Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Sebastian Krause
Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > I am pretty sure porting is doable and I think I can volunteer to do > this. But before it, let us collect more opinions. It would be nice to > know what does the release team think about it. BTW, suboptimal > subpixel rendering of fonts in Debian is one of the reasons

Re: Increasing developer productivity through tools

2009-12-24 Thread Sebastian Krause
Florian Weimer wrote: > Have you got any suggestions for increasing productivity with proper > IDE support for medium-sized C and C++ code bases? I've had a pretty good experience with Qt Creator. http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=qtcreator

Re: new package format

2009-07-31 Thread Sebastian Krause
Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: > On windows a program may contain some optional components, which you > can choose at install time. This approach (I mean having some main > package and some required and some optional subpackages inside it) is > quite user-friendly. Neither dpkg nor apt have this functio

Re: new package format

2009-07-31 Thread Sebastian Krause
Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: > I've read the debian news announcement today > (http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090730). What got me very > interested was the part about a new package format (in my oppinion > this area can be vastly improved, and I'm interested in contributing). > Searching the list

Bug#517999: ITP: gremind -- Simple reminder program for GNOME

2009-03-03 Thread Sebastian Krause
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Krause * Package name: gremind Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Sergio Perticone * URL : http://perticone.homelinux.net/~sergio/c++/gremind/ * License : GPL, LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices

2008-11-10 Thread Sebastian Krause
Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another consequence of making it easy for the users to add non-free to > the repositories so they can download firmware necessary to make their > hardware useful is that a huge number of users may end up enabling > non-free just to make their hardware work,

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread Sebastian Krause
William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But if you are worried about the QA and security team, then why not > create an unsupported repo. It could even be a good solution towards > recruiting new DDs. > > Lets call it, say, 'community', 'extras', or 'unsupported'. One reason why I prefer Debi