On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote:
> > Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all
> > DD's worked through it on their projects? Wouldn't that keep things more
> > organized and efficie
So far, we only got two advices but, imho, enough motivated to make me
change my initial feeling.
It seems that nothing has yet motivated that passwd should indeed be
Essential: yes.
Steve bringed the very interesting rationale: "I think we really
should not be using it *except* for packages tha
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote:
> > > Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all
> > > DD's worked through it on
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 03:28:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:52 +0100, Juergen Salk wrote:
>
> > I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using
> > meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like "powerful" in
> > package descriptions in general.
>
> Sounds like so
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:49:33PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote:
> > > > Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing.
Hi,
On Sunday 08 January 2006 09:49, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote:
> > > > Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do y
On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:39, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:49:33PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -05
Hi Stephan,
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> Hehe...well, it's a matter of working behaviour. I never said, that working
> from the CLI is not faster or more productive sometimes. What I'm trying to
> say is, that this "arrogant elite thinking" must go away. We
Stephan Hermann, 2006-01-08 11:30:12 +0100 :
> Hehe...well, it's a matter of working behaviour. I never said, that
> working from the CLI is not faster or more productive
> sometimes. What I'm trying to say is, that this "arrogant elite
> thinking" must go away.
I don't see why the "poor oppre
Hi folks
I wrote a TODO[1] and RfC for a possible etch release of the s390 port
about 2 months ago, and did not get any usefull reply.
As I'm the last person working on the core (and lack of time), there is
a large need for help. The main problems are currently hardware
configuration and debian-i
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 09:49, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -05
Hi Torsten,
On Sunday 08 January 2006 12:20, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> Hi Stephan,
>
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > Hehe...well, it's a matter of working behaviour. I never said, that
> > working from the CLI is not faster or more productive sometimes. Wha
On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:32, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> >
> > Everything what is on https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/ is free to
> > use. Read and think again. Or use another example: Amazons code is not
> > free to see, but yo
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:19:42 -0500, Frans Jessop
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if
> all DD's worked through it on their projects?
Sure, as long as they change lauchpad to meet my workflow
requirements. This would mean letti
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:20:52 +0100, Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> OTOH I'd like to have Debian move to using a single SCM and storing
> all packages in repositories. Currently you need to know Subversion,
> CVS and tla if you want to be sure you can directly work with the
> Debian
fi folks
as i announced, i would like to package vexim.
for now i have some problems with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d
|dh_gencontrol
|dpkg-gencontrol -ldebian/changelog -isp
|-Tdebian/vexim.substvars -Pdebian/vexim dpkg-gencontrol: error: control
|file must have at least one binary pa
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:19:42 -0500, Frans Jessop
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>
>>Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if
>>all DD's worked through it on their projects?
>
>
> Sure, as long as they change lauchpad to meet my workf
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:44:57 +0100, Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:39, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> And even then have uncertain chances of getting it deployed into a
>> place where it's useful, and goodness knows how practical it would
>> be to do this anywa
Stephan Hermann, 2006-01-08 17:10:31 +0100 :
>> Yes, but nobody has proposed making those non-free services a core
>> part of Debian development. Yet Frans proposes we do so with
>> Launchpad.
>
> This doesn't work, but using it as helper tool would help the
> project. Launchpad itself is not tig
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:39:20 +0100, Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Sure, this implies that we have tools, where normal people can work
> with. Normal people barley or never used cli tools.
Way to go trying to get me to work for free on stuff you
want -- by calling me a frea
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:47:56 +, Martin Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Sure, as long as they change lauchpad to meet my workflow
>> requirements. This would mean letting me have a local repo, signed
>> remote repos, arch, email only interfaces, and not getting
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* Package name: gnome-clipboard-daemon
Version : 1.0
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* URL :
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Il giorno dom, 08/01/2006 alle 11.30 -0600, Manoj Srivastava ha scritto:
> ,[ https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/HCT ]
> | 1.13. Will the source package import code be open source?
> |
> | Not at this time.
> `
>
> Hmm. Not a strong commitment to the open source philosophy or
>
Hi,
I finally managed to upload the new WordNet version. I had to build a
new upstream source ball because upstream does not provide the real
database source in the same tarball as the binary program. Thus I
mixed the two upstream tarballs WNgrind-2.1.tar.gz (containing database
source and the
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* Package name: gaim-galago
Version : 0.3.2
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* URL : http://www.galago-project.org
* License : GPL
Description : Galago feed
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* Package name: gnome-presence-applet
Version : 0.3.1
Upstream Author : Christian Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.galago-project.org/
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Description :
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* Package name: eds-feed
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* Package name: libgalago-gtk
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* URL : http://www.galago-prject.org
* License : LGPL
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Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, we can't change the world totally, but avoiding a tool, because
> it's free, but non-free source, it's more a joke then anything else,
> because I had to avoid many of the services I need in my daily
> developers world.
And this belief, in a nut
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:49 +0100, Riccardo Setti wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Riccardo Setti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: gnome-presence-applet
> Version : 0.3.1
> Upstream Author : Christian Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL :
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 07:39, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> ... it's quite amazing how easy package management and
> source management can be for us debian/ubuntu developers.
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 07:48, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> Glitches and Bugs is in every software, if not, then we
> wouldn't have any
debian/control file needs to look like this:
***
Source: nsd
Section: net
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Ondřej Surý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.0.0), libwrap0-dev | libwrap-dev, cdbs,
bison, flex, groff, libssl-dev
Standards-Version: 3.6.1
Package: nsd
Architecture: any
De
[This is probably more appropriate for the debian-mentors list]
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 05:47:32PM +0100, Daniel Knabl wrote:
> |dh_gencontrol
> |dpkg-gencontrol -ldebian/changelog -isp
> |-Tdebian/vexim.substvars -Pdebian/vexim dpkg-gencontrol: error: control
> |file must have at least on
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 06:30:58 +0100, Daniel Knabl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>is there anybody - preferred German speakers - who is willing and able
>to package this OR to give assistance to me (i would try packaging when
>there is somone helping me)???
Please get acquainted with the exim 4 packages
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:28:49 +1100, Paul TBBle Hampson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think this (like OpenOffice and tetex) are good examples of where
>experimental works well. Large, important packages which have a group of
>users who want to try the latest (pre-release or pre-packaging) of the
>so
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:20:52 +0100, Torsten Landschoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OTOH I'd like to have Debian move to using a single SCM and storing all
>packages in repositories. Currently you need to know Subversion, CVS and
>tla if you want to be sure you can directly work with the Debian
>sou
[Stephan Hermann]
> Oh, I never signed an NDA, so I've never seen the code, actually I'm
> not interested in the code, because if I have a problem with the
> result, I can file bugs against this products, or bug the maintainers
> of the code in their present irc channel :)
It is clear that you do
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:27:07AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:20:52 +0100, Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>
> > OTOH I'd like to have Debian move to using a single SCM and storing
> > all packages in repositories. Currently you need to know Subversion,
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:44:57AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:39, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:49:33PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > I know your smarter than that. Pressing the down-arrow 50 times to reach
> > an action button takes a lot longer than typing a quick command to invoke
> > that same action, and we both know it. Please don't throw bogus solutions
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* License : GPL
Description : simple console
Hi Matt,
maybe i didn't stress it out: the sources were prepared using dh_make.
as said in one of my previous mails i already stand in contact with
Florian Ragwitz; he also offered to act as "sponsor" for my package.
but for now i have plenty of things to learn and to fix in this first
release ;-
Hi Ondrej,
this fixed my previous problem. that is good.
but now there is again a problem:
|dpkg-deb: baue Paket =BBvexim=AB in =BB../vexim_2.0.1-1_all.deb=AB.
|dpkg-deb: Conffile =BB/etc/exim4/vexim-acl-check-content.conf=AB kommt
|nicht im Paket vor dh_builddeb: command returned error code 512
@Ondrej:
this fixed my previous problem. that is good.
but now there is again a problem:
|dpkg-deb: baue Paket =BBvexim=AB in =BB../vexim_2.0.1-1_all.deb=AB.
|dpkg-deb: Conffile =BB/etc/exim4/vexim-acl-check-content.conf=AB kommt
|nicht im Paket vor dh_builddeb: command returned error code 512
|m
@Adrian: already done.
@Marc: the packaging was done with source prepared by dh_make.
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:48:11PM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:32, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > Oh, I never signed an NDA, so I've never seen the code, actually I'm not
> > > interested in the code,
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 09:49, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -05
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:47:56PM +, Martin Meredith wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:19:42 -0500, Frans Jessop
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >>Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if
> >>all DD's worked through it on their projects?
>
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:44:57AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:39, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:49:33PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:21:45AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 06-Jan-06, 08:28 (CST), paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:43:07AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > > Then the whole update-alternatives priority system is made pointless.
> >
> > s/pointless/bette
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:44:57AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:39, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > You can't normally design real APIs onto production software and get
> > anything but a mess, you have to engage in sound engineering from the
> > start.
>
> Well, if anyo
Le dimanche 08 janvier 2006 à 23:58 +0100, Daniel Knabl a écrit :
> @Adrian: already done.
In which case you could have posted the bug number.
> @Marc: the packaging was done with source prepared by dh_make.
Have you actually read Marc's email?
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 09:49, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > Luckily that the bts of Launchpad has a mailinterface..which is quite
> > > nice. So some other parts
Hello all and Happy New Year,
Thanks to George, apt-torrent has been mentioned in the Debian Devel
list :o)
I've just noticed it, and the fun part of this discovery, is that I also
found why my ISP has closed sianka.free.fr: Too much hits since the
latest Debian Weekly News, and the new apt-tor
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 12:29 -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> X-Debbugs-CC: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
^-- This needs to be a proper header, not a pseudo-header.
You probably also meant 'Debian GNOME Mainta
I intend to orphan the following packages:
bricolage
dbacl
libcache-mmap-perl
libmasonx-interp-withcallbacks-perl
libparams-callbackrequest-perl
libstring-crc32-perl
scottfree
ttf-kacst
ttf-paktype
If you want one of these, upload it with yourself as Maintainer.
Immediately.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Kim Kuylen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: personalbackup
Version : 1.0.1-1
Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL :
http://users.skynet.be/linuxtuxie/debian/personalbackup_1.0.1-1_i386.deb
* License : GPL
* Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-05 11:48]:
> #339578. Still waiting for the maintainer or hijacker to repair this.
I am the "hijacker". I would gladly repair this by NMUing slirp with an
epoch in its version number, but I would never do it without the
maintainer's approval.
Stephan Hermann dijo [Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:25:28AM +0100]:
> > Which nobody except the Blessed Few (being those who have signed the NDA
> > allowing them access to the Launchpad code) can modify or enhance.
>
> Everything what is on https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/ is free to use.
> Read
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:04:56AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> far :), I would encourage you to log into merkel and verify, directly and
> securely, the key at /org/ftp.debian.org/web/ziyi_key_2006.asc; sign it; and
> upload your signature to the public keyservers as well, if you are satisfied
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:30:20AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> ,[ https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/HCT ]
> | 1.13. Will the source package import code be open source?
> |
> | Not at this time.
> `
>
> Hmm. Not a strong commitment to the open source philosophy or
> anythi
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anybody actually think of a reason why they might want to keep any
> of this code proprietary, other than grabbing power? I can't see *any*
> way in which this could possibly be anything else. The only reason I can
> think of is to be able to use l
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:03:41PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:04:56AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > far :), I would encourage you to log into merkel and verify, directly and
> > securely, the key at /org/ftp.debian.org/web/ziyi_key_2006.asc; sign it; and
> > upload
> I've just noticed it, and the fun part of this discovery, is that I also
> found why my ISP has closed sianka.free.fr: Too much hits since the
> latest Debian Weekly News, and the new apt-torrent 0.3.1-1 package !
The solution is simple: get it in the Debian archive..:)
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> Unless such a service is a Debian controlled resource, or is
> fully GPL'd, and has open data, I do not think we should tocuh it
^^
I'm sure you mean DFSG-free here, right? :-)
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:30:07PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> They're investing in writing better tools, and they're keeping them
> private so as to maintain a competative advantage with them over Red Hat,
> SuSE, Fedora, and so forth. Including Debian, for that matter.
...damnit, I never thoug
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Developers will choose to use them when and where it makes sense for
> them to do so.
Ironically enough, it looks like all Debian Developers already have an
account there... because I have one, and I never ask for one:
https://launchpad.net/people
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