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2001-05-03 Thread Support Team
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors-9808/msg00015.html Hello! We are sorry, but we changed our old "monitorsolution.com", and "heartforyou.com" links and replaced them by: bestnetplace.com (which group all monitors activities/related links) You actualy have a link to us (thanks again) on your

Re: Non-Free License? (was Weird source tarballs)

2001-05-03 Thread sharkey
> It looks like it is just making explicit the restrictions which already exist > in law (whatever those might be), and is not part of the license per se. That seems to be the case, but I'm not entirely sure. This appears to be a standard disclaimer that gets attached to many licenses. A Google

Re: Non-Free License? (was Weird source tarballs)

2001-05-03 Thread Bradley Bell
It looks like it is just making explicit the restrictions which already exist in law (whatever those might be), and is not part of the license per se. -brad On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:29:22PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > Ok, thanks for the help... problem #2: > > there's a README in the document

Re: Non-Free License? (was Weird source tarballs)

2001-05-03 Thread sharkey
> It looks like it is just making explicit the restrictions which already exist > in law (whatever those might be), and is not part of the license per se. That seems to be the case, but I'm not entirely sure. This appears to be a standard disclaimer that gets attached to many licenses. A Google

Re: Non-Free License? (was Weird source tarballs)

2001-05-03 Thread Eric Dorland
Ok, thanks for the help... problem #2: there's a README in the documentation has a standard warranty disclaimer, but then it has this text: US Government Users Restricted Rights Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions set forth in FAR 52.227.19(c)(2) or subpa

Re: Non-Free License? (was Weird source tarballs)

2001-05-03 Thread Bradley Bell
It looks like it is just making explicit the restrictions which already exist in law (whatever those might be), and is not part of the license per se. -brad On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:29:22PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > Ok, thanks for the help... problem #2: > > there's a README in the documen

Looking for sponsor for a T&S approved package PARI/GP

2001-05-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello, I have already packaged PARI/GP Number Theory-oriented Computer Algebra System. It consists of a C library, libpari, and of the programmable interactive GP calculator. License is GPL. Home page at http://www.parigp-home.de/ I filled ITP #79621. My source package is av

Re: Non-Free License? (was Weird source tarballs)

2001-05-03 Thread Eric Dorland
Ok, thanks for the help... problem #2: there's a README in the documentation has a standard warranty disclaimer, but then it has this text: US Government Users Restricted Rights Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions set forth in FAR 52.227.19(c)(2) or subp

Looking for sponsor for a T&S approved package PARI/GP

2001-05-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello, I have already packaged PARI/GP Number Theory-oriented Computer Algebra System. It consists of a C library, libpari, and of the programmable interactive GP calculator. License is GPL. Home page at http://www.parigp-home.de/ I filled ITP #79621. My source package is a

Re: Fwd: Re: ardour & quasimodo debian packages

2001-05-03 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 03 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I posted an ITP: ardour -- a Linux Digital Audio Workstation (bug #95870). > Sadly enough, upstream author doesn't seem to agree on me doing this. > What can you advice me to do ? Should I try to convince him ? Or package it > anyway ? You could off

Re: Fwd: Re: ardour & quasimodo debian packages

2001-05-03 Thread sharkey
I've exchanged email with Paul Davis many many times. He's a reasonable guy. He won't prevent you from packaging it, but I wouldn't package it at this time if I were you. Being included in a distribution opens the package up to a wider audience. If the project is still immature this can be a ba

Fwd: Re: ardour & quasimodo debian packages

2001-05-03 Thread ericvb
I posted an ITP: ardour -- a Linux Digital Audio Workstation (bug #95870). Sadly enough, upstream author doesn't seem to agree on me doing this. What can you advice me to do ? Should I try to convince him ? Or package it anyway ? As the code is GPL'd, that's to say "freely redistributable", the

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > A lot of packages used to test for root access in the clean target too. > That was standard practise before we had fakeroot. > > I suppose when you were building as root (non-fake), you would end up > with directories owned by root, so it made sense that you would need > ro

Re: Long strings in debconf templates (in the short description)

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > I wonder how strict is the "about 50 characters or so" limitation on the > short description for a debconf template is? Well, you're not going to get a "serious" severity bug about it any time soon. However, debconf frontends are designed with strings of about this le

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread G . Gabriele
<- snip -> > Hi, > I have looked at this. Despite my reservations about the > usefulness > of a tic-tac-toe game, I tried to have an open mind about it. > I can't say that in my opinion this is actually worth bothering > to > package, it is pretty simplistic to say the least. You g

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread Stephen Stafford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 May 2001 5:37 pm, G . Gabriele wrote: [Snip] > > The package is at http://nettoe.sourceforge.net > > It's a console based Tic-Tac-Toe like game playable > over a network . (tcp/ip) > > Now the last version is 1.0.5 and it's a stable ver

Re: Fwd: Re: ardour & quasimodo debian packages

2001-05-03 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 03 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I posted an ITP: ardour -- a Linux Digital Audio Workstation (bug #95870). > Sadly enough, upstream author doesn't seem to agree on me doing this. > What can you advice me to do ? Should I try to convince him ? Or package it > anyway ? You could of

Re: Fwd: Re: ardour & quasimodo debian packages

2001-05-03 Thread sharkey
I've exchanged email with Paul Davis many many times. He's a reasonable guy. He won't prevent you from packaging it, but I wouldn't package it at this time if I were you. Being included in a distribution opens the package up to a wider audience. If the project is still immature this can be a b

Re: NM Woes

2001-05-03 Thread sharkey
> Some of them are kinda redundant with packages in Debian already, such as > my maintenance of VFTP, a secure FTP server based off of OpenBSDFTP. I was > just wondering if that's cool, or if the redundancy is stupid... If it's another packaging of something else that's already packaged, we don't

Fwd: Re: ardour & quasimodo debian packages

2001-05-03 Thread ericvb
I posted an ITP: ardour -- a Linux Digital Audio Workstation (bug #95870). Sadly enough, upstream author doesn't seem to agree on me doing this. What can you advice me to do ? Should I try to convince him ? Or package it anyway ? As the code is GPL'd, that's to say "freely redistributable", th

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > A lot of packages used to test for root access in the clean target too. > That was standard practise before we had fakeroot. > > I suppose when you were building as root (non-fake), you would end up > with directories owned by root, so it made sense that you would need > r

Re: Long strings in debconf templates (in the short description)

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > I wonder how strict is the "about 50 characters or so" limitation on the > short description for a debconf template is? Well, you're not going to get a "serious" severity bug about it any time soon. However, debconf frontends are designed with strings of about this l

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread G . Gabriele
<- snip -> > Hi, > I have looked at this. Despite my reservations about the > usefulness > of a tic-tac-toe game, I tried to have an open mind about it. > I can't say that in my opinion this is actually worth bothering > to > package, it is pretty simplistic to say the least. You

Re: NM Woes

2001-05-03 Thread Warren Stramiello
> Unfortunately, it's not that uncommon, although that is a bit long. At this rate, it'll take less time to develop stage four cancer, get treatment, and recover, than it took to become a Debian Developer ;-) I should submit that to the webpage folks so they can put that catchy phrase on the NM p

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread G . Gabriele
<-- snip --> > > I missed the request, what package was it you wanted? What kind > of state is it in, i.e. is it stable, under heavy development, > or somewhere in between? > > Jim The package is at http://nettoe.sourceforge.net It's a console based Tic-Tac-Toe like game playable over a netw

Re: NM Woes

2001-05-03 Thread sharkey
> Hi, I'm just wondering if someone can find out for me what else I need to > do to get through the DAM approval phase; eg, what the holdup is. I hate > even to be asking this question since I'm sure the DAM folks are busy with > other things than just approving folks in queue, and I'm aware they'r

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread Stephen Stafford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 May 2001 5:37 pm, G . Gabriele wrote: [Snip] > > The package is at http://nettoe.sourceforge.net > > It's a console based Tic-Tac-Toe like game playable > over a network . (tcp/ip) > > Now the last version is 1.0.5 and it's a stable ve

NM Woes

2001-05-03 Thread Warren Stramiello
Hi, I'm just wondering if someone can find out for me what else I need to do to get through the DAM approval phase; eg, what the holdup is. I hate even to be asking this question since I'm sure the DAM folks are busy with other things than just approving folks in queue, and I'm aware they're volunt

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread sharkey
> Doh a couple of months > > As almost all developers are (I must have read about that somewhere...) > I'm lazy and I think the steps to become a Debian developer > are a little "tedious". This is on purpose. Not everyone should be a developer. > I give up as a developer :-) > > What sho

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread G . Gabriele
On Thu, 03 May 2001 16:22:38 Christian Surchi wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:31:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > We have about 700 developers, with quite a few in Italy, I think. > > > > http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc > > > > I'm sure you can find someone. > > Right!

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread G . Gabriele
< -- snip --> > > I have read that I have to meet a developer... and so on > > but I'm italian and I think that would be a little difficult. > > I don't think there are many italian developers out there :-( > > We have about 700 developers, with quite a few in Italy, I think. > > http://www.debi

Re: NM Woes

2001-05-03 Thread sharkey
> Some of them are kinda redundant with packages in Debian already, such as > my maintenance of VFTP, a secure FTP server based off of OpenBSDFTP. I was > just wondering if that's cool, or if the redundancy is stupid... If it's another packaging of something else that's already packaged, we don't

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread Christian Surchi
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:31:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have about 700 developers, with quite a few in Italy, I think. > > http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc > > I'm sure you can find someone. Right! :) Maybe he could specify his position in Italy. -- Christian Surchi

Re: NM Woes

2001-05-03 Thread Warren Stramiello
> Unfortunately, it's not that uncommon, although that is a bit long. At this rate, it'll take less time to develop stage four cancer, get treatment, and recover, than it took to become a Debian Developer ;-) I should submit that to the webpage folks so they can put that catchy phrase on the NM

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread G . Gabriele
<-- snip --> > > I missed the request, what package was it you wanted? What kind > of state is it in, i.e. is it stable, under heavy development, > or somewhere in between? > > Jim The package is at http://nettoe.sourceforge.net It's a console based Tic-Tac-Toe like game playable over a net

Re: NM Woes

2001-05-03 Thread sharkey
> Hi, I'm just wondering if someone can find out for me what else I need to > do to get through the DAM approval phase; eg, what the holdup is. I hate > even to be asking this question since I'm sure the DAM folks are busy with > other things than just approving folks in queue, and I'm aware they'

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread sharkey
> Doh a couple of months > > As almost all developers are (I must have read about that somewhere...) > I'm lazy and I think the steps to become a Debian developer > are a little "tedious". This is on purpose. Not everyone should be a developer. > I give up as a developer :-) > > What sh

NM Woes

2001-05-03 Thread Warren Stramiello
Hi, I'm just wondering if someone can find out for me what else I need to do to get through the DAM approval phase; eg, what the holdup is. I hate even to be asking this question since I'm sure the DAM folks are busy with other things than just approving folks in queue, and I'm aware they're volun

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread G . Gabriele
On Thu, 03 May 2001 16:22:38 Christian Surchi wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:31:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > We have about 700 developers, with quite a few in Italy, I think. > > > > http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc > > > > I'm sure you can find someone. > > Right

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread G . Gabriele
< -- snip --> > > I have read that I have to meet a developer... and so on > > but I'm italian and I think that would be a little difficult. > > I don't think there are many italian developers out there :-( > > We have about 700 developers, with quite a few in Italy, I think. > > http://www.deb

Re: New Package, New Developer ehm... Help :-)

2001-05-03 Thread Christian Surchi
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:31:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have about 700 developers, with quite a few in Italy, I think. > > http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc > > I'm sure you can find someone. Right! :) Maybe he could specify his position in Italy. -- Christian Surch

Re: Weird source tarballs

2001-05-03 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:00:55PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > i'd like to package the opengl manpages... but there tarballs are a bit > strange... they're .Z files to begin with, and they don't appear to have > a version number (some other docs have 1.2 as a version, so i suppose i > can assume t

Re: Weird source tarballs

2001-05-03 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:00:55PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > i'd like to package the opengl manpages... but there tarballs are a bit > strange... they're .Z files to begin with, and they don't appear to have > a version number (some other docs have 1.2 as a version, so i suppose i > can assume