Re: Handling multiple-wm packages?

2003-05-29 Thread Christian Marillat
Xavier Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > For the gnome desktop entry: > /usr/share/gnome/apps/Internet/WebHTTrack.desktop Not the right place for desktop files. See http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu/draft/menu-spec/menu-spec.html Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: advice on closing bugs

2003-05-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently adopted several packages (jade, openjade, opensp) and several of > the open bugs were fixed by NMUs, so they have "fixed" tags. I think all I > need to do is send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that says, "This bug > was fixed in the NMU of versi

build-essential

2003-05-29 Thread Neil Roeth
What determines when the build daemon compilers gets changed? I see that the build-essential package that I have installed on my machine depends on g++ (>= 3:3.2), but the g++ package itself depends on g++-3.3, so that means that normal upgrades have made 3.3 the default compiler on my machine. H

Re: Package scponly

2003-05-29 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Thomas Wana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-28 08:12]: > Am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2003 23:06 schrieben Sie: > > > > Please, consider checking rssh for a package that does what scponly is > > supposed to be. (...) > Some of my colleagues use scponly, so I think that these features > are useful and scp

Re: advice on closing bugs

2003-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:14:39PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote: > I recently adopted several packages (jade, openjade, opensp) and > several of the open bugs were fixed by NMUs, so they have "fixed" > tags. I think all I need to do is send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] that says, "This bug was fixed

Handling multiple-wm packages?

2003-05-29 Thread Xavier Roche
Hi, I am the maintainer (and author) of the webhttrack package (http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/webhttrack.html) and a fresh Debian Developper, and I have a question regarding the packaging policy for packages that fit multiple window manager environments. webhttrack is a web frontend t

advice on closing bugs

2003-05-29 Thread Neil Roeth
I recently adopted several packages (jade, openjade, opensp) and several of the open bugs were fixed by NMUs, so they have "fixed" tags. I think all I need to do is send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that says, "This bug was fixed in the NMU of version 1.2.1-29.3. The fix has been propagated to t

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:44:22AM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote: [...] > | > If you look at the packages description, you will see thatit says "This > | > module provides the Perl bindings to libcurl." In the description it > | > tells what the package is. > | Could the description at least explic

SML/NJ Bugfix and New Packages

2003-05-29 Thread Aaron Matthew Read
My sponsor is unavailable to upload for me right now, so I am seeking a Developer who would like to help me get the following uploaded: 1. A bugfix to the smlnj-runtime package. Fixes a compile problem with the gcc-3.3 compiler. 2. Optionally a set of new smlnj related packages: libckit-s

problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread Deedra Waters
I'm including the messages below, because I'm hoping that maybe one of you can help me figure out how to respond to the upstream authors on this Basically the problem seems to be that they are very unhappy with the way that debian is naming perl modules, and I'm getting to a point, where I am no lo

Sponsoring a Java package

2003-05-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, I am a new DD, so there are a lot of subtleties out there still waiting for me to learn :) One of them is: A coworker of mine is a co-developer of a Java-based LMS, OpenUSS (http://www.openuss.org). We were talking that it would be interesting to package OpenUSS for Debian - Initially I off

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > José Luis Tallón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>It would probably be easier for th users if the name-mangling yielded >>"libperl-curl-easy" or "libperl-www-curl" instead of the current one... >> >>...any reasons for doing it otherwise i have overlooked ? > > Debian Perl Po

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
José Luis Tallón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would probably be easier for th users if the name-mangling yielded > "libperl-curl-easy" or "libperl-www-curl" instead of the current one... > > ...any reasons for doing it otherwise i have overlooked ? Debian Perl Policy is quite specific: Foo::B

Re: bug reports

2003-05-29 Thread Neil Roeth
On May 28, Craig Small ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think it is to do with robots.txt > Try > wget -r -l 1 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It nearly does what you want. On May 28, Bastian Kleineidam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 06:49:50AM -

Re: bug reports

2003-05-29 Thread Neil Roeth
On May 28, Xavier Roche ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 06:49:50AM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote: > > I'd like to download the web page of bugs by maintainer, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED], and all > > the bug reports linked to on that page, so t

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread José Luis Tallón
At 09:27 29/05/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:44:22AM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote: [...] > | > If you look at the packages description, you will see thatit says "This > | > module provides the Perl bindings to libcurl." In the description it > | > tells what the package is. >

Re: Handling multiple-wm packages?

2003-05-29 Thread Christian Marillat
Xavier Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > For the gnome desktop entry: > /usr/share/gnome/apps/Internet/WebHTTrack.desktop Not the right place for desktop files. See http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu/draft/menu-spec/menu-spec.html Christian

Seeking sponsor

2003-05-29 Thread Thomas Wana
Hi, I am seeking a sponsor/mentor for my debian developer application. I packaged scponly, which is available at deb http://www.wana.at/debian ./ deb-src http://www.wana.at/debian ./ regards, tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-29 Thread Mike Schacht
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:39:08AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Using "./configure -options ... || cat config.log" in debian/rules was > suggested recently and could help a lot. That's brilliant! And if configure works it doesn't even fill the build logs with trash. Lovely. Done. > BTW what

build-essential

2003-05-29 Thread Neil Roeth
What determines when the build daemon compilers gets changed? I see that the build-essential package that I have installed on my machine depends on g++ (>= 3:3.2), but the g++ package itself depends on g++-3.3, so that means that normal upgrades have made 3.3 the default compiler on my machine. H

Re: Package scponly

2003-05-29 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Thomas Wana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-28 08:12]: > Am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2003 23:06 schrieben Sie: > > > > Please, consider checking rssh for a package that does what scponly is > > supposed to be. (...) > Some of my colleagues use scponly, so I think that these features > are useful and scp

Handling multiple-wm packages?

2003-05-29 Thread Xavier Roche
Hi, I am the maintainer (and author) of the webhttrack package (http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/webhttrack.html) and a fresh Debian Developper, and I have a question regarding the packaging policy for packages that fit multiple window manager environments. webhttrack is a web frontend t

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:44:22AM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote: [...] > | > If you look at the packages description, you will see thatit says "This > | > module provides the Perl bindings to libcurl." In the description it > | > tells what the package is. > | Could the description at least explic

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:09:56PM -0500, Mike Schacht wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:24:28PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > Another option is to use the compile farm at SourceForge. This is a bit > > more tricky, as you would have to be registered as a participant of one of > > proje