Bug#509544: ITP: libxjavadoc-java -- a re-implementation of sun's javadoc, required as a dependency for xdoclet

2008-12-22 Thread Florian Grandel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Grandel * Package name: libxjavadoc-java Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : XDoclet authors * URL : http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/xjavadoc/ * License : own license Programming Lang: Java Description : a re-

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 06:57:28PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > I agree with the OP, that was not trolling, that was just getting things > straight. Please explain how this has anything to do with Debian development; in private preferably, so we can close this absurd thread now. Michael -

Re: Is The number of stable users dropping fast?

2008-12-22 Thread Gustavo Franco
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Looking at http://popcon.debian.org/ >, it seem to me that the > number of stable installations is dropping fast. The graph > "popularity-contest versions in use" show this, with version 1.41 > being the one in stable. > > When the ver

Bug#509517: ITP: mbrola -- multilingual software speech synthesizer

2008-12-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2008-12-21 Severity: wishlist * Package name: mbrola Version : 3.01h Upstream Author : Dr Thierry Dutoit * URL : http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis * License : see the file readme.txt in the source zip: non-free as in

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-22 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Andreas Tille wrote: >> 2. Make the temp file save against symlink attacks. The question >> I have for this case which should probably be prefered is: How >> can I savely teach an independent script about the PIDs of a >> crashed program that should be sto

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-22 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Andreas Tille wrote: > 2. Make the temp file save against symlink attacks. The question > I have for this case which should probably be prefered is: How > can I savely teach an independent script about the PIDs of a > crashed program that should be stopped. I think random fi

Bug#509485: ITP: libgooglecharts-ruby -- Ruby library to create sexy charts using the Google API

2008-12-22 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist * Package name: libgooglecharts-ruby Version : 1.3.6 Upstream Author : Matt Aimonetti * URL : http://googlecharts.rubyforge.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Ruby library to cr

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-22 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 22 Dez 2008, Noah Slater wrote: > > > Troll. Troll. Troll. > > > > I hope that's not referring to John's email. > > Are you kidding? I agree with the OP, that was not trolling, that was just getting things straight. Women are also sexists, often! Best wishes Norbert

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:01:04PM +0100, Peter Tuhársky wrote: > Amayita [snip] > american social identity problems. FAIL. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key - http://www.halon.org.uk/pubkey.txt ; the.earth.li B345BDD3 -- To UN

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-22 Thread Felipe Sateler
Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > when I started manitaining arb I noticed that the program might crash > under some seldom occurrences. To enable the users to start cleanly > another instance I enhanced the scripts provided by upstream which > basically parse a file containing the PIDs of the main

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Peter Tuhársky dijo [Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:01:04PM +0100]: > > As of the overwhelming reaction to the mail, I can partially > understand the reaction, when I look at Amayita website. Ok... This is just one more evidence of the trollness of this thread. Do you have an issue with Amaya? Many peopl

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-22 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:03:03PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Michael Casadevall [081222 12:14]: > > The thought of a rolling release system has a lot of appeal to me for > > desktop usage, but not for server usage, since each update contains > > the potential to break things. > > I don't

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Michael Casadevall [081222 12:14]: > The thought of a rolling release system has a lot of appeal to me for > desktop usage, but not for server usage, since each update contains > the potential to break things. I don't see how that is different for server or desktop. Large amount of desktop mach

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Peter Tuhársky wrote: I fully agree. And I don't like anyone to insult others, NO MATTER THE GENDER! I think there was just a troll alarm and there is no need to further blur debian-devel list. If anybody fails to give a clear reason why his mail is relevant for debian-de

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-22 Thread Peter Tuhársky
> I am not a dev or woman but I believe that sexism,racism and any other > ism you want to add is wrong and should be dealt with accordingly and > swiftly. I fully agree. And I don't like anyone to insult others, NO MATTER THE GENDER! I have read the "incriminating" mail and I don't found anyt

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, when I started manitaining arb I noticed that the program might crash under some seldom occurrences. To enable the users to start cleanly another instance I enhanced the scripts provided by upstream which basically parse a file containing the PIDs of the main arb processes. These files are s

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-22 Thread Amaya
I absolutely What Kale said: /me too! Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > > As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a > > petition for the DAM to have me removed from the project, > > WHAT?? Could these people step up please and tell us WHY you cons

Bug#509432: ITP: kdevplatform -- KDevelop platform for KDE4

2008-12-22 Thread Xavier Vello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Vello * Package name: kdevplatform Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : many * URL : http://www.kdevelop.org/ * License : mix of GPL and LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : KDevelop platform for KDE4 Th

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-22 Thread Michael Casadevall
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2008 17:55, "Paul Wise" wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Kjeldgaard Morten >> >> wrote: >> > Another model that I think has not been discussed is never freezing >> > stable. >> >> Freezing is the whole point

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 22 December 2008 17:55, "Paul Wise" wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Kjeldgaard Morten > > wrote: > > Another model that I think has not been discussed is never freezing > > stable. > > Freezing is the whole point of stable, if we didn't freeze it, it has > no reason to exist.