Work-needing packages report for Aug 1, 2008

2008-07-31 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: 461 (new: 6) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 118 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Re: Needs help: CJK Debian users will not be able to read PDF with poppler-data in default Debian Desktop in Lenny

2008-07-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Hideki Yamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But evince was changed. We need poppler package (depends on libpoppler-glib3) > to view PDF files, and if you want to view Japanese PDF file, you > also need to install poppler-data - but it is NOT in Debian yet. Debia

Re: Mass bug filing: init script "status" action

2008-07-31 Thread Peter Samuelson
[I wrote] > Tested? I thought he just said they were patching them in Ubuntu. While we don't have a code of conduct or anything, somebody chided me out-of-band for making an unhelpful comment. He's right, and I apologize. Russ already made the relevant point better than I did: that patches sho

Re: Mass bug filing: init script "status" action

2008-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Russ Allbery] >> I think it's reasonable to file a wishlist bug with a patch to every >> package that you've modified in this fashion since you're also >> providing tested custom patches for each package. > Tested? I thought he just said they were p

Re: Mass bug filing: init script "status" action

2008-07-31 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Russ Allbery] > I think it's reasonable to file a wishlist bug with a patch to every > package that you've modified in this fashion since you're also providing > tested custom patches for each package. Tested? I thought he just said they were patching them in Ubuntu. -- Peter Samuelson | org-t

Re: Mass bug filing: init script "status" action

2008-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Dustin Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bug #208010 suggests LSB-compliance of all init scripts in Debian [6]. > And Bug #291148 suggests a debian-policy change requiring 'status' > actions for all init scripts [7]. Just to say explicitly, these aren't reasons for mass-filing bugs. These a

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, the packages backupninja, dlocate, gt5, linuxdoc-tools, and > lsb-core appear to have spurious dependencies on either 'awk' or 'mawk | > gawk'. awk is spurious. mawk | gawk *probably* is, but it's possible that the semantics there are intentional

Mass bug filing: init script "status" action

2008-07-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Howdy debian-devel- The LSB 3.1 specification [1] defines a 'status' action for LSB-compliant init scripts. Some high-availability (HA) packages included in Debian expect to use a 'status' action as provided by the init script [2] to query daemon status. In general, such 'status' actions in Debi

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:55:03PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The dpkg upgrade log that Jörg showed clearly indicates that this is not the > case; mawk was removed, other packages were installed, and then gawk was > installed. > > If the use of awk in the x11-common preinst had actually bee

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:30:44PM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2008, 09:27 + schrieb Jörg Sommer: > > recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then > > I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections and run > > apt-get dse

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:27:10AM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then > I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections and run > apt-get dselect-upgrade. This replaced the mawk package by the gawk > package and in

Re: Standard way to disable services

2008-07-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > The DESIGN behind invoke-rc.d and policy-rc.d is to help MAINTAINER SCRIPTS > > don't screw up when restarting/starting/stopping services automatically, > > either in the normal system context, or inside special chroots. > > > > They are NOT, and I rep

Re: Standard way to disable services

2008-07-31 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:02:39AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > Why don't we let sysv-init (at least optionally) use policy-rc.d? > > Because that would make policy-rc.d and invoke-rc.d useless crap. > > The DESIGN behind invoke-rc.d an

Bug#493122: ITP: btnx -- daemon for rerouting mouse button events.

2008-07-31 Thread Philipp Hübner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Philipp Huebner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: btnx Version : 0.4.11 Upstream Author : Olli Salonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ollisalonen.com/btnx/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#493123: ITP: btnx-config -- graphical user interface for btnx

2008-07-31 Thread Philipp Hübner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Philipp Huebner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: btnx-config Version : 0.4.9 Upstream Author : Olli Salonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ollisalonen.com/btnx/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Descrip

Re: Standard way to disable services

2008-07-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > Why don't we let sysv-init (at least optionally) use policy-rc.d? Because that would make policy-rc.d and invoke-rc.d useless crap. The DESIGN behind invoke-rc.d and policy-rc.d is to help MAINTAINER SCRIPTS don't screw up when restarting/starting/stopp

Bug#493118: ITP: libnet-dns-sec-perl -- DNSSEC extensions to Net::DNS

2008-07-31 Thread Ondřej Surý
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ondřej Surý" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnet-dns-sec-perl Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Olaf M. Kolkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.net-dns.org/ * License : custom Programming Lang: Perl Descr

Bug#493116: ITP: sdedit -- A tool for creating UML sequence diagrams from textual descriptions

2008-07-31 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leandro Lucarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sdedit Version : 3.0 Upstream Author : Markus Strauch * URL : http://sdedit.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description : A tool for c

Bug#493115: ITP: trayion -- External systray application suitable for using with Ion3

2008-07-31 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leandro Lucarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: trayion Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Paulo Matias * URL : http://code.google.com/p/trayion/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : External sy

Bug#493109: ITP: json-static -- JSON validator and converter for OCaml

2008-07-31 Thread Romain Beauxis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: json-static Version : 0.9.6 Upstream Author : Martin Jambon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://martin.jambon.free.fr/json-static.html * License : BSD Programming Lang:

Bug#493105: ITP: json-wheel -- Ocaml API to JSON data format

2008-07-31 Thread Romain Beauxis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: json-wheel Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : Martin Jambon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://martin.jambon.free.fr/json-wheel.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: O

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:27:10AM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then > I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections and run > apt-get dselect-upgrade. This replaced the mawk package by the gawk > packag

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Manuel Prinz
Hi Jörg! Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2008, 09:27 + schrieb Jörg Sommer: > recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then > I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections and run > apt-get dselect-upgrade. This replaced the mawk package by the gawk > pa

Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections and run apt-get dselect-upgrade. This replaced the mawk package by the gawk package and installed some X package at the same time. >From dpkg.log: 2008-0

ITP: libcgi-session-serialize-yaml-perl -- Add YAML and YAML::Syck support to CGI::Session's serializers

2008-07-31 Thread Vincent Danjean
owner 484556 [EMAIL PROTECTED] retitle 484556 ITP: libcgi-session-serialize-yaml-perl -- Add YAML and YAML::Syck support to CGI::Session's serializers tag 484556 +pending thanks * Package name: libcgi-session-serialize-yaml-perl Version : 4.21 Upstream Author : Sherzod Ruzmetov <

Re: Standard way to disable services

2008-07-31 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:58:26PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Franklin PIAT wrote: > > I haven't investigated it, but I wonder if it isn't the sane way to have > > complex dependency (à  la LSB) stored in one place, and system admin > > preference in another pl

[Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux

2008-07-31 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
- Forwarded message from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Xen-devel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Virtualization Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:51:37 -0700 Subject: [Xen-de