Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:46:31PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > We (Raphael Geissert, who did most of the work on that service recently, > and me) believe those mails are useful, since we did not get too many Thanks for maintaining this! AOL on the usefulness of the service. > But we are consta

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:00:19AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Lucas Nussbaum > wrote: > > > However, what could be done is to rewrite DDPO in a more "modern" way, > > leveraging UDD (as DDPO-by-mail does). Since almost all the data is > > already in UDD, it's main

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:06:16AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > But we are constantly wondering where we should go from there. Should we > > add more data (like the RC bugs in stable and the unfixed security > > issues)? Or should we instead try to decrease the amount of data (to > > increa

Re: initial packages with multiarch paths

2010-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 13 février 2010 à 14:08 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > Files only in first set of .debs, found in package libgfshare-dbg > > - > > -rw-r--r-- root/root /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libgfshare.so.1.0.3 > > Has anyone checke

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-02-15, Steve Langasek wrote: > I "accept" the mails by deleting them unread. I know where the PTS is, I > don't need to receive periodic mail reminders for my bugs, duplicated for > each team mailing list I'm subscribed to. > > Sorry if my silence was taken for approval; it's actually spa

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 08:54 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > Personally, I prefer the Debian menu because I can find here all > > software on my machine. I use the menu the find a application. > > Applications I often use have a icon, so the Gnome selection is useless > > for me. I underst

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/02/10 at 00:26 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:06:16AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > But we are constantly wondering where we should go from there. Should we > > > add more data (like the RC bugs in stable and the unfixed security > > > issues)? Or should we

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:26:42AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Sorry if my silence was taken for approval; it's actually spam fatigue and > a recognition that there are better ways to use my time than fighting this > battle. My fault, I didn't meant to take your silence as approval. In this kin

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Josselin Mouette] > The problem is not to implement this; it already exists. The problem > is that maintainers don’t fill these fields properly. I mean, even > KDE developers don’t. Is there some documentation on the web on how to fill inn these fields properly? > Certainly not. The original me

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Ben Finney
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 15/02/10 at 00:26 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I "accept" the mails by deleting them unread. I know where the PTS > > is, I don't need to receive periodic mail reminders for my bugs, > > duplicated for each team mailing list I'm subscribed to. […] > You are aware

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/02/10 at 20:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > > On 15/02/10 at 00:26 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > I "accept" the mails by deleting them unread. I know where the PTS > > > is, I don't need to receive periodic mail reminders for my bugs, > > > duplicated for each

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:52:17AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 15/02/10 at 20:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > > > > On 15/02/10 at 00:26 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > I "accept" the mails by deleting them unread. I know where the PTS > > > > is, I don't nee

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/02/10 at 09:06 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So I wonder, are the mail sent sparingly by hand? (That is > what it seemed from your message, which started with «I've just sent > ..») If this is the case, I wonder why; can we settle upon a regular > period (1 month?) and have them sent by

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 10:17 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : > [Josselin Mouette] > > The problem is not to implement this; it already exists. The problem > > is that maintainers don’t fill these fields properly. I mean, even > > KDE developers don’t. > > Is there some documentation on th

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:32:39AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > IMHO the best solution to this (unavoidable) problem is to enable a > > configuration feature controled by some kind of priority tag in the > > desktop files. This should say something like "display me on Gnome", > > "display me

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 13:10 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > The problem is not to implement this; it already exists. The problem is > > that maintainers don???t fill these fields properly. I mean, even KDE > > developers don???t. > > So we need to fire up reportbug, right? Hint: filing bu

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Josselin Mouette may or may not have written... [snip] > The layout sucks: a good menu is hard to do because it must not be too deep > (too many clicks/movements to reach an application) nor too crowded (too > many applications in one submenu). The Debian menu is an achievement in >

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 13:40 +, Darren Salt a écrit : > [snip] > > The layout sucks: a good menu is hard to do because it must not be too deep > > (too many clicks/movements to reach an application) nor too crowded (too > > many applications in one submenu). The Debian menu is an achievemen

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 15:13 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 13:40 +, Darren Salt a écrit : > > [snip] > > > The layout sucks: a good menu is hard to do because it must not be too > > > deep > > > (too many clicks/movements to reach an application) nor too crowded (t

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:54:43PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > So we need to fire up reportbug, right? > > Hint: filing bugs doesn???t guarantee they will be fixed. H, yes. Thanks for the reminder. :-( > > No I mean a simple on of switch between "Show all entries" / "Show > > reduced

Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
There are many packages in debian contain flag images. For example: awstats - /usr/share/awstats/icon/flags/ b2evolution - /usr/share/b2evolution/rsc/flags/h10px bygfoot - /usr/share/games/bygfoot/support_files/pixmaps/symbols deluge-common - /usr/share/pyshare

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Josselin Mouette may or may not have written... > Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 13:40 +, Darren Salt a écrit : >> [snip] >>> The layout sucks: a good menu is hard to do because it must not be too >>> deep (too many clicks/movements to reach an application) nor too >>> crowded (too m

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > I'm going to add into debian a few new (my) projects which need flag > images and so I want to add a package which contains flag set. Are you sure they need flags? Which package and what exactly will the flags represent? I would pers

Bug#569980: ITP: libhtml-toc-perl -- module for creating and updating an HTML Table of Contents

2010-02-15 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhtml-toc-perl Version : 1.12 Upstream Author : Freddy Vulto * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Toc/ * License

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Darren Salt wrote: >> The freedesktop.org specification does not impose a layout. You are >> probably talking about the KDE, GNOME or Xfce menu. > > Hmm? I was under the impression that they all included the same > auto-generated file... He is referring to the f

Re: Missing libstdc++5 for 3rd party software

2010-02-15 Thread Matthias Klose
On 12.02.2010 14:09, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Hi, I just noticed that icc (intel C/C++ compiler) will no longer work in Squeeze because lbstdc++5 (from gcc-3.3) was removed. Same goes for Civ CTP or Heroes and probably a lot of other old games and 3rd party software in general. Is there any

Bug#569992: ITP: pysmbc -- Python bindings for the Samba client library

2010-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Josselin Mouette * Package name: pysmbc Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : Tim Waugh * URL : http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/pysmbc/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Python Description : Python bindings for t

Re: Bits from the release team: Release schedule; the RT needs YOU

2010-02-15 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 08.02.2010 at 20:13:48 +0100, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: > we wish to freeze only after the number of these bugs has dropped below > the mark of 300. As you can see on the usual overview pages [RC-Bugs], great decision, imho. > Work towards fixing these bugs is greatly appreciated. W

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
>> I'm going to add into debian a few new (my) projects which need flag >> images and so I want to add a package which contains flag set. PW> Are you sure they need flags? Which package and what exactly will the PW> flags represent? PW> I would personally suggest to avoid adding flags to Debian w

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
> I wish to use my country's flag to refer to my language... > Don't. There are many languages not associated with countries or in > use in many different countries. Also, some flags are considered > very political, and are thus very controversial. For example, the > government of mainland China (

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > new version of rtpg (rtpg2) will have language button and geoIP peer's > information with country's flag etc. Sounds like a fairly pointless feature to me. Unfortunately that seems to be common in torrent clients these days. The langua

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
On 03:37 Tue 16 Feb , Paul Wise wrote: PW> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: >> new version of rtpg (rtpg2) will have language button and geoIP peer's >> information with country's flag etc. PW> Sounds like a fairly pointless feature to me. Unfortunately that seems

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > >> I'm going to add into debian a few new (my) projects which need flag > >> images and so I want to add a package which contains flag set. > > PW> Are you sure they need flags? Which package and what exactly will the > PW> flags represent? > > PW

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Dmitry E. Oboukhov schrieb: >> I wish to use my country's flag to refer to my language... >> Don't. There are many languages not associated with countries or in >> use in many different countries. [..] > Is it really so big problem? Looks like as non-issue, farfetched. Believe me as someone w

Re: Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Paul, I read through the links you provided. There was a cogent argument against using flags to symbolize a language. I would accept that. However, while I understand your argument about losing contributors, I'm not completely convinced that using a flag chosen by country X to represent country

Re: Bits from the release team: Release schedule; the RT needs YOU

2010-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:15:52PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Mon, 08.02.2010 at 20:13:48 +0100, Marc Brockschmidt > wrote: > > we wish to freeze only after the number of these bugs has dropped below > > the mark of 300. As you can see on the usual overview pages [RC-Bugs], > great decision,

Re: Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:21:23PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > I read through the links you provided. There was a cogent argument > against using flags to symbolize a language. I would accept that. > However, while I understand your argument about losing contributors, > I'm not completely co

Re: Bits from the release team: Release schedule; the RT needs YOU

2010-02-15 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:15:52PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: >> On Mon, 08.02.2010 at 20:13:48 +0100, Marc Brockschmidt >> wrote: >> > we wish to freeze only after the number of these bugs has dropped below >> > the mark of 300. As you can see on the usual overview

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:54:43PM +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > > No one needs a menu with 200 applications, because such a menu is not usable. > What users need is a reasonable default selection and the ability to re-add > applications that are hidden by default. Hi Josselin, to achieve

Bug#570032: ITP: riak -- A distributed, decentralized document-oriented storage system

2010-02-15 Thread Vladimir Osintsev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vladimir Osintsev * Package name: riak Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Basho Technologies * URL : http://riak.basho.com/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Erlang Description : A distributed, decentralized d

Bug#570037: ITP: libdevel-stacktrace-ashtml-perl -- module to display a stack trace in HTML

2010-02-15 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdevel-stacktrace-ashtml-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-S

Bug#570040: ITP: libfilesys-notify-simple-perl -- simple file system monitor

2010-02-15 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfilesys-notify-simple-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Filesys-N

Bug#570042: ITP: ltt-control -- Tools to control kernel tracing with LTTng

2010-02-15 Thread Jon Bernard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Bernard * Package name: ltt-control Version : 0.79 Upstream Author : Mathieu Desnoyers * URL : http://lttng.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Tools to control kernel tracing with LTTng

Bug#570043: ITP: lttv -- LTTng Viewer

2010-02-15 Thread Jon Bernard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Bernard * Package name: lttv Version : 0.12.29 Upstream Author : Mathieu Desnoyers * URL : http://lttng.org/ * License : GPL, LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : LTTng Viewer This package contains the tra

Bug#570053: RFH: blender -- Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer

2010-02-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the blender package. Blender is nice, but might benefit from more hands than only mine. If you want to help, please have a look at this checklist which should help you see if you fit the profile (if you don't, don't be afraid t

Re: Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > This vote dates from May 2009.  Do you know what was ultimately > decided? I haven't heard anything more recently, I'd suggest contacting Fedora if you want to find out. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
>> I read through the links you provided. There was a cogent argument >> against using flags to symbolize a language. I would accept that. >> However, while I understand your argument about losing contributors, >> I'm not completely convinced that using a flag chosen by country X to >> represent