Re: apt-diff: a tool to diff filesystem content against APT

2010-12-08 Thread Tristan Schmelcher
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 07/12/10 at 17:45 -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote: >> (I'm not subscribed to this list, please CC me on replies.) >> >> I have recently written a tool I call "apt-diff" to compare filesystem >> content against APT. It is intended for inve

Re: apt-diff: a tool to diff filesystem content against APT

2010-12-08 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Tristan Schmelcher wrote: >> Isn't debsums already filling that nieche? >> >> MfG >>        Goswin >> > > I find debsums to be too basic for my needs. apt-diff is my attempt to > improve upon it. I often want to answer the question "how does package > X on my machin

Re: apt-diff: a tool to diff filesystem content against APT

2010-12-08 Thread Tristan Schmelcher
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Tristan Schmelcher writes: > >>> how does it deal with configurations generated in postinstall? >> >> Only files shipped by a package (i.e., appear in its .list file) can be >> diff'ed, so if a configuration file was generated from sc

Bug#606373: ITP: cxxtest -- a xUnit-like framework for C/C++

2010-12-08 Thread Cleto Martin Angelina
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cleto Martin Angelina * Package name: cxxtest Version : 3.10.1 Upstream Author : jaredgrubb and kfitch * URL : http://cxxtest.tigris.org/ * License : LGPLv2.1 Programming Lang: C++ Description : a xUnit-like fr

Re: Removing dbconfig support ?

2010-12-08 Thread sean finney
hi there, (for future reference dbconfig-common-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org is probably the proper place for this type of discussion). On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:31:22AM +0100, Pierre Chifflier wrote: > Since the package is using dbconfig since a few versions, I'm now facing > an upgrade proble

Bug#606358: ITP: free42 -- HP42S Calculator Emulator

2010-12-08 Thread Jean Schurger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jean Schurger * Package name: free42 Version : 1.4.66 Upstream Author : Thomas Okken * URL : http://thomasokken.com/free42/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : HP42S Calculator Emulator Free42 is

Re: compatibility analysis for Java libraries

2010-12-08 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2010-12-08 at 18:00 +0300, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > Hello, > > I know that some Debian maintainers use ABI Compliance Checker (ACC) > tool along with Ustream Tracker at LinuxTesting.org [1] for testing > backward compatibility of C/C++ libraries. Now I want to inform you > about opened

Re: compatibility analysis for Java libraries

2010-12-08 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le mercredi 08 décembre 2010 à 18:00 +0300, Andrey Ponomarenko a écrit : > Hello, > > I know that some Debian maintainers use ABI Compliance Checker (ACC) > tool along with Ustream Tracker at LinuxTesting.org [1] for testing > backward compatibility of C/C++ libraries. Now I want to inform you > a

compatibility analysis for Java libraries

2010-12-08 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Hello, I know that some Debian maintainers use ABI Compliance Checker (ACC) tool along with Ustream Tracker at LinuxTesting.org [1] for testing backward compatibility of C/C++ libraries. Now I want to inform you about opened Upstream Tracker for Java libraries [2]. Any feedback is much appreciated

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Marc Haber] >> Many Debian-Packages use Debian-packagename as an account name to >> avoid naming clashes. This is disputed though, so you may choose >> differently. I'd name the account Debian-inadyn and live with the >> fact that so

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Previously here, people has suggested that in some other unix distro > (FreeBSD?) naming of such account as _inadyn with preceding underscore > are used to avoid such name crash.  Although this seems more elegant > than Debian-inadyn, it is not y

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:05:05AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Marc Haber] > > Many Debian-Packages use Debian-packagename as an account name to > > avoid naming clashes. This is disputed though, so you may choose > > differently. I'd name the account Debian-inadyn and live with the > >

Re: FOSDEM 2011, second CfT

2010-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst writes: > Hi, > > At the end of September, I called for talk submissions for the FOSDEM 2011 > distributions miniconf. Unfortunately, to date, the number of > submissions (from Debian and other distributions alike) has been > abysmally low. It would be a shame if the two rooms whi

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marc Haber] > Many Debian-Packages use Debian-packagename as an account name to > avoid naming clashes. This is disputed though, so you may choose > differently. I'd name the account Debian-inadyn and live with the > fact that some tools handle the long user name suboptimally. Some of the tools

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:16:22 +0600, Timur Birsh wrote: >I'm packaging new version of inadyn package [1]. inadyn can run as daemon, >therefore I created init.d script. Daemon supports dropping its privileges >on start as well. I chose inadyn for the user name and inadyn for the group >name with