Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-10 Thread Charles Plessy
the fact that it is not abandonned? http://www.xmms.org/ http://www.xmms.org/next_version.php http://havardk.xmms.org/dist/cvs/ChangeLog-20070711 There can be good reasons for removal, but adding wrong ones just suggests that the others are equally unaccurate. Have a nice weekend, -- Charl

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
of the Debian distribution. Please do not take offence, but could you continue it in private ? 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#439996: ITP: ngila -- global pairwise alignments with logarithmic and affine gap costs

2007-08-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: ngila Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Reed A. Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://scit.us/projects/ngila/ License

Re: Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?

2007-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
roblem be enough for a stable update? My gut feeling is that if in order to use Etch one has to know how to use backports.net, it is not really Etch anymore... Have a nice say, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Packages with RFCs deleted

2007-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:50:04PM -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > > We're pretty much at an impasse, then, so I don't think I'll reply > after this message. I, and many Debian folks, don't quite understand > the essential difference, between functional source code and > non-functional documen

Re: Packages with RFCs deleted

2007-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
tic, non-modifiable works in non-free binary packages generated from source packages located in main would better deliver the information. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Current holder of the "most stupide post ever" award... for how long ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Packages with RFCs deleted

2007-09-18 Thread Charles Plessy
ng of freedom, since they are not real forks and Debian still depends on its developpers downloading non-free original upstream works for each update. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Packages with RFCs deleted

2007-09-19 Thread Charles Plessy
finishes (soon ?), I created a page on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeFilesInOrigSources 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: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
quot;nospam" keyword was found, were they legitimate or not. This example shows us that we should not look down on the people who use primitive address obsfucation techniques, they may have very good reason for. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Ja

Bug#445983: ITP: dialign-t -- Segment-based multiple sequence alignment

2007-10-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: dialign-t Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Amarendran R. Subramanian URL : http://dialign-t.gobics.de/ License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Descr

Building with or without Recommends.

2007-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
well... any thoughts? > > So, from my very simple POV, pbuilder shouldn't install Recommends by > default, which seems to be what Junichi will do in the next pbuilder > upgrade [1]. Hi, By the way, what is the planned behavior of the official buildds in the future: installing r

What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
fer by their formatting; could such a package be qualified for the main archive? 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: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:46:14AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > On 11208 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > - despite the absence of latex sources one is allowed to take a > >html, pdf or ps editor and modify the old documentation in the > >.orig.tar.g

Bug#452045: ITP: dialign-t-doc -- PDF, HTML and PS Documentation for dialign-t

2007-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: non-free/dialign-t-doc Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Amarendran R. Subramanian, Volker Menrad, Dorothea Emig URL : http://dialign-t.gobics.de/ License

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-20 Thread Charles Plessy
the file need to be in the tarball, or shipping it in the .diff.gz would be sufficient? 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]

Bug#452373: ITP: glam2 -- Gapped Local Alignment of Motifs

2007-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: glam2 Version : 1023 Upstream Authors: Martin C Frith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Timothy L Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://bioinform

Bug#452923: ITP: libgo-perl -- parses all GO files formats and types

2007-11-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: libgo-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Chris Mungall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://geneontology.sourceforge.net/ http://search.cpan.o

doc-base, menu, and policy (Re: Debian Policy 3.7.3.0 uploaded)

2007-12-03 Thread Charles Plessy
(http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/ch2.html#s2.1). Required field. I am wondering if when a .doc-base file is not updated, it makes the package uncompliant with the new Policy, or only with the doc-base manual ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.

Re: Bug#454359: ITP: processing -- spawning processes mimicking the threading module

2007-12-05 Thread Charles Plessy
-processing or something similar. http://www.processing.org/ 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: Doc-base section hierarchy

2007-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
in Science/Biology rather than Science/Chemistry or vice-versa… 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: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
; I wish everybody did it that way. I'm also happy to see that it's now > how dh-make will do it, good. Would it make sense to provide a make command to include in debian/rules, so that we could easily keep our packages up with the best practices ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Ple

Associating suffixes, programs and icons with MIME.

2007-12-29 Thread Charles Plessy
n files be written for all icons ? If they are identical, is it better to use symlinks ? 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: Associating suffixes, programs and icons with MIME.

2008-01-03 Thread Charles Plessy
le? Have a nice day, and of course a nice year. -- 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: pkg-$GROUP on Alioth: please whitelist messages from BTS

2008-01-06 Thread Charles Plessy
as a default: Mailman seems not easy to handle. Is there a Mailman expert on this list ? (http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[EMAIL PROTECTED]) I have edited http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject accordingly to include these informations. (Except the call for help) Have a nice day

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
are enough, there is a third way of having an optional menu: the Custom Debian Distribution. In the Debian-Med CDD, we have an extra "Med" menu, and which user gets it is configured through debconf. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med packaging team Wakō, Saitama, Japan

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
es that are in standard Debian: http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med packaging team Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Fedora, Gentoo for instance, and bring up the issue with some kind of official support of working groups that can be weighted by their achievements. Shall I open a wiki page to start the coordination of this ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan --

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:28:00PM +, Peter Clifton a écrit : > > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 08:22 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Shall I open a wiki page to start the coordination of this ? > > That sounds like a good idea.. I will contact the SuSE and Fedora p

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-15 Thread Charles Plessy
ot;Home"… but this makes us far from our original goal. I have updated the wiki page http://wiki.debian.org/ExtraMenus with some details from the standard and some parts of the current discussion. If we want to keep things simple, and if mechanisms exist to automatically create sub-menus us

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

2009-12-29 Thread Charles Plessy
ules patch’ if it exists would solve part of the conflict for the control of patching process. And this way we will not be blocked with quilt if a better system emerges later. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.deb

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

2009-12-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:27:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > There were some concerns that applying patches through debian/rules > > could be a security hole. In my opinion – that I already expressed in > > the DEP1 discussion – given

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

2009-12-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:46:08PM +0100, Andreas Metzler a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Indeed I was wrong: dpkg-source will refuse to unnpack a package > > that is signed but the key is not available locally, however it will > > accept to unpack a pa

Re: Is Paul Dwerryhouse MIA?

2010-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
ere are no bugs related to this upgrade, so despite the freeze is soon it may be safe to upgrade the Debian package as well. 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

Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Plessy
hing if I am not sure it would not be accepted as a new package. Have a nice day, -- 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 "unsubscri

Re: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-20 Thread Charles Plessy
ploader fields where I am currently, because I think that there are much more useful tasks in Debian than providing text exports of R tables that nobody ever asked for until now. (And of course, I do not want to prevent anybody to add these text dumps if they want, as long as it does not become a r

Re: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ith Upstream, and I have not yet seen a user thanking us for doing this. Cheers, -- 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: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-21 Thread Charles Plessy
NEW queue. So if we all agree that this tables in .Rdata format is a non-issue, why the archive administrators – who are the ones who raised the question – are not confirming that they agree with this, so that we can move on more important subjects? -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http

Re: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-22 Thread Charles Plessy
ather than with futile requests. 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: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copyright’ file of a package?

2010-01-22 Thread Charles Plessy
lcome but optional). 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#566220: What criteria do es ftpmaster use for the ‘copyright ’ file of a package?

2010-01-22 Thread Charles Plessy
on and will propose a GR later. We wasted already too much time on this issue. Not everybody has the same common sense, so we need clear guidelines. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Bug#566364: RFH: doc-central

2010-01-22 Thread Charles Plessy
recommend doc-central, libsuitesparse-doc and gnumed-client. I have filed bugs on them to loosen the dependancy to suggest or drop it, since these package do not particuarly need doc-central and it is already suggested by the doc-base package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Re: Bug#566364: RFH: doc-central

2010-01-23 Thread Charles Plessy
CCed the person who seems to care most for this package. If you NMU this package, may I suggest to orphan it and put it in collab-maint? I offer to do the work if you like the idea (svn or git, just let me know). Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 02:55:41PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > ]] Charles Plessy > > | It kills the fun, sometimes degrades our relations with Upstream, and > | I have not yet seen a user thanking us for doing this. > > I have upstreams that have thanked me repeatedly

Uploads without the architecture-dependant binary packages.

2010-01-25 Thread Charles Plessy
start to do the same when possible, is it a bug or a feature ? Cheers, -- 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: Uploads without the architecture-dependant binary packages.

2010-01-25 Thread Charles Plessy
pointer to the build logs in README.Debian. I will use that feature so that we can have logs for all arches. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-02-02 Thread Charles Plessy
and passage through to the NEW queue. For source package names, I also recommend to stick to the upstream tarball name whenever possible. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Charles Plessy
to make the FreeDesktop entry conform to the vision of the teams who make the desktop managers available to our users. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-25 Thread Charles Plessy
nts on changelog parsing introduce new requirements, in particular limitations on post-upload corrections, I strongly recommend to document this in our Policy. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Bug#555743: dpkg-gencontrol: add support for Description:-s in the Source package stanza

2010-03-03 Thread Charles Plessy
ered archive meta-data without information loss. Unfortunately, this is perhaps inconvenient for third-party packages. 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?

Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Plessy
d to open a bug. Lastly, this issue is not specific to Debian. Does anybody knows what the other systems are doing? -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
nice week-end, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100306024909.ga22...@kunpuu.plessy.org

Team uploads.

2010-03-06 Thread Charles Plessy
the same approach, I propose to use the following wiki page to draft a common reference: http://wiki.debian.org/TeamUpload. Have a nice sunday, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan diff --git a/checks/nmu b/checks/nmu index fd2

Re: Team uploads.

2010-03-08 Thread Charles Plessy
h exceptions covering all the rules. Are there other persons interested? Shall I go ahead and submit a patch to Lintian and the Developers Reference (plus perhaps the Policy to include a footnote containing the special changelog lines for NMU, QA, security and team uploads)? Have a nice day, --

Re: Team uploads.

2010-03-08 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.

Re: Bug#572374: please consider Section: Education

2010-03-09 Thread Charles Plessy
ence and Education” (or “Education and Scicence”, it does not matter to me). The content of the ‘Section’ field in the Debian control files could stay ‘science’, since if I understand the problem, what matters here is the processed information that our users see on our website. Cheers, -- Charle

Re: Bug#574569: ITP: clamz -- A command-line program to download MP3's from Amazon

2010-03-19 Thread Charles Plessy
welcome, but there are issues about which section clamz should go in. 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 A

[OT] Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-04-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 08:40:41PM +0200, Benjamin Drung a écrit : > > I setup a doodle poll Dear Benjamin, I would like to recommend http://selectricity.org/ instead. In contrary to Doodle, Selectricity is free software. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-11 Thread Charles Plessy
debian-user/1994/03/threads.html) Perhaps 16 years later, in light of the experience accumulated in Debian and in the other distributions, we can re-think the default in Debian, that seems to be at odds with current practices? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-12 Thread Charles Plessy
022 to 002 is raised, would you agree changing base-files so that /etc/profile uses 002 on new systems? 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? Conta

Re: Bug#581729: [SQUEEZE] Document the umask change for new installs

2010-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
than me). I do not know where the announcment of the new umask default would fit the best: in the “What's new” (major changes) section, or in the “Potential problems”. Or what about both? Lastly, I mention the Securing Debian Manual below. I also have opened a bug to update it to the lates

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
age: http://wiki.debian.org/umask 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100515152419.gi26...@kunpuu.plessy.org

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-19 Thread Charles Plessy
ebian.org/umask 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100519235440.gb13...@kunpuu.plessy.org

Packaging Gzstream?

2010-05-21 Thread Charles Plessy
with library packaging). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Packaging Gzstream?

2010-05-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:58:05AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 04:00:56PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > A quick apt-file search indicates that at least two other packages (CCed) > > may > > be using the gzstream library, k3d and f

Meaning of the different “ format” fields and files.

2010-05-26 Thread Charles Plessy
patch to the Policy that will summarise the answers to this email. 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 Arc

Source packages: standard formats and interfaces as an alternative to centralisation.

2010-05-27 Thread Charles Plessy
’ to ‘debian/rules source’ would be quite distruptive in the maintainers workflows, so it would probably need some time to adapt the toolchains, but apparently the mood is on a mass-transition of our packages anyway… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Meaning of the different “format” fields and files.

2010-05-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:25:25AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: > > * In Debian changes files, Format is currently 1.8; I suppose that it > >defines the meaning and syntax of the other fields. Is there a place > > were

clamz accepted in main [Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)]

2010-05-31 Thread Charles Plessy
> > In retrospect, I probably could have used a better word than > "difference". What I meant is that the package in question (clamz) is > not in the same category as amarok. There can be legitimate debate on > the issue for one, and no reasonable disagreement on the other. Dear all, for the r

Re: ITP: php-recaptcha -- PHP interface to recaptcha.net

2010-06-20 Thread Charles Plessy
te computation that can be the essential part of a more complex system (a login interface), which I think is much more similar to the use of a non-free library. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
release (for instance, when the program is still in a fast development stage). 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.o

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Charles Plessy
> > The current upload policy is well adapted to the fact that a backport can be > > maintained by a different person from the official package maintainers. But > > when backports are prepared by the same team as the main package, can the > > rules > > be relaxed ? > I don't understand this questi

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello again, I have another question: backports-user is quite high traffic, but to upload backports it is required to be subscribed. Will this change for backports.debian.org? Will the users be invited to use the BTS? Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:12:59AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > If you ask me, the decreasing number of popcons is because people are > bored by a system with old versions of programs and are seeking for > alternatives and we will see a further decrease until Squeeze will be > released. Hi

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

2010-07-22 Thread Charles Plessy
For me, the combination of CVS and WML finally eroded all my motivation over the years for keeping some life in the pages under /devel/debian-med. I would welcome any change of VCS and language, even if it means losing the history or rewriting the pages from scratch. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Deb

Re: Uploads without the architecture-dependant binary packages.

2010-07-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:59:45AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:22:38AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > > > > > I found it interesting that a package like git-core is autobuilt on all > > > ports > > > since at upload

When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

2010-07-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:32:54PM +0300, Teemu Likonen a écrit : > * 2010-07-23 00:27 (+0900), Charles Plessy wrote: > > > in my opinion, it is not only a question of design, but of > > infrastructure. For me, the combination of CVS and WML finally eroded > > all my motiv

Re: Uploads without the architecture-dependant binary packages.

2010-07-29 Thread Charles Plessy
I uploaded emboss_6.3.1-3_hopla.changes, containing only architecture-independant packages, and it worked. Now the buildd web page shows the amd64 packages as installed. Unfortunately, no binary package shows up on packages.debian.org. There must be something else broken in the changelog file I uploaded

Re: Uploads without the architecture-dependant binary packages.

2010-07-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:10:57PM +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 23:58:29 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Unfortunately, no binary package shows up on packages.debian.org. There > > must be > > something else broken in the c

Re: RFC: Policy 10.1 and appropriateness of package conflicts

2010-08-13 Thread Charles Plessy
he box’ usage, by persons who usually do not modify their PATH. Have a nice day, -- 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". Troub

Re: RFC: Policy 10.1 and appropriateness of package conflicts

2010-08-13 Thread Charles Plessy
r administration, and who are not providing a multi-user, multi-disciplinary resource to their colleagues, but who rather focus on a specific task. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIB

A new Priority level, ‘bac kports’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
development, it would reduce the load on regular operations. 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 Arc

Re: A new Priority level, ‘ backports ’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:17:02AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > > So what backports "priority" actually says is "my package is such a > bullshit that I don't want it ever released, but I am fine with putting > burden on the people keeping backports running instead". I think we have > a way alr

Re: A new Priority level, ‘ backports ’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-10-07 Thread Charles Plessy
g. Le Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:17:02AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > Le Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:38:16AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > the addition of new suites has the disadvantage of dispersing our userbase. > > Here is a proposition that conserves the current flow of p

Re: ca-certificates-java does not install in pbuilder

2010-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:54:22PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins a écrit : > > I just ran into a problem with ca-certificates-java and reported the > enclosed bug. In brief: it installed in the pbuilder environment as > recently as a few weeks ago but fails today. > > However, ca-certificates-java has

Re: Bug#603938: debian-installer: The 1st CD doesn't contain desktop nor laptop tasks

2010-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
archive in binary packages like gimp for instance. 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 Archive: http://lists.debi

Re: Bug#603938: debian-installer: The 1st CD doesn't contain desktop nor laptop tasks

2010-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
556407). Cheers, -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101126113434.ga32...@merveille.plessy.net

What to do with “Fix FTBFS with ld --as-needed” bugs ?

2010-12-05 Thread Charles Plessy
the use of --as-needed. Is there a general explanation somewhere, that I can use when forwarding the patch upstream ? - Does such a change represents some best practice that we should put forward for our uptreams to be aware of, for instance in http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide ?

Bug#606446: ITP: tabix -- generic indexer for TAB-delimited genome position files

2010-12-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: tabix Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Heng Li URL : http://samtools.sourceforge.net/tabix.shtml License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C, plus some Java, python and Perl bindings

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
FDL-NIV|LPPL|MIT|MPL|Perl|PSF|QPL|W3C-Software|ZLIB|Zope)[\d\.\-]*\+?$ By the way, Dominique, some licence version numbers can contain alphanumeric characters. For instance the LaTeX project public license, version 1.3c. Have a nice day, and many thanks for your work on your parser. -- Cha

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 04:35:06PM +0100, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel a écrit : > Expected: > 'Format','Upstream-Name','Upstream-Contact','Source','Disclaimer','Comment','Copyright','Files','License','Format-Specification','Name','Maintainer','Upstream-Maintainer','Upstream-Source' > o

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-15 Thread Charles Plessy
lists → folded (this is RFC 822's terminology). - line based lists → multiline, like the Files field. - formatted text → multiline, like the Description field. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kana

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:12:46PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer a écrit : > On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 07:58 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > In the candidate version of the DEP, it is not recommended anymore to add > > an X- > > prefix to extra fields. > btw: Why was this r

Re: Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
hink that it should be after a large number of packages use the DEP, and after parsers produce data of which the benefits are widely recognised. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-17 Thread Charles Plessy
* Remaining lines: if left blank here, the file **must** include a stand-alone **`License`** paragraph matching each license short name listed on the first line (see the *Standalone License Paragraph* Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#610603: ITP: sra-sdk -- utilities for the NCBI Sequence Read Archive

2011-01-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: sra-sdk Version : 2.0.0rc1 Upstream Author : National Center for Biotechnology Information (U. S. A.) URL : http://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/sra.cgi?cmd=show&f=software&m=so

Re: Bug#611828: ITP: probalign -- multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities

2011-02-04 Thread Charles Plessy
ion as it is. Have a nice week-end, -- 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...@list

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
with Git. Is there an interest for standarisation ? In the context of this discussion, the advantage of having the local build logs stored somewhere is that we would be able to know how many developers upload packages built in a chroot. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packagin

Re: Sourceful uploads [Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting]

2011-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
ebian.org/20110213194931.gb2...@khazad-dum.debian.net>. 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110214042738.ga18...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: Sourceful uploads [Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting]

2011-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:46:53PM -0600, Raphael Geissert a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > I would be happy to get build logs as well, or at least a link to an URL > > where they are dowloadable withouth HTML processing. > > You can always | html2text -utf8

Re: Sourceful uploads [Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting]

2011-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:37:36PM +0100, gregor herrmann a écrit : > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:27:38 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > I would be happy to get build logs as well, or at least a link to an URL > > where they are dowloadable withouth HTML processing. > > &g

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