Work-needing packages report for Jul 21, 2006

2006-07-20 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 332 (new: 23) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 76 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

orphaning gitweb

2006-07-20 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, I'm going to orphan gitweb; I haven't used it in a long time, and I've been doing a poor job of keeping it up-to-date. It doesn't have any bugs open on it; it just needs the occasional update (and the one patch I've done for it should be fed upstream if they're willing to take it). Who wants

Configuration file shadowed?

2006-07-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Today, when upgrading my unstable box, I got a debconf message from the package tex-common, to wit: “The mechanism of TeX font caching has changed, requiring the installation of /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf. On your system, /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf exi

Re: Bug#378876: Bug#378872: ITP: libsvm0 -- LibSVM is a machine-learning library providing Support Vector Machines in C++

2006-07-20 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:29:46 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Also, about the -dev package name, please read the Debian Library > Packaging Guide (I can't get at the URL right now, search for it) http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-libraries

someone using apmd on ppc please test patch for #222635

2006-07-20 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
Hello, Someone using apmd on ppc please test patch for #222635 [0]. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/222635 Best Regards, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#378876: Bug#378872: ITP: libsvm0 -- LibSVM is a machine-learning library providing Support Vector Machines in C++

2006-07-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.20.2125 +0100]: > Thanks for pointing this problem out to me. I am new at packaging and > made several similar errors in other packages as well at first. I have > followed your advice and closed down all the old packages and opened > a new one called

Bug#379054: ITP: lisaac -- Lisaac is the first object-oriented language base on prototype

2006-07-20 Thread picca frederic
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: picca frederic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lisaac Version : 0.84 Upstream Author : Benoit Sonntag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://isaacos.loria.fr/li.html * License : Cecill (compatible GPL) Programming Lang:

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-20 Thread tony mancill
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:24:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Hence, I propose to stay with virtual per-service certificates, but to > link them to the common snakeoil certificate from ssl-certificates > during configuration and only if there is no other setting. > > For example: > > Dovec

Bug#379051: ITP: libsvm -- LibSVM is a machine-learning library providing Support Vector Machines in C++

2006-07-20 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsvm Version : 2.8.2 Upstream Author : Chih-Jen Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ De

Re: Bits from the Package Tracking System

2006-07-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Denis, pissed off > > PS: No, I am not joking > > Raphael ensured us that this would be an opt-in notification, and we agreed > to provide the data feed for it under this assumption. If there was a > configuration error which caused this not to be th

Re: Bug#378876: Bug#378872: ITP: libsvm0 -- LibSVM is a machine-learning library providing Support Vector Machines in C++

2006-07-20 Thread Rudi
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:55:23AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.19.1353 +0100]: > > * Package name: libsvm0 > > * Package name: libsvm0-dev > > * Package name: libsvm0-tools > > * Package name: libsvm-doc > > * Package name

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-20 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:24:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > For example: > > Dovecot uses . > > This is a symbolic link to if > the above file or link does not exist during configuration of > dovecot. > > That way, the admin can easily replace the symlink with a real > certificate

Re: Measuring "should I greylist?" false positive rate [was: greylisting on debian.org?]

2006-07-20 Thread Claus Färber
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote: > Yeah, master took 31 minutes to deliver the mail to the next SMTP > server, and I'm an admin on it (that's the mail server I was speaking > of earlier in the thread) and it was its first submission. In other words, not using greylisting delays l

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-20 Thread Claus Färber
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote: > So the meaning of 4xx is "temporary local problem". RFC 2822 says "4yz Transient Negative Completion reply" (p. 42). The standard also encourages the re-use of existing error codes for "slightly different situations" (p. 43). Claus -- T

Re: (Not so fresh) News about locales

2006-07-20 Thread Denis Barbier
[Progeny dropped from Cc] On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:15:13AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:12:32PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > locales.postinst has

Bug#379048: ITP: libcsoap -- library in C for SOAP network protocol (SOAP is a form of RPC with objects)

2006-07-20 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcsoap Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : Ferhat Ayaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://csoap.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description :

Re: Bug#378863: ITP: libcsoap1-dev -- library in C for SOAP network protocol (SOAP is a form of RPC) development

2006-07-20 Thread Rudi
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:26:18PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On Wednesday 19 July 2006 14:06, Rudi Cilibrasi took the opportunity to write: > > * Package name: libcsoap1-dev > > Version : 1.047 > You need only post one ITP bug per source package. And AFAICS there is just > one

Re: Bits from the Package Tracking System

2006-07-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:19:02PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > So by default it is assumed that I should make Ubuntu's work and dig > into these patches to see if some pieces should be applied into Debian? > No thanks, I am getting tired of all those Debian developers who are > more interested in

Re: Jubiläum Angebot.

2006-07-20 Thread Izak Burger
On 7/20/06, Barbara Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Streichen Sie mich unverzüglich aus Ihrer Liste! You can unsubscribe here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/

Re: (Not so fresh) News about locales

2006-07-20 Thread Christian Perrier
> Anyway, my other question is not answered: Which packages does handle > /etc/environment? There must be one that creates it upon installations. The installer..:-)...or the local admin. More precisely localechooser's post-base-installer creates *both* /etc/environment AND /etc/default/locale

Re: Jubiläum Angebot.

2006-07-20 Thread Barbara Bloch
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Bug#379010: ITP: scim-thai -- ITP: scim-thai -- Thai Input Method Engine for SCIM

2006-07-20 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: scim-thai Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libthai.sourcef

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-20 Thread Martin Schulze
(please copy debian-devel, feel free to bounce my mail there after you've done so, for others to be able to comment as well). Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Am Do den 20. Jul 2006 um 11:24 schrieb Martin Schulze: > > > [one cert for all services] > > I believe that this is a good idea, however, I would lik

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-20 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Do den 20. Jul 2006 um 11:24 schrieb Martin Schulze: > > [one cert for all services] > I believe that this is a good idea, however, I would like to propose a > slightly different approach. > > At the moment, it seems that all applications use their

Re: Bug#378996: ITP: vulcan -- chess variant inspired by a certain well-known science fiction TV series

2006-07-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:54:16 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Hi, > * Package name: vulcan > Version : 0.2 > Upstream Author : Mauro Persano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.fzort.org/mpr/projects/vulcan/ > * License : GPL > Description : chess variant i

Bug#378996: ITP: vulcan -- chess variant inspired by a certain well-known science fiction TV series

2006-07-20 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vulcan Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Mauro Persano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.fzort.org/mpr/projects/vulcan/ * License : GPL Description : chess variant

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-20 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:01:30PM +0200, Mathieu JANIN wrote: > Hi folks, > i could seem idiot, but wouldn't it be nice to have a minimalistic bootstrap > CD with everything that is needed to compose your own liveCD (perharps an > enhanced version of DFSbuild, with "cleaning/compressing" fea

Re: Could there be a arch build test befre upload?

2006-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Em Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:14:48 -0600 > Joseph Smidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: >> The arm dev suggested using experimental for such a purpose, >> which I admit is a good idea, but isn't that more than is needed if >> all you want to test is

Re: Could there be a arch build test befre upload?

2006-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Smidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been maintaining texmaker which has originally built fine on all > architectures but failed to build on arm after the last upload. Luckily > for me one of the arm devs helped me out and uploaded a fixed version. > He was able to test on arm and

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-20 Thread Mathieu JANIN
Hi folks, i could seem idiot, but wouldn't it be nice to have a minimalistic bootstrap CD with everything that is needed to compose your own liveCD (perharps an enhanced version of DFSbuild, with "cleaning/compressing" feature like localepurge and so ), and only a minimalistic set of what i

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > In bug #376146, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > In an effort to clean up the SSL certificate mess on Ubuntu servers, we > > recently converted all our supported Server packages to make use of > > the ssl-cert package instead of creating a package-specific > > self-signed SSL cert

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Matthias, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Matthias Klose wrote: > well, there's curently only one person spreading lies and fud about > python packaging, so please don't talk about "lies" as well. Please stop ranting against Josselin, in particular if you have nothing precise/factual to criticize. You're

Re: (Not so fresh) News about locales

2006-07-20 Thread Frank Küster
Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:12:32PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > locales.postinst has been modified to write locale variables >> > into /etc/default/locale instead of /etc/environment; the >>