Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:19:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I've tried to do this before and encountered: See dpkg-shlibdeps(1) for details of the format of shared library dependency files. which of course is recursive and that man page

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Usually because the binaries shipped with the package use internal, undocumented interfaces that are not available to the rest of the world and hence are not considered part of the SONAME (i.e., upstream

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
, upload notifications (the one that includes the changelog) are not, so far as I can tell, sent to the maintainer by default and I end up subscribing to the PTS to get those even for packages where I'm the only maintainer. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
start putting things into /etc/profile.d assuming that they are then seen by all shells, it will break things quite badly and cause exactly the sort of problems that Policy was designed to protect against. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
that disagreement, particularly given Manoj's detailed reasoning, be grounds in and of itself for rejection from NEW. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
docs, including RFCs that are not in the public domain or otherwise have a free license. My opinion is that a mass bug filing is warranted if the person doing the filing has looked over the RFC in question and double-checked that it really does have a non-free license. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Is -D_REENTRANT still important?

2006-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
libraries? Perhaps on architectures other than x86? Or is this historical cruft from long-ago completed transitions that should now go away? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
that lintian already has a framework for checking for bad dependencies. It's basically just another branch in an if statement. What's the precise check? Any package depending on python-minimal should receive an error (or a warning?) with roughly the text of Steve's previous message? -- Russ Allbery

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
they get back the same thing. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-30 Thread Russ Allbery
without a lot of warning and mass bug-filing on the packages that need to add dependencies. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no libldap-dev from openldap2.2 package?

2006-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
just taking a really long time to work through that process. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no libldap-dev from openldap2.2 package?

2006-05-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Ondrej Sury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 19:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: You can't right now because GnuTLS support is only available for 2.1. 2.2 and later will need substantial reworking of that support, and without it, the OpenSSL licensing issues cause too many

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
something to be aware of. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
for the testable changes in Policy as we go, people actually *notice* Policy changes. :) lintian, like debian-policy and every other package, will also occasionally have bugs. This one in particular, in both cases, won't even have migrated to testing. It'll be fine, honest. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: dist-upgrade dependency problem with xlibmesa-glu vs libglu1-mesa

2006-05-07 Thread Russ Allbery
from the X package side, though. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
that say that work done by the government is automatically public domain are undermined by enough special cases that it's best not to rely on them without an explicit statement. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery writes: In practice, the rules that say that work done by the government is automatically public domain... Work done by US federal government employees on government time is effectively public domain. This does _not_ apply to work done

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
there are packages to do this, using some module that can speak SMTP is often the path of least resistance. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scripsit Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] More generally, Perl modules to send mail rather than using /usr/sbin/sendmail are often useful with web applications (or other applications that need security isolation) that are running in a chroot. To use

Re: id gives conflicting results

2006-05-17 Thread Russ Allbery
you got the kernel packages from? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
and am not going to proactively work on this, but as with any other niche platform, well-formed, minimal patches are gratefully accepted and will be applied for the next upload. (This would change were this platform accepted as an officially supported Debian release platform.) -- Russ Allbery

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
with disclaimers attached, are relevant. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
hardware or the OS/compiler cannot be tested without extra costs. Often, ports to such systems are done without feedback to the original author. Yes. There is no (non-trivial) portable software, only software that has been ported. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
mind if need be. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
with... In the other jurisdictions that you're familiar with, is there any similar principal where if you make a recorded public statement that something is okay, you cannot then later sue someone for doing what you said was okay? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
that could take on such an obligation other than the SPI, and I think it's clear that the SPI didn't in this case. I'd say that the obvious interpretation would be that the ftp-masters take on that responsibility individually. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 21 May 2006 20:20:09 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: It's an important document and certainly something that every developer should read and endeavor to follow where it makes sense, but things go into the Developer's Reference rather than Policy

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Russ Allbery
a DPL every year. Of course, since I'm not one, I got that wrong./sarcasm That would make Debian, at most, a republic, not a democracy. (Sorry, pet peeve.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:26:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: That would make Debian, at most, a republic, not a democracy. Would you care to elaborate and explain it isn't a democratic republic then? Debian's delegate system makes it very strongly

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:51:21AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: And whether it's a democratic republic or some other form of hybrid mostly depends on whether you consider ftp-master to be a delegate position or a somewhat independent check, a question

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 21 May 2006 23:25:28 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're correct. So can you give reasonable and legitimate reasons why one might not wish to follow the you must guidelines in this instance? Two, actually

Bug#368551: ITP: xml-security-c -- C++ library for XML Digital Signatures

2006-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: xml-security-c Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://xml.apache.org/security/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: C

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
. Not disagreeing there. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#368551: ITP: xml-security-c -- C++ library for XML Digital Signatures

2006-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Guus Sliepen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 05:28:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: * Package name: xml-security-c Programming Lang: C++ Description : C++ library for XML Digital Signatures If it is a C++ library, please name the package xml-security-c

Re: Bug#368551: ITP: xml-security-c -- C++ library for XML Digital Signatures

2006-05-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 23 May 2006, Russ Allbery wrote: I'd really rather stick with the upstream name, Why not ask upstream WHY they are misnaming the library? libxml-security-c++ is a perfectly ok and valid name... I'll ask, but again

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-24 Thread Russ Allbery
a legal opinion, we needed to go to the SPI counsel. Volunteering legal opinions on a public mailing list sounds like a very risky endeavor for a lawyer, and I'm very surprised that there are lawyers doing so. Could you point to some of their posts? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-26 Thread Russ Allbery
. If you have an ID card, you have to surrender it to get a driver's license. You're only legally allowed one ID. You can get a passport. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 26 May 2006 18:34, Russ Allbery wrote: You can get a passport. Yeah, if I really want to give a country I don't really have much of any allegence to, and consider foreign, my money and wait around for a few months. I'm Oregonian

Re: Hidden files

2006-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
of divergence and maintenance burden that Debian really doesn't need. The advantages are not compelling enough, IMO. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
involved, and I think it would be an excellent idea to involve them even now. If nothing else, I expect that would neatly cut through the uncertainty and legal speculation and provide a real opinion on the license. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:43:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I think I lost a thread of the argument here. How does the acceptance into non-free of a package by the ftp-masters commit SPI to a legally binding agreement? The first paragraph

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 06:11, Russ Allbery wrote: You believe that it's pretty clear that *SPI* is distributing the software? Could you trace your reasoning here? Nobody said that and you know it. Uh, well, believe it or not, that really did seem

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
and the closer we can make the relationship between SPI's lawyer and the ftp-master evaluation of questionable licensing, the less I'll worry about weird license clauses and questionable provisions. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: CDBS and dh_install

2006-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
that was worked around by reordering the packages in debian/control, and I never could figure out just what was going on from the CDBS makefiles. (I believe this bug has subsequently been fixed.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Choice of gcc versions for kernel modules

2006-06-18 Thread Russ Allbery
should be doing in the build machinery for OpenAFS (which is unfortunately complex) that I'm not doing? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Choice of gcc versions for kernel modules

2006-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:44:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm not sure what to do with bug #374367 against OpenAFS, so I'm asking for advice. The short version (slightly longer version in the bug log) is that the archive has switched from gcc 4.0

Re: Netatalk and SSL

2006-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
and so forth aren't illegal? This is precisely how many non-free or GPL incompatible applications communicate with GPL'ed ones. Because the Linux kernel adds an additional clause, in the form of a statement of the author's interpretation of the license, saying that such modules are okay. -- Russ

Re: Netatalk and SSL

2006-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because the Linux kernel adds an additional clause, in the form of a statement of the author's interpretation of the license, saying that such modules are okay. Are you saying that the NVIDIA driver for Linux

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)

2006-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
happening between what dpkg and related tools are generating and what tar is now expecting? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-06-27 Thread Russ Allbery
was waiting a little to see if anything came out of the other tar oddity that I reported last night that also needed to be changed, but I'll probably upload it soon just because this is affecting a lot of people. We can always upload another fix later. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#368383: dumb manual page for... NAME section on many man pages

2006-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
to Subversion for this. It will be in the next upload, including a pointer to the -n option of help2man. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Self-conflicts and self-depends

2006-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Conflicting with itself, if its package name doubles as a virtual package. So, are people sure this is not useful even if the package name doubles as a virtual package? It seems to me like it would be. Or are people just arguing that that case will never occur? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Self-conflicts and self-depends

2006-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Fabio Tranchitella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Il giorno mar, 25/07/2006 alle 18.10 -0700, Russ Allbery ha scritto: So, are people sure this is not useful even if the package name doubles as a virtual package? It seems to me like it would be. Or are people just arguing that that case

Re: new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-29 Thread Russ Allbery
to attack future ssh connections to the system. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-04 Thread Russ Allbery
the contents of debian/patches than by running filterdiff on diff.gz and then trying to work through the intermingled results of multiple changes. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists

2006-08-04 Thread Russ Allbery
the last time a piece of mail went missing. So much fun. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After every upstream merger, I have to review every patch applied to the package *anyway* to make sure that it's still sane, and I find that easier to do by reading through the contents of debian/patches than

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery writes (Re: Centralized darcs): In my experience, the key difference between whether or not I want to use a patch system like quilt is whether I have an upstream to which I need to feed self-contained patches that may go unapplied

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-28 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-02 Thread Russ Allbery
still be rather effective. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use svn(-buildpackage) with pbuilder?

2005-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
upstream whenever possible, since that way (as previously mentioned) signatures are still valid, MD5 checksums are still valid, etc. The exception would be when you have to repackage upstream because of non-free files or similar problems. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Asking Debconf questions about database data

2005-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
then the user really knows what he wants to do. The policy itself is about removing all configuration files on purge, but does this include user data like supplied DNS records? Both PostgreSQL and the MIT Kerberos KDC (following PostgreSQL) ask the question on installation with debconf. -- Russ

Re: Fedora Directory Server port to Debian ?

2005-08-07 Thread Russ Allbery
the experience of dealing with FDS's technological predecessor. Is it just the multi-master replication that people are interested in? (Whatever the answer is, assuming there is some compelling feature not found in OpenLDAP, it should go into the package description.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-07 Thread Russ Allbery
, why isn't there a lintian check which reports this problem? Probably just because no one has written one yet. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-07 Thread Russ Allbery
package did not depend from debconf. Ah, yes, if you don't ship debconf templates with the package and just use results saved by other packages, dh_installdebconf doesn't know to include the dependency in ${misc:Depends} and you have to do it manually. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Asking Debconf questions about database data

2005-08-07 Thread Russ Allbery
has a better idea. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fedora Directory Server port to Debian ?

2005-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
against ever using.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-09 Thread Russ Allbery
and have yet to have anything significant break. I'm sure that it will at some point, but the rate is, in my experience, no more frequent than once every six months, if that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Russ Allbery
, which can be extremely useful.) And, with orphaned packages or packages with busy maintainers, it's often better to take problems up with upstream for practical reasons. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Russ Allbery
-specific modifications). But given the choice between not mentioning the upstream bug reporting address at all or including it in ways that may be confusing, the latter seems clearly superior to me. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find path

2005-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find path

2005-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:34:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: For the past week, I've started getting errors like the following when building any packages in pbuilder that include shared libraries with the current tool chain in unstable: dpkg-shlibdeps

Re: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefan Hornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it's not a good revision control system is a good reason to refuse the package, for exactly the same reason that Debian still packages a telnet client even though everyone really should be using SSH

Is dpkg --compare-versions canonical?

2005-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
by the archive software? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is dpkg --compare-versions canonical?

2005-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Thanks for the confirmation! martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also sprach Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.23.1908 +0200]: Is there a document anywhere outside of the dpkg source that explains the algorithm for how version numbers are ordered by the archive software? http

Re: Is dpkg --compare-versions canonical?

2005-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
wasn't ready to change yet. Wasn't it waiting on implementation of that feature in dak, which is currently using ~ internally for something else? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: invalid-arch-string-in-source-relation amd64

2005-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
with it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
programs, but each of those four programs are considerably simpler than sed or awk and the ways in which they're being used are very common ones. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
, and then make the change. Would not changing a privacy policy in that fashion with only opt-out notification be illegal in countries with real privacy laws? I know I personally would consider it akin to the sorts of games that commercial companies play with my personal information. -- Russ Allbery

Re: Accepted fam 2.7.0-8 (source i386)

2005-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
expose a C++ interface. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
are interested in working on this, I'd be glad to be part of a maintainer team. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
penetration yet, so far as I know.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
above. Does the NFS v4 userland work with MIT Kerberos 1.4? (I have 1.4.2 packages nearly done, and am just waiting on glibc to unblock the world so that the current security fix in sid can get into etch for m68k before I upload a major new version.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Version tracking in the BTS

2005-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
not true. Something like patch available would sound a lot better to me than patched, although it's longer. That's then still true even if the patch is bad and just hasn't been triaged yet. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Version tracking in the BTS

2005-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
again. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Version tracking in the BTS

2005-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
over the bug logs and wanting to be helpful (like me) will skip over the bug on the assumption that it's already being dealt with. So if the maintainer isn't happy with the solution, they should remove the patch tag so that others know that no solution has yet been found. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
like to have shishi around to play with. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Version tracking in the BTS

2005-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Russ Allbery [Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:47:12 -0700]: Unfortunately, for a package with a moderate number of bugs (10-30), it adds a lot of clutter without a lot of clarity. Because of that, it would be great if there were some option down in the settings

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-09-01 Thread Russ Allbery
actually happen. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wnpp situation

2005-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
if upstream is still there, if the package has been superseded, if something else in Debian now does thes same job, etc. Closing after a year sounds great to me. If there's ongoing interest, the bug will be opened again. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Easy third-party package installer for debian-based distributions

2005-09-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Debian repository and tell people to add it to /etc/apt/sources.list. It's not exactly hard. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#329257: ITP: libstat-lsmode-perl -- Perl module to format file modes like ls -l

2005-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libstat-lsmode-perl Version : 0.50 Upstream Author : Mark-Jason Dominus [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/lsMode/ * License : GPL or Artistic

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Russ Allbery
and visible to anyone who is looking at the BTS for that package (ruling out user tags), and none of the other tags seem closer. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-24 Thread Russ Allbery
thing help either, though. INN isn't affected by default but is affected in a few misconfigurations that are exacerbated by this. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: bogus lintian warning

2005-10-01 Thread Russ Allbery
non-native packages. It would also be a good idea to make sure such things didn't turn up in the diff (caused by the Debian package maintainer importing the source into a revision control system when packaging it and then not building the source package properly, for instance). -- Russ Allbery

Re: bogus lintian warning

2005-10-01 Thread Russ Allbery
-source completely doesn't care about that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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