Re: how to add my project?

2012-12-25 Thread Eduard
thank you! благодарю! :) Am 23.12.2012 11:43, schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:42AM +0100, Eduard wrote: Hello! How can i add my project into debian-devel repository? For example, my program is the based on httrack library tool, the GUI for it, it's the clone from WinHT

Re: how to add my project?

2012-12-25 Thread Eduard
Hello John Paul Adrian! Thank You for this information and for your help! best regards, viele Grüße, Eduard Am 23.12.2012 13:03, schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: Hello Eduard, On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:42AM +0100, Eduard wrote: Hello! How can i add my project into debian-devel reposito

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2012-12-25 Thread Mistikos Nik
Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debian versions by their nick names, and not their versions. If I am new to Debian and go to read the manual and I see 'Squeeze', do you think I am going to know what the fuck that means? No, but if Debian actually used the official name,

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2012-12-25 Thread jamie
Merry Christmas to you also. Incidently, I haven't written any the documentation. Jamie Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original Message- From: Mistikos Nik Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:50:57 To: Subject: Feedback Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debia

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2012-12-25 Thread jamie
Anyway, more to point, if you find the format of documentation, hard to work and perhaps fustrating, you seemed irritable, perhaps firstly best calm down before writing such an email. Your email only had as far as I could make out had only one constructive point, and a tirade of insults. Its on

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2012-12-25 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2012-12-25 22:50:57 +1000 (+1000), Mistikos Nik wrote: [...] > Debian use to be really popular. Now only old people use it. [...] I suddenly feel very old. What distribution do twelve-year-old trolls use these days, if not Debian? Have we lost our key demographic? -- { WHOIS( STANL3-ARIN ); WW

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2012-12-25 Thread jamie
I guess by twelve year old trolls, you refer to Mistikos? To be honest, I am not sure I'd respond to him/her like that, they do not just seem like a troll. However they seem like someone who perhaps needs to think before they talk, and spend more time explaining what is bothering them Jamie Se

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2012-12-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Mistikos Nik dijo [Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:50:57PM +1000]: > Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debian > versions by their nick names, and not their versions. Right, more or less like the Windows documentation authors, where it's clear that 3.11 < 95 < 98 < ME < XP < Vista < 7

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2012-12-25 Thread jamie
Your logic is inherently flawed. Fact is, if you do you research you will find that Ubuntu is built from Debian, thus is a form of it. Reality is Ubuntu when it first came was very little more than a version of Debian packaged to be easier to use and install, and slowly is has gained more uni

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2012-12-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:50:57 -0500 (EST), Mistikos Nik wrote: > > Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debian > versions by their nick names, and not their versions. > > If I am new to Debian and go to read the manual and I see 'Squeeze', > do you think I am going to know what

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2012-12-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/25/2012 10:55 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: (2) The correspondence between release code names and official version numbers can be found in the Debian FAQ, point 6.2, entitled "What are all those names like etch, lenny, etc.?". Here is a link to this item in the on-line version of the Debian F

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2012-12-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:55:13AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > (1) Official Debian version numbers are not normally assigned until the > release becomes the stable release. Not true (anymore). -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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2012-12-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 01:17:40PM +, ja...@jatos.co.uk wrote: > Merry Christmas to you also. > > Incidently, I haven't written any the documentation. Good to know. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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2012-12-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 25.12.2012 15:55, Stephen Powell wrote: (1) Official Debian version numbers are not normally assigned until the release becomes the stable release. I haven't checked when previous release numbers were announced, but wheezy's assigned version was public information some time ago - see http

Document Debian version#s, not just codenames, (was: Feedback)

2012-12-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Mistikos, In spite of your trollish approach to the topic, let's try to make something constructive of your request: On 25/12/12 08:50 AM, Mistikos Nik wrote: > It constantly refers to Debian versions by their nick names, and not their > versions. Please furnish links/references to specific pla

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2012-12-25 Thread jamie
I didn't thought the use of codenames was hardly unique to Debian, remember Windows Longhorn? Also remember Windows XP, the practice he moans about is used in a form by the worlds most used OS. Also... Does Ubuntu not use names such as Dapper and Breezy? I think this guy is just too thick to

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2012-12-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 04:55:53PM +, ja...@jatos.co.uk wrote: > I didn't thought the use of codenames was hardly unique to Debian, remember > Windows Longhorn? Codenames for unlreased products are a different story. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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2012-12-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Mistikos Nik (kolus...@yandex.com): > Now only old people use it. For what reason would that be a problem, by the way? Merry Christmas to you too, hohoho signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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2012-12-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:39:39 -0500 (EST), Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 25.12.2012 15:55, Stephen Powell wrote: >> (1) Official Debian version numbers are not normally assigned until >> the release becomes the stable release. > > I haven't checked when previous release numbers were announced, but

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2012-12-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Stephen Powell writes: > Evidently the historical practice has changed recently. I stand > corrected. Thanks. The /etc/debian_version file, however, does not > give a release number, and probably won't, until wheezy becomes the > stable release. It currently simply says, "wheezy/sid". I beli

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2012-12-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (25/12/2012): > I believe that's because *unstable* understandably doesn't have a > meaningful version number, and base-files, like every other package, is > updated via unstable until the very end of the freeze. If I remember from > past releases, branching base-files in testing fro

Re: Feedback

2012-12-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 19:49:59 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > (not unblocked for wheezy yet.) > Lies. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#696687: ITP: qtchooser -- Allows to choose between Qt4 or Qt5 build tools

2012-12-25 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" * Package name: qtchooser Version : 6 Upstream Author : Intel Corporation * URL : https://codereview.qt-project.org/#q,status%3Aopen+project%3Aqt/qtchooser,n,z * License : LGPL Pro

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2012-12-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:50:57PM +1000, Mistikos Nik wrote: > Debian documentation is a joke. Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas! -- Copyshops should do vouchers. So that next time some bureaucracy requires you to mail a form in triplicate, you can mail it just once, add a voucher, and save on postage.

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2012-12-25 Thread Ean Schuessler
Its the most counter-intuitive, and non-user friendly name since "Snow Leopard"! A very Merry Debian Christmas from Dallas, Texas! - "Mistikos Nik" wrote: > Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debian versions by > their nick names, and not their versions. > If I am

Re: Feedback

2012-12-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mistikos Nik, le Tue 25 Dec 2012 22:50:57 +1000, a écrit : > If I am new to Debian and go to read the manual and I see 'Squeeze', > do you think I am going to know what the fuck that means? Do you actually need to know what that means, except being the name of the release? I have never known the

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2012-12-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Samuel Thibault writes: > Using version numbers would be more lacking social skills. People > prefer nicknames, not versions. Version numbers are more useful the less familiar you are with the OS because they have a well-defined order. I've never needed them for Debian, but, for example, I fin

Bug#696690: ITP: mp3cat -- reads, writes, splits and combines MP3 files

2012-12-25 Thread Nick Leverton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nick Leverton * Package name: mp3cat Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Tom Clegg * URL : http://tomclegg.net/mp3cat * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : reads, writes, splits and combines MP3 files

Re: openmotif is now LGPL, retirement of lesstif in jessie?

2012-12-25 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi Paul Paul Gevers debian.org> writes: > > The openmotif package has recently been orphaned since the maintainer > > is MIA. > > Not quite, the maintainer said he didn't have time anymore. It is a > detail anyway. My apologies, I assumed the package becoming orphaned was a result of me emaili

Re: ITA: jabberd2 -- Jabber instant messenger server

2012-12-25 Thread Willem van den Akker
Hi, I havent received any response about my ITA message for Jabberd2 (see below). It seems the current maintainer is MIA. Is it possible someone of the pkg-xmpp-devel group can reply? I would like to adopt it, but must get a chance to get so ;) Greetings, Willem On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 23:28 +010

Differing behaviour of shells regarding simple commands with parameter assignments

2012-12-25 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, I just stepped over a difference between bash and busybox. To illustrate I wrote this simple script: -- #!/bin/sh bar () { echo -n $foo; } foo=1 bar foo=2 bar bar -- bash, zsh, posh output 121 busybox sh, dash, (m)ksh output 122 checkbashisms doesn't complain. Which of

Re: Differing behaviour of shells regarding simple commands with parameter assignments

2012-12-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello Timo, Timo Weingärtner (26/12/2012): > bash, zsh, posh output 121 > > busybox sh, dash, (m)ksh output 122 > > checkbashisms doesn't complain. > > Which of the three is wrong? Where shall I file bugs? > > When bar is not a function but an external script the output is 121 > with all the

Re: Differing behaviour of shells regarding simple commands with parameter assignments

2012-12-25 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, 2012-12-26, 02:22:45 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Timo Weingärtner (26/12/2012): > > bash, zsh, posh output 121 > > > > busybox sh, dash, (m)ksh output 122 > > > > checkbashisms doesn't complain. > > > > Which of the three is wrong? Where shall I file bugs? > > > > When bar is not a function

Re: feedback

2012-12-25 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Hi Jamie, I couldn't tell what this message was supposed to reply to, since you broke the thread very nicely with that failure of a mail client you're using. So I'm assuming that this message was addressed at the opening post of this thread, and ... On 25/12/2012 23:47, ja...@jatos.co.uk wrote:

Bug#696702: RFP: boinctui -- Fullscreen text mode manager curses based for BOINC client.

2012-12-25 Thread mdt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: boinctui Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Sergey Suslov * URL : http://code.google.com/p/boinctui/ * License : GPL-3.0+ Description : Fullscreen text mode manager curses based for BOINC client. Main Featu