Bug#296714: ITP: freepop -- game inspired by the classic Populous series

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: freepop Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Brendon Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freepop.sf.net/ * License : GPL Description : game ins

Bug#344771: ITP: spl -- SPL Programming Language interpreter and tools

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: spl Version : 0.9c Upstream Author : Clifford Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.clifford.at/spl/ * License : GPL Description : embeddable

Bug#344772: ITP: qcake -- programming environment and scene editor for 3D games

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qcake Version : 0.5.7.1 Upstream Author : Harald Krippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.qcake.org/ * License : GPL Description : 3D game desi

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

* Sami Haahtinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-14 18:20]: > I can understand that a part of the people behind Debian feel hostile > against Ubuntu because it's succeeding in something that Debian was > trying to achieve. It's not about succeeding. It's about false statements all the time, like "Ev

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

* Sami Haahtinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-15 11:27]: > Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> It's also about false statements like "We sync our packages to Debian >> regularly," because that simply doesn't happen for quite a lot of us, >> otherwise all thes

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

* Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-16 15:39]: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:59:58AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> It's not about succeeding. It's about false statements all the time, >> like "Every Debian developer is also an Ubuntu developer."

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

[EMAIL PROTECTED], if you read that: Fix your mail setup, I'm not interested in getting double mails from whatever setup you have there. Thanks] * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-17 11:36]: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:46:26PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> Do

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

[don't be confused about the To header, this is merly just for testing a propable b0rked setup] * Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-18 10:26]: > Mr Zimmerman's reference to Kennedy is an excellent example of such a > metaphorical construct. When Kennedy said that, there will undoubtedl

Re: New cyrus-sasl2 packages

* "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-16 01:18]: > Mail-Followup-To: ... quite helfpul, if you ask me. :) I'm not sure if you wanted that, but I'm following your wish. > * These packages are still in a state of flux, so please bear with us And they are, as one can see in #393318

Re: libdb transition policy?

Hi! Sorry for late response. * "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-24 12:10]: >> However, contrary to what the NM templates suggest, symbol versioning >> is not a cure-all for all ABI incompatibilities. If libetpan returns >> a DB_ENV * in its API, you need to port[1] a

Bug#373416: ITP: tworld -- Chip's Challenge Game Engine Emulation

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tworld Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Brian Raiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tworld/ * License : GPL Prog

dpkg-reconfigure and postinst

Hi! I am having a problem, and I guess I might not be the only one who might stumble into it. When one wants to do something in new installs of the package, they usually check for $2 != "" in the postinst and put the stuff in there. So far, so good, and policy friendly because you might

Re: I propose gazillion packages (LONG)

On 17 Aug 2000, Juhapekka Tolvanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~penne/Zsid/ > > Yes, we have that xsidplay, but it uses qt-libraries, and therefore it is > not in main-directory. Zsid is under GNU GPL. I would actually use this > program. I think this is a good idea.

libgd1 vs. libgd1g

Hi! I've noticed a serious problem with libgd1 (or, libgd1g) during the last month. And I don't really know what to do about. webalizer and linuxconf now depends on libgd1g, which currently isn't anymore available from our ftp-servers. And on the other hand libgd-perl depends on libgd1

Re: libgd1 vs. libgd1g

Please refrain from Cc:ing me - I _do_ read the lists I'm posting to *sigh* It seems that that can't be said often enough. On 04 Sep 2000, Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The libgd maintainer decided to drop support for a libc5-based libgd and > renamed the libgd1g package to libgd1 (I

Re: X and runlevels

On 04 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also debian believes in leaving the runlevel configuration to the > admin to define. Sure - but there is the FHS (I hope that I read it there) that defines what at least runlevel 2 and 3 are for. I would really like to see that Debian com

Re: X and runlevels

On 04 Sep 2000, Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not quite. The FHS briefly mentions *System V's* runlevel 2 and 3 > (along with Berkley's multiuser state). It does not specify anything > about runlevels for Linux or any other OS. O.k., you're right - it was on linuxbase.org. Which we su

alternatives for MUA and NUA?

Hi! Today I stumbled across my .muttrc and found that I've hardcoded the pager (w3m ;) and the editor (vim :) into it. On the other hand I find the alternatives-mechanismus really useful so I changed it to pager and editor which works really fine. Now there doesn't seem to be an alterna

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

On 05 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Today, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do most mail readers have the same command line interface? Perhaps, > > but I really doubt that news readers do. *scratches* Uhm, right, I haven't thought about that *damnit* It sou

Reopened: numbers with ' (for cellspreading) can't be calculated with

reopen 70870 # On 05 Sep 2000, Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # > Subject: Fixed in CVS # > # > This has been fixed in the development tree. # > The patch will be in the next release. # # ... then please close it with the next release - the bug is still in # the packages on

jabber field on db.debian.org?

Hi! I was just wondering - there is this icq-field on , which I have to say I'm not really happy with. It's not the kind of thing that seems the right thing[tm] for Debian. I would rather like to have a jabber field instead of that jabber, you might ask? From

Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

reopen 190302 thanks Hi! imagemagick (4:5.5.7.3-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream version. * Upstream fix: closes: #194306, #129990, #161422, #186610 * This is not ImageMagick bug. : closes: #190302 -- Ryuichi Arafune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 23 May 2003 20:44:23 +0900

Re: security in testing

* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-16 13:33]: > Such a package should be as close to possible to the version actually > in testing, and not depend on packages and/or versions that are not > yet in testing. So, you request more or less that every developer should backport fixes thems

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

* Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-26 13:12]: > Submitter receive a mail from bts which include the message that opened the > bug: what should he hunt for exactly? Not only does the mail from bts _not_ include the message (like you were told by others already), also oth

Re: Bug#194550: ITP: libemail-mime-encodings-perl -- A unified interface to MIME encoding and decoding

* Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-24 15:10]: > * Package name: libemail-mime-encodings-perl > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * URL : > http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SI/SIMON/Email-MIME-Encodings-1.0.tar.gz > * License

Re: Menu's 24 color policy

* Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-24 05:48]: > Does this mean that the, IMHO brain-dead, 24-color limit has > been droped? > >>From menu's changelog: > >> * No more require icons to use the colors from cmap.xpm. >> Closes:#193231, #175430, #192218, #97080 >> * No more i

Re: Debian menu system update

* Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-28 15:26]: > - Icons are no more required to use 24 colors in cmap.xpm. See > > for explanations. I fail to see what this thread about "maybe say that programs that outp

Re: Bug#194550: ITP: libemail-mime-encodings-perl -- A unified interfa

* Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-26 20:30]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerfried Fuchs) wrote on 26.05.03 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Please, don't simply massfile ITPs without thinking on their impact and >> without any deeper informations > &

Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

Hi! Yes, I've read the testing page with the FAQ and both the testing_excuses and testing_output, but I can't see the reason why libsidplay doesn't enter testing. The following packages depend on it: xmms-sid, mp3blaster, xsidplay, sidplay-base (from the same source) and gst-plugins. O

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:50:50PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> Yes, I've read the testing page with the FAQ and both the >> testing_excuses and testing_output, but I can't see the reason why >> libsidplay doesn't enter testing. &g

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:03:38PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> Uhm, that is somehow nonsense. How can an update of a package make >> itself uninstallable? What's the reasoning behind it? > > Because it breaks testing rule #5: "The operat

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:49:28PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 07:21 US/Eastern, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> Uhm, that is somehow nonsense. How can an update of a package make >>itself uninstallable? What's the reasoning behind it?

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-04 00:03]: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:58:37PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> Please check the update_excuses, it would make package foo _not_ a >> valid candidate, if that happens. > > That doesn't happen for circu

debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

Hi! I'd like to start organizing the debconf for the year 2005 in Vienna, Austria. Why that early announce? So we have time enough to find sponsors, get the location fixed and find the time to raise the money needed for the travels and such. And 2005 because this years debconf has been

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-29 17:37]: > Quoting Sebastian D.B. Krause ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> > July in Vienna! More power to you! >> >> Well, but then try not to be on the same date as LinuxTag 2005. :) If you would have read the paragraph that was quoted you would have s

someone interested in adopting grub-client?

Hi! grub-client is a distributed webcrawler client written in c++. The biggest problem with it is that it simply doesn't work, and I don't grok why. I'm not that familar with c++ and multithreading and don't know where to look for the bug. Furthermore it seems that on the search engine fr

Bug#207624: ITP: tetrinet -- client and server for tetrinet, a networked tetris version

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tetrinet Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Andrew Church <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://achurch.org/tetrinet/ * License : Public Domain Description : client and server for tetrinet, a networked tetris ve

Bug#207624: ITP: tetrinet -- client and server for tetrinet, a networked tetris version

* Alex de Landgraaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-28 13:52]: > Would like to note that tetrinetx and gtetrinet are already in Debian. > Tetrinetx is the game server voor tetrinet, gtetrinet is the gtk > tetrinet client. I'm fully aware of this. > Maybe something like tetrinet-ncurses is in order?

Bug#207624: ITP: tetrinet -- client and server for tetrinet, a networked tetris version

* Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-28 13:06]: > Le jeu 28/08/2003 à 12:35, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : >> About the name of the package: Discussable, but I don't really know >> what to use else. The package is simply called tetrinet upstream. > > Why no

Bug#320939: ITP: blosxom-plugins -- various plugins for the blosxom blog tool

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: blosxom-plugins Version : 0.5 (propably) Upstream Author : Various * URL : http://www.blosxom.com/plugins/ * License : GPL, BSD, ... Description : various p

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-26 19:57]: > Joey Hess wrote: >> Just a reminder that these maintainers still have packages that depend >> on debconf by itself without an alternate dependency on | debconf-2.0. >> As I mentioned in my original post, I plan to file bugs on all of these >> so

Bug#478516: ITP: libcaptcha-recaptcha-perl -- perl implementation of the reCAPTCHA API

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcaptcha-recaptcha-perl Version : 0.92 Upstream Author : Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Captcha-reCAPTCHA/ * License

Re: Bug#550817: ITP: gitolite -- standalone, souped-up version of gitosis

Hi! * Stefano Zacchiroli [2009-10-13 11:03:00 CEST]: > What if one has no idea of what "gitosis" is? For such a person, the > above description will be close to meaningless. I suggest expanding in a > couple of words what gitosis is, turning the reference to it as > something like "simila

Bug#550817: ITP: gitolite -- standalone, souped-up version of gitosis

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs * Package name: gitolite Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Sitaram Chamarty * URL : http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Perl Description : standalone, souped-up

Re: Bug#550817: ITP: gitolite -- standalone, souped-up version of gitosis

* Filippo Rusconi [2009-10-13 12:06:29 CEST]: > Well, I think that ITP bugs are *more* useful when the person reading > the bug report can tell what the intended-to-be-packaged software > does. There's always the upstream URL included that you can follow if you think it's unclear anyway. > Some

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

Hi! First of all, thanks for this great roundup. There are just some few questions that popped up in my mind that I hope haven't asked yet (wasn't able to check all the responses completely ...). Sorry if there are duplications, a reference to the answer for easier tracking would be appre

Re: New source package formats now available

Hi! Some few comments. * Raphael Hertzog [2009-11-21 16:54:36 CET]: > * even if you don't have any upstream patch right now, next time that >someone must NMU your package, they can cleanly add a patch (with a >proper DEP-3 header) without having to modify the build system Thi

Re: New source package formats now available

* Raphael Hertzog [2009-11-21 20:51:51 CET]: > Hi, > > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog [2009-11-21 16:54:36 CET]: > > > * even if you don't have any upstream patch right now, next time that > > >someone must NMU your

Re: New source package formats now available

Hi! :) * Raphael Hertzog [2009-11-22 10:48:14 CET]: > > Note that the squeeze release goal only talks about 3.0 (quilt), not 3.0 > > (native), which kind of suggests 3.0 (quilt) is being forced down. > > That's maybe not what you are thinking, but it's how it feels. > > Well, the combina

Re: New source package formats now available

* Goswin von Brederlow [2009-11-23 09:48:36 CET]: > Why do you think that? I can split patches any which way and edit the > debian/patches/series to match all completly without quilt. How so? I don't find anything in man dpkg or dpkg-source that would help with that. > It only becomes simpler w

Re: New source package formats now available

* Raphael Hertzog [2009-11-23 09:50:15 CET]: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Actually, I feel rather to convert my packages to 3.0 (native) + quilt. > > The way quilt is implied in 3.0 (quilt) doesn't seem to be helpful (to > > me). > > Yay for

mass RC bugfiling due to removed apache1 packages

Hello! Due to the removal of apache1 packages from the pool (including libapache-mod-perl) quite a lot of packages aren't installable/buildable anymore due to missing (build-)dependencies. I'm preparing a massbug filing for those so the maintainers are aware of that their packages are RC

Bug#490231: ITP: 2h4u -- mixed game of tetris and breakout

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: 2h4u Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Pierre Lagouge, Pierre-Yves Ricau * URL : http://www.piwai.info/2H4U.html * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: C++ Descr

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

* Florian Weimer [2008-12-29 15:01:19 CET]: > * Theodore Tso: > > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 revision to the Debian > > Social Contract, which I objected to them, and I still object to now. > > If there was a GR which chainged the Debian Social contract which > > relaxed the f

Bug#453448: ITP: qcake -- programming environment and scene editor for 3D games

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qcake Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Harald Krippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.qcake.org/ * License : GPL v2 or later Programming Lang: C++

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

Hi! * Philipp Kern [2010-05-27 08:11:36 CEST]: | As far as I understood it, it's not that much about unpacking, because | the format is pretty clear then, but about packing (or in this case | repacking) the source package. There you should be explicit in what | you mean because future ve

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

* Philipp Kern [2010-05-27 09:05:39 CEST]: > But I guess we already determined that automatic detection of various > things isn't always the best choice. Making 1.0 non-native and 1.0 > native explicit wouldn't sound too wrong. :P) Unfortunately, dpkg doesn't support that - thus adding debian/

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

Hi! * Raphael Hertzog [2010-05-27 10:05:51 CEST]: > Yes, we're starting a long-term migration that will require every > package to be modified. The reasons are that the dpkg maintainers > consider the format 1.0 to no longer be a desirable default for > dpkg-source given the availability

Bug#583368: please support .orig.tar.bz2 for source format 1.0

Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi! It would be very helpful if the dpkg source format 1.0 could also allow .orig.tar.bz2 packages in the archive. The reason for the request should be quite obvious - more and more upstream packages are shipped in bzip2 compressed tarballs. Giv

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

Hi! * Michael Gilbert [2010-06-29 21:50:31 CEST]: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:58:11 +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > Am 29.06.2010 17:24, schrieb Michael Gilbert: > > > > > No, my proposal is to move the package to a better home: backports. > > > > You don't know the current pol

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

* Philipp Kern [2010-06-28 11:55:22 CEST]: > On 2010-06-28, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > If there is no manpower to do better than this then I feel that it would > > be more honest to just use volatile. > > The catch-all for "I can't maintain this stuff properly"[1] is not volatile, > but backports.

backports and volatile (was: Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?)

Hi! I'd like to excuse for the style of my initial response, it was pretty terse and just pointed out the misinterpretations without offering corrections to them. I'd like to address them now. * Michael Gilbert [2010-06-29 21:50:31 CEST]: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:58:11 +0200, Alexander

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

* Andrei Popescu [2010-06-30 13:10:20 CEST]: > On Mi, 30 iun 10, 12:58:25, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > I'm strongly against that. I want packages properly tested and in your own > > interest you should wait for testing migration of your packages. (of course > > there can be exception, but not in gen

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

Hi! * Charles Plessy [2010-07-29 16:53:18 CEST]: > 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

Re: Backports service becoming official

Hi! * Simon McVittie [2010-09-06 19:33:34 CEST]: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 at 17:52:17 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > What are the BTS limitations ? > > I assume the relevant limitation is that in the BTS' data model, each source > package has a single maintainer, whereas the maintainer of a

Re: Can you believe it? The Debian website has a new layout!

ame design, the layout and > design of the website changed with today's release of Debian Squeeze. > > This has been made possible thanks to the immense involvement over the > years by Kalle Söderman and Gerfried Fuchs, who were tireless in their > efforts to make the idea a realit

Re: Can you believe it? The Debian website has a new layout!

* Gerfried Fuchs [2011-02-06 15:53:55 CET]: > Hi! > > This might be awkward, seeing a reply mail on debian-devel-announce, > but actually this response deserves to be in the broader public. ... so much for trying it. ;) And actually it makes sense. Though, debian-deve

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

Hi! As someone who is also annoyed by the default file startup hack (which is IMHO an abuse because why have a S rc link then?), let me also throw in my 0.02 EUR. > Stig Sandbeck Mathisen writes: > > The "short term" issue is figuring out if the current practice of > > DONT_DISABLE_ENAB

Possible sane approach? (was: Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default)

Hi! Some things usually spin in my head for days and I come up with an idea that looks sane at first sight. This might be such a moment, and I wonder wether there might be something that I overlooked here: * Gerfried Fuchs [2011-03-02 14:47:22 CET]: > Actually I explicitly chose

Re: Possible sane approach? (was: Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default)

... Before someone starts to nitpick it and distract from the real content: * Gerfried Fuchs [2011-03-03 07:58:59 CET]: > #v+ > > # only on new install > if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ "x$2" = "x" ]; then > update-rc.d

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

Hi! * Bastien ROUCARIES [2011-03-02 18:25:30 CET]: > Does avahi could be disable (using kernel level firewalling is not > from my point of view a solution) ? A nice hack that I was informed just recently about: echo exit 0 >> /etc/default/avahi-daemon That will disable the daemon qui

bugs.debian.org: ChangeLog closes handling should be changed

Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi there! With the addition of the testing distribution we have new problems: Bugs are closed in unstable but flow more or less slowly (due to dependency problems) into testing, but are due to the uploads into unstable long closed. What we ne

Re: bugs.debian.org: ChangeLog closes handling should be changed

* Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-29 09:50]: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 08:48:31AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> What we need is a change here: Bugs should just be closed in unstable. >> How to do this? They should be rather be tagged than be closed >> by

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

* Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-27 00:21]: > We've started the translation of debconf templates some weeks ago. Good to see that those are coordinated now, too. > If you are a package maintainer, you can obtain a package-related > file from > http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-28 17:13]: > So maybe you click on the "Debian on CD" link, right? And from there on > the 4th bulletted link ("Download CD images using HTTP or FTP"), after > wading past unofficial minimal CD images, and learning what jigdo is. Because those options are

Bug#171419: ITP: libdbix-abstract-perl -- DBI SQL abstraction

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libdbix-abstract-perl Version : 1.003 Upstream Author : Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : CPAN * License : Like perl: GPL or Artistic License Description : DBI SQL abstraction This module provides

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

* Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-29 10:27]: > But I use the website. Here's a questions. Go to eh redhat site and > see if you can figure out where to get a complete RedHat CD downloaded > from the net? Uhm, should that have been a statement pro or contra to our page? I foun

Re: Database-specificisms considered harmful

* Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-11 14:34]: > Personally, I do not like all those -mysql, -pgsql, -whatever packages. > > Whatever happened to the idea of using a common database access library > like iODBC? It's reasonably small, Not A Burden if you happen to not > require any data

Bug#188960: ITP: mangband -- multiplayer text-based rogue like dungeon simulation game

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: mangband Version : 0.7.2a Upstream Author : Robert Seifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.mangband.org/ * License : see the file COPYING in the source tarball: non-free as in for non-com

Re: Debian Developer LDAP

* Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-15 07:50]: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:24:44 -0400, > Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (3) is the email gateway used? > I tried but failed to change my latitude/longitude data. > None of the following worked. RTFM instructions welcome. RTFM

Re: [debian-devel] Status of mICQ code audit

* Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-23 03:30]: > If someone missed a meeting because a program they installed out of > Debian had a time bomb in it, they would be justified in questioning > their use of Debian, not just the application. No. They would be justified in questioning their o

Re: Please notify the maintainers when removing packages

* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-07 12:18]: > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 09:44:54AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> But they *should* read the bug mail they receive, and I guess that was >> Michaels point. If they don't read their bug mails they don't seem

Re: security in testing

[Removed debian-private from Cc-List, there is *no* need to duplicate the thread there] On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:58:44AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > 2) a way for people for which stable is too outdated to run more > advanced software, without suffering from the breakages of unstable. >

Re: security in testing

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:15:48PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Yes, but before someone steps for and does this, a consensus need to be > found on what to do, the RM at least has to green-light it, and it > should be announced on debian-devel-announce so all the maintainer are > aware of it and the

Bug#112754: ITP: mlvwm -- Macintosh Like Virtual Window Manager

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist thanks [Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribe to debian-devel] Hi! Description: mlvwm is a window manager for X11 designed to look and feel like the Macintosh environment. It provides multiple desktops, separate menu bars for different applications, and t

Re: Graphing Debian Lists

Hi! [Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed] On Thu, Sep 20, 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: > Gathering data happens all 30 minutes and I've let it run for a couple > of days before making this annoncement, so there are some data to > show. It looks strange that it seems that debian-devel-an

Re: Graphing Debian Lists

Hi again. On Fri, Sep 21, 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: [zeropoint or not - that's the question] > That's not giving us anything. It doesn't draw a picture of the > subscribe frequency, nor does it provide a better view of the number > of subscribers. Well, it _does_ draw a picture of sub

Re: DEBNAME or DEBFULLNAME?

[please copy me on replies] * Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-01-02 20:03]: [DEBNAME vs DEBFULLNAME] > I filed a bug against devscripts (#115601) ages ago about this, i got > bitten nastily by this. I personally prefer DEBNAME. It seems that we can't get a consensus Which "some other

Re: bogus maintainers?

* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-01-03 21:06]: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:37:31PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: >> What I meant was: the page was apparently generated from local data >> (from a local /var/lib/dpkg/available perhaps?). > > And I said it _was not_. > > The broken package rea

Re: bogus maintainers?

* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-01-03 22:31]: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:28:22PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> And to be honest - you could have tried to check the Packages file you >> get from debian archive. > > What, you want the devel/people script t

Re: Debian Press update

* Lasse Karrainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-16 05:14]: > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020130 Why doesn't that surprise me? > Hi! (it's my first post here) And hopefully your last. > You are probably sick and tired of this topic, but ... > IT'S A QU

Re: DebianWiki migrated

Am Montag, den 16.03.2009, 21:29 +0100 schrieb Frank Lin PIAT: > The DebianWiki team is pleased to announce that the wiki is now running > moinmoin 1.7, which brings many new features (see [1] and [2]). IMHO this announcement should have gone to debian-devel-announce - but nevertheless, thanks fo

Re: grouping of alternative depends

* Holger Levsen [2009-03-29 19:46:33 CEST]: > Hi, > > On Sonntag, 29. März 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Hm? Your original mail said you wanted: > > Depends: (pdns-backend-ldap + pdns-recursor) | bind9 > > How does installing bind9 plus pdns-backend-ldap not satisfy the above? > > Sure it d

Bug#529274: ITP: nagzilla -- jabber relay bot

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs * Package name: nagzilla Version : 1.5.4-1 Upstream Author : Bill Mathews of Hurricane Labs * URL : http://code.google.com/p/nagzilla/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Perl Description : jabber

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

* Stephen Gran [2009-05-22 23:30:03 CEST]: > If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain down to only > accept mail from other debian.org machines. If it's not, I'd like to work > with people who do use it to either make it possible to send their mail > from debian.org machines or

Re: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Description-less packages file

Hey, * Joerg Jaspert [2011-11-03 22:39:02 CET]: > I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without > the English description embedded inside them. Instead they are now > written into a new file, the "English Translation" file in > "main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2". They thu

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

* Stefano Zacchiroli [2012-03-13 09:47:43 CET]: > Thus far, no objections have been raised on the above proposal. Also, it > has been pointed out that past privacy concerns were related to the way > in which the entries were published, rather than to the actual > opportunity of doing so. > > Barr

Bug#698293: ITP: nafe -- toolset for editing psf format consolefonts

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gerfried Fuchs * Package name: nafe Version : 0.1-1 Upstream Author : Eric Price * URL : http://nafe.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description : toolset for editing psf format

Re: Backports, Stable releases, Testing, Oh my!

Hi there. * Paul Tagliamonte [2014-02-25 23:59:05 CET]: > I'm sending to both -devel and backports. I'm not sure which is the > correct list. If one's wrong, feel free to drop it in replies. > > I've been talking with a mentee about backporting procedures, and I've > explained why we don't b

Re: Backports, Stable releases, Testing, Oh my!

Hi. * micah [2014-02-26 16:48:45 CET]: > Gerfried Fuchs writes: > > Remove from stable-bpo if it's not expected to come back in is what we > > actually do, yes. And to have an overview of these situations I created > > myself the diffstats page: > > ht

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