Bug#446971: ITP: zpb-exif -- Common Lisp package to access EXIF metadata

2007-10-16 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zpb-exif Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Zachary Beane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xach.com/lisp/zpb-exif/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Common Lisp Des

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:34:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Nico Golde writes ("Re: Bits from the Testing Security team"): > > quoting Adam Heath from #debian-devel: > > Thanks for passing that on. > > > 2007-10-15 18:07 dpkg's configure has an option for using > > s

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > > following bdb versions installed: > > > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > > libdb4.2 40 > > libdb4.3 26 >

Re: Logcheck failure

2007-10-16 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello, John Plate wrote: > For a very long time the logcheck-database package cannot update/install > normally: > > # apt-get install logcheck-database > ... > The following NEW packages will be installed > logcheck-database > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. >

Re: Bits from Tcl/Tk team

2007-10-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:45:54PM +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote: > > > > Does this mean that installing a pkgIndex.tcl into /usr/lib/$package is > > broken now, and that I should install the module to /usr/lib/tcltk? If so, > > is a pkgIndex.tcl still required? > > No, the Tcl/Tk packages which com

Re: Bits from Tcl/Tk team

2007-10-16 Thread Sergei Golovan
On 10/16/07, Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > The new policy tries to be as much as possible backward compatible, but > > there is at least an aspect which will introduce a breakage with the past > > (the removing of /usr/lib among $auto_path list [2])

Re: Bits from Tcl/Tk team

2007-10-16 Thread Felipe Sateler
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > The new policy tries to be as much as possible backward compatible, but > there is at least an aspect which will introduce a breakage with the past > (the removing of /usr/lib among $auto_path list [2]), mainly introduced to > solve current performance-impacting sit

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed: > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > libdb4.5 64 > libdb4.6 40 > Havin

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:50:14 +0200 Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed: > > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > li

Bug#446924: ITP: ocaml-ogg -- OCaml bindings for the Ogg bitstream library

2007-10-16 Thread Samuel Mimram
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Mimram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-ogg Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Samuel Mimram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://savonet.sf.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: OCaml Description :

Re: Forming a new linux Distrbution

2007-10-16 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Alexander, * Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-16 19:08]: > * Dirk Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071015 21:11]: > > > > Just name three valid reasons > > > to start a distribution from scratch. > > 1. It is the home exercise in "Operating Systems" until next week. > > Uhm... Your e

Logcheck failure

2007-10-16 Thread John Plate
Hi For a very long time the logcheck-database package cannot update/install normally: # apt-get install logcheck-database ... The following NEW packages will be installed logcheck-database 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. ... Unpacking logcheck-database (from .../

Re: Forming a new linux Distrbution

2007-10-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Dirk Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071015 21:11]: > > Just name three valid reasons > > to start a distribution from scratch. > 1. It is the home exercise in "Operating Systems" until next week. Uhm... Your exercise is to build a complety new Linux Distribution by next week? Wow... that's

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-16 Thread Luk Claes
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:26:41PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2007/10/16, Ana Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I guess I'm being a bit the advocate of the Devil here, but isn't that > > > as invasive of their privacy as having direct access to the MIA > > > database? :P XD > > > > > > > No, a m

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/16/07, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed: > > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > libdb4.5 64 > libdb4.6

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (16/10/2007): > Then, back to the original proposal, wouldn't it make sense to have a > public binary database stating if a person is MIA or not and just that > info? It might be quite useful to us, non-DDs, it won't invade > anyone's privacy and I don't think it wou

libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the following bdb versions installed: version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) libdb4.2 40 libdb4.3 26 libdb4.4 55 libdb4.5 64 libdb4.6 40 Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. Wh

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-16 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2007/10/16, Ana Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I guess I'm being a bit the advocate of the Devil here, but isn't that > > as invasive of their privacy as having direct access to the MIA > > database? :P XD > > > > No, a mia-query contains private information, stuff like: "started a new job > pro

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Nico Golde writes ("Re: Bits from the Testing Security team"): > quoting Adam Heath from #debian-devel: Thanks for passing that on. > 2007-10-15 18:07 dpkg's configure has an option for using > shared libraries or static linking > 2007-10-15 18:08 for gzip, it can do a

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-16 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 16/10/2007 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >> Well, I would consider statically linking a non embedded (i.e. a packaged) > >> library a bug... Are there known cases where this is a required condition? > > > > cryptsetup is statically linked against libgcrypt and libgpg-error, as > > both are in /usr/

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:44:39 +0200, Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 2007/10/16, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> > Is there any reason why the database containing maintainers MIA >> > (missing >> > in action) is available

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-16 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:44:39AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2007/10/16, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > > Is there any reason why the database containing maintainers MIA > > > (missing > > > in action) is available only for DDs?

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-16 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
"Miriam Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2007/10/16, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> > Is there any reason why the database containing maintainers MIA >> > (missing >> > in action) >> >> It's unlikely to change. If you need to ma

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2007/10/16, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > > Is there any reason why the database containing maintainers MIA > > > (missing > > > in action) is available only for DDs? The developers-refer

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:02:15PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Anyway having a way to distinguish source-embedded by statically-linked > > would be useful. IMHO the second case is almost always an error, but > > for special cases (static linked shell for instance). > > > Additionally, pac

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-16 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, I would consider statically linking a non embedded (i.e. a packaged) >> library a bug... Are there known cases where this is a required condition? > > cryptsetup is statically linked against libgcrypt and libgpg-error, as > both are in /usr/lib, a

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-16 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2007/10/16, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > Is there any reason why the database containing maintainers MIA (missing > > in action) is available only for DDs? The developers-reference.pdf tells to > > use mia-query for this (chapter 7