Re: Private-only debconf templates for preseeding

2009-01-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > IMO the use you describe can be valid in particular cases. > > One example would be when the setting is intended to only influence > behavior of the maintainer scripts during installation of the package as > part of system installation using Debian Insta

Re: Private-only debconf templates for preseeding

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
Russ Allbery wrote: > My initial reaction was that anything that's worth making available for > configuration via preseeding is worth a low-priority debconf prompt, and > that having preseeding be the only interface is a weird way to use > debconf. IMO the use you describe can be valid in particul

Re: Private-only debconf templates for preseeding

2009-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:25:03PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hello everyone, > The background for this question is Lintian Bug#492626. > There are several packages in the archive that use private debconf > templates where the only interface to them is preseeding. Examples > include the readah

Private-only debconf templates for preseeding

2009-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello everyone, The background for this question is Lintian Bug#492626. There are several packages in the archive that use private debconf templates where the only interface to them is preseeding. Examples include the readahead package (where the preseed was added for Debian Edu) and cpufrequtil

Bug#511548: ITP: simile-timeline -- JavaScript library for web-based interactive timelines

2009-01-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Lamb X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: simile-timeline (libjs-simile-timeline) Version : 2.2.0 Upstream Author : Chris Lamb http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java

Bug#511543: ITP: python-django-lint -- Static analysis tool for Django projects and applications

2009-01-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Lamb X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-django-lint Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Chris Lamb http://chris-lamb.co.uk/projects/django-lint * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python D

Re: Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome

2009-01-11 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 09:34 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > Hi! > > I have been wondering over the last months about Section: kde. > What is the correct usage of this section? .. I have tried to summarised some of the ideas of this thread in http://wiki.debian.org/DiscussionsAfterLenny/Section

Re: For those who care about bts-link: call for adoption

2009-01-11 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:52, Don Armstrong wrote: >> Actually, if you're interested in maintaining it, I'd be happy to see >> it deployed on the master BTS server. I suppose it can live on merkel >> for the time being until you're ready to migrate it, but having it >> under t

Bug#511530: ITP: mmpong -- massively multiplayer pong game

2009-01-11 Thread André Gaul
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "André Gaul" * Package name: mmpong Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Kai Hertel , André Gaul * URL : http://www.mmpong.net * License : GPL 3 Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : massively mu

Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to

2009-01-11 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Neil Williams wrote: > A final alternative is the packages.debian.org website (has the > advantage that it also allows looking up files within packages that are > not currently installed). We also have apt-file utility, which does the same without looking to the site. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka J

Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to

2009-01-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 19:56 +, Jack Grahl wrote: > If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name > as the program, the man page for that command should say which package > the program is part of. Assuming that one can run: dpkg -S $(man -w hostname) manpage

Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to

2009-01-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:56:52 + (GMT) Jack Grahl wrote: > If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name > as the program, the man page for that command should say which package > the program is part of. > This is not the case in, for instance, coreutils or util-linux

Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to

2009-01-11 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Jack Grahl wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist Hello Jack, > If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name > as the program, the man page for that command should say which package > the program is part of. > This is not the case in, for instance, coreutils or

Bug#511522: marked as done (general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to)

2009-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:22:34 +0100 with message-id <20090111202234.ga2...@chistera.yi.org> and subject line Re: Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to has caused the Debian Bug report #511522, regarding general: Man pages should say what packag

Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to

2009-01-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jack Grahl, le Sun 11 Jan 2009 19:56:52 +, a écrit : > If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name > as the program, the man page for that command should say which package > the program is part of. Mmm, usually I just run dpkg -S bin/command, or better, dlocate bin

Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to

2009-01-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jack Grahl [Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:56:52 +]: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist Hello, Jack. > If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name > as the program, the man page for that command should say which package > the program is part of. > This is not the cas

Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to

2009-01-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:56:52PM +, Jack Grahl wrote: > If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name > as the program, the man page for that command should say which package > the program is part of. > This is not the case in, for instance, coreutils or util-linux.

Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to

2009-01-11 Thread Jack Grahl
Package: general Severity: wishlist If some program belongs to a package which does not have the same name as the program, the man page for that command should say which package the program is part of. This is not the case in, for instance, coreutils or util-linux. This information is needed, e

Re: dpkg-source argument to ignore .git subdirectory

2009-01-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adeodato Simó: > Why don't you just pass "-i" alone to > debuild/dpkg-buildpackage/dpkg-source? That way, the default regexp > that dpkg provides will be used, which I think is good enough. The package may have been prepared with a different version of dpkg-source, and just using "-i" might pr

Re: dpkg-source argument to ignore .git subdirectory

2009-01-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Florian Weimer [Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:39:33 +0100]: > There seems to be some confusion what's the correct way to ignore only > the .git subdirectory (and not anything else gittish, which might have > been present in the .diff.gz before). > Has anybody come up with a proper regexp for -i? Would

Re: dpkg-source argument to ignore .git subdirectory

2009-01-11 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 11 January 2009 20:39:33 Florian Weimer wrote: > There seems to be some confusion what's the correct way to ignore only > the .git subdirectory (and not anything else gittish, which might have > been present in the .diff.gz before). > > Has anybody come up with a proper regexp for -i? Wo

dpkg-source argument to ignore .git subdirectory

2009-01-11 Thread Florian Weimer
There seems to be some confusion what's the correct way to ignore only the .git subdirectory (and not anything else gittish, which might have been present in the .diff.gz before). Has anybody come up with a proper regexp for -i? Would -I.git '-i^\.git/' do the trick? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: integration with power management stacks

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Kel Modderman wrote: > On Sunday 11 January 2009 22:07:21 Stephen Gran wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have a couple of open bug reports about integration of hdparm with >> power management stacks (people would, quite rightly, like to see their >> disk settings reapplied at resume) - 468307 and 510676

Re: integration with power management stacks

2009-01-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: > Agreed - I don't think hdparm should be used outside of a 'last resort' > situation where the kernel gets it wrong. This is happening less and There is one common situation for hdparm usage: -W 0 (disable write cache). That one is not likely to go away a

Bug#511486: ITP: libparse-errorstring-perl-perl -- Parse error messages from the Perl interpreter

2009-01-11 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov * Package name: libparse-errorstring-perl-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Petar Shangov, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-ErrorString-Perl/ * License : same as Perl (Artistic or GPL) Progra

Re: integration with power management stacks

2009-01-11 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Josselin Mouette said: > Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 12:07 +, Stephen Gran a écrit : > > I have no idea for: > > pm-utils: ? > > You need to ship a script in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d. The format is > very simple, just look at the existing scripts. > > > the gno

Re: integration with power management stacks

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
Stephen Gran wrote: > Is there any sort of canonical place I can put a script and have it run > that all of them look at? I have locally installed a simple script in /etc/pm/sleep.d that does this for pm-utils and that works for KDE as well. The official package should have it in /usr/lib/pm-uti

Re: integration with power management stacks

2009-01-11 Thread Kel Modderman
On Sunday 11 January 2009 22:07:21 Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a couple of open bug reports about integration of hdparm with > power management stacks (people would, quite rightly, like to see their > disk settings reapplied at resume) - 468307 and 510676. > > Is there any sort of

Re: integration with power management stacks

2009-01-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 12:07 +, Stephen Gran a écrit : > I have no idea for: > pm-utils: ? You need to ship a script in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d. The format is very simple, just look at the existing scripts. > the gnome power stack - is this a veneer on pm-utils or it's own thing? gn

integration with power management stacks

2009-01-11 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I have a couple of open bug reports about integration of hdparm with power management stacks (people would, quite rightly, like to see their disk settings reapplied at resume) - 468307 and 510676. Is there any sort of canonical place I can put a script and have it run that all of them

Bug#511467: ITP: hotwire-irbd -- Enterprise Server Inventory System, Rapid Build & Deploy System

2009-01-11 Thread Nima Talebi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nima Talebi * Package name: hotwire-irbd Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : nima Talebi * URL : http://projects.autonomy.net.au/hotwire/ * License : GPL v3 Programming Lang: PHP(Symfony), Python, C Description :

ITP: hotwire-irbd -- Enterprise Server Inventory System, Rapid Build & Deploy System

2009-01-11 Thread Nima Talebi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Message-ID: <20090111052517.20947.50783.report...@darius.persepolis.ntrust.net.au > X-Mailer: reportbug 3.48 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:25:17 -0800 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package:

Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome

2009-01-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 09:34 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > Hi! > > I have been wondering over the last months about Section: kde. > What is the correct usage of this section? .. I have tried to summarised some of the ideas of this thread in http://wiki.debian.org/DiscussionsAfterLenny/Sections