Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:55:34PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: >>> Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> I'm not so sure that the test should be packages. >>> The system is too different on early boot from a Debian system. >> >> In what way? Note th

Bug#496627: ITP: hpl -- High performance computing linpack benchmark

2008-08-26 Thread Jean Parpaillon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jean Parpaillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hpl Version : 1.0a Upstream Author : Antoine P. Petitet * URL : http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/index.html * License : 4-Clause BSD Programming Lang: C, Fortran

Bug#496636: ITP: netams -- Network Traffic Accounting and Monitoring Software

2008-08-26 Thread Alexander Gerasiov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Gerasiov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: netams Version : 3.4.2~cvs Upstream Author : NeTAMS Development Team * URL : http://www.netams.com * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++, Perl Description : Ne

Etch->Lenny upgrade mutes some/many old laptops.

2008-08-26 Thread Joona Kiiski
Hi, I decided to give lenny a try and upgraded my old laptop. Everything went fine, except for some strange reason, sound didn't work. After about three hours of trial and error plus some googling, I found bug #464191 which is caused by removal of some binary-only driver from kernel. While in pr

Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Noah Slater
Hello, I have been having some discussion with a member of the Erlang packaging team about best practice and comparing this with the Python Modules packaging team. The two teams approach things slightly differently... Python Modules * The focus is on individual maintainership * Uploaders i

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 26 Aug 2008, Noah Slater wrote: > Clearly some teams will organise differently, and that's fine, but it would be > nice if we could agree a set of guidelines for using the Maintainer/Uploaders > fields consistently across teams. I disagree. Teams work differently and thus the Maintainer/Upl

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Noah, On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 14:54, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been having some discussion with a member of the Erlang packaging team > about best practice and comparing this with the Python Modules packaging team. > > The two teams approach things slightly diff

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it > apply) so, that anyone can look at actual reason and fix problem > (packaging, contacting upstream for license issues etc). Fine. If you - get a uniform (and not too hard) way to know which ITP(s) belong to the package

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:10:38PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it > > apply) so, that anyone can look at actual reason and fix problem > > (packaging, contacting upstream for license issues etc). > > Fine. > > If you > > -

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:47:55PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > This is not entirely true: each one can choose to set maintainer as the team > or a "real person"; for example, take a look to every module I package[1] in > the team: the Maintainer field is always set to the team. I see, that's very

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:32:25PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > From some of the private conversations I have had I am aware that some people > do not feel it is appropriate to list a team's email address in the Uploaders > field under any circumstances and others probably feel the same way about th

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Kartik Mistry wrote: > I have seen that many packages are rejected from NEW [1] due to either > licensing or poor packaging and we know the reasons [2] too. > It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it > apply) so, that anyone can look at actual reason and fix proble

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1] sane does not mean > - assume that every uploader does it right and closes ITPs in > changelog (or even mention them), > - parsing wnpp bug data everytime How about BCC'ing the reject mail to a mailing list with a public, web-browsab

Re: Etch->Lenny upgrade mutes some/many old laptops.

2008-08-26 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag, 26. August 2008 13:23:35 schrieb Joona Kiiski: > I decided to give lenny a try and upgraded my old laptop. > Everything went fine, except for some strange reason, sound didn't work. > > After about three hours of trial and error plus some googling, I found > bug #464191 which is caused

Bug#496687: ITP: pdfsam -- PDF Split and Merge

2008-08-26 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pdfsam Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Andrea Vacondio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.pdfsam.org * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Java Description : P

Re: Packaging team best practice

2008-08-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:54:09 +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > Clearly some teams will organise differently, and that's fine, but it would be > nice if we could agree a set of guidelines for using the Maintainer/Uploaders > fields consistently across teams. There were two BOFs at DebConf about team-mai

packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread James Troup
Hi, The following packages are up for adoption: * gawk * gdbm * gimp-dimage-color * gnupg-doc * gnus * mawk * p0f * quinn-diff * xloadimage * gawk-doc (non-free) -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:46:33PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > * gdbm > * mawk I'll would like to take gdbm mawk signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Luk Claes
James Troup wrote: > * quinn-diff I would like to take this one. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, James Troup wrote: > * gnupg-doc I'll take care of this one. Don Armstrong -- I leave the show floor, but not before a pack of caffeinated Jolt gum is thrust at me by a hyperactive girl screaming, "Chew more! Do more!" The American will to consume more and produce more pe

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 08:30:48AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:46:33PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > * gdbm > > * mawk > I'll would like to take gdbm mawk You currently have two RC bugs open on two base packages that you maintain, one a year old and one a mo

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:13:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >You currently have two RC bugs open on two base packages that you maintain, >one a year old For that one, upstream didn't reply at all when asked about that issue >and one a month old, An upstream contributor promised to fix it and

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:23:03AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:13:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >>You currently have two RC bugs open on two base packages that you maintain, >>one a year old > >For that one, upstream didn't reply at all when asked about tha

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread maximilian attems
hello, On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:46:33PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > The following packages are up for adoption: > > * gawk > * gawk-doc (non-free) arthur loiret nmu uploaded latest upstream to experimental, so those are for him. thanks -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:41:20AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > James Troup wrote: > > > * quinn-diff > > I would like to take this one. Is this worth integrating with sbuild.git? Feel free to add it as part of the buildd-tools project on Alioth in either case, since it's needed by wanna-build.

Bug#496722: ITP: palapeli -- a puzzle game for KDE4

2008-08-26 Thread Xavier Vello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Vello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: palapeli Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Stefan Majewsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Felix Lemke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/P

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:46:33PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > The following packages are up for adoption: > * gawk > * mawk > * gawk-doc (non-free) I would be willing to take these three. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:42:12AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:46:33PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > The following packages are up for adoption: > > * gawk > > * gawk-doc (non-free) > arthur loiret nmu uploaded latest upstream to experimental, > so those are f

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:07:48 +0200 Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Indeed. This would also rule out a temporary bug in popcon (in that > case, it would have been a peak which would subside over time). > Instead, my guess is that there are corner-case situations in which > popcon tr

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:07:48 +0200 Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Another possibility might be a group of people having popcon and > something like cron-apt installed at the same time; if both cronjobs > trigger at approximately the same time, that would greatly increase > th

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about BCC'ing the reject mail to a mailing list with a public, > web-browsable archive? Yes, even publicly available report is also fine. -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Homepage: people.debi

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Brian May
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: That can be easily determined by looking in the .changes for the "closes" field. If more than one, you can check to see which has "ITP" in the title. If there is no closes, then assume that there is no ITP and that's it. I would suggest you always check for which o