Re: Bug#531450: ITP: gmameui -- front-end for the arcade games emulator MAME

2009-06-03 Thread Loïc Martin
Paul Wise wrote: I note the GPLv2+ is probably not compatible with the MAME non-free license. How does gmameui interact with MAME? Is the way it does that likely to form a derivative work? If so we cannot distribute gmameui. Yes, the MAME license restricts commercial use, and is thus non gpl-c

Renaming of new package that has an ITP bugreport (ITP: task - Bug#531587)

2009-06-03 Thread Federico Hernandez
As I forgot to CC the ITP bug to the list I want to do this now afterwards and include a question: The bugreport is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531587 After an initial view on the package Charles Plessy suggested to rename the package to avoid confusion with the existing pack

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-03 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:50:50PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Nowadays, you cannot use your system if you don’t use udev, so this is > irrelevant. I'm writing this mail from a system without udev: $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.26-1-vserver-686 (Debian 2.6.26-12) (wa...@debian.or

Bug#531673: ITP: oasis3 -- Coupler for exchanging fields between components of Earth system models

2009-06-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: oasis3 Version : 3.3 Upstream Author : Sophie Valcke * URL : http://www.prism.enes.org/PAEs/coupling_IO/software_OASIS3.php * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Fortran Description

Re: Renaming of new package that has an ITP bugreport (ITP: task - Bug#531587)

2009-06-03 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:58:31AM +0200, Federico Hernandez wrote: > So the renamed package is now called taskwarrior and has been uploaded to > mentors.debian.org (together with a RFS to the debain.-mentors > mailiniglist). > > To superseed the old upload I increased the version number of the pa

Bug#531699: ITP: apt-offline -- Offline APT Package Manager

2009-06-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ritesh Raj Sarraf * Package name: apt-offline Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Ritesh Raj Sarraf * URL : http://pypt-offline.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Offline APT Package Mana

Bug#531700: ITP: python-django-site-assets -- Concatenate, minify and compress CSS and JS assets, for Django

2009-06-03 Thread Janos Guljas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Janos Guljas * Package name: python-django-site-assets Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Branko Vukelic * URL : http://github.com/foxbunny/django-site-assets * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : C

Bug#531712: ITP: audex -- Audio grabber tool for KDE

2009-06-03 Thread Romain Beauxis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis * Package name: audex Version : 0.71b2 Upstream Author : Marco Nelles * URL : http://opensource.maniatek.de/cgi-bin/audex/audex/index.html * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Audi

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 03, Carsten Hey wrote: > I'm writing this mail from a system without udev: Yes, and nobody cares much. Many functions of modern systems require udev and more and more will with time. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-03 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:59:52PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Jun 03, Carsten Hey wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:50:50PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Nowadays, you cannot use your system if you don’t use udev, so this > > is irrelevant. > > > > I'm writing this mail from a sy

Bug#531743: ITP: python-fixture -- Python module for loading and referencing test data

2009-06-03 Thread Julián Hernández Gómez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Julián Hernández Gómez" * Package name: python-fixture Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Kumar McMillan * URL : http://farmdev.com/projects/fixture/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Python Description : P

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Frank Küster
[a failed build was wrongly assigned as a RC bug of texlive-base, and since the reason was a problem on the buildd, I assigned it to buildd.debian.org] Luk Claes wrote: > buildd.d.o is not the place to reassign bugs for particular buildds to. > If it's just for particular buildds, you'd better

Bug#531761: ITP: liblatex-encode-perl -- Perl module to encode characters for LaTeX formatting

2009-06-03 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso * Package name: liblatex-encode-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Andrew Ford * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/LaTeX-Encode/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl

Bug#531763: ITP: liblatex-driver-perl -- driver module that encapsulates the details of formatting a LaTeX document

2009-06-03 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso * Package name: liblatex-driver-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Andrew Ford * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/LaTeX-Driver-0.08/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description :

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > [a failed build was wrongly assigned as a RC bug of texlive-base, and > since the reason was a problem on the buildd, I assigned it to > buildd.debian.org] > > Luk Claes wrote: > >> buildd.d.o is not the place to reassign bugs for particular buildds to. >> If it's just for

Bug#531762: ITP: libtomcrypt -- public domain open source cryptographic toolkit

2009-06-03 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Stapelberg * Package name: libtomcrypt Version : 1.17 Upstream Author : Tom St Denis * URL : http://www.libtomcrypt.com/ * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: C Description : public domain open sour

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Frank Küster
Luk Claes wrote: >> And what should one do with a bug like this? At the moment it's quite >> irrelevant whether one of our packages has a bogus RC bug. But what if >> that happens when I'm hoping for a transition to testing? > > Are you now talking about the failure on hppa or the one on ia64 (

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > >>> And what should one do with a bug like this? At the moment it's quite >>> irrelevant whether one of our packages has a bogus RC bug. But what if >>> that happens when I'm hoping for a transition to testing? >> Are you now talking about the failure on

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-03 Thread Ken Bloom
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 01 juin 2009 à 16:26 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > > > What has the initramfs got to do with this? > > > > For / to be on LVM you need an initramfs. / on raid (with custom > > kernel) or plain partition works without one. > > I already know that, than

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Jun 03 2009, Luk Claes wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> Luk Claes wrote: >> And what should one do with a bug like this? At the moment it's quite irrelevant whether one of our packages has a bogus RC bug. But what if that happens when I'm hoping for a transition to testin

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-03 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 02, "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" wrote: > >> - there is still a close windows in initram, and possibility >> at early rc scripts. > No. > >> - /var is still not mounted, so programs could not write they status, nor >> log failures > So programs which have such requirem