Re: Improving dependencies on shared libraries

2007-05-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Some research Scott James Remnant did back in the woody days indicated that > > with a more finely-grained shlibs implementation, the majority of packages > > could run fine against glibc 2.0. > > > > No such luck with lenny due to the change of symbol h

Write access on the Debian website.

2007-05-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Frans Pop a écrit : > > there is not really such a thing as the www > team. Basically there are a bunch of people with commit access who all > mostly just care about a particular part of the website. Hi all, By the way, does anybody knows if it is poss

Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that for a webdesign professional even a redesign would be quite manageable as AFAICT the technical structure of the website i

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > >Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but > >contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that > >for a webdesign profession

Re: compiling packages

2007-05-27 Thread A Mennucc
Oliver Block ha scritto: > Hello list, > > I am not very familiar with the debian developer tools. How to recompile a > package with debuggin option (gcc -g)? usually packages are compiled with -g, but are stripped afterwards; to avoid that, see example: as root # apt-get build-dep mplayer # a

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > >Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but > > >contributing to specific pages or parts is trivia

Re: Improving dependencies on shared libraries

2007-05-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 09:56:13AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Some research Scott James Remnant did back in the woody days indicated > > > that > > > with a more finely-grained shlibs implementation, the majority of packages > > > could run fine a

Re: Uploading wxWidgets 2.8 to experimental ?

2007-05-27 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Hi, I already built wx2.8 from ubuntu on my debian lenny for testing purpose. It build and works fine, I have been able to get latest filezilla running without any issues. I would be really happy if you could upload it to unstable, then I'll help fixing bugs if I can and can help you to keep i

Bug#426219: ITP: plexus-component-factories -- Plexus factories for bsh, ant components etc

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-component-factories Version : svn Upstream Author : Plexus Authors * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org * License : Apache Programming Lang: Java Description : Pl

removing 'printtool' from archives

2007-05-27 Thread A Mennucc
hi I am the mantainer of 'printtool' brief history: printtool was the GUI tool that Red Hat had developed for easy printer configurations ; it was then ~2000 adopted by the GNULpr project at http://lpr.sourceforge.net/ ; but, after the doc-com crisis, the project was eventually abandoned. Curre

removing 'printtool' from archives

2007-05-27 Thread A Mennucc
hi I am the mantainer of 'printtool' brief history: printtool was the GUI tool that Red Hat had developed for easy printer configurations ; it was then ~2000 adopted by the GNULpr project at http://lpr.sourceforge.net/ ; but, after the doc-com crisis, the project was eventually abandoned. Curre

Bug#426226: ITP: plexus-compiler -- Interface to compilers within Plexus

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-compiler Version : svn Upstream Author : Plexus Authors * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org * License : Apache Programming Lang: Java Description : Interface to

Bug#426227: ITP: plexus-velocity -- The Plexus Velocity Component

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-velocity Version : svn Upstream Author : Plexus Authors * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org * License : Apache Programming Lang: Java Description : The Plexus Ve

Bug#426228: ITP: plexus-digest -- a component of maven2

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-digest Version : svn Upstream Author : Plexus Developers * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org * License : Apache Programming Lang: Java Description : a component

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-27 Thread Xavier Roche
Josselin Mouette a écrit : * Package name: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 This package contains the "09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0" number. Geez :p If you want to be evil enough, I suggest that the library looks up a v6 record (such as mpa^Wevilnumber.debian.org), which would re

Re: Write access on the Debian website.

2007-05-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 27 May 2007 11:13, Charles Plessy wrote: > By the way, does anybody knows if it is possible for non-DDs to get > write acces ? Yes it is. The procedure to request commit access describes the difference between DDs and non-DDs. > I asked webmaster@ and copied joey@, as explained in > h

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > and the debian-www team is recovering from the > > > shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and tha

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > >Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but > >contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that > >for a webdesign professional even a redesign wo

Re: Write access on the Debian website.

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:23:48PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 11:13, Charles Plessy wrote: > > By the way, does anybody knows if it is possible for non-DDs to get > > write acces ? > > Yes it is. The procedure to request commit access describes the difference > between DDs an

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 13:31 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > > and the debian-www team is recovering from th

Platform for strategy/simulation games

2007-05-27 Thread Tobias Nadler
Hello, I am working on a program (called "MyUniverse") that has reached a point, where it can show its very basic abilities, but still needs much programming effort to fullfill its aims. It is a platform for strategy/simulation games with a diagonal view onto the map. What I want to say with "plat

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Luis Matos
maybe you can use the debianart.org platform. Dom, 2007-05-27 às 09:30 -0400, Kevin Mark escreveu: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > >Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but > > >contributing

Re: Platform for strategy/simulation games

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:44:36PM +0200, Tobias Nadler wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on a program (called "MyUniverse") that has reached a > point, where it can show its very basic abilities, but still needs > much programming effort to fullfill its aims. It is a platform for > strategy/simula

Re: checklib

2007-05-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/05/07 at 21:22 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:26:00PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > > hi > > > > what about http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/ ? > > > > madcoder mentioned in > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/01/msg00822.html > > of the intention of gettin

Bug#426259: ITP: springframework -- layered Java/J2EE application framework

2007-05-27 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: springframework Version : 2.0.5 Upstream Author : Interface21 * URL : http://www.springframework.org/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : l

Re: Prompt to install missing software?

2007-05-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ re-sent to debian-devel, it's a better target for this discussion ] On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:17:15PM +1000, John Pye wrote: > Is there any way under Debian (and hopefully also Ubuntu) that I can > trigger gtk-debi or something like that when the user requests to use > the part of my program th

A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. So I'd like to have some default guessing to happen. Preferably I don't want to ask via debconf, since users should have already answered the question at install

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 27 May 2007 09:25:50 Junichi Uekawa wrote: > After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for > pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. So > I'd like to have some default guessing to happen. Preferably I don't > want to ask via debconf, since us

Re: Platform for strategy/simulation games

2007-05-27 Thread Tobias Nadler
Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:44:36PM +0200, Tobias Nadler wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am working on a program (called "MyUniverse") that has reached a >> point, where it can show its very basic abilities, but still needs >> much programming effort to fullfill its aims. It is a plat

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 May 2007 09:50:23 -0600 "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 09:25:50 Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for > > pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. So > > I'd like to h

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2007-05-28 at 00:25 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > piuparts: > Looks at first 'deb' line from /etc/apt/sources.list > -> Can't handle /etc/apt/sources.list.d > -> Assumes that the top entry is the best I didn't want to have piuparts use all sources.list en

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > debootstrap: > > uses ftp.debian.org as default mirror. > > debconf questions aside, I think ftp.debian.org is a much saner *default* > than ftp.jp.debian.org. I've always wondered where the later silly default > came from. =) Good Trivia question. The reasons for using ftp.jp.deb

Re: checklib

2007-05-27 Thread A Mennucc
Lucas Nussbaum ha scritto: > On 24/05/07 at 21:22 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:26:00PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: >>> maybe the source code may be uploaded in the alioth project >> that would be good yes. > > Feel free to use the collab-qa alioth project for tha

Bug#426277: ITP: eigen -- a lightweight c++ template library for linear algebra

2007-05-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: eigen Version : 1.0.5 Upstream Author : Benoit Jacob (jacob at math jussieu fr) and others * URL : http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/ * License : GPL + incorporate-in-your-softwar

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:22:26 +0300 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > emdebian-tools: > > Using 'apt-cache policy' to obtain information > > -> told on IRC that it loses port number info. > > -> probably picks up security mirrors too, which > >

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Looking for prior art I found the following: d-i uses the following hack to figure out where to download udebs from when building installation media: grep '^deb[ \t]' $(SYSTEM_SOURCES_LIST) \ |grep -v '^deb[ \t]cdrom:' \ |gre

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 27 May 2007 19:43, Joey Hess wrote: > d-i uses the following hack to figure out where to download udebs from > when building installation media: Note that this can result in multiple sources. If you want only one, this hack would need to be refined. Cheers, FJP pgpKGmesG3WSG.pgp Desc

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2007-05-27 at 18:05 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > That would be very handy! The default could then be the > closest/quickest primary mirror. It would be important (from my > perspective) that this default is required to be a primary mirror - > maybe offer the user only the list of primaries

Re: removing 'printtool' from archives

2007-05-27 Thread Roger Leigh
A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that 'printtool' has outlived its usefullness: its database > of printers (that is actually contained in the package > 'printfilters-ppd', for some strange reason) is outdated; and Debian > ships many tools to configure printing (foomatic-gui , > gno

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:13:37AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > How were things working in the debian-glibc CVS? Did accidents or hot > discussions hapen because of the very opened commit access? No more so than happens today with the more closed SVN repo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 May 2007 21:01:19 +0300 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On su, 2007-05-27 at 18:05 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > That would be very handy! The default could then be the > > closest/quickest primary mirror. It would be important (from my > > perspective) that this default i

Bug#320283: ITO: re2c

2007-05-27 Thread Robert Edmonds
The spamassassin just uploaded to unstable has a new feature for compiling rulesets to native code which apparently results in a large performance boost[0]. The sa-compile(1p) man page states that re2c version 0.10.x is required for this functionality, and only an orphaned 0.9.x is available in De

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2007-05-27 at 20:06 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Unless your own mirror supports all Debian architectures, you will > still need a primary for emdebian-tools. Do you test build your own > Debian packages against your own mirror? Is that wise? I don't use emdebian in any way, so any require

Bug#426298: ITP: libcommons-attributes-java -- adds C#/.Net-style attributes to Java code

2007-05-27 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcommons-attributes-java Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/attributes/ * License : Apache 2.0 Pr

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:25:50AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for > pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. So > I'd like to have some default guessing to happen. Preferably I don't > want to ask via debcon

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 04:00:10PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 13:31 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > What you're saying here appears to be that you find Frans' response > > unhelpful and unconstructive. > I didn't read it that way. I think that Pierre meant to say that > so

Re: Bug#320283: ITO: re2c

2007-05-27 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:30:06PM -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote: > The spamassassin just uploaded to unstable has a new feature for > compiling rulesets to native code which apparently results in a large > performance boost[0]. The sa-compile(1p) man page states that re2c > version 0.10.x is requir

Re: Uploading wxWidgets 2.8 to experimental ?

2007-05-27 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, the latest upstream versions of BOINC (boinc.berkeley.edu) for which there are packages in Debian do require wxWindows in version 2.8. It would be lovely to have it in unstable. Cheers, Steffen On Sunday 27 May 2007 12:30:14 Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: > Hi, > > I already built wx2.8 f

etch-proposed-updates amd64 Release file fails checksum [Was: possible problem with ftp.us.debian.org]

2007-05-27 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Developers, I found a problem with our package repository for amd64 in etch-proposed-updates. More than a month ago I filed a bug report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418956 which was merged with another one later on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419505

Re: Bug#320283: ITA: re2c

2007-05-27 Thread Robert Edmonds
[ The subject should have read "ITA", not "ITO". ] Duncan Findlay wrote: > Whoops, looks like I missed that dependency on re2c >= 0.10.0 for > spamassassin, but I think it's working fine with 0.9.x. (At least, I > haven't found a problem with it.) That's fortunate; I guess spamassassin upstream d

Bug#426315: ITP: libjamon-java -- Java API for easy monitoring production applications

2007-05-27 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libjamon-java Version : 2.5 Upstream Author : Steve Souza * URL : http://jamonapi.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description : Java API fo

Re: etch-proposed-updates amd64 Release file fails checksum [Was: possible problem with ftp.us.debian.org]

2007-05-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 04:57:46PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > IIRC amd64 is the 2nd most popular architecture, and most of the people > use proposed-updates, This last is simply not true. Although it's now significantly /safer/ to use proposed-updates than it was in the past, because now

Re: etch-proposed-updates amd64 Release file fails checksum [Was: possible problem with ftp.us.debian.org]

2007-05-27 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
ok - point is taken and a workaround is to don't use proposed-updates at all (which I have to do for the last months anyways). It remains strange though why amd64 is so unfortunate to have this bug of broken 'official' part of Debian repository. On Sun, 27 May 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > IIRC