Re: Bug#479238: ITP: res -- OCaml library for automatically resizing contiguous data structure

2008-05-04 Thread Ben Finney
Please follow http://www.debian.org/MailingLists#codeofconduct> and avoid sending individual copies of messages also sent to the lists, since I haven't asked for that. Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:27:29PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Please change th

Re: Bug#479238: ITP: res -- OCaml library for automatically resizing contiguous data structure

2008-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:08:57PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > and avoid sending individual copies of messages also sent to the > lists, since I haven't asked for that. Oops, sorry, I did mess up with the recipients in order to add back the bug report to them (and I'm doing it also now), in order t

Re: Bug#479238: ITP: res -- OCaml library for automatically resizing contiguous data structure

2008-05-04 Thread Ben Finney
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:08:57PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Regardless, 'res' is an overly general name. The package should be > > more specific to the fact that it's an OCaml library. The time to > > choose an appropriate name is now rather tha

Is master unsuitable to receive mail from lists.debian.org?

2008-05-04 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. I tried to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this without success, so this time I will Cc: debian-devel, as it would be extremely strange that I'm the only person with this problem. Executive summary: master.debian.org, where I receive debian email, has stronger spam filtering than lists.deb

Re: quiltrc

2008-05-04 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello! On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 03:13:31AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > ~/.quiltrc: > > for where in ./ ../ ../../ ../../../ ../../../../ ../../../../../; do > if [ -e ${where}debian/rules -a -d ${where}debian/patches ]; then > export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches

Re: Bug#479238: ITP: res -- OCaml library for automatically resizing contiguous data structure

2008-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:44:57AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:27:29PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Please change this to a package name that is less generic, and > > conforms with other OCaml library packages. 'libres-ocaml' would be > > better. > > This is the s

Bug#479367: ITP: fqterm -- a cross-platform terminal emulator

2008-05-04 Thread LI Daobing (李道兵)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: fqterm Version: 0.9.1~beta Upstream Author: fqterm, FireLakeWalker, edyfox URL: http://code.google.com/p/fqterm License: GPLv2 De

Bug#479397: RFA: gutenprint -- printer drivers for CUPS

2008-05-04 Thread Roger Leigh
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the gutenprint package. I no longer have time to maintain it, and it deserves to be maintained to a better standard than I can currently manage. Not only am I short of time, but I no longer have an inkjet printer for testing and bug fixing.

Re: building a package two times

2008-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On May 03, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> FLAVORS := std >> ifeq ((findstring $(DEB_HOST_ARCH),amd64 ia64 ppc64 s390x),) >> FLAVORS += lfs >> endif >> >> Like this? > AFAICT this will match also if DEB_HOST_ARCH=s390. > > Anyway, I

Re: Is master unsuitable to receive mail from lists.debian.org?

2008-05-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 04 May 2008, Santiago Vila wrote: > Executive summary: master.debian.org, where I receive debian email, > has stronger spam filtering than lists.debian.org, as master seems > to use some kind of "content filtering". As a result, some spam > messages distributed by lists.debian.org are rejec

Re: quiltrc

2008-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Matthias Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 03:13:31AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> ~/.quiltrc: >> >> for where in ./ ../ ../../ ../../../ ../../../../ ../../../../../; do >> if [ -e ${where}debian/rules -a -d ${where}debian/patches ]; then >>

Re: Is master unsuitable to receive mail from lists.debian.org?

2008-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 02:00:45PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > I tried to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this without success, > so this time I will Cc: debian-devel, as it would be extremely strange > that I'm the only person with this problem. > > Executive summary: master.debian.org, where I

Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
I have packaged the Ra extension for just-in-time compilation to GNU R (see ITP #479233 for details). It comes as a tarball to be installed on top of the GNU R sources. So I created a new hybird tarball of the two sources. Not elegant as it creates a 16mb tarball containing a copy of GNU R's 16

Re: Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 02:55:59PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > I have packaged the Ra extension for just-in-time compilation to GNU R (see > ITP #479233 for details). It comes as a tarball to be installed on top of > the GNU R sources. > > So I created a new hybird tarball of the two so

Re: Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As an alternative, could I just start from Ra source, and then in > debian/rules obtain r-base's orig.tar.gz, untar it and then apply the Ra > sources to it? Or is that too fragile? My understanding is that the buildds don't necessarily have apt-sr

Bug#479440: ITP: funpidgin -- A pidgin fork

2008-05-04 Thread Mohammed Sameer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: funpidgin Version : 2.4.1 Upstream Author : A lot. Can't be listed here! * URL : http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11375 March 1977, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > As an alternative, could I just start from Ra source, and then in > debian/rules obtain r-base's orig.tar.gz, untar it and then apply the Ra > sources to it? Or is that too fragile? No. Do not assume that there is *any* network connectivity at buil

Re: NMU versioning

2008-05-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/04/08 at 11:54 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > FWIW, I think NMUing a package shouldn't end up with a sourceful upload > but should instead have a .diff.gz, whether it's a native package or not. When NMUing a native package, which problem would it add to upload a source package with a single .ta

Re: Is master unsuitable to receive mail from lists.debian.org?

2008-05-04 Thread Adam Majer
Colin Watson wrote: > Yes, I've been seeing the same thing. It's usually just an irritation, > but I guess some day I'll hit a threshold and get unsubscribed from a > bunch of lists. Wouldn't it be possible to configure the mail server to filter the mail based on the header content? That is, * I

Re: Bug#479440: ITP: funpidgin -- A pidgin fork

2008-05-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:24 +0300, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: funpidgin > Version : 2.4.1 > Upstream Author : A lot. Can't be listed here! > * URL : http://funpidgin.source

Re: Is master unsuitable to receive mail from lists.debian.org?

2008-05-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:57:10PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes, I've been seeing the same thing. It's usually just an irritation, > > but I guess some day I'll hit a threshold and get unsubscribed from a > > bunch of lists. > > Wouldn't it be possible to configure the ma

Re: Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have packaged the Ra extension for just-in-time compilation to GNU R (see > ITP #479233 for details). It comes as a tarball to be installed on top of > the GNU R sources. > > So I created a new hybird tarball of the two sources. Not elegant as it

Re: Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:29:38AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have packaged the Ra extension for just-in-time compilation to GNU R (see > > ITP #479233 for details). It comes as a tarball to be installed on top of > > the GNU R sourc

Re: Bug#479440: ITP: funpidgin -- A pidgin fork

2008-05-04 Thread Mohammed Sameer
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:28:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:24 +0300, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * Package name: funpidgin > > Version : 2.4.1 > > Upstream Auth

Re: Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I should definitely talk more to myself. > > Thanks to all for the follow-up. Will no assume network access and go > the low-key route for packaging. > > Dirk Maybe buy some sweets or nice glass of milk to win yourself over. MfG Goswi

Re: Bug#479440: ITP: funpidgin -- A pidgin fork

2008-05-04 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:24 +0300, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * Package name: funpidgin > > Version : 2.4.1 > > Upstream Author

Re: Bug#479440: ITP: funpidgin -- A pidgin fork

2008-05-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:28:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:24 +0300, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * Package name: funpidgin > > Version : 2.4.1 > > Upstream Auth

Re: Bug#479440: ITP: funpidgin -- A pidgin fork

2008-05-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun, 2008-05-05 at 01:19 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > my understanding is that this is a 'protest' fork made to add a > feature > that the upstream did not want(the resizing). So as long as the > upstream > resists, it should survive. I find that a bit too much for a complete fork. Couldn't this