[fwd: call for participation - Debian contributors survey, 1st ed.]

2016-11-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
message from Stefano Zacchiroli - TL;DR: all Debian contributors --- from bug reporters to Debian project members and participants in any Debian team --- are invited to take part in the first edition of the Debian contributors survey. To participate visit: http://debian.limequery.org/696747

Re: migration "gift" -> "newcomer" [Was: newcomer will be this tag.]

2014-11-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
rrently I jessie, I wouldn't exclude the possibility that the release team can accept it. After all, jessie's how-can-i-help will be with us for quite some time, and it is an important tool for attracting new contributors. Would you mind preparing an unblock request and run it through

migration "gift" -> "newcomer" [Was: newcomer will be this tag.]

2014-11-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
nally, I care particularly about http://deb.li/debscreasy and I'd be fine with making the underlying URL a redirect to the corresponding "newcomer" query. But if that's not possible, I'll switch to a new short URL. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@ups

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
's easy for me, but I won't do it because..."). My take: just include the part about being a good entry point (hence the name) for new contributors and scrap the rest. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . .

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
could be misunderstood as a patronizing characterization, if you think that's a gift from Debian Project to the newbie contributor. Whereas in fact it was meant to be the other way around. So, in picking an actual tag name, we should probably change it to something like "eas

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. Let me know, Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg0.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/01/msg00508.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack ..

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
#x27;ll come back given that I've sought in the past very similar legal advice for Debian's "PPA" [2] [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg0.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de con

call for volunteers: Debian liaisons for Google Code-In

2011-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
eedback from past admins, it'd be wise to have at least 3 volunteers before deciding to apply. Many thanks in advance!, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Proje

Re: packages.qa website shows old version @mentors.d.n

2008-08-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:34:25PM -0300, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I forgot to mention: please Cc-me in further posts to this thread, as I'm not currently subscribed to -mentors. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL P

Re: packages.qa website shows old version @mentors.d.n

2008-08-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
not easy to perform version comparisons there (XSLT stylesheets ...). Before implementing full-fledged version comparison in XSLT, I was hoping the problem gets fixed mentors.d.n side. Cheers. [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/08/PTS_integrated_with_mentors_and_gifts/ -- Stefano Zac

Re: RFS: terminator

2008-01-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d, are still to be addressed. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scem

Re: RFS: terminator

2008-01-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
consider document the key bindings in the man page and, for the split commands, also in the pop-up menu (that's where usually people learn about key bindings)? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org}

Re: RFS: terminator

2008-01-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e work to your package she can simply do debcheckout / work-work-work / debcommit, and be happy with that. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo

Re: RFS: terminator

2008-01-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
can I move from one split area to the other? Only with the mouse pointer??? Can you please consider applying a patch to the package which adds key bindings for the above mentioned actions? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.un

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:44:32AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:35 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:56:18PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Quick summary: IMHO, symbols files are largely irrelevant if not > >

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:56:18PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > Quick summary: IMHO, symbols files are largely irrelevant if not > supported upstream via versioned symbols. Can you please argument this? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what?

Re: alpine_1.0+dfsg-2_source.changes REJECTED

2008-01-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
gated. Feel free to revamp the discussion. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) B

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ving not found any objection in the end. So, I would say that we actually have reached a consensus on that format. We are simply missing wide acceptance, but that would come with time ... and any package adopting the new format would help :) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
if you have any other questions. /me going to update the above blog post mentioning where the code is now. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dem

Re: Prompt to install missing software?

2007-05-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 05:06:38PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I don't think anything like that does exist, but I thank you for Sorry, a better target for this discussion would have been -devel. I've reposted there my reply, please follow-up there if interested in the discus

Re: Prompt to install missing software?

2007-05-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Probably an update-alternatives like mechanism can be used? > What would be the best way of doing that from python, if such a thing > exists? So, no answer for this, but I hope in the future to be able to answer: "just run debian-install-missing X Y Z". Cheers. -- Stefano Zac

Re: RFS: gtk-vim-syntax (new package)

2007-03-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
aid I'm willing to sponsor your package, but please have a look at my comments above and act accordingly where needed. Thanks for your packaging work! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bo

Re: RFS: pict

2007-02-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
inary /usr/lib/pict/src2tex is not stripped. > because > #256900: ocaml: Ocaml compiled programs cannot be stripped, hence either > don't work or violate policy > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256900 > > It is possible to build the package in the pbuilder en

[OT] svn rollback

2007-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
without manually fiddling in the repository at all? If this is *not* the case and you're meaning committing a patch undoing a past change, then the new commit will get a greater revision number. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL P

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. [1] i.e. yesterday or earlier in the time line -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la de

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ion control system (subversion in this case). The same can't be said for the SVN revision number. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/

Re: variables from shell output in makefile

2006-11-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:04:48PM -0300, andremachado wrote: > I found the "$(shell command parms)" . > But it still leaving EXT_DIR empty. > Please, what am I doing wrong? try adding export SHELL=/bin/bash early in your makefile. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- C

Re: Who sponsored the NMU of clustalw?

2006-11-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ts uploaded! :-) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema? /\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema\/right keys at the

Re: Managing Apt through Python - was Re: Managing Apt through Perl

2006-09-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
for Python? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search apt python ... python-apt - Python interface to libapt-pkg ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's an

Re: How to write a good manpage ?

2006-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
the manpage. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly b

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
file in the resulting .deb. I don't think there is a general consensus, but maybe we can propose a best-practice ... What about debian/README.maintenance ? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www

Re: RFS: vim-latexsuite

2006-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ad outside pkg-vim it wont be such a big deal. Thanks again for your work! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional

Re: RFS: vim-latexsuite

2006-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
centralized place for coordinating vim related work and since that place was used in the past for maintaining vim-latexsuite, it would be good for Franz to commit its work there. I also suggest him to ask for review and sponsorship of his work _also_ to pkg-vim people. What's wrong with that? C

Re: RFS: vim-latexsuite

2006-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
r sponsor) should get in touch with someone else of the pkg-vim-maintainers alioth project. Even only because the latest debian available version of vim-latexsuite is on the svn repository of that project. What about starting asking to be added to the alioth project? Thanks for your work! Cheers.

Re: non-standard configure && cdbs

2006-01-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
anyway. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a

Re: non-standard configure && cdbs

2006-01-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:10:38AM +0100, Michael Koch wrote: > Just put this into your debian/rules and remove the above: > > DEB_CONFIGURE_USER_FLAGS := bla bla bal This variable apparently is used only in autotools.mk, and I'm not using that class. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Co

non-standard configure && cdbs

2006-01-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
proper way to do it with cdbs? I tried something like: configure/foo:: ./configure bla bla bla but this leads to ./configure being executed twice, one time before the actual building, another before the installation. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD stu

Re: Creating a randomized cron entry

2005-12-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
:00 AM) which does something like SHELL=/bin/bash 0 6 * * * root sleep $(( $RANDOM % max_gap )) ; your_command Where max_gap is the number of seconds corresponding to the latest time you want your script to be run - 6:00 AM. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny B

Re: Creating a randomized cron entry

2005-12-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ements that the program should be run once per day, no more, no less ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimens

Re: Creating a randomized cron entry

2005-12-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
bability of 1 / (number of minutes in a day) probability of success? Of course you should have persistency of the seed used by that function and you may choose a coarser granularity than 1 minute. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.o

upgrades skipping stable releases

2005-10-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:48:26PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > You can remove the transition package now; upgrades skipping a stable > release are not supported. Interesting, is this policy or just common practice in past releases? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student

Re: sbuild vs relative paths

2005-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:06:45AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > ocamlopt is a '/usr/bin/ocamlrun script text executable' and most > likely that error means the interpreter '/usr/bin/ocamlrun' could not > be found. Gotcha! I was mislead by the error m

Re: sbuild vs relative paths

2005-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:02:17AM +0200, Samuel Mimram wrote: > Julien Cristau helped to find the answer: > > % head -n 1 ocamlopt > #!/usr/bin/ocamlrun > > So the command not found is ocamlrun and not ocamlopt! What a nice bug :-) Thanks for the info. -- Stefano Zacch

sbuild vs relative paths

2005-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
bdir from which "../ocamlopt" is invoked unsuccessfully. Am I missing something important about sbuild and its setup on the various autobuilders? Cheers. [1] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=ocaml&ver=3.08.3-4&arch=powerpc&stamp=1122732142&file=log&as=raw

Re: making backport debs with dpkg-buildpackage

2005-07-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
gt; compiler and which libstdc++ libraries dpkg-buildpackage to use? I suggest to use pbuilder with a sarge chroot in which you use both apt repositories of the official sarge distribution _and_ an apt repository of yours with packages already backported. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Comp

uploading packages built on an amd64 box inside ia32 chroot

2005-07-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
es built inside that chroot? The only strange thing I notice on binaries built there is that ldd reports a dynamic dependency on "linux-gate.so.1" which is not there for binaries build elsewhere. Thanks in advance to all mentors. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science

Re: Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
fix this behaviour in future versions of apt? The expected behaviour for it should be to choose the greater version if several version of a single package provide a virtual package. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,

Re: Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ble bugs in sbuild/apt. But still there's no real problem ATM with our solution, thus please stop asserting statements like "You can't Build-Depend on virtual packages". Thanks. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROT

Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
by ocaml. What's the problem with that? It has worked properly for two years or so. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the

Re: retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t against the wrong library since bug in package A completely inhibit succesfull builds of B. Thanks both to Matthew and Steve, I will go for an upload. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.

retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
all archs? Usually I send mail to the interested port list, but I don't want to spam each debian-arch mailing list. I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate since nothing changed in that package. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD studen

Re: retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t against the wrong library since bug in package A completely inhibit succesfull builds of B. Thanks both to Matthew and Steve, I will go for an upload. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.

retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
all archs? Usually I send mail to the interested port list, but I don't want to spam each debian-arch mailing list. I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate since nothing changed in that package. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD studen

Re: garbage during upload, dput wont work

2004-07-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 01:07:48PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Hints? > In the same vein as Andreas, but as apprentice dput comaintainer with the > inevitable advertisement: Thanks! (to Andreas as well). I've just used dcut, I hope it will work :) Cheers. -- S

garbage during upload, dput wont work

2004-07-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
er of ... probably because it can't overwrite a file on the ftp server. I've solved the problem for the .dsc bumping the debian version of the package but I can't bump the version of the .orig.tar.gz? Hints? TIA -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, It

Re: garbage during upload, dput wont work

2004-07-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 01:07:48PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Hints? > In the same vein as Andreas, but as apprentice dput comaintainer with the > inevitable advertisement: Thanks! (to Andreas as well). I've just used dcut, I hope it will work :) Cheers. -- S

garbage during upload, dput wont work

2004-07-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
er of ... probably because it can't overwrite a file on the ftp server. I've solved the problem for the .dsc bumping the debian version of the package but I can't bump the version of the .orig.tar.gz? Hints? TIA -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, It

Re: renaming source package

2004-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ng with last version 20040120 while new upstream author has actually has a last version 1.3.3. Obviously 1.3.3 is less then 20040120, how can I cope with this issue? TIA, Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- h

Re: renaming source package

2004-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ng with last version 20040120 while new upstream author has actually has a last version 1.3.3. Obviously 1.3.3 is less then 20040120, how can I cope with this issue? TIA, Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- h

renaming source package

2004-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a new one which generates the same binary packages. This seems to be the best approach but I'm a bit scared about the transition phase ... would it be possible to upload the new package before the old one is removed? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny B

renaming source package

2004-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a new one which generates the same binary packages. This seems to be the best approach but I'm a bit scared about the transition phase ... would it be possible to upload the new package before the old one is removed? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny B

Re: How to handle config file that has changed names

2003-09-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
debian developer reference? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you hear

Re: How to handle config file that has changed names

2003-09-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
debian developer reference? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you hear

Re: Questions of legality WRT dvd software

2003-07-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ews was related to a file sharing program, it can be incorrect -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure y

Re: Questions of legality WRT dvd software

2003-07-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ews was related to a file sharing program, it can be incorrect -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure y

Re: Where can I get CVS space for collaborative maintenance?

2003-03-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:36:51PM -0500, Morgon Kanter wrote: > Have you tried sourceforge? ( http://sourceforge.net ) par condicio: have you tried savannah? ( http://savannah.gnu.org ) -- Stefano Zacchiroli - Undergraduate Student of CS @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.

Re: Where can I get CVS space for collaborative maintenance?

2003-03-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:36:51PM -0500, Morgon Kanter wrote: > Have you tried sourceforge? ( http://sourceforge.net ) par condicio: have you tried savannah? ( http://savannah.gnu.org ) -- Stefano Zacchiroli - Undergraduate Student of CS @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.

Re: SML-NJ Package Names

2003-01-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ot;ocaml-base" for the runtime system, "libfoo-ocaml" for the runtime part of a library (needed to run a program that need to dynload some part of the library), "libfoo-ocaml-dev" for the development part of a library. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - Undergraduate St

Re: SML-NJ Package Names

2003-01-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ot;ocaml-base" for the runtime system, "libfoo-ocaml" for the runtime part of a library (needed to run a program that need to dynload some part of the library), "libfoo-ocaml-dev" for the development part of a library. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - Undergraduate St

source name change

2002-12-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
such a changes? Should I ask for the removal of the old one and the upload the new one? or should I better mail directly the ftp maintainers explaining the situation so that they can perform the change in a single run? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - Undergraduate Student of CS @ Uni

source name change

2002-12-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
such a changes? Should I ask for the removal of the old one and the upload the new one? or should I better mail directly the ftp maintainers explaining the situation so that they can perform the change in a single run? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - Undergraduate Student of CS @ Uni

Re: packages which can be arch: all and arch: any ...

2002-10-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ocaml package is already split properly, the question arise for application builts with ocaml compilers. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what

Re: packages which can be arch: all and arch: any ...

2002-10-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ocaml package is already split properly, the question arise for application builts with ocaml compilers. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood

Re: Python scrips and deps

2002-09-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
;t available in versions earlier than 2.2. Now that standard python version in debian is 2.2, you can safely depends on python >= 2.2 and python << 2.3, or even better if the app is fully python on python and nothing more. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ

Re: Python scrips and deps

2002-09-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
;t available in versions earlier than 2.2. Now that standard python version in debian is 2.2, you can safely depends on python >= 2.2 and python << 2.3, or even better if the app is fully python on python and nothing more. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ

Re: building packages on unstable for stable

2002-09-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. Is really usefull to rebuild a bounce of packages from unstable to stable in a single shot. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you

Re: building packages on unstable for stable

2002-09-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
repository. Is really usefull to rebuild a bounce of packages from unstable to stable in a single shot. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you

Re: substvar in Arch:

2002-09-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ed "clean" way to go, or it is only a side-effect of the testing script on which is better not to rely? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you und

Re: substvar in Arch:

2002-09-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ed "clean" way to go, or it is only a side-effect of the testing script on which is better not to rely? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you u

substvar in Arch:

2002-09-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
n the filesystem (maybe shipped along with the ocaml or ocaml-base package). Is this kind of solution feasible? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you b

substvar in Arch:

2002-09-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
nt on the filesystem (maybe shipped along with the ocaml or ocaml-base package). Is this kind of solution feasible? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you b

Re: mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ocaml package as /usr/share/doc/ocaml/ocaml_packaging_policy.gz Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure

Re: mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ocaml package as /usr/share/doc/ocaml/ocaml_packaging_policy.gz Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure

Re: lintian bug? "could not unpack to the desired level"

2002-08-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
at on a non-chrooted sid with perl 5.8. I've such an environment and the bug is "blinking", sometimes I can reproduce it, some others not. I haven't yet understood what magics are related with this blinking nature. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS

Re: lintian bug? "could not unpack to the desired level"

2002-08-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
at on a non-chrooted sid with perl 5.8. I've such an environment and the bug is "blinking", sometimes I can reproduce it, some others not. I haven't yet understood what magics are related with this blinking nature. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS

Re: Use of the BTS for managing sponsorship

2002-08-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
is probably my major fault in this discussion ... I was supposing that start up a new BTS is an easy task, if this is not the case, never mind. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro

Re: lintian bug? "could not unpack to the desired level"

2002-08-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
5.6 to perl 5.8) ... if I find something I will tell you. Thanks anyway, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am

Re: Use of the BTS for managing sponsorship

2002-08-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
is probably my major fault in this discussion ... I was supposing that start up a new BTS is an easy task, if this is not the case, never mind. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro

Re: Use of the BTS for managing sponsorship

2002-08-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
sponsorship. Just put it somewhere like sponsor.debian.org. My 0.02 EUR [1] I know few of the BTS but I suppose sources are in the debian cvs and that the handling is cron based. I volunteer to set up sponsor.debian.org if we reach such a consensus, even if I suppose I don't old enough unix permis

lintian bug? "could not unpack to the desired level"

2002-08-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
rectory N: Skipping check of source package netclient N: Removing /tmp/lintian-lab.30378 ... TIA Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what

Re: lintian bug? "could not unpack to the desired level"

2002-08-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
5.6 to perl 5.8) ... if I find something I will tell you. Thanks anyway, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am

Re: Use of the BTS for managing sponsorship

2002-08-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
sponsorship. Just put it somewhere like sponsor.debian.org. My 0.02 EUR [1] I know few of the BTS but I suppose sources are in the debian cvs and that the handling is cron based. I volunteer to set up sponsor.debian.org if we reach such a consensus, even if I suppose I don't old enough unix permis

lintian bug? "could not unpack to the desired level"

2002-08-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
rectory N: Skipping check of source package netclient N: Removing /tmp/lintian-lab.30378 ... TIA Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what

Re: where to place a .xsl file ?

2002-05-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
gly to the /usr/share/sgml directory. Anyway, I suggests to move this discussion to the newly created debian-sgml mailing list. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you b

Re: where to place a .xsl file ?

2002-05-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:41:06AM +0200, Eric Gentilini wrote: > Le Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > Probably you meant /usr/share/xml/xml-resume-library/xsl. We have no > hum ok. > > and what about creating this directory /usr/share/x

Re: where to place a .xsl file ?

2002-05-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
share/xml/xml-resume-library/xsl. We have no policy actually covering this paths (FHS doesn't mention it yet), but if you want to be consistent with the /usr/share/sgml path ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863

libshell-ocaml{,-dev}: no problems but not in testing

2002-05-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Hi mentors, I'm wondering why packages libshell-ocaml and libshell-ocaml-dev (two binaries packages from the same source package) are not in testing despite that they were successfully built on all architectures and that there is no excuse for them. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacch

binary addition in the debian .diff.gz

2002-03-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
version. Does exists a way to tell dpkg-buildpackage to include also binary diff in the .diff.gz? This seems to me almost impossible, but ... you are the mentors :) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://

binary addition in the debian .diff.gz

2002-03-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
version. Does exists a way to tell dpkg-buildpackage to include also binary diff in the .diff.gz? This seems to me almost impossible, but ... you are the mentors :) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://

Re: [installer@ftp-master.debian.org: configwin_0.9-2_i386.changes REJECTED]

2002-01-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 08:43:40AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > I suggest using a date-based versioning scheme for the .orig.tar.gz, > such as configwin_0.9-20020128.orig.tar.gz. May I change only the .orig.tar.gz leaving untouched the debian/changelog? Tnx for the answers. Cheers. -- Stefano "

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