packaged blassic and looking for a sponsor

2003-01-27 Thread Antoine Mathys
Hello, I' d like to become a Debian maintainer. Meanwhile, I have packaged Blassic : http://www.arrakis.es/~ninsesabe/blassic/ a classic BASIC interpreter, and am looking for a sponsor. You can get the .deb here : http://www.chez.com/mathys/deb.html Thanks Antoine Mathys -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Printer Problems

2003-01-27 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi try using the 'printtool' package (unfortunately the printer autoconfiguration is broken in Woody - my fault- so you may wish to get the packages that are in unstable or in http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/GNULpr ) On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 11:51:39AM -0600, Clare Jarvis wrote: > Does anybody use th

OpenEXR beta packages.

2003-01-27 Thread Jesus Climent
I have managed, despite of my lack of time and my girlfriend ;) to finish a beta version (?) of the OpenEXR packages. Feel free to break them: http://genarin.hispalinux.es/~data/ They are lintian clean, but linda reports an odd error. I had a bit of troubles tracking down to bugs already repor

ltsp

2003-01-27 Thread John Tatum
Hi, John Tatum here, better known online as slidesinger. I am still learning linux and in no way do I consider myself an expert, but I am teachable, can read documentation, and have a great deal of non-linux computer knowledge. My programming experience is limited to System 360 mainframes wri

Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel Bonniot
Hi, I have made a package for this distributed computation daemon, that helps research on protein folding. I would be glad to get comments to make it better. Would somebody be ready to sponsor me for applying as a debian developer? The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Chad Miller wrote: > Sure, all of these may not seem as "sexy" as uploading > a package you create, but it sure helps Debian more. Well, I really do not care about sexyness of my work. I have just participated in the development of the program (actually, it is just a script for vim), which seems t

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:10PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big) > binaries for three architectures (i386, powerpc and hppa). The software is binary-only ? In that case, it can never become a Debian package itself, at most an in

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:10PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > I have made a package for this distributed computation daemon, that > helps research on protein folding. Well, that sounds interesting. > The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big) > binaries for three ar

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Chad Miller
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:10PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big) > binaries for three architectures (i386, powerpc and hppa). But, the tarball comes with source, too, right? [Sorry -- too lazy and on too low-bandwidth to look.]

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:10PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big) > binaries for three architectures (i386, powerpc and hppa). You should ask upstream kindly not to do this, and instead ship the binaries in separate tarballs. Th

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:37, Matej Cepl wrote: > What's so wrong with maintaing just one package? It's like salted peanuts. Once you have one you can't stop. ;) -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive be

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel Bonniot
The software is binary-only ? In that case, it can never become a Debian package itself, at most an installer. As far as I know there is no source download at the moment. The license is: http://www.distributedfolding.org/license.html Redistribution is explicitely authorized if not-for-profit

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel Bonniot
I don't think this license satisifies the DFSG, but you're better off asking debian-legal. I don't think it does either. That's why I think the package would be non-free. Eh, no, that isn't quite how it works. Better check the Debian Policy Manual: "Packages must be placed in /non-free/ or

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > >The software is binary-only ? In that case, it can never become a Debian > >package itself, at most an installer. > As far as I know there is no source download at the moment. The license > is: http://www.distributedfolding.org/l

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Chad Miller
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:37:59PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > Well, I really do not care about sexyness of my work. I have just > participated in the development of the program (actually, it is > just a script for vim), which seems to be very interesting for > me (so I hoped it may be interesting f

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > As far as I know there is no source download at the moment. The license > is: http://www.distributedfolding.org/license.html > Redistribution is explicitely authorized if not-for-profit in the > license, which makes it not free. C

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:37:29PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:37, Matej Cepl wrote: > > What's so wrong with maintaing just one package? > > It's like salted peanuts. Once you have one you can't stop. ;) I second that emoti

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > Thomas Wouters wrote: > >The software is binary-only ? In that case, it can never become a Debian > >package itself, at most an installer. > > As far as I know there is no source download at the moment. The license > is: http://www

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:37, Matej Cepl wrote: > > What's so wrong with maintaing just one package? > > It's like salted peanuts. Once you have one you can't stop. ;) No, it is just other way around -- as if you couldn't get just one peanut, but you would have to read at le

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:48:19PM -0500, Chad Miller wrote: > Let me give a personal example: I wrote a program that uses the XMLRPC > features of Advogato to edit one's diary there. People loved it. There > are about two dozen people who regularly use it. I made it into a > package, and put i

packaged blassic and looking for a sponsor

2003-01-27 Thread Antoine Mathys
Hello, I' d like to become a Debian maintainer. Meanwhile, I have packaged Blassic : http://www.arrakis.es/~ninsesabe/blassic/ a classic BASIC interpreter, and am looking for a sponsor. You can get the .deb here : http://www.chez.com/mathys/deb.html Thanks Antoine Mathys

Re: Printer Problems

2003-01-27 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi try using the 'printtool' package (unfortunately the printer autoconfiguration is broken in Woody - my fault- so you may wish to get the packages that are in unstable or in http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/GNULpr ) On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 11:51:39AM -0600, Clare Jarvis wrote: > Does anybody use th

OpenEXR beta packages.

2003-01-27 Thread Jesus Climent
I have managed, despite of my lack of time and my girlfriend ;) to finish a beta version (?) of the OpenEXR packages. Feel free to break them: http://genarin.hispalinux.es/~data/ They are lintian clean, but linda reports an odd error. I had a bit of troubles tracking down to bugs already repor

ltsp

2003-01-27 Thread John Tatum
Hi, John Tatum here, better known online as slidesinger. I am still learning linux and in no way do I consider myself an expert, but I am teachable, can read documentation, and have a great deal of non-linux computer knowledge. My programming experience is limited to System 360 mainframes w

Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel Bonniot
Hi, I have made a package for this distributed computation daemon, that helps research on protein folding. I would be glad to get comments to make it better. Would somebody be ready to sponsor me for applying as a debian developer? The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains th

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Chad Miller wrote: > Sure, all of these may not seem as "sexy" as uploading > a package you create, but it sure helps Debian more. Well, I really do not care about sexyness of my work. I have just participated in the development of the program (actually, it is just a script for vim), which seems t

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:10PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big) > binaries for three architectures (i386, powerpc and hppa). The software is binary-only ? In that case, it can never become a Debian package itself, at most an in

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Chad Miller
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:10PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big) > binaries for three architectures (i386, powerpc and hppa). But, the tarball comes with source, too, right? [Sorry -- too lazy and on too low-bandwidth to look.]

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:10PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > I have made a package for this distributed computation daemon, that > helps research on protein folding. Well, that sounds interesting. > The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big) > binaries for three ar

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:10PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big) > binaries for three architectures (i386, powerpc and hppa). You should ask upstream kindly not to do this, and instead ship the binaries in separate tarballs. Th

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > >The software is binary-only ? In that case, it can never become a Debian > >package itself, at most an installer. > As far as I know there is no source download at the moment. The license > is: http://www.distributedfolding.org/l

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel Bonniot
The software is binary-only ? In that case, it can never become a Debian package itself, at most an installer. As far as I know there is no source download at the moment. The license is: http://www.distributedfolding.org/license.html Redistribution is explicitely authorized if not-for-profit

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel Bonniot
I don't think this license satisifies the DFSG, but you're better off asking debian-legal. I don't think it does either. That's why I think the package would be non-free. Eh, no, that isn't quite how it works. Better check the Debian Policy Manual: "Packages must be placed in /non-free/ or

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:37, Matej Cepl wrote: > What's so wrong with maintaing just one package? It's like salted peanuts. Once you have one you can't stop. ;) -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive be

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Chad Miller
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:37:59PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > Well, I really do not care about sexyness of my work. I have just > participated in the development of the program (actually, it is > just a script for vim), which seems to be very interesting for > me (so I hoped it may be interesting f

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:37:29PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:37, Matej Cepl wrote: > > What's so wrong with maintaing just one package? > > It's like salted peanuts. Once you have one you can't stop. ;) I second that emoti

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > As far as I know there is no source download at the moment. The license > is: http://www.distributedfolding.org/license.html > Redistribution is explicitely authorized if not-for-profit in the > license, which makes it not free. C

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > Thomas Wouters wrote: > >The software is binary-only ? In that case, it can never become a Debian > >package itself, at most an installer. > > As far as I know there is no source download at the moment. The license > is: http://www

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer

2003-01-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:37, Matej Cepl wrote: > > What's so wrong with maintaing just one package? > > It's like salted peanuts. Once you have one you can't stop. ;) No, it is just other way around -- as if you couldn't get just one peanut, but you would have to read at le