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  Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names         


Author: Joey Hess
Date: Jan 8, 2008 14:50

Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Some weeks ago I noticed that some package descriptions incorrectly spell
> some project names, mainly because of capitalisation.
> For example GNOME is being spelt in some packages as Gnome, or simply gnome,
> when its right spelling: GNOME. Other project names such as Debian, KDE and
> Linux aren't being correctly capitalised.

I can't help but roll my eyes at this. There are so many valid reasons
to write "linux", "debian", or even "gnome" or "xerox"^W"kde". You can find
some good in examples in the descriptions of devscripts and debhelper
("debian/", "debian package") which do not refer to a proper name and so
don't need to be capitalised.
> Neil Williams has requested me on #456495 to seek a concensus on this
> subject, hence the reason of this message.

Good luck!

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  Re: List of packages defining a RPATH on amd64 (differs from i386/lintian.d.o)         


Author:
Date: Jan 8, 2008 13:30

Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> On 08/01/2008, Michal ÄŒihaÅ™ wrote:
>> Adding --disable-rpath to configure might be easier solution for this
>> problem.
>
> Another workaround is chrpath.
>

According to some people (I remember reading something about it in -mentors)
chrpath doesn't always remove the rpath, although I can't confirm (I've
never used chrpath) it should be investigated.

Cheers,
Raphael Geissert

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  Re: List of packages defining a RPATH on amd64 (differs from i386/lintian.d.o)         


Author: Russ Allbery
Date: Jan 8, 2008 12:00

"Paul Wise" debian.org> writes:
> On Jan 8, 2008 1:32 PM, Raphael Geissert gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some time ago I noticed some packages were defining a RPATH on non i386
>> architectures, notably amd64.
> Is either of these planned?
> * Make lintian.d.o process debs from architectures other than i386/all

It already takes over a day for Lintian to process the entire archive, so
I don't have any immediate plans to run it on more architectures unless we
can find some dramatic way to speed it up or find other places to run it
besides gluck.d.o.

One guess as to the speed hit at the moment is the man page checks, since
running man and groff is noticably slow.
> * A way to put all these different QA tests (amd64 rpath, should be
> arch all, anything else that may come up) on the PTS/DDPO?

This may be something that mole could do.

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  Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names         


Author: Russ Allbery
Date: Jan 8, 2008 11:50

Stefano Zacchiroli debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:54:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> BTW, the way that the Lintian spell-checking works is that it looks for
>> errors rather than looking for each word in a dictionary. It has a
>> table of pairs of error and correct word. So if you notice any common
>> misspelled words that Lintian doesn't catch, please let
>> debian-lint-maint know and we'll add them to the table.
> Regarding the Objective Caml language, whose acronym correct
> capitalization is "OCaml", please add the following:
> ocaml -> OCaml
> OCAML -> OCaml

Sure thing. Added.

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  Bug#459778: ITP: tinydyndns -- pop-before-dyndns service using djbdns         


Author: Gerrit Pape
Date: Jan 8, 2008 09:10

tinydyndns is a simple but powerful dynamic DNS solution that uses
djbdns. It cooperates with the djbdns package to publish dynamic IP
addresses authenticated through POP connections. On successfully
authenticated POP connections, the tinydyndns-update program manipulates
tinydns' constant database "data.cdb" directly without rebuilding it;
this makes the dynamic DNS solution use very few system resources.
Using a POP service for authentication saves the work for installing
special client software, since POP clients are available for every
common network-aware operating system. To provide the DNS and POP
service, tinydyndns cooperates with djbdns, qmail, and cvm.

The package is available through http://smarden.org/tinydyndns/

I'm the upstream author, copyright is the 3-clause BSD license.

Regards, Gerrit.

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  Re: netconf control socket protocol: rfc822, xml-rpc, or dbus         


Author: Pierre Habouzit
Date: Jan 8, 2008 09:00

On mar, jan 08, 2008 at 11:32:29 +0000, martin f krafft wrote:
> While working on Ikiwiki, it dawned on me that I really ought to be
> using XML RPC for this [2]. Why? Because it's already
> there to do exactly the kind of thing I am doing, and standardised.
> Furthermore, dbus *is* XML RPC.

That's wrong, and XML-RPC *SUCKS*, as does most of the text-only
interfaces, when you want real-time events. DBus isn't such a bad way to
do things, it doesn't requires the daemon up and running to interact
with netconf, when netconf acts as a dbus server. I assume that it's
possible to write tools that directly hit your netconf server withouth
going through the dbus daemon, making it lightweight and a really good
solution even for small systems.

And then for 0 cost, you see desktops being able to use your
procedures being routed automatically through the dbus daemon acting as a
proxy. At least it's what I grok reading [0]. And that's an invaluable
advantage as almost all desktop applications are slowly (or not _that_
slowly actually) migrating to DBus. It means that you'll provide a
tested robust known interface to people wanting to interface with you.
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  Re: Is Davide Puricelli MIA?         


Author: Davide Puricelli
Date: Jan 8, 2008 08:50

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:33:18PM +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> Does someone know if Davide Puricelli (evo at debian.org) is
> MIA?
>
> Apparently, the last upload by him was on 2007-06-10 [1]. I've
> tried to communicate him last year, but didn't succeed.
>
> I've mostly interested in the `chicken' package. The last
> version packaged for Debian is 2.5, and it seems that there're
> enough Chicken extensions [2] that aren't compatible with that
> version of Chicken anymore.

Hi Ivan,

I'm not MIA (I still read -devel and I follow the project life), but
you're right, I'm not really active in the packages field.

I'm planning to update chicken in upcoming days, luckily it's not a huge
work, while I just asked Bart Martens to help me to comaintain xchat.

About your private email: I didn't reply because I had never received it!
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  Bug#459776: RFP: manpages-cs -- Czech manual pages         


Author: Colin Watson
Date: Jan 8, 2008 08:30

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name : manpages-cs
Version : 0.17.20070905
Upstream Author : hajma
* URL : http://sweb.cz/tropikhajma/man-pages-cs/index.html
* License : various, but "all freely distributable"; presumably
same licence as original English versions;
clarification and/or research may be needed
Description : Czech manual pages

Linux manual pages translated into Czech.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-pack-cs/+bug/130377
includes a request for a package of Czech manual pages. I don't speak
Czech so I wouldn't be very good at maintaining this. Perhaps a
Czech-speaking developer could do so?

Thanks,

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  Re: RFH: How to debug FTBFS of erlang on sparc (UltraSPARC III)?         


Author: Michael Shuler
Date: Jan 8, 2008 07:50

On 01/07/2008 04:29 PM, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> I can't build it on UltraSPARC III because I don't have an access to
> it.

Have you gotten access to a machine, Sergei? If not, let me know, I
would be happy to give you a login. I successfully (slowly) built
erlang_11.b.5dfsg-12 last night with pbuilder on my SunFire V120.

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  Re: netconf control socket protocol: rfc822, xml-rpc, or dbus         


Author: Chris Hanson
Date: Jan 8, 2008 07:20

On 1/8/08, martin f krafft debian.org> wrote:
> Furthermore, dbus *is* XML RPC.

Umm, no
-- dbus is a custom binary protocol.

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