Re: RFP: tijmp -- memory profiler for java 6

2007-07-08 Thread Michael Koch
retitle 432108 ITP: tijmp -- memory profiler for java 6 thanks On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 05:58:57PM +0200, Ji?í Pale?ek wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: tijmp > Version : 0.3-pre1 > Upstream Author : Robert Olofsson > * URL or Web page : http://www.kh

Re: Please all dependency info into your init.d script

2007-07-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Neil McGovern] > Blootbot requires a mysql database to be up and running, or it will > fail. However, this database doesn't need to be on the local > host. How's best to handle this situation in the init script > dependencies? I suggest adding the mysql init.d script in the should-start header,

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > I do understand that an orphaned package of this kind (unmaintained > upstream) puts a lot of burden on Debian QA. However, "xmms" appears > to have a large user base and perhaps one of them will come forward > to maintain the package if it is orphaned. If not, the pac

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Luk Claes
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, Hi >> The maintainers of the xmms package in Debian are proposing the removal >> of the aforementioned package. Please read on. > > The rationale given does not seem to clarify why the proposal is > for removal instead of the maintainers just orphaning the pa

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Roger Leigh
Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The maintainers of the xmms package in Debian are proposing the removal >>of the aforementioned package. Please read on. > > The rationale given does not seem to clarify why the proposal is > for removal instead of the maintainers just orphaning

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Removing the package from Debian will not affect current users that much, While I perfectly agree that there are replacements for xmms that at first view look like a new version (for instnce audacious) many user might have links form their desktops o

Re: Bug#431482: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
* "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" [Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:57:26 +0200]: > Do you mean having the right audacious-plugins dependency on audacious > wouldn't be enough ? No, it would be enough. Just to be clear, I'm talking here about the dependency scheme proposed in my first message to this bug report, for

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Daniel Baumann
Andreas Tille wrote: > IMHO the only way to fix this is to provide a transitional > package that for instance depends from audacious (or other clones), > provides xmms and conflict with older xmms versions and install a > symlink to the replacement. this can and should only be done if there would

virtual package inetd-superserver?

2007-07-08 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
Hi, I've noticed that the virtual package name `inetd-superserver' is defined in the list of virtual package names, but it isn't used. Instead, `inet-superserver' is used by openbsd-inetd, rlinetd, and so on. Why? Should `inetd-superserver' be replaced with `inet-superserver'? Thanks, -- Tatsuy

Re: virtual package inetd-superserver?

2007-07-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 08, Tatsuya Kinoshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed that the virtual package name `inetd-superserver' is > defined in the list of virtual package names, but it isn't used. > Instead, `inet-superserver' is used by openbsd-inetd, rlinetd, and > so on. Looks like a typo. > Why? S

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2007-07-08 Thread Daniel J. Priem
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Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:48:39 +0100 Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * There are a number of other GTK 1.2 packages. > > GTK+ 1.2 (and GLib 1.2) were abandoned upstream over *six years* ago. > It's rather probable (nay, doubtless) th

Re: virtual package inetd-superserver?

2007-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jul 08, Tatsuya Kinoshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've noticed that the virtual package name `inetd-superserver' is >> defined in the list of virtual package names, but it isn't used. >> Instead, `inet-superserver' is used by openbsd-inetd, rline

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Luk Claes
Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:48:39 +0100 > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Such a minimal port is hardly worth doing. It is possible to migrate > from glib1 to glib2 in such a way (see #359299) but it is much har

dropped packages can be kept and even installed if so desired, eh? (was Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian)

2007-07-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Neil Williams [Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:01:54 +0100]: > $ apt-cache rdepends libgtk1.2 | grep -c -v "^lib" > 316 > I'm not sure Debian needs to throw out over 300 applications before > Lenny. True, most of those are dead upstream - AFAICT GnuCash was the > last active upstream to make it to gtk2 - b

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> > $ apt-cache rdepends libgtk1.2 | grep -c -v "^lib" > 316 > > Is a dead upstream sufficient cause to drop a package from Debian in > the absence of any RC bugs? Is a dependency on libgtk1.2 going to *be* > an RC bug for Lenny? It seems a very big step, IMHO. > the list includes programs l

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Andreas Tille wrote: >> Removing the package from Debian will not affect current users that >> much, > While I perfectly agree that there are replacements for xmms that at > first view look like a new version (for instnce audacious) many user > might have links form their desktops or other hooks t

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Steve Greenland
On 08-Jul-07, 07:07 (CDT), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > might have links form their desktops or other hooks that just call > /usr/bin/xmms. So this might affect a lot of users and especially > those users that have no idea how to cope with a missing xmms in their > PATH. Removing a

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Steve Greenland wrote: * can create desktop links and scripts Yes. * will notice the xmms has been removed Perhaps not because of some dependencies (perhaps because GTK 1.x will be removed) it might be removed by aptitude / synaptics besides a lot of other stuff. * wi

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Well, my reasoning was, that we just try to wild guess about > user capabilities. I have just learned that user behave very > unexpected and exactly these users happen to be quite vocal > how broken Debian is. I just would like to g

Bug#432274: ITP: fbreader -- e-book reader

2007-07-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fbreader Version : 0.8.5 Upstream Author : Nikolay Pultsin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.fbreader.org * License : GPL plus a few BSD files Programming Lang: C++ De

Re: Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Joseph Neal
> > Well, my reasoning was, that we just try to wild guess about > > user capabilities. I have just learned that user behave very > > unexpected and exactly these users happen to be quite vocal > > how broken Debian is. I just would like to give them lesser > > chances to be correct when they cla

Re: patch for versioned symbols in Heimdal shared library

2007-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Brian, On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 12:42:26PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Now that Heimdal 0.8 has finally entered experimental, could I ask > somebody to please check the patch to add versioned symbols in the > shared libraries? > The patch from previous versions wouldn't apply cleanly, so I had t

Re: patch for versioned symbols in Heimdal shared library

2007-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:39:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 12:42:26PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > Now that Heimdal 0.8 has finally entered experimental, could I ask > > somebody to please check the patch to add versioned symbols in the > > shared libraries? > > The