Re: Notice spam

2008-03-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:55:59PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > (...) If I'm running Debian, I know it well that I'm running Free > Software and there's no warranty. Especially after having a wall of > text pushed right in my face on login (by default), any subsequent > notices are not only redu

Re: ITP: ttf-linex -- Free fonts for education and institutions

2008-03-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > >> This (still quite informal) group tries to gather people >> maintaining font packages in Debian (and CDDs). > > "and CDDs" is redundant, because CDDs are included in Debian. > Damn, one more point to cha

Re: ITP: ttf-linex -- Free fonts for education and institutions

2008-03-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting José L. Redrejo Rodríguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): José sent a request to join the group on Alioth which I grantyed yesterday. > I'll be glad in joining to the group if it does not mean more work ;-) Not really. It just means you check out svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-fonts/packages and

Re: ITP: ttf-linex -- Free fonts for education and institutions

2008-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: Sorry, I often misuse "CDD" to mean "derivative distributions"..:-) Yep. I'm quite bored of this (which is not your fault but common practice because of the very badly choosen name). I just registered "CDD renaming BOF" at https://penta.

Re: ITP: ttf-linex -- Free fonts for education and institutions

2008-03-11 Thread L. Redrejo
El mar, 11-03-2008 a las 07:26 +0100, Christian Perrier escribió: > Quoting José L. Redrejo Rodríguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > José sent a request to join the group on Alioth which I grantyed yesterday. > > > > I'll be glad in joining to the group if it does not mean more work ;-) > > Not real

Please test ELinks from experimental

2008-03-11 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
Hi, I uploaded ELinks 0.12~20080127-2 a few days ago to experimental. If you happen to use ELinks, please test this and report any bugs etc. that you may find. If you don't use ELinks, now is probably a good time to start using it :) This version of ELinks is based on an upstream 0.12 GIT snaps

Bug#470467: ITP: hyantesite -- geomatic tool to compute neighbourhood population potential

2008-03-11 Thread Guelton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hyantesite Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : serge guelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://hyantes.gforge.inria.fr * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : ge

actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Karl Chen
Hi, I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package depending on a replacement package or conflicting with the old one], and no active notification to th

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Karl, * Karl Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-11 13:51]: > I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think > it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no > automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package > depending on a replacement package or

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Olivier Berger
Le mardi 11 mars 2008 à 05:23 -0700, Karl Chen a écrit : > Hi, > > I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think > it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no > automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package > depending on a replacement pack

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/03/08 at 05:23 -0700, Karl Chen wrote: > I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think > it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no > automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package > depending on a replacement package or conflicting wit

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Hi, Olivier Berger schrieb: > FYI, according to > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464021 I suppose that > users having subscribed to packages in the PTS should now be notified of > such removals (which used not to be the case, and worried us a great > deal some weeks ago ;) this

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 05:23:45AM -0700, Karl Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think > it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no > automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package > depending on a replacement pac

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Remi Vanicat
Karl Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think > it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no > automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package > depending on a replacement package or conflicting w

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/03/08 at 05:23 -0700, Karl Chen wrote: > To get the list of packages that are installed, but are no longer part > of the archive, I use >apt-show-versions |grep 'No available version in archive' Or use the aptitude frontend for package management which will show s

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Luca Brivio
Alle 14:57, mar 11 marzo 2008, Andreas Bombe ha scritto: > It's no active notification, but aptitude lists all installed packages > that aren't in any distribution included in sources.list under "Obsolete > and Locally Created Packages". Verifying that this doesn't include any > packages that I ex

Re: DD in Antarctic Continent?

2008-03-11 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, And I filed this as Bug#470495. I wish someone fix this bug :) -- Regards, Hideki Yamane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian's use in the Human Genome Project mentioned in the The Guardian

2008-03-11 Thread Tim Cutts
A couple of weeks ago The Guardian ran a story about computing and DNA sequencing where I work at the Sanger Institute, and it's nice to note that they actually mention that we use Debian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/28/research.computing Just thought you might like to read

Re: Please test ELinks from experimental

2008-03-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:51:14PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > Hi, > > I uploaded ELinks 0.12~20080127-2 a few days ago to experimental. If > you happen to use ELinks, please test this and report any bugs etc. that > you may find. If you don't use ELinks, now is probably a good time to

Re: Bug#463029: ITP: synce-sync-engine -- Synchronization Engine for Windows Mobile devices

2008-03-11 Thread Ivan Vucica
Cheers, Here's a poke from a user of PocketPC. Since OpenSync supports Google Calendar, I'd be really interested that it works with WM. How's it going? Also, a side-question. Is it possible to use upstream synce-sync-engine without compiling other parts of SynCE from source, that is, combin

Re: Bug#463029: ITP: synce-sync-engine -- Synchronization Engine for Windows Mobile devices

2008-03-11 Thread Jonny Lamb
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:48:00PM +0100, Ivan Vucica wrote: > Here's a poke from a user of PocketPC. Since OpenSync supports Google > Calendar, I'd be really interested that it works with WM. How's it going? SyncEngine and its OpenSync plugin only provides information to OpenSync. I haven't hea

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:59:13PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: [...] > I'd suggest to file wishlist bugreports against any package > management frontend (not including apt) that does not in some way > mark packages that are no longer available in the archive (or > rather, in the sources defined in the

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:23:45 -0700, Karl Chen wrote: > Thoughts? What have I missed? Existing solutions or non-problem? Not a general solution probably but maybe interesting for you is the following RSS feed: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~joerg/removals/removals.rss Cheers, gregor -- .''`.

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 11.03.2008, 05:23 -0700 schrieb Karl Chen: > Thoughts? What have I missed? Existing solutions or non-problem? > How can we move towards implementing something like this? What > other ideas are there for dealing with disappearing packages? A solution that’s possible without

dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Towns writes: > Beyond that, any additional uploads of dpkg will be REJECTed Therefore dpkg 1.15.2 is now available here, as sources and i386 binaries - a complete upload ready to go into sid: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/dpkg/ Thanks to the miracle of using git properly, I am

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Raphael Geissert
Joachim Breitner wrote: > > A solution that’s possible without big changes would be a package > "removal-notifier" which contains a manual list of removed packages > (which needs to be maintained by someone of course) and can tell the > user about packages he has installed but that are on that lis

Re: lzma: New upstream version available (#460501)

2008-03-11 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
tags 460501 + help thanks Hi, Actually, I have already prepared a package for the new upstream release (4.57)[0]. The package is almost ready, it's just that I don't know how to update lzmp patch[1], I would need some help for that... Regards, Arnaud Fontaine [0] http://git.debian.org/?p=colla

Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-11 Thread John Goerzen
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 4:41:57 pm Ian Jackson wrote: > Meanwhile I see that Guillem is hard at work making future merges more > difficult. > > He is polishing revision logs by rebasing changes, reorganising > commits into a different order, moving code between files, > gratuitously reformatting[

Bug#470574: installs into non-policy-compliant /usr/libexec

2008-03-11 Thread William Pitcock
Package: mingw32 Version: 4.2.1.dfsg-1 Severity: serious Justification: policy 8.2 (?) Hi, After installing mingw32, I noticed the following files in /usr/libexec/gcc, they should be installed to /usr/lib/gcc instead: /usr/libexec /usr/libexec/gcc /usr/libexec/gcc/i586-mingw32msvc /usr/libexec/

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Karl Chen
> On 2008-03-11 06:52 PDT, Lucas Nussbaum writes: Lucas> If you are only interested in a few packages, you could Lucas> subscribe to them on the PTS. I recently worked on a Lucas> script to notify PTS subscribers ('summary' keyword) Lucas> when the package is orphaned or remove

Intend to hijack xchat-xsys

2008-03-11 Thread UlisesVitulli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi debian-devel, I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2] for several bugs and many new upstream releases hold back on Debian, and he communicated me that he is not longer interested on maintaining it any more. Unfortunately, my sugge

Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2008 4:41:57 pm Ian Jackson wrote: > > He is polishing revision logs by rebasing changes, reorganising > > commits into a different order, moving code between files, > > gratuitously reformatting[2], etc. > > What is it that people don

contacting Mark J. Kilgard?

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I would like to resolve #467123 (non-free code in chromium), to do so I need Mark J. Kilgard to relicense some of his code (TexFont.cpp and TexFont.h). Does anyone know how to contact him? The alternative is to rewrite the code or find another implementation. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.de

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-11 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, I'd like to clarify few more things, which have been brough up the past few days. Even if I don't usually accept open invitations to flamefests (re the OP). On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:42:48 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:38:44PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > On 09-

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-11 Thread Mike Bird
Hi Guillem, Ian wrote that you recently committed 402 diff lines of stuff like this:   -static void usage(void) {   +void   +usage(void)   +{ It's easy to see negatives such as making it harder to merge long-awaited features. What positives do you see for Debian? --Mike Bird

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:19:42PM +0100, Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Alle 14:57, mar 11 marzo 2008, Andreas Bombe ha scritto: > > It's no active notification, but aptitude lists all installed packages > > that aren't in any distribution included in sources.list under "Obso

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-11 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:06 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Hi Guillem, > > Ian wrote that you recently committed 402 diff lines of stuff > like this: > -static void usage(void) { > +void > +usage(void) > +{ > > It's easy to see negatives such as making it harder to merge > long-awaited fe

, Alerta tributário: aos profissionais liberais e autônomos

2008-03-11 Thread Ricardo Ceva
Alerta tributário: aos profissionais liberais e autônomos   NUNCA "COMPRE" NOTA FISCAL   Evite sempre este expediente, quando for necessário apresentar Nota Fiscal para receber sua remuneração por seviços prestados.   Em primeiro lugar, isto é ilegal e deixa voce irregular junto ao fisco.