#311724 (was: Re: gaim-irchelper_0.11-1_i386.changes REJECTED)

2005-07-14 Thread Martin-Eric Racine
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Joerg Jaspert wrote: While checking your package in NEW I found that it has the cdbs "Play with my debian/control in a bad way" option turned on, and thus modifies Build-Dependencies on the fly. [...] You may want to follow bug #311724, which is about exactly this issue.

Re: #311724

2005-07-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10350 March 1977, Martin-Eric Racine wrote: >> You may want to follow bug #311724, which is about exactly this issue. > Understood, but out of my hands; it appears to be a CDBS issue. Yep, including this feature is a cdbs mistake. Using it is a maintainer mistake. > The last version of the de

congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Sean Perry
I just updated to X.org. With apt. Automatically. Woohoo!! I mean full on xserver-xorg too. I did not touch ANYTHING. X team you rock. This is why I started using Debian 7 years ago. This is what keeps me here. One and only one snag. purging the xfree86-common package failed because it was t

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, my congratulation to the team too. However I was not as fortunate as the Sean. What about the xlibmesa-glu packages? Can we expect them to enter the archive again? Else I have to remove some of my shiny GL applications (crystalspace, freewrl, libdevil,...) Greetings Ben -- Please do no

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:17:24AM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > What about the xlibmesa-glu packages? Can we expect them to enter the > archive again? Else I have to remove some of my shiny GL applications > (crystalspace, freewrl, libdevil,...) Build-dep on "libglu1-xorg-dev | libglu-dev", and

Re: cpufrequtils init script in rcS.d

2005-07-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Mattia Dongili | - setting the CPUFreq policy must be done as early as possible in the | boot process (IMHO) Why? This looks just like an opinion without any rationale. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky a

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:17:24AM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > my congratulation to the team too. However I was not as fortunate as the > Sean. > Me too, at least on this machine I had to explicitly install xserver-xorg to complete the move. BTW, I see the rendering of some ttf fonts looks no

Re: Mass bug filing for packages that FTBFS because of changes to texi2html

2005-07-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Matt Kraai wrote: > texi2html's behavior changed recently: if it is invoked with > -split=chapter, old versions place the HTML files in the same > directory as the documentation source, whereas new versions place the > generated files in a subdirectory. > > After I'd filed a

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Francesco P. Lovergine: > Me too, at least on this machine I had to explicitly install > xserver-xorg to complete the move. BTW, I see the rendering of some ttf > fonts looks not so good. For instance I used happily this resource: > > XTerm*Font: -monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--15-0-0-0-c

Re: GCC 4.0 as the default GCC / C++ ABI change

2005-07-14 Thread Matthias Klose
Robert Jordens writes: > Hello! > > [Tue, 05 Jul 2005] Matthias Klose wrote: > > > - - 5-day NMU for all C++ library packages, which can be converted, but > > are left alone. > > > > i.e. if libfoo1++ depends on libbar1++, libfoo1++ can be NMU'ed 5 days > > after libbar1++ is uploaded. > > S

Re: #311724

2005-07-14 Thread Martin-Eric Racine
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10350 March 1977, Martin-Eric Racine wrote: You may want to follow bug #311724, which is about exactly this issue. Understood, but out of my hands; it appears to be a CDBS issue. Yep, including this feature is a cdbs mistake. Using it is a mainta

Re: #311724

2005-07-14 Thread BJoerg Jaspert
On 10350 March 1977, Martin-Eric Racine wrote: >>> Doing an NMU on CDBS to fix #311724 might be a more constructive approach >>> than asking everyone who uses CDBS with debian/control.in to go and fix >>> their package's static debian/control for absolutely no gain, given how it >>> will be overwr

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Sean Perry wrote: > I just updated to X.org. With apt. Automatically. Woohoo!! I mean full > on xserver-xorg too. I did not touch ANYTHING. My only gripe is that the upload did not have pciids for radeon X700 etc. http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2005/06/msg00179.html N

Re: Mass bug filing for packages that FTBFS because of changes to texi2html

2005-07-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matt Kraai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050714 02:21]: > texi2html's behavior changed recently: if it is invoked with > -split=chapter, old versions place the HTML files in the same > directory as the documentation source, whereas new versions place the > generated files in a subdirectory. > > After I'd

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:50:14AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > What I'd like to see is no more new items added to that list without > someone signing up and taking responsibility for them. What I really want > to see more than anything with that list is for each and every item to have > at leas

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-14 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggest having __two__ lists: a wishlist and a worklist (with the > latter being the existing TODOlist) A decent idea, since items can be moved back and forth as needed. -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#318272: ITP: asterisk-sounds -- Additionals sound files for the Asterisk PBX

2005-07-14 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asterisk-sounds Version : 1.0.9 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.asterisk.org/html/downloads/asterisk-sounds-1.0.9.tar.gz * License : BSD Descriptio

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Gustavo Franco
I see that yesterday a modularized xserver (xorg) entered ubuntu breezy (the current development branch) archives. I've some questions: Is XSF coordinating its work with them or what ? Is modularized xorg a goal for us ? I think that it's easy to do since some if not all xorg ubuntu maintainers ar

Re: Bug#318272: ITP: asterisk-sounds -- Additionals sound files for the Asterisk PBX

2005-07-14 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Mark Purcell schrieb: > * Package name: asterisk-sounds Please name it asterisk-sounds-extra, as there is already a virtual package called "asterisk-sounds". Also, I suppose these are not spoken by Allison, in which cade this should be mentioned in the description. Simon -- To UNS

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:02:09AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > I see that yesterday a modularized xserver (xorg) entered ubuntu > breezy (the current development branch) archives. > > I've some questions: Is XSF coordinating its work with them or what ? > Is modularized xorg a goal for us ? I t

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 7/14/05, Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The server hasn't been modularised yet, it's just that I split up all > the packaging. I've been working closely with Josh Triplett on the > libraries, and keeping David fully in the loop with everything I'm doing > in Breezy, and I'm pretty

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Anand, On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:32:54AM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: > Thanks for your comments -- however I don't think anyone should be able > afraid to point out when a debian developer is obviously not able to > satisfy all the Debian-related demands on their time; let alone their > commit

no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi Torsten, Thanks for your comments -- however I don't think anyone should be able afraid to point out when a debian developer is obviously not able to satisfy all the Debian-related demands on their time; let alone their committments. >From http://www.debian.org/intro/organization> you can vari

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:02:09AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > I see that yesterday a modularized xserver (xorg) entered ubuntu > breezy (the current development branch) archives. It's exciting stuff, but my primary goal is to get the current X.Org release in to etch. > I've some questions: Is

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:08:00PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:17:24AM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > > my congratulation to the team too. However I was not as fortunate as the > > Sean. > > > > Me too, at least on this machine I had to explicitly install >

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:41:18PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Sean Perry wrote: > > I just updated to X.org. With apt. Automatically. Woohoo!! I mean full > > on xserver-xorg too. I did not touch ANYTHING. > > My only gripe is that the upload did not have pciids for > rad

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:42:54AM -0700, Sean Perry wrote: > I just updated to X.org. With apt. Automatically. Woohoo!! I mean full > on xserver-xorg too. I did not touch ANYTHING. > > X team you rock. This is why I started using Debian 7 years ago. This is > what keeps me here. > > One and on

pbuilder status update

2005-07-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I'll just write a mail here to notify people using pbuilder, that sid is a wild place. My testsuite tells me that currently Debian sid/etch is not debootstrap'able. This is due to several problems, including g++ ABI transition breaking aptitude. However, the good news is that you should b

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Christian Fromme
Hello, Anand Kumria wrote: Thanks for your comments -- however I don't think anyone should be able afraid to point out when a debian developer is obviously not able to satisfy all the Debian-related demands on their time; let alone their committments. First of all, in my opinion your mail nev

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
[I am stopping the cross-posting to -release, as -release is no discussion list] On 2005-07-14 Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to > name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. > > If the library package is named lib$NAME, >

Re: #311724

2005-07-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:13:49 +0200, BJoerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And now please go and read my reject mail again - I propose a way for >people who really need help to set the correct Build-Depends. The way you propose in your original bug report must be made possible by a CDBS change

Re: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, July 13, 2005 04:04, Nigel Jones wrote: >> Or, should you find the demands on your time too pressing, why not use >> this opportunity to step-aside as the Debian press contact. > Love the pun, but IMHO he does a good job. I do not - while I don't want to judge Joey's skills, for me it's a

Unidentified subject!

2005-07-14 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi Steve, Thanks for your email. I'd like to say touche but I basically believe you are wrong. Unfortunately I found from past-personal experience that email to busy people is generally ignored unless brought to their attention. Additionally personal personality conflicts between myself and pre

Re: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, July 14, 2005 17:20, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, July 13, 2005 04:04, Nigel Jones wrote: >> but IMHO he does a good job. > > I do not - of couse I meant "I do not agree"... :-) Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Bug#318300: ITP: baobab -- graphical tool to analyse directory trees

2005-07-14 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: baobab Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Fabio Marzocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab.html * License : GPL Description : gra

shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. If the library package is named lib$NAME, call the -dev package lib$NAME-dev. For example, libxxx0 will have libxxx0-dev. libfoobar-2.1-0 will have libfoobar-2.1-0-dev. This

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:55:48PM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I suggest having __two__ lists: a wishlist and a worklist (with the > > latter being the existing TODOlist) > > A decent idea, since items can be moved back and forth as needed.

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to > name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. Uh, no? The -dev packages have no need to match to a specific runtime library and this just creates unnecessary work. > This allows mechani

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 20:16 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to > name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. I personally found it very handy that the dev packages automatically selects the most recent API compatible version. Why do you

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to > > name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. > > > > If the library package is named lib$NAME, > > call the -dev package lib$NAME-dev. > [...] > > Hej, > The obvious downside of this is that the name of dev-package will

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 7/14/05, Christian Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Anand Kumria wrote: > > > Thanks for your comments -- however I don't think anyone should be able > > afraid to point out when a debian developer is obviously not able to > > satisfy all the Debian-related demands on their time;

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > * Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to > > name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. > > Uh, no? The -dev packages have no need to match to a specific runtime > library and this just creates unnecessary work. Well

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:57 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 7/14/05, Christian Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Anand Kumria wrote: > > > > > Thanks for your comments -- however I don't think anyone should be able > > > afraid to point out when a debian developer is obvio

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There may be other showstoppers. What does doing this solve? What does it even help with? > I would really like this 10-year old non-regulation to > go to a concensus (it is indeed rather embarassing we don't > agree on a good solution after 10 yea

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to > > > name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. > > > > Uh, no? The -dev packages have no need to match to a specific runtime > > li

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Olaf van der Spek: >> First of all, in my opinion your mail never should have gone to -devel, >> but only to Martin Schulze and maybe to Branden Robinson. > > Why can't this be discussed in public? There are probably more people > concerned about this then only him. It's considered bad style to

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > >> > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to >> > name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. >> > >> > If the library package is named lib$NAME, >> > call the -dev package lib$NAME-dev. >> [...] >> >> Hej, >> The obvio

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
[once more, doesn't belong on -release...] On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:11:21PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > * Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to > > > > name -dev packages after their r

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > There may be other showstoppers. > > What does doing this solve? What does it even help with? Hmmm... we are talking about naming Debian development shareed library package names based on Debian runtime shared library package names. > > > I would really like this 10-year old non-reg

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to > > name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. > > I personally found it very handy that the dev packages automatically > selects the most recent API compatible version. Why do you want this > switch by the way? You did not

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 14 July 2005 17:14, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > The current recommendation I'm trying to give is: > > Package: libXXX-dev > Conflicts: libXXX-dev > Provides: libXXX-dev > > > Thus, it won't contradict with your requirement to > be able to just build-depend on libXXX-dev. I may be wron

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > You can (and it is often done) extend an api to include more > functionality without breaking the existing api. Any program using one > of the new functions must use a versioned depend on the libfoo-dev > package introducing the function. > > The API can (and will) even stay compatibly acro

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > There may be other showstoppers. > > > > What does doing this solve? What does it even help with? > > Hmmm... we are talking about naming > Debian development shareed library package names based on > Debian runtime shared library package names.

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > BTW, having Build-Depends: libfoo-dev in > a library's build-deps, will allow the developer > to overlook a soname change in depending shared library. > Which is a bad idea in the QA standpoint. Uh, no it isn't. SONAME changes are fine, the package h

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > 2. The information of -dev packages depending on other -dev packages > > cannot be automatically determined currently; > > it should be possible to obtain a minimal list by analyzing the > > NEEDED field of the objdump output. > > Errr, -dev packages generally don't (and shouldn't) depe

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The current recommendation I'm trying to give is: > > Package: libXXX-dev > Conflicts: libXXX-dev > Provides: libXXX-dev > > > Thus, it won't contradict with your requirement to > be able to just build-depend on libXXX-dev. Uhh, then it doesn't

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Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

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Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Roger Leigh
"Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:17:24AM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: >> my congratulation to the team too. However I was not as fortunate as the >> Sean. >> > > Me too, at least on this machine I had to explicitly install > xserver-xorg to comple

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Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 14 July 2005 17:14, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > >> The current recommendation I'm trying to give is: >> >> Package: libXXX-dev >> Conflicts: libXXX-dev >> Provides: libXXX-dev >> >> >> Thus, it won't contradict with your requirement to >> be ab

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having a solid naming scheme will allow me to > > ldd /usr/lib/libwhatever.so to track down its > shared library dependency, and appending "-dev" > to individual package to create the list of > requisite -dev packages. With the current scheme it is:

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, having Build-Depends: libfoo-dev in > a library's build-deps, will allow the developer > to overlook a soname change in depending shared library. > Which is a bad idea in the QA standpoint. Yes and no. The programer can overlook the soname chang

Re: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:11:49AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Anand Kumria: > > > [1]: > http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/debian-debates-support-for-ports/2005/07/12/1120934228145.html> > > Apparently, this is subscription only. 8-( > > Has this article been republished by another newspape

Re: Bug#318204: ITP: php-simpletest -- Unit testing and web testing framework for PHP

2005-07-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:48:44PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote: > * License : The Open Group Test Suite License I'm not optimistic about this licence being DFSG-free. - Matt signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cpufrequtils init script in rcS.d

2005-07-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:21:52AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Mattia Dongili > > | - setting the CPUFreq policy must be done as early as possible in the > | boot process (IMHO) > > Why? This looks just like an opinion without any rationale. It's dumb anyway. If you wanted it set early

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:03:00PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:57 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > On 7/14/05, Christian Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anand Kumria wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks for your comments -- however I don't think anyone should be able >

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 00:42 -0700, Sean Perry wrote: > I just updated to X.org. With apt. Automatically. Woohoo!! I mean full > on xserver-xorg too. I did not touch ANYTHING. > > X team you rock. This is why I started using Debian 7 years ago. This is > what keeps me here. > > One and only one

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 21:25 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:03:00PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:57 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > On 7/14/05, Christian Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Anand Kumria wrote: > > > > > > > > > Than

Re: Bug#318272: ITP: asterisk-sounds -- Additionals sound files for the Asterisk PBX

2005-07-14 Thread Mark Purcell
On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:12, Simon Richter wrote: > Please name it asterisk-sounds-extra, as there is already a virtual > package called "asterisk-sounds". Also, I suppose these are not spoken > by Allison, in which cade this should be mentioned in the description. Simon, Yes I discovered thi

Bug#318336: ITP: asterisk-sounds-moh -- Asterisk PBX Music On Hold (MOH)

2005-07-14 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asterisk-sounds-moh Version : 20050715 Upstream Author : Enjoy Elena Kuschnerova and Lev Guelbard * URL : http://www.signate.com/moh.php * License : Public Domain Descript

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:43:50AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 7/14/05, Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The server hasn't been modularised yet, it's just that I split up all > > the packaging. I've been working closely with Josh Triplett on the > > libraries, and keeping David fu

skills of developers

2005-07-14 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. I would like to move one subject. What are the required skills of the developers/developers-to-be? Debian Policy, Developers' Reference, New Maintainers' Guide and most documentation describe only _how to make a good package_. Good package in that case means it will comply with Debian P

Re: skills of developers

2005-07-14 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 7/14/05, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In sum. Maybe it's time to create additional positions in Debian project? > Maybe something like Packager (with knowledge about Bash and Debian > Policy), Translator (with knowledge about some particular language and > English), Help

Re: skills of developers

2005-07-14 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi Bartosz, On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 01:52 +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > What are the required skills of the > developers/developers-to-be? Skip, as we both passed the NM process. > should everyone be able to maintain every package on the world? No, packaging is not just put the right f

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Miles Bader
FWIW, I previously had xorg from Ubuntu installed, and upgrading from that to Debian's xorg _didn't_ go smoothly: the file "/etc/X11/Xsession" was created by two packages, x11-common [debian], and xorg-common [ubuntu], and in upgrading tried to install x11-common before removing xorg-common. I en

Re: pbuilder status update

2005-07-14 Thread Brian May
> "Junichi" == Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Junichi> Hi, I'll just write a mail here to notify people using Junichi> pbuilder, that sid is a wild place. I recently had major dramas trying to create a sid chroot from a sarge system. So perhaps these issues have been fixed

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Brian May
> "Greg" == Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Greg> Common Courtesy states that one should also mention personal Greg> communications, even if completely ignored by the person(s) Greg> in question. Doesn't this also run the risk of making the person look bad? I guess it de

aspell dictionary packages fail to build

2005-07-14 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, The aspell dictionary packages build-depend on aspell-bin (>> 0.60). aspell-bin is now a virtual package provided by aspell, but virtual packages cannot be versioned, so these build-dependency cannot be satisfied. There are fifteen such packages: aspell-br aspell-cy aspell-de aspell-d

Re: pbuilder status update

2005-07-14 Thread Henning Glawe
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:54:15AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Ideally there needs to be either > > * a login environment where changes are saved AND/OR there is one: use pbuilder login --save-after-login (have been confronted with the same problem yesterday...) -- c u henning -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.07.14.1416 +0300]: > libfoobar-2.1-0 will have > libfoobar-2.1-0-dev. Please distinguish between API and ABI! -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud

Work-needing packages report for Jul 15, 2005

2005-07-14 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 215 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 112 (new: 11) Total number of packages reques