Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
y. Would there be a way to get Salsa upload and tag the package if the CI tests pass and the changelog signals a release? Or does somebody has a script which can screen a Salsa group for ready uploads, and run clone && buildpackage && dput automatically ? Cheers, Ch

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
e, one problem I have with NMUs in team-maintained package is that they often bypass Salsa… Would it make sense to add to the DEP a request that NMUs are started from and pushed to the default branch? Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Oki

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 07:28:52AM +0200, Helmut Grohne a écrit : > > please allow me to open a can of worms. Package removal from unstable. Hi all, I think that package removal from Unstable, total or partial (for instance, 32-bit architectures) should be an automated self-sevice system for lea

Re: Bits from DPL

2024-09-04 Thread Charles Plessy
chitecture-specific removals can not be done under this pattern, but maybe it could be automated that anything depending on architecture-is-64-bit gets removed from i386, armel and armhf for instance? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan

Re: DEP5 and spdx shortname of license

2024-09-08 Thread Charles Plessy
and many other projects. About saying MIT instead of Expat, I fully [1] agree [2]. 1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/08/msg00109.html 2: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/12/msg00034.html Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama,

Trivial bug on apt-file (Was : Re: Development standards for unstable)

2006-01-12 Thread Charles Plessy
while another one is being repaired. So if you want a basic user to innocently raise the severity of the bug, so that a developper could NMU a fixed package, just drop me a mail. Best regards, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Trivial bug on apt-file (Was : Re: Development standards for unstable)

2006-01-12 Thread Charles Plessy
swers of the maintainer. Sébastien, please fix your bug ! Can you imagine Debian if all the packages, like yours, would need a manual inspection of the error messages to figure out on what it really depends ??? Best regards, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#352506: ITP: treeviewx -- TreeView X displays and prints phylogenetic trees

2006-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: treeviewx Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/treeviewx/ * License : GPL Description : Tree

Balancing the noise between -devel and -private?

2006-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
cultures, from the company to the rock band or the football club, critisism against insiders are not done in front of outsiders. The public trials are usually the hallmark of terror systems. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Translated packages descriptions progress

2006-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
for specific packages? There are some pages of the debian web site, such as in the debian-med area [1], which contain package descriptions that have therefore have already been translated in some languages. [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/microbio Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy

Re: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier

2006-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
ier" would have an advantage over the others, which is unfortunate because of the bad practices it promotes as you pointed out. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#382994: ITP: rebase -- The restriction enzyme database, from New England Biolabs

2006-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: rebase Version : NA Upstream Author : Dr. Richard J. Roberts and Dana Macelis (http://rebase.neb.com/rebase/rebase.staff.html) URL : http://rebase.neb.com L

Re: Bug#382994: ITP: rebase -- The restriction enzyme database, from New England Biolabs

2006-08-15 Thread Charles Plessy
at non-modifiable mean non(-dfsg)-free, and that non-free is a bit cumbersome to distribute (for instance in live CDs). This did not trigger any reaction. Maybe I can unbrand the mails I sent them and publish them if you want post-proofread them... Althouth I intended to be clear, I am not a nat

Problems with security updates (was: Surpassing Microsoft quality)

2006-08-16 Thread Charles Plessy
use of you are not satisfied of the quality of their work. In the meantime before the breakage is resolved, please note the workaround published in the bug you cited. Best regards, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Removing moderation on Alioth lists

2006-08-16 Thread Charles Plessy
uot; to "accept". * In Privacy options... / Recipient filters, set "require_explicit_destination" to "no". Hope that helps, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Status of BSD-like licences with advertisement clauses.

2006-08-22 Thread Charles Plessy
thread in debian-mentors is: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/08/msg00233.html In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Also, if you are puzzled on what this discussion is about, the following link may be of interest: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html Have a nice day, -- Charles

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Charles Plessy
ey are similar in concept (but not in gravity) to recalls seen in the industry: a broken material was released, so special communication could help to contact the users, explain the problem, and help them to fix it. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama,

Resuming the packaging of EMBOSS

2006-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
/source/science/ http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-emboss/ Matt is member of this Alioth project and is most welcome to take the reclaim maintainership if he is not MIA. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bashing rude users does not fix bugs they report.

2006-09-02 Thread Charles Plessy
wait to be released. I think that it is unfair to criticize him for having reported the problem as it appears that this is what solved the problem for real at the user level. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bashing rude users does not fix bugs they report.

2006-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:06:39AM -0500, Steve Langasek a écrit : > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:31:21PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > here is a summary of what happened: > > > - A security update of Sarge broke programs, some being shipped in > > Sarge, some being ins

Re: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected

2006-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
st month: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00873.html It is really unfortunate that the regulation of moderation is hidden under a "privacy" menu in Mailman. Maybe the most straightforward mean to slove this in the future would be to make the new lists unmoderated by default? Have a nice

Intend to intend to hijack SeaView.

2006-09-18 Thread Charles Plessy
uot;Debian-Med packaging team" (see http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med/ and http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med/), and to submit an upgrade to my sponsor before the 8th of October. (By the way, is freeze time minus 10 days the deadline for uploads ?). Have a nice day, -- Charl

Re: Fwd: Bug#387557: pcre3: Please ship pcre_internal.h

2006-09-26 Thread Charles Plessy
y disagree with the Debian developper saying that they are idiots. I have a deep respect for their work, which makes bioinformatics accessible to anybody having a personnal computer running a *nix operating system. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med packaging team Wako, Saitama, Japan

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-10-03 Thread Charles Plessy
nstance. In one of my future packages, the upstream sources are modified so that x-terminal-emulator is called instead of xterm, but I do not know if this would break for non-mainstream alternatives... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To

Another option to reconfigure to avoid rejection on Alioth mailing lists.

2006-10-12 Thread Charles Plessy
attached files to the moderation queue, which is not good. Setting the value to zero disables the filter. Hope this helps, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: delay of the full etch freeze

2006-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:22:43PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : > [Charles Plessy] > > The rationale is that the 8th is "old freeze deadline minus 10 > > days", so it was not completely unreasonnable to take this day as > > the deadline for having new pac

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-14 Thread Charles Plessy
could be reverted quickly by somebody else if a user requested the package on an excluded arch. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Help] Please compile clustalw on architectures ia64, mips, mipsel, s390 and m68k

2006-10-17 Thread Charles Plessy
/clustalw.html Can some DD help clustalw to get back into Etch as we still have the opportunity ? I just entered the NM queue and therefore can not do this kind of work by myself. Thank you so much in advance! Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med packaging team Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To

Re: [Help] Please compile clustalw on architectures ia64, mips, mipsel, s390 and m68k

2006-10-17 Thread Charles Plessy
://wiki.debian.org/SequenceAlignment PS: depending on the answer, debian-science can be a better list than debian-devel. PPS: I would bet that half of the architectures on which clustalw is missing are architectures on which nobody uses Clustal W or Clustal X, but this is another story... Have a nic

Re: Bug#394705: ITP: emma -- extendable MySQL managing assistant

2006-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
es is called emma. Is the Emma you are packaging also containing a "emma" binary ? http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/cvs/emma.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Bug#394705: ITP: emma -- extendable MySQL managing assistant

2006-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:40:16AM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > I am preparing a package for a software suite called EMBOSS, and one > > of > > its binaries is called emma. Is the Emma you are packaging also > > containing a "emma&q

Bug#394705: ITP: emma -- extendable MySQL managing assistant

2006-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:40:16AM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > I am preparing a package for a software suite called EMBOSS, and one of > > its binaries is called emma. Is the Emma you are packaging also > > containing a "emma" binary

Bug#395840: ITP: phylowin -- Graphical interface for molecular phylogenetic inference

2006-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: phylowin Version : 25.09.2006 Upstream Author : Nicolas GALTIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Manolo GOUY URL : http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/phylowin.ht

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-10 Thread Charles Plessy
, or something like this... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-10 Thread Charles Plessy
y not expect sixpack to be renamed. In addition, their scripts would be broken. How is the case of sixpack for XAS? Is it used in command line, or will it be called from a menu ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
the inclusion of the feature, and that the maintainer tagged it "wontfix" without explaining his reasons? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Where to put non-locale global environment settitngs ?

2006-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
the non-locale environment variables that users also put in /etc/environment, such as http_proxy for instance? Are they also unwelcome because /etc/environment "is a PAM configuration file"? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To U

Re: Why not scan for unmaintained packages and orphan them?

2006-12-05 Thread Charles Plessy
s package: $ bts thankyou 123456 This could send a template message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which would say something like "The maintainer is too busy to send a real answer, but he saw your report and thanks you for sending it." (one can imaging many other variants, such as bts dontcare, b

Re: Explications needed...

2006-12-31 Thread Charles Plessy
not sufficient. (said after having wasted hours with the s390 port some weeks ago - I did not guess that the buildd admin was not reading the list on which I posted my mails). Have a nice day, and happy new year to those who celebrate it this evening. -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org

Re: Bug#406495: ITP: odt2txt -- simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text

2007-01-11 Thread Charles Plessy
d by > OpenOffice.org, KOffice, StarOffice and others. It is small and > fast, can output the document in many encodings and adopts to your > locale. Hi Nelson, How does it compare to the converter from the o3read package? Can there be some automagic mutt handling such as for antiword

Re: ITP: o3read -- standalone converter for OpenOffice.org documents

2006-03-18 Thread Charles Plessy
be used with mutt or others to display inline the contents of attached OOo documents in emails. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or mo

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
file? Best Regards, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#361682: ITP: dialign -- Segment-based multiple sequence alignment

2006-04-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: dialign Version : 2.1.1 Upstream Author : Burkhard Morgenstern, Said Abdeddaim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://dialign.gobics.de/ License : LGPL

Is there a policy for the .desktop files?

2006-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all. Applications can be listed in the non-debian menu of desktop managers such as Gnome and Kde by dropping a applicationname.desktop file in /usr/share/applications/. There is a lot activity in Ubuntu to provide applicationname.desktop files to packages which lack them, so I decided to write

Re: bounty for packaging OME

2006-04-23 Thread Charles Plessy
to those lists. http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/ http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/ I hope you will find your bounty hunter, Best regards, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] plonk reports are off-topic.

2006-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
please refrain from informing the subscribers of -devel about it. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365344: ITP: kalign -- Global and progressive multiple sequence alignment

2006-04-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: kalign Version : 1.04 Upstream Author : Timo Lassmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://msa.cgb.ki.se/downloads/kalign-1.04.tgz License : GPL

Bug#365499: ITP: probcons -- PROBabilistic CONSistency-based multiple sequence alignment

2006-04-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: probcons Version : 1.10 Upstream Author : Chuong B. Do <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://probcons.stanford.edu/download.html License : Public Domain

Bug#366321: ITP: amap-align -- Protein multiple alignment by sequence annealing

2006-05-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: amap-align Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Ariel Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://bio.math.berkeley.edu/amap/download/amap.2.0.tar.gz License : P

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-10 Thread Charles Plessy
in the debian package ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-10 Thread Charles Plessy
and ask the upstream author if he agrees to rephrase his statement. (However, my limited experience showed me that when authors chose permissive licences or statement, they are not generally interested in managing their copyrights as rigourously as Debian expects it...) Have a nice day, --

Re: Bug#368931: ITP: libjung-java -- Java Universal Network/Graph Framework

2006-05-26 Thread Charles Plessy
PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.example.org/ Homepage: http://jung.sourceforge.net/ -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

One can not guess if somebody is willing to accept private mails or not...

2006-06-07 Thread Charles Plessy
on -devel could be strongly raised if at least part of the discussions would be conduced in private with the people who have no objection against it.) Have a nice day, (and please answer privately, of course) -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Bug#373606: ITP: sms2 -- Biological sequence manipulation suite

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: sms2 Version : 2.303 Upstream Author : Paul Stothard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.bioinformatics.org/SMS/index.html License : GPL

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
etc." Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#378288: ITP: poa -- Partial Order Alignment for multiple sequence alignment

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: poa Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Christopher Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/poa License : GPL Description : P

Bug#378289: ITP: sigma-align -- Simple greedy multiple alignment of non-coding DNA sequences

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: sigma-align Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.imsc.res.in/~rsidd/sigma/ License : GPL Description

Bug#378290: ITP: proalign -- Probabilistic multiple alignment program

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: proalign Version : 0.5alpha1 Upstream Author : Ari Löytynoja & Michel C. Milinkovitch URL : http://evol-linux1.ulb.ac.be/ueg/ProAlign/ License : (GPL, LGPL

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-10 Thread Charles Plessy
is less correct that being called Pierre. The reason is they beleive that every invidual reflects the image of the organisation, especially at the first encounter. -- Charles Plessy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#461506: ITP: altree -- program to perform phylogeny based analyses

2008-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: altree Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Claire Bardel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://claire.bardel.free.fr/software.html License : GPL Programmin

Bug#461504: ITP: tacg -- command line program for finding patterns in nucleic acids

2008-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: tacg Version : 4.1.0 Upstream Author : Harry Mangalam, tacg Informatics URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/tacg License : GPL and others Programming L

Bug#461510: ITP: treevolve -- simulation of evolution of DNA sequences

2008-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: treevolve Version : 1.3.2 Upstream Author : Andrew Rambaut & Nick Grassly URL : http://evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk/software.html?id=Treevolve License : Not fou

Bug#461508: ITP: treeplot -- Phylogenetic tree file converter

2008-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: treeplot Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Olivier Langella URL : http://www.pge.cnrs-gif.fr/bioinfo/treeplot/ (invalid) License : GPL Programming L

Is a free document whose sources have been lost free?

2008-01-25 Thread Charles Plessy
, don't the .html, .pdf and .ps files become the "preferred form for modification"? I really would be happy to merge dialign-t and dialign-t-doc again; we do not need to punish our users for an error made upstream. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō,

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Charles Plessy
ation system similar to the architecture certification? I would be very happy to decide to use only certified tools. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sources of dak ?

2008-01-26 Thread Charles Plessy
d not find anything either. Are there more recent sources available to non-DDs? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is the DM-Upload-Allowed case-sensitive ?

2008-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:08:44AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : > On Sun Jan 27, 2008 at 16:53:59 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I wanted to check if dak was case-sensitive when parsing the > > DM-Upload-Allowed field, but I did not find this string in the sources > >

Re: Is a free document whose sources have been lost free?

2008-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
> Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > To make the dialign-t package, I removed the documentation from the > > upstream tarball, that I use for a dialign-t-doc package, in the > > non-free section as the their LaTeX sources are not provided. > > > >

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
uild time. Maybe if somebody could provide a way that quilt use the strategy of simple-patchsys (apply everyghing that has a .diff or .patch suffix) instead of the series file, or the reverse, it would be a first step towards standardisation. (If simple-patchsys accepts patch with headers made by q

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-28 Thread Charles Plessy
o know about the patch systems. Maybe a bit of Policy on a 'patch' rule for 'debian/rules' and an option --patch for 'apt-get source', or 'dpkg-source', would solve this aspect of the problem. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
great to reach a consensus on the name, if the idea that proposing a single entry instead of two or three is accepted. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-31 Thread Charles Plessy
mind swiching, however I do not know for others, but for me it would require some help and explanations. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-31 Thread Charles Plessy
ot fully understand how to keep the advantages of the patch systems in this alternative workflow. > > On to, 2008-01-31 at 20:03 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > I am wondering if just mandating 'debian/rules patch' to work if > > > debian/patches exist shouldn&#

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Lars, I do not get your point. If you are concerned that the persons who sent you a package to sponsor have put malicious code in it, what I guess you will first review is wether the scripts you have to execute to test the packages are safe. If you trust the orig.tar.gz tarball and if it has th

Re: How to cope with patches sanely? -> Tentative summary on http://wiki.debian.org/debian/patches

2008-01-31 Thread Charles Plessy
evening everybody, In order to help the master plan to be prepared, I tryed to update the summary of the discussion in the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/debian/patches Of course, please feel free to rephrase, reorganise, complement and alter the page. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://

Bug#463643: no i386 and powerpc build daemons available which can run 64bit binaries

2008-02-01 Thread Charles Plessy
are ppc64 machines available here: http://tuxppc.rz.uni-augsburg.de/ I do not know if they run the 32- or 64-bit port in their userland, however. At worse, you can also look for people having such installations on the following wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/VolunteersForPowerPC H

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-02 Thread Charles Plessy
except that the trick of patching the sources at clean time would not work anymore. But the biggest problem may be that unless I missed something, there was no clear answer when it was asked if somebody was woring on Wig&Pen. Is there sombody working on Wig&Pen? Is the format consensual enou

Re: dpatch, "diff -u" and "very big projects"

2008-02-02 Thread Charles Plessy
debian/patches and quilt and cdbs simple patchsys. Well, it was said in the thread that for very big projects the patch systems are not convenient, but if it is not consensual it is better to remove this from the summary, unless it is really an issue for Debian. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles

Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

2008-02-03 Thread Charles Plessy
solution that wouldn't require a change in at least two packages, and that is the reason I contact all of you and CC debian-devel. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-med packaging team Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-05 Thread Charles Plessy
nyway, so why not checking them first, and then run "debian/rules patch" ? (or decline to sponsor the work of persons storing their changes in debian/patches). Of course, I would be very interested to hear better solution, because as I wrote, this one is not particularly elegant. Have

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
tly, the university of Berkeley from which this licence originates has now abandonned the advertisement clause. This is a strong argument, and with it I was able to obtain the relicencing of a 4-clause-BSD-licenced program by the Whitehead Institute. I think that you have your chances with the univer

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:44:38PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This example is maybe a bit artificial, but the point is that with such > > licences in main, redistributors who use advertisement should in theory > >

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:27:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > Am I missing something? This ? http://web.archive.org/web/19990210065944/http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license http://web.archive.org/web/20001205083200/http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

news from mips?

2008-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
the usual frustration... -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:36:21PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr a écrit : > * Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-11 19:26]: > > I am really thankful for Tim and Martin to work on a MIPS machine, but > > currently we do not even know if there is a plan to make it a buildd,

Re: Re: pre-building NEW packages, when they only introduce new binary packages

2008-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
understand, it seems to be off-topic on this list. So let's learn the "décroissance" way in Debian, it is a good training for real life anyway. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: pre-building NEW packages, when they only introduce new binary packages

2008-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
the package would be part of the release or not. People with responsibilities in Debian's core infrastructures should consider that it is demotivating for many. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Independent JPEG Group's software". openssl: All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.o

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:28:48AM +0200, Riku Voipio a écrit : > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:08:13AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Sorry to be rude, but I am just so surprised that there is a such big > > problem and that apparently nothing is done. If people are working on >

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
on and the work. In the future, maybe this kind of issue could be more easily tracked if the ports had their own pseudo-packages in the BTS ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Meaning of the "Altering package upload rules"

2008-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
has been required, a GR will be needed. Since it is a necessary step, the writing of it may be a useful tool to clarify arguments before presenting them to the persons in charge ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

2008-02-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear developpers, following the discussion on patch systems and standardisation, here is the wishlist but I sent to the cdbs package. (#466259) I hope that it can lead to some progress… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy - Forwarded message from Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#466682: ITP: emboss-kaptain -- graphical interface to EMBOSS using Kaptain

2008-02-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Hope I am not breaking parsers... how about using a template that is directly cut-pastable in/from debian/control and debian/copyright ?) Source: emboss-kaptain Homepage: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~sgmd/downloa

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ndomly form teams of 3 from all DDs and assign a single bug to each > team. One week to submit a patch to the BTS. Hi all, Similar to the BSP model, bug triaging parties could also provide nice opportunities to do that kind of effort in synergy, (and to socialise afterwards). Have a nice

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-23 Thread Charles Plessy
in Debian are intersted in. - When modifying a package that uses dpatch, quilt or simple-patchsys, developpers have to find out by themselves if the target for patching the sources is patch, apply-patches or apply-dpatches. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō,

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-24 Thread Charles Plessy
ant to modify upstream sources will have to use a patch system. What is the plan to make the patch targets in debian/rules unneeded? Have a nice day (and thank you for your work on a new format for source pacakages.) -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- T

Re: news from mips?

2008-02-24 Thread Charles Plessy
ave users on this port. I would be glad to be proven wrong, but in the meantime, we are delaying service to our users for no benefit at all. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Buildd backlog and testing transition.

2008-02-29 Thread Charles Plessy
nobody is using it. Please. Our work is left aside for no benefit, and if I understand correctly, transiently allowing the migration is just a matter of changing a configuration file two times. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: binary vs "real debian" packages

2008-02-29 Thread Charles Plessy
/lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Buildd backlog and testing transition.

2008-03-01 Thread Charles Plessy
ages migrate to testing. Thanks for respecting our work, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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