Bug#415021: ITP: pysnmp-se -- speed enhanced Python SNMP library for agents and managers

2007-03-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pysnmp-se Version : 3.5.2 Upstream Author : Mike Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/twistedsnmp/ * License : BSD Prog

co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
he project can contact me in private mail. Cheers. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2007 -- 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

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
nts from people like you who expressed interest in this. 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)

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
"quick" way to fix the latter, but I do see a similar quick way to fix the former: a web frontend. 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 dem

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
gree that for discussing architectural/implementation details d-debbugs is the right place, but I won't do it now; sure I'll point out in the GSoC proposal that the taker student should discuss there those details. Just let me know if you think some other important requirements should be put

Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
7;s UTC, but letting people override it in some way. A default of uniformness among DDs is arguably more sane that a default which differentiate that. Any other reason for not using UTC as the default? > See also > http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/what_timezones_have_you_uploaded_debian

Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
u're right in stating that it's possible and it's not a big deal to do the conversion. My question is: what's the benefit of localized timestamps? I want to know if the only reason we have is: "just because it's nice". -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD st

Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:58:28PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > What about supporting a variable DEBCHANGE_TZ in ~/.devscripts that > lets the user set UTC, but defaults to $TZ? That would be a one-size-fits-all solution I would like. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD s

Re: Bug#418552: ITP: umit -- nmap frontend, developed in Python and GTK

2007-04-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ing about the intended targets: both advanced users and newbies. 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

Re: Bug#418552: ITP: umit -- nmap frontend, developed in Python and GTK

2007-04-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
raphical frontend I (as a user) personally would like to know since the beginning how does it look like, and knowing the widget toolkit helps a lot in that respect. YMMV. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bon

Re: PostgreSQL in Lenny, and the libpq transition

2007-04-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
se packages built against libpq5. In order to get rid of >libpq4 and postgresql-8.1, all ~ 100 packages which depend on >libpq4 need to be rebuilt. There should not be any API Can you please produce a dd-list of the packages which will need rebuilding? Many thanks in advance! Cheers.

Re: PostgreSQL in Lenny, and the libpq transition

2007-04-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
levant binNMUs of my packages. According to what Luk just said to me on IRC this is not the case, as all packages involved in the transition will be scheduled for binNMUs all together. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debi

Re: Planned DebPool features

2007-04-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
quot;DebPool" page on the wiki I wonder why it should be named "DebPoolResurrected" .. If there are no objection I suggest to rename the page to DebPool and then add something "we are currently resurrecting the old debpool" somewhere in the page. Cheers.

Re: Send ITPs to debian-l10n-english?

2007-04-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
support submitting ITP in english? If soon or later we plan to support ITP in other languages maybe we can add a pseudo-header field to the ITP bug report with the language the bug report is written in and Cc the appropriate -l10n-XXX list. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD

Re: Planned DebPool features

2007-04-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
> from "DebPoolResurrected"). Which of course I missed :/, sorry. > Having two pages, one more user oriented and one more developer oriented, > might perhaps be reasonable? But I agree that one of the pages should be > renamed, if only to make capitalization

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Often, even when comments are not properly formatted, doc generation tools can generate useful documents which complements .h files or similar stuff in other languages. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
is actually addressed by the policy. Why do you think API doc shouldn't? After all man pages are docs for users and API doc are too, with the only difference that in the latter case the "users" are programmers. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ...

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ebian or not. Then, if it is the case, to state it in the policy. Then see how this will be received by DDs and maybe start filing bug with patches for fixing the issues. I don't like thinking "naaaah, it won't work, so please don't try to enforce it". Cheers. -- Stefano Z

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
sion of the library without bumping the number? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [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 scem

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2007-05-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
sion example. > + As another example, if the VCS being used is arch, > + the corresponding field anme would be: typo here Thanks for taking care of this, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science .

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2007-05-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. I just think that two examples of the same concept should better be uniform, as upon fast reading of a page the eye tend to skim quickly over a page and finding similar text blocks it's easier by visual comparison. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... no

Re: Building packages twice in a row

2007-05-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
you actually provided facts :-), just take this as a curiosity of mine / suggestion for future tests. Many thanks again for this! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e l

Re: Building packages twice in a row

2007-05-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:51:24PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Please could you file a wishlist bug, so I don't forget about it? Done: #424846. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bo

Bug#425280: ITP: pynetsnmp -- Python ctypes bindings for NET-SNMP with Twisted integration

2007-05-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pynetsnmp Version : 0.25 Upstream Author : Eric C. Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.zenoss.com/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
he numbers by myself, but I doubt the second assumption is correct. - if no ... why? Many thanks for the initiative! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la

Re: Prompt to install missing software?

2007-05-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
: "just run debian-install-missing X Y Z". Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [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)

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > However, there doesn't seem to be any single, consistent, /etc/debian_version ? Don't know when it was introduced though... -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#426874: ITP: pkg -- High-level library for managing Debian package information

2007-06-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
quot;debpkg" be a better (since more specific and describing) name? Just my 0.02€, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has

Re: Bug#426874: ITP: pkg -- High-level library for managing Debian package information

2007-06-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
some discussion in #debian-devel, I went for 'upt'. Wow ... cool ... a TLA! ... except that I've no idea what does it mean :-) But I guess I can wait to read the long description ... -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e info on this new feature? Thanks for your work, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [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) Ba

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ades only for stuff coming via security.d.o, but maybe I'm missing some configuration quirk ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
omething which is needed by our users. It's still not clear to me if the new APT feature addresses this or not. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la dem

Bug#428971: ITP: zenoss-plugins -- Zenoss plugins for remote data collection via SSH

2007-06-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zenoss-plugins Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Christopher Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.zenoss.com/download/links * License : GPL

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-06-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:09:53AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi DAMs, > I'm wondering what actually happened with this, so flow of questions > follows :) Hi DAMs, ping again on this. Can we have some numbers about at least how many mails have been sent in the first W

standardizing pre-build maintainer actions

2007-06-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
standardized debian/rules target which should take care of similar stuff? Once we have it one can imagine, for example, a CDBS rules file which implement a dependency of this target as performing the one-way synchronization asked by Junichi using a mapping from package names to wiki pages, exploiti

Re: standardizing pre-build maintainer actions

2007-06-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
? Anyhow I was thinking at something more generic that only getting orig sources ... let's call it "maintainer-update"? don't know, I suck at names. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http:/

Re: standardizing pre-build maintainer actions

2007-06-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e other kind of updates, but generally some work that should be done before building the package. But probably it is not such a widespread need, sorry for the noise. And thanks to Russ for pointing to the policy, I wasn't aware that get-orig-source was actually standardized. Cheers. -- Stefa

Bug#432587: ITP: camlp4s -- Pre Processor Pretty Printer for OCaml - classical version

2007-07-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: camlp4s Version : 4.03 Upstream Author : Daniel de Rauglaudre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp4s/ * License : BSD Prog

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
and submit a patch? > Is anyone interested in working on that? I will have problems finding > the time in the near future I'm willing to patch the PTS for this, assuming there's an agreement on doing this "the wiki way" as I proposed above. Thanks for this pr

Re: Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

2007-07-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:11:09AM +0300, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > * Package name: bzr-rebase Any good reason for this being a separate package instead of becoming part of bzrtools? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.

Re: Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

2007-07-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e to avoid creating a new package, bug including your new addons as part of it. Since my assumption was wrong: what about creating a "bzr-addons" Debian package containing the most used bzr addons out there instead of filing an ITP for just one? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in C

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Very interesting, is it documented somewhere already? (for Debian purposes) I've looked in the wiki but I haven't found an obvious place where such an information should be put ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pp

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:12:54PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ma, 2008-07-21 kello 09:26 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli kirjoitti: > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:43:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > You can close Launchpad bugs in Ubuntu packages fro

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
would be a very ... but I've a lighter interpretation of the text you quoted: a package can for example have a configuration dialog upon removal (or maybe only upon purging) that ask whether or not to remove stuff placed under /srv. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Scien

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
(it is the most appropriate page I've found on wiki.d.o) and/or a better wording. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ing, annoying requirements to *just take a screenshot*. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit th

Re: Mass bug filing: init script "status" action

2008-08-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
his approach and welcome the initiative. As an additional technical detail I suggest to tag the bugs with an appropriate usertag, so that we can easily follow the evolution of the implementation. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL P

Re: trying to overwrite ..., which is also in package ...

2008-08-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
r accompanying the Mancoosi talk at DebConf8. A .pdf of that is available at http://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/debconf8-mancoosi.pdf, and also as an attachment to the event in Pentabarf (but I'm not sure if the latter is publicly available). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD

Re: edos, mancoosi - Was: Re: trying to overwrite ..., which is also in package ...

2008-08-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
/EdosToMancoosi.pdf I do have an English version of (a slightly modified version of) that talk, delivered at the University of Lugano a few weeks ago. If people are interested I can make it available, just mail me privately if you are. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science

Re: Deprecating (and deactivation) of an archive feature?!

2008-08-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
urrent situation is weird at best. We have source packages located, say, under /debian/dists/unstable/main/source/ which can possibly generated binaries belonging to contrib/. A user can be rightfully puzzled by such a situation: is the _source_ package she is downloading part of Debian or not? C

Bug#494206: ITP: pkglab -- interactive environment to explore package repositories

2008-08-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pkglab Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Berke Durak, Jaap Boender * URL : http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/sodiac/ * License : GPL / LGPL Programming Lang:

Re: Debian on the FreeRunner -- now official

2008-08-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
page and the needed link in the index page of DebianOn (if any). -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-09-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to consideration? what if they are not available? are maintainer scripts executed (I presume they could be only if deps are taken into account ...)? Thanks (in advance) for the testing framework! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-09-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ACK on all this request, which I was going to write almost identically :-) Cc-ing ftpmaster. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-09-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
esting framework for that package (3 warnings, 2 errors, ...) ... then bother the PTS maintainers with a wishlist bugreport :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm sti

Re: Proposal: user-visible list of divergences from upstream

2008-09-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 08:29:00AM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > I concur. patch-tracking.debian.net is the way forward. Integrating it > with as many other services as possible is, of course, always good See #497410 and #498313. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer S

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ing kicking out a release. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/

Re: Bug#500786: on upgrade crash, udev installation may remain in an inconsistent state

2008-10-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. I know we can not shield our users against everything, but this *might* be another argument to have a dummy udevtrigger in the interim. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I&

Re: Britney error with the gossip package?

2008-10-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ck, starting from version 1.0-7, has introduced the "edos-builddebcheck" command line tool which is able to check for unsatisfiable *build*-dependencies. The implementation is kind of hackish (it is based on plain edos-debcheck, plus some package name mangling from Sources to Package

Re: Bug sprint !

2008-10-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
which country to kick the needed asses!). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is

Bug#501914: ITP: ocaml-batteries -- OCaml batteries included - development platform for OCaml

2008-10-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-batteries Version : 1.0~alpha1 Upstream Author : David Teller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://batteries.forge.ocamlcore.org/ * License : L

Re: Terminal emulators and command line arguments (again!)

2008-10-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ist will make clear which approach is the better. My 0.02€, Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit th

Re: parallel builds using DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2008-10-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
oblem is with cdbs: how can I supply -jN to only the > initial make? Maybe it's a ugly hack, but what about: DEB_MAKE_BUILD_TARGET = -j$(NUMJOBS) ACTUAL_BUILD_TARGET It should work at least in case you are using only the makefile.mk class, I haven't checked if it can be made to wor

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
leased or not. Cheers. PS Note that I don't want yet to take part in judging the severity of the issues, mostly because I'm still offline and I want to read the bug logs. But I believe the points I've raised above are valid no matter what is written in that bug logs. --

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
te sure the answer would be «yes», but here I'm entering myself the guesswork terrain which permeates this thread. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grand

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
? LOL, thanks for this :) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è sempre /oo\ All one has to do is hit the right uno zaino-- A.Bergonzoni \

Re: Bug Sprint - Oct 25 to Oct 30 - Register and eat cookies

2008-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:11:04PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Does bribing lucas into not using grid5k anymore works too ? :) Definitely! Please add it to the rules :) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.

Re: Bug#503096: ITP: alpaca -- GnuPG file handling for Emacs

2008-10-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e mentioning is not exposed to the random user of *.gpg files. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è sempre /oo\ All one has to do is hit t

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
; * Stefano Zacchiroli (fr) /me willing to prove that: (1) I was one of the lucky guys with an easy RC to fix (2) my cookies are nothing special, as the next WINNERs will learn with their mouths BWAWAHAHAHHAHHA Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
#x27;m in! (Still, BeerSprint is a cool name, let's keep it anyhow.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è sempre /oo\ All one has to do is

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-11-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 10:22:57AM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > In Sicily we *do* have local breweries ;) WOW o_O. In Bologna I was aware of only one :( So you just have to *loose* the forthcoming competition and send beer to everybody :-P -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Scie

Re: Bug#503096: ITP: alpaca -- GnuPG file handling for Emacs

2008-11-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
thread, but no reply was received. Turn it into a feature request against emacs-goodies-el, provide patch, ..., at worst upload a patched package to DELAYED/1000 (which seems a bit premature right now). Cc-ing emacs-goodies-el maintainers. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science

Bug#504991: ITP: camlbz2 -- OCaml bindings for the bzip2 compression library

2008-11-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: camlbz2 Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://camlbz2.forge.ocamlcore.org/ * License : LGPL with O

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a title for proposal 4, which allows the release team to > override the social contract using case-by-case decisions. What about "delegate decision to the release team" ? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I'm interested in that to add a TODO item in the PTS for missing screenshots (probably just for some class of packages, we'll see). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon

Re: Announcement: Debian Pure Blends news

2008-11-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
renaming the Alioth project? CNAMEs do matter. ) ... thanks for the initiative! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è sempre /oo\

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
is the good way to go, on top of that we can have whatever programming language API we need. Additionally, the PTS needs kind of "all at once" listing, a place from which we can download at each PTS pulse a mapping package/screenshot(s), to avoid hammering screenshots.d.n with per-pa

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
to me that I went back to an old search result page and it took me a while to understand what I was browsing through :) Thanks! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Di

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
tio (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768...) Isn't the two of you assuming that screenshots are always took in fullscreen mode? That isn't neither stated in screenshot.d.n guidelines, nor reasonable. So it can be that your disagreement is not that relevant :) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Ph

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ing one (maybe the "most popular") screenshot directly from the result page? Cheers and thanks again. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è s

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
tional list of packages with screenshots which displayed the > >thumbnail would be nice. > > You mean a list where each package shows the screenshots right in the list? > That's a nice idea. Minimizes clicking and loading. Put on the todo list. Erm, I believe that's

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
associated to each screenshot. Still, IMO we should refrain to encourage arbitrary screenshot "translations". Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
pon click/selection, the bigger version of the thumbnail for further user-inspection. Right now, this is possible only by either embedding some web-browser widget to show the /package/ URL, or by spawning an external web browser. An intermediate level would be good, and I guess it's trivial to ad

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ting out. [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/11/msg00533.html So ... it is settled now, right? :-) Can we go back and release? :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://ups

Re: Info on Planet Debian

2008-11-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
an.org/PlanetDebian (2nd google hit for "planet debian") -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te

volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ot;just" needs someone with the energy of finalizing the proposal (most likely via a DEP), so that is stops being an ever changing wiki page. Debtags is super-cool, but it is not the answer to everything. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Pari

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
inary packages. There is no fully general and sane way to distribute copyright / licensing information to binary files, and hence packages. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ly private one) or a personal repo of yours. I don't think we really need to create a new infrastructure. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ave the information encoded in the suitable place, yet we will provide different ways of accessing it. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
w to access it. I Cc: Adeodato Simo, which did most of the work on the technical side, he can provide info (but I'm sure you can find out by yourself, IIRC it is the "dep" alioth project, you can require to be added to it as usual). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in C

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
consciousness of an uploader in doing a mistake, in case an absurd override is found later on) - time saving for the FTP masters which will have automatic reject of packages they are most likely to reject anyhow (at least according to Kalle) - time saving for the uploader, which will have qua

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:51:07PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > You can argue that maybe it is like this for Kalle and for the other > FTP masters doing NEW review, but that seems unlikely to me. Lucas pointed out that this wasn't clear. What I meant is: one can argue that the

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:29:30AM +0100, Amaya wrote: > This imput seems to me the most useful contribution to this thread, Zach > could be very much automatic, just as Zach pointed out. An automatic /me loves the Spanish pronunciation of my (nick)name :-) Besos. -- Stefano Zacchir

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
is nickname as I wish ;) > > I assure you Spain has nothing to do with this :) I then propose to put all the blame on büḃúllè, ... deal? :-) (beside that, it was just a pun) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org}

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
just because they do maintainer dak. If people are uneasy about that other choices can be: - the lintian maintainers - the QA team - the policy editors - the CTTE - ... add yours ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.j

Re: New ftpteam member

2008-12-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:23:04AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > And they said that there was no German cabal? :P > Want to volunteer and possibly join too, to get some non-german > blood in? I'm disappointed: I expected a reply in German :-P -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
p://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/12/msg5.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e/2008/07/msg7.html> that > > is > > linked under the "Lenny frozen" title. > > Is there any need for such rude condescension? No. The pointers conveyed by the follow-up were great, the tone terrible. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
" message to our community is totally unsound IMO. We have d-d-a for our official message (yes, Joss abused that, and has been appropriately blamed for), Planet is something else. Live with that. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsi

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e difference affect in any way my argument. Feel free to prove me wrong. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |.

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