Re: Ubuntu packages for Debian

2009-12-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:26:12PM +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote: > Is there a policy document on how to give appropriate credit for the > original work? What if the version we are going to upload is newer than > what is in Ubuntu? I share the view that the most appropriate way to give credit would

Re: Ubuntu packages for Debian

2009-12-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting James Westby (jw+deb...@jameswestby.net): > On Tue Dec 15 16:26:12 + 2009 Steffen Moeller wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just received a request to upload a series of packages for Debian that > > are already available for Ubuntu. > > > > Is there a policy document on how to give appropri

Re: ITA: dict-gcide

2009-12-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello Clint, On Tuesday 15 Dec 2009 23:43:45 Clint Adams wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:24:48PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > The copyright file lists that the copy of GCIDE is archived. I am not > > very sure who the current upstream is and if this database is still > > actively mainta

Re: SpamAssassin is run on Alioth, but its results are ignored

2009-12-15 Thread jidanni
>> SpamAssassin is run on Alioth, but its results are ignored. >> The spam, though detected, is not separated out from the stream. SG> This is isn't actually true $ GET http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/2539/raw |grep X-Spam-Status X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=9.2 required=5.0

Re: Ubuntu packages for Debian

2009-12-15 Thread James Westby
On Tue Dec 15 16:26:12 + 2009 Steffen Moeller wrote: > Hello, > > I just received a request to upload a series of packages for Debian that > are already available for Ubuntu. > > Is there a policy document on how to give appropriate credit for the > original work? What if the version we are g

Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-12-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:37:20PM +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > Given that this is supposed to be upstream-only information, are you > aware of DOAP [0]? It seems to me it would be better to reuse already > existing infrastructure than to create yet a new one, that only a > subset of Debian

Re: unzip.h and unzip.c files in source packages.

2009-12-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > while reviewing an Ubuntu package that we are considering to submit to the > NEW queue for inclusion in Debian, I found a copy of source files from the > ‘minizip’ package, that was not mentionned in debian/copyright. > > Suspecting that it could have been o

[MBF] Handling python2.4 removal

2009-12-15 Thread Luca Falavigna
Squeze will release with Python 2.5 and Python 2.6, while Python 2.4 is scheduled for removal when no packages will depend on it. When Python 2.6 will enter unstable, Python 2.4 will be no longer supported version for module and extension building. We're proposing a MBF for the following packages

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Re: duplicate packages in Sources and Packages files

2009-12-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:32:56PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > There have always been possible to have several versions of the same > > binary package in the same suite (for different archit

Re: unzip.h and unzip.c files in source packages.

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:50:43 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > while reviewing an Ubuntu package that we are considering to submit to the NEW > queue for inclusion in Debian, I found a copy of source files from the > ‘minizip’ package, that was not mentionned in debian/copyright. [...]

Bug#561268: ITP: librampart -- Apache Rampart/C is the security module for Apache Axis2/C.

2009-12-15 Thread Kyo Lee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kyo Lee * Package name: librampart Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Afkham Azeez et al * URL : http://ws.apache.org/rampart * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : Apache Rampart/C is the secur

Re: unzip.h and unzip.c files in source packages.

2009-12-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Charles Plessy said: > The conclusion is that we should either change our policy on copyright > documentation (that goes further than what is required by some licenses), > or double-check our packages. Whether or not these are actually the same files, I would have thou

Re: ITA: dict-gcide

2009-12-15 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:24:48PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > The copyright file lists that the copy of GCIDE is archived. I am not very > sure > who the current upstream is and if this database is still actively maintained. It is not. Upstream abandoned GCIDE on the grounds that WordNet

Re: Ubuntu packages for Debian

2009-12-15 Thread Jonathan Yu
Steffen: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Steffen Moeller wrote: > Hello, > > I just received a request to upload a series of packages for Debian that > are already available for Ubuntu. > > Is there a policy document on how to give appropriate credit for the > original work? What if the version

Ubuntu packages for Debian

2009-12-15 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, I just received a request to upload a series of packages for Debian that are already available for Ubuntu. Is there a policy document on how to give appropriate credit for the original work? What if the version we are going to upload is newer than what is in Ubuntu? I am of course strongl

Re: unzip.h and unzip.c files in source packages.

2009-12-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:50:43 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: > Suspecting that it could have been overlooked by many others, I had a look at > source.debian.net and checked a couple of packages randomly. > > http://source.debian.net/source/search?&path=unzip.c > http://source.debian.net/source/searc

dist-upgrade broken my X

2009-12-15 Thread John Wong
After running apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade, "apt-get" remove some package, i haven't noticed, include gdm. now i can't login to X. my system info: amd64/unstable/testing 2.6.31-xx kernel xfce4-xx gdm I don't remember my /etc/apt/source.list deb http://ftp.debian.org/testing something

unzip.h and unzip.c files in source packages.

2009-12-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, while reviewing an Ubuntu package that we are considering to submit to the NEW queue for inclusion in Debian, I found a copy of source files from the ‘minizip’ package, that was not mentionned in debian/copyright. Suspecting that it could have been overlooked by many others, I had a loo

Re: duplicate packages in Sources and Packages files

2009-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:32:56PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > There have always been possible to have several versions of the same > binary package in the same suite (for different architectures) so this > shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. But in this case the different versions of one packa

ITA: dict-gcide

2009-12-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, I have ITAed the package dict-gcide because I use it. I don't have much idea about lexical databases (that being one of the reason adopting it), so hope to gather some help here. The copyright file lists that the copy of GCIDE is archived. I am not very sure who the current upstream is and

Re: Bug#560863: ITP: lamson -- The Python SMTP Server

2009-12-15 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Sebastian Otaegui (Sa 12 Dez 2009 22:26:56 CET): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sebastian Otaegui > > > * Package name: lamson > Version : 1.0pre7 > Upstream Author : Zed A. Shaw > * URL : http://lamsonproject.org > * License : GPL > Programm

Re: Bug#560863: ITP: lamson -- The Python SMTP Server

2009-12-15 Thread Miles Bader
Sebastian Otaegui writes: > Lamson's goal is to put an end to the hell that is "e-mail application > development". Rather than stay stuck in the 1970s, Lamson adopts modern > web application framework design and uses a proven scripting language > (Python). How about dropping all the breathless an

Re: SpamAssassin is run on Alioth, but its results are ignored

2009-12-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, jida...@jidanni.org said: > SpamAssassin is run on Alioth, but its results are ignored. > The spam, though detected, is not separated out from the stream. This is isn't actually true, so the I've so far ignored the rest of your mail. Cheers, -- -

Re: ITP: cobertura -- tool that calculates the percentage of code accessed by tests

2009-12-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Hint for next time: rather than Cc:-ing explicitly -devel, you should X-Debbugs-Cc: it, that way the bug get forwarded to the list by the BTS after the bug number is known. If you do otherwise, people would not be able to post info to the bug log. ] On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:47:54PM -0430