Re: Questions about gnu.org versus debian bugs.

2005-11-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
; I wouldn't think there's much point in doing both. It's useful if upstream has a slow release schedule or you want a fix backported to older versions in Debian. But then you should also probably include the patch yourself. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFC/RFS: PyKaraoke

2006-02-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
an/copyright says LGPL 2. Once these are fixed, I would be happy to sponsor this. Just a warning (for you and upstream, if you didn't know) -- Pygame's MPEG support, and pygame.mixer.music in general, are both very flakey. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFC/RFS: PyKaraoke

2006-02-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:16 +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > --- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > Some issues: > > > > Your debian/control should not depend directly on "python", but use > > "${python:Depends}" and call dh

Re: RFC/RFS: PyKaraoke

2006-02-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:38 +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > --- Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > --- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > Some issues: > > > > > > Your debian/control should not dep

Re: RFC/RFS: PyKaraoke

2006-02-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 23:21 +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > --- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > Why can't it be used with python 2.4? > > > > The modules are byte-compiled for Python 2.3, and should be recompiled > > when Debian ships

Re: RFC/RFS: PyKaraoke

2006-02-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 00:08 +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > > The pyc files are generated in the postinst, you won't see them in dpkg > > -L/-c output. > > So, if you upgrade to a newer version of python, it won't work, as the > compil

Re: RFS: python-harvestman

2006-02-18 Thread Joe Wreschnig
, please use the feedparser module present in Debian if you can (python-feedparser). Duplicating a large body of network-sensitive and do-what-I-mean code is rarely a good idea. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Python dependencies

2006-02-26 Thread Joe Wreschnig
soon now", and NEW queue appears to be at least a week, this may even be faster than waiting for a new python-gst0.10 to pass NEW. I know this is not a very good answer. Sorry. Debian doesn't have very good Python packages. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [RFH] Compiling a Gnome app / GTHREAD or XDamage error

2006-03-23 Thread Joe Wreschnig
ze it. No, the error message sucks, it doesn't distinguish between two different (completely unrelated) failures. I reported this earlier as http://bugs.debian.org/358253 when I was trying to get Byzanz compiled. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Including .so symlinks in non-dev package: policy violation?

2006-03-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
assuming they're entirely private to synfig. Similar cases (e.g. XMMS plugins, Python extensions) also do not have versioned names. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process

2006-04-02 Thread Joe Wreschnig
st saying, "look, only 50% of applicants get in!" is not a valid criticism of it either. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Linda warnings about manpages in my packages

2006-04-23 Thread Joe Wreschnig
ules" break all the time). If Debian is going to buck the trend here (and I think it should, and thankfully does for many programs) a lot of packages are buggy. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFC: adopting libxml-ruby

2006-05-01 Thread Joe Wreschnig
if possible, but if I do that, I can't easily call rake from the > clean target, which seems like a bigger problem. For such a small patch, ignoring dpatch is fine and probably preferable. (Other, dpatch-liking people, may disagree with me about this.) -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: id3ren

2006-07-23 Thread Joe Wreschnig
t support ID3v2, it has major bugs (#369260), it's not locale-aware. mp3rename and lltag do the same thing, and many graphical tools do it better. If you have a pressing need for its particular command line syntax, it looks very easy to wrap around an existing, better library. -- Joe Wreschnig

Re: RFS: feedparser -- Universal Feed Parser for Python

2006-08-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
ere are no rdeps on it now, so it might be worthwhile to remove it. But again, it's not a bug. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Sponsor vs. Developer Process?

2003-07-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
etimes you get a sponsor right away, sometimes you don't. As it happens, I'm looking for a good image gallery program. I'll check out Salonify; if it does what I want, and no one else steps up before that, I'll sponsor the package. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Sponsor vs. Developer Process?

2003-07-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:31, Rene Engelhard wrote: > It _is_ so. > Definitely. I was approved 7 months ago, with no package in the archive. This is clearly *not* exclusively the case. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-19 Thread Joe Wreschnig
mpatible exit codes (which most MUAs understand). I would be very interested in sponsoring this, but I get connection refused trying to connect to your server. > These packages can be obtained via apt-get here: > deb http://digitalssg.net/debian ./ > deb-src http://digitalssg.net/debian

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Joe Wreschnig
obtained via apt-get here: > deb http://digitalssg.net/debian ./ > deb-src http://digitalssg.net/debian ./ -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-26 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Failed to fetch some archives. > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:57:28AM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > Okay, the URL is working for me now. > > > > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:53, Jess Mahan wrote: > > > Hi, I would like to get a sponsor. I am new to sponsorship/manitai

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
FHS (anymore?). I think /usr/bin is > the right place for it. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#REQUIREMENTS9 It's still there. (Please don't scare me like that in the future.) -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 12:17, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:59:03AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:09, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:

Re: RFS: mimms - MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility

2004-03-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
y packages can be downloaded from: > > <http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/> > > It's been more than a week so I guess I'll ping again: any interest in > sponsoring this package? =) I'm interested, but I won't be able to get around to

Re: RFS: for several packages ;)

2004-05-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
h... well I have many spare time right now so I try to use it for > Debian ;) If this time isn't going to be consistently available, then I might recommend cutting back; Debian is as much about maintaining packages as it is about creating them. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Removing failed uploads

2004-08-20 Thread Joe Wreschnig
can > you help me out? ftp://incoming.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/README The 'dcut' tool (in the dput package) will output these kind of files if you happen to forget the exact format yourself. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: for several packages ;)

2004-05-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
h... well I have many spare time right now so I try to use it for > Debian ;) If this time isn't going to be consistently available, then I might recommend cutting back; Debian is as much about maintaining packages as it is about creating them. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Removing failed uploads

2004-08-20 Thread Joe Wreschnig
can > you help me out? ftp://incoming.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/README The 'dcut' tool (in the dput package) will output these kind of files if you happen to forget the exact format yourself. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
FHS (anymore?). I think /usr/bin is > the right place for it. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#REQUIREMENTS9 It's still there. (Please don't scare me like that in the future.) -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 12:17, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:59:03AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:09, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:

Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-09 Thread Joe Wreschnig
ore, most, gedit, I don't know what else people are using these days) probably handle it even less gracefully. (I have no strong opinion one way or another -- I'm fine skipping past binary parts, and being able to include non-uuencoded binaries is a pretty cool deal. It works around one of my least-favorite packaging tasks. But then, skipping past binary diffs would probably become my new least-favorite task.) -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: libcddb - Library to access CDDB data

2005-01-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 08:48 +0100, ClÃment Stenac wrote: > Hello, > > Libcddb is a small C library to access the CDDB database (Audio CD > database). It can query any CDDB server, default server is freedb.org > Licence is LGPL. What advantages does this have over libcdaudio? --

Re: RFS: WMAnsiEd - An ANSI/ASCII editor

2005-03-04 Thread Joe Wreschnig
already in > Debian? Or why would someone want to use WMAnsiEd instead of one of the > other ANSI editors? And if it is better, is there another package we can remove because its features are entirely a subset of WMAnsiEd's? -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: I'm looking for a sponsor for xlogmaster (an orphaned kackage).

2005-05-08 Thread Joe Wreschnig
can have files in /etc be *conffiles*, which is one possibly implementation of the requirements policy sets for configuration files. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
rovide a picture of a photo ID (old passport or college) signed by my GPG key, however. -- - Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.sacredchao.net "What I did was justified because I had a policy of my own... It's okay to be different, to not conform to society."

Kernel module packaging

2002-07-18 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Is there a good tutorial/reference anywhere for how to package (Linux) kernel modules and source, in a way that works with make-kpkg's modules_image? -- - Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Pinging Scott Dier, or looking for keysigners in Minneapolis

2002-10-04 Thread Joe Wreschnig
drive anyway, so it would be a major pain for me to get anywhere else. TIA. -- - Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Packaging a python module

2003-06-30 Thread Joe Wreschnig
has a Debian changelog mode, and there's a program called "dch", but I don't use either. You can just use a normal text editor. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-13 Thread Joe Wreschnig
ople 3 years, but YMMV. (n.b. This is not a defense of the NM process, nor a statement saying something is horribly broken. I don't know enough about it to comment in general. However, that was my experience in it.) -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sponsor vs. Developer Process?

2003-07-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
etimes you get a sponsor right away, sometimes you don't. As it happens, I'm looking for a good image gallery program. I'll check out Salonify; if it does what I want, and no one else steps up before that, I'll sponsor the package. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Sponsor vs. Developer Process?

2003-07-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:31, Rene Engelhard wrote: > It _is_ so. > Definitely. I was approved 7 months ago, with no package in the archive. This is clearly *not* exclusively the case. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-19 Thread Joe Wreschnig
codes (which most MUAs understand). I would be very interested in sponsoring this, but I get connection refused trying to connect to your server. > These packages can be obtained via apt-get here: > deb http://digitalssg.net/debian ./ > deb-src http://digitalssg.net/debian ./ -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Joe Wreschnig
ained via apt-get here: > deb http://digitalssg.net/debian ./ > deb-src http://digitalssg.net/debian ./ -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-26 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Failed to fetch some archives. > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:57:28AM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > Okay, the URL is working for me now. > > > > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:53, Jess Mahan wrote: > > > Hi, I would like to get a sponsor. I am new to sponsorship/manitaini

Re: RFS: mimms - MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility

2004-03-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
y packages can be downloaded from: > > <http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/> > > It's been more than a week so I guess I'll ping again: any interest in > sponsoring this package? =) I'm interested, but I won't be able to get around to

Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
rovide a picture of a photo ID (old passport or college) signed by my GPG key, however. -- - Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.sacredchao.net "What I did was justified because I had a policy of my own... It's okay to be different, to not conform to society."

Kernel module packaging

2002-07-19 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Is there a good tutorial/reference anywhere for how to package (Linux) kernel modules and source, in a way that works with make-kpkg's modules_image? -- - Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Pinging Scott Dier, or looking for keysigners in Minneapolis

2002-10-04 Thread Joe Wreschnig
drive anyway, so it would be a major pain for me to get anywhere else. TIA. -- - Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Best way to handle replacing a split package with two source packages?

2003-05-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
some bugs against ftp.debian.org to remove the old ddrmat-source package first? Thanks. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Packaging a python module

2003-06-30 Thread Joe Wreschnig
cs has a Debian changelog mode, and there's a program called "dch", but I don't use either. You can just use a normal text editor. -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-13 Thread Joe Wreschnig
ople 3 years, but YMMV. (n.b. This is not a defense of the NM process, nor a statement saying something is horribly broken. I don't know enough about it to comment in general. However, that was my experience in it.) -- Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>