Work-needing packages report for Aug 29, 2008

2008-08-28 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: 453 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 119 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

Re: Please hint poppler-data for lenny inclusion

2008-08-28 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:07:16 +0800 Deng Xiyue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Though I'm not a maintainer of tasksel stuff, I think it's valid to > suggest the same to be done for Chinese(both simplified and traditional) > and Korean tasks as well, so that we save some bug number count :) filed as B

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:18:23PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:58:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:07:14PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:35:30PM -0300, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > It is possible; I'm curre

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Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Daniel Baumann: > s. keeling wrote: > > On a Gateway Sempron (32 bit) laptop ... > > > > Where's dhcp? Laptop has builtin ethernet (Marvell Tech. 88E8036) > > which etch handles well. Woops, sorry, Zenwalk (slackware downstream) handles it well. It appears to be handled by sky2 ke

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Bug#496991: ITP: box2d -- 2D physics engine for games

2008-08-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: box2d Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Erin Catto >http://www.gphysics.com< * URL : http://www.gphysics.com * License : zlib Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:31:41PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > > One of the services running on gluck is lintian.debian.org, which until now > > has been available for all developers to use in doing archive-wide scans. > > Is this service no longer

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Ian Jackson wrote: > The current list (which I haven't added even my suggestions to yet) > is at > http://git.debian.net/?p=live-helper.git;a=blob;f=lists/rescue > (I am told - I can't check right now because alioth seems to be down) for the records: git.debian.net is not alioth, and it (g.d.n)

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Didier Raboud wrote: > Why not building a multi-arch LiveDVD ? there's absolutely no reason not to build those; it's just a lack of time/manpower.. care to send a patch against live-helper? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-28 Thread Frank Küster
Package: general Severity: grave Since late last week, my system completely hangs - it stops accepting any input from keyboard or mouse - after 3 to 5 minutes after booting. This happens both in a text console and when running X. Of course I suspected a hardware problem first, but the manufacture

Bug#496961: ITP: libghc6-haskeline-dev -- User interface for line input in command-line programs

2008-08-28 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libghc6-haskeline-dev Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Judah Jacobson * URL : http://trac.haskell.org/haskeline/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Haskel

Re: Needed information about a structure

2008-08-28 Thread Laurent Guignard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russ Allbery a écrit : > Laurent Guignard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hello developers, >> >> I would like to know how to discover the library for the structure >> "udphdr" because the DHCP_PROBE program (in wanted package of the WNPP) >> use thi

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-08-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:00:31PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Once the move has been completed we expect to make gluck restricted to > the people operating the services that will remain on gluck, so please > clean out your homedir when you no longer need it there. So what's going to happen wi

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-08-28 Thread Mark Allums
Ian Jackson wrote: Which ONE version of Emacs ? Both nvi _and_ elvis ? Consider something akin to pico/nano as well. Something very small and lightweight and easy to use. Something for the "near misses" in the experience department: someone who is able to install and run Debian (mostly)

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-28 Thread Gonéri Le Bouder
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:11:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jonathan Wiltshire writes ("Re: automatic bug filing by test robot"): > > I'm inclined to agree. I would find it very useful to get reports, but > > not as a bug against my package. > > That seems to be the consensus. Fair enough. I

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > One of the services running on gluck is lintian.debian.org, which until now > has been available for all developers to use in doing archive-wide scans. > Is this service no longer going to be available to developers at large? Unknown. We have not talk

What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Baumann writes ("Debian Live Lenny Beta1"): > * The rescue flavour, containing system rescue and forensic related > packages, is missing in this beta release. I've spoken to Daniel and the main question here is determining the right list of packages for the rescue flavour. So in a sp

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonathan Wiltshire writes ("Re: automatic bug filing by test robot"): > I'm inclined to agree. I would find it very useful to get reports, but > not as a bug against my package. That seems to be the consensus. Fair enough. I shall see about getting a PTS tag for these reports. I'll leave them f

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-08-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:05:13PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Or simpler and not requiring mod_rewrite: > > echo "Redirect /~$USER/ http://newpeople.debian.org/~$USER/"; > > > ~/public_html/.htaccess > > Best to use Red

Bug#496938: ITP: libcrypt-generatepassword-perl -- perl module to generate secure random passwords

2008-08-28 Thread Alexander Gerasiov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Gerasiov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcrypt-generatepassword-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Jorg Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mvorl/Crypt-GeneratePassword/ * License

Re: Bug#493645: ITP: nostromo -- small, simple, fast andsecurehttpd

2008-08-28 Thread Franklin PIAT
Steve Greenland wrote: > On 27-Aug-08, 16:06 (CDT), Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:43:16AM +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote: >> > >> > > For those who needs to choose a (light) webserver, this page is >> meant to >> > > gather pros and cons of each one : >> > >

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi *, a little bit late, but since I am currently working in germany... Am 2008-08-11 17:31:51, schrieb Sam Morris: > A while ago, the use of libpam-tmpdir was suggested in order to mitigate > some of these attacks. It would be nice to see it in use by default, some > day. > > Obviously there

Re: Debian on the FreeRunner -- now official

2008-08-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Joachim, Am 2008-08-15 13:04:03, schrieb Joachim Breitner: > To install Debian onto your MicroSD card, alongside your current Image > on the internal Flash, see the instructions at > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner > These will provide you with a minimal Debian installation p

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-28 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:38:54PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Maybe send the report to @package.debian.org instead? > > As a maintainer I would like to know when a package fails to build for > any reason, even if it is due to factors outside my control. > I'm inclined to agree. I would find it ve

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread Didier Raboud
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Baumann wrote: > Debian Live Lenny Beta1 > === > > The Debian Live team[0] is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian > Lenny's Live images. Hi, I wonder if multi-arches LiveCD's are planned ? Those amd64-i386-pow

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-28 Thread Brian May
Holger Levsen wrote: /me objects / suggests to first enable mails to some mailinglist (this one?), instead of actually filing bugs. Then we can review the reports and then decide whether it's working as well as it should. Maybe send the report to @package.debian.org instead? As a maintainer

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ian, nice work! but... On Wednesday 27 August 2008 23:10, Ian Jackson wrote: > I'm hoping to shortly turn on the automatic bug filing mechanism. > I'm writing now to give people a chance to object :-). /me objects / suggests to first enable mails to some mailinglist (this one?), instead of a

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:00:31PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > Hi, > Hi! > > > we shipped one of the machines that HP had so graciously donated a while > > ago to Canada where UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering kindly > > agreed to host it.

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-28 09:19]: > I object filing FTBFS automatically. In some cases, the FTBFS is a failure ... > Also, how would you check that a bug has not already been filed > manually by another user? Totally agreed. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ --

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
s. keeling wrote: > On a Gateway Sempron (32 bit) laptop ... > > Where's dhcp? Laptop has builtin ethernet (Marvell Tech. 88E8036) > which etch handles well. I see it also has BCM4318 802.11g wifi > (which I don't use). debian-live images do automatically dhcp on detected network cards. i'm not

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-08-28 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:00:31PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi, Hi! > we shipped one of the machines that HP had so graciously donated a while > ago to Canada where UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering kindly > agreed to host it. > > This machine, ravel.debian.org, will become the new p

Bug#496873: ITP: pure -- functional programming language based on term rewriting

2008-08-28 Thread dhbaird
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: pure Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Albert Gräf * URL : http://pure-lang.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C, C++, LLVM Description : functional programming l

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > I'm hoping to shortly turn on the automatic bug filing mechanism. > I'm writing now to give people a chance to object :-). [...] > very few other packages. Most autopkgtest reports are FTBFS problems. I object filing FTBFS automatically. In some cases, th

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:00:31PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Once the move has been completed we expect to make gluck restricted to > the people operating the services that will remain on gluck, so please > clean out your homedir when you no longer need it there. One of the services running

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or simpler and not requiring mod_rewrite: > echo "Redirect /~$USER/ http://newpeople.debian.org/~$USER/"; > > ~/public_html/.htaccess Best to use RedirectTemp instead of Redirect, since the latter seems to produce "301 Mov