Re: BIMI verified email logo for @debian.org addresses

2024-06-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:19:11 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 07:29:45PM +0800, Blair Noctis wrote: > > [BIMI], or Brand Indicators for Message Identification, is a specification > > to > > let supporting email clients show a brand's logo next to verified email > > dom

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:13:16 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > I suspect having something that's agnostic about the underlying > implementation as our default would be rather better for the non-systemd > options that people care about, … > Also, networkd doesn't support non-Linux and non-systemd system

Bug#1076749: ITP: pmarkdown -- configurable Markdown processor, supporting the CommonMark spec and extensions

2024-07-22 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: pmarkdown Version : 1.07 Upstream Author : Mathias Kende * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Markdown-Perl * License

Bug#1077695: ITP: libextutils-builder-compiler-perl -- interface around different compilers for ExtUtils:Builder

2024-07-31 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libextutils-builder-compiler-perl Version : 0.015 Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release

Bug#1077696: ITP: libextutils-builder-perl -- ExtUtils::Builder Plan framework

2024-07-31 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libextutils-builder-perl Version : 0.008 Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUtils

Bug#1077697: ITP: libdist-build-perl -- modern Perl module builder

2024-07-31 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdist-build-perl Version : 0.007 Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Build

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:15:33 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > So accepting DEP14 would mean a lot of work for me (at least > testing the suggested scripting solutions[4] carefully) […] > Are there any blockers to accept this DEP which I might have missed? > [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:47:36 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I have in the past found it confusing how to handle it, but now I find > it tolerable (and don't recognize the "better to start from scratch" > judgement), after I figured out (as also hinted at in one of the links > by gregor) that you

Bug#1079561: ITP: libmeta-perl -- meta-programming API

2024-08-24 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmeta-perl Version : 0.004 Upstream Author : Paul Evans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/meta * License

Re: debian/gbp.cnf analytics?

2024-08-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:04:59 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > 3. a workflow where upstream/latest contains imported tarball snapshots >*with* upstream git history merged in, most likely via upstream-vcs-tag >(like src:glib2.0) … > I'm surprised the number your statistics give for (3.) is su

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:46:09 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Also, I think a 10-minute break is a good thing for the author > themselves. The maintainer should get some fresh air and do the final > review of their changes after a small break to ensure nothing was done > too hastily. That depends

Bug#1081021: ITP: libfile-sharedir-tiny-perl -- module to locate per-dist and per-module shared files

2024-09-06 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-sharedir-tiny-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/File

Bug#1081853: ITP: libtest2-plugin-ioevents-perl -- module to turn STDOUT and STDERR into Test2 events

2024-09-15 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest2-plugin-ioevents-perl Version : 0.001001 Upstream Author : Chad Granum * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Test2

Bug#347826: ITP: fullquottel -- Tool for recognizing mails/postings in tofu/top-posting style

2006-01-12 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: fullquottel Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Toastfreeware ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * URL : http://www.toastfreeware.p

Bug#347828: ITP: mailtextbody -- Tool to return the body of an email message

2006-01-12 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: mailtextbody Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Toastfreeware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.toastfree

Bug#351470: ITP: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG

2006-02-04 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libmail-gnupg-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Best Practical Solutions, LLC; Robert Spier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Bug#351471: ITP: libmarc-perl -- Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable Cataloging records

2006-02-04 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libmarc-perl Version : 1.07 Upstream Author : Chuck Bearden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Birthisel [EMAIL PRO

Bug#351472: ITP: libnet-amazon-perl -- Perl framework for accessing amazon.com via SOAP and XML/HTTP

2006-02-04 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libnet-amazon-perl Version : 0.34 Upstream Author : Mike Schilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.o

Bug#353777: ITP: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-20 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: multixterm Version : 1.8 Upstream Author : Don Libes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://expect.nist.gov/exampl

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:58:37PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > > Title: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together > > ITP: #353777 > Standard question: Do you know clusterssh, which does pretty much the > same thing and is already in Debian? If no, I suggest you take look. T

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:10:03AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Thanks for your hint, I didn't know clusterssh. Just checked it out > > and it does pretty much the same (and has more options), so I close > > the ITP for multixterm hereby. > As I understand the description of "clusterssh" rig

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-03-07 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:11:29PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: (shortening cc:-list) > > clusterssh opens xterms with ssh sessions, multixterm opens multiple > > xterms (with whatever contents). So if you want to control several > > xterms at the same time that are not ssh sessions multixterm

Re: Bug#381568: ITP: med-fichier -- Library to exchange meshed data

2006-08-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:27:23 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >* Package name: med-fichier > >MED-fichier (Modélisation et Echanges de Données, in English Modelisation > >and Data Exchange) is a library to store and exchange meshed data or > >computation results. It uses the HDF5 file format to s

Bug#352653: RFP: libmail-domainkeys-perl -- Perl DomainKeys implementation

2006-08-14 Thread gregor herrmann
Anything new regarding libmail-domainkeys-perl? I'd really like to see this module in Debian. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:00:06 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > >I was planning on starting the wide adopting process to the group, Fine, I had the same idea. > >but > >if you can help, much better. Ack. > I have no experience with maintaining within a group, but I will be > happy to learn :) J

Bug#387629: ITP: libdatetime-format-builder-perl -- Create DateTime parser classes and objects

2006-09-15 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libdatetime-format-builder-perl Version : 0.7807 Upstream Author : Kellan Elliott-McCrea * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modu

Bug#387628: ITP: libdatetime-format-mysql-perl -- Parse and format MySQL dates and times

2006-09-15 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libdatetime-format-mysql-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : David Rolsky * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:58:31 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > (There are quite a few more -perl and -ruby packages, but I'm not quite sure > which ones have been picked up.) The lib*-perl packages are all already in the Debian Perl Group's svn repository and will be uploaded soon. gregor --

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:59:11 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > * sendemail -- does what it says. > -- Small and written in perl -- maybe the Debian Perl Group would like it? AFAIK at the moment the DPG only maintains Perl modules. > Meanwhile, I don't suppose I could convince the Debian Perl Grou

Bug#388569: general: always printed in letter format

2006-09-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:13:27 +0200, gerhard oettl wrote: > Since updating to etch some weeks ago i was not able to print > from firefox, because always letter format is requested on the > printer panel. Do you have /etc/papersize and what is its content? $ cat /etc/papersize a4 $ Cf. also man

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:52:58 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > A "-" might work on the numeric > > keyboard but it is often even hard enough to find the '=' > would it be kooky to use numbers instead of letters and then have the > help screen show what the number mean: eg. > task=001 # sets gnome desk

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:24:40 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > You can actually look at what different layouts look like, by using the > "xkbprint" tool and a compiled xkb keymap (see xkbcomp, or fetch it from > your running X server). Or xkeycaps. gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.a

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:20:30 +0200, Izak Burger wrote: > >xv was removed from Debian over five years ago due to licensing issues, so > >I'm afraid you're likely to have to rebuild it yourself against xorg in > >order to make it work. > Oh yes, I remember it now. It is an image viewer/manipulator

Re: want to contribute

2006-10-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:39:18 -0500, Arvind kumar wrote: > I am using debian linux for quite some time and quite impress by it. I want > to contribute to its development . > Please give me some pointers . I looked at website , it not quite clear how > to start Take a look at http://www.debian.org/

Re: how can download and run checklib

2006-10-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:47:48 +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > I also couldn't find in the FAQ [3] any reference about how to > download checklib. > [3] http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/faq.html > How can download and run checklib? On http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/ the last line says: "

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:45:31 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: > I would prefer, however, to keep the package name as "sixpack" rather than > change it. Just FYI: There is a package called 'sixpack' containing a BibTeX editor [0] but it's only 1) in my private repository and 2) in Ubuntu. I never trie

Bug#404510: ITP: libjgoodies-looks-java -- library with Swing look&feel implementations

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjgoodies-looks-java Version : 2.1.1 Upstream Author : Karsten Lentzsch * URL : http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware

Bug#404511: ITP: libspin-java -- transparent threading solution for non-freezing Swing applications

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libspin-java Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Sven Meier * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/spin/ * License

Bug#404512: ITP: libmicroba-java -- set of JFC (Swing) components

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libmicroba-java Version : 0.4.4 Upstream Author : Michael Baranov * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/microba/ * L

Bug#404513: ITP: libjempbox-java -- XMP Compatible Java Library

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjempbox-java Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : "www.fontbox.org" * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/j

Bug#404515: ITP: libjgraph-java -- graph component for Java

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libjgraph-java Version : 5.9.2.1 Upstream Author : Gaudenz Alder * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgraph/ * L

Bug#404519: ITP: libpdfbox-java -- Java PDF library

2006-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libpdfbox-java Version : 0.7.3 Upstream Author : "www.pdfbox.org" * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/

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

2007-01-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:03:03 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [pkg-ruby] > Maintainer: "main responsible person for the package" (ie best contact > point) > Uploaders: the team mailing list, + all the members of the team > (auto-generated using a cdbs rule) It's interesting that you bring thi

Re: GPG signing of debian packages

2006-04-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:19:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > dpkg-deb: building package `sshguard' in `../sshguard_1.0.0-4_all.deb'. > signfile sshguard_1.0.0-4.dsc > gpg: skipped "Tomas Davidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>": secret key not > available > gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed:

Re: Bug#364317: ITP: weather-util -- command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

2006-04-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 05:36:29PM +, The Fungi wrote: > * Package name: weather-util > Description : command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and > forecasts > > This utility is intended to provide quick access to current weather > conditions and forecasts. Presently, it is

Re: Bug#366285: ITP: ajaxterm -- web based terminal written in python

2006-05-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:01:51AM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: > ajaxterm is a web based terminal written in python and some AJAX javascript > for client side. > It can use almost any web browser and even works through firewalls. 1) I'm glad to see ajaxterm approaching Debian because I think it

Bug#366554: ITP: cdck -- verifies the quality of written CDs/DVDs

2006-05-09 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: cdck Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Alexey Semenoff> * URL : http://swaj.net/unix/index.html#cdck * License

Bug#367007: ITP: libnet-z3950-zoom-perl -- Perl extension implementing the ZOOM API for Information Retrieval via Z39.50

2006-05-12 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnet-z3950-zoom-perl Version : 1.08 Upstream Author : Mike Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mirk/Net-Z3950-ZOOM/lib/Net/Z3950/ZOOM.

Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

2006-05-12 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: cpulimit Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Angelo Marletta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://marlon80.interfree

Re: Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

2006-05-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Description : limits the cpu usage of a process > > cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a > > process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to > > control batch jobs, whe

Re: Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

2006-05-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 07:31:56PM -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > > On an otherwise idle box even a process (re-)niced to 19 uses all the > > CPU. That might be desirable often but in other cases (e.g. when > > CPU temperature is an issue) you might still want to say "assign this > > process o

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:10:06PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > This option also might imply some extra bugs, but it's believed that > > not so many, since there are already quite a number of people with > > /bin/sh -> /bin/dash, and they do file bugs when "bashisms" appear. > A tool searching f

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > Using popcon would ensure that the applications which most people > > prefer would be the default; this is a fair and objective criterion. > Interesting idea, but by my reckoning that would make "ed" the default > editor for most p

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:29:34PM +0200, wrote: > * libdigest-hmac-perl, libdigest-sha1-perl, libdigest-md2-perl, > libdigest-perl, libio-interface-perl, libio-socket-multicast-perl, > libnet-xwhois-perl, libvideo-capture-v4l-perl > (easy pickings; check for new Upstream) I guess these pa

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:46:30AM -0700, Zak B. Elep wrote: > >* libdigest-hmac-perl, libdigest-sha1-perl, libdigest-md2-perl, > > libdigest-perl, libio-interface-perl, libio-socket-multicast-perl, > > libnet-xwhois-perl, libvideo-capture-v4l-perl > I'd like to take these up. Oops, I just saw yo

Bug#370485: ITP: libdata-random-perl -- Perl module to generate random data

2006-06-05 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdata-random-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Adekunle Olonoh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~adeo/Data-Random-0.05/Random.pm * License

Re: jabref destiny

2006-06-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:33:14PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > The problem from my point of view is that it builds in my normal > > environment (with the Sun Java jre/jdk installed) but not in a > > pbuilder chroot (because the Sun Java packages require a "Yes, I > > agree with this licen

Re: Bug#372239: ITP: Nmap::Parser - parse nmap scan data with perl

2006-06-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:50:32PM -0400, Joshua D. Abraham wrote: > * Package name : Nmap::Parser > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~apersaud/Nmap-Parser-1.05/Parser.pm I guess the package should be named libnmap-parser-perl like all other Perl module packages. Cf. also http://www.debian.org/doc/

Re: Bug#374088: ITP: openmovieeditor -- a simple non-linear video editor

2006-06-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:43:10 +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > * Package name: openmovieeditor > Version : 0.0.20060326 > Upstream Author : Richard Spindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://propirate.net/oracle/zipfiles/ This URL just gives me an empty page. Linked fr

Re: Bug#378996: ITP: vulcan -- chess variant inspired by a certain well-known science fiction TV series

2006-07-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:54:16 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Hi, > * Package name: vulcan > Version : 0.2 > Upstream Author : Mauro Persano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.fzort.org/mpr/projects/vulcan/ > * License : GPL > Description : chess variant i

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:20:59 +0100, Roland Mas wrote: > >> It would be great to document in some place > >> (devref?) why quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I > >> don't think it's obvious for everybody :) > > Yes, please do so! I would like to read that. > Seconded. Also, please in

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

2008-01-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:21:41 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > About these new Vcs-* fields in debian/control: it's not clear to me > where the URLs should be pointing at. They are explained in the Developer's Reference, section 6.2.5: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-pr

Re: dpatch -> quilt

2008-01-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:09:28 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Is there any easy conversion from dpatch to quilt for a given package > that is using dpatch? The following two links might give an idea: * manual conversion: http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/08/converting-debian-packages-from-dpatch.html

Re: dpatch -> quilt

2008-02-07 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:07:00 +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: > > * script (but svn-centric): > > > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/dpatch2quilt?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 > The script should (IMHO) make sure QUILT_PATCHES is set correctly. > (Cc'ing dmn because of this) Good catch, thanks! F

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:56:40 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > What about a bug... Bugs are our "pets" : we take care of them. > I guess I just repeat myself when I question why we need to join the > free software zoo. Is it hip? Are we hip? What's the gain? Why > bother? Ack. > A fluffy pillow

Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

2008-03-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:23:45 -0700, Karl Chen wrote: > Thoughts? What have I missed? Existing solutions or non-problem? Not a general solution probably but maybe interesting for you is the following RSS feed: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~joerg/removals/removals.rss Cheers, gregor -- .''`.

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:01:30 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > I appreciate the strive to make Debian work on small machines, but it > > is reasonable to put their constraints on the whole project? > IMHO the Packages.gz file is already too large for my standard Debian > machines! I see this point

Bug#474398: ITP: libfile-pid-perl -- Perl module for pid file manipulation

2008-04-05 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libfile-pid-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Casey West, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Pid/ * License : GPL-1

Re: Bug#481973: ITP: libiptables-parse-perl -- Perl extension for parsing iptables firewall rulesets

2008-05-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 19 May 2008 22:38:16 +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote: > * Package name: libiptables-parse-perl > The "IPTables::Parse" package provides an interface to parse iptables > rules on Linux systems through the direct execution of iptables > commands, or from a file. The package psad contains

Re: Bug#481973: ITP: libiptables-parse-perl -- Perl extension for parsing iptables firewall rulesets

2008-05-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:34:48 +0200, Franck JONCOURT wrote: > > The package psad contains a file /usr/lib/perl5/IPTables/Parse.pm. > As a matter of fact, all packages from cipherdyne are being packaged > to avoid conflicts between psad, fwsnort and fwknop. Sounds good, thanks for the clarification

Re: packages with perl-modules, CPAN, Policy

2008-06-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:42:34 +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: (cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please adjust accordingly) > 1. dh-make-perl > For example we build with itshelpthepackage > libwww-mechanize-perl. Excellent! The package is built. But it's > not a package, its a templ

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:36:48 -0400, James Westby wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Josselin Mouette wanted to allow bug numbers instead of URLs in the > > Bug-*/Bug > > fields. Several people expressed their preference for a simple URL field. > > Sub-thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:03:28 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > I think gregor makes a good point, and that there can be a reasonable > compromise between the two worlds of "hey, let's just use URLs in the > Bug: field" and "no, I'm too lazy, we should just use a nubmer and > refer to the Debian BTS" Th

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:22:07 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Largely due to the need of maintaining a full chroot just for its > use, I thought piuparts had too high of a barrier of > entry/maintenance to be used by everyone. Am I completely wrong? It can use pbuilder's chroot, and pbuilder --cre

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:44:07 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > > But I have to admit that I run it very rarely because it takes way > > too long (including the time to unpack pbuilder's base.tgz). > In that case, using cowbuilder instead could work, #389223 Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.com

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:44:18 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the > > > original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with > > > warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the > > > original

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:07:42 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: [Any reason why this thread happens on both -devel and -mentors?] > Josselin Mouette writes: > > It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are > > seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to > > the

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:15:00 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > > The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams; > > some thoughts from DebConf can be found here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/07/msg00083.html > > (especially point 3) > One thought captured in those notes

Re: developers-reference: Improve "Getting started" to talk about more than New Maintainer's Guide

2009-08-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:27:05 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > > Can you image to take a look at the Developers' Reference too? AFAIK > > the only mentioning of teams there is in 5.12. > Yes, definitely. [..] > I'm filing a bug against the developers-reference package for this > now. Cool! > Thanks fo

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:33:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > The reason why I posted to both is that I see a trend in -mentors that > many new contributors seem to create an artificial need as a reason to > get their contributions in the distribution and choose to package a new > program. I agree w

Bug#543255: ITP: libpoex-types-perl -- Perl module to provide MooseX::Types for POE

2009-08-23 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libpoex-types-perl Version : 0.091420 Upstream Author : Nicholas Perez * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/POEx-Types/ * License : GPL-3

Re: RFC round 5: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-08-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:13:58 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > > I think that either of ‘Origin: vendor’ (for a patch created by the > > package maintainer) or ‘Origin: other’ would be better than omitting the > > field. I'd like to see the examples recommend

Re: Is Mari Wang MIA?

2009-10-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:26:27 -0430, Ernesto Hernández-Novich wrote: > > I've got a new version of the package (7.82) just about ready for upload, > > give me a day or two (I want to take another look at it when this headcold > > leaves, hopefully along with all the cotton in my head). > Have you h

Re: Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

2009-10-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:27:45 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Therefore, I’d find it handy to have, on the header of the package’s bug > page a link "Search upstream bugtracker" that directly sends me to the > upstream bugtracker, ideally to a search request for all bugs affecting > this particula

Re: Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

2009-10-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:23:02 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > In order not to bloat the Packages file we where thinking about a > > header in debian/copyright (which has, according to DEP5, already > > information about the Upstream-Author and Upstream-Source). > I'd like to re-iterate my earlier mail

Re: transitioning from a single to split package

2009-11-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:15:35 +0100, Penny Leach wrote: > Well, that's logically equivalent to installing multiple versions of the > same package. At the moment, there's one moodle installation, which has > code that lives in /usr/share/moodle, and connects to one database. This > is determined

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:18:46 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > For more informations, see http://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade > Which describes the technical minutiae of the codebase without > explaining the "big picture" benefits of using the model or how the > model proposes to "fix" the (

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:32:13 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Configuration file `/etc/sensors3.conf' > > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. > > ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. > >What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > > Y or I :

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:38:19 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > * Or more generally: I want to preserve my locally modified values > > and at the same time update the rest which I haven't touched. > That's a user change, I thought the point of this was that changes *not > done by users* are causing

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:46:04 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Oh, well, I should probably > just study Config::Model! Since you speak French you might be interested in Dominique's presentation at some French Perl meeting: http://fpw2009.ubicast.eu/videos/free/64/ Cheers, gregor -- .''`. h

Re: Bug#559524: ITP: libleocharre-perl -- Bundle of several modules in the LEOCHARRE:: namespace

2009-12-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:58:59 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > Useful suggestions are gladly accepted and appreciated. Please give me a > > less crappy alternative. I beg of you. PLEASE. > File RM: bug on libwordpress-xmlrpc-perl. Less bad code = less > problems in the long term. $ apt-cache rdepe

Bug#559732: ITP: libweb-simple-perl -- simple web framework

2009-12-06 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann * Package name: libweb-simple-perl Version : 0.002 Upstream Author : Matt S. Trout * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Web-Simple/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#562102: ITP: libdist-zilla-perl -- Perl distribution builder

2009-12-22 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann * Package name: libdist-zilla-perl Version : 1.093400 Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dist-Zilla/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:22:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > But Manoj says the 'maintainer ping' was tried and was > not liked. So I guess some other method need to be found. Just out of curiosity: What exactly was this "maintainer ping" and why was it disliked? gregor -- .''`. http://info.com

Bug#411880: ITP: libglazedlists-java -- java list transformation library

2007-02-21 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libglazedlists-java Version : 1.7.0 Upstream Author : publicobject.com, O'Dell Engineering Ltd. * URL

Re: Roundcube

2007-02-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:27:26 -0200, Fernando M.M. wrote: > Althought i have already seen some old discussion about packing the > webmail Roundcube (1) i have not found the package using the > package search (2). [..] > Is someone working on it? Seems so: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:33:30 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > you always have the problem that you > might miss new configuration flags or you have to adapt the > new file manually from your old backup and "merge" the > changes. Ack, that's annoying IMO. > What about the possibility to view the pa

Re: Debhelper and variable substitution in *.install files etc.

2007-03-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:19:21 +0100, Paul Cager wrote: >/usr/share/java/thing.jar -> /usr/share/java/thing-1.2.3.jar > The rules file already has "PACKAGE" and "VERSION" variables (parsed > from the changelog). It would be really nice if the config files could > use variable substitution, so t

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:39:32 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I may be wrong, I don't know, but in my opinion a ping to call back home > > even if the user said `No' is a evil behaviour and Debian should avoid it. > I agree. If the user says "no", we should do nothing. Full ack. > [ ] N

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:22:37 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > dmidecode output is a big problem. It includes machine UUID and serial > > numbers. > Yes. > Perhaps we only want to collect a subset of that information, or at > least warn the admin about the issues. I'd suggest to show the per

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