Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 02:53 -0007, Cameron Norman wrote: > Would the inclusion of more AppArmor profiles be applicable? Thanks, added along with SELinux/etc. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-23 Thread Cameron Norman
more ideas, please add them to the wiki page. If you have more information, please add it to the wiki page. If you would like to help, please choose an item and start work. Would the inclusion of more AppArmor profiles be applicable? Thanks, -- Cameron Norman

goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
information, please add it to the wiki page. If you would like to help, please choose an item and start work. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Diploma thesis about media choice and usage in Free Software communities: I need your help.

2014-03-01 Thread Mario Fux Debian ML
e Software communities as well. So please take some time or add it to your todo list or, even better, go directly to my questionnaire [1] and help me make a great diploma thesis and improve the Free Software community in some ways. The questionnaire [1] takes some 20 to 30 minutes. At the

Bug#738908: RFH: how-can-i-help -- show opportunities for contributing to Debian

2014-02-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I like this package a lot, but I don't have the bandwidth required to maintain it on my own. I would love to get some help with it. The package is quite simple, and is maintained in collab-maint. Feel free to get in touch with me if you want to help. P

DebConf14 organizing team needs your help to raise funds! (Won't take long.)

2014-02-10 Thread Brian Gupta
Hello! We are well into the planning for DebConf14 which will take place in Portland, Oregon, USA during the 23rd-31st of August, 2014. It looks like it is again going to be a great event and hope that everyone can come, but to make it happen we need your help. We are now contacting potential

Re: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail I would strongly suggest *not* doing things in private. In Debian we do as much as possible in public and this includes mentoring. If you have any questions, ask them on the deb

Re: FW: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
You may have better luck on debian-mentors (but I echo what others are saying… it sounds like your mentor is not behaving in the spirit of open source software) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: FW: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:56:57PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > If so, not you should be hit with the holy hammer of clue, but your mentor. Uh, yeah. What the hell? Who is this guy (Eribo) and why does not think it's not OK for you to take freely licensed code and use it in-line with their licensing?

Re: FW: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Arno Töll
Hi Roelof, On 03.02.2014 19:51, Roelof Wobben wrote: > But because I copied a few things from a package he maintains he wants to > stop mentoring me. This was a really really stupid thing to do and it will > never happen again do I understand it correct, that your (former) mentor stopped mentorin

FW: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, A few days ago I ask here for a mentor who can help me with becoming a Debian Maintainer. Eribo has volunteered me where I thank him a lot. But because I copied a few things from a package he maintains he wants to stop mentoring me. This was a really really stupid thing to do and it will

Help needed to maintain wordpress

2013-11-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Bcc debian-devel to make the offer both to new maintainers and experienced ones ] Hello, I would like to find someone willing to take over the maintenance of wordpress in Debian (the most popular software to run a blog). The package is in a relatively good shape but it needs active maintenance

Bug#728934: ITP: yara -- help to identify and classify malwares

2013-11-06 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
: C Description : help to identify and classify malwares YARA is a tool aimed at helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families based on textual or binary patterns contained on samples of those families. Each

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
; a labor of love for Debian. [...] > I am asking you, the Debian developers, to step up and help. I am > basically unable to contribute more than an hour a month now. There is a > new round of secret CVE bugs to fix, and some old bugs that need to be > handled. I think my October hour i

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-28 Thread Akhil Mohan
Hi Clint, I am Akhil Mohan, new to the list and eager to help everyone here in packaging latest releases of MySQL server. Amongst the points highlighted by you, I think packaging MySQL 5.6 would be one of the priorities and I would like to participate in bringing up quality packages for

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Stewart Smith
Clint Byrum writes: > I am asking you, the Debian developers, to step up and help. I am > basically unable to contribute more than an hour a month now. There is a > new round of secret CVE bugs to fix, and some old bugs that need to be > handled. I think my October hour is about to

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
25 23:36:22 -0700: > > I would like to help in some capacity. Would working in a chrooted > > environment or would one need a fully fledged os? > > > > These days I have no standing machines of Debian. I do spin up cloud > instances often that I use to do smoke testing

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Jonathan Aquilina's message of 2013-10-25 23:36:22 -0700: > I would like to help in some capacity. Would working in a chrooted > environment or would one need a fully fledged os? > These days I have no standing machines of Debian. I do spin up cloud instances often th

Re: MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-26 Thread Patrick Galbraith
Clint - perhaps you and I can talk about this in Hong Kong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5f7ce033-3ae0-4c17-8356-a31015a72...@patg.net

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-25 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I would like to help in some capacity. Would working in a chrooted environment or would one need a fully fledged os? On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > Greetings earthlings, > > As some of you may know, I've been doing the bulk of the package > mainten

MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-25 Thread Clint Byrum
s too, such as my children, and seeing the sun shine every once in a while. Thus, I have found almost no time for packaging MySQL for Debian. I am asking you, the Debian developers, to step up and help. I am basically unable to contribute more than an hour a month now. There is a new round of secret CVE

help needed: dist-upgrade of quantz.debian.org

2013-10-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, i would like to dist-upgrade quantz.debian.org to wheezy this weekend. It would be helpful if someone who knows the running cronjobs and services on quantz.d.o could contact me either by mail or on IRC. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linu

Re: Help needed to debug a failing bot on i18n.debian.org

2013-09-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Cyril Brulebois (2013-09-30): > > Yes; debian-i18n membership ping. > > > > Can't see the page on alioth due to: > > Permission denied. This project's administrator will have to grant you > > permission to view this page. > > > > so can't request i

Re: Help needed to debug a failing bot on i18n.debian.org

2013-09-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
maybe getting some more memory should be enough to get that part to work reliably. I think I'll drop -devel@ from any further replies since the call for help was answered, and people know where to follow the rest, should they be interested. Mraw, KiBi. From 94ea088fc1de135abe80e19eb11151ae95

Re: Help needed to debug a failing bot on i18n.debian.org

2013-09-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Christian PERRIER (2013-09-30): > So, in short, we need fellow developers' help. Preferrably from people > who can access i18n.debian.org and work under the debian-i18n role in > order to test things as they are. In short, Debian developers who > would be granted that role(maybe

Help needed to debug a failing bot on i18n.debian.org

2013-09-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hello fellow developers, The i18n crowd needs your help. In order to provide translators and teams with valuable material to work, we have a few automated processes that are running on the i18n.debian.org machine. The source code for all this stuff is stored in git+ssh://git.debian.org/git

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-18 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Asheesh, I just watched your talk on my way home from DebConf and decided I want to join you in the welcoming team or whatever it will be called :). A few more details on what will be happening and what is the expectation of me (and others) would be appreciated. -- Best regards, Michael --

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
for this and I hope to be able to *prove* that Blends can be help getting new developers in my talk at DebConf[1] when I present numbers that we have won one DD per year (in average) who admitted that he is only in Debian *because* this specific Blend exist. If this is possible for a leaf project

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
ept of Developer > Advisory Team is, and second I'll request help. > > The stated goals are: > > * Reach out to new contributors, thank them for their work and get > feedback. > > * Reach out to people who might be ready to apply for upload rights > and help them. &

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 02:24:43AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > I agree that mentoring is often very effective. I'd like to give some report at DebConf[1] about Mentoring of Month[2]. The report will probably not fill more than 15-20min and the focus of this BoF is rather on "seeking mor

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I'll summarize what the concept of Developer Advisory Team is, and second I'll request help. The stated goals are: * Reach out to new contributors, thank them for their work and get feedback. * Reach out to people who might be ready to apply for upload rights and help them. * Reach out

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Paul Wise wrote: I already do similar stuff but without the benefit of the tool you are working on, just based on mailing list mails from folks asking how to get involved or what I remember of folks activities. I might be interested to get more involved here but that would

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-31 Thread Paul Wise
I already do similar stuff but without the benefit of the tool you are working on, just based on mailing list mails from folks asking how to get involved or what I remember of folks activities. I might be interested to get more involved here but that would probably need to be later in the year. --

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi Asheesh, When I saw a couple of emails about "Developer Advisory Team" on debian-mentors, I had a hard time figuring out what it was about, and since I had no extra time to find an answer, I concluded that Ubuntu do what it wants... The goals t

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Nicolas Guilbert
t the concept of Developer Advisory Team is, and > second I'll request help. > > The stated goals are: > > * Reach out to new contributors, thank them for their work and get > feedback. > > * Reach out to people who might be ready to apply for upload rights and >

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
arize what the concept of Developer > Advisory Team is, and second I'll request help. > > The stated goals are: > > * Reach out to new contributors, thank them for their work and get > feedback. > > * Reach out to people who might be ready to apply for upload rights >

Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-07-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all Debianites, I've been inspired by the "Developer Advisory Team" in another project [1], and so I want to create a similar team within Debian. In this email, first I'll summarize what the concept of Developer Advisory Team is, and second I'll request hel

Re: adequate now reports incompatible-licenses - need help to verify and file bugs

2013-07-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Sune Vuorela , 2013-07-10, 11:59: On 2013-07-10, Andreas Beckmann wrote: osgearth: incompatible-licenses /usr/bin/osgearth_cache LGPLv3+ (libgnutls.so.26) + GPLv2 (libpoppler.so.19) osgearth: incompatible-licenses /usr/bin/osgearth_toc LGPLv3+ (libgnutls.so.26) + GPLv2 (libpoppler.so.19

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:13:57PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Steven Chamberlain > > > On 2013-07-22 15:49, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > It's not, it's a limitation of resizing a raid and that requiring about > > > a billion seeks across the disk surface. > > > > I didn't realise it was

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steven Chamberlain > On 2013-07-22 15:49, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > It's not, it's a limitation of resizing a raid and that requiring about > > a billion seeks across the disk surface. > > I didn't realise it was hardware RAID. > > If for example it is possible to create multiple, smaller h

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ice where we can trivially change the software. > I did not mention ZFS until now, because I didn't want limit anyone's > thinking to filesystems. But I did have it in mind all along. That does not help with resizing the RAID, given it's a hardware RAID. But again, feel f

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 2013-07-22 15:49, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > It's not, it's a limitation of resizing a raid and that requiring about > a billion seeks across the disk surface. I didn't realise it was hardware RAID. If for example it is possible to create multiple, smaller hardware RAIDs over time, then maybe al

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 2013-07-22 14:50, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > There are practical problems with your suggestions, such as resizing the > RAID taking a very long time when we add a new disk (you're looking at > weeks of seriously reduced performance). That seems like a limitation of software, at one of the lower l

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steven Chamberlain > Hi! > > On 2013-07-21 08:09, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Backups is 8 x 4T Seagate Constellation drives. Bytemark is 24 x 4T > > Seagate Constellation drives. We get setup, hosting, power, etc > > donated, so that is not part of the cost there. > > Thanks; was this j

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ct their upload habits * we can measure impact of xz and other compression of .debs * dedup.d.n seems it could help reduce unnecessary growth of the archive in future * de-duplicating between *versions* of a package is another area of interest; just one method of that is:- On 2013-07-22 09:

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2013-07-21 08:09, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: The only realistic alternative to spending the money here would be if some company donated the equivalent in hardware. It's not really possible to code ourselves out of this one. Well, we could make snapshot store binary deltas. That would kill some

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
stood out as being > quite a big purchase if it is just storage). It's quite a bit of storage. Snapshot is large. > This is somewhere that contributors could help instead of financially, > but by designing, developing, or simply documenting solutions that > would fulfill DSA nee

Re: how can we help DSA save money (was: bits from the DPL - June 2013)

2013-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
ibutions, but it doesn't make software consume less resources. > (And also because this stood out as being > quite a big purchase if it is just storage). We're not talking about a home NAS... > This is somewhere that contributors could help instead of financially, > but by de

Re: how can we help DSA save money (was: bits from the DPL - June 2013)

2013-07-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
l-purpose hardware. (And also because this stood out as being quite a big purchase if it is just storage). This is somewhere that contributors could help instead of financially, but by designing, developing, or simply documenting solutions that would fulfill DSA needs. I know this happens a bit alr

Re: [Piuparts-devel] adequate now reports incompatible-licenses - need help to verify and file bugs

2013-07-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > I just noticed in my local piuparts instance that adequate now issues > incompatible-licenses tags, too. Nice feature, Jakub! :-) adequate 0.7 is now installed on pejacevic.d.o and piu-slave, so from now on, these results will be shown on

Re: Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-16 Thread Shawn
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 15/07/13 at 21:39 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Is there a way to list services installed on my system that are managed > via service files, vs those that are managed using legacy init scripts? > I'm thinking of something like rc-

Bug#717085: ITP: seahorse-adventures -- help Barbie the seahorse float on bubbles to the moon

2013-07-16 Thread Markus Koschany
: Python Description : help Barbie the seahorse float on bubbles to the moon Barbie Seahorse Adventures is a retro style platform arcade game in the spirit of Mario 3. You are Barbie the seahorse who travels through the jungle, up to the volcano until you float on bubbles to the moon. On the

Re: Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 16/07/13 at 15:33 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > thanks for your input! > > Am 16.07.2013 14:50, schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: > > Hi, > > > > On 15/07/13 at 21:39 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am sorry for starting yet another thread on systemd, but we feel thi

Re: Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On 16/07/13 13:50, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Is there a way to list services installed on my system that are managed > via service files, vs those that are managed using legacy init scripts? If your pid 1 is systemd, "systemctl list-units | grep LSB:" should be either the correct list or pretty clos

Re: Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Lucas, thanks for your input! Am 16.07.2013 14:50, schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: > Hi, > > On 15/07/13 at 21:39 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am sorry for starting yet another thread on systemd, but we feel this >> particular post is important and should spread as widely as possib

Re: Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 15/07/13 at 21:39 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry for starting yet another thread on systemd, but we feel this > particular post is important and should spread as widely as possible > (i.e. beyond just readers of planet debian): > > http://people.debian.org/~stapelbe

Re: Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/16/2013 01:03 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Sorry that this takes a bit longer then expected, but packages based on v204 are in preparation and expect them soonish. Thanks for the update! Rock on! :) Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `

Re: Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.07.2013 22:04, schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > On 07/15/2013 09:39 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >> http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/07/14/systemd-how-to-help.html > > Thanks for the guidelines and the idea to coordinate future work! > > This actually leads me to something I h

Re: Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/15/2013 09:39 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/07/14/systemd-how-to-help.html Thanks for the guidelines and the idea to coordinate future work! This actually leads me to something I have been wondering for some time: Are there already plans to updat

Systemd support in Debian packages: how to help

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi, I am sorry for starting yet another thread on systemd, but we feel this particular post is important and should spread as widely as possible (i.e. beyond just readers of planet debian): http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/2013/07/14/systemd-how-to-help.html tl;dr: whatever you end up doing,

Re: adequate now reports incompatible-licenses - need help to verify and file bugs

2013-07-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-07-10, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > osgearth: incompatible-licenses /usr/bin/osgearth_cache LGPLv3+ > (libgnutls.so.26) + GPLv2 (libpoppler.so.19) > osgearth: incompatible-licenses /usr/bin/osgearth_toc LGPLv3+ > (libgnutls.so.26) + GPLv2 (libpoppler.so.19) > osgearth: incompatible-li

Re: adequate now reports incompatible-licenses - need help to verify and file bugs

2013-07-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Andreas, On Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > I just noticed in my local piuparts instance that adequate now issues > incompatible-licenses tags, too. Nice feature, Jakub! :-) indeed! > @Holger: this requires adequate 0.7 - is that running on the slave? nope, there is only

adequate now reports incompatible-licenses - need help to verify and file bugs

2013-07-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, I just noticed in my local piuparts instance that adequate now issues incompatible-licenses tags, too. Nice feature, Jakub! :-) Since I'm not too familiar with these issues, i'd like to see that someone with more experience in that area verifies these problems and files the corresponding R

Re: Help to fix installation problem with dotclear

2013-07-07 Thread Nicolas
Hi Vincent, I was almost sure you will say that. :-) Anyway thank for the idea and I will give it a try. Regards, Nicolas 2013/7/7 Vincent Danjean : > Le 06/07/2013 12:04, Nicolas a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> I try to fix a problem in installation of dotclear package but there's >> seems to be a p

Re: Help to fix installation problem with dotclear

2013-07-07 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 06/07/2013 12:04, Nicolas a écrit : > Hi all, > > I try to fix a problem in installation of dotclear package but there's > seems to be a problem with apache configuration files : > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709960 > > I can reproduce piuparts warnings but didn't find a s

Help to fix installation problem with dotclear

2013-07-06 Thread Nicolas
Hi all, I try to fix a problem in installation of dotclear package but there's seems to be a problem with apache configuration files : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709960 I can reproduce piuparts warnings but didn't find a solution. If anyone understand the problem and know h

Bug#710584: ITP: mediawiki-mwxml2sql -- Tools to help import MediaWiki XML dumps into database

2013-05-31 Thread wpmirrordev
Description : Tools to help import MediaWiki XML dumps into database Tools for converting MediaWiki XML dumps into a format that can be rapidly loaded into a local instance of MediaWiki. o mwxml2sql - convert MediaWiki XML dump file into MySQL INSERT commands o sql2txt - convert MySQL

Re: Call for Help: DebConf travel sponsorship team

2013-05-14 Thread Juris Kaminskis
Hi Yes i can help Juris 2013. gada 15. maijs 07:13 "Gunnar Wolf" rakstīja: > tl;dr: > > We are trying to assemble a large enough (but not too large?) team > to help us rate the travel sponsorship requests for DebConf13. Many > aspects are still open to debate,

Call for help: archive rebuilds

2013-05-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I'm unlikely to be able to do much archive rebuild work in the coming year, so I would welcome help on that front. Here is the "job" description: - maintain scripts to organize archive rebuilds, parse logs and file bugs Required skills: basic Ruby knowledge (or willi

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > And how would I use it on Debian when there is no Internet Explorer 7 > > available for non-Windows platforms? Wine? > > The purpose is to provide a web thingy, hosted on a Debian platform, > that even clients behind a legacy browser from non-free distribution can > see as they should if the

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 8 avril 2013 23:35:42, David Prévot a écrit : > Hi, > > Le 08/04/2013 16:41, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > > For general use I believe, however, that html5shiv has proven a better > > shim. It is part of Modernizr already packaged for Debian. > > AFAICT, html5shiv is not in Debian, nor p

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 08/04/2013 16:41, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > For general use I believe, however, that html5shiv has proven a better > shim. It is part of Modernizr already packaged for Debian. AFAICT, html5shiv is not in Debian, nor part of the moderni

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-04-08 21:45:34) > On 04/08/2013 09:43 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > It's a shim. You provide the support for the missing features right > > on your website. When a user loads a page in IE7, this JavaScript > > detects this and enables replacement implementa

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:29 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/08/2013 09:23 PM, David Prévot wrote: >> >> The purpose would be to provide it, via a libjs-ie7, in order to be used >> as a third party in other packages like spip. As such, I intend to >> maintain it under the Debian Javasc

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/08/2013 09:43 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: It's a shim. You provide the support for the missing features right on your website. When a user loads a page in IE7, this JavaScript detects this and enables replacement implementations of those things. Same as jQuery gives you a $ function, but here

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:29:21 +0200 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/08/2013 09:23 PM, David Prévot wrote: > > The purpose would be to provide it, via a libjs-ie7, in order to be > > used as a third party in other packages like spip. As such, I > > intend to maintain it under the D

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 08/04/2013 15:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : > And how would I use it on Debian when there is no Internet Explorer 7 > available for non-Windows platforms? Wine? The purpose is to provide a web thingy, hosted on a Debian platform,

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/08/2013 09:23 PM, David Prévot wrote: The purpose would be to provide it, via a libjs-ie7, in order to be used as a third party in other packages like spip. As such, I intend to maintain it under the Debian Javascript umbrella. And how would I use it on Debian when there is no Internet Ex

Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread David Prévot
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Prévot * Package name: ie7-js Version : 2.1~beta4 Upstream Author : Dean Edwards * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : help Internet Explorer

Bug#704248: ITP: gnome-getting-started-docs -- Help a new user get started in GNOME

2013-03-30 Thread Thomas Bechtold
-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Description : Help a new user get started in GNOME gnome-getting-started-docs package contains a intuitive 'Getting Started' guide (with video guides), that can be viewed with Yelp. It is normally used together with gnome-initial-setup, but is also very useful a

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Russ Allbery] > The problem is that the software is called wallet, both the software > itself and the primary client binary that users invoke. And, of > course, we have a bunch of documentation and automation at Stanford > that assumes that name. That actually seems like a reasonable name to me

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-09-07 21:11:51 -0500 (-0500), Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > That is what tab completion is for. Granted, but you still have to remember what you're tab-completing, and tab completion is a bit of a moving target as you add other packages which install things with somewhat similar names in your p

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:33 PM, The Fungi wrote: > On 2012-09-07 16:40:07 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] >> The problem is that the software is called wallet, both the >> software itself and the primary client binary that users invoke. >> [...] I don't think there's another UNIX/Linux

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-09-07 16:40:07 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: [...] > The problem is that the software is called wallet, both the > software itself and the primary client binary that users invoke. > [...] I don't think there's another UNIX/Linux binary of that > name. But, of course, it's still not a

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On Fri 07 Sep 2012 21:45:54 Russ Allbery escribió: > > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer writes: > > > If you go for changing the name, kerberos-wallet or krb-wallet seems > > > quite right. > > > > It's a reasonable idea for the

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Fri 07 Sep 2012 21:45:54 Russ Allbery escribió: > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer writes: > > If you go for changing the name, kerberos-wallet or krb-wallet seems > > quite right. > > It's a reasonable idea for the current implementation, but I'd rather not > use that either because the pr

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer writes: > If you go for changing the name, kerberos-wallet or krb-wallet seems quite > right. It's a reasonable idea for the current implementation, but I'd rather not use that either because the protocol was designed to not require Kerberos. It currently is

Re: Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Fri 07 Sep 2012 20:40:07 Russ Allbery escribió: [snip] > The second question is: if I should rename it, what should I call it? > Does anyone have any suggestions that are more unique but that still > preserve the property of being a reasonably easy-to-remember command-line > tool for unsophistic

Help me DTRT with upstream naming

2012-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello all, Given that this has been keeping me from packaging for Debian some software I developed at Stanford, and I'm getting more requests for packages, I will try to get past my mixed feelings of obstinance and guilt and just ask for advice or help. :) In 2007, to replace our l

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ivo De Decker writes: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:51:14PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> And this: >> yagf: Depends: 'cuneiform | tesseract-ocr' [choice 1: cuneiform from >> non-free] >> which is also a bug but a less serious one. > Why is this less serious? When you install yagf (with non-fre

Re: Bug#681419: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Ivo De Decker writes ("Bug#681419: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib"): > There's also these: > > capi4hylafax: Recommends: 'isdnactivecards' [choice 1: isdnactivecards from > contrib] > deutex: Recommends: 'doom-wad'

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-19 Thread Ivo De Decker
Hi, On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:51:14PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > We also have this: > gscan2pdf: Recommends: 'cuneiform' [choice 1: cuneiform from non-free] > which looks like a bug, which I have filed. There's also these: capi4hylafax: Recommends: 'isdnactivecards' [choice 1: isdnactivecard

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Eugene V. Lyubimkin writes ("Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib"): > On 2012-07-17 10:35, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Could someone who has the time and the tools available do a check on all > > the dependencies in main for dependencies o

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi, On 2012-07-17 10:35, Russ Allbery wrote: > Could someone who has the time and the tools available do a check on all > the dependencies in main for dependencies on non-free/contrib? This > information would be very helpful in evaluating tech-ctte bug #681419. In > particular: [...] I wrote a

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Niels Thykier , 2012-07-17, 20:03: It would also be quite interesting, although much harder to determine, whether there are any scenarios where such a dependency would result in a non-free package being installed by default. If, for example, there's a dependency on foo | foo-nonfree and some

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Niels Thykier writes ("Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib"): > I suspect installability checking of all packages should find them if > they are there. One run with non-free+contrib and one without - the > "newly" uninstallable between t

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-07-17 19:35, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hello all, > > [...] > > It would also be quite interesting, although much harder to determine, > whether there are any scenarios where such a dependency would result in a > non-free package being installed by default. If, for example, there's a > depen

tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello all, Could someone who has the time and the tools available do a check on all the dependencies in main for dependencies on non-free/contrib? This information would be very helpful in evaluating tech-ctte bug #681419. In particular: * How many total dependencies are there? (We're only int

Re: How I can help? - Second attempt

2012-07-11 Thread jose antonio
orking life but >> I do not know to program in c++ and it's something I would like to >> learn (Currently, I am developing in Java). In fact, I am following >> the manual GTKmm because I want to learn to create applications for >> Linux and especially for Gnome. > >

Re: How I can help? - Second attempt

2012-07-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:56:31 +0200 jose antonio wrote: > That said, I would like to ask if do you think I could help them to > maintain some gtk++ program by way of introduction? or should I finish > first the manual and create a small application? It needs to be a package which wil

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