Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Jo, 12 iul 12, 17:44:52, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> >> > Then some time later during upgrade it'll upgrade all packages >> > but will not install N-M; at the same time it'll install >> > new package that was added to Recommends in that new version. >> >> As far as I reme

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Gergely Nagy writes: >> Please don't forget that a Recommends will pull in packages in all but >> unusual installations :) > > But also keep in mind, that once a package is installed, adding new > recommends will not pull those new things in on an upgrade. I've been corrected, that this stateme

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Miles Bader
Jeremy Bicha writes: > I don't claim to be a networking expert, but I believe half the > conversation here is based on wrong or outdated information. My (personal) complaint about NM is that it doesn't correct correctly work with NFS mounts, I believe because it doesn't run at the right time duri

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Miles Bader writes: > issues with NM: it doesn't seem to be tested with much in the way of > non-standard setups My personal feeling is that this happens because people who use non-standard setups usually start by purging NM instead of trying to spend weeks reading the source code to contribute

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Miles Bader
Gergely Nagy writes: > if upstream considers a package a core part of a platform, > recommends *is* wrong. Er, no. Upstreams are not infallible, and are often quite fallible... Upstream's "view" is a good _default_, but such judgements should be made based on the reality on the ground. -miles

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 07:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > ]] Gergely Nagy > > > Instead of fighting for Recommends, which would break your system in > > various interesting ways later on[1], there's a third solution: noone > > stops anyone from uploading a gnome-minimal package, whi

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Miles Bader writes: > Gergely Nagy writes: >> if upstream considers a package a core part of a platform, >> recommends *is* wrong. > > Er, no. > > Upstreams are not infallible, and are often quite fallible... > > Upstream's "view" is a good _default_, but such judgements should be > made based o

Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell pdfs are opened with a file-manager, as well as .txt files, as well as anything. That is when using

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 13, 2012

2012-07-13 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
Is there a list of software which should be used instead of some old software? That is, should orphaned packages stay orphaned for a good reason. Also, are people wasting time in packaging oldies which should be orphaned? However, I checked that openscenegraph (OSG). Seems like it is not used mu

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 13, 2012

2012-07-13 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 13/07/12 11:21, Juhana Sadeharju a écrit : > Is there a list of software which should be used instead of some > old software? That is, should orphaned packages stay orphaned for a > good reason. > > Also, are people wasting time in packaging oldies

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 13/07/2012 11:13, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi everyone, > > can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? > It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what > program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell > pdfs are opened with a file-manager, as well

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 18:13 +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : > can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? > It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what > program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell > pdfs are opened with a file-man

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Per Olofsson
Hi, 2012-07-13 11:13, Norbert Preining skrev: Hi everyone, can we somehome make $subject a target for the*next* release? It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell pdfs are opened with a file-manager, as well as .txt

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 13, 2012

2012-07-13 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 07/13/2012 02:25 AM, w...@debian.org wrote: The following packages have been orphaned: ginspector (#681284), orphaned today Installations reported by Popcon: 52 ... For the following packages help is requested

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 13, 2012

2012-07-13 Thread Alberto Luaces
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thibaut Paumard writes: > Le 13/07/12 11:21, Juhana Sadeharju a écrit : >> Is there a list of software which should be used instead of some >> old software? That is, should orphaned packages stay orphaned for a >> good reason. >> >> Also, are peopl

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 13/07/12 12:13, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > see is obsolete. Maybe the target for the next release could be to > get rid of it. Please don't. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http:/

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 13, 2012

2012-07-13 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 13/07/12 12:41, Alberto Luaces a écrit : > Thibaut Paumard writes: > >> Le 13/07/12 11:21, Juhana Sadeharju a écrit : >>> However, I checked that openscenegraph (OSG). Seems like it is >>> not used much, but as scenegraph fan myself, I don't know >

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Per Olofsson [120713 12:18]: > 1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that using it for opening mail attachements or stuff downloaded (i.e. things that alr

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 13 July 2012 13:45:19 Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Per Olofsson [120713 12:18]: > > 1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. > > It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also > add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that using > it for

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 14:26 +0200, George Danchev a écrit : > > It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also > > add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that using > > it for opening mail attachements or stuff downloaded (i.e. things > > that already show

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:13:15PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > see is obsolete. Says who? Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi everyone, > > can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? > It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what > program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell > pdfs are opened with a

Package changelog should contain, well, a log of changes

2012-07-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi fellow Debian folks, Please, when composing debian/changelog for package releases, take a moment to reflect on what you put into that file and how you phrase it. It is a changelog, so should contain a list of changes. This is not a list of changes: python3-defaults (3.2.3-4) unstable; urgen

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Kurt wrote: >On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? >> It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what >> program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell >> pdfs

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? Hi, Please consider making this a release goal when we call for them after the release. Thanks, Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 16:26 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:13:15PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > see is obsolete. > > Says who? As your mailer made pretty clear, I am the author of the above sentence. kthxbye, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :'

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 17:32 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > Kurt wrote: > >pdfs are opened with gimp for me. > > I'm seeing that too, and it's ludicrous. See <1342174395.18031.15.camel@pi0307572> for the explanation. (Also, gimp shouldn’t be a PDF handler, but that’s another issue.)

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 13.07.2012 18:41, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > pdfs are opened with gimp for me. They are opened in gimp for me too and it doesn't understand them how it should. I would prefer them to be opened in Evince. - -- Mika Suomalainen NOTICE! I am on mobile

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
[...] > >> The amount of extra work necessary is minimal though. > > > > Not so minimal if you want your gnome set to be up to date, including new > > applications being installed. > > It is very minimal. 5 minutes of work. Been there, done that, posted the > bulk of the solution, and a general o

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 13 juillet 2012 12:18 CEST, Per Olofsson  : > 1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. Instead of > relying on desktop environments, it should do the needed work by > itself. Currently it's something of a hack, especially when running in > "generic" mode. It should probably b

Re: Package changelog should contain, well, a log of changes

2012-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (13/07/2012): > Please proofread your changelog before releasing a packaging, and make > sure all entries describe what was _changed_. ^ SNCR, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#681499: ITP: bmc -- Braille Music Compiler

2012-07-13 Thread Mario Lang
Package: wnpp Owner: Mario Lang Severity: wishlist * Package name: bmc Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Mario Lang * URL or Web page : https://github.com/mlang/bmc * License : GPLv3 Description : Braille Music Compiler BMC aims to become a system for translating b

Bug#681509: ITP: google-apps -- command line tool to manage Google Apps via API 2.0

2012-07-13 Thread Joenio Costa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joenio Costa * Package name: google-apps Version : 0.002 Upstream Author : Joenio Costa * URL : http://metacpan.org/release/GoogleApps * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : command line tool to man

Bug#681514: ITP: screenkey -- screencast tool to display your keystrokes

2012-07-13 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: screenkey Version : 0-2 Upstream Author : Pablo Seminario * URL : http://pabloseminario.com/projects/screenkey/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Python Description : screencas

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Brian White
That seems a reasonable plan to me. I've orphaned the mime-support package, however, because I have no time to work on it right now and do not expect to have any for the foreseeable future. -- Brian On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 13 juillet 2012 12:18 CEST, Per Olo

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Viernes, 13 de julio de 2012 07:33:09 Gergely Nagy wrote: [...] > I *hate* doing things manually, that's why I'm using a bloody high-level > package manager. If it forces me to double-guess it, check a lot of > things during upgrades, I might aswell go back to downloading packages > by hand and

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Viernes, 13 de julio de 2012 08:05:10 Gergely Nagy wrote: [...] > On one hand, you have, in the depends case: > > # apt-get remove gstreamer-plugins-good > > Which will try to remove the whole world, including the meta, and that > will ring alarm bells. > > Or in the recommends case: > > # a

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Viernes, 13 de julio de 2012 08:09:58 Gergely Nagy wrote: > Gergely Nagy writes: > >> Please don't forget that a Recommends will pull in packages in all but > >> unusual installations :) > > > > But also keep in mind, that once a package is installed, adding new > > recommends will not pull th

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Viernes, 13 de julio de 2012 08:38:47 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Miles Bader writes: > > issues with NM: it doesn't seem to be tested with much in the way of > > non-standard setups > > My personal feeling is that this happens because people who use > non-standard setups usually start by p

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Viernes, 13 de julio de 2012 09:38:45 Gergely Nagy wrote: > Miles Bader writes: > > Gergely Nagy writes: > >> if upstream considers a package a core part of a platform, > >> recommends *is* wrong. > > > > Er, no. > > > > Upstreams are not infallible, and are often quite fallible... > > > >

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Noel David Torres Taño writes: > I *hate* doing things manually, that's why I'm using a bloody high-level > metapackage. If it forces me to deinstall N-M by hand using > --force-depends (because it breaks my Pidgin) every time I use aptitude > to install something, either related or unrelated to

Re: Bug#681514: ITP: screenkey -- screencast tool to display your keystrokes

2012-07-13 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, Eshat Cakar made a package for screenkey already. As far as I know it was in a good shape and only lacked a sponsor until he gave up eventually. Maybe get in touch with him (CC:-ed) to save duplicate work. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D

Re: Package changelog should contain, well, a log of changes

2012-07-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-07-13 at 08:39pm, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard (13/07/2012): > > Please proofread your changelog before releasing a packaging, and make > > sure all entries describe what was _changed_. ^ > > SNCR, > KiBi. I fail to extract any meaning out of the above. Could you

Re: Package changelog should contain, well, a log of changes

2012-07-13 Thread Craig Small
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:24:44AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-07-13 at 08:39pm, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Jonas Smedegaard (13/07/2012): > > > Please proofread your changelog before releasing a packaging, and make > > > sure all entries describe what was _changed_. ^ > >

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam Borowski writes ("Re: Recommends for metapackages"): > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:32:19PM -0600, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:21:00PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > > Installing N-M breaks unrelated software. > > > > No. At most it breaks *related* software. >

Bug#681528: ITP: python-gtkspellcheck -- spellchecking library written in Python for Gtk based on Enchant

2012-07-13 Thread Carlos Jenkins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlos Jenkins * Package name: python-gtkspellcheck Version : 2.4 Upstream Author : Maximilian Köhl & Carlos Jenkins * URL : https://github.com/carlos-jenkins/pygtkspellcheck * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:12:34PM +0200, Brian White a écrit : > That seems a reasonable plan to me. I've orphaned the mime-support > package, however, because I have no time to work on it right now and do not > expect to have any for the foreseeable future. Dear Brian, I could not find the WNP

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-13 Thread Roger Lynn
[sorry for the lengthy quoting below] On 12/07/12 10:10, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Noel David Torres Taño writes: >> Not so minimal if you want your gnome set to be up to date, including new >> applications being installed. > > It is very minimal. 5 minutes of work. Been there, done that, posted the

Moving changelog and copyright files to control tarball, or merging control and data tarballs ?

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Raphaël and Guillem, in http://bugs.debian.org/681289, Raphaël proposed that the Changelog and copyright should be package metadata. I personally like the idea, but I note that last time it was introduced on debian-devel, it was not consensual (http://lists.debian.org/20437.51932.971859.384...

Multilicense `debian/copyright` file

2012-07-13 Thread Aliaksei Sheshka
Hi debian-devel list! Please help me to write a proper `debian/copyright` file. Original COPYING file says: Several parties hold copyright to various parts of IRRToolSet. One or more of the following licenses may apply to the code contained within this distribution. 1. USC (and occasionally USC/

Re: Multilicense `debian/copyright` file

2012-07-13 Thread Yao Wei
It is required to look into each file header and specify these different files for each license. Yao Wei On 2012/7/14, at 13:09, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: > Hi debian-devel list! > > Please help me to write a proper `debian/copyright` file. > Original COPYING file says: > > Several parties hold c

Rahasia Belajar Efektif dan Sukses Les Privat

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Re: Multilicense `debian/copyright` file

2012-07-13 Thread Craig Small
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:09:21AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: >Hi debian-devel list! >Please help me to write a proper `debian/copyright` file. >Original COPYING file says: >Several parties hold copyright to various parts of IRRToolSet. One or >more >of the following li

Re: Multilicense `debian/copyright` file

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:09:21AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka a écrit : > Hi debian-devel list! > > Please help me to write a proper `debian/copyright` file. > Original COPYING file says: > > Several parties hold copyright to various parts of IRRToolSet. One or more > of the following licenses may