Re: Is Ayman Negm MIA?

2009-04-20 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello, On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:46, Rince wrote: > Ayman Negm is the maintainer of, among others, the gddrescue package. > The package hasn't been touched by him since 2006, and several bugs > about it have required NMUs by other people. Ayman is been tracked in MIA database, and he's quite bu

Bug#524834: ITP: syncmaildir -- Sync Mail Dir is a set of tools to synchronize Maildirs

2009-04-20 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Enrico Tassi * Package name: syncmaildir Version : 0.9.2 Upstream Author : Enrico Tassi * URL : http://syncmaildir.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Lua, Bash Description : Sync Mail Dir is a set of to

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le jeudi 16 avril 2009 à 15:06 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : >> >> a) laptop keys remapped or disappearing (might be caused by the driver - >> >>I don't know) >> > >> > Yes, they are remapped to the standard XF86* names, so that applications >> > configuring shortcuts

Bug#524835: ITP: thaifonts-siampradesh -- Thai TrueType fonts derived from DIP/SIPA contested fonts

2009-04-20 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan * Package name: thaifonts-siampradesh Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Department of Intellectual Property (DIP), Ministry of Commerce; Software Industry Promotion Agency (Public

Re: Supporting apache 1.3 in gsoap or not?

2009-04-20 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hi Stefano, Michael Biebl wrote: > Stefano Canepa wrote: >> Dear all, >> I working on gsoap package to update it to 2.7.13 and close some bugs. >> lintian warns me about the use of old libtools in the module for apache >> 1.3. Upstream developer told me it is abandoned and suggested me to >>

Bug#524846: ITP: between -- game about consciousness and isolation

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Wise X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: between Version : 5 Upstream Author : Jason Rohrer * URL : http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/rohrer

Bug#524861: ITP: python-daemon -- Python library to implement a well-behaved Unix daemon process

2009-04-20 Thread Ben Finney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Finney Package name: python-daemon Version : 1.4.4 Upstream Author : Ben Finney URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/ License : PSF-2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Python library to implement a we

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Bjørn Mork wrote: [lot of fud deleted] > > The hal default "polling removable disks" is annoying, useless, and an > example of bad hal design. You may of course continue to ignore this by > claiming that I don't know what I'm talking about. Unfortunately, it Seems you are confusing a lot of t

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Rene Engelhard
Julien Cristau wrote: > > hal breaks existing working configurations without warnings. The simple > > test case is using a non-US keyboard properly configured as such in > > xorg.conf. Introduce evdev/hal and watch users get frustrated. The > > problem of course: keyboard layout cannot be auto-

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 16:24:59 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > > hal breaks existing working configurations without warnings. The simple > > > test case is using a non-US keyboard properly configured as such in > > > xorg.conf. Introduce evdev/hal and watch users get f

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:55:15PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Bjørn Mork wrote: > > [lot of fud deleted] > > > > > The hal default "polling removable disks" is annoying, useless, and an > > example of bad hal design. You may of course continue to ignore this by > > claiming that I don't know

Re: Bug#524834: ITP: syncmaildir -- Sync Mail Dir is a set of tools to synchronize Maildirs

2009-04-20 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Enrico Tassi (Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:10:35 +0200): Hola! > Description : Sync Mail Dir is a set of tools to synchronize Maildirs > Sync Mail Dir is a set of utilities to synchronize a pair of mail > boxes in Maildir format, using SSH to transfer data. > Unlike OfflineIMAP It requires

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:55:15PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> hal does not poll removable disks, it does though poll cd-rom drives for new >> media and afaik there is no way around that if you want automount for cdrom >> drives to work > > Spinning up the CD drive every 3

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:52:41PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:55:15PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> hal does not poll removable disks, it does though poll cd-rom drives for > >> new > >> media and afaik there is no way around that if you w

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:52:41PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Roger Leigh wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:55:15PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: hal does not poll removable disks, it does though poll cd-rom drives for new media and afaik there is no wa

Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Ken Bloom
Package: general Severity: normal Something that I ran this morning decided to pollute my home directory creating the following directories: Desktop/ Documents/ Download/ Music/ Pictures/ Public/ Templates/ Videos/ I haven't figured out what it is yet, but Debian needs to be more respectf

Processed: Re: Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Biebl
reassign 524896 xdg-user-dirs thanks Ken Bloom wrote: > Package: general > Severity: normal > > Something that I ran this morning decided to pollute my home directory > creating the following directories: > Desktop/ > Documents/ > Download/ > Music/ > Pictures/ > Public/ > Templates/ > Vi

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 18:26 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : > >> Second, you can very easily disable this behaviour: man hal-disable-polling > > > > Great, but it's still not the default behaviour. Does every > > user need to find out how to disable it after they become sufficiently > > annoyed

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 19:36:30 20.04.2009 UTC+02 when j...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: >> Why should *every* user need to find out? Seems to me as if you are >> exaggerating in order to make a point. For the majority of users it >> just works, that's why it is the default. JM> Why not introdu

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 10:26 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : > I prefer non-broken defaults. hal defaults are broken. No, the keys are > not always mapped to standard XF86* names. They are sometimes mapped > into the blue. > > See e.g. bug #504643, which explains my disappearing keys. Finding it

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 18:26 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : Second, you can very easily disable this behaviour: man hal-disable-polling >>> Great, but it's still not the default behaviour. Does every >>> user need to find out how to disable it after they become suf

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 19:43 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Why not introduce a FDI that disables polling for drives that are known > > to be broken? > > You mean like > /usr/share/doc/hal/examples/no-cd-media-check.fdi > and the note in README.Debian? Something li

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 21 avril 2009 à 00:38 +0700, Mikhail Gusarov a écrit : > Twas brillig at 19:36:30 20.04.2009 UTC+02 when j...@debian.org did gyre and > gimble: > JM> Why not introduce a FDI that disables polling for drives that are > JM> known to be broken? > > Most of ATAPI CDROMs are, so it makes HA

Re: Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Julien BLACHE
Michael Biebl wrote: Hi, > The package responsible for creating those directories is xdg-users-dirs. I don't have this package installed, yet transmission creates ~/Desktop and ~/Downloads each and every time I start it. And, no, nothing in its configuration refers to any of those directories.

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 10:26 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : >> I prefer non-broken defaults. hal defaults are broken. No, the keys are >> not always mapped to standard XF86* names. They are sometimes mapped >> into the blue. >> >> See e.g. bug #504643, which explain

Re: Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:58:51PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > Hi, > > > The package responsible for creating those directories is xdg-users-dirs. > > I don't have this package installed, yet transmission creates > ~/Desktop and ~/Downloads each and every time I start

Consistent formating long descriptions as input data (Was: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions)

2009-04-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as promissed in the overlongish thread [1] I would like to sort out the details how we should enhance the consistency and parseability of our long descriptions in a poll. I agree that it is not a good idea to solve technical issues in a poll. But this is not about a technical issue. There i

Re: Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Ken Bloom
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 19:48 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 19:13 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : > > > Something that I ran this morning decided to pollute my home directory > > > creating the following directories: > > > Desktop/ > > > Documents/ > > > Download/ > > >

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 22:13 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : > > So, the HAL defaults are broken *for one keyboard model*. > > Make that "for every keyboard I'm using". Why would the number of > working keyboards matter? If you care about such statistics you should > probably use Windows. It works

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Apr 20 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 10:26 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : >> I prefer non-broken defaults. hal defaults are broken. No, the keys are >> not always mapped to standard XF86* names. They are sometimes mapped >> into the blue. >> >> See e.g. bug #50

Re: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data

2009-04-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Apr 20 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > as promissed in the overlongish thread [1] I would like to > sort out the details how we should enhance the consistency and > parseability of our long descriptions in a poll. I agree that > it is not a good idea to solve technical issues in a po

Re: Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Apr 20 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: > I was horrified to discover in the last few weeks that Emacs now > also defaults to ~/Documents when you start it up, making you > delete the useless Documents before you can actually type in > something useful. Is this part of some desktop conspiracy to

Bug#524948: ITP: liblastfm -- Last.fm web services library

2009-04-20 Thread John Stamp
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Stamp * Package name: liblastfm Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Max Howell * URL : http://github.com/mxcl/liblastfm/tree/master * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Last.fm web services l

Re: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data

2009-04-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Frankly, a poll about micromanaging marks for each level of unordered list does seem to be technical. It is also an implementation detail, and invents our own convention, I disagree. and options 1 & 2 would cause many more packages to be ch