Re: RFS(2): autoreply - A safe, rate-limited auto-responder

2005-02-01 Thread Florent Rougon
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The author(s) can spend free time in any way the author(s) wish to. I'm glad to learn that. > Likewise, Blars and myself are free to tell authors that what they > have written appears to be a waste of their time when Free alternative > "foo" exists. Jus

Re: RFS(2): autoreply - A safe, rate-limited auto-responder

2005-02-01 Thread Florent Rougon
Foreword: you're lucky I happened to relate your mail to mine. Please do the necessary so that your future messages actually appear as replies to the messages you are replying to (hint: the "References" field does the job). "Richard A. Hecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You used a judgement to

singular they (was: RFS(2): autoreply - A safe, rate-limited auto-responder)

2005-02-01 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, Just in case anybody is also reading -project... Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do think that it should be objectivly compared with vacation before > Debian decides to add it to to their archives. ^ Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f

Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] RFS: alsa-tools

2005-02-01 Thread Frank Küster
Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >Do we have to split the alsa-tools source into two packages, one free >> >and one non-free/contrib? It will make it a bit harder. >> No. > > Unfortunately, that is not the ca

RFS: dvbsnoop

2005-02-01 Thread William J Beksi
Hello mentors, I packaged an MPEG/DVB analyzer program called dvbsnoop and I am looking for a sponsor. dvbsnoop is licensed under the GPL and is available here: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dvbsnoop/ A description of dvbsnoop: dvbsnoop is a DVB sniffer program to monitor, analyze,

Re: singular they (was: RFS(2): autoreply - A safe, rate-limited auto-responder)

2005-02-01 Thread Cameron Patrick
Frank Küster wrote: > Just in case anybody is also reading -project... > > > Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I do think that it should be objectivly compared with vacation before > > Debian decides to add it to to their archives. > ^ In some

[OT] Re: singular they (was: RFS(2): autoreply - A safe, rate-limited auto-responder)

2005-02-01 Thread Philipp Meier
Am Dienstag, den 01.02.2005, 18:05 +0800 schrieb Cameron Patrick: > Frank Küster wrote: > > > Just in case anybody is also reading -project... > > > > > > Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I do think that it should be objectivly compared with vacation before > > > Debian decide

Re: singular they

2005-02-01 Thread Frank Küster
Cameron Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Frank Küster wrote: > >> Just in case anybody is also reading -project... >> >> >> Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I do think that it should be objectivly compared with vacation before >> > Debian decides to add it to to their arch

Re: maserver: Dynamic libraries inside a program package

2005-02-01 Thread Miriam Ruiz
> But if the plugins are only loaded by maserver, you > don't need to link the > plugins against libmaserver *at all*, statically or > dynamically. This was > the point from my earlier message. > > If you statically link libmaserver into maserver, > you get a minimal > *reduction* in the total in

Re: maserver: Dynamic libraries inside a program package

2005-02-01 Thread Miriam Ruiz
> Try lintian -i: you'll see this type of thing: > > A shared object was identified in a library > directory > (i.e. a directory in the standard linker path) > which > doesn't have a SONAME. This is usually an error. Thanks, yes it seems that the lintian error means what you're saying. ht

Re: RFS: python-elementtree and python-celementtree

2005-02-01 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Moin Torsten, I can sponsor you. Here are the things that I think should be corrected before uploading: - - Both packages use dh_python so they must build-depend on "python". - - python-elementtree and python-celementtree are only dummy packages w

anagramarama

2005-02-01 Thread Ryan Stutsman
Please, if you have time, take a look at this package. It's all available at http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rstutsma/debian/ I've done everything I know to prepare it for inclusion. There is some possibility that the package will become smaller in future iterations pending the upstream change

Re: RFS: python-elementtree and python-celementtree

2005-02-01 Thread Torsten Marek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bastian Kleineidam schrieb: | Moin Torsten, | | I can sponsor you. Here are the things that I think should be corrected | before uploading: | | - Both packages use dh_python so they must build-depend on "python". | | - python-elementtree and python-cele

Re: maserver: Dynamic libraries inside a program package

2005-02-01 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I can not put that .so inside the package, the > other solution might be getting 3 packages from > maserver: libmaserver, libmaserver-dev and maserver > itself. libmaserver would have the shared library and > libmaserver-dev the header files to make new

Re: RFS(2): autoreply - A safe, rate-limited auto-responder

2005-02-01 Thread Dan MacNeil
Disclaimer: I am Chris's day job boss, the person who originally suggested Chris package auto-reply. Back in August, I choose to download the tarball for auto-reply instead of using vacation, despite the fact that I had used vacation for some years. As far as I can tell, vacation requires a ho

encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, I have a question about the encoding of the files in the Debian subdirectory. AFAIK it's recommended to use ASCII only in debian/control (AFAIK the policy does not contain a note about this problem). But what to do with debian/copyright and special characters in names? Is there any recommen

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:27:53PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > I have a question about the encoding of the files in the Debian > subdirectory. AFAIK it's recommended to use ASCII only in debian/control > (AFAIK the policy does not contain a note about this problem). But what > to do with debian/

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 1 Février 2005 19:27, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a écrit : > Use UTF-8, use only the latin alphabet why then use utf8 ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgp7PzY5ai8qN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:29:22PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Mar 1 F?vrier 2005 19:27, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a ?crit : > > Use UTF-8, use only the latin alphabet > > why then use utf8 ? There are hunderds, maybe even up to a thousand latin characters. ASCII is only a very small subset o

RFS: libtranslate - library for translating texts and webpages

2005-02-01 Thread Dan Korostelev
* Package name: libtranslate Version : 0.99 Upstream Author : Jean-Yves Lefort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/libtranslate/ * License : DFSG-compilant Description : library for translating texts and webpages libtranslate is a library fo

RFS: gnome-translate - natural language translator for GNOME

2005-02-01 Thread Dan Korostelev
* Package name: gnome-translate Version : 0.99 Upstream Author : Jean-Yves Lefort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/libtranslate/gnome-translate/ * License : GPL Description : natural language translator for GNOME GNOME Translator is a natu

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Wouter van Heyst
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:32:04PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:29:22PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Le Mar 1 F?vrier 2005 19:27, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a ?crit : > > > Use UTF-8, use only the latin alphabet > > > > why then use utf8 ? > > There are hunderd

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 1 Février 2005 19:32, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a écrit : > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:29:22PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Le Mar 1 F?vrier 2005 19:27, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a ?crit : > > > Use UTF-8, use only the latin alphabet > > > > why then use utf8 ? > > There are hunderds, maybe eve

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:38:40PM +0100, Wouter van Heyst wrote: > I wonder when one stops thinking of a character as in the latin script > then. Obviously Bopomofo is out, and closer to home, so would Cyrillic, > but the Latin page in unicode has some pretty weird ones, like: > > ?? or ??

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Wouter van Heyst
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:01:13PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Respectively from Latin Extended-B and Latin Extended-A. As I said, > there is no official policy on it, to the letter of the policy any > non-ASCII is currently forbidden. The only clear statement I see is on debian/changelo

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Frank Küster
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:27:53PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: >> I have a question about the encoding of the files in the Debian >> subdirectory. AFAIK it's recommended to use ASCII only in debian/control >> (AFAIK the policy does not contain

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050201 21:55]: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:27:53PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > >> I have a question about the encoding of the files in the Debian > >> subdirectory. AFAIK it's recommended to use ASCII

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Wouter van Heyst wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:01:13PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: As I said, there is no official policy on it, to the letter of the policy any non-ASCII is currently forbidden. The only clear statement I see is on debian/changelog. A clear restriction to ASCII is bet

Re: encoding of debian files debian/*

2005-02-01 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:18:18PM +0100, Wouter van Heyst wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:01:13PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Respectively from Latin Extended-B and Latin Extended-A. As I said, > > there is no official policy on it, to the letter of the policy any > > non-ASCII is