Bug#293903: ITP: pandalex -- a PDF parsing API

2005-02-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pandalex Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Michael Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and contributors * URL : http://stillhq.com/extracted/pandalex.tgz * License : GPL Description : a PDF parsing API Pandalex is

doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
uniq | while read p ; do if ! [ -e "/usr/share/doc-base/$p" ] ;\ then echo "$p" ; fi ; done | wc -l 203 So, out of 273 doc-containing packages on this system, just 70 bothered. I feel a strong urge to put the commands in a script that will auto-file a bug against any package i

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
ce they each have their own documentation viewers and ways to register with them.) So how would this help me? -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
an texlive-lang-spanish texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex texlive-math-extra texlive-metapost-doc texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc tinymce tk-tile unicode-data units w

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
not subscribed to the list, so please Cc me on replies. Is Mail-Copies-To another good idea that has fallen by the wayside? :-( -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
correct severity for this. For the lintian check, or for the (coming) bug report? :-P -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
homas> about?" Well, then make it possible to be overridden, possibly Thomas> doing the exact same way it's done currently, but don't force Thomas> people to write twice the same things in many case, do more Thomas> automation, and you'll get more love in return. OK,

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
python-gtk2-doc sgt-puzzles xorg-docs IIRC I filed a bug about this too, in the case of the monstrous /usr/share/gtk-doc directory, but nothing ever came out of it. It is easier to handle this in perl or python, with a hash/dictionary/set of the symlinks. But I'm starting to fear I'm wasti

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
bling subthread, but currently I don't know what to do about those). To reduce the spamminess, the latest output is here: http://primate.net/~itz/docpkg.txt -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Steve Langasek debian.org> writes: > But again, as Thomas points out, you can address this use case with much > less per-package effort. A centralized ten-line shell script would be > enough to locate all the installed packages on the system that ship files > under /usr/share/doc not matching th

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
rationale for the Q license, AFAIK. (Redistribution only as original source + patches). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

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2002-08-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
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Re: MAKEDEV Replacement status

2002-08-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
ean Perry comment on the Don> status of a replacement MAKEDEV if one is in the works? [Or point Don> me to relevant documentation?] Mine is still ready: http://www.speakeasy.net/~itz/hacks/makedev_3.3-1.tar.gz -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7

gim, a possible gpm replacement

2002-08-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
on is a simple C++ interface for clients (in the libgim subdirectory of the distribution). Docs are still missing... -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

Re: [PHP] Standard placement of PHP libraries?

2002-09-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Matthew> I would like to propose /usr/share/php4 as the place for all Matthew> scripts intended to run under php4 (whatever subversion) and Matthew> intended for inclusion in other PHP scripts. I agree, but let's not forget about php3. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, Californ

Re: RFC: A regression test framework for Debian packages?

2002-09-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
should build into a test suite that provides a >> reasonable level of confidence that a Debian system is working correctly. Wasn't this at least a start? Shouldn't we build on it instead of starting from scratch? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

Re: [PHP] Placement of PHP programs?

2002-09-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
10:16 index.html drwxr-xr-x2 root root 264 Aug 31 18:57 info2www kronstadt:~# dpkg -S /var/www/* docbook-dsssl: /var/www/docbook-dsssl dwww: /var/www/dwww dpkg: /var/www/index.html not found. info2www: /var/www/info2www i'm not necessarily saying it's a good thing, thou

Re: [PHP] Placement of PHP programs?

2002-09-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Matthew> On 2 Sep 2002, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Matthew> I don't know of any web server which doesn't support an Matthew> equivalent concept to Apache's aliases; I feel that /var/www Matthew> (and I think practice bears me out) is pretty much local Matthew> space - w