Re: Apt-get question

2014-01-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:34:27PM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if there is a manual how to install/port apt-get to another distro. It is a non-trivial task you are talking ... but it is not impossible task as I understand if you can figure out which functionality of a

Re: Bug#736485: ITP: oslo.rootwrap -- allows fine filtering of shell commands to run as root

2014-01-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/24/2014 08:06 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 24, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Unlike other Oslo deliverables, it should not be used as a Python library, >> but >> called as a separate process through the oslo-rootwrap command. > Is this really important enough to be part of the package d

Re: Apt-get question

2014-01-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:34:27PM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if there is a manual how to install/port apt-get to another distro. > I work now on a slackware based distro and maybe I can make a debian based > distro of it. > > Roelof > >

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-24 Thread Ben Finney
Gunnar Wolf writes: > (what, am I the only old grump who's not attracted to game playing?) I'm attracted to game playing. But not to offers of software on non-free terms, regardless of price. -- \ “There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. | `\Depressed, yes. Cr

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jo Shields dijo [Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 04:13:56PM +]: > My specific process for this has been: > > * Create a new blank keyring > * Install the most recent debian-keyring package from Unstable > * Import debian-maintainers.gpg, debian-nonupload.gpg and debian-keyring.gpg > * Wait a long time &

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Shachar Shemesh dijo [Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 04:20:07PM +0200]: > On 23/01/14 13:45, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > The risk of any "outsider" to become a DD for this offer alone is slim to > > none. > > You're forgetting the free LWN subscription. ...Which is a perk I *do* appreciate and use on an al

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-24 Thread David Suárez
El Viernes, 24 de enero de 2014 01:07:08 Brett Parker escribió: > On 23 Jan 22:13, David Suárez wrote: > > El Jueves, 23 de enero de 2014 21:55:03 Dominik George escribió: > > > Seriously, I think we should stop begging for more. Valve's > > > (subsidiary's) > > > offer is a very kind move and I'd

Apt-get question

2014-01-24 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, I wonder if there is a manual how to install/port apt-get to another distro. I work now on a slackware based distro and maybe I can make a debian based distro of it. Roelof

Bug#736536: ITP: libwildmagic -- libraries for mathematics, physics, numerical methods

2014-01-24 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Filippo Rusconi * Package name: libwildmagic Version : 5.11 Upstream Author : Dave Eberly * URL : http://geometrictools.com/ * License : Boostv1.0 Programming Lang: C++ Description : libraries for mathematics, ph

Bug#736523: ITP: python-future -- backport of the concurrent.futures package

2014-01-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-future Version : 2.1.6 Upstream Author : Alex Gronholm * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : backport o

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 23/01/14 13:45, Richard Hartmann wrote: > The risk of any "outsider" to become a DD for this offer alone is slim to > none. You're forgetting the free LWN subscription. Shachar

Bug#736509: ITP: r-cran-polycub -- GNU R Cubature over Polygonal Domains

2014-01-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-polycub Version : 0.4-1 Upstream Author : Sebastian Meyer * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/polyCub/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: R Description : GNU R Cubat

Re: Bug#736485: ITP: oslo.rootwrap -- allows fine filtering of shell commands to run as root

2014-01-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 24, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Unlike other Oslo deliverables, it should not be used as a Python library, > but > called as a separate process through the oslo-rootwrap command. Is this really important enough to be part of the package description? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descript

Bug#736497: ITP: openpgpkey-milter -- automatically PGP encrypt emails for milter-capable MTAs

2014-01-24 Thread Ondřej Surý
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ondřej Surý" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: openpgpkey-milter Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Paul Wouters * URL : ftp://ftp.nohats.ca/openpgpkey-milter/ * License : LGPL-3 Programming

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-24 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 24 January 2014 10:56, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:10:13AM +, Jo Shields wrote: >> >> But A line has to be drawn somewhere, and the remit we have with Valve >> isn't "everyone who ever touched a package". > > And I think the time you are allowed to play should restrict

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:10:13AM +, Jo Shields wrote: > > But A line has to be drawn somewhere, and the remit we have with Valve > isn't "everyone who ever touched a package". And I think the time you are allowed to play should restricted by DRM to a proportion of the number of uploads you

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-24 Thread Jo Shields
On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 21:42 +0100, David Suárez wrote: > Hi, > > El Jueves, 23 de enero de 2014 16:13:56 Jo Shields escribió: > > * Import debian-maintainers.gpg, debian-nonupload.gpg and debian-keyring.gpg > > * Wait a long time & hope for no thermal cutout > > * Run gpg --refresh-keys to pick up

Bug#736485: ITP: oslo.rootwrap -- allows fine filtering of shell commands to run as root

2014-01-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: oslo.rootwrap Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Thierry Carrez * URL : https://github.com/openstack/oslo.rootwrap * License : Apache2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : allows