Re: Appropriate warning when removing important package

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:06:56PM -0700, Jeremy Leibs wrote: > We have kind of a unique environment in that many of the (somewhat > naive) system users have root-access for installing new packages on an > as-needed basis, but the development environment itself has some > specific requirements. Fo

RFS: grsync (updated package)

2009-09-16 Thread martijn van brummelen
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.1-4 of my package "grsync". It builds these binary packages: grsync - GTK+ frontend for rsync The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/poo

RFS: python-texml - Convert TeXML to LaTeX or ConTeXt

2009-09-16 Thread Neskie Manuel
Hi, I'm looking for a sponsor for the python module texml Here are the relevant links ITP Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546991 Mentors: http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=texml The package is an interesting package that could be help

Re: Appropriate warning when removing important package

2009-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeremy Leibs writes: > My initial workaround was to just add "Essential: yes" to the > ros-conficts control file so that now users get a much more serious > warning when they try to install a package that conflicts with it. > However, this feels like a misuse of "essential." > Is there a preferr

Appropriate warning when removing important package

2009-09-16 Thread Jeremy Leibs
We are attempting to use the debian package system to streamline the process of setting up the operating system for our software developers and robotics research platforms. We have kind of a unique environment in that many of the (somewhat naive) system users have root-access for installing new pa

Re: RFS: vera++

2009-09-16 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi Mathieu, >> Unfortunately, you changed the original tarball locally (size 52320) >> compared to revision -1 (size 53263), but did not upload it (because the >> Debian revision is -2, and you did not pass -sa to dpkg-buildpackage). >> And mentors.d.o still has the old tarball. >> >> $ dpkg-sourc

RFS: libvc (updated package)

2009-09-16 Thread Tony Palma
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 003.dfsg.1-12 of my package "libvc". It builds these binary packages: libvc-dev - vCard library - development files libvc0 - vCard (the Electronic Business Card) library The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would f

Re: RFS: ruby-fftw3

2009-09-16 Thread Youhei SASAKI
Hi, Timeline: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:43:19 +0200: [Lucas Nussbaum ] wrote: > On 15/09/09 at 22:34 +0900, Youhei SASAKI wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ruby-fftw3". - snip - > > Have you considered maintaining it inside the pkg-ruby-extras team? Thank you fo

Re: RFS: ttf2eot

2009-09-16 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 16/09/2009 09:18, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 09:04 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: The @font-face rule ? I don't. I know chrome needs --enable-remote-fonts, because by default it's disabled. Surely IE has some option to disable it, too. Maybe you don't like the idea, but websites are go