (UTC), Sune Vuorela wrote: > Up to the etch release, I asked release people wether missing > build-dependencies was release critical. They said no. Ok, fine. > I think I also have asked them in the last 6 months and got similar > answer, but I'm not as sure abo

Re: Missing Build-Conflicts for non-clean build environments: RC? (was: Re: Bug#508947: Lowering severity)

2008-12-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-20, David Paleino wrote: >> >Hello, >> >trying to look at RC bugs, I just stumbled upon this one. >> >IMHO it's not severity serious, since binary packages are built in clean >> >chroots. Hence you don't have wx2.6 installed, but just the Build-Deps, = > i.e. >> >wx2.8. >> >It's still "

Missing Build-Conflicts for non-clean build environments: RC? (was: Re: Bug#508947: Lowering severity)

2008-12-20 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:04:13 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * David Paleino | 2008-12-19 22:58:07 [+0100]: > > >Hello, > >trying to look at RC bugs, I just stumbled upon this one. > >IMHO it's not severity serious, since binary packages are built in clean > >chroots. Hence you don't ha

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 07:07:35PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 19 December 2008 19:56, Johannes Wiedersich > wrote: > > What slightly upsets me about the issue is not what happened, but rather > > that the French appear so arrogant as to think what happened on a world > > wide announc

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-20 Thread Thomas Weber
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:31:15PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:11:25AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > > > No, the problem is that certain of our French developers *think* that the > > > rest of the world just doesn't understand their French humor and that > > > something

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 19 December 2008 19:56, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > What slightly upsets me about the issue is not what happened, but rather > that the French appear so arrogant as to think what happened on a world > wide announcement is fine, just because the French think it is fine. Do we have any