Bug#533589: ITP: bt747 -- GPS data logger software, allows download, convert, and configure MTK Chipset Based Devices.

2009-06-18 Thread Gustavo Andrés Angulo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Gustavo Andrés Angulo" * Package name: bt747 Version : 1.68.22 Upstream Author : Mario De Weerd * URL : http://bt747.free.fr/content/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java Description : GPS data logger softwa

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson writes: > BTW, the subject of this thread is "apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial > Mirrors". The solution I'm proposing is "a simple tool for maintaining > Partial Mirrors" (which could possibly be wrapped by apt-get later). > > I think that just pursuing an "apt-get wrapp

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Thursday 18 June 2009 02:46:42 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joseph Rawson writes: > > There is another application that will help with the dependencies. It's > > called germinate, and it will take a short list of packages and a list of > > repositories and build a bunch of different lists of

Work-needing packages report for Jun 19, 2009

2009-06-18 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 373 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 130 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

Bug#533581: ITP: cirkuit -- Cirkuit is a KDE4 GUI for the Circuit macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents

2009-06-18 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" * Package name: cirkuit Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Matteo Agostinelli * URL : http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/magostin/cirkuit.html * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: C++ Descri

Bug#533578: ITP: torrentinfo -- display Torrent file information

2009-06-18 Thread Carl Chenet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Chenet * Package name: torrentinfo Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Vrai Stacey * URL : http://vrai.net/project.php?project=torrentinfo * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : display Torren

RE: Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset Xorg driver in Debian

2009-06-18 Thread Kushal Koolwal
Thank you, Julien for your insights. > The driver depends on a kernel component that is not upstream, and > doesn't look like it will be any time soon. (And the 3d driver is > proprietary, with no prospect of being freed afaik.) Can you point out which code of the kernel has not been made upstream

Re: dpkg: error processing gawk (--configure)

2009-06-18 Thread markus schnalke
[2009-06-18 21:03] markus schnalke > > during the installation of `geda' on sid, I received following output: > > [...] > Setting up gawk (1:3.1.6.dfsg-3) ... > update-alternatives: error: alternative nawk can't be slave of awk: it is a > master alternative. I had some deeper look and am now s

dpkg: error processing gawk (--configure)

2009-06-18 Thread markus schnalke
Hoi, during the installation of `geda' on sid, I received following output: [...] Setting up gawk (1:3.1.6.dfsg-3) ... update-alternatives: error: alternative nawk can't be slave of awk: it is a master alternative. dpkg: error processing gawk (--configure): subprocess installed post-installatio

Re: Intel Atom Poulsbo chipset Xorg driver in Debian

2009-06-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 18:49:13 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:42:55AM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > > > It seems that the support for Intel's Poulsbo chipset (Graphics GMA 500) > > for Atom processor (US15) is sparse [1]. > > So far I have been able to find a

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frank Lin PIAT writes: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:16 -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: >> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: >> > This can be stated as: if a person >> > wants to keep a customised set of packages for usage with the >> > distribution, the tool should be able to devel

Bug#533508: ITP: libcap-ng -- Library for manipulating POSIX.1e capabilities

2009-06-18 Thread Pierre Chifflier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflier * Package name: libcap-ng Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Steve Grubb * URL : http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng * License : LGPLv2+ Programming Lang: C Description : An alternate posix

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:16 -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: > > I had an idea in mind whereby the task of making mirrors for personal > > distributions can be automated. Depending on what you want to achieve, a caching proxy might be an easy so

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson writes: > There is another application that will help with the dependencies. It's > called germinate, and it will take a short list of packages and a list of > repositories and build a bunch of different lists of packages and their > dependencies. Germinate will also determine