Re: Making packages available to Debian users (was: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator)

2012-04-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sunday 08 April 2012 12:58:08 Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: > The problem is that I don't see this "review process" here. Instead, all of > You are explaining what Debian is and what is not. But I've got no much > new. You are trying to breach into opened door. But point is that all this > discussio

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Ben Finney
Vladimir Stavrinov writes: > The problem is that I don't see this "review process" here. Instead, > all of You are explaining what Debian is and what is not. But I've got > no much new. You are trying to breach into opened door. But point is > that all this discussion have no relation to script i

Re: Making packages available to Debian users (was: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator)

2012-04-07 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:20:55PM -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: > to get rid of it. It's thus reasonable that we want to make sure > packages are in good shape for entry in Debian. It's also natural that It is very easy to execute this task: please, read this shell script. It is short and simple

Re: Making packages available to Debian users

2012-04-07 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:48:27AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> > So I don't understand, why do You think my package is worse of those >> > garbage and how it break "coherence". >> >> I don't have a position one way or another on whether

Re: Making packages available to Debian users (was: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator)

2012-04-07 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 10:08:08AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > >> barrier to entry there: Debian should be a coherent operating system > > Very good. But to keep system in "coherent" state You should not only > build barrier on entry, but

Re: Making packages available to Debian users

2012-04-07 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:48:27AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > No need to send copies to me of messages that you're also sending to > this forum. Sorry, it was my fault: first I send it to You instead of list, then notice this and send it to list. > > So I don't understand, why do You think my pa

Re: Making packages available to Debian users

2012-04-07 Thread Ben Finney
No need to send copies to me of messages that you're also sending to this forum. Vladimir Stavrinov writes: > So I don't understand, why do You think my package is worse of those > garbage and how it break "coherence". I don't have a position one way or another on whether any of your packages i

Re: Making packages available to Debian users (was: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator)

2012-04-07 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 10:08:08AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > barrier to entry there: Debian should be a coherent operating system Very good. But to keep system in "coherent" state You should not only build barrier on entry, but also remove packages that break such coherence. And this should be n

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:05:25AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > As a side note, I think that the comments about security in this > thread are very relevant. If your package were accepted in Debian, it > would need to meet Debian's and Debian's users expectations, not only > your vision as an up

Making packages available to Debian users (was: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator)

2012-04-07 Thread Ben Finney
Vladimir Stavrinov writes: > But for a last at least 15 years I've wrote tens of such scripts, that > I am using for years in my work and life with enjoy and no problems. > And now, I think, why don't make those lot of software available for > Debian users? But I see: because there are army of fo

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:46:33PM +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov a écrit : > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659047 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652718 > http://mentors.debian.net/package/rpg Hi, There is no need to rename bugs and mentors uploads retroactive

Bug#667994: RFS: stl-manual/3.30-13 [ITA]

2012-04-07 Thread cento
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "stl-manual" * Package name: stl-manual Version : 3.30-13 Upstream Author : SGI * URL : http://www.sgi.c

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: > maintainers to request removals before they leave Debian. You seem to > have an overly simplified view of how the distribution works. You don't let me know something new. > Now, about the package in question. The alternative softw

Bug#667617: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#667617: RFS: postgres-xc/0.9.6-1 [NEW] -- Write-scalable, synchronous multi-master, transparent PostgreSQL

2012-04-07 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:10:54PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > You should probably fix the lintian warnings shown on that page first. Yes, I will start packaging it from scratch with new version 0.9.7 *** ### Vladimir Stavrinov ### vstavri...@gmail.com **

Bug#667617: [Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#667617: RFS: postgres-xc/0.9.6-1 [NEW] -- Write-scalable, synchronous multi-master, transparent PostgreSQL

2012-04-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2012-04-05 at 15:32 +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: > To access further information about this package, please visit the > following URL: > > http://mentors.debian.net/package/postgres-xc You should probably fix the lintian warnings shown on that page first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#667974: RFS: libreoffice-converter/3.3.34.1+ds-3 [ITP]

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Elliott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libreoffice-converter" * Package name: libreoffice-converter Version : 3.3.34.1+ds-3 Upstream Author : Petr Mladek Jan Holesovsky * URL

Re: Debian packaging diagrams (was: Finding a mentor)

2012-04-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:15:20AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 02:26:30AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 01:22:55AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > >>On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:29:47PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > >>> > >>>I made this 2 diagram

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: > First, If you're proposing a different algorithm for password > generation, have you looked into contributing the algorithm to apg? If > not, why? Please also note that while apg generates secure passwords, rpg doesn't care about su

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: >> ecosystem.  Consider for instance that if one day you suddenly can not >> contribute anymore, somebody else will need to care of the package.  Summed >> together, even removals takes time. > > It would be a nice behavior, if maintainer  

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:14:44AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > What about "repagen" i.e. REadable PAssword GENerator ? Is it OK.? > > That is nice. Good. But. There are too many things to be renamed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659047 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bug

Bug#667902: RFS: downtimed/0.5-2

2012-04-07 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 07.04.2012 12:42, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: >downtimed - monitor of downtime, shutdown, and crashes this sounds quite interesting. I'll likely have a look at this at some point this weekend unless someone beats me on it or Sven finds time. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemo

Bug#667905: RFS: sptk/3.5-1 [ITP] -- speech signal processing toolkit

2012-04-07 Thread Giulio Paci
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sptk" * Package name: sptk Version : 3.5 Upstream Author : Keiichiro Oura * URL : http://sp-tk.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: (C,

Bug#667904: RFS: mitlm/0.4-1 [ITP] -- MIT Language Modeling toolkit

2012-04-07 Thread Giulio Paci
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mitlm" * Package name: mitlm Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Bo-June (Paul) Hsu * URL : http://code.google.com/p/mitlm/ * License : BSD Programming L

Bug#667903: RFS: rarpd/0.981107-8 [ITA] -- reverse address resolver

2012-04-07 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rarpd" Package name: rarpd Version : 0.981107-8 Upstream Author : Alexey Kutznetsov, Jakub Jelinek URL : (extinct) License : GPL-2 Section

Bug#667902: RFS: downtimed/0.5-2

2012-04-07 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "downtimed" Package name: downtimed Version : 0.5-2 Upstream Author : Janne Snabb URL : http://dist.epipe.com/downtimed/ License : 2-clause BSD,

RFS: cover-thumbnailer/0.8.3-1

2012-04-07 Thread cento
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cover-thumbnailer" * Package name: cover-thumbnailer Version : 0.8.3-1 Upstream Author : Fabien LOISON * URL : http://projects.flogisoft.com/cover-thumbnailer/ *