Re: Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

2006-01-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:53, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no difference between decoders and encoders. Both require > patent licenses. There are a few references to a statement by some of > the patent holders (Thomson IIRC, the company representing one of the > larg

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Manoj Srivastava] > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 04:35:08 +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > Deliberate use of words a non-native English speaker cannot > > understand won't help your argumentation. > > I beg your pardon. I was expecting a modicum of competence, obviously > my trus

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-01-29 kello 04:35 +0100, Josselin Mouette kirjoitti: > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > God. Is this supposed to be rational technical discussion, or > > an exercise in jejune mud slinging. > > Deliberate use of words a non-native English sp

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Josselin Mouette [Sun, Jan 29 2006, 04:27:06AM]: > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:21 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > > This is only a feature for perl maniacs. A language that requires a > > > specific coding style is better, because it makes possible for > > > anyone knowing the

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Josselin Mouette [Sun, Jan 29 2006, 04:44:32AM]: > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:13 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > > Sorry, but there's a whole new generation of Debian developers here > > > that simply won't develop anything in perl, just because perl looks > > > too complex an

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Mike Hommey [Thu, Jan 26 2006, 09:46:26PM]: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:12:35PM +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le samedi 21 janvier 2006 à 21:52 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:21:34PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL > > > PROTECTE

Bug#350391: ITP: glest -- Free 3D fantasy real-time-strategy game

2006-01-29 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: glest Version : 2.0pre Upstream Author : Glest Team * URL : http://www.glest.org * License : GPL for the code, permissive free license for the game data Description

how to link 2 bug reports ?

2006-01-29 Thread Marc Chantreux
Hi all, i've done the bug report #350119 last week (providing a patch) and just seen that this patch fixes #342008. Is it a way to 'link' them in the BTS? (as i'm not a DD) regards mc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 29 janvier 2006 à 03:14 -0600, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > (Josselin, you might be gratified to hear that I, a native speaker, > wasn't sure of the meaning of 'jejune' either. He's right, though, > it's not hard to look it up.) Of course it's not hard to look up a word in the dictiona

Re: how to link 2 bug reports ?

2006-01-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Marc, On Sunday, 29 Jan 2006, you wrote: > Hi all, > > i've done the bug report #350119 last week (providing a patch) and just > seen that this patch fixes #342008. Is it a way to 'link' them in the > BTS? (as i'm not a DD) mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and sent in the body: merge 350119 3420

Re: how to link 2 bug reports ?

2006-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 29 January 2006 14:38, Marc Chantreux wrote: > i've done the bug report #350119 last week (providing a patch) and just > seen that this patch fixes #342008. Is it a way to 'link' them in the > BTS? (as i'm not a DD) http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control See "merge" command and read

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 29 janvier 2006 à 11:07 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > You don't only *seem* to be insulting. Just because people don't want to > > waste their time with an inefficient language, you label them as > > incompetent? Guess what, some people have better to do than learning > > perl or C+

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 20:42 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Which scripts written in Python do you feel should be included in the base > system and cannot be currently because Python isn't included? Be > specific. > > A killer application that everyone wants to have in base will be the way

Re: how to link 2 bug reports ?

2006-01-29 Thread Marc Chantreux
thanks everyone for your answers. regards, mc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#350397: ITP: dblatex -- Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-01-29 Thread Andreas Hoenen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Hoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dblatex Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Benoit Guillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Produces DVI, Pos

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:58:05 +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 20:42 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> Which scripts written in Python do you feel should be included in >> the base system and cannot be currently because Python isn't >> included? Be sp

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:38:32 +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Of course it's not hard to look up a word in the dictionary. But it > raises arbitrarily the barrier for comprehension. It is hard to know a priori how much to lower ones language to -- should one stick to

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 29 janvier 2006 à 09:25 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > There have already been - admittedly sporadic - proposals to rewrite > > some key parts of the system, like the init scripts or adduser, in > > python. However, if the proponent knows from the beginning the > > implementation

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Josselin Mouette said: > Oh, great. Preventing evolutions from happening, just because some > people judge their language to be able to replace anything another > language can do, this must be a good thing. We'd better let those > skilled people make all evolutions happ

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:54:17 +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Le dimanche 29 janvier 2006 à 09:25 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit > : >> > There have already been - admittedly sporadic - proposals to >> > rewrite some key parts of the system, like the init scripts or >> > addus

Bug#350432: ITP: cubictemp -- small, elegant, Python-specific templating system

2006-01-29 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Mohammed Adnene Trojette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cubictemp Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Nullcube Pty Ltd * URL : http://www.nullcube.com/software/cubictemp.html * License : BSD-like Description : sm

Re: Bug#350397: ITP: dblatex -- Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-01-29 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Hoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Andreas Hoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: dblatex > Version : 0.1.8 > Upstream Author : Benoit Guillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ >

Re: Bug#350397: ITP: dblatex -- Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-01-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andreas Hoenen] > * Package name: dblatex > DocBook to LaTeX Publishing that transforms your SGML/XML DocBook > documents to DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in pure LaTeX > as a first process. MathML 2.0 markups are supported, too. It is a > clone of DB2LaTeX. Please explain in

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There have already been - admittedly sporadic - proposals to rewrite > some key parts of the system, like the init scripts or adduser, in > python. However, if the proponent knows from the beginning the > implementation wouldn't be accepted because of

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 29 janvier 2006 à 10:42 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > I can see your logic skillz are on par with your language > skillz. Russ said it best already: once a language as heen accepted, > there is a measure of cost of change. It is not a my language is > bigger than your l

agree

2006-01-29 Thread Cord Beermann
Greetings from the Debian-Listmasters. We are still looking for a mailaddress which is forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That Mailadress seems to respond to all postings to our Mailinglist debian-devel with a challenge-response reply. This mail is a test mailing, to check if this address is the on

Bug#350464: ITP: picard -- album-based MusicBrainz tagger

2006-01-29 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: picard Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Robert Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PicardTagger * License : GPL/RPSL/RCSL triple-license Descri

Re: Reset of limits with su / new session

2006-01-29 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2006, Reuti wrote: > while wondering about missing ulimits for an interactive session > scheduled by SGE (SUN GridEngine) to a node in a cluster running on > Debian (which is working fine with other Linux distributions), I also > found, that each user can increase

Bug#350466: ITP: lastfmsubmitd -- submission daemon for the Last.fm social music network

2006-01-29 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lastfmsubmitd Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : * http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/software/lastfmsubmitd/ * License : MIT/X De

Re: Bug#350397: ITP: dblatex -- Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources

2006-01-29 Thread Andreas Hoenen
From: Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#350397: ITP: dblatex -- Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:26:27 +0100 > Andreas Hoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Andreas Hoenen <[EM

Bug#350470: ITP: xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin -- search the web via the Xfce4 panel

2006-01-29 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Emanuele Rocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.debian.org/~ema/ * License : GPL Description

svn problem: Can you help me?

2006-01-29 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, I've got a problem with subversion, I wonder if you could help me: I tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED] svn mv 'svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/svn/pkg-mailman/tags/2.1.5-10/' svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/svn/pkg-mailman/tags/2.1.5-10/debian svn: Cannot move URL 'svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/svn/pkg-mail

Re: svn problem: Can you help me?

2006-01-29 Thread Thomas Weber
Hi Lionel, Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2006, 22:11 +0100 schrieb Lionel Elie Mamane: > What does that mean and how do I get out of this dead-end? Thanks in > advance. Does this one help? http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2003-07/0133.shtml Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: svn problem: Can you help me?

2006-01-29 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 11:44:32PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2006, 22:11 +0100 schrieb Lionel Elie Mamane: >> What does that mean and how do I get out of this dead-end? Thanks >> in advance. > Does this one help? > http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2003-07/0133.shtml Yes

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:51:44PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Or maybe it's just there's nothing to argue about for haskell and > scheme. Show me an administration script written in haskell or scheme, > and we can include the language in the discussion. Actually I would advocate to rewrite _

Re: svn problem: Can you help me?

2006-01-29 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What a cryptic error message for a "destination directory doesn't > exist" error condition. There are a number of similar situations (a directory not existing) I've seen where subversion gives a misleading error message. For example, trying to svn

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:55:29 +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Le dimanche 29 janvier 2006 à 10:42 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit > : >> I can see your logic skillz are on par with your language >> skillz. Russ said it best already: once a language as heen >> accepted, there is

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > There have already been - admittedly sporadic - proposals to rewrite > some key parts of the system, like the init scripts or adduser, in > python. However, if the proponent knows from the beginning the > implementation wouldn't be

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:17:13AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 17:01 -0600, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > > [Josselin Mouette] > > > Because python and ruby have similar features > > > > Same with perl and python. > > Great. I guess you're going to second the upcomi

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only (very minor) drawback is that above haskell scripts when > compiled is about 7MB in size, but the huge gain in reliability I think you're somewhat joking about using Haskell, but your script weights: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ ls -lh a.out -rwx

Bug#350498: ITP: libmail-dice-perl -- a Perl library to access email messages

2006-01-29 Thread Gonéri Le Bouder
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Gonéri Le Bouder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmail-dice-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Duncan Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : BSD Description : a Perl librar

Re: svn problem: Can you help me?

2006-01-29 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What a cryptic error message for a "destination directory doesn't > exist" error condition. There are a number of similar situations (a directory not existing) I've seen where subversion gives a misleading error message. For example, trying to svn

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Miles Bader
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Boot speed and perl does not really sound a match either. > > Nack. Even following the synthetic benchmarks on > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/, they are quite comparable, > especially when looking at other candidates: > http://shootout.alioth.debian.

The Debian community should influence the next Haskell language standard

2006-01-29 Thread Isaac Jones
Fellow Debianers, I'm helping to organize the process of creating the next version of Haskell[1], and I really want it to be a language that Debian developers can use. The Haskell programming language is more-or-less divided into two "branches". The Haskell 98 standard is the "stable" branch of t

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 11:18 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Boot speed and perl does not really sound a match either. > > > > Nack. Even following the synthetic benchmarks on > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/, they are quite comparable, > > especially