Re: Policy §10.4 as a d ivergence from usptrea m (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-30 Thread Charles Plessy
programs and I will stop following this Policy directive. In my opinion, the choice is to be left to the maintainer, and this is not well reflected by using a ’should’ directive in the Policy. I would like to see it rephrased as a best practice or removed. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy

Re: Bug#550031: ITP: libjs-extjs -- a cross-browser JavaScript library

2009-10-08 Thread Charles Plessy
o lines what copyleft means, and is not an additional restriction to the GPL. debian-de...@l.d.o is a good place to hear some advices, but the only persons who veto packages in Debian are our archive administrators, an none of them has objected against libjs-extjs. In my opinion, just go ahead

Re: Bug#550542: ITP: jhdf -- Java HDF5 Object Package

2009-10-11 Thread Charles Plessy
of a program I package to remove a similar clause, by referring to the following essay on the FSF website: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/bsd.html. Maybe you can give it a try? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi,

Re: packages that use deprecated SQL escape functions

2009-10-14 Thread Charles Plessy
be found vulnerable, the severity will be > raised of course). Dear Steffen, shouldn’t the upstream maintainer(s) be warned before the security issue is advertised in public? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Re: Bug#551026: ITP: xcite -- exciting cite utility for Emacsen

2009-10-15 Thread Charles Plessy
llPermissive http://blitiri.com.ar/p/bola/ http://genaud.net/2005/10/poetic-license/ There is also the CC0, which is supposed to mean something similar to the above: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To

Re: Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

2009-10-18 Thread Charles Plessy
g in a big monolithic file, and give commit access to all DDs for instance. That would also completely untie the update of upstream metadata from package upload, and if the file is managed in a VCS, it would be easy to revert mistakes and find misusers, if somebody ever dares. Have a nice day -- Char

Re: New upstream version

2009-10-24 Thread Charles Plessy
as it enters into technical details about packaging issues. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
if there are developpers who are obviously careless, would be far more efficient than our current procedure. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
acy. It also creates a more complex mechanism at our archive level, which raises the bar for new contributors. I really feel sorry for the Lintian maintianers who will get most of the flames in the future. Best, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

binNMUs v.s. source-only uploads.

2009-10-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:26:58PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:07:19PM +, Roger Leigh a écrit : > > > > While most developers are conscientious enough to make sure their > > packages build, one does see enough crap packages that IMO t

Re: debian/rules "make -f" restriction

2009-10-28 Thread Charles Plessy
by a too long recruitment process. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debian/rules "make -f" restriction

2009-10-29 Thread Charles Plessy
just another example of how the Policy is sometimes going too far in chosing how developers should implement interfaces, instead of simply specifying the interface. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: debian/rules "make -f" restriction

2009-10-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:35:58AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > The interface definition behind this is: That ‘make -f debian/rules’ is not present anywhere in the Policy demonstrates it is not the interface. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUB

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-01 Thread Charles Plessy
> getting around to filing bugs on policy MUST violations and others that > make the package too buggy to be in Debian Wow, time goes so fast, it is already the season for attempting to delay the release! -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-01 Thread Charles Plessy
is no incentive for them to be fixed. With this in mind, I think that Stefano's proposition to implicate the QA team in the management of which tag gets in the blacklist makes a lot of sense, as it will help the people who will do the hard work of orphaning, MIA checking, and bug fixing to prior

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:49:40AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > I'm not seeing where he's doing any significant harm By killing the discusssion with a flood of emails. Here are the top posters for this month in this thread: 3 Charles Plessy (+1 with this one)

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-03 Thread Charles Plessy
ugh the long process that may allow to] remove them from the archive. Do you understand why people are getting annoyed ? -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Possible MBF wrt common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
me. Otherwise, since shipping configuration files in /etc/webserver/conf.d will still be necessary for these packages to work, there will little benefit in moving files to /usr/share/www. Anyway, thank you very much for your initiative. Exploring new directions is good ! Have a nice day, --

Re: DEP-5: binary package affected by license $foo

2009-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
hink that your proposition is quite ahead of its time, but I would have nothing against a ‘Future directions’ addendum to DEP-5 that would contain such a field after it has been more throroughly thought. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
I like a lot doc-central, because on computers with a short name, only a few keystrokes in the browser bar can call it. Switching from “foo/dc” to “foo/vendors-apps/dc” is unfun, expecially since the ‘-’ sign is a moving target on heterogeneous keyboard environments. Have a nice day, --

Re: Possible MBF wrt common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers

2009-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:24:39AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:09:28AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Still, having /usr/share/www as a document root does not prevent complex > > packages to be fragmented between /usr/share, /usr/lib/

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
built will not be the same in the buildds when they process the packages a few days later (even on amd64 this month, see https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=r-cran-spatial). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Please, no cross-post… ( was : Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG (take 2))

2009-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Oh no, please, Please, PLEASE, *PLEASE* do not cross-post the discussions between debian-vote and debian-devel. There is no point having separated lists otherwise. Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
rom that plan? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth.

2009-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
akes slopiness a problem in general. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not. Maybe yes.

2009-11-12 Thread Charles Plessy
rotect Debian against its ‘sloppy maintainers’ are actually a way to increase their number, not to correct their behaviour. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not. Maybe yes.

2009-11-12 Thread Charles Plessy
ay. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
ebuild of the architecture-independant packages happens. Could we have a bit more details on the buildd(s) and arch(es) involved, the contact points in case of breakage, etc… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-16 Thread Charles Plessy
no user will complain. So why not ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
ow source-only uploads. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
ioinformatics packages would help the two sides of the coin. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
compared to the gain for everybody. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
both groups, Debian Med and the hppa porters, which like every other group in Debian severely lack manpower. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
ations introduced by runing the autotools, which would be simply ignored instead of being turned into an useless patch. And it would also open a way to unify with the VCS-based formats. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Re: NMU question

2009-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
MIA. If nobody wants to maintain this package, it should better be orphaned or removed than NMUed. If the maintainer is active, it is of course with him and not this list that the contents of the NMU have to be discussed. If he gives you green light, there is of course no problem fixing no-RC iss

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
t you were not going to change your mind about format ‘3.0 (quilt)’, and then gave up. How many others? I understand that you do not want to throw away your work on this patch management system, but by making it optional, I think that you will actually increase your chances of success… Cheer

Bug#557882: ITP: libextutils-manifest-perl -- utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file

2009-11-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: libextutils-manifest-perl Version : 1.57 Upstream Author : Andreas Koenig andreas.koe...@anima.de URL : http://search.cpan.org/~rkobes/ExtUtils-Manifest-1.57/ License : Perl

Re: DEP3 and even more incompatible "RFC-2822" formats

2009-11-24 Thread Charles Plessy
by forgetting to type some whitespace in the apparently emptly line between the first line of the License field and the main part. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan This work was packaged for Debian by: Mr Foo on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:02:06 +0900 It was download

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-25 Thread Charles Plessy
aving this task to the maintainer. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:09:45AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > you can end up building a binary package that does not match the source > package that you upload together with the binary packages. “You”? Not me. What I upload comes from sbuild. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi,

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:09:45AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > > even simpler, an option or a format that would completely ignore what is > > outside the debian directory: > > That's option "-i.*". As I sai

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-27 Thread Charles Plessy
working with format 1.0 as before. Last question: is the use of the Format field in debian/control deprecated, or can I use it for the packages that I would like to stay in the format 1.0? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
I maintain, to facilitate uploads by people not familiar with the package if needed, as well as to inform the users about what level of testing they should expect. I encourage other maintainers—especially those concerned with helping “NMUers”—to do so. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Ka

Re: DEP-5: removed files

2009-12-07 Thread Charles Plessy
h benefit. I propose to apply this to DEP-5: ### Extra fields. Extra fields can be added to any section. It is not recommended to prefix their name by **`X-`**. I hope it can contribute to ease experimentation. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

About repackaging of the ‘ orig’ tarball.

2009-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
erence? Many thanks, and have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Le Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:36:54PM +0100, Damien Raude-Morvan a écrit : > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:56:05 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Thomas, > > > I'm triing to package a little java library, which

Re: DEP-5: removed files

2009-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:56:29AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 12:26:52AM -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:56:51PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > > > > I remember that debian/copyright should not only list wh

Re: licensecheck and debian/copyright

2009-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
when adding by hand the contents of the artistic v2.0 license to the debian/copyright file from one of the packages I maintain, I concluded that it can significantly impair the adoption of DEP-5. So on this list or elsewhere, I think that there is still some experimentation and concertation to do. Have

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
P team, and everybody. The discussion was held for half a year now. Can we have an update on what is happening on the lawyer side? Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

unzip.h and unzip.c files in source packages.

2009-12-15 Thread Charles Plessy
is that we should either change our policy on copyright documentation (that goes further than what is required by some licenses), or double-check our packages. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-12-15 Thread Charles Plessy
r open, but I think that using something as complex as RDF is prematurate. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: unzip.h and unzip.c files in source packages.

2009-12-16 Thread Charles Plessy
ght declarations could be made in DEP-5 format, to save time to everybody. I will report if I make progress on this part. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-20 Thread Charles Plessy
luck to DEP-6. -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: package hierarchy system

2009-12-26 Thread Charles Plessy
by improving the support for meta-packages instead. See for instance http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep6/ and the recent disussion on this list. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-28 Thread Charles Plessy
t the upstream directories). Would such a format have a chance to be accepted some day in our archive? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#407054: ITP: noos -- text mode rss feed reader

2007-01-15 Thread Charles Plessy
I do no know if that would justify changing the package name to something longer... 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: Bug#407054: ITP: noos -- text mode rss feed reader

2007-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
g network, or finding packages.debian.org when doing a google with debian+noos as keywords... 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]

Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
enu. Or even better, a policy. Not being a user of this menu, I have a hard time guessing what users expect. 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]

Generating the Debian menu from .desktop files?

2007-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
lp for the transition. Have a nice day, (1) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/NoDesktopFile -- 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: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ather advocate using the .desktop format as a native configuration file. This way we could take advantage of existing information, and also contribute back our work to the the upstream developpers when a menu entry is created from scratch for Debian. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http:/

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-22 Thread Charles Plessy
g .deskop format for its files. Have a nice day all, -- 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: Bug#408119: ITP: chessdb -- ChessDB is a free chess database which....

2007-01-23 Thread Charles Plessy
do not need to re-iterate the short description. How about listing the most important main features instead? 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#408347: ITP: proda -- multiple alignment of protein sequences with repeated and shuffled elements

2007-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: proda Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Tu Minh Phuong, Chuong Do, Robert Edgar, and Serafim Batzoglou URL : http://proda.stanford.edu/ License : Public

Re: update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
we saved time. If it fails only idleing is lost. Or how about having the package rejected before being queued if it is not buildable on a (p|cow)builder installed on a fast machine, for instance? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBS

Debian in Sanger (Re: update on binary upload restrictions)

2007-01-31 Thread Charles Plessy
will work on EMBOSS with others soon. http://wiki.debian.org/SequenceAlignment http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-emboss/ 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#409640: ITP: mafft -- Multiple alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences

2007-02-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: mafft Version : 6.236 Upstream Author : Kazutaka Katoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://align.bmr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mafft/software/ License : BSD Program

Re: Bug#409640: ITP: mafft -- Multiple alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences

2007-02-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:05:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson a écrit : > On 02/04/07 08:27, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > MAFFT is a multiple sequence alignment program for unix-like operating > > systems. It offers a range of multiple alignment methods, L-INS-i > > (acc

Bug#410016: ITP: Orange-data-mining -- Component-based data mining software

2007-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: Orange-data-mining Version : 2007-02-06 Upstream Author : Janez Demsar and Blaz Zupan (see also http://www.ailab.si/orange/acknowledgements.htm) URL : http://www.ai

Re: Bug#410669: ITP: pfstools -- set of command line programs for editing HDR images

2007-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
://storage.sesse.net/pfs-sources.tar.gz Hi all, There are packages here as well: http://itp.tugraz.at/Comp/debian/dists/sarge/main/source/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: fluxbox

2007-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
am sure that there will be localisation-friendly developpers who would help you. 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: Bug#411053: ITP: libnexus -- library supporting the NEXUS scientific data file format

2007-02-15 Thread Charles Plessy
is another library which calls itself NEXUS (in fact, Nexus Class Library). http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/ncl/ Currently, it is not packaged but it is used by at least one package, from the orig.tar.gz. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- T

Re: /foo has been mounted xx times... check forced

2007-02-18 Thread Charles Plessy
sck run. Hi all, how about a "I'm in a hurry" boot option in GRUB, which would make the e2fscks skipped ? 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: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?

2007-02-23 Thread Charles Plessy
t be that a bad idea ? There has been a lot of talk explaining that there is no need to leave written justifications for binNMUs, but I think that we are stil clueless about the problem it was supposed to solve in the case of Bacula... 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: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
ink about similar welcome gifts. 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: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
y of internauts, who prefer forums. 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]

Submit bugs to debbugs or bugs.debian.org ?

2007-03-06 Thread Charles Plessy
> If there are specific things about the BTS which you do not like, file > wishlist bugs or clarify existing wishlist bugs for them. Hi Don, Where to send the bug: debbugs or bugs.debian.org ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-07 Thread Charles Plessy
e Debian should go if it wants to increase its manpower ? I will continue to do opportunistic fishing for a while... 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: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
I think that a web interface to the BTS could make the task easier for volunteers, since exploring the bug space of a software (from the Debian package to the Debian derivatives and the upstream sources) is done mostly through the web. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wa

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-27 Thread Charles Plessy
opinion crucial to the survival of Debian. Packages which are not actively developoped and whose maintainer is not currently active should be instantly hijackable, preferably by teams. Would somebody take care of the packages I created, I would not feel like being robbed. It would give me extra time

When to upload a package which fixes FTBFS with GCC 4.3 ?

2007-04-03 Thread Charles Plessy
-devel in the hope that the question is not too naive and has a general interest.) 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#418691: ITP: melting -- computing the melting temperature of nucleic acid duplex

2007-04-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I know I have many open ITPs, but this program already has a manpage, so it will not take hours to package... Package name: melting, melting-gui Version : 4.2g Upstream Author : Nicolas Le Novère &

Re: TaskSel proposal (Was: Proposal for a new CDD sub-project: Debian4Business)

2007-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
ctly, Debconf does not allow two-layer structures... This is the kind of situation where voting in the BTS would be cool. It would give to the debconf maintainers an estimate of how wanted the feature is. Shall we submit a wishlist bug on tasksel, blocked by a withlist but on debconf? Have a nice day,

Re: TaskSel proposal (Was: Proposal for a new CDD sub-project: Debian4Business)

2007-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
ung and Joey Hess. Although I suspected that Joey Hess was "The" maintainer, your mail made me wonder if you were meaning something elese as "its maintainer" does not fit a team or two uploaders, until Joey answered... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.pless

Re: Proposal for a new CDD sub-project: Debian4Business

2007-04-24 Thread Charles Plessy
ter that the packages pulled by the CDD are not present on the physical installaiton medium. 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#420938: ITP: mirbase -- The microRNA sequence database

2007-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: mirbase Version : 9.1 Upstream Author : mirRBase is maintained by the Sanger center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/ License

Re: Bug#421107: ITP: torbutton -- iceweasel/icedove extension enabling 1-click toggle of Tor usage

2007-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:16:29PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Jérémy Bobbio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Torbutton is a 1-click way for Iceweasel/Icedove users to enable or disable > the > browser's use of Tor. Hi, maybe you can remind what Tor is

Sharing a subdirectory of /usr/share between multiple packages ?

2007-05-07 Thread Charles Plessy
, maybe something in the /var hierachy would be more appropriate. But there is no /var/share... Also I am a bit unsure if the local sysadmin would be allowed to write in... Was there already a similar situation in Debian? What was the solution chosen? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http

Re: Wrapper to download databases (was: Sharing a subdirectory of /usr/share between multiple packages ?)

2007-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:39:23AM +0200, Michael Hanke a écrit : > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:08:36AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > In the Debian-Med project, we started to package a bioinformatic > > analysis suite - EMBOSS - which exploits local or remote sequence > >

Re: Bug#423365: question about #418098

2007-05-12 Thread Charles Plessy
5.5.1), if the stable release team accepts the update, the package would be available in stable-proposed-updates before inclusion in the next point release. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Debian desktop -situation, proposals for discussion and change. Stable too stable?

2007-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:50:50PM -0400, Greg Folkert a écrit : > > f, Usability problems, wishes and bugs should get fixed too. I should > > be able to report a problem, participate on it's solution and see > > fruits of that. > > Have you even looked at Debian's BTS? Unless your patch or bug is

Re: Debian desktop -situation, proposals for discussion and change. Stable too stable??

2007-05-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:26:30AM +0200, Frans Pop a écrit : > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 01:11, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Maybe at each point release, the release notes could be > > updated on the basis of these messages. Things like "emacs21 does not > > have full un

Bug#425111: ITP: ssaha -- Sequence Search and Alignment by Hashing Algorithm

2007-05-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: ssaha Version : 3.3 Upstream Author : Anthony J. Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ssahausers/files/ssaha_v33.tar.gz License

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-19 Thread Charles Plessy
the format of the control file Justify-baz: You can use baz instead of bar. 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]

[OT] disucssions about off-topicness in -user on -devel.

2007-05-21 Thread Charles Plessy
. Otherwise, instead of fragmenting on topics, we fragment into communauties. (For instance, is there any reason why debian-release became a discussion list without formal notification?) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Uploading wxWidgets 2.8 to experimental ?

2007-05-26 Thread Charles Plessy
le, would you agree to publish 2.8 packages? Alternatively, would it be OK if a DD would upload Ubuntu's packages to experimental? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Write access on the Debian website.

2007-05-27 Thread Charles Plessy
the pserver, or informing that it is working again if it is the case (communication!!), it would help to have a bit more up-to-date contents... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med pacakging team Wako, Saitama, Japan -- Lisez la FAQ de la liste avant de poser une que

New package containing binaries with same name as some from the packages cons, pscan and hsffig.

2007-05-28 Thread Charles Plessy
names of the binary programs. However, if I do not get answers, I will suppose that nobody cares about the packages cons, pscan and/or hsffig anymore, and will request their removal rather than complicating the things for the users of EMBOSS. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Re: New package containing binaries with same name as some from the packages cons, pscan and hsffig.

2007-05-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:36:05AM -0700, H. S. Teoh a écrit : > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:15:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Dear Hwei, Uwe and John, > > > > I did not manage to contact you in private (see below), therefore by > > policy 10.1 I have to move the

Better documenting what does not work in Etch.

2007-05-29 Thread Charles Plessy
possibilities : - An Etch-centric view of the BTS (user friendly), - More updates to the release notes, - Documentation updates (BUGS section in the manpages) Other ideas ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#426957: ITP: rnahybrid -- Fast and effective prediction of microRNA/target duplexes

2007-05-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: rnahybrid Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Marc Rehmsmeier, Peter Steffen, Matthias Hoechsmann URL : http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnahybrid/ License

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