Bug#297121: ITP: wmail -- WindowMaker docklet watching your inbox

2005-02-27 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Danjou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: wmail Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Sven Geisenhainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dockapps.org/file.php/id/70 * License : Seems specific, but free and probably GPL

Re: Bug#296873: ITP: jackbeat -- a drummachine-like audio sequencer with JACK support

2005-02-27 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:02:35PM +0100, Guillaume Pellerin wrote: > Jackbeat is an audio sequencer with the following features : > > * drummachine-like interface for fast and easy edition "edition" doesn't mean the same thing in English as in French. I think the word you want here i

Re: Bug#297121: ITP: wmail -- WindowMaker docklet watching your inbox

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Julien Danjou wrote: > * Package name: wmail > Version : 2.0 > Upstream Author : Sven Geisenhainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://dockapps.org/file.php/id/70 > * License : Seems specific, but free and probably GPL-compatible > Descri

Re: Bug#297121: ITP: wmail -- WindowMaker docklet watching your inbox

2005-02-27 Thread Julien Danjou
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 12:23:02PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Is it still actively maintained upstream? It doesn't look that way. > I doubt that it's a good idea to add new software to debian when > upstream lost interest - unless you are prepared to take that over too. Yes, I am. Regards,

Statically linked binaries from fpc

2005-02-27 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, maintaining m-tx, I would like to move from the p2c generated C sources to the original upstream Pascal sources (better suited for patches, development, design, etc.). m-tx is written in a Turbo Pascal dialect that can only be compiled with fpc (not gpc). Unfortunately, fpc in Debian produce

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390 ... [or have strict arch: control? ]

2005-02-27 Thread Rudy Godoy
On 22/02/2005 at 10:11 Wouter Verhelst wrote... > I agree that we should not continue to provide software for outdated > hardware platforms just for the sake of it; but as it is, there are > still people interested in m68k (some hobbyists, some embedded > developers, some who just use their old

Re: Statically linked binaries from fpc

2005-02-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roland Stigge: > Unfortunately, fpc in Debian produces statically linked binaries, due to > the Pascal unit style library files. We currently don't have other > packages in the archive that Build-Depend on fp-compiler (except fpc > itself which indeed carries statically linked binaries) as examp

fw: high cholesterol breakthrough discovery - pancake

2005-02-27 Thread Dr. Ashley
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dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Bluefuture
After another gruelling discussion on #debian-devel about the useless of dehs and the lack of watch file (75,60% of non native debian packages doesn't had one), I think that dehs is start to begin only my own personal toys, so i'm thinking to stop it and to leave alioth resources and put my develop

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Stefano, Bluefuture wrote: I know that there are a little bit group of people that think that the "old" use of watch file could be converted in a Qa tools, but actually i'm the only one that is trying to find a solution that could fix that lack of watch file. But without maintainers interest, t

self-depending packages

2005-02-27 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, Trying to upgrade a woody system to sarge, I experienced problems upgrading libgtk2.0-0, and discovered that this packages was self-depending. Afetr forcing the upgrade with "dpkg -i --force-depends", everything went smoothly. So I filed a bug against libgtk2.0-0. Then I discovered that I c

Looking for someone to adopt pdftohtml

2005-02-27 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hello, I am currently maintaning pdftohtml in Debian, but I would like for someone else to take over maintenance[1]. Lately, a few security related bugs have come up. They have been fixed in NMU's, which has apparently introduced bugs causing segfaults. I haven't had the time to research the bugs

Re: Looking for someone to adopt pdftohtml

2005-02-27 Thread Frederic Peters
Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: > So, if anyone uses or cares about pdftohtml, please step up, otherwise I will > work out an arrangement with the maintainer of the depending package mentioned > above. I use pdftohtml in a private project (actually only pdftohtml -xml for its XML output) and will ado

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-27 Thread Brian May
> "Christoph" == Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christoph> As I understood it, the question was about moving stuff Christoph> from debian/tmp to debian/package. The stuff in Christoph> debian/tmp should get removed by the clean target Christoph> anyway, so it doesn'

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Brian May [Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:05:01 +1100]: > A benefit of moving files, rather then copying, is that you get to see > at a glance what files your package left behind and missed in > debian/tmp (e.g. if upstream adds new files to the packages but > doesn't document these additions). FWIW, th

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-27 Thread Brian May
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> Not everyone likes maildir; I gave up on it after Colin> experimenting with it and realising that making it harder Colin> for myself to use standard Unix text-processing tools on my Colin> mailboxes was just too annoy

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390 ... [or have strict arch: control? ]

2005-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Rudy Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Regarding this issue I was thinking about it since I've faced in a > situation where a package[0] I maintain does have "high" hardware > requirements, which led me to think if it is really wise to have it > with "arch: any" since probably in some arches it

[OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread sean finney
can't help but chime in here :) On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:22:30AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Not every situation warrants using maildir, it uses a large number of > inodes, is slow to scan (yes, mbox isn't very good either), > inefficient at storing large number of very small files (due to block >

Bug#297218: ITP: radeontool -- utility to control ATI Radeon backlight functions on laptops

2005-02-27 Thread Luigi Gangitano
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luigi Gangitano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: radeontool Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Frederick Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://fdd.com/software/radeon/ * License : zlib license Description : utility

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Viehmann said: > Hi Stefano, > > Bluefuture wrote: > >I know that there are a little bit group of people that think that the > >"old" use of watch file could be converted in a Qa tools, but actually > >i'm the only one that is trying to find a solution that coul

Re: Bug#297218: ITP: radeontool -- utility to control ATI Radeon backlight functions on laptops

2005-02-27 Thread Luigi Gangitano
Il giorno lun, 28-02-2005 alle 00:10 +0100, Luigi Gangitano ha scritto: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Luigi Gangitano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: radeontool > Version : 1.5 > Upstream Author : Frederick Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bluefuture <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There is no reason to put more work and effort on a community tool that > community itself consider useless. The community might start considering it less useless if an explanation of what it is supposed to be good for was actually available. In particula

Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:19 -0500, sean finney wrote: > can't help but chime in here :) > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:22:30AM +1100, Brian May wrote: [snip] > > figuring the average email is about 13-15k, i believe an ext2/ext3 That seems awfully huge. In my (Maildir) archive of d-u, the avera

Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread Paul Hampson
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:19 -0500, sean finney wrote: > > recent versions of kernel/ext2/ext3 have built-in dirent hashing, which > > cuts heavily on the many-files penalty. another benefit of maildir > > is that when you modify a sing

Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:54 +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:19 -0500, sean finney wrote: > > > recent versions of kernel/ext2/ext3 have built-in dirent hashing, which > > > cuts heavily on the many-files penalty.

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Bluefuture
>I know that I thougt dehs per se not too useful, but the watch section >on qa.d.o has inspired me to write watch files for two of my packages. >Not much (2 out of 7), admittedly, but I think that it's fairly useful. >I think the experimental columns are overkill (as people packaging >experimental

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Bluefuture
>The community might start considering it less useless if an >explanation of what it is supposed to be good for was actually >available. In particular, why should a maintainer care about watch >files if he uses something else than uscan to keep track of upstream >happenings? >From time to time, th

Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Of course, all of these factors depend on the file system used. I am > > > confident somebody could point out a file-system that eliminates many > > Reiserfs, of course. You meant XFS, right? (Sorry, couldn't be helped. :) --

Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 20:54 -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Of course, all of these factors depend on the file system used. I am > > > > confident somebody could point out a file-system that eliminates many > > > > Reiserfs, of cou

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:54 +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: >> > I thought it was "illegal" to modify a message. >> "Status: O"? > I don't know what that means. It means that the message is not marked 'new'. Many MUA's keep track of message flags by inserti

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bluefuture <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>If people don't care as much about this as you think they should, >>perhaps it would be a good idea to try explaining why they *should* >>care, instead of just lamenting their lack of a telepathic >>understanding of your intentions? > This is not true. Y

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 02:05 +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:54 +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > > >> > I thought it was "illegal" to modify a message. > > >> "Status: O"? > > > I don't know what that means. > > It means that the

Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > That seems awfully huge. In my (Maildir) archive of d-u, the > average size is 4,959 bytes. Of course, there are no html mails. > Though, even in my Evolution list archive, where there are many > more html-mails, the average size is

Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 22:26 -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > That seems awfully huge. In my (Maildir) archive of d-u, the > > average size is 4,959 bytes. Of course, there are no html mails. > > Though, even in my Evolution list archive,

Bug#297233: ITP: wmansied -- An ANSI/ASCII editor.

2005-02-27 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: wmansied Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Walter Schreppers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~wschrep/ansied/ * License : GNU General Public Li

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > It means that the message is not marked 'new'. Many MUA's keep track > of message flags by inserting this header into the message. You mark a message as new by moving it to the "new" directory, and mark it as seen with the "cur" directory. Flags are norm

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Lucas Wall
On 02/27/2005 11:15 PM, Henning Makholm wrote: Now you have a third reply: Explain why people should care, and someone might actually start caring. The core idea of dehs (as I understand it) is to keep track of differences between the current upstream and Debian package versions. In the long run

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390 ... [or have strict arch: control? ]

2005-02-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rudy Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Regarding this issue I was thinking about it since I've faced in a >> situation where a package[0] I maintain does have "high" hardware >> requirements, which led me to think if it is really wise to have

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Doing a "select all, and mark as read" on a multi-GB mbox file > sounds painful. Indeed. Or just "mark the first (or any) message as read". If one's MUA is the version of mutt shipped with woody one gets twice the pain because it will *first* write the

Bug#297235: ITP: duhdraw -- A ANSI Editor for Linux similar to TheDraw.

2005-02-27 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: duhdraw Version : 2.7.7 Upstream Author : Walt Stoneburner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/duhdraw/ * License : GNU Copyleft De

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> It means that the message is not marked 'new'. Many MUA's keep track >> of message flags by inserting this header into the message. > You mark a message as new by moving it to the "new" directory, That's

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Lucas Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 02/27/2005 11:15 PM, Henning Makholm wrote: >> Now you have a third reply: Explain why people should care, and >> someone might actually start caring. > The core idea of dehs (as I understand it) is to keep track of [snip explanation] But why did I h

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Lucas Wall
On 02/28/2005 01:08 AM, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Lucas Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 02/27/2005 11:15 PM, Henning Makholm wrote: Now you have a third reply: Explain why people should care, and someone might actually start caring. The core idea of dehs (as I understand it) is to keep track of

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:35:40AM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote: > Now that you have this information, do you think dehs could be useful? > Do others think something like dehs could be useful? As a general tool? Maybe, but how is it better than uscan, which it duplicates? As a website? No, not really

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Lucas Wall
On 02/28/2005 02:02 AM, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:35:40AM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote: Now that you have this information, do you think dehs could be useful? Do others think something like dehs could be useful? As a general tool? Maybe, but how is it better than uscan, which i

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:54:46AM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote: > The core idea of dehs (as I understand it) is to keep track of > differences between the current upstream and Debian package versions. In > the long run dehs is intended to gather and present more information > than just the numerica