Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On dim, 2008-03-30 at 16:25 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Things I want to see use triggers, in approximate priority order: > > > > - scrollkeeper > > It will probably be deprecated soon, so I don't think it is necess

Re: Default value for CFLAGS/LDFLAGS set by dpkg

2008-04-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:57:48PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 05:34:05PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > > (moving to debian-devel as requested by Kurt) > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > However, as Thiemo notes, this does break the expectation that LD_PRE

Re: Default value for CFLAGS/LDFLAGS set by dpkg

2008-04-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
On lun, 2008-03-31 at 22:46 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Note also that I'm not sure at all that either -Bsymbolic-functions or > -Bsymbolic is a good idea. It is a very good idea for pluggable modules that are meant to be dlopen()ed, because it avoids their symbols to be overriden by completely un

Bug#473730: RFP: tahoe -- a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem

2008-04-01 Thread Tapio Rantala
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: tahoe Version: 1.0 Upstream Author: tahoe-dev mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe License: Dual GPL v2 (or later), Transitive Grace Period Pub

Re: Default value for CFLAGS/LDFLAGS set by dpkg

2008-04-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
On mar, 2008-04-01 at 01:21 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:57:48PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > I also have to wonder that if we have something like this as default, > > why -Bsymbolic-functions would be a good default, and not -Bsymbolic. > > I'm told the difference is

Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source

2008-04-01 Thread Francisco Moya
Dear all, I'm the current maintainer of ZeroC Ice packages. Ice is a GPL'd CORBA-like middleware for distributed heterogeneous computing. Recently the upstream developers reunified all of the source packages into a single big tarball. Some of the packages (the Java5 packages) work well under ic

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-01 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages > after lenny w/o having to add an lzma Pre-Depends on each .deb > package compressed that way.

Re: Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source

2008-04-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:49PM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote: > Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with > gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)? I don't see a reason to not do that. > Is it fine to upload a binary to contrib while the source package is in main?

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-01 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, April 1, 2008 13:42, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On the more general issue of lzma-compresses packages, I find a 34MB > RAM requirement quite hefty for general purpose use; that is, unless > we restrict lzma compression to packages that wouldn't make sense on > hardware with so little RAM a

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages > > after lenny w/o having to add an lzma P

QueryRegardingWTMPLog

2008-04-01 Thread Chinnakka K Batakurki
Hi, On Suse 10 WTMP log is not getting updated when we change Date Could you please help me with this Thanks a lot! Regards --- Chinnakka Batakurki Systems Programmer, IBM Internet Security Systems, IBM India Private Limited, FTP - 4 - 39, EPIP (Whitefield) Industrial Area,

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-01 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:38:36 -0300 Joel Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that the testing or above releases may be suitable for the > desktop of a EXPERT linux user. I need a stable release because my > desktop must simply to work; it is not a so critical system like a > server but this

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* David Given | Before it blew up, my old NSLU2 (a 266MHz ARM with 32MB RAM) used to | take 15-20 minutes to run update-initramfs. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470869 should make that slighly less painful once it's uploaded. (Not that I'm opposing using triggers for update-i

Bug#473818: RFP: tracks -- web application to help you implement David Allen's Getting Things Done

2008-04-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Package: wnpp severity: wishlist Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like. It can be run on any pla

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Rene Engelhard writes ("Re: triggers wishlist"): > Maybe also fc-cache calls? Absolutely. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Biebl writes ("Re: triggers wishlist"): > Add update-initramfs to that list. It can take quite some time to > regenerate the initramfs. Packages that update the initramfs are e.g. > udev, cryptsetup or uswsusp, splashy/usplash update-initramfs is important, yes. It's very tedious and gets

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Wise writes ("Re: triggers wishlist"): > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - ldconfig > > Seems to be some uncertainty about where it's possible to > > triggerize this safely and reliably. > > Ubuntu seems to have managed it OK? I imagi

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Petter Reinholdtsen writes ("Re: triggers wishlist"): > [Michael Biebl] > > I don't understand, why it shouldn't be possible, that a single > > update-rc.insserv run, reoders *all* init scripts in one go. You > > could still skip the ones, which will cause loops or have no > > dependency informatio

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Biebl writes ("Re: triggers wishlist"): > Sune Vuorela wrote: > > Maybe having the trigger enabled dh_foo fill in misc:Depends with a > > versioned dependency on a trigger aware dpkg ? > > If I read the triggers documentation correctly, the situation is a > bit different (please correct my

Mass bug filing: corrupt zip/tar archives in the repository?

2008-04-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
There weren't much response on this. I'll go through these bugs now and file them as wishlist bugs. Any objections? /Simon Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While recursively unpacking source archives in the debian repository > (see [1]), I noticed a small number of packages that c

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
On lun, 2008-03-31 at 02:09 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > update-icon-caches/update-desktop-database would have to be made > triggers-aware and install a triggers control file > (e.g. interest /usr/share/icons or interest /usr/share/applications [1]) Actually, for icons, I’d say that a package shi

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:22:58PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > On lun, 2008-03-31 at 02:09 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > update-icon-caches/update-desktop-database would have to be made > > triggers-aware and install a triggers control file > > (e.g. interest /usr/share/icons or interest /us

Bug#473828: hosts: Unreasonable impact of misconfigured /etc/hosts file

2008-04-01 Thread Ulrik Sverdrup
Package: general Severity: normal The impact of a misconfigured /etc/hosts file can be quite grave. Prime example: If the hostname is not in /etc/hosts, sudo does not run which means that the problem can not be resolved without direct root login or single user mode. See also bug #473827 Also, mi

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Josselin Mouette schrieb: > On lun, 2008-03-31 at 02:09 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> update-icon-caches/update-desktop-database would have to be made >> triggers-aware and install a triggers control file >> (e.g. interest /usr/share/icons or interest /usr/share/applications [1]) > > Actually, fo

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: > > - scrollkeeper > > It will probably be deprecated soon, so I don’t think it is necessary to > put effort into it. How soon? Before lenny? It's not much effort to triggerise this I think. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-04-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 13 March 2008 23:00, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Therefore > http://wnpp.debian.net/ > is no longer a HTTP redirect but Great! > Since the page has reached a "stable" state > I would like to ask if there is a chance > to point to it from somewhere on > http://www.debian.or

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Joey Hess
I'm tracking all known trigger-related patches as well as todo items in the wiki at http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgTriggers -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#473828: hosts: Unreasonable impact of misconfigured /etc/hosts file

2008-04-01 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Apr-08, 16:13 (CDT), Ulrik Sverdrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: general > Severity: normal > > The impact of a misconfigured /etc/hosts file can be quite grave. > > Prime example: If the hostname is not in /etc/hosts, sudo does not run > which means that the problem can not be re

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-04-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael, (sorry for the bad quoting ratio, but I figured it's nice to bring back the context...) On Thursday 31 January 2008 00:11, Michael Biebl wrote: > rsylogd provides linux-kernel-log-daemon and system-log-daemon, so it > replaces both klogd and sysklogd. The only package depending on kl

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
On mar, 2008-04-01 at 23:27 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:22:58PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Actually, for icons, I’d say that a package shipping a theme should > > install a trigger for /usr/share/icons/$theme. > > Wouldn't that be code duplicated in all theme pac

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
On mer, 2008-04-02 at 00:00 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Josselin Mouette schrieb: > > Actually, for icons, I’d say that a package shipping a theme should > > install a trigger for /usr/share/icons/$theme. > > There are *a lot* of packages installing icons into /usr/share/icons. > What's the bene

Bug#473828: hosts: Unreasonable impact of misconfigured /etc/hosts file

2008-04-01 Thread Ulrik Sverdrup
2008/4/2, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 01-Apr-08, 16:13 (CDT), Ulrik Sverdrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: general > > Severity: normal > > > > The impact of a misconfigured /etc/hosts file can be quite grave. > > > > Prime example: If the hostname is not in /etc/hosts

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: > TTBOMK, triggers don’t tell you what has changed in a subdirectory. Actually they do. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#473828: hosts: Unreasonable impact of misconfigured /etc/hosts file

2008-04-01 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Apr-08, 17:22 (CDT), Ulrik Sverdrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I encountered this, described briefly but a bit more in #473827, > I didn't see anything as long as I had network/internet access. > However, when totally offline, the bug triggered. Thus you could try > to pull out the

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Holger Levsen schrieb: > > Did you file those bugs? Is there a usertag for them? > I tried to collect the information at http://wiki.debian.org/Rsyslog and started filing the important bugs [1]. The real showstopper bug, which made rsyslog uninstallable, in the psad package, has been fixed alrea

Bug#473828: marked as done (hosts: Unreasonable impact of misconfigured /etc/hosts file)

2008-04-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:11:59 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Re: Bug#473828: hosts: Unreasonable impact of misconfigured /etc/hosts file has caused the Debian Bug report #473828, regarding hosts: Unreasonable impact of misconfigured /etc/hosts file to be

RFP: chasm -- C++-Fortran 90 interoperability tool

2008-04-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: chasm Version: 1.3.0 Author: Los Alamos National Laboratory URL: http://chasm-interop.sourceforge.net/ License: BSD Description: Chasm-interop is a set of tools that parses C++ and Fortran 90 source files and automatically generates bridging code to p

Re: Bug#459403: libuuid1: missing depends on non-essential package passwd

2008-04-01 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, I've made some cleanup of the passwd and login dependencies, and remembered this discussion. The main change is the move of libpam-modules from Depends to Pre-Depends for login (which is Essential). This moves libpam-modules to a virtual Essential package, which is the reason of this mail (bu

Re: Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue Apr 01 14:26, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:49PM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote: > > Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with > > gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)? > > I don't see a reason to not do that. I believe this is still requi

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Joey Hess wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: >> TTBOMK, triggers don’t tell you what has changed in a subdirectory. > > Actually they do. > I guess Joss is right here. triggers tell you *if* something has changed (in a subdirectory), but not *what*. Remember, that we have to call gtk-update-icon-

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Josselin Mouette wrote: > On mar, 2008-04-01 at 23:27 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:22:58PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >>> Actually, for icons, I’d say that a package shipping a theme should >>> install a trigger for /usr/share/icons/$theme. >> Wouldn't that be code du

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages after > lenny w/o having to add an lzma Pre-Depends on each .deb package > compressed that way. Hr

shashi bhushan wants to chat

2008-04-01 Thread shashi bhushan
I've been using Google Talk and thought you might like to try it out. We can use it to call each other for free over the internet. Here's an invitation to download Google Talk. Give it a try! --- shashi bhushan wants to stay in b

A few hints to devels calling for debconf translations updates

2008-04-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Alexander Wirt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (in -i18n, Alexander called for an update of ipvsadm templatesI use this as a good start for more general comments. Please don't CC him to answers as I suspect he's subscribed to -devel) Some comments: > Dear Debian I18N people, > > I would like

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:42:32PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On the more general issue of lzma-compresses packages, I find a 34MB > RAM requirement quite hefty for general purpose use; that is, unless > we restrict lzma compression to packages that wouldn't make sense on > hardware with so

Re: QueryRegardingWTMPLog

2008-04-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Chinnakka K Batakurki] > Hi, > > On Suse 10 WTMP log is not getting updated when we change Date > Could you please help me with this > > Thanks a lot! Sure. File a support request with Suse (or Novell, as the company is called now), or use one of the (open)Suse mailing lists or support forums to