Re: debconf5 CFP reminder and update

2005-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ubmission period is over. I suppose there is an error in the debian conferences web pages, could you please fix it? TIA, Cheers. [1] $ LANG=C date -u Mon Mar 14 23:28:02 UTC 2005 -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it}

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t may also help in writing interfaces for showing tests results which will be more informative than a simple success/failure message. I agree though that my "very minimum" assertion was too strong. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EM

removal syncing among "official" and amd64 archive

2005-11-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
While we are it ... I noticed that removal of packages from the official debian archive are not propagated to the amd64 archive. E.g. query packages.debian.org for the "editex" source package. Is that known? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, It

Re: removal syncing among "official" and amd64 archive

2005-11-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
tch since Heidi syncs > are instantaneous. Ok, so there is some out-of-syncing somewhere else: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=editex&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all editex is listed as available on unstable only for th

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
oading my packages dpkg-sig-ed (being it possible!). I hope the current setting will be fixed soon and I will fill a whishlist bugreport against debuild to support dpkg-sig side by side with debuild. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PRO

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Indeed, I spotted them just after the post. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is al

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
it can simply perform the test before uploading and refuse to upload if the bug belongs to someone else. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ded and they care about looking at what is currently going in providing unvaluable feedback in many occasions! Thanks guys! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real tr

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
in the base system ('vim-runtime' is the huge 13 Mb monster package). -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multid

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
r. Debian's vim has autoindent enabled in system-wide vimrc, but it can be disabled. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire mu

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d move from vim-common to > vim-runtime? Although you've probably considered that already. No, I didn't consider that since I was so far convinced that vimtutor was a binary executable. Now that I saw it is a shell script I moved it to vim-runtime indeed. Thanks for the tip. -- Stefano

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
configuration file which is more in the vi spirit. So far the only two changes proposed for such a configuration file wrt to the current one are: - avoid setting "nocompatible" - avoid setting "autoindent" on per default Correct me if I'm wrong. > I'd still l

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:57:08AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > Disable syntax highlighting. Syntax highlighting is not enabled per default in /etc/vim/vimrc. In case we decide to switch it on, it wont be in /etc/vim/virc of course. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Another consideration is that vim-tiny would need to swap priorities > on the /usr/bin/vi (et. al.) alternative, so that if nvi is installed, > it becomes the standard vi. But that's more of a packaging detail > between myself and Stefano. Agreed. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Com

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
hers. Still, we already discussed that (b) is not true: vim users will be happier with vim-tiny than with vim even without vim-nottiny/vim-runtime. Since my feeling is that we have more vim users than nvi ones, installing the former instead of the latter per default is a net win. Assuming my fee

Re: Experiment: poll on "switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?"

2005-12-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
features in the standard installation I would rather prefer to tune vim-tiny compilation including more features. On this subject, please note that adding gpm support will trigger the additional libgpmg1 dependency. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy

Re: Experiment: poll on "switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?"

2005-12-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
If it is not a problem for these people, why is it a problem for you? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimension

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
mi-)automated mechanism for reporting those warning/errors as bug report would improve packages quality. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that th

Re: Experiment: poll on "switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?"

2005-12-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
would mean an *additional* 340 Kb size increase. Is this still considered a fair increase by the installer/cd teams? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any r

Re: Experiment: poll on "switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?"

2006-01-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
in the total amount of kbytes is "marginally larger". > Since the whole designation of "base" is basically only useful for > install/cd people, I'd let them make the decision. Fair enough. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy

Re: Experiment: poll on "switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?"

2006-01-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
n files in /etc/vim/vimrc and /etc/vim/virc to be read depending on how vim has been invoked. The former configuration should be more compatible with the usualy vi behaviour than the current vim's default. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL P

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
took the time to study the detail of the expulsion process, so sorry if this mail is inappropriate. But be sure that I will do everything I can as a DD to stop Sven's expulsion. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,b

Bug#301041: apt-cache: dependency graph for build dependencies

2005-03-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-12 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there&#

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
sitory as soon as it was ready. The network effect of being able to commit code more freely would be huge IMO. +1 for the "big source tree" approach, or at least for way more collaboratively maintained packages than we currently do. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Scienc

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
g that can be just a work in progress. We should strive to simplify that model and it happens that we do have a working alternative (packages collaboratively maintained on alioth), we should just use it extensively. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bolog

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
add the headers to packages of mine ... -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is al

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ntainer and one global source tree. Requiring all packages to be either group maintained or have a fallback group (as in stratus' proposal) is IMO a viable one. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ed, and IF there is no similar majority of people happily moved in the other direction THEN we have evidence that in practice collaborative maintenance works better than individual. At the point there would be no excuse for not pushing, as a best practice, as a policy, as fallback, whathever, col

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
m maintenance, I was just proposing to use a poll to discover quantitatively how DDs feel about team maintenance on the average. No more, no less. > Anyway, we are getting nowhwere. I agree on that and I will stop here. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Un

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
r. Testing of various upgrade paths, especially useful to check whether ld reported upgrade bugs are still valid or not. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there'

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
tion. But that's it, we would have used cvs the same way. The real reason of svn success is that it is cvs done right. A workflow a lot of people is already familiar with, which tons of nuisance (but not all of them) less than cvs. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD studen

Re: Please comment the license of vim manual and reference

2006-08-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ook are in the manual and that the book is under OPL as well. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it&#x

python-minimal in base?

2006-08-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d with vim itself). More generally we have core tools developed in python (e.g. reportbug), and it's a pity not having the minimal needed python support for them in base. I'm thus totally interested in such a rumor :-) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna,

Bug#385488: ITP: gpscorrelate -- correlates digital camera photos with GPS data filling EXIF fields

2006-08-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpscorrelate Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Daniel Foote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freefoote.dview.net/linux_gpscorr.html * License : GPL

Re: my CDBS gallery: real-world rules samples

2006-09-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
helpful on implementative issues right now ... Thanks again for your samples! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensio

Re: my CDBS gallery: real-world rules samples

2006-09-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a debian/rules with cdbs for the > first time, it isn't usually clean. I think that it would be great to > remove the one that aren't really clean. It is just an idea though, tell > me what you think about that... I still don't get it, could you expand your concep

Re: my CDBS gallery: real-world rules samples

2006-09-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
following naive (but IMO working) heuristic. Look for all include lines in the debian/rules you're getting, if the included file is under /usr/share/cdbs then it is worth using it as a category to which the current debian/rules belongs to. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Compu

XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
g it, patching the developers reference is on my TODO list. Feel free to help in any way you want, writing a Wiki page for example, or being faster than me in submitting the whishlist bug report against the developer reference :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD stude

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ng faster than me in submitting the whishlist bug report against > > the developer reference :-) > Does highlighting the topic on -devel count? ;-) No! :-) I'm expecting from you at the very minimum a page on wiki.d.o on the topic; the for the assignment is a week from now :-PPppPP

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ersion control repository", intended to be informative for users about where to find latest source version of a given package? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
hing given versions, whatever. I really think this is a dangerous slope, we will probably be swamped in the details of the VCS we consider. XS-Vcs-XXX was in my mind a one-size-does-fit-all solution, assuming the target of the information is a human. YMMV. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
tter) the fix which triggered the +pending tag in the BTS. As a different point, the distinction upstream/debian does not always apply. All my packages maintained with svn doesn't have an upstream part, I just use an orig tarball (some times available on the repo, sometimes no) and the mergeW

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
s of repos that arn't hosted > at svn.debian.org, or what have you. I haven't yet thought about going that far, but they are all ideas which are whetting my appetite :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
affect the code I'm able to change right now and it's nice looking. I will send a new patch for the PTS and try to document it. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
n way of working you can propose a URL scheme able to encode multiple URLs, or we can imagine put in the field a comma separated list of URLs. After all the semantic of the value of XS-Vcs-* will be *-driven. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAI

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
exists. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
here. Please guys, not another flame war on VCS :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ronym nor a full word. What about XS-Repository-*? I like it. But this choice still leaves me puzzled about the name "repository", is it a significant name across different VCS? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],d

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
and this should be documented (only specific VCS layouts are > amenable to a single-url-contains enough information to download the > package sources). Ok, we should document it. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 01:42:25AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The proposed meaning is: a URL meaningful for the given VCS so that a > user seeing it is able to find the source code. Sorry, I should have said more on this. That was the original intended meaning (to me), listening t

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-09-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
That sounds good. Would this be an acceptable syntax for those > proposing this new control file field? Assuming the sample syntax is the 'http://' I'm seeing above, sure. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],deb

Re: Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t setting up a pool, a signature collection, or simply ask people to write directly to you and then, after 1 month time frame or so, notify the CC guys of all the subscription you received? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],d

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-10-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t; XS-VCS-Arch: http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/grab-flex Ok, then please propose a patch for: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/qa/trunk/pts/www/bin/common.py?op=file I think it would be quicker for you to propose it, than for me to actually find out the pedigree of bzr wrt tla/arch/...

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-10-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ple of other VCS that have been signaled to me. Thanks, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of

Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced

2006-10-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
other, flames on the debate among AJ and Manoj, flames on .*. It would help if related votes would be kept out of debian-devel. Many thanks, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zac

Re: First call for vote on immediate vote under section 4.2.2

2006-10-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
since it was an "honest mistake" the second part of the mail does not apply to you. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2006-11-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
the various VCS. Thanks for your feedback, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo sc

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2006-11-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
o or not? In your case, do you want to see written in the devref "URLs for the Arch VCS should point to a grab file"? Or would you prefer to leave such choices to best practices or see them documented elsewhere? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ U

Re: [Fwd: XS-X-Vcs-Svn or XS-Vcs-Svn was: [Pkg-kde-extras] Re: rev 4976 - kde-extras/digikam/trunk/debian]

2006-11-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ble URL, but please note that it is not yet supported by the PTS web interface. Its on my TODO list, but my Ph.D. thesis need to be completed in a week from now :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.

Re: out-of-date non-free packages

2006-11-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
today things would be different, given our recent choices on GFDL...). Do you want me to provide the information you asked for that package as well? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/z

Re: Bug#403770: ITP: context -- A powerful TeX format

2006-12-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
It contains also side by side examples with both LaTeX and ConTeXt sources. Just my 0.02€ Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All o

Re: Bug#405122: ITP: ocamlwc -- count the lines of code and comments in OCaml sources

2007-01-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
lwc is a program to count the number of lines of code and >documentation in OCaml sources. It assumes the files to be lexically >well-formed. Get rid of "ocamlwc" at the beginning of the long description, it's pointless to repeat package name there. Cheers. -- Stefa

Re: Bug#405122: ITP: ocamlwc -- count the lines of code and comments in OCaml sources

2007-01-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
es description available at [2]. Cheers. [1] http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/ocaml_packaging_policy.html/ [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-desc-basics -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],d

Bug#405315: ITP: cryptgps -- OCaml library implementing symmetric cryptographic algorithms: Blowfish, DES, 3DES

2007-01-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cryptgps Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Gerd Stolpmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/ * License : MIT/X11 Prog

Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?

2007-01-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
omewhere (developer's reference ?) ? I think we really need to document a best practice for this, thanks for bringing it up. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48)

Re: Bug#360163: ITP: libannexlib-ocaml -- Library of miscellaneous OCaml code

2006-03-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
proporse. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly bei

Re: AMD64: etch and uploads

2006-04-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ble way to "convert" an amd64 box which has been installed from debian-amd64 to an official debian amd64 box? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there'

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
27;s a really minor point, but why not signaling it :) Cheers. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s-pkg-tracking-system -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://w

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ed differently than failures due to other reasons, though. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infin

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
only about the latter, avoiding bothering them with the former. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional in

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
scribing to the PTS and receive notification of such failure would be far more efficient. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entir

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
omatically from failures which are not maintainer's problem. That was the assumption I was making from your previous replies. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's a

Re: Bug#365087: ITP: debcheck -- Checks whether dependencies of debian packages can be satisfied

2006-04-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
x27;m pretty confident that linking a single executable with two different names and the usual speculation about Sys.argv.(0) would dramatically cut down the total size ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Could you please briefly comment about where to start looking for adding a new backend? Thanks for working on this great feature! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any r

Re: mdadm 2.4.1-1 ready for tests

2006-05-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
re is something wrong with the usage of the instrument. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
; had fallen back to 60 since the latest upgrade. Not really on topic, but regarding the relative alternative priorities of vim, nvi, and mcedit have a look at #367991 (summary: as vim maintainers we asked the mc maintainer to lower the alternative priorities of that package). Cheers. -- Stefan

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-05-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
nd that it can hinder development. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost

Re: Software Patents: Was: Re: Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2006-06-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
It will require removing basically *everything* from Debian and will give people the power of vetting out from Debian software only by depositing (uhm, not sure which is the English verb corresponding to the "creation" of a new patent) a new software patent. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacch

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d line completion of the affected viewer. We already have several "viewers" able to open .gz files whose completion aren't aware of that. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it

Re: Bits from the Package Tracking System

2006-07-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ed to all packages with the derivative keyword. I can set up such an account, but I guess there exists an easier solution for setting up the archive on the PTS side. Could you comment on that? Thanks for all this work! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bolo

Re: Bits from the Package Tracking System

2006-07-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
her keywords we actually can reproduce the event who triggered the notification; I'm actually not sure if this is the case or not). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it

Re: Bits from the Package Tracking System

2006-07-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
thing I'm very interested to have as well, but I don't think it is actually implemented. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's

Re: Bits from the Package Tracking System

2006-07-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:36:47PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.18.1318 +0200]: > > Each subscription subscribe you to a given (source) package. Keywords > > are actually a filter, but filter notification for a g

Re: Bug#379430: ITP: libview -- VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widgets

2006-07-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
are used by VMware in > Workstation and other products and has been given back to the OSS What about adding a short list of the (most interesting) widgets? "Incredibly Exciting" is not really evocative as a widget description ... Thanks for packaging this! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*-

Re: Bug#291964: ITP: ocurl -- OCaml bindings for libcurl

2005-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e package name, one-to-one with upstream name. For ocaml related package, the debian ocaml policy states that binary package names should have the form lib-ocaml{,-dev}, in this case the binary package names of ocurl will be "libcurl-ocaml-dev" and "libcurl-ocaml". Ch

[OT?] Re: Managing package sources with subversion?

2003-05-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ate mail would be ok too ] TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what y

Re: packaging of libpcre4

2003-06-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Cc debian-devel. Regarding the failures they are related to pcre_study: the result on ia64 and m68k aren't the expected one. I suggested Mark to get in touch with upstream for these issues. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: packaging of libpcre4

2003-06-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
7;t see them in the pool dir on ftp.debian.org. Why? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you r

Re: Bug#197907: ITP: quark -- an audio player, for geeks, by geeks.

2003-06-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ded via a FIFO in the filesystem. It uses Xine-lib for playing music, and can therefore play any file format supported by Xine. . Quark comes with a couple front-ends to make it more useful: * charm-quark - a CLI interface * strange-quark - a GTK System Tray interface Cheers. -- Stefano Z

Re: Bug#197907: ITP: quark -- an audio player, for geeks, by geeks.

2003-06-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d on the absence of the heading "an" :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure y

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:17:43PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > zlib1 The ocaml bindings to zlib still build depend on zlib1g-dev. Which is the newer alternative to this package? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug in test suite for pcre 4.3

2003-06-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:10:21AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > Thanks, problem noted. I'll do something when I next work on PCRE, but > that won't be for a while. Mark, could you look for a fix in the debian version? Otherwise I can have a look at it ... Cheers. -- St

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:03:52AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Err, Zack, I say zlib1... zlib1g* is libc6 related. Ok, thanks, never mind. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia

Re: Bug#198665: ITP: pmk -- The pmk project aims to be an alternative to GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).

2003-06-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
-synopsis states that (as a "general guideline") > > * do not capitalize the beginning of the description unless a proper > > noun, proper adjective, abbreviation, or acronym requires it > Why? Idem Just to nitpick :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Com

Re: Bug#189329: ITP: gnome-swallow - meta-applet to embed any application in the GNOME panel

2003-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
OME desktop. Just for the matter of curiosity: what happens if a big window is eaten? Does the gnome panel become as big as the original window? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.

Re: Debian job board?

2003-07-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:27:21PM +0200, Andreas Müller wrote: > http://jobs.debian.net is your friend. Looks like a theres a problem > if i change the dns entries. I`ll try it one more time. Still problems: $ host jobs.debian.net Host jobs.debian.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) -- S

Re: Juridical prosecution

2003-07-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Please, please, please: mention this post on debian weekly news. Is really worth the effort! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you th

Re: FWD: Bug#200905: dh_installdocs: don't install empty doc files

2003-07-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
g. a .html having a link to another empty .html. In such a case having the empty html file is better than having no html at all to avoid future browser complains. I no it is a bit weird situation but can't the heuristic "remove empty files if they have no .html extension"? Cheers --

Re: Bug#211991: ITP: libcamomile-ocaml-dev -- Unicode for OCaml

2003-09-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
that he should have clarified the issues with the Unicode people, but I've never received any answer from him on that issue. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I kn

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