DEP5: Let's calm down?

2009-06-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2009-06-11 kello 18:18 +0200, Josselin Mouette kirjoitti: > Le jeudi 11 juin 2009 à 16:16 +0300, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : > > > - and a reason > > > > That's the killer point we should concentrate on. > [ ... ] > > > Would Debian benefit from being able to easily query for things like > > "pa

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2009-06-11 kello 11:47 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti: > Lars Wirzenius writes: > > > Would Debian benefit from being able to easily query for things like > > "packages linking to OpenSSL, licensed under GPL, but without an > > exception"? > > Even with the DEP-5 copyright file, you can at mo

Re: Debian @Linuxtag 2009 - Last call for help

2009-06-12 Thread Martin Alfke
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Hi, > > okay - this is my last call for help. Currently I have one, maybe two > people > that want to help on the Linuxtag [1] booth on June 24th - 26th [2] in > Berlin, Germany. Linuxtag is the largest Linux and Open Source in Germany > wh

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:32:44PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > Moreover, these "reasons" are all pretty pointless if the format is not made > mandatory, which is supposedly not the goal. Some of them might be less useful unless fully implemented, some of them are certainly useful. Michael --

Bug#532858: ITP: vis5d+ -- Vis5d, a free OpenGL-based volumetric visualization program for scientific datasets in 3+ dimensions.

2009-06-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: vis5d+ Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Bill Hibbard * URL : http://vis5d.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Vis5d, a free OpenGL-based volumetric

Bug#532872: please provide links to the Debian Project patch tracking system

2009-06-12 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist http://patch-tracking.debian.net/ The web address of the Debian Project patch tracking system is above and can also be reached using the web address below. http://patches.debian.net/ Is there any plan to have links to packages in the web pages of the pa

Re: Bug#532872: please provide links to the Debian Project patch tracking system

2009-06-12 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:21:27PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >Package: qa.debian.org >Severity: wishlist > >http://patch-tracking.debian.net/ > >The web address of the Debian Project patch tracking system is above and >can also be reached using the web address below. > >http://patches.d

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > to, 2009-06-11 kello 11:47 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti: >> Even with the DEP-5 copyright file, you can at most generate a >> candidate set that you still have to manually check. There are >> packages with one GPL component that is not the component that's >> linked wit

Bug#532923: ITP: aegir-provision -- backend of the Aegir hosting system

2009-06-12 Thread The Anarcat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: The Anarcat * Package name: aegir-provision Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Adrian Rossouw * URL : http://drupal.org/project/provision * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Description : backend of the Aegir host

Bug#532932: ITP: libalien-libjio-perl -- Perl package to find libjio

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libalien-libjio-perl Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Jonathan Yu * URL : CPAN * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl package to find libjio This module i

Re: Bug#532932: ITP: libalien-libjio-perl -- Perl package to find libjio

2009-06-12 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:14:29PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > This module is a generic Perl module that is designed to install libjio if it > is not installed, and then report the flags required for programs to link to > it. Under Debian, installing libjio via this package is not necessary (since

Re: Bug#532932: ITP: libalien-libjio-perl -- Perl package to find libjio

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan Yu
Brian: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:14:29PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> This module is a generic Perl module that is designed to install libjio if it >> is not installed, and then report the flags required for programs to link to >> it. Und

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:30:31AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:10:56PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > If the sole purpose of the format is to have a machine-parseable format, > > if it doesn't apply to all packages, then the fact that it is > > machine-parseable is usel

Re: Bug#532932: ITP: libalien-libjio-perl -- Perl package to find libjio

2009-06-12 Thread Ryan Niebur
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:29:40PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > Brian: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM, brian m. > carlson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:14:29PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > >> This module is a generic Perl module that is designed to install libjio if > >> it > >> is not

Re: Bug#532932: ITP: libalien-libjio-perl -- Perl package to find libjio

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hm, fair enough. I'll close the bug; and will not package the Alien module. This also makes me wonder though, should a similar fate befall libalien-wxwidgets-perl? aven'jon(~/alien-jio/Alien-Libjio/t)> apt-cache rdepends libalien-wxwidgets-perl libalien-wxwidgets-perl Reverse Depends: libwx-per

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-12 Thread Ben Finney
Wouter Verhelst writes: > I'm finding it difficult to believe the argument "oh, but this isn't > going to be mandatory". I don't know anyone making the argument that there should *never* be a mandatory machine-parseable ‘debian/copyright’ format. Rather, I see the argument that we don't *current

Bug#532941: ITP: enma -- ENMA is a milter program for the domain authentication technologies.

2009-06-12 Thread ARAKI Yasuhiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ARAKI Yasuhiro * Package name: enma Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : SUZUKI Takahiko * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/enma/ * License : BSD style. Programming Lang: C Description : ENMA is a milter prog

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-12 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > I'm finding it difficult to believe the argument "oh, but this isn't > > going to be mandatory". > > I don't know anyone making the argument that there should *never* be a > mandatory machine-parseable ‘debian/copyright’ format. Sorry, this i

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 01:39:00AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Certainly not. However, I do think that anything which does not _aim_ > for eventual 100% compliance is useless. > I'm finding it difficult to believe the argument "oh, but this isn't > going to be mandatory". While I can think of

Re: The ‘read -r ’ bashism.

2009-06-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:59:53PM -0700, Ben Pfaff a écrit : > > Perhaps the fix is as simple as changing > read > to > read REPLY. Dear Ben, thank you very much. Indeed, in the script found by checkbashisms, there is: echo "To exit use Control C or press return to continue