Re: RFS: Bootsplash

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:31:40 -0600, Matthew A. Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to debian-mentors: > Boot splash is a kernel patch and corisponding userland utilities that > enable a graphical boot secquence complete with MNG animations, 16bit > JPEG backgrounds, Progress Bars, and TrueType

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

On 03/03/04, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Make that at least two. And I haven't exactly seen a huge clamour of people > rushing to your defence in any coherent fashion. > It's not a bad concept, > > You are free to take your bat and ball wherever it suits you. > [...] Common guys I think you're be

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

On 02/03/04, at 15:31 +0100, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK. Let's assume that I'm convinced that a pdfmerge script was useful. Good start :-) > There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. > As for your "another way of doing things": Just because there's not one >

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:33:39AM +0100, Philipp Gortan wrote: > >The proper place for the script (after doing things right) is > >ghostscript upstream. Take a look at pdf2ps and try to get your program > >next to that. There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. > > ok, so we know the

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

On 03/03/04, at 16:09 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:33:39AM +0100, Philipp Gortan wrote: > > >The proper place for the script (after doing things right) is > > >ghostscript upstream. Take a look at pdf2ps and try to get your program > > >next to that

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:23:39PM +0800, Didier Casse wrote: > On 02/03/04, at 15:31 +0100, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. > > As for your "another way of doing things": Just because there's not one > > exclusive right way doe

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

On 02/03/04, at 15:31 +0100, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK. Let's assume that I'm convinced that a pdfmerge script was useful. Good start :-) > There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. > As for your "another way of doing things": Just because there's not one >

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:33:39AM +0100, Philipp Gortan wrote: > >The proper place for the script (after doing things right) is > >ghostscript upstream. Take a look at pdf2ps and try to get your program > >next to that. There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. > > ok, so we know the

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

Thomas Viehmann wrote: The proper place for the script (after doing things right) is ghostscript upstream. Take a look at pdf2ps and try to get your program next to that. There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. Hi mentors, ok, so we know the opinion of Thomas, what does the res

RE: RFS: Bootsplash

Forgot to say where to get the packs. They can be found on mentors.debian.net: bootsplash kernel-patch-bootsplash bootsplash-theme-debian-tux sysv-rc-bootsplash -- Matthew A. Nicholson Matt-Land.com

RFS: Bootsplash

I am still looking for a sponsor for my bootsplash package set. Licence: GPL Version: 3.0.7, 3.1.3 Boot splash is a kernel patch and corisponding userland utilities that enable a graphical boot secquence complete with MNG animations, 16bit JPEG backgrounds, Progress Bars, and TrueType text.

RFS: sponsor needed for truncate #211078

Sponsor needed since previuos guy who packaged it nor retitled the bug as ITP nor seems to be active since 23/11/2003 today I've packaged this nice piece of old school unix kind command. you can find the debianized source and binary package here: http://ketavet.dyndns.org/truncate/ pleas

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

Thomas Viehmann wrote: The proper place for the script (after doing things right) is ghostscript upstream. Take a look at pdf2ps and try to get your program next to that. There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. Hi mentors, ok, so we know the opinion of Thomas, what does the rest of

RE: RFS: Bootsplash

Forgot to say where to get the packs. They can be found on mentors.debian.net: bootsplash kernel-patch-bootsplash bootsplash-theme-debian-tux sysv-rc-bootsplash -- Matthew A. Nicholson Matt-Land.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

RFS: Bootsplash

I am still looking for a sponsor for my bootsplash package set. Licence: GPL Version: 3.0.7, 3.1.3 Boot splash is a kernel patch and corisponding userland utilities that enable a graphical boot secquence complete with MNG animations, 16bit JPEG backgrounds, Progress Bars, and TrueType text. --

RFS: sponsor needed for truncate #211078

Sponsor needed since previuos guy who packaged it nor retitled the bug as ITP nor seems to be active since 23/11/2003 today I've packaged this nice piece of old school unix kind command. you can find the debianized source and binary package here: http://ketavet.dyndns.org/truncate/ pleas

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:42:33PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:44:43PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: > > I do intend to push the library, but I actually don't > > have a map of Debian applications which use SRV > > records. I'm planning to contact those applic

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:42:33PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:44:43PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: > > I do intend to push the library, but I actually don't > > have a map of Debian applications which use SRV > > records. I'm planning to contact those applic

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

Hi. Didier Casse wrote: >>Which is bad, because I'm sure the package will raise the "why does >>every badly written, trivial script need to be included in Debian?" > Do you know how many people use this "trivial script"? You'll be surprise [...] OK. Let's assume that I'm convinced that a pdfmerge

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

Hi. Didier Casse wrote: >>Which is bad, because I'm sure the package will raise the "why does >>every badly written, trivial script need to be included in Debian?" > Do you know how many people use this "trivial script"? You'll be surprise [...] OK. Let's assume that I'm convinced that a pdfmerge

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

>From tv_AT_beamnet_de, >Which is bad, because I'm sure the package will raise the "why does >every badly written, trivial script need to be included in Debian?" Do you know how many people use this "trivial script"? You'll be surprise to know that at least 10 people are downloading it from a Fed

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

Dear mentors, sorry for replying to myself, this is just a minor update: Changes: bbppp (0.2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New maintainer (Closes: #190188) * New upstream release * Updated manpage to reflect v0.2.4 * Added menu item * Added debian/watch * Cosmetic fix to usag

need sponsor to look my package

Hello, I search a DD to correct my package. If he is french it's so mutch :-) (your are certainly see my very bad english) I have make a pakage of unik-olsrd. you can find documentation at www.olsr.org and you can download the package at ftp://ftp.tcweb.org/pub/debian/ or You can add t

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

Hi Thomas, hi mentors, Thomas Viehmann wrote: - The script randomly overwrites files in the CWD. issue fixed, pdfmerge now uses File::Temp for secure creation... Version 1.0-5 as usual at Interested, anyone? :-) Regards, Philipp Gortan -- W

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

>From tv_AT_beamnet_de, >Which is bad, because I'm sure the package will raise the "why does >every badly written, trivial script need to be included in Debian?" Do you know how many people use this "trivial script"? You'll be surprise to know that at least 10 people are downloading it from a Fed

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

Dear mentors, sorry for replying to myself, this is just a minor update: Changes: bbppp (0.2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New maintainer (Closes: #190188) * New upstream release * Updated manpage to reflect v0.2.4 * Added menu item * Added debian/watch * Cosmetic fix to usag

need sponsor to look my package

Hello, I search a DD to correct my package. If he is french it's so mutch :-) (your are certainly see my very bad english) I have make a pakage of unik-olsrd. you can find documentation at www.olsr.org and you can download the package at ftp://ftp.tcweb.org/pub/debian/ or You can add t

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

Hi Thomas, hi mentors, Thomas Viehmann wrote: why does it need autotools for a trivial perl script? I wasn't aware that the autotools are _not_ the tools of choice for platform-independent programs :-) To me, it's the easiest way to help dh_make building the rules... what is the differenc

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

Hi Thomas, hi mentors, Thomas Viehmann wrote: - The script randomly overwrites files in the CWD. issue fixed, pdfmerge now uses File::Temp for secure creation... Version 1.0-5 as usual at Interested, anyone? :-) Regards, Philipp Gortan -- When in

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

Philipp Gortan wrote: > I filed an ITP bug: http://bugs.debian.org/235659 > (didn't cc to debian-devel though, wrong header section) Which is bad, because I'm sure the package will raise the "why does every badly written, trivial script need to be included in Debian?" question. Just two things: - p

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

Hi Thomas, hi mentors, Thomas Viehmann wrote: why does it need autotools for a trivial perl script? I wasn't aware that the autotools are _not_ the tools of choice for platform-independent programs :-) To me, it's the easiest way to help dh_make building the rules... what is the difference? Y