Bug#558345: ITP: libfreehep-export-java -- FreeHEP Export and Save As Library

2009-11-27 Thread Gabriele Giacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gabriele Giacone * Package name: libfreehep-export-java Version : 2.1.1 Upstream Author : FreeHEP team * URL : http://java.freehep.org/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: java Description : FreeHEP Export and

Bug#558344: ITP: libjas-plotter-java -- JAS(2) Plotter

2009-11-27 Thread Gabriele Giacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gabriele Giacone * Package name: libjas-plotter-java Version : 2.2.6 Upstream Author : FreeHEP team * URL : http://java.freehep.org/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: java Description : JAS(2) Plotter FreeHE

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:28:26PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > Obviously, we don't want to have many formats in the archive and it's best > if "3.0 (quilt)" is flexible enough so that we don't have to invent many > other formats. Le Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:49:39PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a

Bug#558330: ITP: libmaven-exec-plugin-java -- A plugin to allow execution of system and Java programs

2009-11-27 Thread Gabriele Giacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gabriele Giacone * Package name: libmaven-exec-plugin-java Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Jerome Lacoste , Kaare Nilsen * URL : http://mojo.codehaus.org/exec-maven-plugin * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: ja

Bug#558322: ITP: seahaventowers -- seahaven towers solitaire game

2009-11-27 Thread nils
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: nils * Package name: seahaventowers Version : 1.50 Upstream Author : Bill Spitzak spit...@d2.com * URL : http://seahaven.sourceforge.net/ * License : other Programming Lang: C++ Description : seahaven towers soli

Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Eugene Gorodinsky writes: > No, on the contrary, I'm suggesting to have an additional format for > software that is not system-specific and leaving the system-specific > formats to do what they were designed for (i.e. manage system packages) > rather than reducing the number of formats. I don't

Re: Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-27 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
Sorry for the delay, I've been very busy last week. >> A while ago I participated in a discussion here about the debian >> package format. Quite recently I tried to spark up a discussion about >> package formats on the LSB list but did not get any replies > >Can you point to the message (preferabl

Re: Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-27 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
> I've read that several times, but I still must be missing something. >My impression is that your poins is essentially the following: 1. it's >too much work for "small distros" to use any new format instead of one >of the big established ones; 2. let's reduce the number of big >established format

Re: Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-27 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
>Not to mention that the package format is not the only thing that matters. >It is the contents of the package, the rules, specs and standards that are >followed that cause the most differences. I aggree, and I'm hoping to resolve this issue >Oh and I guess I'm missing something, otherwise why wo

Re: Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-27 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
I believe RPM is not suited well enough for this job, it tries to do everything rather than doing one thing and doing it well. The package format I'm proposing has a few features rpm does not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Bug#558274: ITP: dracut -- A new initramfs infrastructure

2009-11-27 Thread Philippe Seewer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philippe Seewer * Package name: dracut Version : 3.0 Upstream Author : Harald Hoyer * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/dracut/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Shell Description : A new initramfs infras

Bug#558273: ITP: python-lockfile -- Platform-independent file locking module

2009-11-27 Thread David Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Watson X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-lockfile Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Skip Montanaro * URL : http://smontanaro.dyndns.org/python/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Pyt

Bug#558259: ITP: java3ds-fileloader -- Java3D 3DS FileLoader

2009-11-27 Thread Gabriele Giacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gabriele Giacone * Package name: java3ds-fileloader Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Microcrowd * URL : http://www.microcrowd.com/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: java Description : Java3D 3DS FileLoader Java

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > But the package is unpacked before it can be patched. The patches > themselves are in debian/patches: when they become available, > debian/source/options and debian/source/format are available as > well. Right, but unpacking should be under control of

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-27 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 27 nov. 09 à 14:28, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: That would be a useful compromise. How about the second half, which is to not patch anything during the unpacking of the package? Maybe this could be combined in a single ‘no-patch’ option, or an ali

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > That would be a useful compromise. How about the second half, which is to not > patch anything during the unpacking of the package? Maybe this could be > combined in a single ‘no-patch’ option, or an alias like ’3.0 (simple)’? There's already --skip-pat