Bug#676327: ITP: http-icons -- classic MIME icons

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: http-icons Version : 0~20041010 Upstream Author : Matt Comaione

Re: this bug .. bugs me

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:52:52AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > This bug is a textbook example of making the perfect the enemy of the > good. It's disconcerting that we, or our users, are willing to put up > with this. I see what you mean and I absolutely agree with the general principle. We have a

Re: this bug .. bugs me

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:30:01PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > We are announcing our deferred uploads at least 10 days in advance > (unless RC) with git commit references, so Ove can review and/or > cancel/reject our work at any point. Thus, we haven't taken any of > his power away and it real

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

Stephan Seitz writes: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:33:13AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>Personally I thing DVD ISO images (downloaded) belong in your $HOME > > Don’t you think this is getting quite ridiculous? Big temporary > files belong in your $HOME, but small temporary files in /tmp

Re: this bug .. bugs me

Simon McVittie writes: > On 05/06/12 16:52, Joey Hess wrote: >> This bug is a textbook example of making the perfect the enemy of >> the good. > > Yes, pretty much. On the bright side, multiarch and a modern Wine > version have both arrived (Wine 1.4 is admittedly only in experimental > right now

Bug#676344: ITP: cairosvg -- SVG converter based on Cairo

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: cairosvg Version : 0.4.3 Upstream Author : Kozea * URL : http://cairosvg.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: this bug .. bugs me

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:36:42AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:52:52AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > This bug is a textbook example of making the perfect the enemy of the > > good. It's disconcerting that we, or our users, are willing to put up > > with this. May I

DUCK -the Debian Url Checker

Hi list, as I had some problems in the past finding upstream sources and homepages, I hacked up some scripts to monitor and display the results of the Upstream Homepage entries in the package control files. Please take a look at http://debian.tugraz.at/duck/ Currently the job runs once a day and

Re: DUCK -the Debian Url Checker

Hi Dne Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:24:50 +0200 Simon Kainz napsal(a): > as I had some problems in the past finding upstream sources and > homepages, I hacked up some scripts to monitor and display the results > of the Upstream Homepage entries in the package control files. > > Please take a look at htt

Re: this bug .. bugs me

On 06/06/2012 04:23 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Please don't spread incorrect information. The situation is by far not > the same (as in: it's *much* better now), and that is also thanks to the > discussion back then. -devel FTW, ... sometimes :-) > > Cheers. > I can see it, and I'm very h

Bug#676384: ITP: libsort-key-top-perl -- select and sort top n elements

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Laszlo Kajan * Package name: libsort-key-top-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Salvador Fandiño * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~salva/Sort-Key-Top-0.06/lib/Sort/Key/Top.pm * License : Perl Artistic Programming La

Re: seeking co-maintainers for spamassassin

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:48:23PM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > I'm perfectly happy to see patches attached to some of the open bugs, so > please don't hesitate to send them in. Ideally I'd like to get a > co-maintainer or two, though. BTW, this is bug #676317 in wnpp. Please follow up there if

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:09:31AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Stephan Seitz writes: Don’t you think this is getting quite ridiculous? Big temporary files belong in your $HOME, but small temporary files in /tmp? Only to switch /tmp from disk to RAM? No, I just don't consider a 4.7GiB do

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

> >But does the default have to be maximised for the dumbest possible user? > >Or should the default rather be for the intelligent user doing the right > >things? > > But the intelligent user can change the default hisself, the dumbest > can’t. And Debian does allow the inexperienced user to inst

Re: this bug .. bugs me

On 06/06/2012 04:36 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Even better, maintainers can prevent this kind of things from happening > by opening up *by default*, allowing commit to package maintenance Vcs > to all DDs, and documenting that commits there are welcome as long as > they follow some house rules

Re: this bug .. bugs me

Hi, Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask (or if I'm completely wrong here). On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 11:15 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [...] > > Juppey. Thanks to all the workers and the NMUers that made this > possible. > > Now if wine 1.4 enters unstable we are finaly ready

Re: this bug .. bugs me

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 16:12:31 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> They are members of pkg-wine already, so I think they can make changes >> that can improve the status but not limited to minimal changes for >> NMU. If Mike don't want to "hijack" at least for now, team upload is >> good enough. > >Hopef

Re: this bug .. bugs me

On Wed 06 Jun 2012 15:16:26 Steven Post escribió: [snip] > Reading this I assume ia32-libs will be removed from Debian (with which > I completely agree btw), what about packages outside of Debian that > currently depend upon ia32-libs? To name a certain package: skype. Its > AMD64 package from the

dropping ia32-libs [Was, Re: this bug .. bugs me]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:14:56PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On Wed 06 Jun 2012 15:16:26 Steven Post escribió: > [snip] > > Reading this I assume ia32-libs will be removed from Debian (with which > > I completely agree btw), what about packages outside of Debian that > >

Re: this bug .. bugs me

On 06.06.2012 20:08, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/06/2012 04:36 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> Even better, maintainers can prevent this kind of things from happening >> by opening up *by default*, allowing commit to package maintenance Vcs >> to all DDs, and documenting that commits there are w

Bug#676438: ITP: libcatalyst-view-petal-perl -- Petal View Class for Catalyst

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libcatalyst-view-petal-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Christian Hansen, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-View-Petal/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang:

Re: this bug .. bugs me

Le Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:08:40AM +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > On 06/06/2012 04:36 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Even better, maintainers can prevent this kind of things from happening > > by opening up *by default*, allowing commit to package maintenance Vcs > > to all DDs, and documenti

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

So RAMTMP now defaults to off. I know it can be hard to give ground on something you've invested a lot of work into, so Roger Leigh has my respect for taking this thread into consideration. A lot of people came down on the pro-tmpfs side in this thread. You have some good reasons to want to make i

Re: DUCK -the Debian Url Checker

On Wednesday, June 06, 2012 03:24:50 PM Simon Kainz wrote: > Hi list, > > as I had some problems in the past finding upstream sources and > homepages, I hacked up some scripts to monitor and display the results > of the Upstream Homepage entries in the package control files. > > Please take a loo