Bug#974678: ITP: openh264 -- H.264 encoding and decoding
Bastian Germann writes: > Am 02.06.21 um 17:33 schrieb Tobias Frost: >> Is this RFS package now a downloader or the library itself? > > It's both. The -dev package is created from the source files and > resides in main. The library package contains the downloader as a > postinst script, which checks the known SHA256 hashes. > There are some example userspace tools available in the package which > could potentially be packaged in an additional package. I left this > for a later version. > > There is also a chance that reproducible build might be implemented: > https://github.com/cisco/openh264/issues/893 > When that works, the package could build the lib, verify the resulting > hashes, and throw away the built binary. That way we could be sure not > to have any additions to the downloaded library that are not available > as source. > > I think, as Cisco provides the patent license, having the downloader > in contrib (for some architectures) is better than having the built > library in main (for all compiling architectures). We could also > provide both. Any thoughts? As I understand Debian Policy, downloading anything during postinst is discouraged, if not banned. So it would be best to avoid it. In terms of the patent license, I do not think that x264 has any special dispensation. So just directly building and packaging openh264 should not open Debian to any significant additional liability. But as always, the FTP masters will be the final arbiter of that. Cheers, Walter
Bug#884592: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#884592 fonts-fantasque-sans: variants use the same name, making them unusable in most programs
Hello, I just ran into this bug. When set up by default, I get the LargeLineHeight variant, which is definitely not what I want. When using Font Manager or Gnome Tweaks, it is really not clear to me how I can even select other variants. So, for what it is worth, my vote is to have separate named variants. Right now, running fc-list, I get the font names Fantasque Sans Mono:style=Bold Fantasque Sans Mono:style=Bold Italic Fantasque Sans Mono:style=Italic Fantasque Sans Mono:style=Regular To incorporate the NoLoopK and LargeLineHeight variants, I would propose the names: Fantasque Sans Mono:style=Regular Fantasque Sans NoLoopK Mono:style=Regular Fantasque Sans LargeLineHeight Mono:style=Regular Fantasque Sans LargeLineHeight NoLoopK Mono:style=Regular Fantasque Sans Mono:style=Bold Italic Fantasque Sans NoLoopK Mono:style=Bold Italic Fantasque Sans LargeLineHeight Mono:style=Bold Italic Fantasque Sans LargeLineHeight NoLoopK Mono:style=Bold Italic Fantasque Sans Mono:style=Italic Fantasque Sans NoLoopK Mono:style=Italic Fantasque Sans LargeLineHeight Mono:style=Italic Fantasque Sans LargeLineHeight NoLoopK Mono:style=Italic Fantasque Sans Mono:style=Regular Fantasque Sans NoLoopK Mono:style=Regular Fantasque Sans LargeLineHeight Mono:style=Regular Fantasque Sans LargeLineHeight NoLoopK Mono:style=Regular If it would be helpful, I could put together a patch. Thanks, Walter Landry
Bug#700227: GIMP hangs
FYI, if for whatever reason you do not want to uninstall libopenblas-base, a workaround for this bug is to set OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 before running gimp. Setting it to anything larger than 1 makes gimp hang for me. Cheers, Walter Landry
Bug#902981: Font-Awesome 5 no build system DFSG compatibility
Simon McVittie writes: >> Considering DFSG #2: >> > The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in >> > source code as well as compiled form. > > The "program" (package, module) includes source code: [x] > > The license allows distribution of that source code: [x] You may or may not consider this dispositive, but the definition of source code from GPL v3 is The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities. So a makefile or equivalent is required. On a more practical level, Debian has to be able to rebuild all of the binaries from source. If you can not do that, then that would be an RC bug. Cheers, Walter Landry
Bug#891981: installation-report: Buster Alpha 2 on Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen 3 (2018)
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.68 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB Image version: Buster Alpha 2 Date: Feb 2018 Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen 3 (2018) Partitions: Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev devtmpfs 8070244 0 8070244 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 1616984 30360 1586624 2% /run /dev/nvme0n1p2 ext4 57411424 21625372 32840004 40% / tmpfs tmpfs 8084912 0 8084912 0% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock tmpfs tmpfs 8084912 0 8084912 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/nvme0n1p4 ext4 909885976 288896076 574700492 34% /home /dev/nvme0n1p1 vfat523248 132523116 1% /boot/efi tmpfs tmpfs 161698016 1616964 1% /run/user/116 tmpfs tmpfs 1616980 5216 1611764 1% /run/user/1000 Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [E] Detect network card:[E] Configure network: [E] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup:[O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system:[O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader:[O] Overall install:[O] Comments/Problems: The directions on how to create a bootable USB drive (Section 4.3.1) are slightly confusing. When I plug in a USB drive, it automounts under Gnome. If I unmount it in Gnome, then I can not 'cp' the iso. I have to run umount /dev/sdb1 as root. As a suggestion, you could add the text Important If Gnome has automounted the USB drive, you will have to manually unmount it first. Do that manually as root (e.g. umount /dev/sdb1). Do not unmount it within Gnome. When initially booting, the screen went black. I had to enable CSM under UEFI to get it to work. At that point, the text was tiny, but workable. After install, I was able to disable CSM and everything still works. I also tried setting the BIOS to Legacy, and that seemed to work well. The fonts were a reasonable size. I had to disable Secure Boot, but I think that is expected. In the course of all this, I tried changing the boot parameters. The instructions say to press uppercase 'E', but only lowercase 'e' works. Also, after typing 'e', I was unable to read the instructions. The background is very light in the center, and the text is light. So either the background or the font color needs to be changed. This machine has Intel wireless, which the installer detected. It prompted me to install a USB stick. I inserted an installer image for Stretch which included firmware. Oddly enough, after I inserted the USB stick and pressed 'Enter' to continue, it always asked again for firmware. Pressing 'Enter' a second time made it work. This is different from my Thinkpad X230T, where the firmware was detected the first time. I tried using the wireless at work. The authentication for the network required WPA enterprise, which does not seem to be supported by the installer. During the install, the trackpoint worked, but the trackpad did not. I am still having problems getting my tablet functionality working 100%. It works in MyPaint and Gnome Terminal, but not in Gimp. I think it is related to this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519961 -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org. == Installer lsb-release: == DISTRIB_ID=Debian DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer" DISTRIB_RELEASE="10 (buster) - installer build 20171204" X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom == Installer hardware-summary: == uname -a: Linux mechane 4.13.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.13.13-1 (2017-11-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5914] (rev 08) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2259] lspci -knn: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5917] (rev 07) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2259] lspci -knn: 00:04.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem [8086:1903] (rev 08) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2259] lspci -knn: 00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Skylake Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911] lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2259] lspci -knn: 00:13.0 Non-VGA unclassified device
Bug#891973: installation-report: Buster Alpha 2 on Thinkpad X230T
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.68 Severity: normal Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB Image version: Buster Alpha 2 Date: Feb, 2018 Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad X230T Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card:[O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup:[O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system:[O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader:[O] Overall install:[O] Comments/Problems: Easiest Debian install I have ever done. The installer autodetected the Intel wireless adapter and prompted me to insert a USB drive for firmware. I inserted a USB drive with the Stretch installer which included firmware, and it was able to find the firmware. There is still a problem with Wayland and the tablet functionality which I think is the same as this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519961 but that is not a problem with the installer. -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org. == Installer lsb-release: == DISTRIB_ID=Debian DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer" DISTRIB_RELEASE="10 (buster) - installer build 20171204" X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom == Installer hardware-summary: == uname -a: Linux daikaiju 4.13.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.13.13-1 (2017-11-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller [8086:0154] (rev 09) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2203] lspci -knn: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2203] lspci -knn: 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2203] lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd lspci -knn: Kernel modules: xhci_pci lspci -knn: 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1e3a] (rev 04) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2203] lspci -knn: 00:16.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family KT Controller [8086:1e3d] (rev 04) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2203] lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: serial lspci -knn: 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1502] (rev 04) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21f3] lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: e1000e lspci -knn: Kernel modules: e1000e lspci -knn: 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1e2d] (rev 04) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2203] lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci lspci -knn: Kernel modules: ehci_pci lspci -knn: 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2203] lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel lspci -knn: Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel lspci -knn: 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1e10] (rev c4) lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pcieport lspci -knn: 00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1e12] (rev c4) lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pcieport lspci -knn: 00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:1e14] (rev c4) lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pcieport lspci -knn: 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1e26] (rev 04) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2203] lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci lspci -knn: Kernel modules: ehci_pci lspci -knn: 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation QM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller [8086:1e55] (rev 04) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2203] lspci -knn: 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:1e03] (rev 04) lspci -knn:
Bug#853568: No idea how to fix abs arguments in nanopolish
Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > to fix bug #853568 I tried a patch (gcc-7.patch) to fix abs() arguments > in nanopolish[1] but I have no idea how to deal with this: > > ... > g++ -o src/hmm/nanopolish_pore_model_set.o -c -g -O2 > -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/nanopolish-0.5.0=. -fstack-protector-strong > -Wformat -Werror=format-security -g -O3 -std=c++11 -fopenmp -Wdate-t > src/common/nanopolish_variant.cpp: In function 'std::vector > extract_variants(const string&, const string&)': > src/common/nanopolish_variant.cpp:32:69: error: call of overloaded > 'abs(std::__cxx11::basic_string::size_type)' is ambiguous > size_t difference = std::abs(reference.size() - haplotype.size()); The result of subtracting two size_t's is still a size_t, which is unsigned. So you need to cast it to a signed type. The correct type is ptrdiff_t. http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/ptrdiff_t The line then becomes size_t difference = std::abs(static_cast(reference.size() - haplotype.size())); Or you could do it in two lines ptrdiff_t diff_signed (reference.size() - haplotype.size()); size_t difference = std::abs(diff_signed); Cheers, Walter Landry
Bug#843717: ITP: tablator -- Universal table translator for astronomy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Walter Landry <wlan...@caltech.edu> * Package name: tablator Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Walter Landry <wlan...@caltech.edu> * URL : https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/tablator * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Universal table translator for astronomy Tablator is a utility for converting tables in astronomy into different formats. Tablator can read and write tables in fits, ipac table, hdf5, votable, json, json5, csv, and tsv, and can write html. The emphasis is on speed, so all conversions are done in memory.
Bug#843570: ITP: json5-parser -- C++ library to parse JSON5
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Walter Landry <wlan...@caltech.edu> * Package name: json5-parser Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Walter Landry <wlan...@caltech.edu> * URL : https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/json5_parser * License : MIT and BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : C++ library to parse JSON5 JSON5_Parser is a C++ library that reads and writes JSON5 and JSON files or streams. It is written using the Boost Spirit parser generator. If you are already using Boost, you can use JSON Spirit without any additional dependencies. JSON5_Parser is a fork of the JSON Spirit library, with enhancements for reading JSON5.
Bug#841104: ITP: cspice -- C implementation of The SPICE Toolkit
Rock Storm <rockst...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 17:23 -0700, Walter Landry wrote: >> I replaced the build system with waf. I have a waf package already. >> Waf is a bit controversial in Debian, so I need to make an ITP and see >> what the Debian consensus is. > > I completely ignore waf and how it works, but I'll take a look at it, > it seems promising. FYI, I filed my waf ITP. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843325 For reasons I do not understand, it has yet to show up on debian-devel. > Even though it is a pain and feels outdated I was sticking to > upstream's build system, I'd rather modify the source as little as > possible. In case it helps, I am attaching a Makefile that builds using the upstream build system. It is for a specialized setup we have here, but should work with minor tweaks. It does not build shared libraries. > As soon as the licensing issue is cleared up I'll upload my progress in > case you'd like to review it and/or collaborate. Are you in contact with upstream? Cheers, Walter Landry INSTALL = install INSTALL_PROGRAM = $(INSTALL) -m 755 -p INSTALL_DATA = $(INSTALL) -m 644 -p INSTALL_DIR = $(INSTALL) -m 755 -d prefix=$(shell cd ../..; pwd) exec_prefix=$(prefix) bindir=$(exec_prefix)/bin libdir=$(exec_prefix)/lib includedir=$(prefix)/include/cspice datadir=$(prefix)/data all: installdirs if [ ! -d cspice/ ] ; then \ tar -xf dist/cspice.tar.Z ; \ else true ; \ fi cd cspice; ./makeall.csh $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) cspice/exe/* $(bindir) rm -rf $(datadir)/* $(INSTALL_DATA) cspice/data/* $(datadir) rm -rf $(includedir)/* $(INSTALL_DATA) cspice/include/* $(includedir) $(INSTALL_DATA) cspice/lib/* $(libdir) # symlink cspice.a to libcspice.a, the usual name for a library ln -f -s cspice.a $(libdir)/libcspice.a installdirs : $(INSTALL_DIR) $(bindir) $(libdir) $(includedir) $(datadir) install: true clean: rm -rf cspice/
Bug#843325: ITP: waf -- Tool for configuring, building, and installing projects
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Walter Landry <wlan...@caltech.edu> * Package name: waf Version : 1.9.5 Upstream Author : Thomas Nagy * URL : http://waf.io/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Tool for configuring, building, and installing projects Waf provides functionality similar to autotools (autoconf, automake, make). Waf build scripts are also valid python, so build scripts can easily use functionality from other python libraries to perform complex actions. --- I am trying to package waf because it is a build dependency for a few other packages I would like to package. I have a potential sponsor lined up for these, but I have to figure out the waf package first. There is a special note to packagers because waf tends to be included in compiled form with software sources. https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#waf Doing a quick search curl -s https://codesearch.debian.net/results/22044ee2fe5c4350/packages.json | jq -r '.Packages[]' | wc -l shows 39 packages might also benefit from a central installation of waf. --- I currently have a setup that creates two packages: waf and python3-waflib. That means that the build scripts must be valid python 3. If needed, I could also make a python2-waflib. In that case, we might want to have different executables for python2 and python3. --- Waf has had a somewhat contentious history in Debian. It was packaged and then removed upon request by upstream. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580712 I have had a conversation with upstream (Thomas Nagy). Nagy still opposes a generic 'waf' package, but is fine with giving it a specific version number (e.g. waf-1.9.5). https://groups.google.com/d/msg/waf-users/T8f_-HW9_Tw/tuRk0IpIAQAJ I will defer to the consensus here on what to name the package and any executables.
Bug#841104: ITP: cspice -- C implementation of The SPICE Toolkit
Rock Storm <rockst...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 14:02 -0700, Walter Landry wrote: >> FYI, I created a package for this for my own use. > > That's awesome! Is it uploaded somewhere? Could you share it with me? I > would love to take a look at it. Here is a tarball. https://caltech.box.com/s/f64t26xgauc9re6k3sryv5spagipslnu As promised, the package is not optimal. It is versioned with git, but the modifications to debian/ and the main package are mixed. If DEBFULLNAME and DEBEMAIL are set, then running fakeroot debian/rules binary should give you three rpms cspice_0065-1_amd64.deb libcspice-dev_0065-1_amd64.deb libcspice_0065-1_amd64.deb I replaced the build system with waf. I have a waf package already. Waf is a bit controversial in Debian, so I need to make an ITP and see what the Debian consensus is. Cheers, Walter Landry
Bug#841104: ITP: cspice -- C implementation of The SPICE Toolkit
Rock Storm <rockst...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 14:02 -0700, Walter Landry wrote: >> FYI, I created a package for this for my own use. > > That's awesome! Is it uploaded somewhere? Could you share it with me? I > would love to take a look at it. I can share it. Give me a day or so. The build is ... complicated. >> It is pretty terrible, but if I find the time, I may be able to make >> a proper package. If you already have a proper package, yours is >> probably better. > > I've been busier than I expected so I haven't done much yet, probably > merging our efforts is the best option. Ok. > Nevertheless, I still have to discuss with legal whether distributing > this package complies with the DFSG. For what it is worth, I am a regular on debian-legal. In this link http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit//C/PC_Linux_GCC_64bit/packages/README I see a disclaimer, but no right to modify. This link https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/rules.html allows modification, but not simple redistribution? To make things even more muddy, this presentation https://indico.esa.int/indico/event/111/session/27/contribution/130/material/slides/0.pdf says that it is "free of licensing". So it is pretty clear that we have to get a clarification on what, exactly, the license is. It looks like the person to talk to is the NAIF manager at JPL. His contact info is in the 'rules' link. Clarifying this could, potentially, take a while. Cheers, Walter Landry
Bug#841104: ITP: cspice -- C implementation of The SPICE Toolkit
FYI, I created a package for this for my own use. It is pretty terrible, but if I find the time, I may be able to make a proper package. If you already have a proper package, yours is probably better. Cheers, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu
Bug#804645: slurm-drmaa-dev: Missing symlink for libdrmaa.so.1
Subject: slurm-drmaa-dev: Missing symlink for libdrmaa.so.1
Package: slurm-drmaa-dev
Version: 1.0.7-1+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Consider this simple "Hello DRMAA" program
#include "drmaa.h"
int main()
{
char diagnosis[DRMAA_ERROR_STRING_BUFFER];
drmaa_init(NULL, diagnosis, sizeof(diagnosis)-1);
}
I can compile it with the command
gcc drmaa_init.c -o drmaa_init -ldrmaa
Running it gives me the error
drmaa_init: error while loading shared libraries: libdrmaa.so.1: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
The real libraries are in
/usr/lib/slurm-drmaa/lib
with symlinks set up using the alternatives section. There is a link for
libdrmaa.so
but not for
libdrmaa.so.1
I can work around it using RPATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but my impression
is that it should not be required.
Thank you,
Walter Landry
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages slurm-drmaa-dev depends on:
ii slurm-drmaa1 1.0.7-1+b1
slurm-drmaa-dev recommends no packages.
slurm-drmaa-dev suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Bug#788508: python-dap: New version available
Package: python-dap Version: 2.2.6.7-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, There is a new version of pydap available at pydap.org. The current version is about 7 years out of date. Thank you, Walter Landry -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages python-dap depends on: ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-httplib2 0.9+dfsg-2 Versions of packages python-dap recommends: ii python-cheetah 2.4.4-3 ii python-paste1.7.5.1-6 ii python-pastedeploy 1.5.2-1 ii python-pastescript 1.7.5-3 python-dap suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#717942: libwcstools-dev: Missing wcscat.h
Package: libwcstools-dev Version: 3.8.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The header file wcscat.h is not included. This includes declarations of functions like ctgread, which , according to http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/subroutines/libwcs.cat.html seem to be publicly available api's. The libraries /usr/lib/libwcstools.a /usr/lib/libwcstools.so.0.0.0 already seem to have the necessary exported symbols. It is just the header wcscat.h that is missing. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libwcstools-dev depends on: ii libwcstools0 3.8.5-1 libwcstools-dev recommends no packages. libwcstools-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#692613: [php-maint] Bug#692613: php5: non-free files in upstream tarball (The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil)
Thijs Kinkhorst th...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 13:01, Ondrej Sury wrote: OK, it's very much annoying (since the tarball is huge and the updated module won't hit PHP 5.5), but I will comply. This seems like a paper exercise which I doubt is worth our efforts. I seems extremely unlikely that the author of the software could have a legally valid case where a judge would positively decide that a use case is objectively Evil and in violation of this license. I don't see a practical risk to anyones freedom being in jeopardy here. Surely it's an annoying license, so when removing it is opportune we should do it, but in this case the potential gains (if any?) do not seem to outweigh the cost. The problem is not whether Debian can distribute the software. The problem is that the tarball that Debian distributes to users must not contain non-free bits. This is hardly the first time that this has come up [1]. Yes, it is annoying for the packager. But it is useful for the user to know that, whatever is in the tarball, they will not have to do any forensic analysis before using the tarball. Cheers, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu [1] For example, http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/11/msg00083.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/11/msg00280.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/07/msg00043.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#695262: bsdgames-nonfree: Coredump after loading save file
Package: bsdgames-nonfree
Version: 2.17-4
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream patch
Dear Maintainer,
When running the game, saving and then reloading, I sometimes get a segfault.
I managed to track down the problem. Rogue's objects use a const char* to
represent damage (e.g. 1d3). The pointer to this string gets saved in the
savefile, but not the string itself. When the program is run again, the
pointer is no longer valid, leading to segfaults.
A solution to this is to use a fixed size array of char's (I used char[7]
so that the size remains the same). Then the whole object will be a simple
POD and serialize correctly. I have attached a patch (patch -p6
bsdgames.patch).
Note that this will break save files. But you could argue that they were
already broken ;)
Cheers,
Walter Landry
wlan...@caltech.edu
diff -ru /home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17
/home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17_patched/
diff -ru /home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17/rogue/init.c
/home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17_patched/rogue/init.c
--- /home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17/rogue/init.c
2003-12-16 18:47:37.0 -0800
+++ /home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17_patched/rogue/init.c
2012-12-06 01:28:28.160049621 -0800
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
obj = alloc_object(); /* initial weapons */
obj-what_is = WEAPON;
obj-which_kind = MACE;
- obj-damage = 2d3;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,2d3,7);
obj-hit_enchant = obj-d_enchant = 1;
obj-identified = 1;
(void) add_to_pack(obj, rogue.pack, 1);
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
obj = alloc_object();
obj-what_is = WEAPON;
obj-which_kind = BOW;
- obj-damage = 1d2;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,1d2,7);
obj-hit_enchant = 1;
obj-d_enchant = 0;
obj-identified = 1;
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
obj-what_is = WEAPON;
obj-which_kind = ARROW;
obj-quantity = get_rand(25, 35);
- obj-damage = 1d2;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,1d2,7);
obj-hit_enchant = 0;
obj-d_enchant = 0;
obj-identified = 1;
diff -ru /home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17/rogue/object.c
/home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17_patched/rogue/object.c
--- /home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17/rogue/object.c
2003-12-16 18:47:37.0 -0800
+++
/home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17_patched/rogue/object.c
2012-12-05 23:33:49.596264092 -0800
@@ -536,25 +536,25 @@
switch(obj-which_kind) {
case BOW:
case DART:
- obj-damage = 1d1;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,1d1,7);
break;
case ARROW:
- obj-damage = 1d2;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,1d2,7);
break;
case DAGGER:
- obj-damage = 1d3;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,1d3,7);
break;
case SHURIKEN:
- obj-damage = 1d4;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,1d4,7);
break;
case MACE:
- obj-damage = 2d3;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,2d3,7);
break;
case LONG_SWORD:
- obj-damage = 3d4;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,3d4,7);
break;
case TWO_HANDED_SWORD:
- obj-damage = 4d5;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,4d5,7);
break;
}
}
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@
obj-picked_up = obj-is_cursed = 0;
obj-in_use_flags = NOT_USED;
obj-identified = UNIDENTIFIED;
- obj-damage = 1d1;
+ strncpy(obj-damage,1d1,7);
return(obj);
}
diff -ru /home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17/rogue/rogue.h
/home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17_patched/rogue/rogue.h
--- /home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17/rogue/rogue.h
2005-02-15 22:24:50.0 -0800
+++
/home/boo/random_stuff/roguelike/bsdgames-nonfree-2.17_patched/rogue/rogue.h
2012-12-05 23:31:08.344256787 -0800
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
struct obj { /* comment is monster meaning */
unsigned long m_flags; /* monster flags */
- const char *damage; /* damage it does */
+ char damage[7]; /* damage it does */
short quantity; /* hit points to kill */
short ichar;/* 'A' is for aquatar */
short kill_exp; /* exp for killing it */
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bsdgames-nonfree depends on:
ii libc62.13-37
ii libncurses5 5.9-10
ii libtinfo5
Bug#685117: Installation Report: Thinkpad X230T
: [O] Install boot loader:[O] Overall install:[O] Comments/Problems: I have the Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 wireless card, which requires firmware to work. I copied firmware.tar.gz to a USB stick, but the installer could not find it. Looking at the instructions again, it seems that I have to unpack firmware.tar.gz for the detection to work. It would be nice if the installer knew to try to unpack firmware.tar.gz to find the needed hardware. In any case, with the firmware, the hardware works well. The tablet functionality seem to work fine, though I do not know a good way to change the orientation. In Gnome, using System Settings/Displays, if you rotate the orientation, the pen coordinates do not get mapped correctly (up is left, down is right, etc.). Annoyingly, I had to manually set up the eraser in Gimp and Xournal. If I boot with monitors connected to the VGA and DisplayPort ports, then the monitor and laptop screens flash with some error messages but can never decide where to display anything. If I pull out the VGA and DisplayPort connectors, then it settles down and displays on the laptop. Once that is done, I can reconnect the displays and set them up with System Settings/Displays in Gnome. The equivalent setup works fine with my Thinkpad X220T with Intel HD 3000, so I am guessing that the HD 4000 is not fully supported yet. I was getting random freezes of the whole system. It seemed to happen when doing more graphical activity. My guess is that it is something like bug #677444. I upgraded to the kernel 3.4-trunk-amd64 from experimental, and I have not had any more freezes. I still have the problem with multiple monitors. Cheers, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#613822: installation-reports: Squeeze (amd64 and i386) cannot load NIC firmware from USB during installation for Poweredge 2950
Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #613822 Hi, I just wanted to add that I had the same problem (the installer could not find the firmware for my wireless) on my new Thinkpad X220 Tablet. As a workaround, I ran a shell, mounted the usb stick manually, and then copied the iwlwifi* firmware to /lib/firmware. -- Package-specific info: Boot method: usb Image version: wheezy Date: Date and time of the install Machine: Thinkpad X220 Tablet Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [ ] Detect network card:[ ] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system:[ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup:[ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Overall install:[ ] Comments/Problems: Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install. -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#655436: installation-reports: Graphical install does not detect mouse or keyboard
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, When I tried the graphical installer, it would give me the first screen (selecting the language or keyboard, I forget), but both the mouse and keyboard do not work. The text installer works fine. -- Package-specific info: Boot method: usb Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: Date and time of the install Machine: Thinkpad X220 Tablet Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [ ] Detect network card:[ ] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system:[ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup:[ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Overall install:[ ] Comments/Problems: Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install. -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#655437: installation-reports: kernel image selection is confusing
Package: installation-reports Severity: minor Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, When installing on my X220 Tablet, at one point it asks me to choose which kernel I want to use. The choices were something like linux-image-amd64 and linux-image-3.1.0-amd64. There is no information for why you would want to choose one or the other. In fact, they both end up installing the same kernel, so it seems it would be best if this question could be avoided entirely. Thanks, Walter Landry -- Package-specific info: Boot method: usb Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: Date and time of the install Machine: Thinkpad X220 Tablet Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [ ] Detect network card:[ ] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system:[ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup:[ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Overall install:[ ] Comments/Problems: Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install. -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#655438: installation-reports: nilfs2 support
Package: installation-reports Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, It would be nice to support nilfs2 as a option during installation. It seems that there are only two things that need to be done: Add nilfs2 to the list of kernel modules, and get partman to support nilfs2. I presume the first thing is easy, but I do not know how hard the second is. I worked around it by using a Debian Squeeze Live CD. That allowed me to run gparted to create the partitions, and then mkfs.nilfs2 to make the filesystems. Otherwise, I just followed the instructions in Appendix D.3 Installing Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System. The only thing I had to special was to add nilfs2 to the file /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and then run update-initramfs -u in the chroot. Thanks, Walter Landry -- Package-specific info: Boot method: usb Image version: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/hd- media/boot.img.gz Date: Date and time of the install Machine: Thinkpad X220 Tablet Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [ ] Detect network card:[ ] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system:[ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup:[ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Overall install:[ ] Comments/Problems: Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install. -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#570621: Parsing output = derivative work?
Miriam Ruiz mir...@debian.org wrote: In general, I wouldn't consider parsing the output of another program to de a derivative work. In general, I do agree with Miriam that parsing the output of another program does not make a derivative work. But just to give an example of where it does happen, git is largely comprised of many small utilities that communicate over pipes and command-line arguments. Cheers, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537414: Please default to 1.8 interface for hdf5-1.8.x
Greetings, I was recently bitten by this bug again. HDF5 has had the new API for almost 3 years. This is getting a bit ridiculous. It is time for Debian to use the new API. From http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/APICompatMacros.html For new code development, The HDF Group recommends use of the compatibility macro mapped to the latest version of the function. Debian is making it impossible to use this compatibility macro. If you download HDF5 from the net and build software against it using the recommended API, it will not then build against the Debian version. In addition, it seems that there is an easy workaround for people who want to use the old API, but there is no easy workaround for people using the new API. So pretty please, with sugar on top, change the default API. Thanks, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#564276: Ubuntu trademark non-free?
Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I had been looking at this bug for a few days now as well the the Ubuntu Trademark Policy [1]. I am not a legal person, so I would like to bring it to the attention of people who are, to see if this policy makes the application non-free in its current state. The statements that stands out to me are: We reserve the right to review all usage within the open source community, and to object to any usage that appears to overstep the bounds of discussion and good-faith non-commercial development. and Restricted use that requires a trademark licence Permission from us is necessary to use any of the Trademarks under any circumstances other than those specifically permitted above. These include: - - Any commercial use. This makes it clearly non-free. It is best to just replace anything trademarked by Ubuntu. Cheers, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#585909: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Garbage on screen during initial boot if KMS enabled
Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 13:08 -0700, Walter Landry wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon Version: 1:6.13.0-2 Severity: important I upgraded this driver, and now when X starts during bootup I just get random garbage all over the screen. If I switch to a virtual terminal, it is fine. I can then restart gdm, and the screen comes up mostly fine. The one problem is that my monitor connected via displayport does not work. It is detected, but for some reason it does not get any commands. It is just black, and goes to sleep. If I disable kernel mode setting in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf, then X completely works again. [...] Current Operating System: Linux dante 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 22:40:40 UTC 2010 x86_64 Try a 2.6.32-4-amd64 or newer kernel. Using 2.6.32-5 fixes all of the problems. I actually had it installed, but grub was not showing it. Thanks, Walter Landry wal...@geodynamics.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#574134: term: COLUMNS not set correctly when running in X
Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org wrote: Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu writes: When running emacs in X, if I run M-x term, then the COLUMNS environment variable is not set correctly. I think that this is because there is a half-width space on the left and right sides of the window. There may also be a scrollbar. So COLUMNS will be too big by one or two. When I run emacs in a terminal, COLUMNS is set correctly, since it does not have to worry about the half-width spaces or scrollbar. This causes problems if you want to run applications like aptitude, because aptitude writes characters all the way to the right side of the screen. It also causes problems if I ssh into a remote machine and run emacs there. Can you describe a way to reproduce this? I tried running M-x term in an X emacs with a scrollbar, and COLUMNS was set to 80, and there were in fact 80 columns. This is odd. I can not reproduce it either. I am running testing, and I do not think that emacs was updated since I submitted the bug report. It was definitely misbehaving before, and it is definitely behaving now. So I guess you can close this bug. Thanks for your time, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#574134: term: COLUMNS not set correctly when running in X
Package: emacs23 Version: 23.1+1-5 Severity: normal When running emacs in X, if I run M-x term, then the COLUMNS environment variable is not set correctly. I think that this is because there is a half-width space on the left and right sides of the window. There may also be a scrollbar. So COLUMNS will be too big by one or two. When I run emacs in a terminal, COLUMNS is set correctly, since it does not have to worry about the half-width spaces or scrollbar. This causes problems if you want to run applications like aptitude, because aptitude writes characters all the way to the right side of the screen. It also causes problems if I ssh into a remote machine and run emacs there. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages emacs23 depends on: ii emacs23-bin-common 23.1+1-5 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii install-info4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libasound2 1.0.22-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libatk1.0-0 1.28.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype62.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgif4 4.1.6-9 library for GIF images (library) ii libglib2.0-02.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.3 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.6-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-16.1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libm17n-0 1.5.5-1 a multilingual text processing lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libotf0 0.9.10-1 A Library for handling OpenType Fo ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.43-1 PNG library - runtime ii librsvg2-2 2.26.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1X11 Session Management library ii libtiff43.9.2-3+b1 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-62:1.3.3-1X11 client-side library ii libxft2 2.1.14-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1X11 pixmap library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-1X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime emacs23 recommends no packages. Versions of packages emacs23 suggests: ii emacs23-common-non-dfsg 23.1+1-1 GNU Emacs shared, architecture ind -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#572982: EPL + LGPL compatiblity?
Pablo Duboue pablo.dub...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We seek some advice regarding #572982 [1] (azureus, a well-known torrent client, combines source licensed under incompatible licenses). From Niels quoted sources, there is no doubt about the incompatibility of GPL and EPL. But LGPL and EPL might be a different matter and Google has proved quite unfriendly on this regard. I think that the LGPL v3 is compatible with the EPL. The LGPL allows you to convey combined works as long as you can recompile the LGPL parts. Since we have the source for everything, this is not a problem. Cheers, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#494126: paraview sometimes kills xserver
I used to have this problem, but it always turned out to be a graphics card issue. With certain operations, I could reliably kill my xserver on my machine running with an ATI card. But my machine with Intel graphics never had a problem. Cheers, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550295: ktouch: Letters are cut off
Package: ktouch Version: 4:4.3.1-1 Severity: normal When displaying the letters that you type, the bottom 30% of the characters are not displayed. This is true whether or not the keyboard is being shown. The version in Lenny seems to work fine. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ktouch depends on: ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.3.1-1 runtime components from the offici ii kdelibs5 4:4.3.1-1 core libraries for all KDE 4 appli ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libqt4-xml4:4.5.2-2 Qt 4 XML module ii libqtcore44:4.5.2-2 Qt 4 core module ii libqtgui4 4:4.5.2-2 Qt 4 GUI module ii libstdc++64.4.1-4The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ktouch recommends no packages. Versions of packages ktouch suggests: ii khelpcenter4 4:4.3.1-1 Help Center for KDE 4 -- no debconf information attachment: cutoff.png
Bug#550297: ktouch: Colemak letters not marked correctly
Package: ktouch Version: 4:4.3.1-1 Severity: normal When running a lesson with the Colemak keyboard layout, the keyboard is displayed correctly, but which key to type is marked wrong. For example, if the next letter is r, ktouch highlights the p key. The p key on Colemak is where the r key is on QWERTY. So it is as if ktouch has changed the display of the keys, but not its internal mapping. The DVORAK layout works fine. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ktouch depends on: ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.3.1-1 runtime components from the offici ii kdelibs5 4:4.3.1-1 core libraries for all KDE 4 appli ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libqt4-xml4:4.5.2-2 Qt 4 XML module ii libqtcore44:4.5.2-2 Qt 4 core module ii libqtgui4 4:4.5.2-2 Qt 4 GUI module ii libstdc++64.4.1-4The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ktouch recommends no packages. Versions of packages ktouch suggests: ii khelpcenter4 4:4.3.1-1 Help Center for KDE 4 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#546385: installation-report: Minor issues with install
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.38 Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Business card daily image, Sept 4 Date: Date and time of the install Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad W500 Partitions: Partition Table for /dev/sda ---Starting Ending-Start Number of # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl SectorSectors -- - - - --- --- 1 0x8011 0 0x83 254 63 121 63 1959867 2 0x0001 122 0x83 254 63 3768 195993058589055 3 0x0001 3769 0x83 254 63 437660548985 9767520 4 0x0001 4377 0x05 254 63 2432070316505 320400360 5 0x0011 4377 0x83 254 63 23834 63 312592707 6 0x0011 23835 0x82 254 63 24320 63 7807527 FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 xfs 848860142648706212 17% / tmpfstmpfs 1996612 8 1996604 1% /lib/init/rw udev tmpfs 10240 180 10060 2% /dev tmpfstmpfs 199661288 1996524 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda5 xfs 156165280 94399904 61765376 61% /home /dev/sda2 xfs29163452 4983896 24179556 18% /usr /dev/sda3 xfs 4752688 2737540 2015148 58% /var Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O ] Detect network card:[O ] Configure network: [O ] Detect CD: [O ] Load installer modules: [E ] Detect hard drives: [O ] Partition hard drives: [O ] Install base system:[O ] Clock/timezone setup: [O ] User/password setup:[O ] Install tasks: [O ] Install boot loader:[E ] Overall install:[O ] Comments/Problems: I tried the graphical installs for LXDE, XFCE, and the default. The pointing stick did not work, but the trackpad worked fine. The machine has switchable graphics (Intel integrated and ATI). The VESA driver was automatically selected, which thought my screen (1920x1200) is even wider than that. If I set the graphics to one or the other in the BIOS, then it used the correct driver and the screen resolution was fine. I used XFS as the filesystem on all of my partitions. It would be nice to be able to pass options to mkfs. I ended up using rescue mode to make the filesystems exactly the way I wanted. However, the regular rescue mode did not work. The graphical rescue mode worked fine. When manually partitioning, the meanings of the labels B, F, and K are not immediately apparent. This is not such a big deal, since it is really for experts only. It used Grub by default, but that did not install. I ended up using Lilo. This is probably just bug #545226. It is nice that I can specify a number of different options when mounting filesystem. However, I can not specify the logbufs option, which can be useful for tuning XFS performance. My wireless card (Intel 5300) is supported by the kernel. However, I was never prompted to load the necessary firmware from USB. I could get it to work by starting a shell and manually loading the firmware. I usually used the wired connection (Intel 82567LM Gigabit), which worked fine. I felt the XFCE install was too bare-bones. It was missing a lot of things useful for laptop owners. It was actually better to install the default Gnome desktop and then add the XFCE task. Keyboard information was asked for twice: once at the beginning and once for console-setup. I got asked questions about a samba server. This was a little annoying, since I did not ask for samba and do not know anything about it. I am not sure of the best way to solve this. In general, things went quickly and/or I had a good sense of progress, so it was a fairly pleasant experience. As a comparison, I also tried installing Ubuntu 9.04. It had no problem detecting the pointing stick and used the Intel video driver. It really did not like XFS, though. -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org. == Installer lsb-release: == DISTRIB_ID=Debian DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Debian GNU/Linux installer DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.0 (squeeze) - installer build 20090903-00:00 X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom == Installer hardware-summary: == uname -a: Linux dante 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jul 18 12:55:06 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07) lspci -knn:
Bug#492696: Combining Artistic|GPL-1+ with GPL-2 and LGPL-3+
MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: Damyan Ivanov d...@debian.org wrote: [Please Cc me on replies. Thanks] Most of the code is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself, [...] In addition to that, some icons are licensed under LGPL-3+, and some more icons are licensed under GPL-2. From how I understand it, if we choose GPL-2 for the main code, that still leaves the combination of GPL-2 (code and some .png icons) and LGPL-3+ (.png icons). Is such aggregation OK? If it's mere aggregation, I believe each stays under their own licence. Just to be clear, if it is not mere aggregation, then it is not ok. If the LGPL-3+ icons are required for the program to operate correctly, that is a hint that licenses need to be compatible with GPL-2. Cheers, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#448359: window list applet hangs
Package: gnome-panel Version: 2.20.3-5 Followup-For: Bug #448359 Greetings, Since I did not see any followup to the original bug, this is a confirmation that it does exist. I recently installed Lenny on my machine and all that I have to do is open about nine windows and the whole panel freezes. As mentioned earlier, a workaround is to change the window list preferences to allow grouping of windows. At this point, the best course of action might be to change the default preference so that users do not run into this simply by opening up a bunch of windows. Cheers, Walter Landry wlan...@caltech.edu -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on: ii gnome-about2.22.3-2 The GNOME about box ii gnome-control-center 1:2.22.2.1-2 utilities to configure the GNOME d ii gnome-desktop-data 2.22.3-2 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a ii gnome-menus2.22.2-4 an implementation of the freedeskt ii gnome-panel-data 2.20.3-5 common files for the GNOME Panel ii libatk1.0-01.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.7-16GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-7 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1simple interprocess messaging syst ii libecal1.2-7 2.22.3-1.1Client library for evolution calen ii libedataserver1.2-92.22.3-1.1Utility library for evolution data ii libedataserverui1.2-8 2.22.3-1.1GUI utility library for evolution ii libgconf2-42.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-01:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.22.3-2 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome-menu2 2.22.2-4 an implementation of the freedeskt ii libgnome2-02.20.1.1-1The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-2The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-5GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgtk2.0-02.12.11-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii liborbit2 1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.20.3-5 library for GNOME Panel applets ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libwnck22 2.22.3-1 Window Navigator Construction Kit ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxau61:1.0.3-3 X11 authorisation library ii menu-xdg 0.3 freedesktop.org menu compliant win Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends: ii alacarte 0.11.5-1 easy GNOME menu editing tool ii evolution-data-server 2.22.3-1.1 evolution database backend server ii gnome-applets 2.22.3-3 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel ii gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii gnome-session 2.22.3-2 The GNOME 2 Session Manager Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests: ii gnome-system-tools 2.22.0-3 Cross-platform configuration utili ii gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.22.3-3 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii gnome-user-guide [gnome 2.22.1-1 GNOME user's guide ii konsole [x-terminal-emu 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 X terminal emulator for KDE ii nautilus2.20.0-7 file manager and graphical shell f ii xterm [x-terminal-emula 235-1X terminal emulator ii yelp2.22.1-8+b1 Help browser for GNOME 2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#507579: Help needed for bug 507579 (AGPL issue).
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear debian-legal, yocto-reader is a package licenced under the AGPL, and due to the novelties of this license there is divergence of interpretation on wether this package is fit for the release or not. Can you have a look to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507579 and help to resolve the issue? The bug is quite short so I hope there is no need to make a summary. The main issues are: - Wether the Debian package is a modification of upstream work that fails to provide access to the diff and the build environment. Upstream is also the Debian maintainer. So the question of whether Debian is modifying the code is sufficiently fuzzy that I do not feel comfortable saying anything definite. If someone else takes over maintenance (e.g. QA), then they would have more work on their hands. - Wether it is acceptable to have html pages that include a link to a remote non-free Google javascript. If I understand correctly, the Google javascript is required in order for the page to work properly. In Debian parlance, this means that yocto-reader depends on the Google javascript. So at a minimum yocto-reader would have to go into contrib. Now, it also seems like the Google javascript implements an API that yocto-reader uses. This makes the javascript more like a library, and the AGPL requires the source of all of the libraries that it uses. In summary, I am unsure about the first point, but I agree with Florian Weimer about the second point. Unfortunately, this means that the code can not be packaged unless it is relicensed. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#504007: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: Thinkpad T43 also does not boot
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 Version: 2.6.26-8 Followup-For: Bug #504007 My laptop, a Thinkpad T43, has the exact same behavior: lots of dots and then it hangs. So it is not specific to the Acer. I also use LILO, and all of my partitions use XFS. The 2.6.25-2 kernel still works fine. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92j tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 recommends: ii libc6-i6862.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 suggests: ii lilo 1:22.8-6 LInux LOader - The Classic OS load pn linux-doc-2.6.26 none (no description available) -- debconf information: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.26-1-686: shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.26-1-686: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: false linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.26-1-686: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.26-1-686: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.26-1-686: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.26-1-686: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.26-1-686: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.26-1-686: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.26-1-686: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.26-1-686: true linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.26-1-686: false linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.26-1-686: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.26-1-686: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.26-1-686: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370295: sun-java must not provide java2-runtime
I was not CC'd, so I did not notice this action on this bug until now. severity 370295 important thanks You are the release manager, and you can modify the normal processing of bugs. So I won't argue about the severity of this bug. The rationale given for reopening this bug was: The SWT example suggests that it is OK to reimplement large parts of the Java API and configure Sun's Java to run with it, but the plain language of the license prohibits it. Even though the license text appears to prohibit this, and even though the license text asserts that the FAQ is non-binding, we have: You are confusing me. The FAQ _is_ binding. - a statement from upstream (in the FAQ) that the DLJ does not prohibit distributing sun-java5 together with eclipse, which implies it does not prohibit distributing it together with SWT That is why this is all so confusing. Sun contradicts itself. The reasonable thing to do is to find out what Sun wants before charging ahead with packaging. - an upstream liaison who understands Debian packaging and how these packages are put together and who, after reviewing this bug report, closed it with the statement that these issues have been addressed. I don't know what upstream thinks. I know what Tom Marble says, but Tom Marble has never claimed that he speaks authoriatively for Sun when deciding whether the packaging is ok. I have asked him several times, and he never replied to that question. It is also debatable whether Debian has combined, configured, or distributed the Software to run in conjunction with any additional software that implements the same or similar functionality or APIs as the Software. We are distributing the software in such a way that a user can opt to combine them The provides: java2-runtime line configures sun's java to run with any program that needs it. I do not understand how you can argue otherwise. , but even though sun-java5 is listed as providing java2-runtime, on a default Debian system non-free is not even listed in the apt configuration. It does not matter whether sun-java is available on a default Debian system. It only matters whether Debian is the one distributing the incompatible packages. I'm not going to claim that there are no bugs in the way this package is currently licensed; lack of clarity is always a bug. But I don't believe there is anything here that warrants holding the package out of the release -- and upstream apparently agrees. In any case, the code will become GPL, so this problem will go away on its own. It is unfortunate that the package was rammed through without competent review of the license. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370295: DLJ prevents running jython with sun-java
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Walter, reopen 370295 Please do not reopen this bug again. This bug has not been resolved. So I have reopened it. Please do not close it until it has been resolved. Getting an answer to the questions I posted will resolve this bug. I'm looking through the RC-buglist for etch and noticed this bug. I'm surprised by your recent reopening of this bug. I've read it and the following applies: * The package maintainer is of the opinion that this is not a bug; * The Debian FTP-master is of the opinion that this is not a bug; I see the maintainer (Matthias) saying that he needs some clarifications from Sun. I see a comaintainer and FTP assistant (Jeroen) at times saying it is not a bug, and at other times saying that I should open a new bug. So it is not clear to me what the collective opinion of the maintainers is. If the collective opinion has coalesced, then I would love to hear it. * The upstream copyright holder is of the opinion that this is not a bug; Upstream initially felt the same way about #370296. Upstream was eventually persuaded to clarify the license and the bug was closed. That has not yet happened with this bug. I honestly do not know what upstream really wants here. You act like you're authorised to override these people's decisions. From the developers reference [1] If the bug submitter disagrees with your decision to close the bug, they may reopen it until you find an agreement on how to handle it. I have asked some questions to upstream, and we are now waiting for them to respond. Upstream has been fairly responsive, so I am hopeful that this can be resolved soon. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-bug-housekeeping -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370295: DLJ prevents running jython with sun-java
reopen 370295 retitle 370295 sun-java must not provide java2-runtime thanks Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:54:26PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: This bug is about whether the Debian package should provide java2-runtime. This is the most appropriate place to discuss this issue. Subject: DLJ prevents running jython with sun-java No, it's not. Please open a new bug if you want to discuss that. I have retitled the bug. This buglog is so full of very widely distinct issues, it's unmanagable to respond to -- now it's verly closely resembling a meta-bug I don't think sun-java5 belongs in Debian's non-free section. This bug has always been about how the Debian package is configured. I have never claimed that the problems in this bug makes it impossible to have in non-free. Perhaps you have confused this bug with other bugs you have commented on (e.g. 370245 and 370296)? Please do not reopen this bug again. This bug has not been resolved. So I have reopened it. Please do not close it until it has been resolved. Getting an answer to the questions I posted will resolve this bug. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370295: DLJ prevents running jython with sun-java
reopen 370295 thanks Tom Marble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All: Distribution of Java SE with Linux or OpenSolaris is governed by the DLJ; however, these FAQ's are offered to explain and illustrate some of the language in the license. Sun's goals are to make the software widely usable while maintaining compatibility. I am doing my best to help resolve issues that are raised. It should be clear that the use of SWT is acceptable under the DLJ from FAQ #15 [1]. I agree. However, the point still stands that Debian must not only check whether the package itself implements a similar API, but must also check all of the users of the package and their dependencies. This only affects how Debian packages Sun's Java, not whether Debian can package it at all. To make this class of concerns explicitly clear we have added DLJ FAQ #34 [2]. This new FAQ item seems to be a blanket retraction of the problematic clause 2c, since Debian is now allowed to configure and distribute Sun's Java to work with any other software. This includes GNU Classpath. Unfortunately, this FAQ entry also contradicts DLJ FAQ #14. So now I really do not know what limits Sun is putting on configuring technology to work together. Can I 1) Reimplement only one small part of the Java API (e.g. javax.servlet.jsp.el) and configure it to work with Sun's Java? 2) What about a larger part (e.g. libcommons-*-java)? 3) What about almost all of the core library (e.g. classpath)? 4) For all of the above questions, what if they are in a different namespace? The SWT example suggests that it is OK to reimplement large parts of the Java API and configure Sun's Java to run with it, but the plain language of the license prohibits it. If you could provide clear answers to the above questions, I think that we can resolve this issue. I am closing this bug as the issues covered here have been addressed. Allow me to reiterate the appeal made previously by Jeroen when he closed this bug the first time that if anyone believes there is still a problem please specify a concrete working example of how to get a DLJ-incompatible situation with just using apt-get install. I mentioned it earlier apt-get install sun-java5-bin sun-java5-jre apt-get install libcommons-el-java Adding still more, new issues to this bug will not facilitate constructive discussion of the DLJ and Debian. Venues for voicing such concerns include the jdk-distros forum [3], the DLJfeedback [4] alias and the debian-java mailing list [5]. This bug is about whether the Debian package should provide java2-runtime. This is the most appropriate place to discuss this issue. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370295: SWT is java and implements similar functionality to Swing (II)
Johan Walles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As mentioned by somebody on Debian-legal, http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/libswt3.1-gtk-java says: SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) provides functionality similar to Swing. The DLJ at http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-v1.1.txt says: do not combine, configure or distribute the Software to run in conjunction with any additional software that implements the same or similar functionality or APIs as the Software. If I'm reading the DLJ correctly, this means Debian isn't allowed to distribute SUN's JDK if that makes it possible to run SWT apps with it. Not being able to run Eclipse (which is an SWT app) would make Debian's JDK package useless for me. So this is a different wrinkle of the problem. Here, SWT is not invoked directly by Sun's JDK, but a program does use both at the same time. If Sun's license had said run in conjunction with any additional java software instead of run in conjunction with any additional software then there would not be a problem. The end result of this is that Debian must be even more careful when declaring that a package can run with Sun's JDK. Debian must not only check whether the package itself implements a similar API, but must also check all of the users of the package and their dependencies. This could end up encompassing most of the java packages in Debian. Sun's java would still be useful for developing applications, but not so useful for running applications distributed by Debian. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370295: DLJ prevents running jython with sun-java
reopen 370295 thanks Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:15:10AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:37:45PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote I think the main reason this is not a issue is the following: Everybody realizes that because of the configurability of Linux and Debian in particular, if someone wants to run and mix-and-match technologies on one's own system, one can do so. There is no way this can be technically prevented. This particular license statements intends to forbid shipping mix-and-matching code and applications, as once mentioned as example, a Sun's JVM combined with classpath. As per FAQ#14, Sun has an issue if parts of the JDK/JRE were used together with other non-Sun parts to create a Java implementation. Debian does ship Sun's JDK/JRE in such a way that it is configured to run completely as a single suite. Existance of other packages, even those implementing similar features to the same API, do not result in a Java implementation configured as such by Debian that's consisting of bits of Sun with bits of other things. Debian has configured libcommons-el-java (for example) to run with either gij-4.1 or sun-java5-jre via the virtual package java2-runtime. They should just work together. That is the whole point of dependencies. It is still possible for extra packages that implement part of the Java class library API to be configured by the user to create a configuration that is in violation of the DLJ. However, Debian doesn't do so, and the user must have read the license while installing sun-java5 from non-free, and then realizes that this is not what Sun wants. Note that merely apt-get install'ing does *not* get you into this situation, in order to get additional libraries to supersede/augment the available classes, you need to modify classpath directives (similar to LD_LIBRARY_PATH for C): see libcharva1-java, libgnu-regexp-java and libgetenv-java's README.Debian for example. You do not have to override the existing implementation of those API's to get into trouble. The language in the DLJ is same or similar, not just same. Once a newer Java policy makes it easier to just install and use such additional classes by managing the classpath better, we'll need to ensure that if Sun is used, this is not happening by default. The best way to do this is to have Sun's java not provide generic virtual packages like java2-runtime. As long as a package is not using the exact same namespace and interface, it's not a drop-in replacement, but rather a similar (but distinct) piece of software that you're perfectly fine of using with Sun Java. Neither the DLJ nor Sun's FAQ make any mention of namespaces, and neither one deals only with exact matches or drop-in replacements. Nothing in either document suggests that these packages can coexist with Sun Java. Any Java package in Debian which follows the Debian Java policies qualifies as configured to run with Sun Java, and thus any such package which implements the same or similar interfaces will constitute a license violation. I disagree with 'qualifies as configured to run with Sun Java', see above, and also, I don't share this reading of what qualifies software that implements the same or similar API's, from elaborate talks with Sun, I believe we must interpret this as narrowly as I suggested above. Anyway, the latter point is not very relevant because of the former. The elaborate talks you had with Sun are not part of the license. I have asked Tom Marble more than once whether his comments are binding on Sun. He has declined to answer that question, so we can only go by what is in the license. snip On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:40:12AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: In any case, it may well be that libgetenv-java is buggy. Fixing it should not suddenly cause a license problem. There are still all of the packages libcharva1-java libcommons-*-java libregexp-java which have dependencies that are fulfilled by java2-runtime. liboro-java should probably depend on a java2-runtime as well. I believe the above also addresses your concerns. Therefore, I'm now closing this bug (again), if anyone still believes there is a problem, please specify a concrete working example of how to get a DLJ-incompatible situation with just using apt-get install. apt-get install sun-java5-bin sun-java5-jre apt-get install libcommons-el-java libcommons-el-java is an implementation of the API in javax.servlet.jsp.el. This is really a simple bug to fix. Just take out the Provides: java2-runtime. Then the second apt-get line would pull in a free runtime. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370295: DLJ prevents running jython with sun-java
Tom Marble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Landry wrote: [...] All of the examples given above are good, but libgetenv-java is about as clear as you can get. It only depends on java2-runtime and libc, and it serves as a replacement for java.lang.System.getenv. It creates a hybrid implementation. If you want to argue that it is the other packages fault, go ahead. That would make the java2-runtime virtual package much less useful, in which case there should be a java2-runtime-free virtual package. Obviously making sun-java5 not provide java2-runtime (or whatever provides Debian Java Policy settles upon) defeats the purpose of packaging Sun Java. Not really. Having sun-java5 provide java2-runtime only allows other Debian packages to use sun-java5 without special casing. Users can still manually specify everything needed to compile and run programs. That is a big improvement over the current situation. In any case, a package can still use a Depends: line like Depends: java2-runtime | sun-java5-jre if there is no conflict between what the package does and the DLJ. I appreciate your trying to address an entire class of problems, but in the case of libgetenv-java it appears that the jar is malformed. We're it formed correctly it would be in it's own namespace. The problems persist even if it is in its own namespace. In any case, it may well be that libgetenv-java is buggy. Fixing it should not suddenly cause a license problem. There are still all of the packages libcharva1-java libcommons-*-java libregexp-java which have dependencies that are fulfilled by java2-runtime. liboro-java should probably depend on a java2-runtime as well. Finally, can Debian rely on your statements as official statements of Sun, or must Debian only look to the DLJ and DLJ FAQ? Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#377560: More direct replacement examples
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:37:45PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: jikes-sun implements a javac compiler, and uses the Sun JDK. This is indeed as far as I can see a violation of Sun's license to do, it's however a bug in jikes-sun: jikes-sun is the package combining technology in a way that's not allowed by the license of one of the used packages. This was already a problem before the DLJ, also the old Sun Java license didn't allow to do so. This is not actually a bug, since javac does not use sun-java5, but blackdown's distribution. That makes any issues with jikes-sun wholly separate from the sun-java5 packages. The relevant part of the EULA you get from blackdown is A.Software Internal Use and Development License Grant. Subject to the │ terms and conditions of this Agreement, including, but not limited to │ the Java Technology Restrictions of these Supplemental Terms, Sun grants │ you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to │ reproduce internally and use internally the Software complete and │ unmodified for the purpose of designing, developing, and testing your │ Programs. I see no conflict with the end-user using jikes-sun in conjunction with the JDK to design, develop, and test programs. So I see no reason why this bug can not be closed. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370295: DLJ prevents running jython with sun-java
reopen 370295 thanks Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:16:24AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: In the Distributor License for Java, there is the clause (c) you do not combine, configure or distribute the Software to run in conjunction with any additional software that implements the same or similar functionality or APIs as the Software; Debian distributes Jython, which can run with sun-java. However, Jython, being a reimplementation of Python, implements a great deal of similar functionality as sun-java. In Sun's, ftp-master's, nor package maintainer's opinion, this is something that the license is seeking to prevent at all -- see also the FAQ questions now included in upstream's LICENSE file (and in Debian in 'copyright'). The FAQ makes it clear that shipping Python and Perl are not problems. It does not make it clear that Jython is ok, although Tom's reply clearly states that. Not as good as I would like, but I will take it. snip Any libfoo-java package in Debian will run with the current installed JDK. Thus, any libfoo-java package in Debian which implements the same or similar functionality as Sun Java causes Debian to violate the license on Sun Java. Obvious examples include libswingwt-java (which implements much of the Swing API), libcharva1-java, libcommons-*-java (similar functionality), Java XML processing tools that implement the standard APIs, libgnu-regexp-java (since, if I recall correctly, Sun Java includes regular expression handling), liboro-java (same reason), libregexp-java (same reason), libgetenv-java (specifically notes itself as a replacement for java.lang.System.getenv), and probably others. I don't think any of these are a violation of the license, most clearly as per FAQ#14. Sun clearly does not want to allow hybrid implementations, where parts of Sun's JDK is replaced by another. It seems they even object if the new parts use a different namespace. From the FAQ #14 However, you can't use pieces of the JDK configured in conjunction with any alternative technologies to create hybrid implementations, or mingle the code from the JDK with non-JDK components of any kind so that they run together. All of the examples given above are good, but libgetenv-java is about as clear as you can get. It only depends on java2-runtime and libc, and it serves as a replacement for java.lang.System.getenv. It creates a hybrid implementation. If you want to argue that it is the other packages fault, go ahead. That would make the java2-runtime virtual package much less useful, in which case there should be a java2-runtime-free virtual package. Since I believe that there are no doubt-points left legal-wise, especially and specifically not on sun-java5 itself, I'm now closing this bug. I have reopened the bug. As I noted earlier, a simple technical fix is to make sun-java not provide java2-runtime etc. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370296: DLJ only allows distributing the exact same file
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # submitter clarification needed tags 370296 moreinfo thanks On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:13:10AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: severity 370296 normal thanks I think that is your interpretation. The paragraph cited never talks about the exact same file. It's an archive of some form, which is unpacked and repacked in the deb format. - no files in the archive is distributed modified. - all files in the archive are complete. completeness is guaranteed by package dependencies, except for the files declared as optional in the README. In the README, there is the statement The limited set of files from the JDK listed below may be included in vendor redistributions of the J2SE Runtime Environment. They cannot be redistributed separately, and must accompany a JRE distribution. This does not seem to allow a separate JDK package, since the JRE would not _always_ accompany the JDK. Later, the README says In Debian, a JRE is always accompanying a JDK thru the dependencies, so this point is moot. ^ That is the the point. It is only through dependencies. I can still run wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/s/sun-java5/sun-java5-jdk_1.5.0-07-1_i386.deb and have the JDK without the JRE. I can even install it, using the appropriate options to dpkg. I could easily imagine a confused user doing exactly that. That is why it is necessary to get a clarification from Sun that enforcing completeness only through package dependencies is ok. snip We did check with Sun that the resulting packaging conforms to the distribution terms. If you have a binding statement from Sun that it is OK to enforce completeness only through package dependencies, then it would be great if you could put that in the copyright file. This has meanwhile happened. Where? The DLJ FAQ does not address this. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#335278: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 June 2006 01:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:58:59AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: /** * 'Alleged RC4' Source Code picked up from the news. * From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John L. Allen) * Newsgroups: comp.lang.c * Subject: Shrink this C code for fame and fun * Date: 21 May 1996 10:49:37 -0400 */ I think it should be easy to replace that code by a DFSG-free implementation of RC4. Openssl include one. I'm afraid that I can not use OpenSSL licensed code into GPL program (shc) without a special OpenSSL exception given from the shc's upstream, which unfortunately did not respond to any mail sent yet. Also I'm a litle bit scared to reimplement that myself - I might introduce hell of bugs at least ;-) ... deviating from upstream for the matter of that is not a good idea also. libgcrypt also has an RC4 implementation. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370245: Export control problems in license
Tom Marble wrote: Walter: I have just posted a notice to debian-legal about the availability of new DLJ FAQ [1] which further clarifies our intent. Please see the new FAQ#30 [2]. Unfortunately, the problem is not with the DLJ. The DLJ was always fine. To be specific, when the package from Sun is installed, the clause is in a file at the top level called COPYRIGHT. If the copyright notice in that file does not actually apply to anything in the java package, then it should be removed. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370296: DLJ only allows distributing the exact same file
Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: severity 370296 normal thanks I think that is your interpretation. The paragraph cited never talks about the exact same file. It's an archive of some form, which is unpacked and repacked in the deb format. - no files in the archive is distributed modified. - all files in the archive are complete. completeness is guaranteed by package dependencies, except for the files declared as optional in the README. In the README, there is the statement The limited set of files from the JDK listed below may be included in vendor redistributions of the J2SE Runtime Environment. They cannot be redistributed separately, and must accompany a JRE distribution. This does not seem to allow a separate JDK package, since the JRE would not _always_ accompany the JDK. Later, the README says If you wish to distribute the JRE rather than the JDK... which implies that they do not consider the case of splitting the JDK from the JRE. We did check with Sun that the resulting packaging conforms to the distribution terms. If you have a binding statement from Sun that it is OK to enforce completeness only through package dependencies, then it would be great if you could put that in the copyright file. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370245: Export control problems in license
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:56:07AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: Package: sun-java5-jre Version: 1.5.0-06-1 Severity: serious In the copyright file there is the phrase Export or reexport to countries subject to U.S. embargo or to entities identified on U.S. export exclusion lists, including, but not limited to, the denied persons and specially designated nationals lists is strictly prohibited. This is also repeated in French. The mirrors in the US may or may not implement this kind of restriction, but I do not think that the Debian mirrors in Canada (for example) restrict downloads from Cuba. This notice does not claim to be part of the license of the work. This phrase is part of the copyright statement. I do not understand why you think it is not binding. The DLJ does not claim to be the sole license for the work. It states that distribution to these parties is strictly prohibited. This is a true statement: it is strictly prohibited, by the United States government. I don't see any reason why it's warranted to read more into it than that. If that is all that were meant, then they would have been satisfied with the phrase This product is covered and controlled by U.S. Export Control laws and may be subject to the export or import laws in other countries. which is also in the copyright statement. They went further than that, which would lead a reasonable person to believe that they intended a greater effect. They even put it in french, which strongly implies that they meant it to apply to Canadians. If Sun does not intend that to be the case, then they can remove the phrase. It is easy for Sun to fix. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370295: DLJ prevents running jython with sun-java
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:16:24AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: This can be fixed by making Jython conflict with sun-java, although I suspect that there may be other packages that also cause problems. Another fix for this particular problem is to make sun-java not Provide:java-runtime etc. at all. There have been various clarifications that the intent of this clause is to prohibit distributing sun-java5 in a configuration that mixes and matches parts of Sun's implementation with other Java implementations. Why are these clarifications not sufficient when we regularly accept clarifications of this nature from other copyright holders? There are a few problems here: 1) Clarifications from other copyright holders do not come with a big disclaimer stating that the clarification has no legal weight. Debian relies on the clarification having legal weight. 2) Clarifications are typically for minor ambiguities. One example is where someone put code into a project and forgot to change the license to the project's license, thus creating a conflict. For cases where there are real problems with the wording of the license, Debian makes the copyright holder rewrite the license. 3) There are only two clarifications I know of. One is in the non-binding DLJ FAQ, and the other is from Tom Marble [1]. Neither of these clarifications limit the restrictions to Java implementations. For example, in Tom's clarification he says [2] In a similar way please don't take bits from the Java platform and use them as part of or to complete alternate technologies (e.g. plugin.jar). So using Java's plugin mechanism to implement python plugins for Jython is not allowed. And this makes sense. Sun would definitely be unhappy if the JDK were used to implement J++ or C#, especially because they are not Java. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] It is unclear to me how binding Tom Marble's clarifications are on Sun. I somehow doubt that he is clearing every email with Sun's legal department, though I could be wrong. [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00165.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370245: Export control problems in license
Package: sun-java5-jre Version: 1.5.0-06-1 Severity: serious In the copyright file there is the phrase Export or reexport to countries subject to U.S. embargo or to entities identified on U.S. export exclusion lists, including, but not limited to, the denied persons and specially designated nationals lists is strictly prohibited. This is also repeated in French. The mirrors in the US may or may not implement this kind of restriction, but I do not think that the Debian mirrors in Canada (for example) restrict downloads from Cuba. Note that this is different from the clause in the DLJ, which could just be interpreted as a notice about US law. This problem was brought up with Sun [1], but they did not respond. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00176.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370296: DLJ only allows distributing the exact same file
Package: sun-java5-jre Version: 1.5.0-06-1 Severity: serious In the DLJ, there is the clause Sun also grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free limited license to reproduce and distribute the Software, directly or indirectly through your licensees, distributors, resellers, or OEMs, electronically or in physical form or pre-installed with your Operating System on a general purpose desktop computer or server, provided that: (a) the Software and any proprietary legends or notices are complete and unmodified; ... According to the copyright file, Debian gets the package from http://download.java.net/dlj/binaries/ That location only has a single binary package. However, Debian splits that into multiple packages (sun-java5-bin, sun-java5-jdk, sun-java5-jre, etc.). So Debian is not distributing the code complete and unmodified. This problem was brought up with Sun [1]. They explained why it is nice to split up the package, but failed to explain why Debian is allowed to do the split. Jeroen also commented about it [2], and makes the argument that the changes necessary for package management are acceptable. But this does not explain why Debian can split the package, thus only distributing part of what Debian gets from Sun. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00151.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00141.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#370295: DLJ prevents running jython with sun-java
Package: sun-java5-jre Version: 1.5.0-06-1 Severity: serious In the Distributor License for Java, there is the clause (c) you do not combine, configure or distribute the Software to run in conjunction with any additional software that implements the same or similar functionality or APIs as the Software; Debian distributes Jython, which can run with sun-java. However, Jython, being a reimplementation of Python, implements a great deal of similar functionality as sun-java. This can be fixed by making Jython conflict with sun-java, although I suspect that there may be other packages that also cause problems. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#346354: AW: Bug#346354: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have verfified that the actual sources for the generated HTML are Microsoft Word documents and that those will not be distributed. Does the mean that the maxdb-doc package will have to be pulled from the repository? Yes, unless you get a license exemption from the copyright holder allowing Debian and its mirrors to distribute the HTML as is. They will probably agree. In that case, it goes into non-free. Sorry for the extra work. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#346354: AW: Bug#346354: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:35:51AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have verfified that the actual sources for the generated HTML are Microsoft Word documents and that those will not be distributed. Does the mean that the maxdb-doc package will have to be pulled from the repository? Yes, unless you get a license exemption from the copyright holder allowing Debian and its mirrors to distribute the HTML as is. They will probably agree. In that case, it goes into non-free. It's not obvious to me that either the license exemption or the non-free categorization are necessary here. GPL requires the preferred form for modification, which for most people working on derivative works would probably *not* be the Word docs? The people actually doing modifications use the Word format, not the HTML format. It seems clear to me that the Word format is preferred. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#346354: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?
Guido Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've been asked by the debian release team to look into this bug and see what can be done to have a successful resolution... The situation seems to be this one: 1) maxdb-doc is a package which contains some GPL licensed html manual files 2) the GPL asks for the source code (defined as: preferred form of the work for making modifications to it) to be available 3) the html files are determined to be automatically generated by a tool called SAP Html Export, and the files which originate them are not available This seems to be a problem only because the GPL is used... Would the files be under a less restrictive licence we would be perfectly OK distributing them as is... Sort of. Debian requires source for everything that it distributes in main. If it were not GPL'd, it would still have to go into non-free. I'm addressing this mail to the debian-legal list too for a consultation about whether they think this package is distributable at all or not as is, and what would they recommend... As is, it is not distributable. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#323099: no longer a bug.
Mike O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from the documentation in question: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``GNU General Public License'' and ``GNU Free Documentation License'', with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. The only things the documentation license holds as invariant are the GPL and the GFDL themselves, and Debian already accepts those as being invariant, this documentation should no longer be considered non-free in light of GR-2006-01. But becuase of this, I'm copying debian-legal. Unfortunately, no. The GFDL already requires that the license be included in the document, so putting it in an invariant section does not change anything. However, that is not true for the text of the GPL. If someone wants to reuse the documentation for a BSD-licensed work, the GPL would be completely off topic. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#349279: tailor: _process.py seems under non-GPL license
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although /usr/share/doc/tailor/copyright states GPL for tailor package, this is not GPL for sure. -- problem. This is a problem, though not all that serious. The copyright info must be correct. This license only gives permission when fee is not charged. That seems to be DSFG1 violation. Also mixing code of GPL and this seems to be incompatible. This is a fairly standard license. The usual way of interpreting it is that you need not pay any fees in order to copy, modify, or distribute. Not that you may not sell copies. So it is GPL compatible. I looked further and found practically the same code is licensed under # Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreement. # See http://www.python.org/2.4/license for licensing details. for python2.4. (subprocess.py) So no real issue should exist. Thus marked this as important instead of serious. If the version in Debian depends on python 2.4, then this is fine. Upstream may balk at requiring 2.4 though. I think it is best just to update the copyright file. Cheers, Walter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#302988: IBM Thinkpad T43 hardware detection incomplete
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Geert Stappers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Could you boot the debian-installer another time on your T43? And modprobe for the right sata module and share the information with us? If you don't know which SATA module is the right one, I think that trial and error may help. AFAICT, the available SATA modules for the 2.6.8 kernel are: ./scsi/sata_nv.ko ./scsi/sata_promise.ko ./scsi/sata_sil.ko ./scsi/sata_sis.ko ./scsi/sata_svw.ko ./scsi/sata_sx4.ko ./scsi/sata_via.ko ./scsi/sata_vsc.ko Actually, I think that it is ata_piix. I am attaching my working 2.6.11.5 kernel config and the output of lsmod. I am not using an initrd image. However, if I modprobe ata_piix and sd_mod, the installer still does not find the hard drive. I don't find any entries in /dev/scsi either. It does not help to modprobe all of the other sata_* modules either. I mentioned earlier that I turned off Advanced Partition Support. For example, see http://kerneltrap.org/node/970 I seem to remember reading somewhere that this bug was fixed in 2.6.10. I have not tried the 2.6.8 kernel without Advanced Partition Support. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.11.5 # Sat Mar 26 10:43:38 2005 # CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y # # General setup # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION= CONFIG_SWAP=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE is not set CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y # CONFIG_AUDIT is not set CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14 CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT=y # CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set # CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y # CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set CONFIG_SHMEM=y CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_FUNCTIONS=0 CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LABELS=0 CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LOOPS=0 CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_JUMPS=0 # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y # CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD is not set CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y # CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set CONFIG_KMOD=y # # Processor type and features # CONFIG_X86_PC=y # CONFIG_X86_ELAN is not set # CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER is not set # CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ is not set # CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT is not set # CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set # CONFIG_X86_VISWS is not set # CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH is not set # CONFIG_X86_ES7000 is not set # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set # CONFIG_M586MMX is not set # CONFIG_M686 is not set # CONFIG_MPENTIUMII is not set # CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set CONFIG_MPENTIUMM=y # CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set # CONFIG_MK6 is not set # CONFIG_MK7 is not set # CONFIG_MK8 is not set # CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set # CONFIG_MEFFICEON is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set # CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set # CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set # CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not set CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6 CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set # CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_MCE=y # CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL is not set # CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set # CONFIG_I8K is not set CONFIG_MICROCODE=y CONFIG_X86_MSR=y CONFIG_X86_CPUID=y # # Firmware Drivers # CONFIG_EDD=m CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_MTRR=y # CONFIG_EFI is not set # CONFIG_REGPARM is not set # # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # CONFIG_PM=y # CONFIG_PM_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is not set # # ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support # CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=y CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS=m CONFIG_ACPI_IBM=y CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA=m CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0 # CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y # CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER is not set # CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER is not set # # APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS Support # # CONFIG_APM is not set # # CPU Frequency scaling # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS is not set
