please try new libtiff4 in experimental

2009-08-19 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Executive summary: I've uploaded a new libtiff based on upstream's 3.9 branch to experimental. I believe it to be fully source and binary compatible with 3.8.2. Unless there are major problems, I will be uploading this version to unstable soon. There is no transition required, but I'm going thr

Bug#542516: ITP: libcommon-sense-perl -- module that implements some sane defaults for Perl programs

2009-08-19 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcommon-sense-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Marc Lehmann and Robin Redeker * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/commo

Bug#542507: ITP: libhtml-latemp-genmakehelpers-perl -- Latemp utility module

2009-08-19 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhtml-latemp-genmakehelpers-perl Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Shlomi Fish * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Latem

Bug#542508: ITP: libhtml-latemp-navlinks-genhtml-perl -- module to generate the HTML of navigation links

2009-08-19 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhtml-latemp-navlinks-genhtml-perl Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Shlomi Fish * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Lat

Bug#542506: ITP: libhtml-widgets-navmenu-perl -- Perl module for generating HTML navigation menus

2009-08-19 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhtml-widgets-navmenu-perl Version : 1.0302 Upstream Author : Shlomi Fish * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Widgets-Na

Bug#542504: ITP: libfile-find-object-rule-perl -- alternative interface to File::Find::Object

2009-08-19 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-find-object-rule-perl Version : 0.0300 Upstream Author : Shlomi Fish * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Find-Objec

Bug#542505: ITP: libhtml-latemp-news-perl -- news maintenance module for Latemp (and possibly other web frameworks)

2009-08-19 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhtml-latemp-news-perl Version : 0.1.7 Upstream Author : Shlomi Fish * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Latemp-News/ *

Re: Recommendations for man pages in Debian

2009-08-19 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:00:33 +0200 Christian Perrier napsal(a): > Maybe the requirement for man pages to be localized and up-to-date > should be restricted to Debian-specific packages? > > Otherwise, I expect many headaches with various upstreams wrt these > localized manpages. Well I can

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb: El mié, 19-08-2009 a las 20:07 +0200, Patrick Matthäi escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb: Hello I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be addressed, especially the wish list. There are people

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Holger Levsen dijo [Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15:04PM +0200]: > Hi, > > for some packages the piuparts upgrade test failed because dpkg detected a > conffile as being modified and then prompted the user for an action. As there > is no user input, this fails. But this is not the real problem, the r

Bug#542472: ITP: sslsniff -- SSL/TLS man-in-the-middle attack tool

2009-08-19 Thread Pierre Chifflier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflier * Package name: sslsniff Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Moxie Marlinspike * URL : http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslsniff/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : SSL/TLS man

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
James Westby dijo [Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:44:49AM +0100]: > > Yet a package of a plugin should surely have a ‘Depends’ relationship to > > the application package. Adding an ‘Enhances’ relationship seems > > redundant in that case. > > No, there are plenty of packages which depend on another with

Re: Recommendations for man pages in Debian

2009-08-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org): > As far as Debian is concerned, we should simply use po4a on all our > own manual pages like dpkg is doing. Maybe the requirement for man pages to be localized and up-to-date should be restricted to Debian-specific packages? Otherwise, I expect man

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
El mié, 19-08-2009 a las 20:07 +0200, Patrick Matthäi escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb: > > Hello > > > > I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be > > addressed, especially the wish list. There are people who send

Re: Help needed on mipsel #541706: gpe-expenses_0.1.7-2+b1(mipsel/unstable)

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Moog
Neil Williams wrote: [...] >>> make[3]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/gpe-expenses-0.1.7/po-lib' >>> cd .. \ >>> && CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \ >>>/bin/sh ./config.status >>> config.status: creating po/Makefile.in >>> config.status: executing de

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Patrick Matthäi] >> thing is the system of new packages (debian-mentors, >> mentors.debian.net) .. I think that there could be a team dedicated to >> addressing this important task, same as the team dedicated to the >> kernel, the core packages, translation, among other important packages. > > I

Re: Bug#454993: RFH: fglrx-driver -- non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver

2009-08-19 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb: > hello. > > I see this post and I would ask the team that keep the old version of > theses packages in order to allow me to use my old integrated video card > 'ati radeon xpress 200' I am sorry, this is not possible..

Re: Help needed on mipsel #541706: gpe-expenses_0.1.7-2+b1(mipsel/unstable)

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 18:09 +0100 schrieb Neil Williams: > On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:21:47 +0200 > Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > > Package: gpe-expenses > > Version: 0.1.7-2+b1 > > Severity: serious > > > > There was an error while trying to autobuild your package: > > > > > Automatic build

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb: > Hello > > I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be > addressed, especially the wish list. There are people who send bugs to > request to be added or taken into consideration certain properties and

Re: Bug#454993: RFH: fglrx-driver -- non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver

2009-08-19 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
hello. I see this post and I would ask the team that keep the old version of theses packages in order to allow me to use my old integrated video card 'ati radeon xpress 200' El mar, 18-08-2009 a las 23:11 +0200, Patrick Matthäi escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > H

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
Hello I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be addressed, especially the wish list. There are people who send bugs to request to be added or taken into consideration certain properties and functionality in the packages and maintainers are ignoring. Another thing is the syste

Re: Override changes

2009-08-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 23:49:52 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > if you need to request an override change for your package, please use > the BTS in future, no longer reply to the override disparity mail you > will receive from the archive. What about mass override change suggestions? Should thos

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 19. August 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15:04PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > The logs are linked from > > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/conffile_prompt_error.html > Not harmless at all. These are serious bugs. I'll file those accordingly :-)

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15:04PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Affected packages are: > cdd-dev_0.6.3 > cherokee_0.99.20-1 > conntrackd_1:0.9.12-1 > junior-config_1.15 > med-config_1.2 > openswan_1:2.6.22+dfsg-1.1 > science-config_0.6 > The logs are linked from > http://piuparts.debian.org/sq

Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-19 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear all, Motivated by some unfortunate trends seen in debian-mentors, I would like to raise (again) the question of wheter we are doing the right thing or not. Here is my plea: , | Attn Debian/Ubuntu/whatever developers and maintainers: | | It is with sadness that I see many NEW packages u

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:26:24AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > How do you imagine a technical implementation of a 'Enhances' field? > > Something > > like 'apt::install-enhances'? I do not *want* this personally - I just wanted to know if any tool makes use of this field in some way. > Th

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > for some packages the piuparts upgrade test failed because dpkg detected a > conffile as being modified and then prompted the user for an action. As there > is no user input, this fails. But this is not the real problem, the real > problem is that this prompt show

Re: Bug#542330: ITP: plasma-widget-logout -- Logout button on the desktop or panel.

2009-08-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 19 août 2009 à 06:24 +0200, Un expéditeur inconnu a écrit : > Package name: plasma-widget-logout > Version: 1.0 > Upstream Author: Marcel Nowaczyk > URL: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/LogOut?content=98934 > License:LGPL > Description: This plasmo

piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, for some packages the piuparts upgrade test failed because dpkg detected a conffile as being modified and then prompted the user for an action. As there is no user input, this fails. But this is not the real problem, the real problem is that this prompt shows up in the first place, as there

Re: Bug#542330: ITP: plasma-widget-logout -- Logout button on the desktop or panel.

2009-08-19 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:58:20AM +0200, Rafael Belmonte wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > --- Please fill out the fields below. --- > >Package name: plasma-widget-logout > Version: 1.0 > Upstream Author: Marcel Nowaczyk >

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > Ahh, I remember I was formerly wondering about this option which might > > be not easy enough to find. But anyway, my main question was whether > > there is a technical implementation of the *Enhances* field. > Personally, I'd would never set eve

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:35:10AM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >>>apt-get --include-suggest install >>> >> -o 'Apt::Install-Suggests=1' > > Ahh, I remember I was formerly wondering about this option which might > be not easy enough to find. But anyway, my main que

Bug#542369: please document how to install suggests

2009-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
package: apt version: 0.7.22.2 x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org severity: wishlist On Mittwoch, 19. August 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Andreas Tille wrote: > > I even failed to grep "man apt-get" for the string "suggests" so > > I think I can not do something like > >apt-get

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:35:10AM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > >apt-get --include-suggest install > > > -o 'Apt::Install-Suggests=1' Ahh, I remember I was formerly wondering about this option which might be not easy enough to find. But anyway, my main question was whether there is a

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Andreas Tille wrote: > I even failed to grep "man apt-get" for the string "suggests" so > I think I can not do something like > >apt-get --include-suggest install > -o 'Apt::Install-Suggests=1' -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian

Re: Recommendations for man pages in Debian

2009-08-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > > I agree. While Ben's suggestion sounds nice in theory, it's bound to > > be a recommendation that will not be acted upon because we have many > > more interesting challenges to tackle. > > The challenge brought up earlier in this thread, that of determini

Bug#542351: ITP: hyena -- general purpose CLI library

2009-08-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: hyena Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Gabriel Burt * URL : http://live.gnome.org/Hyena * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C# Description : general purpose CLI library Hyena is