RFC: adding pre-depends to libpam-modules for lenny

2008-12-27 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi folks, I'm attempting to solve bug #502140 in pam, which is marked as release-critical for lenny. Unfortunately, the only ways to solve this all involve fiddling around with preinsts of transitively essential packages, so per Policy 3.5 I'm asking here about my proposed solution to add Pre-Dep

Re: Orphaning some perl packages

2008-12-27 Thread Ryan Niebur
Hi, I intend to adopt these for pkg-perl: > * libtest-number-delta-perl > libx11-freedesktop-desktopentry-perl > libexporter-tidy-perl > libextutils-depends-perl > libextutils-pkgconfig-perl >Misc perl libs. Should probably go to the perl group. > and these too: > * libcairo-perl*

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 28 December 2008 12:30, "Всеволод Величко" wrote: > That message has been carbon-copied to debian-devel list. I'm not > reading debian-women list. You think, this discussion should take > place in d-d? I'm not sure. Did Lisi's message go to the debian-devel list? If so I didn't receiv

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Всеволод Величко
Hello. 2008/12/28 Lisi Reisz : > You would appear to be a man. If that is inaccurate, I apologise. > > But this is, as you point out, a _women's_ list. We have a right to > discus what we choose to discuss. But I refute your allegation that > this topic is idiotic. For those of us who are old

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael D. Norwick said: > Amaya wrote: > >Peter Tuhársky wrote: > > > > > Saying that, I'm glad there are women in Debian community, > > > although I don't fully understand their effort to maintain a > > > special "Debian Women" community. There is no "Debian Men" > >

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Amaya wrote: Peter Tuhársky wrote: Saying that, I'm glad there are women in Debian community, although I don't fully understand their effort to maintain a special "Debian Women" community. There is no "Debian Men" community I know of, and Oh! Wait! What about the men! I think you lac

Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-27 Thread devotee
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Re: Bug severity and release-critical status

2008-12-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > Suppose the release managers decide that the division line you point > out will, as of tomorrow, lie in a different place from where it is > today (i.e. between a different neighbouring pair of severity > levels). Suppose further that their reasoning for thi

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 28 December 2008 08:06, "Всеволод Величко" wrote: > > You are right, the images there might be offensive to you as a man. > > I am not sorry for that, sorry :) > > Excuse me, you are against sexism, but what you mention is the same - > from the opposite side. That's the same "women's" s

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 28 December 2008 09:24, "Sam Kuper" wrote: > I think that if a Debian developer posted an off-topic message to the > mailing list in which people from Saint Helena were talked about in a > derogatory fashion, it would be reasonable for that to be regarded as > discriminatory, especially

Bug#509953: ITP: lp-solve-java -- library providing Java bindings for lp-solve, via JNI

2008-12-27 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner X-Debugs-CC: este...@v7w.com, r...@debian.org, ani...@debian.org * Package name: lp-solve-java Version : 5.5.0.13 Upstream Author : Juergen Ebert * URL : http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/12/27 Всеволод Величко : > 2008/12/27 Amaya : >> When I reflected upon my need for approval, I also found my answer to >> the one million dollars question: Why are there so few women in >> computing? >> For me, the patriachy is an acceptable answer. Find your own, it is an >> enlightment trip,

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/12/27 Всеволод Величко : > Excuse me, you are against sexism, but what you mention is the same - > from the opposite side. That's the same "women's" sexism. If we should > respect women's rights, may be women should do the same? Otherwise it > looks very childish, sorry. Something a lot of pe

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Всеволод Величко
Sorry me, community, I've missed first messages in the thread firstly. I also hope, that this idiotic discussion will be closed soon. -- Best wishes, Velichko Vsevolod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Всеволод Величко
Hello. 2008/12/27 Amaya : > When I reflected upon my need for approval, I also found my answer to > the one million dollars question: Why are there so few women in > computing? > For me, the patriachy is an acceptable answer. Find your own, it is an > enlightment trip, and you do not need to aome

Orphaning some perl packages

2008-12-27 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
retitle 456924 O: libgstreamer-perl -- Perl interface to the gstreamer noowner 456924 thanks Heya, In my quest to get rid of tasks I don't have the motivation to actually work on, I want to give up some of my packages. Basically, there are three groups: Packages that are just fine and need a main

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-27 Thread Amaya
Peter Tuhársky wrote: > Saying that, I'm glad there are women in Debian community, although I > don't fully understand their effort to maintain a special "Debian > Women" community. There is no "Debian Men" community I know of, and Oh! Wait! What about the men! I think you lack some perspective.

Re: Bug severity and release-critical status

2008-12-27 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > So, it's not correct for anyone but a release manager to decide > > “this bug is/is not release-critical, so I'll change the > > severity”; that is a perversion of the meaning of the severity > > field. You can argue about whether a bug fits the d

Re: Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> We already have these packages: >> fdupes >> perforate > AFAIK, they do not replace files, they just find them. Wrong, fdupe from perforate does link them together if one wants to. > Imagine you have two backups, each on a different filesystem. Now you > want to have them both on one file

Bug#509871: ITP: coinor-cgl -- Cut Generator Library, a library of cutting-plane generators

2008-12-27 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soeren Sonnenburg * Package name: coinor-cgl Version : 0.53.1 Upstream Author : Robin Lougee-Heimer and Francois Margot * URL : http://www.coin-or.org/projects/Cgl.xml * License : CPL Programming Lang: C++ Descript

Re: Bug severity and release-critical status (was: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs)

2008-12-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > So, it's not correct for anyone but a release manager to decide > “this bug is/is not release-critical, so I'll change the severity”; > that is a perversion of the meaning of the severity field. That's not quite true. See below. > You can argue about wheth