Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze / new lilo upstream

2010-06-06 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - "Joachim Wiedorn" wrote: > Russell Coker wrote on 2010-06-05 22:30: > > > On Wed, 26 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > You're missing the point. The main selling point to management > > > is that Linux is free. If they have to buy new backup software > > > in order to accommod

Re: Bug#583257: ITP: haskell-gnomevfs -- Binding to the GNOME Virtual File System library

2010-05-26 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - "brian m. carlson" wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:07:22PM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva > wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" > > > > * Package name: haskell-gnomevfs > > Version : 0.11.0 > > Upstream Auth

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - "Stephen Powell" wrote: > (blah blah blah blah) Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become lilo upstream, it's going away. William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-22 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where lilo can reliably determine the payload size. This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the way that lilo's stage2 loader cod

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-03-24 Thread William Pitcock
- "Ben Hutchings" wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 17:58 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > But xen-tools have be removed from Squeeze, so I suppose it will > be more difficult to create new > > > installations (require much more work to replace the > xen-create-image script). > > > > Well, I

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-03-24 Thread William Pitcock
Hello, - "Ian Campbell" wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:29 +0100, Olivier Bonvalet wrote: > > > > But xen-tools have be removed from Squeeze, so I suppose it will be > > more difficult to create new installations (require much more work > to > > replace the xen-create-image script). > >

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-03-24 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - "Thomas Goirand" wrote: > > But xen-tools have be removed from Squeeze, so I suppose it will be > more difficult to create new > > installations (require much more work to replace the > xen-create-image script). > > Well, I've been maintaining dtc-xen since Lenny, and it does even mor

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
- "Josip Rodin" wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 01:23:07AM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: > > I am looking into packaging xenner already as a backup plan if I > cannot > > manage to fix some major reentrancy problems in the Xen dom0 code > > (Xensource 2

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-26 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - "Michael Tautschnig" wrote: > First of all, I'd like to say a big THANKS to all the people > maintaining Xen > within (in of course also outside) Debian; you really saved us lots of > money and > energy (which is both, electrical and that personal one). > > [...] > > > > > > 4) Wha

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread William Pitcock
- "Gabor Gombas" wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get > the > > upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and > obviously > > the pv_ops dom0 patches still need to get

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread William Pitcock
- "Marc Haber" wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May > wrote: > >Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake > because KVM > >requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. > > Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who ha

Bug#532831: ITP: python-greenlet -- lightweight in-process concurrent programming

2009-06-11 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock * Package name: python-greenlet Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Bob Ippolito * URL : http://undefined.org/python/#greenlet * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : lightweight in-process

Bug#532140: ITP: python-eventlet -- high performance network library using coroutines

2009-06-06 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock * Package name: python-eventlet Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Linden Research, Inc. * URL : http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Eventlet * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : high

Re: fstrcmp

2009-05-31 Thread William Pitcock
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 11:04 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Peter Miller: > > > I've been considering turning my fuzzy string compare function into a > > library. > > I would certainly welcome that. > > Would you be willing to relicense it under a more permissive license, > so that we don't hav

Re: Should we remove OpenMotif?

2009-05-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 22:03 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > Hi folks, > > As some of you may already know, I have been doing a lot of package > removals and QA work. One of the ones I ran across lately is > OpenMotif. It has been orphaned since 2006 and has several bugs against > it. However,

Bug#527094: ITP: polkadot -- continuous integration server for debian packaging

2009-05-05 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock * Package name: polkadot Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : William Pitcock * URL : http://polkadot.dereferenced.org/ (not yet up) * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Description : continuous

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:05 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Montag, 27. April 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Interestingly you did it again, ignoring the list Code of Conduct. > > As it sadly happens many times every day. And as long as there are no means > to > enforce it (either pure

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 14:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > > neno...@petrie:~$ sudo yum -c ak-bootstrap.conf > > --installroot=/home/nenolod/bootstraptest install centos-release yum > > ak-bootstrap 100% |==

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 21:11 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > > I call bollocks here. I am using the version of yum in stable right now > > to yield perfectly working virtual machine filesystems. > > > > How is it "broken" when it is work

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 16:25 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > > Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm sorry that it took us so much time to make a working yum package, > >> but we were quite overloaded with our work, taking over all the > >> customers of another web hosting c

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:41 -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > No this means I take over the package try to cou ntact upstream etc ^^ THERE IS NO UPSTREAM ANYMORE. If you're not willing to become upstream and wish to take it over, then we gai

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 16:22 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Nenolod: sorry for the other mail. > > William Pitcock wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:06 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, William Pitcock > >> wrote: > >

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 11:05 -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > As the silent co-maintainer of lilo I believe I should now voice my > thoughts on this > > I too believe that lilo should belive that lilo should be remove *at > some point* but now is not the time. So I restate my willingness to > take over

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:06 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, William Pitcock > wrote: > > Lilo upstream is dead (no release in quite a while), but the lilo > > maintainer has also been seen as saying in various mailing lists etc, > > that s

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 10:52 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, William Pitcock said: > >> The only way it is feasible to do so is to drop all of the Debian > >> patches. Without this, upstream is not cooperative wi

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 22:20 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, William Pitcock said: > > The only way it is feasible to do so is to drop all of the Debian > > patches. Without this, upstream is not cooperative with us. > > Why is this? See my other

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:46 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > > > I'm not sure where the original mail comes from, but IMO this should be > > From lilo package BTS which I was tracking for l10n purposes. So I > just happened to notice William's answer to

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:19 +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:06:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > || On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:02:04PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov > wrote: > > || > I use lilo, I like lilo. > || > I don't like grub because it has unlogically config, u

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:06 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:02:04PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov > wrote: > > OS> I also share the feeling that a lot of people still uses LILO; if > > OS> possible I do belive it should be kept. > > > > I use lilo, I like lilo. > > I don't lik

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:40 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:26 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >> Frans Pop wrote: > >>> On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > >>>> Quot

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:26 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > >> Quoting William Pitcock (neno...@dereferenced.org): > >>> lilo is due for removal anyway due to being unmaintained ups

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:44 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Frans Pop writes: > > > On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > > [...] > > >> > I do not have time to manage the removal at this point, but it will > >> > be gone by June. > > > > Has the package already been offered for a

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:09 +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Otavio Salvador may or may not have written... > > > Frans Pop writes: > [snip] > >> Anyone remember the fairly big upset when lilo was removed from testing > >> around D-I Lenny Beta2? > > > I also share the feeling that a l

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 16:17 +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:03:10 +0800 > Paul Wise wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Romain Beauxis wrote: > > > > > I also use lilo for /boot on LVM and I also clearly remember that > > > was the major reason for the previous deb

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 21:30 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Oops... I strongly suggest providing a wrapper that matches netstat's > format as closely as possible (even bug-for-bug if possible). Netstat > is probably among the most used tools by sysadmins and programmers > alike, both for software we di

Re: HD TV as Monitor

2009-03-13 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, Is it 720p or 1080i or 1080p? The following modeline makes my 720p 32" HDTV happy: |SubSection "Display" |Depth 24 |Modes "1680x1050" |EndSubSection William On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 16:04 -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I have a Samsung 42" HD TV. It has a

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-12 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:56 +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Karl Ferdinand Ebert > > * Package name: tmux > Version : 0.7 > Upstream Author : Nicholas Marriott > * URL : http://sf.net/projects/tmux > * License :

Re: Bug#517790: ITP: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

2009-03-03 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:59 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:10:21PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:02:08AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > > > > > > > > What does this have over PowerDNS? > > &g

Re: Bug#517790: ITP: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

2009-03-03 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:42 +0100, Sylvain Rochet wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:02:08AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > > > > What does this have over PowerDNS? > > Probably nothing, else that I am using it and packaging it for my own > and thought t

Re: Bug#517790: ITP: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

2009-03-02 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 03:19 +0100, Sylvain Rochet wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sylvain Rochet > > > * Package name: mydns > Version : 1.2.8.26 > Upstream Author : Howard Wilkinsin > * URL : http://mydns.pl/ > * License : GPLv2 > Prog

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-01 Thread William Pitcock
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 23:35 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 01 mars 2009 à 22:31 +0100, Michelle Konzack a écrit : > > I have 35 TEAC CD-Burner, 18 TraxData and a bunch of Yamaha. > > All they are SCSI and not a singel one is working with wodim. > > > > The same goes for my 4 DVD burn

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-28 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 17:54 +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 12:43 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joerg_Schilling > > > > I notice that Joerg's Wikipedia page is rather bare. > > > > Instead of spending time covering all the old arguments on this

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 12:38 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:56:38AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > William Pitcock wrote: > > > > > > > 2. I am not convinced that there is any legal issue with th

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 12:26 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > > > > are some "Debian maintainers" that rather attack software authors instead > > > of > > > colaborating. > > > > It is impossible to collaborate whe

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 11:56 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > > > > > > The fork distributed by Debian may however be called dubious: > > > > > > > > > > - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 15:47 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Before Eduard Bloch made insane modifications, the code was GPLv2 and legal. > Now the cude is undistributable because of modifications in the fork > that are incompatible with the Copyright law. > > See my bug report from December 2006.

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 00:18 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > > > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > > > > > The fork distributed by Debian may however be called dubious: > > > > > > - The fork is in conflict with the Copyright law and thus may not be > > > legally distr

Re: Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-02-25 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:28 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at getting a video card, and I want to know what video card > that has 3D acceleration to get. Normally I'd ask on -users but as the > subject says I want to know what video cards will still have > acceleration when

Re: PlayOnLinux in contrib

2009-02-18 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 19:30 +0100, Bertrand Marc wrote: > Mehdi Dogguy a écrit : > > If it's GPLv2+ and doesn't depend on proprietary software, why it cannot > > be in main? > > Does it depend on proprietary things? > > > > Regards, > As it is now, PlayOnLinux makes the user install Microsoft fonts

Re: AW: Bug#515130: ITP: unrealircd -- Unreal IRC Server

2009-02-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:37 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 09:00:22PM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > > There is also questions concerning why you would want to package > > something that has effectively a dead upstream, and many code flaws > >

Re: Bug#515663: ITP: kmess2 -- Windows(R) Live(R) Messenger(R) Client for KDE4.

2009-02-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 20:38 +0100, Rafael Belmonte wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > --- Please fill out the fields below. --- > >Package name: kmess2 > Version: 2.0alpha > Upstream Author: Diederik van der Boor >

Re: AW: Bug#515130: ITP: unrealircd -- Unreal IRC Server

2009-02-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 07:56 +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > Rondal wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> UnrealIRCd has many licensing and code-quality issues which would > >> block it's inclusion in a Debian release. > > > > I admit that the sourcecode is not of the highest quality, but I do not > > see wh

Re: AW: Bug#515134: ITP: ircservices -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ

2009-02-15 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 13:59 +0100, Rondal wrote: > retitle 515134 ITP: ircservices-church -- IRC Services for IRC networks > providing services like Nick- and ChanServ > > Hi, > > > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=424844 . > > Inclusion of ircservices in Debian may be pr

Re: AW: Bug#515130: ITP: unrealircd -- Unreal IRC Server

2009-02-15 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 12:50 +0100, Rondal wrote: > Hi, > > > UnrealIRCd has many licensing and code-quality issues which would > > block it's inclusion in a Debian release. > > I admit that the sourcecode is not of the highest quality, but I do not > see where it will block inclusion into D

Re: Bug#515134: ITP: ircservices -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ

2009-02-13 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 21:52 +0100, Stefan Becker wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Stefan Becker > > > * Package name: ircservices > Version : 5.1.14 > Upstream Author : Andrew Church > * URL : http://www.ircservices.za.net/ > * License

Re: Bug#515130: ITP: unrealircd -- Unreal IRC Server

2009-02-13 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 21:37 +0100, Stefan Becker wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Stefan Becker > > > * Package name: unrealircd > Version : 3.2.7 > Upstream Author : Carsten Munk (stske...@unrealircd.com), > Dominick Meglio (codema...@unre

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-03 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 23:43 +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:35:48 +0900 > Paul Wise wrote: > > > How about letting the person doing the installation write the labels > > if they want to use LABEL and use UUID by default. > > > Or as a third option, put everything in LVM, in

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-02 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:09 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Mike Hommey dijo [Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 10:46:11AM +0100]: > > > > A good option would be to use LABEL or UID instead. However I am not > > > > sure if that has some drawbacks as well: > > > > > > > > - for uuid the system is less forgiving i

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-01 Thread William Pitcock
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 10:46 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:22:07AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 00:19 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > In article <87bptnccj6@mid.deneb.enyo.de> you wrote: > > > > Wha

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-01 Thread William Pitcock
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 00:19 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <87bptnccj6@mid.deneb.enyo.de> you wrote: > > What needs to be done so that these two issues can be fixed? > > > > | Disk devices may change on reboot > > A good option would be to use LABEL or UID instead. However I am no

Bug#513322: ITP: mupen64plus -- plugin-based N64 emulator

2009-01-27 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock * Package name: mupen64plus Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : "Blight" * URL : http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C/C++ Description : plugin-based N6

Re: Bug#511980: ITP: Plumi -- Plumi is a Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone.

2009-01-15 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 11:22 +1100, Andy Nicholson wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Andy Nicholson > > * Package name: Plumi Package names need to be lowercase. > Version : 0.2.3 > Upstream Author : Andy Nicholson > * URL : http://plumi.org/ > * L

Bug#511997: ITP: libdownload -- library for downloading files from HTTP/FTP

2009-01-15 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock * Package name: libdownload Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Aaron Griffin * URL : http://www.archlinux.org/pacman * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : library for downloading files

Bug#511994: ITP: pacman-package-manager -- minimalist package manager using tarballs and scripts

2009-01-15 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock * Package name: pacman-package-manager Version : 3.2.2 Upstream Author : Judd Vinet * URL : http://www.archlinux.org/pacman * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : minimalist package

Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome

2009-01-02 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 13:43 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > I guess we actually need to consider what the sections are good for. > Asking in a random irc channel at least didn't reveal any real > answers. > So what about killing the concept of sections entirely ? The primary user of section: is packa

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-21 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 23:04 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > The above article concerns the damage that Josselin's actions cause to the > Debian project. D-d-a is not that different from other parts of Debian, bad > behaviour in other forums also hurts the project. I think that flame-war thre

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 20:42 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > You forgot xmms. It is still heavily used and there are no alternative > for it. (It is just such a application as xv - very old but there are no > alternative that completely replace it (in all facets).) There's not? There's at least 20 di

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 19:08 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 05 décembre 2008 à 21:43 -0600, Raphael Geissert a écrit : > > > Alain Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >gsnes9x > > > => visualboyadvance ? > > > > C'mon, there are at least 15 years between the two consoles. > > And n

Bug#507233: ITP: appliancekit -- tools for managing, creating and deploying software appliances

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: appliancekit Version : 0.131 Upstream Author : William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://appliancekit.systeminplace.net/ * License : ISC Prog

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 02:19 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 29 November 2008 01:57, William Pitcock wrote: > > What I propose is something more along the lines of Gentoo's "sunrise" > > overlay... a repository that anyone can get upl

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 23:57 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 28 November 2008 22:42, William Pitcock wrote: > > I think issues like these call for an unsupported repository outside of > > Debian, but publicized within the community as an unofficial repo

what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

2008-11-28 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 20:51 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Can you advise me on how to get out of that dilemma? > > Stop trying to get qmail into Debian? > or > Take on upstream development of qmail and solve all the problems > (whether qmail will then be recognisable compared to the existin

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 15:29 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Montag, 10. November 2008, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched > > > > > > http://screenshots.debian.net > > > > [

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-10-30 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 10:34 +, Robert Lemmen wrote: > hi everyone, > > the current situation concerning firmware blobs and dfsg-freeness is a > bit sad, among other things because there really isn't too much we can > do about it in the short run. so how about some practical proposal that > we

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-29 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:52 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > But regardless, Debian has promised that Debian is only free software. Then why does Debian have non-free? Is that not part of Debian? Does this mean that non-free should move to a third-party repo like certain other repos out there

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:03 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Unfortunately, those who contribute to Debian must be dedicated to > > ensuring future releases of Debian support the latest available > > hardware at time of r

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:36 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 16:27 -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:20 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 23:28 +0300, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > > > > Would i

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread William Pitcock
gt; list gets smaller between each release and not to add anything to > > that list? > > I would be entirely happy with that. But I have just been told by > William Pitcock that apparently we are required somehow to support new > hardware with non-free software too. So it's not

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:30 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:59 -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > > If we waited for a release to be 100% perfect, it will likely take > > several more years. The good news is that the amount of inline firmware >

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 10:38 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:22 +, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Thomas: your continued inaction and unwillingness to code an acceptable > > solution to this issue, in spite of being aware of the problem since > > at least 2004 -- over four

Bug#500525: ITP: dronebl-tools -- tools for accessing the DroneBL rpc2 webservice

2008-09-28 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dronebl-tools Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dronebl.org/doc/dronebl-tools * License : BSD Programming

Re: Bug#497056: lsb-base: /lib/lsb/init-functions NON-DSFG Licence ?

2008-08-29 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 18:30 +0300, root wrote: > Package: lsb-base > Version: 3.2-19 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.1 > > > Please investigate if files included in lsb-base conform to DFSG. A lincense > change to GPL would be better suited for Debian. > > Policy / 2.1. The De

Re: Is it a "user error" to use lilo?

2008-08-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:53 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you have both GRUB and LILO installed, there will be problems. That > > is infact, a bug. They should Conflict with each other to ensure that > > only one can

Re: Is it a "user error" to use lilo?

2008-08-27 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 15:41 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Harrasing LILO users by silencing bugreports about problems[2] using > it > is the wrong approach. If LILO is officially unsupported by Debian > (not > only by kernel team and/or initramfs-tools maintainer) we should drop > th

Re: Is it a "user error" to use lilo?

2008-08-27 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, Using latest initramfs-tools with lilo works for me, provided that the new large-memory feature is enabled. As maks says, user error applies here. William On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:43 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi fellow developers,

Re: Remove libflash

2008-08-23 Thread William Pitcock
I think it's time for libflash to go, yes. William On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 22:13 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, All. > > I am maintainer of libflash[0] pakcage. > > This package is very old. and only an old Flash version is supported. >

Bug#495736: ITP: instantbird -- instant messaging client based on XULrunner and libpurple

2008-08-19 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: instantbird Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Florian Quèze and Quentin Castier * URL : http://www.instantbird.com/ * License : GPL Programming Lang

Bug#492215: ITP: sigx -- interthread communication library for c++ on top of libsigc++ and glibmm

2008-07-24 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sigx Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Klaus Triendl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.assembla.com/spaces/sigx * License : LGPL-2.1 or later Program

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 09:38 -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Launchpad can already be used as an openid /provider/ today, but I haven't > > heard anything to indicate it will allow logins via other openid providers; > > is more information available about this som

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-21 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:26 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:55:25AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > Yes. My webservers tend to use something like > > /srv/www//{config,cgi-bin,htdocs,lib,logs,blah,blah}/ as the > > normal layout. Exposing /srv/www as a document root

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-20 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 11:45 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:43:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > > You can close Launchpad bugs in Ubuntu packages from Debian. The "LP: > > ##" > > syntax lets bugs get autoclosed when your package is synced to Debian,

Re: RFC: libprojectM, new upstream version.

2008-07-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 19:18 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > Il giorno mer, 16/07/2008 alle 17.46 -0500, William Pitcock ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 22:59 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've packaged the new vers

Bug#491139: ITP: audacious2-plugins -- required and optional plugins for Audacious2

2008-07-16 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: audacious2-plugins Version : 1.9.0+hg20080717 Upstream Author : William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Vroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Bug#491138: ITP: audacious2 -- cross-platform multi-interface audio player

2008-07-16 Thread William Pitcock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: audacious2 Version : 1.9.0+hg20080717 Upstream Author : William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Vroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matti

Re: RFC: libprojectM, new upstream version.

2008-07-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 00:57 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > Il giorno mer, 16/07/2008 alle 17.46 -0500, William Pitcock ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 22:59 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've packaged the new vers

Re: RFC: libprojectM, new upstream version.

2008-07-16 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 22:59 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > Hi, > I've packaged the new version of this library, the upstream author has > changed the SONAME, and so I've changed the name of the lib and -data > package, not changed the name of the -dev file because the old > maintainer has ch

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 14:11 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:11:06AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > > > > Without dom0, lenny will be unusable for several installations of mine > > which presently run an ugly combination of etch's dom0 and l

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:35 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:51:21PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:50:22AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:22:55PM +03

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:42 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > I guess it was faster _now_, but they'll have to live with the forward > porting pain for years more now.. While this is true, the patches still allow for Debian to ship Lenny without a feature regression in Xen support. William

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:12 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:54:50AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:22:55PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > > Hopefully Jeremy Fitzhardinge (from Xensource) and others can get the > > > important Xen kernel

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