Re: sponsors.debian.net beta

2005-08-18 Thread Bastian Venthur
Eddy Petrisor wrote: >> --- >> > Transitional//EN"> >> --- >> > > Of course, > > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsponsors.debian.net%2F > This site is still not viewable with firefox. The funny thing is: when i wget the site and surf it locally with ff everything looks well, bu

Re: sponsors.debian.net beta

2005-08-18 Thread Mathias Krause
Bastian Venthur wrote: > This site is still not viewable with firefox. The funny thing is: when i > wget the site and surf it locally with ff everything looks well, but > surfing online to sponsors.debian.net -- I just get a white page with the > above code. No problems here with FF on sarge versi

Re: sponsors.debian.net beta

2005-08-18 Thread Eddy Petrisor
On 8/18/05, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > >> --- > >> >> Transitional//EN"> > >> --- > >> > > > > Of course, > > > > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsponsors.debian.net%2F > > > > This site is still not viewable with firefox. The funny thing

Re: RFS: auctiongallery -- Generates picture galleries and HTML templates for auction descriptions

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:40:34PM -0700, Stan Vasilyev wrote: > I searched lots of scripting FAQs but didn't find a way to find the > location of home dir. The problem is that when the postinst script runs, > it runs as root and $HOME variable contains /root not /home. Should I > just abandon that

Re: sponsors.debian.net beta

2005-08-18 Thread Michael Spang
Eddy Petrisor wrote: >On 8/18/05, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >There's no such thing as not viewable in FF remotely and viewable in >FF locally. Either FF supports it or it does not. >There is a set of standard. The page is not visible because is not >standard compliant. > >

Re: sponsors.debian.net beta

2005-08-18 Thread Eddy Petrisor
On 8/18/05, Michael Spang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > >At least for wget. Firefox should not care about the location of the page. > > > >I don't want to shoot anybody and the site is great, but these kind of > >problems can be avoided/fixed by means of using standards. >

Re: [RFS-again] qterm: BBS client for X Window System written in Qt

2005-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:07:32PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: > Version: 0.4.0pre2.ds.3-2 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Changed-By: LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Description: > qterm - BBS client for X Window System written in Qt > Cha

RFS: jaxml -- XML document generation for Python

2005-08-18 Thread Dmitri Alenitchev
Hello, I'm searching for a sponsor for orphaned package jaxml. * Package name: jaxml Version : 3.01-2 Upstream Author : Jerome Alet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/jaxml/ * License : GPL Description : Python module for ge

Re: RFS: wdm - WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look

2005-08-18 Thread Frank Küster
Vladimir Shakhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Description: WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker > look [...] > I suppose to revive this package from poor current state. Great to hear that. Sorry that I don't have time to sponsor you, but I've got enough time to tell eve

Re: RFS: wdm - uploaded

2005-08-18 Thread Vladimir Shakhov
Frank Küster wrote: > Vladimir Shakhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Description: WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker >>look > > [...] > >>I suppose to revive this package from poor current state. > > > Great to hear that. Sorry that I don't have time to sponsor

Re: RFS: jaxml -- XML document generation for Python

2005-08-18 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Dmitri Alenitchev wrote: > Jaxml is a python module that defines a class XML_document, which allows > easy and trouble-free generation of XML documents. If it's a python module, naming it "jaxp" violates the python policy. Go read it ;) Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hi, I need some help about the use of debconf notes. One of my (web) packages need to setup a password for the administrator account. If the debconf priority is too high (or the system administrator chose the noninteractive frontend) I have to automatically generate a password because I can't co

Re: RFS: jaxml -- XML document generation for Python

2005-08-18 Thread Dmitri Alenitchev
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:53:22PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote > > Jaxml is a python module that defines a class XML_document, which allows > > easy and trouble-free generation of XML documents. > > If it's a python module, naming it "jaxp" violates the python policy. Go > read it ;) The package

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2005-08-18 Thread Gurpreet Singh Grewal
Hi , I am a marine engineer.I came in contact with linux about 2 years ago and have never looked back . All my computers run linux .But I was seriouly angry at the crippled distributions like Red hat and Suse. I have installed debain on my vaio and have problems getting my monitor resoloutiion to

Re: your mail

2005-08-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Gurpreet Singh Grewal in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would like to help by whatever programming help I can give and > wwould be glad if someone > mentored me for a while and helped me become a hacker . Have a look at http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ for ways of getting started. Christoph -- [EM

RFS: Mozart packages

2005-08-18 Thread Kevin Glynn
Dear all, I want to upload new Mozart packages to fix a ftbfs with recent versions of gcc and to build against the new apis. My usual sponsor isn't responding for the moment. Can anyone help me out? http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mozart.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mozart-gtk.h

dh_clean -k -i

2005-08-18 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, I am currently in the process of packaging Bouncy Castle, my first multiple binary package. I ran dh_make to create an initial debianization of the package, and now have encountered the following problem when building my package: dh_clean -k -i dh_clean: I have no package to build Al

Re: dh_clean -k -i

2005-08-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.18.1901 +0200]: > All of the binary packages that should be created are architecture > independent (debian/control says "Architecture: any" for them, which I "all" is independent. "any" is arch-dependent. -- Please do not send copies of list m

Re: dh_clean -k -i

2005-08-18 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > All of the binary packages that should be created are architecture > independent (debian/control says "Architecture: any" for them, which I > assume is the same thing). No, Architecture: any means that the package is architecture-dependent. You shoul

Re: RFS: auctiongallery -- Generates picture galleries and HTML templates for auction descriptions

2005-08-18 Thread Sven Mueller
Stan Vasilyev wrote on 18/08/2005 08:40: > I searched lots of scripting FAQs but didn't find a way to find the > location of home dir. Whose homedir? Many systems have more than one user. > The problem is that when the postinst script runs, > it runs as root and $HOME variable contains /root not

Re: dh_clean -k -i

2005-08-18 Thread Charles Fry
> No, Architecture: any means that the package is architecture-dependent. > You should use Architecture: all. Well, I changed it to all and now get the following: dh_clean -k -s dh_clean: I have no package to build I am attaching my debian/control and debian/rules, in case they might help

Re: sponsors.debian.net beta

2005-08-18 Thread skaller
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 09:19 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > This site is still not viewable with firefox. I can see it fine. -- John Skaller signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:25:45PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > Hi, > I need some help about the use of debconf notes. One of my (web) > packages need to setup a password for the administrator account. > If the debconf priority is too high (or the system administrator chose > the nonintera

Re: predepends/depends order

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:31:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Impossible. What you need is for the packages you want to preconfigure > to Depend on isi-ldap-pre. Which means rebuilding all of them. OH. I see. > Sandro Dentella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > hi, > > > > I'm prepari

Re: dh_clean -k -i

2005-08-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.18.2031 +0200]: >dh_clean -k -s >dh_clean: I have no package to build Either leave it at -i or don't put any of -i/-s/-a. -s/-a make zero sense now that you (correctly) changed the Architecture field to "all". -- Please do not send co

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Il giorno gio, 18/08/2005 alle 11.59 -0400, Justin Pryzby ha scritto: > I would prefer to have a functionality left disabled, or have the > autogenerated password not displayed to me, than to have it displayed > on the screen without any warning. The problem is that installing that package without

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.18.2050 +0200]: > The problem is that installing that package without that password is not > possible. All I can do is to break the installation and to exit with an > error code, but I would prefer to don't do this. Is this Zope-related?

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Il giorno gio, 18/08/2005 alle 21.00 +0200, martin f krafft ha scritto: > Is this Zope-related? If so, why are you creating an instance from > debconf? I thought our approach would be to provide the framework > but expect the admin to run mkzopeinstance to configure it. We are talking about pre-pa

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.18.2105 +0200]: > We are talking about pre-packaged zope instances > (dh_installzopeinstance from zope-debhelper package in > experimental), something like "apt-get install plone-site" to have > a ready-to-run instance for plone hacking.

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 08:50:01PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > Il giorno gio, 18/08/2005 alle 11.59 -0400, Justin Pryzby ha scritto: > > I would prefer to have a functionality left disabled, or have the > > autogenerated password not displayed to me, than to have it displayed > > on the scre

Re: sponsors.debian.net beta

2005-08-18 Thread Tyler Trafford
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:31:54PM -0400, skaller wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 09:19 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > >> This site is still not viewable with firefox. > > I can see it fine. The site also works for me in Firefox, and has since it was first announced. -- Tyler Trafford signat

goopy package

2005-08-18 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear mentors, I really feel that the goopy project should be available as a Debian package, even though it is really simple and small. Goopy (http://goog-goopy.sf.net) is a Python module for functional programming released by Google. It has a few pure Python functions, and is quite small. It is re

Re: RFS: auctiongallery -- Generates picture galleries and HTML templates for auction descriptions

2005-08-18 Thread Stan Vasilyev
The current version (0.9.2) does not yet allow users to have their own config. All config is stored in /etc/auctiongallery and all templates go to /usr/share/auctiongallery/templates. All auction pictures and descriptions go to /home/auctiongallery. I can make a new version and add features that a

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:05:32PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > > I am a big fan of not using debconf/postinst for any of this. So am I. Definitely not postinst: that should be without interruption. The install process of Debian asks questions directly after downloading them. After the que

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.18.2245 +0200]: > Not "everything". It said it would go through great pains. However, if a > user set the frontend to "noninteractive", then nothing is going to wait for a > key press (and if something is, then that's a very serious bug, as it m

Re: RFS: wlassistant -- Wireless Assistant allows you to connect to wireless networks

2005-08-18 Thread Stan Vasilyev
I released a new version of Wireless Assistant debian package. It can be downloaded using links below. I would appreciate it if someone would review this package and consider uploading it to Debian. http://home.comcast.net/~deathkrush/wlassistant/wlassistant_0.5.3.orig.tar.gz http://home.comcast.n

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread Nigel Jones
Why not use pwgen or something to generate the password to /etc//.admin which is chmod'ed 600 to root My 2 cents On 19/08/05, Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I need some help about the use of debconf notes. One of my (web) > packages need to setup a password for the admini

RFC/RFS: TeXlive for Debian

2005-08-18 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear friends! Dear DDs! Dear TeX Gurus! I would like to ask for comments on the packages of TeX live I have created. The original ITP is #312897, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg00970.html The TeX live for Debian packages consists out of 66 source packages and 78 binary packag

Re: RFS: ITP: crystalcursors -- X11 mouse theme with the crystal

2005-08-18 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:19:15PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I'm seeking a sponsor for these beautyfull mouse cursors. Alltogether it is > basicly one theme which comes in 20 different flavors (different colors, > left-handed, animated, not-animated). > It is linda-clean but gives a lintian

Fwd: [RFS] htp

2005-08-18 Thread Diego Escalante
Hi, I've been using and working on htp for a while, and I noticed the lack of maintenance on this, so i worked a bit on it and packaged the latest upstream version which is available in http://htp.sourceforge.net I'd like to receive feedback and if anybody is interested in sponsoring this package

Re: RFS: wlassistant -- Wireless Assistant allows you to connect to wireless networks

2005-08-18 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Stan Vasilyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-19 08:47]: > I released a new version of Wireless Assistant debian package. It can be > downloaded using links below. I would appreciate it if someone would > review this package and consider uploading it to Debian. > > http://home.comcast.net/~deat