Work-needing packages report for Mar 2, 2007

2007-03-01 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: 357 (new: 6) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 87 (new: 5) Total number of packages requeste

Re: What is available at early userspace?

2007-03-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > The issue I'm talking about (lots of error messages while udev init.d > script is running) happens in the current sequential boot procedure. Udev runs at early userspace. > It is caused by udev trying to resolve groups such as "fuse", that (a)

Re: Bug#412989: udev startup script prints a lot of errors when ldap is used

2007-03-01 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
On 01-03-2007, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:54:19PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > >> So a *fix* for this issue could be only inside udev package. >> In all other places, only workarounds are possible. >> And these workarounds do have the following dra

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-01 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I am sorry: it is me again with probably the final question: stracing revealed the difference which I can't resolve myself due to lack of knowledge in socket programming and IPv6 for port 6012 ssh fails to allocate DISPLAY since it is taken (so it is normal): , | 31886 socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_D

Re: Bug#412952: [Fwd: Bug#412952: file conflicts between afnix and aleph]

2007-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:14:42AM -, Paul Cager wrote: > Could I have some advice about the best way to fix this one please? Here's > a summary: > * The obsolete package "aleph" is supserseded by "afnix". > * I've requested the removal of aleph from unstable (bug #389163). > * There is alread

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-01 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Here you can see how it looks from client and server sides running in verbose/debug modes. May be it would give a hint to a knowledgeable person http://www.onerussian.com/Linux/bugs/ssh.display/ -- .-. =-- /v\ -

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-01 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Developers, I think I've hit a really old bug (woody time) in ssh, and that system is in the state when I could debug it a bit more to localize the problem. Please see my report below and original url to bug is of cause http://bugs.debian.org/152250 Please advise on what to look for... for

Re: What is available at early userspace?

2007-03-01 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:24:07AM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > The issue I'm talking about (lots of error messages while udev init.d > script is running) happens in the current sequential boot procedure. If you're using a 2.6 kernel and udev then the boot procedure is _NOT_ sequential

Re: Bug#412989: udev startup script prints a lot of errors when ldap is used

2007-03-01 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:54:19PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > So a *fix* for this issue could be only inside udev package. > In all other places, only workarounds are possible. > And these workarounds do have the following drawbacks. > > - if base-passwd will be used as workaround loca

Re: [Fwd: Bug#412952: file conflicts between afnix and aleph]

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Cager
Frank Küster wrote: > Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Add this to afnix: >> >> Conflicts: aleph >> Replaces: aleph >> >> This should make it possible to have always one of them installed and >> make afnix replace aleph on dist-upgrades. > > Isn't > > Provides: aleph > > also neede

Re: On management

2007-03-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
First, please keep your bullshit about dunc-tank outside this otherwise interesting discussion. Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 16:18 -0500, Theodore Tso a écrit : > The harder problem, though is that finding a really good project > manager. In my day job, I can tell you have as a technical architect, >

Re: On management

2007-03-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-03-01, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A third party organization, dunc-tank, which included a number of > prominent Debian Developers, including AJ, did pay for two of the How can it be a third party organization if it is launched by the DPL _as_ DPL ? (Source: AJs DPL review

Re: What is available at early userspace?

2007-03-01 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> > And in the current situation, udev is *the* package that, by > > installing it's default configuration files, injects references to > > non-resolvable-locally users and groups into early stage of boot. > > Wrong. Your expectations to what is allowed to be > non-resolvable-locally are not in sy

Re: On management

2007-03-01 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:28:50PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > As of now, I see it as a failure of the project. But this is also > > nothing that can't be fixed. What do you people think could be done to > > bring the skills we are lacking

Bug#413049: ITP: pynifti -- Python interface to the NIfTI I/O libraries

2007-03-01 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pynifti Version : 0.20070301.1 Upstream Author : Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (that is me) * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python

What is available at early userspace?

2007-03-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Sorry Marco, but it is not valid to close a bug report that describes an > existing issue only because you don't like the solution suggested by the > submitter. Agreed, actually. But this is bigger than udev, it probably belongs in "general",

Re: Bug#412989: udev startup script prints a lot of errors when ldap is used

2007-03-01 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
reopen 412989 thanks > > I think that correct solution for the issue is to make udev package to > > create (in local /etc/groups) all missing groups referenced in it's > > default configuration files. > > I don't. > If you believe that some users or groups need to be unconditionally > created plea

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Bug#413022: ITP: oflib -- OpenFirmware device-tree parsing library

2007-03-01 Thread Julien BLACHE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: oflib Version : git snapshot of the day Upstream Author : Alastair Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://git.sipsolutions.net/of-lib.git/ * License : GPL Programming

ITH: uclibc

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, I intend to hijack the uclibc package. uclibc is a small libc that is primarily used in embedded systems. The last upload was in 2005, the package currently has 4 RC bugs and is unlikely to release with etch in the current shape (although it is used by Ubuntu nearly unmodified as far as I

Bug#413017: ITP: haskell-hsh -- Library to mix shell scripting with Haskell programs

2007-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: haskell-hsh Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://software.complete.org/hsh * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Haskell Descri

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Josselin Mouette [Thu, Mar 01 2007, 02:46:02PM]: > Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 14:33 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > > I'm not the one who said maintainers don't admit they need help. > > > > And I am not the one who said that Mozilla/KDE/GNOME have enough > > manpower. > > Who said th

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-01 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Thursday 01 March 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:20:24PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > On Thursday 01 March 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 14:33 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > > > > I'm not the one who said maintainers do

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 09:22 -0500, Greg Folkert a écrit : > Lets all start the "Pile-On Joss" thing again and watch him explode. Still talking to yourself? > Hi Joss! How are you doing? Hope you are well! Fine, I like clowns so much. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices

Re: On management

2007-03-01 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As of now, I see it as a failure of the project. But this is also > nothing that can't be fixed. What do you people think could be done to > bring the skills we are lacking to the project, with its current > structure? Since I agree (well, more than

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:20:24PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Thursday 01 March 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 14:33 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > > > I'm not the one who said maintainers don't admit they need help. > > > > > > And I am not the one

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:46 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 14:33 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > > I'm not the one who said maintainers don't admit they need help. > > > > And I am not the one who said that Mozilla/KDE/GNOME have enough > > manpower. > > Who said that

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-01 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Thursday 01 March 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 14:33 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > > I'm not the one who said maintainers don't admit they need help. > > > > And I am not the one who said that Mozilla/KDE/GNOME have enough > > manpower. > > Who said that? > > > Don

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Mike Hommey [Wed, Feb 28 2007, 07:52:44PM]: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:26:24PM +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le mercredi 28 février 2007 à 18:00 +0100, Sam Hocevar a écrit : > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > But it seems like you maint

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Josselin Mouette [Wed, Feb 28 2007, 09:08:42AM]: > Le mercredi 28 février 2007 à 02:02 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > #include > > * Josselin Mouette [Tue, Feb 27 2007, 10:30:39AM]: > > > Le mardi 27 février 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > > > And how do you help a ma

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 14:33 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > I'm not the one who said maintainers don't admit they need help. > > And I am not the one who said that Mozilla/KDE/GNOME have enough > manpower. Who said that? > Don't put words into my mouth. How about these words: And h

Re: [Fwd: Bug#412952: file conflicts between afnix and aleph]

2007-03-01 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add this to afnix: > > Conflicts: aleph > Replaces: aleph > > This should make it possible to have always one of them installed and > make afnix replace aleph on dist-upgrades. Isn't Provides: aleph also needed? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Sin

Bug#412969: ITP: xen-shell -- Console based Xen administration utility

2007-03-01 Thread Radu Spineanu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Radu Spineanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xen-shell Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-shell/releases.html * License : Perl: GPL/Artistic Des

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Re: [Fwd: Bug#412952: file conflicts between afnix and aleph]

2007-03-01 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:14:42AM -, Paul Cager wrote: > Could I have some advice about the best way to fix this one please? Here's > a summary: > > * The obsolete package "aleph" is supserseded by "afnix". > * I've requested the removal of aleph from unstable (bug #389163). > * There is alre

[Fwd: Bug#412952: file conflicts between afnix and aleph]

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Cager
Could I have some advice about the best way to fix this one please? Here's a summary: * The obsolete package "aleph" is supserseded by "afnix". * I've requested the removal of aleph from unstable (bug #389163). * There is already another RC bug against "aleph", as it conflicts with tetex-bin. I d