Re: Bug#514639: ITP: frei0r -- a minimalistic plugin API for video effects

2009-02-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:35:16PM +0100, Luca Bigliardi wrote: > Many thanks! I've updated the description with a few more details for > binary plugins package and: "frei0r plugins are used by several projects > (e.g.: LiVES, Veejay, Open Movie Editor, FreeJ, Pure Data Visual Junk > Tools, MLT fra

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:03:27PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I don’t think it’s a good idea to use triggers for > > update-desktop-database. There are many .desktop files without a > > MimeType key, and for all of them calling update-desktop-datab

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-10 Thread Tilo Schwarz
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:27:03 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 09 février 2009 à 23:11 +0100, Tilo Schwarz a écrit : >> > I would like to ask you a little bit controversal question. As a user I >> > miss a package manager based on powerfulldependency solver. >> >> As a user I never had an

RFS: artha

2009-02-10 Thread Sundaram
Hi Andreas, As you have told, I have uploaded my package "artha" (for both i386 and amd64). Below are the details. * Package name: artha Version : 0.8.0-1 Upstream Author : Sundaram Ramaswamy * URL : http://artha.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL v2 Section

Bug#514786: ITP: dh-make-drupal -- Builds a Debian package for the requested Drupal project

2009-02-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: dh-make-drupal Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Gunnar Wolf * URL : http://github.com/gwolf/dh-make-drupal/tree * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Builds a Debian pa

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 13:34 +0100, Michael Biebl a écrit : >> Joss, what's your opintion on update-mime-database (dh_installmime) and >> update-icon-caches (dh_icons)? >> Should we triggerize them too? > > For update-icon-caches, that was the plan when introducing it

Re: Bug#514639: ITP: frei0r -- a minimalistic plugin API for video effects

2009-02-10 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Yes, definitely. > Remember that the description should be enough for a random sysadm to > understand whether she needs the package or not, and just "plugin" > does not really help in that sense. Many thanks! I've updated the descripti

Bug#514759: ITP: haskell-monadcatchio-mtl -- Monad-transformer version of the Control.Exception module

2009-02-10 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: haskell-monadcatchio-mtl Version : 0.1.0.1 Upstream Author : Daniel Gorin * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/MonadCatchIO-mtl-0.1.0.1 * License

Bug#514758: ITP: haskell-ghc-mtl -- An mtl compatible version of the Ghc-Api monads and monad-transformers

2009-02-10 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: haskell-ghc-mtl Version : 1.0.0.0 Upstream Author : Daniel Gorin * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/ghc-mtl * License : BSD Programming Lang

Bug#514757: ITP: ivy -- dependency manager

2009-02-10 Thread Marcus Better
Package: wnpp Owner: Marcus Better Severity: wishlist * Package name: ivy Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Xavier Hanin Maarten Coene, Nicolas Lalevee, Gilles Scokart * URL or Web page : http://ant.apache.org * License : Apache License v2.0 Description : agile depe

Bug#514754: ITP: python-pyentropy -- estimation of entropy and information theoretic quantities

2009-02-10 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko * Package name: python-pyentropy Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Robin Ince * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pyentropy/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : estimation of ent

Bug#514751: ITP: pgfplots -- TeX package to draw normal and/or logarithmic plots directly in TeX

2009-02-10 Thread OHURA Makoto
Package: wnpp Owner: OHURA Makoto Severity: wishlist * Package name: pgfplots Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Christian Feuersanger * URL or Web page : http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv3 Description : TeX package to draw normal and/or logarithmic plot

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:37:29PM -0800, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > I made early on was not to fetishize arbitrary "optimality" definitions, > because you can end up chasing phantoms that way. "Optimal" solutions > are not necessarily best. They are good for academic projects, though,

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-10 Thread Manuel Prinz
Hi Fabian! Am Dienstag, den 10.02.2009, 13:25 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > Steve Langasek schrieb: > > This is a very bad idea. It interferes with reproducibility of binary > > builds, which is a very important property of Debian packages. Packages > > must *not* build differently based on

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:25:53 +0100 Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Steve Langasek schrieb: > > This is a very bad idea. It interferes with reproducibility of binary > > builds, which is a very important property of Debian packages. Packages > > must *not* build differently based on opportunistic disc

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 13:34 +0100, Michael Biebl a écrit : > Joss, what's your opintion on update-mime-database (dh_installmime) and > update-icon-caches (dh_icons)? > Should we triggerize them too? As for update-mime-database, I think it concerns only a very small number of packages, but tha

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Steve Langasek schrieb: This is a very bad idea. It interferes with reproducibility of binary builds, which is a very important property of Debian packages. Packages must *not* build differently based on opportunistic discovery of build-dependencies on the system - it's a bug for any package to

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 12:03 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit : >> sudo update-desktop-database -q 0,06s user 0,02s system 96% cpu 0,075 total > > I didn’t recall it was that cheap. The trigger is then definitely the > way to go. > Joss, what's your opintion on update-m

Re: Bug#514690: ITP: artha -- A handy off-line thesaurus based on WordNet

2009-02-10 Thread Sundaram
Hi Andreas, Well, its fine by me in checking-in the control files to the repository. The reason why I was bragging about the procedures is that, I am new to it and thought that they are very hard and fast :) Right now I would prefer option two, since now I am into developing and maintaining a de

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 12:03 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit : > sudo update-desktop-database -q 0,06s user 0,02s system 96% cpu 0,075 total I didn’t recall it was that cheap. The trigger is then definitely the way to go. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender you

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-10 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I don’t think it’s a good idea to use triggers for > update-desktop-database. There are many .desktop files without a > MimeType key, and for all of them calling update-desktop-database is a > waste of time. > > On my system, only 30% of .desktop fi

Re: Bug#514690: ITP: artha -- A handy off-line thesaurus based on WordNet

2009-02-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: That’s the second new dictionary GUI submitted in a week. Well, not really. I'd regard it as a WordNet interface which has a different format than dict. Just correct me if I'm wrong - I just read the description. I strongly suggest that you talk

Re: Bug#514690: (no subject)

2009-02-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 02:47 -0800, Sundaram a écrit : > Hi, > If this is the second, may I know which one is the first? That would be lemurae (bug #514273). > By the way, gict needs a dict. server (mostly online) and also gdict > and > stardict are dictionaries; while Artha is a thesaurus w

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 08 février 2009 à 18:34 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > I removed the requirement to call dh_desktop every time you have a > *.desktop file. I didn't remove the tag entirely since at the time we had > no triggers and you still did need to call update-desktop-database if the > *.desktop

Re: Bug#514690: (no subject)

2009-02-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 15:00 +0530, Sundaram Ramaswamy a écrit : > Artha is written from scratch in pure C using GTK+, with WordNet > as it database corpus. That’s the second new dictionary GUI submitted in a week. I strongly suggest that you talk with the upstreams of these new programs, as

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 09 février 2009 à 23:11 +0100, Tilo Schwarz a écrit : > > I would like to ask you a little bit controversal question. As a user I > > miss a package manager based on powerfulldependency solver. > > As a user I never had any problem using aptitude. It lets you cycle > quickly through i

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 09 février 2009 à 19:39 +0100, kc.ubuntu...@centrum.cz a écrit : > This Debian aproach is great for servers, but not usefull for > Desktops, where bleeding edge software and mixed repositories could be > expected. Bullshit. On desktops as well as on servers, bleeding edge software will o

Re: Bug#514639: ITP: frei0r -- a minimalistic plugin API for video effects

2009-02-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:30:06AM +0100, Luca Bigliardi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 03:33 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > What apps support this? > > MLT framework (thus things like kdenlive), FreeJ, LiVES among all. > There's a list on the project homepage. > > Do you think I should mention

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement (PROBLEM SOLVED)

2009-02-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 09 février 2009 à 20:56 +0100, kc.ubuntu...@centrum.cz a écrit : > This paper claims, that experimental branch of Aptitude include a > prototype of mentioned powerfull solver (same as zypper or smart). > (page 15): > > http://people.debian.org/~dburrows/model.pdf If you are talking about

Re: Bug#514690: ITP: artha -- A handy off-line thesaurus based on WordNet

2009-02-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Sundaram wrote: Actually, I am new to packaging in Debian. I read the New Maintainer's guide and created 2 .deb packages (i386 & amd64). I have put them here @ SF.net for local download by general users, not in a proper apt repository. All the control files, rules, etc. ar

Re: Bug#514639: ITP: frei0r -- a minimalistic plugin API for video effects

2009-02-10 Thread Luca Bigliardi
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 03:33 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > What apps support this? MLT framework (thus things like kdenlive), FreeJ, LiVES among all. There's a list on the project homepage. Do you think I should mention that in the description field? Thank you, luca -- Beware of programmers who

Bug#514707: ITP: xfce4-hdaps -- plugin to indicate the status of HDAPS for the Xfce4 panel

2009-02-10 Thread Evgeni Golov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: pkg-xfce-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: xfce4-hdaps Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Michael Orlitzky * URL : http://michael.orlitzky.com/code/xfce4-hdaps.php * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C Desc

Re: Bug#514690: ITP: artha -- A handy off-line thesaurus based on WordNet

2009-02-10 Thread Sundaram
Hi Andreas, Actually, I am new to packaging in Debian. I read the New Maintainer's guide and created 2 .deb packages (i386 & amd64). I have put themhere @ SF.net for local download by general users, not in a proper apt repository. All the control files, rules, etc. are in my system, locally. The

Re: Bug#514690: ITP: artha -- A handy off-line thesaurus based on WordNet

2009-02-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Sundaram wrote: Thanks for offering help. I guess I will package it today/tomorrow and will upload the packages to mentors.debian.net needing a "sponsor". I will keep you posted regarding the improvements. Sponsoring your package is perfectly OK. You might consider putti

Re: Bug#514690: ITP: artha -- A handy off-line thesaurus based on WordNet

2009-02-10 Thread Sundaram
Hi Andreas, Thanks for offering help. I guess I will package it today/tomorrow and will upload the packages to mentors.debian.net needing a "sponsor". I will keep you posted regarding the improvements. Warm Regards, Sundaram From: Andreas Tille To: Sundaram