Re: python-minimal

2006-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:32:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Seems to me that this should be at least a bug report on alsa-utils. > > I'm surprised that there would be a need for a lintian check for it, but > > I guess it's better than letting such

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 30, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The alsa-utils package depends on python-minimal. Yes, it's very annoying that a dependency on another scripting language was added because of a trivial script. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#365203: rootskel: Please support the ppc64 architecture

2006-04-30 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 06-Apr-29 20:51, Frans Pop wrote: > tags 365203 - pending > tags 365203 + wontfix > tags 365345 + wontfix > tags 339716 + wontfix > tags 354947 + wontfix > thanks > > I'm very sorry, but after discussing this during the d-i development > meeting and consulting with Release Management, we feel

Re: Bug#365425: ITP: haxe -- Web programming languge generating Flash SWF

2006-04-30 Thread Remi Vanicat
Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: haxe > Version : 0.b5 > Upstream Author : Nicolas Cannasse > * URL or Web page : http://haxe.org > * License : GPL > Description : Web programming languge generating

Re: gpg

2006-04-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 4/29/06, Tamas SZERB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: all replies tries to tell me that I'm intend to crack the GPG. Believe me, If I could do it, I would not use it anymore since it's not safe enough. Err, the password is not an unchangable part of the key. You are in the perfect condition to att

Re: fonts prbl in sid

2006-04-30 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:38:43AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: > > almost unusable ; including 'emacs-snapshot-gtk' 'display' 'xmms' > > ('xmms' is missing fonts for the menus but not for the main display); Not sure if this is related but for display see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cg

Soliciting keys for the debconf6 keysigning party in Oaxtepec

2006-04-30 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
Hello, This is the last call for keys for the debconf6 keysigning party in Oaxtepec. This coming Saturday is the last date to send your key(s). If you intend to participate in the debconf6 keysigning party in Oaxtepec, please send your ascii armored public key as explained at [0] or, alternative

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
gustavo halperin dijo [Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:46:09PM +0300]: > I don't understand your question: "why would you want to use XFree now?", >what do you mean. >Do you mean why not use X.org ??. >Any way the current XFree version in Debian stable is 4.3, this version is >to old fo

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-30 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:03:19AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > There is no xorg 7.0 backport yet, and I fear it will not be easy to > add one (as the Debian xorg 7.0 introduced _major_ packaging changes, > if somebody puts up a backport it will probably be completely made > from scratch to behave a

Bug#365501: ITP: xchat-guile -- Guile scripting plugin for XChat

2006-04-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xchat-guile Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Zeeshan Ali Khattak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://piipiip.net/~zeenix/xchat-guile/ * License : GPLv2 or later Progra

Bug#365499: ITP: probcons -- PROBabilistic CONSistency-based multiple sequence alignment

2006-04-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: probcons Version : 1.10 Upstream Author : Chuong B. Do <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://probcons.stanford.edu/download.html License : Public Domain Description :

Bug#365509: ITP: xfce4-messenger-plugin -- dbus messages plugin for xfce4-panel

2006-04-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xfce4-messenger-plugin Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Pasi Orovuo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de/ * License : GPL Programming La

Bug#365519: ITP: xfce4-screenshooter-plugin -- Screenshots plugin for Xfce panel

2006-04-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Yves-Alexis Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xfce4-screenshooter-plugin Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Daniel Bobadilla Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de * License : GPL Progr

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-04-30 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Steve McIntyre] > >> I can see that more and more of my own Debian IRC discussions are on >> oftc, to the extent that I'm (currently) not on any freenode >> channels at all. >> > > For me it is the other way around. I am currently on one channel on > OFTC, whi

Bug#365532: ITP: xfce4-xfapplet-plugin -- Gnome applets plugin for Xfce panel

2006-04-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xfce4-xfapplet-plugin Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Adriano Winter Bess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de * License : GPL Programm

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-04-30 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >> [Steve McIntyre] >> >> >>> I can see that more and more of my own Debian IRC discussions are on >>> oftc, to the extent that I'm (currently) not on any freenode >>> channels at all. >>> >>> >> For me it is the other

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-30 Thread Joe Smith
"Steve Langasek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:32:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seems to me that this should be at least a bug report on alsa-utils. > I'm surprised that there would be a

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-30 Thread Joe Smith
"Steve Langasek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: The alsa-utils package depends on python-minimal. As a result, I must now have two versions of python installed. That's a bug. alsa-utils should de

Re: Using defoma for building package ?

2006-04-30 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette wrote: > How about using fontconfig ? Even without using the API you can use it > to look for a font: > $ fc-match --verbose sans | awk '$1=="file:"' > file: "/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D/DejaVu-Sans.ttf"(s) Is there a way t

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 04:25:18PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > "Steve Langasek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:32:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Seems to me that this should be at lea

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, that's not what I said. The python-minimal package is designed to be > used *as* an Essential package, not *by* Essential packages. Nothing, > essential or not, should depend on it in Debian, whether or not > python-minimal itself gets marked as Ess

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm playing paranoid here, but why don't you want to declare > dependencies on essential packages? The short answer is "because Policy 3.5 says they shouldn't." I'm not positive about the exact rationale, though. > If the package ceases to be Essent

Bug#365554: ITP: vdrift -- vdrift

2006-04-30 Thread Gonéri Le Bouder
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Gonéri Le Bouder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vdrift Version : 2006.02.21 Upstream Author : Joe Venzon * URL : http://www.vdrift.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : An open source d

effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-04-30 Thread Brian Eaton
Hello all - Regarding the ideas discussed here: http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/rsync-and-debian.html Has anyone ever done some log file analysis to figure out how much bandwidth would be saved by transferring package deltas instead of entire new packages? Assuming someone hasn't done

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Brian Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/rsync-and-debian.html > > Has anyone ever done some log file analysis to figure out how much > bandwidth would be saved by transferring package deltas instead of > entire new packages? Slightly off-topic, but

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:08:25PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, that's not what I said. The python-minimal package is designed to be > > used *as* an Essential package, not *by* Essential packages. Nothing, > > essential or not, should depend o

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-04-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/rsync-and-debian.html >> >> Has anyone ever done some log file analysis to figure out how much >> bandwidth would be saved by transferring package deltas instead of >> e

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bittorrent has a per chunk hash so it can validate each chunk when it > recieves it instead of waiting for the full file. It won't see if a > chunk is present at some other position in the file, not even if that > position is also on chunk boundarie