Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/5/20 Luciano Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi list, >I was thinking about the Debian/OpenSSL debacle. Clearly it not easy to > manage a hard meticulous QA process in all packages. In the other hand, there > are packages more critical than others, which are more delicate to security. >

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I'm a fairly long-time Unix user. I find it much preferably when command line tools are quiet by default when things are going well. I completely agree. I just have the feeling that some points were raised in the discussion that things are not going

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 20 mai 2008 à 23:03 -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > A quilt format package with a single combined patch. Get the > > integration branch, get orig.tar.gz, build. dpkg-buildpackage will > > automatically create a debian_version.patch for you. It is easy. > > How is this better

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2008-05-21 kello 09:09 +0200, Andreas Tille kirjoitti: > Would you regard this as a useful bug report or not? I think that would be a rather excellently useful bug report. The only way to improve it would be to include an actual patch to implement it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Lars Wirzenius wrote: ke, 2008-05-21 kello 09:09 +0200, Andreas Tille kirjoitti: Would you regard this as a useful bug report or not? I think that would be a rather excellently useful bug report. OK, so I will go on filing it this way. The only way to improve it would

Bug#482162: ITP: haskell-safe -- Library for safe (pattern match free) functions.

2008-05-21 Thread Magnus Therning
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: haskell-safe Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Neil Mitchell * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Safe * License : BSD Programming Lang: Ha

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:00:45AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Thinking about it again, I wonder if that could be implemented using > Enrico's DebTags. I think they would be perfect for this. Something like #436161 would be the place to start: it's about time to resume that work. Ciao, Enrico

Bug#482165: ITP: lxappearance -- a new feature-rich GTK+ theme switcher

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew Lee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lxappearance Version : 0.1 Upstream Authors: Hong Jen Yee (PCMan) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://lxde.sf.net * Lice

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: > Subject: Please provide an option to list patches outside debian directory > > Please add a --verbose/-v option to 'dpkg-source -x' that performs > > lsdiff -z -x '*/debian/*' *.diff.gz > > to point potential maintainers / bug fixers to patches

Re: package config

2008-05-21 Thread Anthony
Manoj Srivastava a écrit : On Tue, 20 May 2008 08:34:10 +0200, Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Hello, everybody I have a little question about ucf (example with a package which contains a file package_file.conf) Can i use de package_file.conf.dpkg-old generate by the ucf util

Bug#482169: ITP: lxlauncher -- Easy-Mode launcher for subnotebook like EeePC

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew Lee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lxlauncher Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Author : 洪任諭 Hong Jen Yee (PCMan) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://lxde.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL) Programming Lang: (C) Descripti

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Would you regard this as a useful bug report or not? No. Ups, it's just to late (#482166) I'm currently evaluating a smooth transition from all orig+diff to the 3.0 (quilt) format and as such I'm not really interested in a new option that only ma

Re: package config

2008-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 21 mai 2008 à 10:39 +0200, Anthony a écrit : > I would like to create a package to configure my authentification on > an ldap server. > All of my Debian Sarge Computer users are authenticated on a nis > server or on passwd/group files. > AND i want to configure all of them on my ldap

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 21 May 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I'm currently evaluating a smooth transition from all orig+diff to > > the 3.0 (quilt) format and as such I'm not really interested in a > > new option that only makes sense for the old format that I hope t

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hmmm, do you regard it as realistic that all maintainers will change to > a new format in Lenny+1? I do not think of maintainers who are in principle > not happy about this format but those who maintain packages that might stay > untouched perfectly fine

Re: Should dpkg-source -x list patches (Re: How to handle Debian patches)

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Because if the new format is the default format built by dpkg-source, this will happen automatically when you rebuild your packages... Yes. But there is probably some statistics about packages that are not rebuild inbetween two releases. I admit th

vserver Linux image packages in Lenny ?

2008-05-21 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. The question seems to be discussed in several bug reports (#392015, #478651), but I can't see any hints on Lenny shipping with some vserver flavour of the Linux kernel. What will be the proposed solution for deployed servers using vserver on Debian once Lenny becomes stable (2.6.22 seems the

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.18.0401 +0100]: > I won't speak for Joey, but I consider a divergence a bug in the sense > that I'd use with a general bug-tracking system: it's something about the > package and/or the packaged software that, in an ideal world, would be > impro

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.17.2238 +0100]: > If you grab a patch from upstream that you know will be in a future > upstream release, the divergence is temporary. You can choose not to > file a bug report in our BTS about it, knowing that it will clear up. ... and suddenly t

track bugs in VCS, not the other way around (was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.17.2201 +0100]: > What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify > as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debianisation, > or in Debian for requiring the change. But just call it a bug. > Everything else f

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 23:11, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> even though it's "just" a command line utility. Who knows what >> weird, unexpected side effects there might be from running such an >> app within a tight bash lo

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.18.0401 +0100]: >> I won't speak for Joey, but I consider a divergence a bug in the sense >> that I'd use with a general bug-tracking system: it's something about >> the package and/or the packaged

Bug#482269: ITP: libmath-sparsevector-perl -- Provides a sparse vector class for perl

2008-05-21 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-sparsevector-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Amruta Purandare, Ted Pedersen, Mahesh Joshi * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~tpederse/Math-SparseVector/ * License

Bug#482272: ITP: libmath-sparsematrix-perl -- Provides a sparse matrix class for perl

2008-05-21 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-sparsematrix-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Ted Pedersen and Mahesh Joshi * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~tpederse/Math-SparseMatrix/ * License : GPL-2+ Pr

Bug#482277: ITP: unbound -- validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver

2008-05-21 Thread Robert Edmonds
Package: wnpp Owner: "Robert S. Edmonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: unbound Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : NLnet Labs * URL : http://libev.schmorp.de/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : validating, recursive,

Bug#482278: ITP: libtext-csv-perl -- comma-separated values manipulator (using XS or PurePerl)

2008-05-21 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WARNING: mapping between CPAN packages and Debian packages changed All maintainer of rdepends on the old libtext-csv-perl are in CC of this mail. Please, read all this mail. * Package name: libtext-csv-perl Version

Re: track bugs in VCS, not the other way around

2008-05-21 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Martin, martin f krafft wrote: [...] > What we're trying to do right now is more or less keep track of > patches in Debian packages. Joey proposes to use bug reports for > that. It *does* make some sense, but it's far-fetched. Very > far-fetched. Y

Re: track bugs in VCS, not the other way around

2008-05-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jelmer Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.21.1633 +0200]: > Have you seen bugs everywhere (http://www.bugseverywhere.org) > ? It's a distributed bug tracker that stores bug information as > metadata in VCS branches. Yes, but I didn't remember the name on the plane. :) -- .''`.

FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (Composed as UTF-8 mail with graphic characters) I have been trying to update debian reference. As a part of this effort, I made snapshot of popularity of packages. One of the most interesting thing I noticed by doing this was change in popularity of VCS. (Just 1/2 year r so). When I start

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packages up for adoption

2008-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then. aalib acpi analog archivemail fbreader (and liblinebreak, a dependency) grepmail (whoever takes this will probably want to be on the perl team, it'

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread peter green
none*. And not cleaning up yourself also improves performance for short running apps. How so? The libraries request memory from the kernel in pages (4k on i386, will vary on other architectures), they then run thier own heap management system within those pages. Some memory managers will return

Gutenprint 5.2 prerelease in experimental

2008-05-21 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi folks, I have packaged the gutenprint 5.2 beta release in experimental. If anyone could take the time to let me know if it works with their printer, that would be great. I currently don't have access to an inkjet printer, so if someone could take five minutes to install it and try printing, t

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Greenland
On 21-May-08, 11:15 (CDT), Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, (Composed as UTF-8 mail with graphic characters) > > I have been trying to update debian reference. As a part of this > effort, I made snapshot of popularity of packages. > > One of the most interesting thing I noticed by do

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:10:14PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 21-May-08, 11:15 (CDT), Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, (Composed as UTF-8 mail with graphic characters) > > > > I have been trying to update debian reference. As a part of this > > effort, I made snapshot of pop

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Michal Čihař
Dne Wed, 21 May 2008 15:10:14 -0500 Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > FWIW, and I'm not sure it actually conflicts or invalidates or even > causes questions of the popcon data, but installs, at least, may not > mean that much. On my main home box, several years old now, I've got all

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread Luciano Bello
El Mar 20 May 2008, Nicolas François escribió: > It will be hard to define this list of "delicate" packages. > For example, I'm not sure I would have put openssl in the list a few weeks > ago. > I would have first think about setuid/setgid programs, servers, with high > popcon packages first. I ag

Bug#482334: ITP: trac-git -- Git version control backend for Trac

2008-05-21 Thread Jonny Lamb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonny Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: trac-git Version : 0.0.20080122 Upstream Author : Hans Petter Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://nanosleep.org/git/trac-git-plugin

Re: track bugs in VCS, not the other way around

2008-05-21 Thread Ben Finney
Jelmer Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you seen bugs everywhere (http://www.bugseverywhere.org) ? It's a > distributed bug tracker that stores bug information as metadata in VCS > branches. I'm currently working on http://bugs.debian.org/477125> a Debian package for Bugs Everywhere ht

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW, and I'm not sure it actually conflicts or invalidates or even > causes questions of the popcon data, but installs, at least, may not > mean that much. On my main home box, several years old now, I've got > all of cvs, svn, rcs[1], mercurial, git,

Bug#482342: ITP: madfuload -- Firmware loader for M-Audio DFU audio devices

2008-05-21 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: madfuload Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://usb-midi-fw.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Firmware loa

IPhone big problem

2008-05-21 Thread gusti
Hello Yesterday when I was changing the password in my IPhone. That work is possible editing the file "/etc/master.passwrd" as root (see the link 1 below). In the middle of the work I lost the ssh session with the IPhone and now I can't ssh login to the IPhone using the old root IPhone passwo

IPhone big problem

2008-05-21 Thread ggusti.ar
Hello Yesterday when I was changing the password in my IPhone. That work is possible editing the file "/etc/master.passwrd" as root (see the link 1 below). In the middle of the work I lost the ssh session with the IPhone and now I can't ssh login to the IPhone using the old root IPhone passwo

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:43:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/20/08 23:11, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >> even though it's "just" a command line utility. Who knows what > >> weird, unexpected sid

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > What about compilers and interpreters (like gcc and perl)? Kernel and drivers? Everything which is part of the TCB (libs, login, resolvercache, init, root cron tools, etc). And of course all network clients and all other programs :) Gruss Bernd -- T

Familien- Wellnessurlaub - Inteli Tours

2008-05-21 Thread ungarn-info.de
Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2008 -- http://www.ungarn-info.de -- Familien-Sparangebot mit Frühbucher-Rabat 8 Tage Familien-Wellnessurlaub Hotel Park Inn* * * *

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Meskes
Sorry guys, apparently this email of mine didn't make it to the list. Thus sending it again. Need to figure out what's going on as this happened twice. Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 20:53:51 schrieb Joey Hess: > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > them next week an

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/21/08 20:08, Andreas Bombe wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:43:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 05/20/08 23:11, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: even though it's "just" a command line utility. W

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-05-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2008-05-22 kello 04:35 +0200, Michael Meskes kirjoitti: > Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 20:53:51 schrieb Joey Hess: > > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > > them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then. > > ... > > acpi > > I take this

RFH: Bug #481575: courier: FTBFS

2008-05-21 Thread Christian Perrier
During the l10n NMU campaign, some work was done on "courier", in the usual "l10n NMU" way: -send an intent to l10n NMU -wait for 10 days to get a reaction -send a call for l10n updates and new translations -wait for 8 days -build the NMU However, building the NMU fails and lead to /me reporting

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-05-21 Thread Anibal Avelar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Joey. Im' very interested to adopt this packages: > archivemail > splitvt - I use it. > unclutter - I use it. > xaoom ? I think would be xzoom? Regards. - -- Anibal Avelar (FixXxeR) http://fixxxer.cc GPG: 83B64656 - C143 4AD8 B017 53FA B74