On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:57:56PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> A model for Config::Model is to a configuration file what a schema is to an
> XML file: a description of the structure and constraint of the semantic data
> of the file.
Fair enough. So, in your terminology, a model is the sche
Hi,
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> Maybe I missed something from earlier discussion - but why not rename
> debian/source/patch-header to debian/patches/debian-changes? (I mean,
> dpkg-source would preserve the header when regenerating the file, like
> quilt does, right?)
No, it cu
On Mon, Dec 07 2009, Joe Smith wrote:
> I suspect Patrick might be worried about a scenario like the following.
>
> Lets assume there is a package Foo that depends on and uses
> ucf. Further the package is the only one ucing UCF on the system.
>
> At some point the admin decides to remove Foo. Sin
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Onkar Shinde
* Package name: cruisecontrol
Version : 2.8.2
Upstream Author : cruisecontrol-de...@lists.sourceforge.net
* URL : http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/
* License : BSD (3 clause) like
Programming Lang: Jav
Package: wnpp
Owner: Jonathan Yu
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name: libmodule-install-xsutil-perl
Version : 0.19
Upstream Author : Goro Fuji
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Install-XSU
Package: wnpp
Owner: Jonathan Yu
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name: libb-hooks-op-annotation-perl
Version : 0.43
Upstream Author : chocolateboy
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/B-Hooks-OP-Anno
I suspect Patrick might be worried about a scenario like the following.
Lets assume there is a package Foo that depends on and uses ucf. Further the
package is the only one ucing UCF on the system.
At some point the admin decides to remove Foo. Since there are no other
packages that use ucf o
Le Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 12:26:52AM -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:56:51PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
>
> > I remember that debian/copyright should not only list where the
> > source was downloaded from, but also the files which were removed by
> > the packager and
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Andreas Marschke
wrote:
> I haven't had the freedesktop.org in mind at the time of writing it but yes it
> is infact a reason to do this as well.
> The bug is filed and should be open for broader discussion soon.
You should have chosen wishlist severity for the b
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 17:48:00, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
> Well, reading your posts I understand there is in fact a
> misunderstanding. The question mentioned in the reported wiki page has
> nothing to do with a debconf question: is the question posed by dpkg
> when there is a mismatch be
Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 20:08:57, gregor herrmann a écrit :
> Since you speak French you might be interested in Dominique's
> presentation at some French Perl meeting:
> http://fpw2009.ubicast.eu/videos/free/64/
Today, I've recorded today an English version of this presentation (with some
enh
Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:40:06AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> However, and here's the policy-related problem: Of course the admin
>> might have changed the default paper for one particular binary
>> manually. What should I do in this case?
>
> [...]
>
>> - let libpaper'
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 08:56:07AM +0100, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> >CVE-2009-3736[0]:
> >| ltdl.c in libltdl in GNU Libtool 1.5.x, and 2.2.6 before 2.2.6b,
> >| attempts to open a .la file in the current working directory, which
> >| allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse
On Mon, Dec 07 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (uhm.. I really hate it, if I can't hold the promises to myself I made;
> in this case: not further discussing it, but still here is
> another answer)
>
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:04:14AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 07 20
Hi,
(uhm.. I really hate it, if I can't hold the promises to myself I made;
in this case: not further discussing it, but still here is
another answer)
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:04:14AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at
Am Montag 07 Dezember 2009 04:35:30 schrieb Paul Wise:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Andreas Marschke
wrote:
> > I'm hereby proposing an additional Category for this list of such
> > applications called Multimedia. This defines clearer what they are.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me, this would b
On Mon, Dec 07 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:47:11PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> In this particular case, what is the harm befalling the user?
>> >
>> > Well, I don't think that making an Operating System is just about
>> > keeping harm away from our
Hi
> > > The following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
> > > published for libtool. I have determined that this package embeds a
> > > vulnerable copy of the libtool source code. However, since this is a
> > > mass bug filing (due to so many packages embedding libtool), I have n
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:56:07 +0100, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > Package: courier-authlib
> > Severity: grave
> > Tags: security
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
> > published for libtool. I have determined that this
[Raphael Hertzog]
> In the same version, a new option --single-debian-patch has been
> created so that people using a VCS can have dpkg-source create and
> auto-update a single patch named debian-changes (instead of
> debian-changes-version) somewhat similar to what the .diff.gz was in
> format 1.
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:28:03AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 07 décembre 2009 à 01:43 +0100, Robert Millan a écrit :
> > modem-cmd can be used to send arbitrary AT commands to a modem device
> > over a serial line.
> > .
> > For example:
> > .
> > $ modem-cmd /dev/ttyUSB0 ATDT
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:14:52AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 01:43 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Robert Millan
> >
> > * Package name: modem-cmd
> > Version : 0.0.1
> > Upstream Author : me
> > * URL
Hello,
This is going to be part of the next "Misc Developer News" on d-d-a but
since it likely going to take some time until we reach 5 items, I share it
on -devel right now.
---
Since dpkg 1.15.5.4, dpkg-source creates the .pc directory used by quilt
by itself (even if quilt is not available), i
Michael Gilbert wrote:
Package: courier-authlib
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Hi,
The following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for libtool. I have determined that this package embeds a
vulnerable copy of the libtool source code. However, since this is a
mass bug fi
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:17:30PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:39:28PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > There's no reason that ucf *should* fall under either of these rules; so
> > even if ucf /didn't/ work the way it does, the right solution here would be
> > to f
Le dimanche 06 décembre 2009 à 22:47 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> Python in Debian is currently in bad shape; on this, there is no
> disagreement whatsoever. But it's in bad shape by the measure that *it's
> not meeting the needs of our users*, not because of where it stands relative
> to Ub
Le lundi 07 décembre 2009 à 01:43 +0100, Robert Millan a écrit :
> modem-cmd can be used to send arbitrary AT commands to a modem device
> over a serial line.
> .
> For example:
> .
> $ modem-cmd /dev/ttyUSB0 ATDT123456
I don’t really see the point in packaging a 10-line shell script.
OTOH
Hi Thibaut,
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:56:51PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> I remember that debian/copyright should not only list where the
> source was downloaded from, but also the files which were removed by
> the packager and the motivation for the removal (DFSG, patents,
> large convenien
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:08:08AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> So one day ucf might be deprecated by dpkg itself.
That day will be a good day. Thanks for the news.
Regards,
Patrick
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On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:47:11PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> In this particular case, what is the harm befalling the user?
> >
> > Well, I don't think that making an Operating System is just about
> > keeping harm away from our users.
>
> But it is a tenet of software des
hiya,
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:36:18PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I think there's ongoing work to support debconf prompting for conffiles, but
> I don't think there's movement on integrating ucf functionality into dpkg.
> ICBW, though.
there was some work at some point on integrating debcon
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I think there's ongoing work to support debconf prompting for conffiles, but
> I don't think there's movement on integrating ucf functionality into dpkg.
> ICBW, though.
I don't expect progress soon but it's on dpkg's roadmap:
http://wiki.debian.org/Tea
On Monday 07 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> But when you have a core package maintained by one and the same person,
> I do think that that person has a moral obligation to maintain his
> package as well and as timely for Debian as he does for Ubuntu.
And has an obligation to discuss major chang
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
>
> * Package name: release
The tool isn't about releasing, but about to querying the release. Also,
it's about distribution release (not package...). May be a name like
{get|query}-distr[o]?-release... or something completely different
Steve Langasek wrote:
> No, because it's no longer an objective measure of whether the
> maintenance of the package is adequate. Your definition of "adequate"
> maintenance is now based on how Debian is doing *compared to* Ubuntu,
> which is not a standard that would be used anywhere else!
You ar
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