Bug#617324: ITP: libtrue-perl -- Perl module to automatically return a true value when a file is required

2011-03-07 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libtrue-perl Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : chocolateboy, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/true * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module to automatically

Bug#617323: ITP: libchild-perl -- Perl module providing an object-oriented simple interface to fork()

2011-03-07 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libchild-perl Version : 0.009 Upstream Author : Chad Granum * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Child/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module providing an ob

Re: Advanced Startup/Shutdown with multilayered block-devices

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Well, I'm curious to see whether other people find it worth, to > implement "all this". I always wondered why my ext3/ext4 over LVM over LUKS rootfs (default d-i encrypted system) gets complained about just before shutdown (by bot

Automatic debug packages

2011-03-07 Thread Emil Langrock
Hi, I browsed a little bit in the goals which were planned for squeeze and noticed that the debug packages aka ddebs[1] weren't implemented in the debian infrastructure. I thought that many things happened [2] and there were also some wrappers implemented [3] to automatically generate those pac

Bug#617304: ITP: cattle-1.0 -- Brainfuck language toolkit

2011-03-07 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrea Bolognani * Package name: cattle-1.0 Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Andrea Bolognani * URL : http://kiyuko.org/software/cattle * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Brainfuck language too

Advanced Startup/Shutdown with multilayered block-devices

2011-03-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. IIRC, I've already posted this here some time ago... A few days ago now, I've submitted #616729, suggesting Martin, that one could possible improve mdadm's initramfs-hooks to only include something in the initramfs, if really needed. That turned out to become a more general discussion between

quantification of cost of outdated dependencies

2011-03-07 Thread Joey Hess
I've been hearing a bit lately about removing dependencies that are no longer needed for stable upgrade paths. The most common reason seems that this will make apt need less memory[1]. So then, someone must have measured the memory use. Unless this is a kind of premature optimation. But, I've not

Re: udev keeps device label - BUG?

2011-03-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Try dosfslabel instead of mlabel. If that works, report a bug in > mtools. If not... I don't know. > > Ben. Hi Ben, I tried dosfslabel, just as you told me. It is possible, to add a new label to the device, which is then seen by the system. So far this will work for very fine for me, when

Re: udev keeps device label - BUG?

2011-03-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:05:22PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > > Labels and UUIDs are stored only on the filesystems they come from and > > in the blkid cache in /etc/blkid.tab. That cache is cleared and > > regenerated whenever you reboot. You can do this at any time by > > running: > >

Re: udev keeps device label - BUG?

2011-03-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Labels and UUIDs are stored only on the filesystems they come from and > in the blkid cache in /etc/blkid.tab. That cache is cleared and > regenerated whenever you reboot. You can do this at any time by > running: > > blkid -c /dev/null -w /etc/blkid.tab > > udev does not have a database

Re: Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?

2011-03-07 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 20:55, Steve Langasek wrote: >> What apt, aptitude do: > >>   I don't know.  Do they allow an already satisfied Pre-Depends to >>   complicate the upgrade path?  IIRC dpkg, as an essential package, >>   always gets upgraded first anyway, but I am not so familiar with this >>

Re: Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?

2011-03-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?"): > Of course, the pre-depends become mostly irrelevant when the version in > oldstable supports it but that's not the case yet. And it's not unusual for > people to try an upgrade that skips a release.

Bug#617247: ITP: zeitgeist-datasources -- application-specific data-sources for Zeitgeist

2011-03-07 Thread Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals" * Package name: zeitgeist-datasources Version : development snapshot Upstream Author : The Zeitgeist Team * URL : httpd://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-dataproviders * License : GPL-2+ & BSD-s

Re: Using Git to maintain many small packages in a team?

2011-03-07 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 06/03/2011 11:12, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > In the pkg-ruby-extras team, we are considering switching from > svn-buildpackage to git. > > Does someone has feedback on this switch, in the context of teams > maintaining many small packages? Perl team used to use only Subversion. Now, git

Bug#617243: ITP: kcm-gtk -- configuration module for GTK+ appearance in KDE

2011-03-07 Thread Didier Raboud
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Didier Raboud Package name: kcm-gtk Version : 0.5.3 Upstream Author : Jonathan Thomas URL : https://launchpad.net/kcm-gtk License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Qt, KDE, C++ Description : configuration module fo

Bug#617239: ITP: libtest-rdf-perl -- Test RDF data for content, validity and equality

2011-03-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libtest-rdf-perl Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : Kjetil Kjernsmo * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-RDF/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description :

Bug#617214: ITP: cantarell-fonts -- Humanist sans-serif font family

2011-03-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fabian Greffrath * Package name: cantarell-fonts Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Dave Crossland * URL : http://abattis.org/cantarell/ * License : SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007 Programming Lang:

Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#616782: cssutils: deprecation of dh_pycentral, please use dh_python2

2011-03-07 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 09:54, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 07 Mar 2011, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> > While a review on -devel (and in general sharing news about his plans) is >> > always welcome, I really don't see the point of bringing this up as if it >> > was a big violation of a rule. >> >> Nev

Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#616782: cssutils: deprecation of dh_pycentral, please use dh_python2

2011-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > While a review on -devel (and in general sharing news about his plans) is > > always welcome, I really don't see the point of bringing this up as if it > > was a big violation of a rule. > > Never said it's a 'big violation'. The fact is: we have a rule,

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

2011-03-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 07 mars 2011 à 02:01 +0100, David Weinehall a écrit : > > The panel remains, but it will be a GTK3 / D-Bus panel. In its current > > state, it doesn’t support the good old GTK2 / bonobo applets, of which > > we have a lot in the archive. Upstream confirmed they don’t have time to > > supp

Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#616782: cssutils: deprecation of dh_pycentral, please use dh_python2

2011-03-07 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 08:20, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 07 Mar 2011, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Hello Matthias, >> was this MBF announced & coordinated somewhere (and I simply missed >> that message) as specified in [1]? > > He's the maintainer of python-central, he can certainly decide