Re: get-orig-source: possible MBF

2009-10-15 Thread Luke Cycon
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 23:04 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Note that the policy also says: > > | This target may be invoked in any directory, and should take > care > | to clean up any temporary files it may have left. > > I'm not sure if it is my english at fault here, but don't read t

Re: get-orig-source: possible MBF

2009-10-15 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 14:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:36:30PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > | `get-orig-source' (optional) > > > > > > As long as the policy says optional I can't see a reason for a MBF. > > I disagree, optio

Re: Bug#551026: ITP: xcite -- exciting cite utility for Emacsen

2009-10-15 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:39:15 -0500 > pe...@p12n.org(Peter Samuelson) said: > > > [TANIGUCHI Takaki] > > This program is distributed as a free software. You can > > use/copy/modify/redistribute this software freely but with NO > > warranty to anything as a result of

Re: Bug#551026: ITP: xcite -- exciting cite utility for Emacsen

2009-10-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:46:37PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit : > On jeu, 2009-10-15 at 12:39 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [TANIGUCHI Takaki] > > > This program is distributed as a free software. You can > > > use/copy/modify/redistribute this software freely but with NO >

Work-needing packages report for Oct 16, 2009

2009-10-15 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 609 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 146 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

Re: packages that use deprecated SQL escape functions

2009-10-15 Thread Ben Finney
Mauro Lizaur writes: > According to php.net [0], they recommend to use > 'mysql_real_escape_string' instead [1]. Note that > mysql_real_escape_string behaves a little bit different from > mysql_escape_string, though. > > [0] http://ar2.php.net/mysql_escape_string > [1] http://ar2.php.net/manual/e

Re: packages that use deprecated SQL escape functions

2009-10-15 Thread Mauro Lizaur
2009-10-16, Ben Finney: > Raphael Geissert writes: > > > FTR, in php 5.3 the mysql_escape_string function is marked as > > deprecated (and depending on the error reporting level it will warn) > > and in php6 it is gone. > > Reference, please? I'd like to know what function is recommended to >

Re: get-orig-source: possible MBF

2009-10-15 Thread Ben Finney
Jakub Wilk writes: > c) 15 packages call interactive programs (like lynx); Does your test determine whether this usage is actually invoking the programs interactively? e.g. ‘lynx -dump $URL’ is not interactive. -- \ “It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final | `\

Re: packages that use deprecated SQL escape functions

2009-10-15 Thread Ben Finney
Raphael Geissert writes: > FTR, in php 5.3 the mysql_escape_string function is marked as > deprecated (and depending on the error reporting level it will warn) > and in php6 it is gone. Reference, please? I'd like to know what function is recommended to replace this one. -- \ “Never use

Bug#551130: ITP: r-cran-class -- R package for classification

2009-10-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-class Version : 7.3-1 Upstream Author : W N Venables and B D Ripley * URL or Web page : * License : GPL-2 | GPL-3 Description : R package for classification This has been in Debian sin

Bug#551129: ITP: r-cran-mass -- R package Modern Applied Statistics with S

2009-10-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-mass Version : 7.3-2 Upstream Author : W N Venables and B D Ripley * URL or Web page : * License : GPL-2 | GPL-3 Description : R package Modern Applied Statistics with S This has been

Bug#551132: ITP: r-cran-spatial -- R package for spatial statistics

2009-10-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-spatial Version : 7.3-2 Upstream Author : W N Venables and B D Ripley * URL or Web page : * License : GPL-2 | GPL-3 Description : R package for spatial statistics This has been in Debi

Bug#551131: ITP: r-cran-nnet -- R package for feed-forward neural networks

2009-10-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-nnet Version : 7.3-2 Upstream Author : W N Venables and B D Ripley * URL or Web page : * License : GPL-2 | GPL-3 Description : R package for feed-forward neural networks This has been

Bug#551123: ITP: echinus -- lightweight tiling window manager

2009-10-15 Thread Alexander Polakov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Polakov * Package name: echinus Version : 0.3.7 Upstream Author : Alexander Polakov * URL : http://rootshell.be/~polachok/code * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : lightweight tiling win

Re: Bug#551026: ITP: xcite -- exciting cite utility for Emacsen

2009-10-15 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu, 2009-10-15 at 12:39 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [TANIGUCHI Takaki] > > This program is distributed as a free software. You can > > use/copy/modify/redistribute this software freely but with NO > > warranty to anything as a result of using this software. > > > >

Re: Bug#551026: ITP: xcite -- exciting cite utility for Emacsen

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[TANIGUCHI Takaki] > This program is distributed as a free software. You can > use/copy/modify/redistribute this software freely but with NO > warranty to anything as a result of using this software. > > How is it? Better. I think the context makes it clear what the auth

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2009-10-15 Thread Nowfal K.S
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Bug#551100: ITP: ethos -- GObject library for application plugins

2009-10-15 Thread Mathieu Trudel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Trudel * Package name: ethos Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Christian Hergert * URL : http://dronelabs.com/projects/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : GObject library for applicati

Re: Bug#551026: ITP: xcite -- exciting cite utility for Emacsen

2009-10-15 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Upstream author provides new license. This program is distributed as a free software. You can use/copy/modify/redistribute this software freely but with NO warranty to anything as a result of using this software. How is it? > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:06:46 -0500 > p

Re: get-orig-source: possible MBF

2009-10-15 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:08:19PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > d) 21 packages unnecessarily call dh_testroot; accidentally, all of > these packages put tarballs in a wrong directory; > f) 368 packages use uscan without --destdir (or even with > "--destdir ../") [2]; These might be good candidates f

Re: Bug#551026: ITP: xcite -- exciting cite utility for Emacsen

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[TANIGUCHI Takaki] > * "free software" satisfies > "freely usable, freely (re-)distributable > without any charge for itself, freely modifiable unless the > original author(=me)'s copyrights are infringed or neglected, > absolutely not responsible to any result from itself. " "

Re: Bug#550860: ITP: gnaughty -- downloader for adult content

2009-10-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 14 octobre 2009 à 21:34 +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > Sure, just remember to file RM bugs for: > gmailfs [...] You can add libgdata, upon which several pieces of GNOME are going to depend. Note that GNOME upstreams adopted a much more constructive stance on that matter: the libgda

Re: Bug#551026: ITP: xcite -- exciting cite utility for Emacsen

2009-10-15 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
I talked upstream author. He wouldn't provide any additional license term. His logic is ... * xcite is "free software". * "free software" satisfies "freely usable, freely (re-)distributable without any charge for itself, freely modifiable unless the original author(=me)'s copyrigh

Re: packages that use deprecated SQL escape functions

2009-10-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi Steffen, In future checks it would be easier and more accurate to look for the deprecated functions on the binary packages, because not all of the packages ship/use all of the files they include in the source package. FTR, in php 5.3 the mysql_escape_string function is marked as deprecated (an

Re: get-orig-source: possible MBF

2009-10-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:36:30PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > | `get-orig-source' (optional) > > > As long as the policy says optional I can't see a reason for a MBF. I disagree, optionality in policy means that you are not forced to have the g-o-s target. Bu

Re: get-orig-source: possible MBF

2009-10-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Jakub Wilk wrote: > I performed an experiment, in which I tried to check if source packages > are providing get-orig-source targets that comply with the Debian > Policy. Let me quote: > > | `get-orig-source' (optional) As long as the policy says optional I can't s

Re: embedded copies of Unicode data?

2009-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:59 PM, wrote: > I'd like to point out we have a package unicode-data, which has the > up-to-date unicode data files in it. I think we should file wishlist > bugs against packages using their own copies of this data. I forgot to mention that I brought this up after the

Re: embedded copies of Unicode data?

2009-10-15 Thread alastair . mckinstry
Hi, I'd like to point out we have a package unicode-data, which has the up-to-date unicode data files in it. I think we should file wishlist bugs against packages using their own copies of this data. Regards Alastair McKinstry > There are several copies of the Unicode data files in the archive,

get-orig-source: possible MBF

2009-10-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
I performed an experiment, in which I tried to check if source packages are providing get-orig-source targets that comply with the Debian Policy. Let me quote: | `get-orig-source' (optional) | This target fetches the most recent version of the original | source package from a canonica

Re: packages that use deprecated SQL escape functions - dd-list

2009-10-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:27:57AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > Thanks to Kees, I have prepared a list of packages (below) that are still > > using the deprecated functions. > Can you post a dd-list? Your list doesn't include uploaders so it's easy to > miss > team maintained packages

Re: packages that use deprecated SQL escape functions

2009-10-15 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:26:14 +1100 Steffen Joeris napsal(a): > gammu: Michal Čihař > ./gammu-1.24.0/smsd/services/pgsql.c: > PQescapeString(buffer4, buffer2, strlen(buffer2)); > ./gammu-1.24.0/smsd/services/pgsql.c: > PQescapeString(buff

Bug#551045: ITP: edfbrowser -- a viewer for medical timeseries storage files

2009-10-15 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Zoetekouw * Package name: edfbrowser Version : 115 Upstream Author : Teunis van Beelen * URL : http://www.teuniz.net/edfbrowser/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : a viewer for medical time

Re: Bug#551026: ITP: xcite -- exciting cite utility for Emacsen

2009-10-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* TANIGUCHI Takaki , 2009-10-15, 11:35: * Package name: xcite Version : 1.58 Upstream Author : HIROSE Yuuji [yu...@gentei.org] * URL or Web page : http://www.gentei.org/~yuuji/software/ * License : original This software is distributed as a free software without any

Re: packages that use deprecated SQL escape functions

2009-10-15 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hi Steffen, Steffen Joeris wrote: > Thanks to Kees, I have prepared a list of packages (below) that are still > using the deprecated functions. Can you post a dd-list? Your list doesn't include uploaders so it's easy to miss team maintained packages. Thanks, Emilio signature.asc Description:

Re: Bug#550860: ITP: gnaughty -- downloader for adult content

2009-10-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 14, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm not sure what we'd do with, say, a free software program whose sole > and exclusive purpose is to interact with the iTunes music store. Putting > it into contrib does feel like nitpicking. I am: the same thing which we do e.g. with ICQ clients. It was settled