On Sunday 07 December 2008 16:10:34 Charles Plessy wrote:
> With its thousands of packages, Debian is not so rich in manpower, so if
> the current maintainers of GTK+ 1.2 want to abandon it and the QA team is
> not interested in keeping it, there is no other choice than to adopt it
> (and its 43 b
Le lundi 08 décembre 2008 à 14:35 +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard a écrit :
> I must admit I was under the impression from this discussion that GTK+
> 1.2 was
> simply _unwanted_ in Debian due to reasons of out-of-dateness and possible
> security problems...
Yes, it is unwanted.
I’d like to see it enti
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 19:08 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 05 décembre 2008 à 21:43 -0600, Raphael Geissert a écrit :
> > > Alain Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >gsnes9x
> > > => visualboyadvance ?
> >
> > C'mon, there are at least 15 years between the two consoles.
> > And n
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 20:42 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> You forgot xmms. It is still heavily used and there are no alternative
> for it. (It is just such a application as xv - very old but there are no
> alternative that completely replace it (in all facets).)
There's not?
There's at least 20 di
Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
I am quite willing to adopt the package and maintain it, but I couldn't
find
it on the list of orphans. Maybe I didn't look hard enough? That list is
enormous... :-(
On a side note, I already am attempting to adopt a companion for GTK+ 1.2,
namely gktglarea [1]. The
Hi all,
I am doing some pilot tagging to implement my idea of peer review for the
`debian/copyright' file. Since I have no plan of setting and managing a contact
email for this, I tried to define a usertag with a username that is not an
email address:
aqwa『~』$ bts user copyright-peer-review . use
William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (08/12/2008):
> Unless you're talking about the ugly XMMS GUI. In which case, I
> believe QMMS is available for packaging.
So says an audacious packager and upstream author.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
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Le lundi 08 décembre 2008 à 08:25 -0600, William Pitcock a écrit :
> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 19:08 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Gah, I thought it was able to handle SNES ROMs. The correct answer would
> > probably be zsnes, although it only works on i386.
>
> Actually, gsnes9x can just be drop
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William Pitcock wrote:
> Unless you're talking about the ugly XMMS GUI. In which case, I believe
> QMMS is available for packaging.
You meant 'QMMP'? It reproduces XMMS GUI and it is in unstable already.
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Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>aria
> => gwget
You're kidding? gwget does not have many features aria has.
>manedit
> => gmanedit
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Le lundi 08 décembre 2008 à 16:27 +0100, Rene Engelhard a écrit :
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >aria
> > => gwget
>
> You're kidding? gwget does not have many features aria has.
This is just a first guess based on the description.
If you want to still
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am doing some pilot tagging to implement my idea of peer review for the
> `debian/copyright' file.
How about using user [EMAIL PROTECTED], usertag
copyright-review-requested for this purpose?
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Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 08 décembre 2008 à 16:27 +0100, Rene Engelhard a écrit :
> > Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >aria
> > > => gwget
> >
> > You're kidding? gwget does not have many features aria has.
>
> This is just a first guess based o
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:35:46 +0100
Morten Kjeldgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am quite willing to adopt the package and maintain it, but I
> couldn't find
> it on the list of orphans. Maybe I didn't look hard enough? That list
> is enormous... :-(
All the more reason to remove any package
Neil Williams wrote:
Barry - PLEASE do not continue with the request for sponsorship of
gtkglarea.
Neil,
My apologies but I just uploaded it. It still has a few r(b)depends:
rdepends:
xt
worlded
vertex
python-visual
rbdepends:
celestia
vertex
xt
Sorry,
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:24:13 -0500
Barry deFreese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Williams wrote:
> >
> > Barry - PLEASE do not continue with the request for sponsorship of
> > gtkglarea.
> >
> >
> Neil,
>
> My apologies but I just uploaded it. It still has a few r(b)depends:
and will
Hi,
Barry deFreese wrote:
> Neil Williams wrote:
>>
>> Barry - PLEASE do not continue with the request for sponsorship of
>> gtkglarea.
>>
...
> My apologies but I just uploaded it. It still has a few r(b)depends:
Well, post-lenny, all of them will be RC-buggy when GTK+ 1.2 is removed.
gtkglar
Neil Williams wrote:
Has my response changed your opinion of gtkglarea in Debian? You could
always join the calls for packages depending on gtkglarea to migrate to
libgtkgl2.0 and thereby support the removal of gtk1.2 and glib1.
Not at all. In fact even for Lenny I attempted to do some po
Morten Kjeldgaard dijo [Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 01:50:44AM +0100]:
>
> However, I maintain my objection. One thing is removing out-of-date
> applications, another is to remove a library which may well be used
> by users to compile and link their local applications. Even though
> there are no apps in
On 08/12/2008, at 20.55, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
. Should we keep obsolete, deprecated,
abandoned software forever?
No, certainly not forever. Nobody has suggested keeping GTK+ 1.2
forever.
Hmmm... Sounds like an argument for porting Debian to the C64.
It's great if you can present your own
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:49:09 +0100
Morten Kjeldgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of the purposes of Debian and the FOSS community is to make it
> possible to develop and distribute software that is authored and
> supported by volunteers.
True.
> We have a responsibility of supporting
2008/12/8 Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> lets have some good news for a change: Everybody, please welcome Frank
> Lichtenheld as a new member of the FTP Team.
Congratz, Frank. Welcome :)
And they said that there was no German cabal? :P
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Morten Kjeldgaard dijo [Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:35:46PM +0100]:
> > With its thousands of packages, Debian is not so rich in manpower, so if
> > the current maintainers of GTK+ 1.2 want to abandon it and the QA team is
> > not interested in keeping it, there is no other choice than to adopt it
> >
Morten Kjeldgaard dijo [Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 02:27:00PM +0100]:
>
> For whom is the Debian distribution? Is it created to satisfy the
> needs of only the packagers and developers? If so, it is absolutely
> logical to get rid of everything a couple of years past expiry date.
>
> To be clear, we are
Morten Kjeldgaard dijo [Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 09:49:09PM +0100]:
> >. Should we keep obsolete, deprecated,
> >abandoned software forever?
>
> No, certainly not forever. Nobody has suggested keeping GTK+ 1.2 forever.
But... There will always be a little tail of tools wanting it. We will
have to dro
>> lets have some good news for a change: Everybody, please welcome Frank
>> Lichtenheld as a new member of the FTP Team.
> Congratz, Frank. Welcome :)
> And they said that there was no German cabal? :P
Want to volunteer and possibly join too, to get some non-german blood in?
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Le Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:33:12AM +0900, Paul Wise a écrit :
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am doing some pilot tagging to implement my idea of peer review for the
> > `debian/copyright' file.
>
> How about using user [EMAIL PROTECTED], usert
Le Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:25:56PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf a écrit :
> All sorts of programming practices
> that have become obsoleted (or outright shown to be dangerous) over
> the years. As an example - Around ten years ago few people would have
> thought about the security implications of an integer
2008/12/9 Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> And they said that there was no German cabal? :P
>
> Want to volunteer and possibly join too, to get some non-german blood in?
I'm half German, at least by heart, you already know ;)
Greetings,
Miry
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Christophe Prud'homme wrote:
> suitesparse (3.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
WTF?
> Accepted:
> libsuitesparse-3.2.0_3.2.0-1_i386.deb
> to pool/main/s/suitesparse/libsuitesparse-3.2.0_3.2.0-1_i386.deb
> libsuitesparse-dbg_3.2.0-1_i386.deb
> to poo
Charles Plessy wrote:
[...]
>
> Hi all,
>
> seecurity is of course important, but as I was told during the last DPL
> debate, it is possible to opt out support from the security team, which is
> only for Stable anyway.
>
There's a testing security team in case you were not aware of it.
Cheers,
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:48:34AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:25:56PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf a écrit :
> > All sorts of programming practices
> > that have become obsoleted (or outright shown to be dangerous) over
> > the years. As an example - Around ten years ago few pe
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:23:04AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > And they said that there was no German cabal? :P
> Want to volunteer and possibly join too, to get some non-german
> blood in?
I'm disappointed: I expected a reply in German :-P
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