Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-31 Thread Karl Goetz
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:34:47 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > As a (largely) non coder, what should I look for in (say) gNewSenses > > patches to know if it can be filtered out automatically? Are there > > any common indicators? > > Anything that

Re: Dealing with embedded javascript libraries

2011-10-31 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
W dniu 31.10.2011 14:49, Pau Garcia i Quiles pisze: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: The difficulty is that if we end up with ten different versions of some random javascript library, when it turns out to have a security vulnerability we need to somehow backport the patch t

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on [X-KDE-SubstituteUID]

2011-10-31 Thread Frank lin Piat
> On Mon 31/10/11 11:20 , Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:: > > [Frank lin Piat] > > Any chance to go ahead? It would be a pity if the only solution was > > to fork su-to-root (and possible merge xdg-su[2]) in a new > > source+binary package :-( FYI ... a KDE specific solution... For those intereste

Re: Could the multiarch wiki page be explicit about pkgconfig files?

2011-10-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Simon McVittie , 2011-09-19, 18:56: The correct place for debug files is a hash-based path, instead of the crapfuck we have today. ... but until then, for gdb to pick them up, debug symbols for $THING must be in /usr/lib/debug/$THING (a general rule, independent of multiarch), resulting in

Re: segfault error 4 in libpthread-2.13.so X86_64

2011-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 02:05:03PM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > Just pointing out that I'm seeing a segfault inside pthread_join of > libpthread-2.13.so. I need to look at the pthread source before I can > tell why it crashed. I will also try to roll back to an older version > of this library t

Re: Proposal for additional metadata in Debian archives (DEP-11)

2011-10-31 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2011/10/31 Charles Plessy : > Le Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 05:49:12PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp a écrit : >> >> For us, it is necessary that APT can process this data (will be >> implemented if DEP-11 can make it) and that parts of it can be written >> into a Xapian-DB for fast searching. - Both would work

Re: segfault error 4 in libpthread-2.13.so X86_64

2011-10-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dallas Clement wrote: > Will report back what I find. Please don't. This is the wrong list --- it is about development _of_ Debian, not development _on_ Debian. You might find the libc-help list[1] to be more helpful. Or if your questions are Debian-specific, debian-user[2] can be a great help

Re: segfault error 4 in libpthread-2.13.so X86_64

2011-10-31 Thread Dallas Clement
Just pointing out that I'm seeing a segfault inside pthread_join of libpthread-2.13.so. I need to look at the pthread source before I can tell why it crashed. I will also try to roll back to an older version of this library to confirm that I was not seeing this crash earlier. Will report back wha

Re: Dealing with embedded javascript libraries

2011-10-31 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > The difficulty is that if we end up with ten different versions of > some random javascript library, when it turns out to have a security > vulnerability we need to somehow backport the patch to each of those > ten versions. > > And here "we"

Re: Dealing with embedded javascript libraries

2011-10-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Raphael Hertzog , 2011-10-26, 18:47: For instance I just noticed that we can't install new widgets with the current wordpress package due to some javascript related problem. I'm not familiar enough with the codebase to investigate it easily. I can't ask upstream about it because it works wit

Bug#647197: ITP: python-snappy -- Python library for the snappy compression library from Google.

2011-10-31 Thread XuZhiXiang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: XuZhiXiang * Package name: python-snappy Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Andres Moreira * URL : http://github.com/andrix/python-snappy * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, Python Description : Python library fo

seeking comaintainer for debmirror

2011-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
I've been maintaining debmirror since we lost fjp. But moving to a cabin with dialup internet shortly after adopting a mirror program turns out to be a bad idea for developing it (though a nice use-case for using it). So I'm seeking comaintainer(s). All that's needed is basic perl, and an understan

Re: Advocating the use of RDF for Debian's published metadata - Was: Re: Proposal for additional metadata in Debian archives (DEP-11)

2011-10-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 05:49:12PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp a écrit : > > For us, it is necessary that APT can process this data (will be > implemented if DEP-11 can make it) and that parts of it can be written > into a Xapian-DB for fast searching. - Both would work perfectly well > with any format

Re: Debian unstable/expirental missing some bnx2 firmwares

2011-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 11:25 +0200, Dmitry Kravkov wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 08:06 -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 10:49 +0100, Sébastien Riccio wrote: > > > On 30.10.2011 10:42, Niels Thykier wrote: > > > Our upstream for (most of) firmware-nonfree is the linux-firmware

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-10-31 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 08:49:01PM +0200, Frank lin Piat wrote: > Specious "depends" relationship [AFAICT]: > backintime-gnome - GNOME front-end for backintime > backintime-kde- KDE front-end for backintime This is because of su-to-root. -- Jonathan Wiltshire

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: > As a (largely) non coder, what should I look for in (say) gNewSenses > patches to know if it can be filtered out automatically? Are there any > common indicators? Anything that looks like cruft or things that the Debian maintainer does not need

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on

2011-10-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Frank lin Piat] > Any chance to go ahead? It would be a pity if the only solution was > to fork su-to-root (and possible merge xdg-su[2]) in a new > source+binary package :-( Is there no other package installed on most/all desktop installations that can be the home of such script? A quick look o

Bug#647171: ITP: python-passlib -- comprehensive password hashing framework supporting over 20 schemes

2011-10-31 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Danjou * Package name: python-passlib Version : 1.5.3 Upstream Author : Eli Collins * URL : http://code.google.com/p/passlib/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : comprehensive password ha

Re: Debian unstable/expirental missing some bnx2 firmwares

2011-10-31 Thread Dmitry Kravkov
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 08:06 -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 10:49 +0100, Sébastien Riccio wrote: > > On 30.10.2011 10:42, Niels Thykier wrote: > Our upstream for (most of) firmware-nonfree is the linux-firmware > repository, and it appears that Broadcom never sent version 6.2.9

Bug#647162: ITP: python-mimeparse -- basic functions for parsing mime-type names

2011-10-31 Thread Mathias Ertl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathias Ertl * Package name: python-mimeparse Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Joe Gregorio * URL : http://code.google.com/p/mimeparse/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : basic functions for