Bug#398890: O: ethiop

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Seelig
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Unfortunately, i have no use anymore for this package and therefore won't keep maintaining it. A new maintainer is needed, preferably with an Ethiopian language background, if at all possible. Maybe it would even be better to completely remove the package from the D

Re: Accepted wine 0.9.21-1 (source i386)

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Seelig
Ove Kaaven wrote: > It's not news to me. You read what I wrote in the changelog, right? > >* This version was released Sep 13, 2006. > Packaged kind of late I guess, I've had disk space issues and stuff. > Yes, and this again made me wonder even more, culminating in my former message. Ac

Re: Accepted wine 0.9.21-1 (source i386)

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Seelig
Ove Kaaven wrote: ... > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:39:30 -0500 > Source: wine ... > Version: 0.9.21-1 > Distribution: unstable ... > Changes: > wine (0.9.21-1) unstable; urgency=low > . >* New upstream release 0.9.21. > Well, thank you! But... This version is already rather ancient according

Re: Bug#390195: ethiop: Please package Type1 versions of the fonts

2006-09-29 Thread Paul Seelig
Frank Küster wrote: > We'd be glad to hear from you whether you want to continue maintaining > ethiop, and whether you plan to include the fonts in this or a separate > package, so that we can adjust our dependencies. In case you'd rather > give up the package (which we'd really regret), please al

Re: Bug#385338: wish: dpkg-reconfigure localepurge to select when to run localepurge automatically

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Seelig
CC'ed debian-devel On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 04:49:11PM +0100, João Batista wrote: > > I'd like to propose a facility, configurable when running > dpkg-reconfigure localepurge , to allow the sysadmin to select when > localepurge should be run e.g.: > - everytime dpkg/apt is run (default) > - m

Re: [SPAM?]: Bug#376315: ITP: hydrogen-drumkits -- drumkits for Hydrogen

2006-07-04 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Free Ekanayaka) writes: > This package contains a collection of drumkits for Hydrogen, a > sample based drum machine/step sequencer. > This is not a single package but actually a collection of various packages. I once packaged Erny's Percussion for private purposes and noted

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-06 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes: > Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >localepurge > The next upload will contain the correction. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: popsneaker vs. bandwidth consumption

2003-09-22 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Atterer) writes: > Of those packages in the archive, mailfilter is the best IMHO. However, I > ended up *not* using it because it doesn't support ANDing of conditions > AFAICT ("size > 100k AND header spelling "SUBJECT:"). > Then maybe you should have a look at popsne

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Petter Reinholdtsen) writes: > [Tollef Fog Heen] > > So, why do you think having a more even distribution is a good > > thing? > > Because in Debian there is a few people with high "load" in debian, > and many with less "load". > I think this is the wrong way to see it. Since

ITO: searching new maintainer for gworkspace package

2003-04-10 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi everybody, here's your Debian package maintainer (still) for the gworkspace package writing. I want to get rid of the gworkspace package and wanted to first ask here before i move on to simply orphan the package via bug report. I once wanted to see GNUstep supported by and within Debian via in

Re: Recommending non-free software

2002-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
ful package snd-dmotif (which is in contrib, since openmotif is > non-free). > Have you considered trying to compile the Motif version with LessTif? Thanks, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- African Music

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-06 Thread Paul Seelig
ld better think about how to deal with it's constant change process instead of thinking in terms of a "release". I think, "testing" has been the right approach so far. But maybe i'm hallucinating... ;-) Thanks, P. *8^) --

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:30PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: [ just more of the same ] > because of the long and bitter public debates, RMS had to say something > and he had to make a public statement that it was now OK for KDE to use > any FSF owned code. if he had just ignored the fact that t

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:29:37AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Fri 08 Sep 2000, Paul Seelig wrote: > > > RMS should IMHO publically apologize with the KDE people for this > > condescending part of his otherwise correct article. He should be > > So now _you_ are te

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > Richard's comment was apparently on the order of "It's about time", which > apparently managed to peeve the KDE people who felt they needed to flame > him publicly over it.. *sigh* > It was not the harmless "about time" part those

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Paul Seelig
and are forwarded this way to my usual mail account, dropping the rest (IMHO the major part) into the bit bucket. > What happened to this idea? > I guess nobody volunteered to split the lists and actually do it. Cheers, P. *8^) -- -

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-23 Thread Paul Seelig
deal with it the hard way. The latter is a fine product for hackerish people like you. But not everybody wants to be a hacker or devoted sysadmin with any other interests. We are not talking about plain Debian as it stands now but about another project which is simply and only based on Deb

Re: lyx?

1998-10-07 Thread Paul Seelig
f you'd like to you could possibly use this as a base for a new lyx version for slink? I think it's definitely worth an update anyway. Cheers, P. *8^) -- - Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- African Music Archive - Institute f

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread Paul Seelig
n to make packages with and using RPM! Anybody already working on such a beast? Cheers, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University -

Some new package proposals!

1997-06-28 Thread Paul Seelig
s background and that i'm more or less limited to simply repackage the original upstream sources without touching anything of their code internals. But i don't think this should be necessary anyway. Cheers, P. *8^) - -- Paul Seelig