Re: Bug#277582: ITP: kwin-baghira -- A MacOSX-like theme for Apple junkies ;)

Hi ho, > yes, please consider kde-baghira-style, since it's not only kwin > decorations that you'll be providing in the package, right? see > rationale in my other message. I'd suggest kde-style-baghira, since with such a scheme all styles will show up together in the package listing. Jus

Re: Security updates for sarge?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:19:05AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > > 4) security team (though I'm not sure how bad the situation is) > > > > So, if my help is wanted with one of the first three of those, I will > > gladly file a NM application immediately. > > > > Afaict, James processes NM apps

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:44:35AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:40:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:54:05 +0200, J?r?me Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > said: > > > > Manoj Sri

Re: Bug#277582: ITP: kwin-baghira -- A MacOSX-like theme for Apple junkies ;)

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:23:08AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * José Luis Tallón [Mon, 25 Oct 2004 03:53:46 +0200]: > > This is NOT a theme... > > agreed. note to Wouter: I strongly prefer kde-$FOO-style instead of > using the word theme, since kde uses the word "theme" for something > di

Re: Drop testing

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:44:58PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > It may sound a bit radical, but core points have been mentioned in the > > thread already. I suggest to do it in a more radical way: > > > > - unstable lockdown in the freeze > > - drop Testing and concentrate on work instead of w

Re: Drop testing

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:33:24PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> It may sound a bit radical, but core points have been mentioned in the > >> thread already. I suggest to do it in a more radical way: > >> > >> - unstable lockdown in the freeze > >>

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 05:45, Brian May wrote: > No, max_versions is not correct. It will only work if all my computers > use the same distribution; if some computers use unstable while others > use stable for example, then the stable version will get deleted after > n revisions of the unstable vers

what is /var/backup for?

Hi DD folks, just a simple question. Is there a policy for /var/backup and what is it for or how should it be used? If there is a URL, google didnt show anything. TIA -Kev -- (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ "Have you mooed today?"... signature.asc D

Re: what is /var/backup for?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:37:10AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Is there a policy for /var/backup and /var/backups is defined as a reserved legacy by the FHS 2.3. Some debian scripts used to store backups of essential files in there (and still do), but if you want to follow FHS, just dont use it.

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

First of all, this package would be a God-send for me (see below) Note that 'wwwconfig-common' already contains most of the needed infrastructure... but it is too php-oriented. Splitting it in purely Apache/PHP-oriented scripts (which would remain as wwwconfig-common) and a new 'dbconfig-common'

Re: what is /var/backup for?

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:37:10AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Is there a policy for /var/backup and > > /var/backups is defined as a reserved legacy by the FHS 2.3. Where did it go? Or did they just remove it altogether? -- "One disk to rule

Re: Drop testing

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:44:31PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Remember, Debian is a volunteer project, you cannot force people to do > > something they do not want to. > > Motivation is the only factor to make them do things. Having to care > about the release in order to continue the "fun wor

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for May 14, 2004

* Cord Beermann: > I added a temporary(?) fix, and bounced the latest report to the list. Thanks, but it ended up in the archive (under the URL ), but not in the inboxes of subscribers.

Re: Drop testing

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:51:47PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Joey Hess [Sat, Oct 23 2004, 08:36:18PM]: > > > not look appear as critical for maintainer, or not important enough to > > > touch > > > package in the holy "frozzen" state). Such bugs are a disaster, they make > > > our

Re: Drop testing

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:57:05PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Marco d'Itri [Sat, Oct 23 2004, 10:06:24PM]: > > On Oct 23, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ABSTRACT > > You are trying to force developers to work on item x, which they dislike, > > by forcing them to

Re: Drop testing

* Eduard Bloch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041025 15:00]: > #include > * Joey Hess [Sat, Oct 23 2004, 08:36:18PM]: > > > > not look appear as critical for maintainer, or not important enough to > > > touch > > > package in the holy "frozzen" state). Such bugs are a disaster, they make > > > our definit

Re: Drop testing

* Eduard Bloch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041025 15:10]: > At least they won't poison Sid with fresh things that may others life > more difficult. Eg. new library versions. And why should that work better than now? The developers _are_ asked to not poison sid. The advantage of testing is however that we

Re: Drop testing

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:02:38PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Wouter Verhelst [Sun, Oct 24 2004, 11:41:33AM]: > > > > Very few bug reports from testing users are of any value at all. > > > > I respectfully disagree here. > > > > With most of my packages, bugs get filed only when

Re: Drop testing

#include * Nikita V. Youshchenko [Mon, Oct 25 2004, 12:17:15AM]: > In fact, existance of testing allows me to be a user and a developer at the > same time. > > You may state that such reason has nothing to do with release process, for > which testing was originally proposed. Yes, I agree. Howe

Drop stable (was: Re: Drop testing)

On Oct 24, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >whole issue is about. We need to release faster. Faster releases are >only feasible if enough developers are motivated. They are motivated >if Unstable is blocked and they must care about the release instead >of working on stuff t

Re: Bug#278075: ITP: libical0 -- An implementation of basic iCal protocols

* Ricardo Mones wrote: > * Package name: libical0 Are you aware that libical is currently pretty unmaintained upstream and has a lot of nasty bugs? In fact all projects who needed an ical parser (e.g. KDE PIM, evolution, OpenGroupware.org...) all dropped libical, forked it or wrote somethi

Re: Bug#278075: ITP: libical0 -- An implementation of basic iCal protocols

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:58:01 +0100 Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * URL : http://www.softwarestudio.org/libical/ > > The last version of this appears to have been released in 2002. Is there > any sign of ongoing development

Re: Bug#278075: ITP: libical0 -- An implementation of basic iCal protocols

Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * URL : http://www.softwarestudio.org/libical/ The last version of this appears to have been released in 2002. Is there any sign of ongoing development, and is there any software that actually uses this library? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL

Re: Bug#278075: ITP: libical0 -- An implementation of basic iCal protocols

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:02:51 +0200 Sebastian Ley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Ricardo Mones wrote: > > > * Package name: libical0 > > Are you aware that libical is currently pretty unmaintained upstream and > has a lot of nasty bugs? In fact all projects who needed an ical parser > (e.g. K

Re: Bug#278027: RFP: ibm-acpi -- Driver for IBM laptops to extend ACPI support

Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sun, Oct 24, 2004: > >> This has been integrated into the acpi.sf.net patch, so is fairly likely >> to end up in the mainstream kernel before too long. > > Oh never read of that, do you have some pointers? Are you su

software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

Hi all, apt-spy and pciutils (and possibly others) contain methods to update a database integral to their operation. - `apt-spy update` downloads the list of available Debian mirrors to /usr/share/apt-spy (see #277816). - `update-pciids` downloads a new /usr/share/misc/pci.ids I think t

Re: Drop testing

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:35:57PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Nikita V. Youshchenko [Sun, Oct 24 2004, 03:53:23PM]: > > Probably there are non-technical problems with the uncoming release. But > > There are, as described before. For example, I cannot see any life sign > of our FTP masters. How

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > Hi all, > > apt-spy and pciutils (and possibly others) contain methods to update > a database integral to their operation. > > - `apt-spy update` downloads the list of available Debian mirrors > to /usr/share/apt-spy (see #277816). > > - `up

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

also sprach Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.22.2121 +0200]: > Oh, absolutely. One way could be to talk to the apt-cacher and > apt-proxy developers and help fixing bugs in their software, > instead of calling your not even fully thought out idea (which > surely hasn't proven itself) th

Re: what is /var/backup for?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:13:16AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:37:10AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Is there a policy for /var/backup and > > > > /var/backups is defined as a reserved legacy by the FHS 2.

Bug#278243: ITP: libhttp-cache-transparent-perl -- cache http requests transparently

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: libhttp-cache-transparent-perl Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Mattias Holmlund URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/HTTP/ License : Perl Description : cache http requests transparently HTTP::Cac

Re: Bug#277582: ITP: kwin-baghira -- A MacOSX-like theme for Apple junkies ;)

IMHO, the following names makes most sense since they 1) tell where the theme/style/icons/whatever is/are used 2) follow some current "naming schemes" [0] qt-styles-foobar kwin-decorations-foobar kde-icons-foobar The construction of these package names is pretty clear. [0] ---

Processed: reassign 278246 to general

Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 278246 general Bug#278246: Cyrillic letters are displayed as double-width in most places Warning: Unknown package 'generic' Bug reassigned from package `generic' to `general'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if y

Re: Drop testing

Anthony Towns writes: > * One of Testing's goals was to be 95% releasable at all times. > * It hasn't been. > * Why not? > (a) RC bugs > (b) Can't install it > (c) Security vulnerabilities This is the crux of the problem, I think, but I'm a little con

Bug#278255: ITP: rdflib -- A python library for working with RDF

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: rdflib Version : 2.0.4 Upstream Author : Daniel Krech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rdflib.net * License : own license, free, osi certified Description : A python library for working with RDF RDFLib i

Location of Type 1 fonts

I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

Bug#278288: ITP: python-gtkmvc -- Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation for pygtk

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-gtkmvc Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation fo

Bug#278289: ITP: apt-dupdate -- diff-based update of APT's index files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: apt-dupdate Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : me * License : BSD Description : diff-based update of APT's index files apt-dupdate is beeing written right now. The server part is almost done, the client should be not a

Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Hello, Package harbour is FTBFS on alpha, s390, m68k, powerpc and mips, as you can see at: http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=harbour Could someone shed some light on this problem? A build log extract follows. [...] gcc -I. -I../../../../include -Wall -g -c ../../hbmlang.c -ohbmlang.o ..

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update [Oct 24]

Hello Martin and *, Am 2004-10-24 11:24:26, schrieb Martin Schulze: > Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update > == > > An up-to-date version is at . For some minutes I have updated my local

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

> Steve Langasek > It is not correct. At the time testing freezes for sarge, there are likely > to be many packages in unstable which either have no version in testing, or > have older versions in testing. The list of such packages is always visible > at

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

On 24/10/2004 Mike Hommey wrote: > If people test unstable, then it's unstable we should release, not > testing. As somebody said in this thread not enough people are trying > testing, and that's one of our problems in the release cycle. just to say that, i know of many debian users (me included)

Re: USE flags ??

On Sunday 24 October 2004 17:42, Jim Bailey wrote: > It is alright but there is always room for improvement, I think emerge > has the edge as a packet management tool. ;-P Could you clarify that statement? That may take the cake as the least-substantive comment I have seen on here in awhile. Do y