Re: RFS: opencpn

2010-02-16 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Paul Wise wrote: > The OpenCPN code contains this template: > > * Copyright (C) $YEAR$ by $AUTHOR$ * > * $EMAIL$ * > > Upstream really needs to replace these by real information. Some files > have the right info but still have the template. BTW, the template is > wrong since (C) is not

Re: RFS: ooo-thumbnailer

2010-02-16 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
David D Lowe wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2-3 of my package > "ooo-thumbnailer". > > It builds these binary packages: > ooo-thumbnailer - thumbnailer for OpenOffice.org documents > > I'm the upstream author. The work is licensed under the GPL v2 or > higher. My motiva

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Paul Wise wrote: > That isn't the problem, the problem is that Matthew's document is GPL > and he has designated the HTML document as the source code, which is > obviously not being distributed on the wiki. So if I download a GPL program written in Python and translate it to C, then distribute bo

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Leo "costela" Antunes > wrote: > >> Putting my money where my mouth is: done. >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq > > I just realised that what you have just done violates the license of > Matthew's document. Please read the copyright /

Re: E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.

2010-02-13 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > libjpeg8-dev: Conflicts: libjpeg62-dev but 6b-16 is to be installed. I get the same problem trying to build the latest version of Qt (4.6.1 upstream + packaging files from pkg-kde's git repository). Qt build-deps include libgtk2.0-dev and libjpeg-dev. According to "

Re: Changing section from math to science?

2010-01-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:32:50PM -0300, Nicolas Alvarez a écrit : >> Thibaut Paumard wrote: >> > All of this is currently in the "math" section and has been there for >> > about 10 years. I wonder whether all of this should move t

Re: Changing section from math to science?

2010-01-19 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Thibaut Paumard wrote: > All of this is currently in the "math" section and has been there for > about 10 years. I wonder whether all of this should move to the > "science" or "interpreters" section. It is better if all these > packages stay together, whatever the section. > > I also wonder how to

Re: RFS: bro

2010-01-16 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Justin Azoff wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:40:56AM +1300, Paul Wise wrote: >> Comments on the source package: >> >> I'd strongly suggest using a rules.tiny style rules file and the >> override_dh_* rules instead if you are going to use dh. > > I had tried that, but it wasn't working. I rea

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2010-01-14 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Russ Allbery wrote: > (\[xx] is a groff extension to the language.) Is \(lq portable? It does the same thing. -- Nicolas (I read mailing lists through Gmane. Please don't Cc me on replies; it makes me get one message on my newsreader and another on email.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2010-01-09 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Nicolas Alvarez wrote: > Regardless, I'm sure I have seen some manpages that do show Unicode quotes > in the man reader. Of course, I can't find any example now :( Got it; those manpages use \[lq] and \[rq]. They are correctly converted to either “” or "" depending o

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2010-01-09 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Russ Allbery wrote: > Nicolas Alvarez writes: >> What about double quotes? > >> quilt's manpage renders like this in the man viewer: ``pushed on the >> stack'' > >> I looked at the source and the .1 file has exactly those characters too. >>

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2010-01-09 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Nicolas Alvarez , 2009-11-17, 13:45: >>>>In the manpage I wrote, I wanted to use English guillemets (‘’). This >>>>lead to errors and I gave up, replacing them by `'. Guess what? Groff >>>>understood what I wanted and put nice Unic

Re: [backup2l] strange piuparts error

2010-01-03 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > on my updated package backup2l comes a piuparts error. But I > cannot understand the logging of this error! > > Please look here: > http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/fail/backup2l_1.5-2.log > > Can anyone understand the problem with this package? > Where is the file sid.tar.

Re: RFS: numptyphysics

2010-01-02 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Paul Wise wrote: > The INCLUDES = -I/usr/include change shouldn't be nessecary because > /usr/include is in the default search path unless your compiler is > utterly broken. Having that "-I" may even cause problems for cross-compilers. -- Nicolas (I read mailing lists through Gmane. Please don'

Re: RFS: backup2l (updated package - new upstream release) (2nd try)

2009-12-29 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Charles Plessy wrote: >> Here are a couple of minor comments on the package, that can be adressed >> in a later upload. > >> - How about maintaining the source package in a VCS? > I thought this is the work of upstream, isn't it? No, Charles is suggesting putting your p

Re: How to handle source code dependencies?

2009-12-28 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Matthias Klumpp wrote: > It is not my project, but another one I'd like to package. > GLScene is a collection of Pascal components to make OpenGL usable in > those applications *very* easily. > It contains a lot of classes and helper scripts the program needs to > compile. Those scripts are integra

Re: Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-21 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Please take it to the debian-user list, and don't post the question repeatedly. sathya sai wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone please help me out on this. > > Thanks and regards, > Sathya > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM, sathya sai > wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> Thanks for your mail. >> >> I had a

Re: RFS: ooo-thumbnailer

2009-12-15 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
David D Lowe wrote: > The latest update fixes several bugs and supports .odp, .odg and .ods > files as well as .odt documents. I've followed the advice given to me > by Jakub Wilk (uba...@users.sf.net) and replaced python-central with > python-support. The package appears to be lintian clean. > >

Re: Debian changelog vs upstream changelog

2009-11-26 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Ben Finney wrote: > This is what I do. Rationale: The Debian changelog, unlike the upstream > changelog, is available for all Debian packages using standard tools > *before* installing the package, which as a user is the time I most want > to see what has changed in a new release of a package. > >

Re: How to properly register a program in KDE/GNOME

2009-11-24 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Daniel Leidert wrote: >> $ xdg-mime query filetype bla.mm >> text/plain >> $ xdg-mime query filetype New\ Mindmap.mm >> text/html >> (the 2nd file has some HTML embedded) > > Ok, that's the problem. If it was XML it must have had the XML > declaration: . But freemind files do not start with > it.

Re: How to properly register a program in KDE/GNOME

2009-11-22 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Eric Lavarde wrote: > MimeType=application/x-freemind; > Categories=Office; Are those semicolons supposed to be there? -- Nicolas I read mailing lists through Gmane. Please don't Cc me on replies; it makes me get one message on my newsreader and another on email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > On my machine, standard bunzip2 consumes about 3.6 MB compressed input per > second. I subscribed to a mid-level residential internet package. I've > just downloaded a kernel tarball from kernel.org (199.6.1.164, Redwood > City, CA -> Budapest, Hungary), wget has been showi

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > A trivial reason to use bzip2 is to decompress a file downloaded from the > internet. If you have a multi-core CPU and the file was compressed with > standard bzip2, you might want to use lbzip2. Perhaps even automatically. If you download and decompress with bzip2, it takes

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-19 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > I'd like to ask users for their opinions about lbzip2 as a bzip2 > alternative in Debian, by requesting them to choose exactly one of the > following options, after reading my DebADay article [0]: > > > 1. I'd like to use lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative. > > 2. I'd like to us

Re: Packaging

2009-11-17 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > TLDNR: RTFM N00B! So much for "'softer, gentler' Debian development mailing list" huh? ;) (I know you weren't seriously being rude, I'm joking along) -- Nicolas I read mailing lists through Gmane. Please don't Cc me on replies; it makes me get one message on m

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Charles Plessy , 2009-11-17, 22:53: >>In the manpage I wrote, I wanted to use English guillemets (‘’). This >>lead to errors and I gave up, replacing them by `'. Guess what? Groff >>understood what I wanted and put nice Unicode guillemets in the ouptut! >>I am quite amazed, ev

Re: Configuration file with sensitive data (password)

2009-11-16 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: >> But where to put the password? >> >> Due to the protocol used during authentication, the daemon needs the >> pass- word in plaintext form, it can't be a hash (remote client sends "I >>

Configuration file with sensitive data (password)

2009-11-15 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
I'm an upstream working on changes to how configuration is handled in our program. There is a daemon that is run at startup* with an init.d script, on its own user account*. It supports remote control over TCP (disabled by default), with password authentication. (* where I say "is", I mean "wi