Accepted prime 1.0.0.1-2.2 (source all)

2012-11-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:36:20 + Source: prime Binary: prime Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.0.1-2.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Masahito Omote om...@debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb

Accepted tomcat7 7.0.28-3+nmu1 (source all)

2012-11-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
: 7.0.28-3+nmu1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers pkg-java-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libservlet3.0-java - Servlet 3.0 and JSP 2.2 Java API classes libservlet3.0-java-doc - Servlet 3.0

Accepted cm-super 0.3.4-7.1 (source all)

2012-11-16 Thread Michael Gilbert
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: cm-super - TeX font package (full version) with CM (EC) in Type1 in T1, T2*, cm-super-minimal - TeX font package (minimal version) with CM/EC in Type1 in T1, T2* cm-super-x11 - Make the cm-super fonts available

Accepted python-gevent 0.13.6-1+nmu1 (source amd64 all)

2012-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
ora...@fobie.net Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: python-gevent - gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library python-gevent-dbg - gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library - debugging python-gevent-doc - gevent is a coroutine-based Python

Accepted gst-plugins-good0.10 0.10.31-3+nmu1 (source all amd64)

2012-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
amd64 Version: 0.10.31-3+nmu1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Maintainers of GStreamer packages pkg-gstreamer-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: gstreamer0.10-gconf - GStreamer plugin for getting the sink/source

Accepted inform 6.31.1+dfsg-1.1 (source amd64 all)

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
-berlin.de Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: inform - story file compiler for the Inform interactive fiction language ( inform-docs - documentation for the Inform interactive fiction language (v6) Closes: 620866 Changes: inform (6.31.1+dfsg-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium

Accepted minidjvu 0.8.svn.2010.05.06+dfsg-0.1 (source amd64)

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
b...@debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libminidjvu-dev - Small DjVu encoder/decoder, development files libminidjvu0 - Small DjVu encoder/decoder, shared library minidjvu - Monochrome DjVu multipage encoder, single page encoder/decoder Closes: 654491

Accepted update-manager 0.200.5-2.1 (source all)

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
GNOME Maintainers pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: update-manager-core - APT update manager core functionality update-manager-doc - Update Manager API documentation update-manager-gnome - GNOME application that manages

Accepted javamorph 0.0.20100201-1.2 (source all)

2012-11-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: javamorph - Java morphing film-make program for pixel picture-input Closes: 692147 Changes: javamorph (0.0.20100201-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * Support arch-specific openjdk paths in javamorph script (closes

Accepted software-center 5.1.2debian3.1 (source all)

2012-11-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: software-center - Utility for browsing, installing, and removing software Closes: 691708 691901 Changes: software-center (5.1.2debian3.1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * Add synaptic dependency (closes: #691901

Accepted flexbackup 1.2.1-6.2 (source all)

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:46:44 + Source: flexbackup Binary: flexbackup Architecture: source all Version: 1.2.1-6.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Kurt B. Kaiser k...@shore.net Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb

Accepted python-scientific 2.8-4 (source all amd64)

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: mpich2python - MPI-enhanced Python interpreter (MPICH2 based version) openmpipython - MPI-enhanced Python interpreter (OpenMPI based version) python-mpi - MPI module

Accepted mcrypt 2.6.8-1.3 (source amd64)

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:04:58 + Source: mcrypt Binary: mcrypt Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.6.8-1.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: RISKO Gergely ri...@debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb

Accepted pyepl 1.1.0-3.1 (source all amd64)

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: python-pyepl - module for coding psychology experiments in Python python-pyepl-common - module for coding psychology experiments in Python Closes: 692101 692184 Changes: pyepl (1.1.0-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Michael Gilbert mlocate: http://bugs.debian.org/669368 (new upstream could have been pushed via nmu before the freeze, but it was prepared too late) many others I'm sure The suggested NMU that does random changes like changing

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Bart Martens wrote: wine: http://bugs.debian.org/585409 (new upstream pushed via nmu) This is a good example where talking helped to gather all views on all aspects from all involved people. My impression is that finally the maintainer allowed new

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: The new upstream release did not include any particularly compelling changes for wheezy, which is why I did not update to the newer upstream version. It may not have include changes interesting to you, but there was certainly interest

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: That's where nmus help. Someone that does care and does have the time can go ahead and get the features interesting them (and likely many other users) to work. That's only true if you're happy with all of the changes being

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 04:30:51PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: You're still making the maintainer take explicit action to stop something that he already said they didn't want to happen. For a time, this is how regular nmus were

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Bart Martens wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 06:41:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: Maybe an example will help get us on the same page. Russ seems to have the impression that my proposal is somehow a license to push unwanted changes at a maintainer

Accepted flexbackup 1.2.1-6.1 (source all)

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:45:03 + Source: flexbackup Binary: flexbackup Architecture: source all Version: 1.2.1-6.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Kurt B. Kaiser k...@shore.net Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb

Accepted ncurses-hexedit 0.9.7-14.1 (source amd64)

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: ncurses-hexedit - Edit files/disks in hex, ASCII and EBCDIC Closes: 536736 Changes: ncurses-hexedit (0.9.7-14.1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * Fix segflault when searching for text that isn't in the file being

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-31 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: Unless we're having some heavyweight process with multiple pings etc. (which we IMO shouldn't) the way the maintainer might first discover that someone feels the package needs to be orphaned is by the ITO bug. The maintainer needs to have

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-31 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Bart Martens wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:32:40AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: How to solve the following problem: Assume a package with wishlist bugs filed lagging behind upstream and the maintainer refuses to package any newer upstream, not even into

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-10-30)

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Is this not something best managed on a case-by-case basis? my experience as potential sponsoree for such a package answers me no because it is hard to get a sponsor. If it fixes *only* rc bugs, then send a bug to sponsorship-requests. I

Re: Bug#691624: ITP: dput-ng -- next generation Debian package upload tool

2012-10-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: If not, why are you claiming to replace their code? It's fine to be writing something else to replace older code; but it's fairly rude to be claiming that whatever you're writing is the next generation of that older code Any rewrite

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: If, as Bart has found, such mistakes are quite rare, then why worry so much? We don't need new formal processes for rarely occurring social problems. We need more people willing to help those that make social mistakes to learn and improve

Accepted chromium-browser 22.0.1229.94~r161065-3 (source all amd64)

2012-10-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
all amd64 Version: 22.0.1229.94~r161065-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Chromium Maintainers pkg-chromium-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: chromium - Google's open source chromium web browser chromium-browser

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Bart Martens wrote: So maybe we could simply allow anyone, including non-DDs, to submit O-bugs for packages which seem abandoned by the maintainer, and to submit ITA-bugs for packages he/she wishes to salvage. Sounds revolutionary, but in reality this is more

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: maybe we could simply allow anyone, including non-DDs, to submit O-bugs for packages which seem abandoned by the maintainer, and to submit ITA-bugs for packages he/she wishes to salvage. I think that this misses one of the reasons for the

Accepted libproxy 0.3.1-5.1 (source all amd64)

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Monfort po...@debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libproxy-dev - automatic proxy configuration management library (devel) libproxy-tools - automatic proxy configuration management library (tools) libproxy0 - automatic proxy configuration management library (shared

Accepted ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-6.2 (source all amd64)

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Printing Team debian-print...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: ghostscript - interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF ghostscript-cups - interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF

Accepted atanks 5.5+dfsg-0.1 (source amd64 all)

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: atanks - tank-battling game atanks-data - data files for Atomic tanks Closes: 691223 Changes: atanks (5.5+dfsg-0.1) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload. * Remove binary files from source tarball (closes

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:45:35PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: I think this is where language is important. In my opinion, the term adoption will continue to mean taking on full responsibility for a package as its new maintainer

Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Arno Töll wrote: *) we have consensus that we are in need of such a rule set - which ever it may be *) we have three orthogonally different ideas: a) Bart's approach which was reformulated and proposed by Lucas in this thread [1] b) Mine - which was

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 03:10:30PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:45:35PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: I think this is where language

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 07:33:27PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: We already orphan packages without the maintainer's consent, and it's already called orphaning. Salvaging is still undefined No, it is not. The definition was clear from

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Scott Kitterman writes (Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages): Why not start with a without objection standard and see how it works? I absolutely agree with this. If we adopt a

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote: On Thursday 25 October 2012 19:09:55 Michael Gilbert wrote: (...) I would prefer to see even more autonomy for the salvager and less bugging of various lists (ITPs on -devel are already distracting enough). With that, I would like

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: When fixing non important bugs, or improving the package quality, like switching to format 3 source, arranging the rules file, and so on, I fear it will be very difficult to find a sponsor for these nmus. That is because those changes

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Arno Töll wrote: On 25.10.2012 21:09, Michael Gilbert wrote: 2. Salvager uploads liberal (10-day delayed) nmus as needed to bring the package into a better maintained state. Please let's not go that road. Mixing-up the concept of a bad maintained

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: As I've said many times now, the liberal NMU would not be a license for packaging style changes. In fact, no NMU is allowed to make those changes (the fact that people are doing it is apparently a social issue, and solutions to those are

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Michael Gilbert writes: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: I certainly have no objection to people doing this, but I'm not sure that's really what we're discussing here. I think the thread is more about the ongoing issue

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: I respect your opinion, so I'm just curious which part do you believe won't work in common cases? It's just applying existing NMU rules with a little more liberalism to increase activity in under-maintained packages, so I personally can't

Accepted grub2 1.99-23.1 (source amd64)

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64 grub-ieee1275-bin grub-ieee1275 grub-firmware-qemu grub-yeeloong-bin grub-yeeloong grub-mount-udeb Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.99-23.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert

Accepted infiniband-diags 1.4.4-20090314-1.2 (source amd64)

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
pkg-ofed-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: infiniband-diags - InfiniBand diagnostic programs Closes: 581113 Changes: infiniband-diags (1.4.4-20090314-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * Fix bashisms

Re: Bug#690569: Bug#690142: remote named DoS on recursor (CVE-2012-5166) and Bug#690569 (DNS wildcards fail to resolve with DNSSEC enabled)

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Matthew Grant wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Michael Gilbert No. We're in the freeze now. Fixes need to be backported. If backporting a fix is not possible with the certainty of no introduced bugs, we have no choice. Debian Bind9 cannot ship

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 13001 March 1977, Michael Gilbert wrote: So, are we ready to do this? No. Its for after wheezy, definitely. Also, there are some open issues to be solved for this to happen. The most important is being able to deal with arch all

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: 2) downgrade attacks These have the same idea as blocking attacks (prevent the user to get updates) but are a bit smarter. You don't simply block any update requests, but rather you sent the user old repository data. These are

Accepted virtualbox 4.1.18-dfsg-1.1 (source amd64 all)

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian Virtualbox Team pkg-virtualbox-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: virtualbox - x86 virtualization solution - base binaries virtualbox-dbg - x86 virtualization solution - debugging symbols

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org wrote: * Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org [121016 04:59]: Anyway, all of these build system path sanitization issues can be eliminated by using the buildds for all architectures, since paths will start with at least /build

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org [121017 22:19]: Anyway, reading again, I not sure that your reply actually considers build path sanitization problems, which is what my statement was about. I'm stating that doing all the builds

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: That is true: if there is a build path sanitization issue, then if the user chooses to rebuild the package they will get their own rogue paths. So, yes, we should always fix those issues when they're found, but at least for people using

Accepted openjpeg 1.3+dfsg-4.6 (source amd64)

2012-10-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
PhotoTools Maintainers pkg-phototools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libopenjpeg-dev - development files for libopenjpeg2, a JPEG 2000 image library libopenjpeg2 - JPEG 2000 image compression/decompression library libopenjpeg2-dbg - debug

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: If so, please submit bugs, and we will look at fixing them. Otherwise, speculation gets us nowhere and actually wastes time. Well I had once a discussion (around March this year) here about blockin/downgrade attacks... which,

Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
I know this subject has been discussed on and off in the past, but there's new evidence that it's simply the right thing to do. Due to changes in upstream's build system, isc-dhcp recently started including build system paths in dhclient's search path. This got a security identifier, and we've

Accepted isc-dhcp 4.2.4-3 (source amd64)

2012-10-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.2.4-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian ISC DHCP maintainers pkg-dhcp-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: isc-dhcp-client - ISC DHCP client isc-dhcp-client-dbg - ISC DHCP client

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: But it's a general security paradigm, that one shouldn't just focus on the attack vectors one can think of... but rather trying to secure everything ;) Which is impossible, or at least man-powerwise insurmountable. There are

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 16:37 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: Which is impossible, or at least man-powerwise insurmountable. There are something like 500 million lines of code in a Debian release. I wasn't talking about

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-10 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: So, reading this thread (which was surprisingly quiet, given the topic), it seems that everybody agrees that such a procedure would be a good thing (nobody had fundamental concerns). But now we have two proposed procedures: - one which

Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 10/08/2012 01:21 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: Would it be appropriate to file RC bugs against all the packages shipping anything in /var/run, /var/lock or /run? No, there's nothing wrong with that. Cheers, Julien Lintian (and myself)

Accepted isc-dhcp 4.2.4-2 (source amd64)

2012-09-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.2.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian ISC DHCP maintainers pkg-dhcp-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: isc-dhcp-client - ISC DHCP client isc-dhcp-client-dbg - ISC DHCP client

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 12 septembre 2012 à 11:03 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : Isn't the whole concept of default desktop just a matter of which desktop is included on CD1? Are you proposing that Debian switches to a series of CD1s (Debian Ghome

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Wookey wrote: I'd be happy if xfce was the default. Which is better depends if one prefers 'dull-but-works-everywhere' over 'shiny-but-not-universaly-liked'. I can see reasonable arguments in favour of either. Robustness is a rather important/lofty goal

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 01:38:08PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Wookey wrote: I'd be happy if xfce was the default. Which is better depends if one prefers 'dull-but-works-everywhere' over 'shiny

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: If a package fails to build with an alternate compiler (that is, it correctly *uses* the compiler, but the compiler reports a fatal error), is that considered a bug, and what severity does it have? I'd not consider a

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Svante Signell wrote: If a you see an out-of-date package, please volunteer your time to help fix it. If you're not a DD, you can do the work and send a message to debian-mentors. I have tried several times and I can give you a recent example, see #610209

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: While it's nice that you've prepared a package for the new mlocate upstream version, getting it done after the freeze is simply far too late. Also, for packages that haven't been updated in a very long time (two years in this case), a much

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Svante Signell wrote: Yeah, I guess that makes sense, *if* the person doing the NMU then owns any bugs they introduce and of course doesn't do anything drastic like rewriting the build system. And provides plenty of warning. Please, what can I do being a

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: True. Part of the problem is appropriate terminology. This is a case of what I would call an undermaintained package. Even though the maintainer is still around, and may be quite active elsewhere, this package has not gotten any attention

Accepted sane-backends 1.0.22-7.3 (source amd64)

2012-07-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
jbla...@debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libsane- API library for scanners libsane-common - API library for scanners -- documentation and support files libsane-dbg - API development library for scanners [debug symbols] libsane-dev - API development

Accepted openjpeg 1.3+dfsg-4.5 (source amd64)

2012-07-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
PhotoTools Maintainers pkg-phototools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libopenjpeg-dev - development files for libopenjpeg2, a JPEG 2000 image library libopenjpeg2 - JPEG 2000 image compression/decompression library libopenjpeg2-dbg - debug

Accepted chromium-browser 20.0.1132.57~r145807-1 (source all amd64)

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
all amd64 Version: 20.0.1132.57~r145807-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Chromium Maintainers pkg-chromium-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: chromium - Google's open source chromium web browser chromium-browser

Accepted wine 1.4.1-2 (source amd64)

2012-07-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
libwine-print libwine-sane Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.4.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Wine Party pkg-wine-pa...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libwine- Windows API implementation - library libwine

Accepted wine-unstable 1.5.6-2 (source amd64)

2012-07-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libwine-alsa-unstable - Windows API implementation - ALSA sound module libwine-bin-unstable - Windows API implementation - system services libwine-capi-unstable - Windows API implementation - ISDN module libwine-cms

Accepted openjpeg 1.3+dfsg-4.4 (source amd64)

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
PhotoTools Maintainers pkg-phototools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libopenjpeg-dev - development files for libopenjpeg2, a JPEG 2000 image library libopenjpeg2 - JPEG 2000 image compression/decompression library libopenjpeg2-dbg - debug

Accepted openjpeg 1.3+dfsg-4.3 (source amd64)

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Gilbert
PhotoTools Maintainers pkg-phototools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libopenjpeg-dev - development files for libopenjpeg2, a JPEG 2000 image library libopenjpeg2 - JPEG 2000 image compression/decompression library libopenjpeg2-dbg - debug

Accepted openjpeg 1.3+dfsg-4.2 (source amd64)

2012-07-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
PhotoTools Maintainers pkg-phototools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libopenjpeg-dev - development files for libopenjpeg2, a JPEG 2000 image library libopenjpeg2 - JPEG 2000 image compression/decompression library libopenjpeg2-dbg - debug

Accepted sane-backends 1.0.22-7.2 (source amd64)

2012-07-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
jbla...@debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libsane- API library for scanners libsane-common - API library for scanners -- documentation and support files libsane-dbg - API development library for scanners [debug symbols] libsane-dev - API development

Re: Audit of Debian/Ubuntu for unfixed vulnerabilities because of embedded code copies

2012-07-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Silvio Cesare] I recently ran the tool and cross referenced identified code copies with Debian's security tracking of affected packages by CVE. I did this for all CVEs in 2010, 2011, and 2012. This sound like a job that could

Accepted fglrx-driver 1:12-6-1 (source amd64)

2012-06-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
-opencl-icd amd-libopencl1 amd-opencl-dev amd-clinfo Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1:12-6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Fglrx packaging team pkg-fglrx-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: amd-clinfo - AMD OpenCL info

Accepted xcb-util-renderutil 0.3.8-1.1 (source amd64)

2012-06-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
debia...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libxcb-render-util0 - utility libraries for X C Binding -- render-util libxcb-render-util0-dev - utility libraries for X C Binding -- render-util Closes: 677733 Changes: xcb-util-renderutil (0.3.8-1.1) unstable

Accepted wine-unstable 1.5.1-1 (source amd64)

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
pkg-wine-party-unsta...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libwine-alsa-unstable - Windows API implementation - ALSA sound module libwine-bin-unstable - Windows API implementation - system services libwine-capi-unstable - Windows API

Accepted wine-unstable 1.5.6-1 (source amd64)

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Party pkg-wine-pa...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libwine-alsa-unstable - Windows API implementation - ALSA sound module libwine-bin-unstable - Windows API implementation - system services libwine-capi-unstable - Windows API implementation

Accepted wine 1.4.1-1 (source amd64)

2012-06-16 Thread Michael Gilbert
libwine-print libwine-sane Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.4.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Wine Party pkg-wine-pa...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libwine- Windows API implementation - library libwine

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 04:36:40AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: Does this mean M-A:same packages should be prevented from being binNMUed, but only source upload can be accepted? You cannot deprive the Release Team of this tool. Also multiarch bugs

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org (14/06/2012): package (version) sid; urgency=low   * Binary-only non-maintainer upload; no source changes.  -- Debian Release Team debian-rele...@lists.debian.org  Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:33:05 +

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:25:42 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: Wouldn't the ideal solution be non-architecture-specific changelogs? No, that would be very much non-ideal.  One should be able to schedule binNMUs

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 01:59:25PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: I did not suggest that.  Anyway, maybe this will be a bit clearer. Let's say an existing package is at version +b1 on amd64, and it needs to get a binnmu, then a +b2 package

Re: Maintainers, teams, Uploaders, DMs, DDs, etc.

2012-06-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Arno Töll wrote: Hi, as a clarification, because I was pointed to it: On 13.06.2012 18:54, Arno Töll wrote: Drive-by sponsoring makes this even more complicated and is not helping anybody. We should stop advocating drive-by sponsoring at all. ... with the

Re: Migration path for 'Multi-Arch:allowed' packages

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:45 AM, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: In particular, I filed a bug against dpkg requesting that it produce more informative error messages in these cases [0], but I wonder if a part of the solution shouldn't

Accepted wine 1.4-7 (source amd64)

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
libwine-print libwine-sane Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.4-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Wine Party pkg-wine-pa...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libwine- Windows API implementation - library libwine-alsa

Migration path for 'Multi-Arch:allowed' packages

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, We've been getting a few bug reports from users attempting to install multiarch wine who have yet to manually enable multiarch itself. Obviously that is a failure on their part, and is easily correctable. However, I wonder if we can't make such migrations a bit more straightforward? In

Accepted prelink 0.0.20090925-5 (source amd64)

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:22:26 -0400 Source: prelink Binary: prelink execstack Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.0.20090925-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Michael

Accepted prelink 0.0.20090925-6 (source amd64)

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:34:26 -0400 Source: prelink Binary: prelink execstack Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.0.20090925-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Michael

Accepted wine-unstable 1.5.0-1 (source amd64)

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libwine-alsa-unstable - Windows API implementation - ALSA sound module libwine-bin-unstable - Windows API implementation - system services libwine-capi-unstable - Windows API implementation - ISDN module

Accepted xpdf 3.03-10 (source amd64)

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:40:47 -0400 Source: xpdf Binary: xpdf Architecture: source amd64 Version: 3.03-10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb

Accepted prelink 0.0.20090925-3 (source amd64)

2012-06-09 Thread Michael Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 03:40:29 -0400 Source: prelink Binary: prelink execstack Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.0.20090925-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Michael

Accepted prelink 0.0.20090925-4 (source amd64)

2012-06-09 Thread Michael Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:53:24 -0400 Source: prelink Binary: prelink execstack Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.0.20090925-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Michael

Accepted wine 1.4-5 (source amd64)

2012-06-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
libwine-sane Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.4-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Wine Party pkg-wine-pa...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org Description: libwine- Windows API implementation - library libwine-alsa - Windows

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