Build of Paje on mipsel : what hapens ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I already sent two mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking why paje.app 1.97-cvs20080110-2 has not been built (no try [1]) on this architecture. I did not get any answer at all. Do I use the good email ? Currently, paje.app is not at all in tes

Many packaged programs that are doing the same thing

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:02:39PM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > > Even there, it looks very much like other "very small" webservers, > > such as boa, bozohttpd, cherokee, fnord, lighttpd, micro-httpd, > > mini-httpd or thttpd. What does it do better than any of them? Or > > worse? Or different?

Re: Build of Paje on mipsel : what hapens ?

Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I've two questions: > - can someone tell me why paje.app has not been tried on mipsel ? What > should I do ? Due to kernel problems, the mips* buildds haven't been very reliable in the past few weeks, creating a lng backlog of packages that

Re: Bug#467097: ITP: eficas -- ASter Command FIle Editor

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:29:25AM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > EDF is the usual name of the company whose logo appears on the upstream > > web site . (The initials used to stand for > > Electricité de France, but the company has diversified and no longer > > expands

Re: Bug#467097: ITP: eficas -- ASter Command FIle Editor

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 02:30:29AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:09 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:41:05AM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > > > > Upstream Author : EDF / R&D > > > > Please include the full name of the author(s). > > > EDF

Re: Bug#467097: ITP: eficas -- ASter Command FIle Editor

Le vendredi 29 février 2008 à 10:29 +0100, Guus Sliepen a écrit : > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 02:30:29AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:09 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:41:05AM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > > > > > > Upstream Author :

Re: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:52:12AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Michelle Konzack] > > It seems there is a common problem while setting up the correct UNICODE > > locale in systems. As the posster in the attached message has written, > > he has setup his locale to "zh_CN.utf8" which is wron

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

On Fri, February 29, 2008 03:02, William Pitcock wrote: > Why does a package need to clarify what's different about it than others > like it? Debian is about having the possibility of choosing between many > options for the same thing e.g. openssh, dropbear for sshd, 12 different > httpd options, e

Let's kill this part of the discussion right away [was: Re: How to cope with patches sanely]

Manoj Srivastava wrote: > And no, I can do this using plain old arch, and I don't really > have to change my SCM. > But not all Debian maintainers are using git; >> Version control systems that have content-addressable filesystems >> (essentially, git and Monotone) are inherently e

Re: Many packaged programs that are doing the same thing

Hi, On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 10:38 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:02:39PM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > > > > Even there, it looks very much like other "very small" webservers, > > > such as boa, bozohttpd, cherokee, fnord, lighttpd, micro-httpd, > > > mini-httpd or thttpd

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

Hi, On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:16 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Fri, February 29, 2008 03:02, William Pitcock wrote: > > Why does a package need to clarify what's different about it than others > > like it? Debian is about having the possibility of choosing between many > > options for the same

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

On Fri, February 29, 2008 12:41, William Pitcock wrote: > But if you are worried about the QA and security team, then why not > create an unsupported repo. It could even be a good solution towards > recruiting new DDs. I have no intent of stopping you to create any third party repositories. > Sur

Re: Many packaged programs that are doing the same thing

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:58:11AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: [...] > > When we see something like this, maybe we should contact > > the upstream authors and suggest that they work together, so that the > > number of light-weight daemons to choose from decreases but the quality > > of the remai

Unsupported? (Was: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol)

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, William Pitcock wrote: But if you are worried about the QA and security team, then why not create an unsupported repo. It could even be a good solution towards recruiting new DDs. Lets call it, say, 'community', 'extras', or 'unsupported'. Please don't! Kind regards

Re: Many packaged programs that are doing the same thing

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Guus Sliepen wrote: For example: if two light-weight httpds have a very similar feature set, then if the two upstream maintainers can be made to work together and create a single httpd with the best qualities of both, then that will reduce choice, but the one choice left is

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:16:59AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What I am trying to achieve is to use git in the proper way: that is, > > in a way which makes merging work properly. > > > > Insisting that I use git in a manner which makes merges break

Bug#468510: ITP: octave-nnet -- A feed forward multi-layer neural network

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468515: ITP: octave-optim -- Unconstrained Non-linear Optimization toolkit

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468498: ITP: octave-control -- Additional Octave Control tools

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468505: ITP: octave-informationtheory -- Functions and routines for basic Information Theory definitions, and source coding

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468502: ITP: octave-gsl -- Octave bindings to the GNU Scientific Library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468524: ITP: octave-special-matrix -- Additional Special Matrices for Octave

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468503: ITP: octave-ident -- Addition System Indentification Control functions

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468495: ITP: octave-audio -- Audio recording, processing and playing tools

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468529: ITP: octave-symbolic -- Symbolic toolbox based on GiNaC and CLN

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468533: ITP: octave-ad -- Automatic Forward Differentiation

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468496: ITP: octave-combinatorics -- Combinatorics functions, incuding partitioning

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468499: ITP: octave-econometrics -- Econometrics functions including MLE and GMM based techniques

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg > maintenance)"): >> As soon as you edit commits, they'll get a new id, and thus you'll disrupt >> merging. > > As I thought. > > What I am trying to achieve is to use git in t

Bug#468528: ITP: octave-struct -- Additional Structure manipulations functions

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468542: ITP: octave-mapping -- Simple Mapping functions.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468512: ITP: octave-octgpr -- The package allows interpolating and smoothing scattered

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468501: ITP: octave-general -- General tools for octave

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468497: ITP: octave-communications -- Digital Communications, Error Correcting Codes (Channel Code), Source Code functions, Modulation and Galois Fields

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468517: ITP: octave-outliers -- Grubbs, Dixon and Cochran tests for outlier detection

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468540: ITP: octave-java -- Provides Java interface with OO-like Java objects manipulation

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468538: ITP: octave-graceplot -- Graceplot bindings for octave

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468535: ITP: octave-civil-engineering -- Functions to solution some ODE's in Civil Engineering

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468537: ITP: octave-fpl -- Collection of routines to plot data on unstructured triangular and tetrahedral meshes

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468504: ITP: octave-image -- The Octave-forge Image package provides functions for

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468527: ITP: octave-strings -- Additional manipulation functions

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468519: ITP: octave-physicalconstants -- Physical Constants from Atomic & Molecular Physics, taken from NIST database

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468507: ITP: octave-irsa -- Irregular sampling analysis

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468518: ITP: octave-parallel -- Parallel execution package for cluster computers

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468541: ITP: octave-jhandles -- JHandles is a java- and openGL-based alternative graphics

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468525: ITP: octave-splines -- Additional Cubic spline functions

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468534: ITP: octave-bim -- Package for solving Diffusion Advection Reaction (DAR) Partial Differential Equaltions based on the Finite Volume Scharfetter-Gummel (FVSG) method a.k.a Box Integration

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468532: ITP: octave-zenity -- A set of functions for creating simple graphical

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468506: ITP: octave-io -- Input/Output in external formats

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468509: ITP: octave-miscellaneous -- Miscellaneous tools including waitbar, xml tools, etc

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468514: ITP: octave-odepkg -- A toolkit for Differential Equations and Initial Value Problems

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468530: ITP: octave-time -- Additional date manipulation tools

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468523: ITP: octave-specfun -- Special functions including ellipitic functions, etc

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468522: ITP: octave-sockets -- Socket functions

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468513: ITP: octave-odebvp -- To approximate the solution of the boundary-value problem y''=p(x)*y' + q(x)*y + r(x), a<=x<=b, y(a)=alpha, y(b)=beta by the linear finite-diffence method

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468539: ITP: octave-integration -- Toolbox for 1-D, 2-D, and n-D Numerical Integration

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468531: ITP: octave-vrml -- 3D graphics using VRML

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468511: ITP: octave-octcdf -- A NetCDF interface for octave

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468536: ITP: octave-engine -- An external interface library for Octave

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468520: ITP: octave-plot -- Additional ploting tools for Octave

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468516: ITP: octave-optiminterp -- An optimal interpolation toolbox for octave

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468508: ITP: octave-linear-algebra -- Additional linear algebra code, including general SVD and matrix functions

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468526: ITP: octave-statistics -- Additional statistics functions for Octave

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#468500: ITP: octave-fixed -- Fixed point real and complex matrix toolbox

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Re: Unsupported? (Was: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol)

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, William Pitcock wrote: > > > But if you are worried about the QA and security team, then why not > > create an unsupported repo. It could even be a good solution towards > > recruiting new DDs. > >

mass ITPs

Hi Rafael, all, Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#468183: Unsupported? (Was: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol)

I created an updated description. Please see below. One thing i forgot to mention earlier was the feature of logging the http requests directly to a mysql-database. I'm not quite sure, but I think this feature is not supported by most other webservers. Description: small http server Monkey is

Re: Many packaged programs that are doing the same thing

[William Pitcock] > Why not? Debian ships more than 10 different shells, media players, etc. > Why should an httpd be not included because there are already others. > This isn't about being "helpful", this is about _choice_. You seem to assume that choice is good, and more choices are better. Thi

Bug#468521: ITP: octave-signal -- Signal processing tools, including filtering, windowing and display functions

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

Le Friday 29 February 2008 11:16:04 Thijs Kinkhorst, vous avez écrit : > There are several costs associated with having yet another package doing > the same thing: > * For the project in general, it costs archive and Packages file space, > build time, QA efforts just to name a few; You're mixing d

Bug#468557: ITP: ergo -- Automatic theorem prover dedicated to program verification

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mehdi Dogguy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ergo Version : 0.7.2 Upstream Author : Sylvain Conchon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ergo.lri.fr/ * License : CeCILL-C Programming Lang: OCaml Description : Au

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:39:32PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Another thing is that people have the old habit to see the source > package be the preferred form of modification for a Debian package. erm ... Regards, Paddy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:16:59AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > What I am trying to achieve is to use git in the proper way: that is, >> > in a way which makes merging work properly. >> > >> > Insisting tha

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:51:41PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > > Does this not also suffer from the problem that branches made from my > > > triggers branch become unuseable or difficult to merge ? > > >

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:51:41PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Does this not also suffer from the problem that branches made from my > > triggers branch become unuseable or difficult to merge ? > git merge --squash is more or less equivalent to appl

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

William Pitcock dijo [Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:02:39PM -0600]: > Why does a package need to clarify what's different about it than others > like it? Debian is about having the possibility of choosing between many > options for the same thing e.g. openssh, dropbear for sshd, 12 different > httpd opti

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

On Fri February 29 2008 06:29:07 Otavio Salvador wrote: > I personally apply this same policy on repositories that I work and it > usually makes much easier logs to read. I'm not a DD but I've been programming since 1963 when I was 7. Based on decades of software engineering experience, I would ju

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

Hi, On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 10:33 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > But the user should not have to install 10 small HTTP servers just to > know what's the goddamn difference. That's extremely unhelpful from > us. We should tell the prospective user at a first glance why he wants > one httpd over another.

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

On Fri February 29 2008 08:11:17 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > But Guillem wants to review and understand the code. In this process, > he will rearrange the changes in smaller logical chunks. Horses for courses. A software engineering class would help Guillem get up to speed without impacting Ian's pr

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > I'm not a DD but I've been programming since 1963 when I was 7. > Based on decades of software engineering experience, I would > just like to remind you to USE THE FSCKING SOURCE!!! I am not sure this applies to dpkg, but in kernel land, the full reasoning b

Re: mass ITPs

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? That would defeat a lot of the purpose of the ITPs (like looking at the descriptions, etc). I think we just have to deal with i

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

William Pitcock dijo [Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:41:25AM -0600]: > Clearly these packages are different enough to somebody if they are > going to the effort of packaging them. Perhaps they have a superior > configuration format or some other non-notable feature. > > But if you are worried about the Q

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

William Pitcock dijo [Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:41:25AM -0600]: > But if you are worried about the QA and security team, then why not > create an unsupported repo. It could even be a good solution towards > recruiting new DDs. > > Lets call it, say, 'community', 'extras', or 'unsupported'. > > The

Re: Unsupported?

Hi, On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 21:54 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > unsupported.d.n could be the right place for packages that are "not > good enough for Debian (yet)". It could be a good place to merge > packages removed from Debian for having no users (or whatever), > uploaded to Ubuntu, Nexenta, Preventa

Re: mass ITPs

* Paul Wise [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:59:58 +0900]: > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? (Without entering to discuss the subject matter, just a clarification: they could go to submit@ as usual, with just re

Re: mass ITPs

Hi, On Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 21:59:58 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi Rafael, all, > > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? And/or creating a new mailing list, debian-itp, debian-devel-itp or whatever might

Re: Unsupported?

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:47:25AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > Did I mention that it is unsupported? So if it's unsupported, set it up yourself instead of asking Debian to dedicate resources to it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

On Fri February 29 2008 09:26:32 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > I'm not a DD but I've been programming since 1963 when I was 7. > > Based on decades of software engineering experience, I would > > just like to remind you to USE THE FSCKING SOURCE!!! >

Re: Unsupported?

Hi, On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 09:57 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > So if it's unsupported, set it up yourself instead of asking Debian to > dedicate resources to it. > I wasn't aware that I was asking Debian to dedicate resources to it. William signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signe

Bug#468638: ITP: libdbd-mock-perl -- Mock database driver for testing

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdbd-mock-perl Version : 1.36 Upstream Author : Chris Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stevan Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Kinyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.examp

Re: Bug#468314: RFH: k3b -- A sophisticated KDE CD burning application

Hi, > I request a co-maintainer for K3b. You can join us. We maintain Qt, KDE and KDE related packages in pkg-kde on alioth. > On my list of things to do is merge the packaging with the Ubuntu version > and try to collaborate more with the Ubuntu maintainers. We work in collaboration with kubu

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

Lucas wrote: >On 28/02/08 at 01:09 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> >> Yes, subjective to the point of absurdity. If failure is defined in terms >> of *your* expectations, I don't see how we can even have a meaningful >> dialogue about it. > >Note that my main point in the thread is "we should use

Re: mass ITPs

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > And/or creating a new mailing list, debian-itp, debian-devel-itp or > whatever might be a good idea. Quite a big number of mails to the > debian-devel mailing list are ITPs. I also thought the same some time ago, on the other hand "development of De

Bug#468651: ITP: libsub-wrappackage-perl -- add wrappers around subroutines in packages.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsub-wrappackage-perl Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-WrapPackages/ * License : GPL + Artis

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

* Ben Finney: > It's no security risk to unpack a tarball, apply a patch to it via GNU > 'patch', and examine the result. History should tell you that this is not true. 8-) I can even understand people who state that GNU tar should never be used to uncompress tarballs from untrusted sources, and

Re: mass ITPs

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 06:44:40PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > On Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 21:59:58 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > > Hi Rafael, all, > > > > Perhaps in future mass ITPs could be mostly filed with only one to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the rest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? > > And/or

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

* Manoj Srivastava: > But there is no such linearization, not in the way that quilt et > al do it. The state of such integration is not maintained in the > feature branches; it is in the history of the integration branch. As > each feature branch was created or developed, if there wer

Re: Bug#467097: ITP: eficas -- ASter Command FIle Editor

Sylvestre Ledru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do you want me to put as an author ? Electricité de France would be > OK ? In that case, I might give both the current legal form and a clarifying comment: EDF S.A. (historically named Electricité de France) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu a

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:11:17PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > But Guillem wants to review and understand the code. In this process, > he will rearrange the changes in smaller logical chunks. Ah, the impression that has been created on the lists is more that the patches were being NACKed and

Re: Bug#468183: Unsupported?

* Thorsten Schmale: > I created an updated description. Please see below. One thing i > forgot to mention earlier was the feature of logging the http requests > directly to a mysql-database. I'm not quite sure, but I think this > feature is not supported by most other webservers. We've already

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