Sad news

2009-06-30 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Eitan Gurari, who created the TeX4HT system for converting from TeX/LaTeX to different forms of hypertext, has passed away. http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/news/news102.shtml This is indeed sad news. The TeX user community and more generally people who worked on preparing technical documen

Re: ffmpeg2theora

2008-07-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I didn't get a response to the enclosed mail which was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there some reason why a package will not be Installed even after a build succeeds? On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > I uploaded ffmpeg2theora 0.21-0.1 to the archive on Jun 28th.

Adding build logs to uploads

2008-02-13 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, This idea might have been raised earlier but here goes anyway... How about allowing the addition of build logs to the upload? Something like _.log.gz to accompany _.deb when the latter is uploaded. This log would be merely put (by the incoming system) into buildd.debian.org along with the

Meaning of the "Altering package upload rules"

2008-02-13 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I was wondering how to interpret the GR altering upload rules (http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_002) in practical terms. I suppose this means that one can upload a _multi.changes file containing _.deb for multiple values of providing one has access to all these architectures. Does i

Bug#432298: RFH: elvis

2007-07-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, The editor "elvis" is a vi clone that has almost (see below) all features that one would nowadays demand of a vi-like editor. It is also significantly "lighter" than the popular "vim" editor. -rwxr-xr-x root root 451796 2006-10-11 08:13 /usr/bin/elv

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, > The maintainers of the xmms package in Debian are proposing the removal >of the aforementioned package. Please read on. The rationale given does not seem to clarify why the proposal is for removal instead of the maintainers just orphaning the package? * There are a number of oth

Re: Changelog not signed by "human"

2007-03-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:02:35PM -0700, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > I could make no sense out of the second line of the changelog > > entry. "[The] bug [...] causes screen to switch" seems to be an > > in

Re: Changelog not signed by "human"

2007-03-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:27:04AM -0700, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > uploads are signed and that I am just being paranoid! > > Since the buildd host generates the changelog entry, it's only natural > that it'

Changelog not signed by "human"

2007-03-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On updating my system today I obtained a version of "screen" which was a binary-only upload which contained the following changelog entry: screen (4.0.3-0.3+b1) unstable; urgency=low * Binary-only non-maintainer upload for i386; no source changes. * Rebuild to

Re: 2 ftpds packages conflicts

2006-11-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 07 Nov 2006, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:34:14PM +0100, Sz?kelyi Szabolcs wrote: > > can anyone tell why ftpds do conflict with each other and why httpds do > > not? > > Actually the httpds should conflict too as they install listeners on > 0.0.0.0:80. > > E.g.

Problems with g++ (Was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies)

2006-09-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Christian Aichinger wrote: > As Steve Langasek detailed in his d-d-a mail[1], unnecessary > dependencies cause lots of problems, as they make transitions > bigger then they need to be. Sorry for the noise. I wrote earlier to Christian Aichinger (and submitted a report

Bug#386269: RFH: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext

2006-09-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the tex4ht and tex4ht-common packages (which are generated out of the same source package). The package description is: TeX4ht is a highly configurable TeX-based authoring system for producing hypertext. It interacts with TeX-

slirp and slang-slirp

2006-01-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Apologies in advance if debian-devel is the wrong list. I think this is a bug but I don't know against which virtual package so I am posting it here in the hope that someone will see it. The "slirp" source package in testing has been "taken-over" by the "Debian JED Group"---but what they a