Re: Four days

2010-10-09 Thread Kevin Lamonte
On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: We probably should do a better job of identifying these packages and responding to the RFS to tell people that it's of questionable importance (or clearly no importance) and then channeling them into assistance to Debian that is of greater importa

Re: Proposal: a simple package peer-review using the BTS.

2010-10-09 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 19:45:56 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > following our discussion in the ‘Four days’ thread, here is a simple > proposal for organising package peer reviews using the BTS. > > http://wiki.debian.org/PackageReview Hi Charles, I had a pair of questions, perhaps you

RFS: gtk2-engines-equinox

2010-10-09 Thread Hadret
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gtk2-engines-equinox". * Package name: gtk2-engines-equinox Version : 1.30.2-2 Upstream Author : Matthieu James * URL : http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=121881 * License : GPL-2+ Section

Re: RFS - mapcatcher

2010-10-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:00:42AM -0700, D Haley wrote: > * Although marked as GPL2 or any later, the actual python programs do not > * have the pre-amble in the source files, as required by the licence. Uhm, no. The GPL merely lists that as one of possible ways to do so, and, even though it is

Re: Trying to package Meganizer

2010-10-09 Thread Joachim Langenbach
Good evening, > Hi -- just a random thought, but the "can have but not need KDE stuff" > makes me think of the Quassel package. You might want to take a look > at it and see how it handles that. Thanks for that hint, it is working as they do it. It can be used everytime, one want to create packa

Re: Rescue Plan for apt-listbugs

2010-10-09 Thread Francesco Poli
[I wasn't Cc:ed, hence I see your message only now, and I am replying after manually quoting the text from the web archive and manually setting the In-Reply-To field: I hope this won't break the thread; apologies if it does!] On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 12:02:15 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Oct 9, 20

Re: Four days

2010-10-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 05:13:22PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia a écrit : > On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: >> >> perhaps the list's description, that still points at >> http://people.d.o/~mpalmer, >> could be updated as well? I have not figured out if this is done through >> a bug on lists.d.o

Re: RFS - mapcatcher

2010-10-09 Thread D Haley
Hello, I came across your g/mapcatcher package today, I had not heard of the project before. This looks like an excellent lightweight alternative to marble - I have already installed it on my machine (marble wont fit, it has way too many deps). I can't sponsor you, however here are some comment

Proposal: a simple package peer-review using the BTS.

2010-10-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, following our discussion in the ‘Four days’ thread, here is a simple proposal for organising package peer reviews using the BTS. http://wiki.debian.org/PackageReview In this proposal, ‘debian-ment...@lists.debian.org’ is the BTS user. This will not increase the traffic on this list. Bu

Re: RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-10-09 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 22:38:59 +0200, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:09:23PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". >> This package has been reviewed by Paul Wise and Asheesh Laroia already >> and >> s

Re: Four days

2010-10-09 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> For example here are a couple of my last questions there: >> >> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=55938 >> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=55976 > > Both look on-t

Re: Four days

2010-10-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > For example here are a couple of my last questions there: > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=55938 > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=55976 Both look on-topic for user support fora such as forums.d.n, the debian-use