Bug#588891: Policy 8.6 (shlibs files) needs a serious rewrite to cover symbols

2010-07-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: normal Hi, Debian Policy 8.6 'Dependencies between the library and other packages - the shlibs system' seems seriously out of date as it makes no mentioning of symbols files at all. Other than the lack of documentation of the superior system I fi

What's going on in Debian Qt world?

2010-07-13 Thread Fathi Boudra
Hi, Qt 4.7.0 beta 2 and Qt Creator 2.0.0 have been released upstream. There's some noticeable changes in our Qt packages compared to Qt 4.6.x series: - legacy Qt Assistant (ADP) is removed - new Qt declarative module is introduced - Qt Multimedia and Qt Webkit aren't being built anymore In cas

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stephen Powell (12/07/2010): > But I can't get the nouveau driver to use my custom 100 Hz > Interlaced mode, or even the VESA standard 87 Hz Interlaced mode. > It insists on running the monitor at 60 Hz non-interlaced. And my > eyes just won't take that for very long. At 100 Hz interlaced, I > c

Re: "dh" and dh_installxmlcatalogs

2010-07-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/13/2010 03:47 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > What's the preferred way to get "dh" to run dh_installxmlcatalogs? The best way would be to provide a dh sequence plugin for xml-core, so all you'd have to do is to run dh --with xmlcatalogs or something like that. See /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/S

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 22:31 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] > But I can't get the nouveau driver > to use my custom 100 Hz Interlaced mode, or even the VESA standard 87 Hz > Interlaced mode. It insists on running the monitor at 60 Hz > non-interlaced. And my eyes just won't take that for very

Bug#588924: ITP: r-cran-aplpack -- Another Plot PACKage for GNU R

2010-07-13 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: r-cran-aplpack * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/aplpack * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: R Description : Another Plot PACKage for GNU R The package offers a set of functions

Bug#588926: ITP: kbackup -- KDE based system backup tool

2010-07-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Kitterman * Package name: kbackup Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Martin Koller * URL : http://kde-apps.org/content/download.php?content=44998&id=1&tan=95788587 * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C++ Descript

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Stephen Powell
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Care to share a reference to the bug you reported? Ben Hutchings wrote: > I assume you've filed a bug requesting support for custom modes, as > requested by the X maintainers? As Sven Joachim has pointed out, this would be an exercise in futility. Upstream deliberately rem

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 13/07/2010 17:11, Stephen Powell a écrit : > As of xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-4, which is current in Squeeze, > and for the i915G chipset, I can still pass > >modeset=0 > > to the i915 module and the X driver will still work. Are you saying that > this is going to be taken away from m

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-13 04:31 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > Second, I can't seem to get an 80-column virtual console with KMS. > Yes, I can change the font size, but the traditional 80-column display > doesn't seem to present itself. Maybe I just haven't tried hard enough. It's not possible with a horizo

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stephen Powell (13/07/2010): > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Care to share a reference to the bug you reported? > As Sven Joachim has pointed out, this would be an exercise in > futility. Upstream deliberately removed support for UMS a while > ago. Guess what, I *know*. And I didn't ask for an UMS-

Re: What's going on in Debian Qt world?

2010-07-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 01:15, Fathi Boudra wrote: > > Finally, I have started to ship a snapshot of a new Phonon backend: Phonon > VLC, > one backend to rule them all ;) You aren't going to drop the GStreamer backend, though, right? Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
> On 2010-07-13 04:31 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I designed a custom video mode for 1024x768 @ 100 Hz Interlaced > > that is even better. (100 Hz is the maximum vertical refresh rate > > of the monitor). This mode is still within the video bandwidth of > > the monitor (maximum supported pi

Bug#588946: ITP: wacom-source -- Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format

2010-07-13 Thread Taylor LeMasurier-Wren
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Taylor LeMasurier-Wren" Package name: wacom-source Version : 0.8.8 Upstream Author : Ping Cheng URL : http://www.example.org/ License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : Wacom kernel driver in DKMS

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Monday 12 July 2010 20:33:15 Julien Cristau wrote: > We don't have nvidia hardware, so maybe our perception is flawed. I would say that you should ask for adoption or help maintaining the package. Bye -- Salvo Tomaselli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#588948: ITP: wacom-source -- Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format

2010-07-13 Thread Taylor LeMasurier-Wren
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Taylor LeMasurier-Wren" * Package name: wacom-source Version : 0.8.8 Upstream Author : Ping Cheng http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format Th

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 19:41:13 +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010 20:33:15 Julien Cristau wrote: > > We don't have nvidia hardware, so maybe our perception is flawed. > I would say that you should ask for adoption or help maintaining the package. > What is this supposed to

Re: Bug#588946: ITP: wacom-source -- Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format

2010-07-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:36:01 -0500, Taylor LeMasurier-Wren wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Taylor LeMasurier-Wren" > > > Package name: wacom-source > Version : 0.8.8 > Upstream Author : Ping Cheng > URL : http://www.example.org/ > Lic

Re: Bug#588946: ITP: wacom-source -- Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format

2010-07-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 13:00:33 -0500, Taylor LeMasurier-Wren wrote: > I use Ubuntu, but have been having trouble getting any MOTU's or Ubuntu Devs > to listen to me, so I made this package. If I can get this package into > debian, than I can get it into Ubuntu, and than hopefully backported to >

upcoming issues with python-hulahop, python-xpcom, xulrunner-1.9.2

2010-07-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hi folks, i don't know if you're aware of the ... issues shall we say ... surrounding xulrunner 1.9.2 but there's a few changes going on. python-xpcom is being *dropped* from xulrunner as a first class citizen and is being turned into a third-rate one. this isn't a problem right now because debia

Re: Bug#588946: ITP: wacom-source -- Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format

2010-07-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> Package name: wacom-source >> Version : 0.8.8 >> Upstream Author : Ping Cheng >> License : GPL-2 >> Description : Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format >> This package builds an updated Wacom Kernel Module using >> DKMS. This replaces the out-of-date module inc

Re: What's going on in Debian Qt world?

2010-07-13 Thread Fathi Boudra
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 01:15, Fathi Boudra wrote: >> >> Finally, I have started to ship a snapshot of a new Phonon backend: Phonon >> VLC, >> one backend to rule them all ;) > > You aren't going to drop the GStreamer backend, though, right