Re: [Debconf-team] Travel Sponsorship Reimbursements

2012-07-09 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 07/09/2012 09:49 PM, Henning Sprang wrote: On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Giacomo Catenazzic...@debian.org wrote: What means we give them max cantfound ? Do I decide randmly myself what amount they get below cantfund? Could become funny, I guess - at least for me... :) cantfund is the

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Arriving at Managua airport

2012-07-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 07/06/2012 04:36 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 04:13:01PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: On 07/06/2012 11:52 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: Hi Felix, On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 13:50 -0600, Felix Delattre wrote: ==Airport shuttles== Please update your flight information in penta

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Welcome room at the airport

2012-06-29 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 29.06.2012 13:07, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Can you please rely on arrival data in Penta instead? Thats a bit sub-optimal for those who arrive before DebCamp starts since that is before the earliest allowed arrival date (1st June).

Re: [Debconf-discuss] The Return of the Assassins

2012-06-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 27.06.2012 21:00, Holger Levsen wrote: On Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2012, Rodrigo Rodriguez wrote: Harder but cheater, in my peception. But I want to play. I'll wait for more comments. :) maybe you can compensate by wearing an eye-patch, so you're both easier to detect as well as attacked ;)

Re: [Debconf-team] Dates discrepancies

2012-06-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello, On 26.06.2012 01:18, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Hi, We have different dates set in different pages, and that leads to misunderstandings... We would very very much like to avoid! We decided in the April meeting the dates (and you were present):

Re: [Debconf-team] Dates discrepancies

2012-06-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 26.06.2012 10:00, Leandro Gómez wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org mailto:c...@debian.org wrote: Hello, On 26.06.2012 tel:26.06.2012 01:18, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Hi, We have different dates set in different pages, and that leads

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf travel sponsorship

2012-06-20 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello, Note: We will have an additional BoF at this DebConf. We will try to broadcast live that session and to take live comments from IRC, so that also the not sponsored people (and all interested people) could discuss. It is hard to improve things. The order we spend money is: venue

Re: [Debconf-team] Accommodation costs: Hotel Seminole

2012-06-20 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
How flexible are Semiole about few people more or less? ciao cate On 20.06.2012 17:38, Leandro Gómez wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com mailto:leo.tel...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com

Re: [Debconf-team] Kindergarden / alternative youth program for DC13?

2012-04-27 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 27.04.2012 07:14, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:33:59PM +0100, Moray Allan wrote: On 2012-04-26 22:10, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I think that this can be organized mostly on an ad-hoc basis right before or during the conference. Or do (potential) parents think that this

Re: Exploring the possibility of an l10n upload of screentest to fix pending l10n bugs

2012-04-27 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 26.04.2012 21:49, David Prévot wrote: The schedule for the NMU (in case it happens, that is if you agree with it or if I don't receive any answer in a week) is roughly the following: Wednesday, April 25, 2012:send this notice Wednesday, May 02, 2012 :post an NMU

Re: [Debconf-team] Question for DebConf13 Switzerland bid: travel to/from venue

2012-02-02 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 01/25/2012 09:10 PM, Moray Allan wrote: Questions for the Swiss bid: Quoting from http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Switzerland/Bid/Vaumarcus It takes ~2 hours from GVA, ~3 hours from either ZRH or EAP (Basel), respectively, most of them by train, then a 30-minute bus and finally a

Re: [Debconf-team] Question for DebConf13 bids: Costs

2012-02-02 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 25.01.2012 20:32, Moray Allan wrote: It appears (sponsorship team please correct me here), that the monetary sponsorship brought in for DebConf11 was less than €40 000. DebConf13 bids: if approximately that amount of money was brought in from the traditional category of DebConf sponsors, how

Re: [Debconf-team] Question for DebConf13 Switzerland bid: travel to/from venue

2012-02-02 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
[Resent, it seems that mailmain ate the mail sent the previous week] On 01/25/2012 09:10 PM, Moray Allan wrote: Questions for the Swiss bid: Quoting from http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Switzerland/Bid/Vaumarcus It takes ~2 hours from GVA, ~3 hours from either ZRH or EAP (Basel),

Re: [Debconf-team] Question for DebConf13 bids: Costs

2012-02-02 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
[Resent, it seems that mailmain ate the mail sent the previous week] On 25.01.2012 20:32, Moray Allan wrote: It appears (sponsorship team please correct me here), that the monetary sponsorship brought in for DebConf11 was less than €40 000. DebConf13 bids: if approximately that amount of money

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf13 Bids questions/suggestions :)

2012-01-21 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 01/21/2012 03:10 PM, Velimir wrote: Hi, I guess I'll start with the a few questions/suggestions I think the Swiss team maybe should think about: Hello Velimir, the Swiss bid has three pages: one with general information, one with the priorityList answer and the last one with the answer to

Bug#620960: [PKG-IRC-Maintainers] Bug#620960: Packaging of inspircd

2011-05-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 23.05.2011 00:41, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: Run: * Starts by default, disable in /etc/default/inspircd don't do that! A lot of people install a lot of programs without knowing what their are doing (and so also without knowing the security impacts). Further, now it nearly recommended

[Bug 780356] Re: upgrade-usbids not working any more

2011-05-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
It seems that the new home for usb.ids is in https://usb- ids.gowdy.us/index.html (from the same mainainer). About the difference file: I think they are some old leftover, when there was not real maintainer of usb.ids, so many people/package maintained a own update version. IIRC debian has a

[Bug 780356] Re: upgrade-usbids not working any more

2011-05-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
And the original site has restored, so the bug can be closed. ** Changed in: usbutils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/780356 Title:

Bug#626457: libc6 doesn't include lib64 symlink on amd64

2011-05-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-3 Severity: critical Tags: sid The 2.13-3 version of libc6 doesn't include the lib64 symlink (in root and in /usr), thus making the system unusable (and blocking dpkg in the middle of operations). Restoring the symlink solve the problem. ciao cate --

Bug#626457: libc6 doesn't include lib64 symlink on amd64

2011-05-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-3 Severity: critical Tags: sid The 2.13-3 version of libc6 doesn't include the lib64 symlink (in root and in /usr), thus making the system unusable (and blocking dpkg in the middle of operations). Restoring the symlink solve the problem. ciao cate --

Bug#626457: libc6 doesn't include lib64 symlink on amd64

2011-05-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-3 Severity: critical Tags: sid The 2.13-3 version of libc6 doesn't include the lib64 symlink (in root and in /usr), thus making the system unusable (and blocking dpkg in the middle of operations). Restoring the symlink solve the problem. ciao cate --

[Bug 780356] Re: upgrade-usbids not working any more

2011-05-10 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
The domain linux-usb.org expired, so temporarily we don't have upstream usb.ids -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/780356 Title: upgrade-usbids not working any more -- ubuntu-bugs

Re: Bug#595630: Intent to NMU or help for an l10n upload of microcode.ctl to fix pending po-debconf l10n bugs

2011-03-22 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 03/20/2011 05:29 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: If you intent to upload yourself, please discuss with me. I propose handling a translation update round and I can handle it myself for you. That will just require a few days. In case I upload an NMU, I will subscribe to the Package Tracking

Accepted g15stats 1.9.2-2 (source amd64)

2011-03-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:04:59 +0100 Source: g15stats Binary: g15stats Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.9.2-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Re: [Registry] [Bug 569488] Re: update-intel-microcode does not find latest available microcode update

2010-08-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 11.08.2010 09:27, Moritz Naumann wrote: Since this package is currently broken in Lucid (10.04), which is a https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS release, and since this update also fixes a possible security issue (as Stefano pointed out in his 'Do not eval() code from the Internet' changelog

Re: [Bug 569488] Re: update-intel-microcode does not find latest available microcode update

2010-08-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 11.08.2010 09:27, Moritz Naumann wrote: Since this package is currently broken in Lucid (10.04), which is a https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS release, and since this update also fixes a possible security issue (as Stefano pointed out in his 'Do not eval() code from the Internet' changelog

Bug#585411: Bug#591059: Bug#585411: RM: lxr -- RoQA; security bugs, oooold upstream version, not properly maintained

2010-08-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 08/04/2010 01:49 PM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! * Nico Golden...@debian.org [100731 17:59]: PS: I would use some debconf time to improve the situation so that users will not have security problem after we remove the packages. Again, see the NMU I prepared for lxr-cvs, it should

Bug#588138: Bug#591059: Bug#585411: RM: lxr -- RoQA; security bugs, oooold upstream version, not properly maintained

2010-08-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 08/04/2010 01:49 PM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! * Nico Golden...@debian.org [100731 17:59]: PS: I would use some debconf time to improve the situation so that users will not have security problem after we remove the packages. Again, see the NMU I prepared for lxr-cvs, it should

Accepted bauble 0.9.7-2 (source all)

2010-08-02 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:36:01 +0200 Source: bauble Binary: bauble Architecture: source all Version: 0.9.7-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org

Bug#585411: RM: lxr -- RoQA; security bugs, oooold upstream version, not properly maintained

2010-07-31 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 07/31/2010 04:38 PM, Nico Golde wrote: Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, I hereby request the removal of lxr from the archive, it should not be included in squeeze as well. The version that our package is currently based on is 0.3 (from 2003), which is light years behind

Bug#588138: Bug#585411: RM: lxr -- RoQA; security bugs, oooold upstream version, not properly maintained

2010-07-31 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 07/31/2010 04:38 PM, Nico Golde wrote: Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, I hereby request the removal of lxr from the archive, it should not be included in squeeze as well. The version that our package is currently based on is 0.3 (from 2003), which is light years behind

Accepted g15daemon-audacious 2.5.7-4 (source amd64)

2010-06-08 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:28:17 +0200 Source: g15daemon-audacious Binary: g15daemon-audacious Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.5.7-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo

[Savannah-register-public] [task #10333] Submission of GNU spell

2010-05-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Follow-up Comment #5, task #10333 (project administration): I put the new tarball in http://cateee.net/files/gnu/ Note: I've not yet received the legal papers Note2: It includes already most of the bug corrections ___ Reply to this item

Re: Legal use of the Debian Logo

2010-01-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
dE . wrote: No, absolutely not. I think this logo is a trademark, i.e proprietary and so the owner of the site should be warned about this. You can take legal action against the dude in this case. Trademarks and servicemarks have no expiry like patents. On the contrary, I think it is fully

[Bug 173675] Re: g15daemon: Fail to install when required hardware is not present

2010-01-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
This was solved in Debian, release 1.9.5.3-5 (using udev to start the deamon, and subsequent fixes for USB shared devices). The solution seems working, although it is not a nice solution. The real solution will requires reimplementing libg15 with a newer libusb API (working in progress). --

[Bug 501613] Re: g15daemon does not claim interface before use

2010-01-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
I think this bug is solved in debian starting from 1.9.5.3-5: udev rule will detach and reattach correctly the deamon. -- g15daemon does not claim interface before use https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501613 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 173675] Re: g15daemon: Fail to install when required hardware is not present

2010-01-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
This was solved in Debian, release 1.9.5.3-5 (using udev to start the deamon, and subsequent fixes for USB shared devices). The solution seems working, although it is not a nice solution. The real solution will requires reimplementing libg15 with a newer libusb API (working in progress). --

[Bug 501613] Re: g15daemon does not claim interface before use

2010-01-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
I think this bug is solved in debian starting from 1.9.5.3-5: udev rule will detach and reattach correctly the deamon. -- g15daemon does not claim interface before use https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501613 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

Accepted g15daemon-audacious 2.5.7-3 (source amd64)

2009-12-20 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:39:28 +0100 Source: g15daemon-audacious Binary: g15daemon-audacious Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.5.7-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo

Accepted g15daemon 1.9.5.3-8 (source amd64)

2009-12-17 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:52:26 +0100 Source: g15daemon Binary: g15daemon libg15daemon-client1 libg15daemon-client-dev Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.9.5.3-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Bug#556654: restart in init.d script fails when rddcollect isn't running

2009-11-17 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: rrdcollect Version: 0.2.3-4+b2 Severity: normal Hello, the init.d script rrdcollect fail the restart target if rddcollect isn't running. The stop target in restart is missing the --oknodo flag (note that 'stop' target include it) ciao cate -- System Information: Debian Release:

Accepted microcode.ctl 1.17-13 (source amd64)

2009-10-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:54 +0200 Source: microcode.ctl Binary: microcode.ctl Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.17-13 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Accepted g15daemon 1.9.5.3-7 (source amd64)

2009-10-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:22:15 +0200 Source: g15daemon Binary: g15daemon libg15daemon-client1 libg15daemon-client-dev Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.9.5.3-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Accepted intel-microcode 0.20090927-1 (source amd64)

2009-10-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:42:02 +0200 Source: intel-microcode Binary: intel-microcode Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.20090927-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo

Accepted libg15 1.2.7-2 (source amd64)

2009-09-10 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:19:39 +0200 Source: libg15 Binary: libg15-1 libg15-dev Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.2.7-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

[Bug 422473] Re: g15daemon dumps screenshots without being asked

2009-09-01 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
IMO pressing M1+M3 is asking for screen shots (like the print screen key). But I agree that a configuration option should allow disabling the M1+M3 keys. I'll investigate this. Note that newer Debian revisions create the file in a more safe (and stable) manner. More debug is need to discover

[Bug 422473] Re: g15daemon dumps screenshots without being asked

2009-09-01 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
IMO pressing M1+M3 is asking for screen shots (like the print screen key). But I agree that a configuration option should allow disabling the M1+M3 keys. I'll investigate this. Note that newer Debian revisions create the file in a more safe (and stable) manner. More debug is need to discover

Accepted g15daemon 1.9.5.3-6 (source amd64)

2009-08-19 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:33:22 +0200 Source: g15daemon Binary: g15daemon libg15daemon-client1 libg15daemon-client-dev Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.9.5.3-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Bug#542008: mediawiki reccomends ImageMagick over PHP GD library

2009-08-17 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: mediawiki Severity: wishlist From http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ImageMagick (and setup page): Image thumbnailing requires either ImageMagick or GD library. ImageMagick is recommended since it produces better quality thumbnails; Thus the package dependencies should have imagemagick

Accepted g15daemon 1.9.5.3-5 (source amd64)

2009-08-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:20:02 +0200 Source: g15daemon Binary: g15daemon libg15daemon-client1 libg15daemon-client-dev Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.9.5.3-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Accepted spell 1.0-23 (source amd64)

2009-08-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:28:25 +0200 Source: spell Binary: spell Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0-23 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org

Accepted screentest 2.0-2 (source amd64)

2009-08-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:23:01 +0200 Source: screentest Binary: screentest Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.0-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Accepted spell 1.0-24 (source amd64)

2009-08-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:01:58 +0200 Source: spell Binary: spell Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0-24 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org

Accepted g15composer 3.2-2 (source amd64)

2009-08-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:52:08 +0200 Source: g15composer Binary: g15composer Architecture: source amd64 Version: 3.2-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Accepted libg15render 1.3.0~svn316-2 (source amd64)

2009-08-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:56:12 +0200 Source: libg15render Binary: libg15render1 libg15render-dev Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.3.0~svn316-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed

Accepted libg15render 1.3.0~svn316-1 (source amd64)

2009-08-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:59:49 +0200 Source: libg15render Binary: libg15render1 libg15render-dev Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.3.0~svn316-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed

Accepted bauble 0.9.3-1 (source all)

2009-08-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:59:37 +0200 Source: bauble Binary: bauble Architecture: source all Version: 0.9.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org

Bug#540353: bash --posix: . (dot command) doesn't use PATH to search for scripts

2009-08-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: bash Version: 3.2-4 Severity: normal /tmp$ echo echo OK ok /tmp$ bash --posix -c . ok OK According POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/toc.htm the dot command should look the path (and not the local dir). ciao cate -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2

Accepted g15daemon 1.9.5.3-4 (source amd64)

2009-08-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:32:33 +0200 Source: g15daemon Binary: g15daemon libg15daemon-client1 libg15daemon-client-dev Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.9.5.3-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Accepted g15macro 1.0.3-2 (source amd64)

2009-08-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:43:38 +0200 Source: g15macro Binary: g15macro Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0.3-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Accepted g15daemon-audacious 2.5.7-2 (source amd64)

2009-08-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:09:54 +0200 Source: g15daemon-audacious Binary: g15daemon-audacious Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.5.7-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo

Accepted g15stats 1.9.2-1 (source amd64)

2009-08-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:15:38 +0200 Source: g15stats Binary: g15stats Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.9.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Bug#539952: lxterminal doesn't pass Alt-number keys

2009-08-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: lxterminal Version: 0.1.6-1 Severity: normal lxterminal doesn't pass to applications the Alt-1 to Alt-9 keys (Alt-0 and Alt-letters works as expected). This is annoying when using irssi. ciao cate -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2009, Frans Pop wrote: So from now on we release when it's time instead of when it's ready? I think you got this wrong: AIUI: we freeze, when it's time (and December can become January or February... too) and release when it's ready. Sounds

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Luk Claes wrote: The main reason is that the Release Team hopes to now have the momentum to make a time based freeze work. If we would delay, it will very probably mean that many developers 'forget' about what the time based freeze is about. Is it so important this momentum? Is it grave, for

Re: The insserv mess - or how not to change important parts of systems

2009-07-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 28, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: Insserv will become essential together with sysv-rc, and is not supposed to be simple to remove any more. Dependency based boot sequencing is going to become the default and suppoted boot sequencing method. I'll remove the

Re: Debian, universal operating system?

2009-07-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
I have also some thoughs about DPL talk: Debian is NOT an universal operating system. Debian is going in direction to be an universal collection of OSes. 1- One size fits all ? IMHO the universal os seems to imply this. I don't agree. We need different solutions. IMHO embedian is an example

Accepted microcode.ctl 1.17-12 (source amd64)

2009-07-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:40:31 +0200 Source: microcode.ctl Binary: microcode.ctl Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.17-12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Accepted latencytop 0.5 (source amd64)

2009-07-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:06:24 +0200 Source: latencytop Binary: latencytop Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Accepted bauble 0.9.2-1 (source all)

2009-07-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:19:55 +0200 Source: bauble Binary: bauble Architecture: source all Version: 0.9.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Gabor Gombas wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 06:39:53PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: BTW it seems that all previous tries to remove the bug in bash failed. Actually it's not a bug in bash at all. The bug is the combined effect of how bash behaves and how the NSS functionality

Re: shells and posix compliance [was Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential]

2009-07-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Clint Adams wrote: [not replying off-list because that seems counterproductive and arrogant] On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:49:15PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: Actually, if it's invoked as /bin/sh, it is supposed to be Bourne-compatible. That's my experience with the current version: Not

Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

2009-07-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Darren Salt wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk * Package name: rfkill Version : 0.1-4-g9429740 Upstream Authors: Johannes Berg, Marcel Holtmann, Tim Gardner * URL :

Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

2009-07-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Darren Salt wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk * Package name: rfkill Version : 0.1-4-g9429740 Upstream Authors: Johannes Berg, Marcel Holtmann, Tim Gardner * URL :

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] The now traditional Cheese and Wine party (formal announcement)

2009-07-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org [2009.07.24.1851 +0200]: I did not bring any Swiss cheese (fear of stinking cheese by summer temperatures and long trip). But I would like to sponsor some local cheese. At Christian's request, debian.ch has sponsored 2kg

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Raphael Geissert wrote: Hello everybody, This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal. What actually needs to be done is: * Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink by default, make another essential package depend on dash. Prompt the

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, Jul 22 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: If we remove the essential flag, we have a nice feature: the packages who needs bash need to be documented (via Depends). Can you tell me how long did it take to move from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc? I

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

2009-07-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:33:21AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: Steve, let's take a step back and calm down. Are you saying that your objection to engineering a solution where dash doesn't need to be essential is that it's not worth the effort? I *think* that was the point

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

2009-07-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Gabor Gombas wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:31:04AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I think you are not going far enough. Why should I have dash on the system when my default shell is posh? or (gasp) zsh? posh (or strict POSIX in general) is simply not practical, and zsh is

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes: Raphael Geissert wrote: Hello everybody, This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal. What actually needs to be done is: * Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:52:11PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Should activity in teams be enough reason to be regarded as an active DD? Yes. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:35:00PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Also people who do translations. Perhaps we can

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Kevin Mark wrote: If someone goes through the arduious process of becomeing a DD: proving their knowledge of: a. FLOSS ideals, b. Debian ideals, c. FLOSS legal ideas, d. computer languages, e. social skills f. and patience to wait for various

[Bug 397308] Re: jaunty 32b cannot see more than 3023M RAM

2009-07-09 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
3GB is the maximum *sane* value of memory for 32-bits architectures. Part of the extra gigabyte is used by hardware (IO-mapped memory, etc). Having 64GB in 32-bit is a hack (in hardware and software), very slow, and change a lot of interns of linux kernel (all vm part), thus breaking all binary

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org writes: also sprach Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [2009.06.25.0703 +0200]: The government IDs are relevant because when we're collaborating on an OS where there's minimal code review of the work done by maintainers and a well-chosen

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: martin f krafft madd...@debconf.org writes: also sprach Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [2009.06.25.0703 +0200]: The government IDs are relevant because when we're collaborating on an OS where there's minimal code review of the work done by maintainers and a well-chosen

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-19 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 19 juin 2009 à 10:05 +, Sune Vuorela a écrit : +The usage of this format is highly recommended but as long as it's not +endorsed by the Debian policy, it will not be required. It is however And there is no plan to make it required in the future What

Bug#532505: vlc: open dialog doesn't display file with extended characters

2009-06-09 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: vlc Version: 0.9.9a-2 Severity: normal Tags: l10n Open dialog doesn't show all files. I noticed that filename with char c128 are not displayed (not only the character, but file) ciao cate -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy:

Re: Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

2009-06-05 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, Jun 04 2009, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: I think we could forbid echo -n on maintainer and other scripts, but allow it on init.d scripts. Rationale: - portability is more important on other scripts, and it is also not so frequent to use echo -n - init.d

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jun 02, Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org wrote: - there is still a close windows in initram, and possibility at early rc scripts. No. - /var is still not mounted, so programs could not write they status, nor log failures So programs which have such

Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

2009-06-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Raphael Geissert wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2009 12:54:00 Bill Allombert wrote: [...] It does not make sense to policy to discourage echo -n. Policy could deprecate it in favor of something else, but I do not see any alternative mentioned in this bug report, and otherwise discouraging echo -n

Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

2009-06-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Raphael Geissert wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2009 12:54:00 Bill Allombert wrote: [...] It does not make sense to policy to discourage echo -n. Policy could deprecate it in favor of something else, but I do not see any alternative mentioned in this bug report, and otherwise discouraging echo -n

Accepted bauble 0.9.0~b5-2 (source amd64)

2009-05-19 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:04:24 +0200 Source: bauble Binary: bauble Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.9.0~b5-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Accepted bauble 0.9.0~b5-3 (source all)

2009-05-19 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 22:11:32 +0200 Source: bauble Binary: bauble Architecture: source all Version: 0.9.0~b5-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org Changed-By: Giacomo Catenazzi c

Bug#528195: hobbit assumes to much abaout apache2

2009-05-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: hobbit Version: 4.2.0.dfsg-14lenny2 Severity: normal Setting up hobbit (4.2.0.dfsg-14lenny2) ... .: 44: Can't open /etc/apache2/envvars invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action reload failed. dpkg: error processing hobbit (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-08 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: I filed a lintian wishlist bug (#527363) requesting a I/W tag when non documentation packages recommend documentation packages. (...) Would there be any objections to filing minor/wishlist bugs against these packages? I am including a tentative dd-list

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Marco d'Itri wrote: On May 06, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Given that the default configuration is extremely simplistic and doesn???t use a percent of either exim or postfix features, I still wonder why it is not something like nullmailer or ssmtp. Because it's expected from a

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Luk Claes wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:26PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org [2009.05.05.1645 +0200]: FWIW, Ubuntu did what I consider the right thing:

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Ben Finney wrote: Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes: On Thu, May 07 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 07 mai 2009 à 11:02 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : Those who want a read-only ‘/usr’ don't seriously try to leave it read-only while installing or upgrading packages, do they?

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:10:54AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: So, does anybody still see reasons to continue supporting a standalone /usr? There had been lots of responses to that. Yes, the most repeated argument has been mount /usr via NFS. Unfortunately, nobody

Re: Debian is switching to EGLIBC

2009-05-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
John Goerzen wrote: Julien BLACHE wrote: John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org wrote: Hi, I, for one, have heard just about enough of Hey developers, we're doing $FOO, and it's already been decided, so put up or shut up from people. I'd like a little bit more along the lines of Hey

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