Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-07-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 06:00:11PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Even if this were true (which I doubt), I'm quite certain that whether > > or not you use your real name on a piece of software has any relevance > > whatsoever as

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread James Westby
gregor herrmann wrote: > I agree that that's not completely obvious/intuitive for "newcomers" > but consumers of the patch format (command line tools, web > interfaces, ...) are free to expand them to URLs, and those > interfaces are probably more used than the raw source packages by the > people w

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:03:28 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > I think gregor makes a good point, and that there can be a reasonable > compromise between the two worlds of "hey, let's just use URLs in the > Bug: field" and "no, I'm too lazy, we should just use a nubmer and > refer to the Debian BTS" Th

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: I think gregor makes a good point, and that there can be a reasonable compromise between the two worlds of "hey, let's just use URLs in the Bug: field" and "no, I'm too lazy, we should just use a nubmer and refer to the Debian BTS" On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:58 PM, gregor herrmann wrote: > On F

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Even if this were true (which I doubt), I'm quite certain that whether > or not you use your real name on a piece of software has any relevance > whatsoever as to whether you're accountable and/or can be sued for what > you did with

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:36:48 -0400, James Westby wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Josselin Mouette wanted to allow bug numbers instead of URLs in the > > Bug-*/Bug > > fields. Several people expressed their preference for a simple URL field. > > Sub-thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel

ia32-apt-get: Striking my colors

2009-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I'm striking my colors. By popular demand I'm orphaning the ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk transitional packages. As said before the prerequisite for that was that someone else steps up as new maintainer for the old ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk monsters and Mark Hymers has agreed to do so. I don't

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread Ben Finney
Jon Dowland writes: > One thing I would like to see patch metadata help facilitate is patch > review. At the moment the "Reviewed-by" header proposed would allow a > tool to ensure at least two sets of eyeballs had seen a patch; > however, patches can go stale. I think some chronological informat

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread sean finney
here's a nice big group-reply with an assortment of comments :) overall i think this looks pretty good, though i do have some concerns that will kind of repeat themselves below about there being too much emphasis on something machine friendly instead of human friendly... On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread James Westby
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > it looks like we quickly converged on something relatively well accepted. > Current version: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ Thanks for working on this Raphael, I am glad to see it moving. I have a few comments, but overall I like the current proposal. It is

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-07-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:24:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Giacomo Catenazzi writes: > > A naive question: why does not FSF check identity of contributors? > > They must sign a copyright assignment (or disclaimer), send this > > document to FSF, but I see no identity check on FSF side. > > >

Progress on reprepro frontend

2009-07-03 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Sunday 21 June 2009 03:33:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Overall, I think that reprepro does a good job of maintaining a local > > repository, and we shouldn't reimplement what it does. Reprepro also > > seems flexible enough to implement most of the backend with simple > > commands and op

Bug#535620: ITP: libfind-lib-perl -- Helper to smartly find libs to use in the filesystem tree

2009-07-03 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libfind-lib-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Yann Kerhervé * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (GPL + Artistic) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Helper to smartly find libs to use

Bug#535619: ITP: python-keybinder -- register global key bindings for gtk-based apps

2009-07-03 Thread Luca Falavigna
Package: wnpp Owner: Luca Falavigna Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-keybinder Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Authors: Ulrik Sverdrup Nigel Tao Raphaël Slinckx Sebastian P

Bug#535615: ITP: libtopology -- Hierarchical view of the machine

2009-07-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: libtopology Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : libtopology team * URL : http://libtopology.gforge.inria.fr/ * License : CeCILL-B Programming Lang: C Description : Hierarchical view o

Bug#535617: ITP: kupfer -- fast and lightweigh desktop summoner/launcher

2009-07-03 Thread Luca Falavigna
Package: wnpp Owner: Luca Falavigna Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: kupfer Version : c1 Upstream Author : Ulrik Sverdrup * URL : http://kaizer.se/wiki/kupfer/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Python Descrip

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-07-03 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Goswin von Brederlow said: > Faidon Liambotis writes: > > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> ia32-wine is only available when ia32-apt-get is installed. > > WTF? Are you listening to yourself? > > > > Do you actually believe that it's okay to mess in such horrendous >

Bug#535610: ITP: libelf-extract-sections-perl -- Extract Raw Chunks of data from identifiable ELF Sections

2009-07-03 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libelf-extract-sections-perl Version : 0.0102 Upstream Author : Kent Fredric * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic + GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Extract Raw Chunks of

Bug#535607: ITP: libmoosex-has-sugar-perl -- Sugar Syntax for moose 'has' fields

2009-07-03 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libmoosex-has-sugar-perl Version : 0.0403 Upstream Author : Kent Fredric * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic + GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Sugar Syntax for moose 'ha

5 sexy Date Ideas Wpiith Your Woman

2009-07-03 Thread Hilu
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Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread Jon Dowland
Hello, I really welcome the stuff in DEP 3. I've just scanned over the existing threads and haven't seen the following points made, but please excuse me if I missed a discussion already. One thing I would like to see patch metadata help facilitate is patch review. At the moment the "Reviewed-by"

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Please do files bugs about issues you consider blockers for >> ia32-libs-tools and squeeze and please include if that applies even if >> there is the old ia32-libs in parallel to it (i.e. when it doesn't get >> pulled in on upgrades). > > T

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bastian Blank writes: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:28:24AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Last I heart s390 planed to drop 31bit support and go fully 64bit. > > This was the plan. However I don't know if it is the best solution. The > fact is: only Debian and SuSE still supports a complete

Re: Dueling Banjoes

2009-07-03 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
can perfectly solve the needs at hand, with the hardware >at hand. http://www.theage.com.au/national/prehistoric-billabong-yields-three-new-aussie-dinosaurs-20090703-d78d.html Are you guys sure you're not talking about banjo, the new aussi dinosaur which is one of three recently dicovered

Re: piuparts output wishlist?

2009-07-03 Thread Ben Finney
Peter Pöschl writes: > What about emitting this as TAP, the Test Anything Protocol [1]? +0 from me. Investigating TAP is on my to-do list, so I don't have an opinion on that yet; but in principle it seems fine, and there is goodness in widely-used output formats. -- \ “Anyone who believ

Re: piuparts output wishlist?

2009-07-03 Thread Peter Pöschl
> Lars Wirzenius writes: > > How would _you_ like to see piuparts report results, and produce other > > output? Go wild, the sky is bright blue. > > > > The obvious things to fix are: > > > > - make it really easy to see what the result of each test is > > Almost as obvious is to easily identify w

connection problem between BlueZ and BT module via UART port.

2009-07-03 Thread bt module
Hi! I am currently working on Debian with the latest version of kernel 2.6 of linux. I have bought a bluetooth module of the CSR company ( BTM-330, running with the BC4_roam type microprocessor) I have tried to link it with öy computer via the HCI protocol already existing on the one hand on Lin

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:28:24AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Last I heart s390 planed to drop 31bit support and go fully 64bit. This was the plan. However I don't know if it is the best solution. The fact is: only Debian and SuSE still supports a complete 31bit userland. RHEL is release

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Please do files bugs about issues you consider blockers for > ia32-libs-tools and squeeze and please include if that applies even if > there is the old ia32-libs in parallel to it (i.e. when it doesn't get > pulled in on upgrades). The package is a mess, the idea is

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:18:14AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> There is only one thing that DAK might want to adapt to. For most >> multiarch architectures there is a definite main architecture that >> most things should be in and then some corner cases where di

Re: CDPATH and shell scripts

2009-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mike Hommey writes: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:26:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Jonathan Yu writes: >> >> > How to fix them? Write Perl scripts, and turn on taint checking -- >> > that fixes the four issues above, because it makes the script exit if >> > any of them look dangerous. Env::

Re: Re-activating an emeritus account

2009-07-03 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 03/07/09 at 13:12 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:02 PM, John Ferlito wrote: > > > I've been trying to become a Debian Developer again for a while. I am > > currently in emeritus status. The correct process for this according > > to [1] is to email da-mana...@d.o which I hav

Re: multiarch and maintainer scripts

2009-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:36:23PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > what can be done if the maintainer scripts of a package must behave > differently when unpacking the i386 deb on i386 or the i386 deb on > amd64? > For example 32bit fglrx-glx needs to divert /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 on > i386 bu

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:53:53PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > === Next step? === > > After this round, if we don't have any important changes, I'll > probably announce the format to debian-devel-announce. Should I use > this opportunity to ask for more review or simply suggest people to > sta