Bug#681944: ITP: libregexp-debugger-perl -- Perl module providing interactive run-time visualizations of regular expressions

2012-07-17 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Package: wnpp Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libregexp-debugger-perl Version : (not yet released) Upstream Author : Damian Conway * URL : http://search.cpan.org/di

Bug#662736: ITP: maxwell -- entropy-gathering daemon

2012-07-17 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #662736 Owner: "Pedro I. Sanchez" Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #662736 Owner: "Pedro I. Sanchez" Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #662736 Owner: "Pedro I. Sanchez" Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : maxwell Version : 1.2

glibc very old

2012-07-17 Thread Miles Bader
Is there a reason that Debian has such an old version of glibc, even in unstable? The current upstream version of glibc seems to be 2.16, whereas Debian has 2.13 (which is circa 2011-02). [The particular improvement I'm interested in is a (significantly) faster version of the "expf" function (unf

Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-17 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 18.07.2012 02:07, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > Thank you, but I would appreciate if debian-devel-announce would stay > dedicated to important announcements which may be useful for a wide > range of developers. While you are right in general I beg to disagree that tech-ctte resolutions do aff

Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-17 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On 2012-07-12 14:59, Don Armstrong wrote: === Resolution === The Technical Committee reaffirms the importance of preventing namespace collisions for programs in the distribution, while recognizing that compatibility with upstreams and with previous Debian releases is also important and that somet

Re: Collaborative maintenance of mime-support (was Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support).

2012-07-17 Thread Brian White
> > Lastly, I would like to thank Brian for his impressively 16-years long > work on > mime-support. Brian, feel free to stay among the uploaders ! > Thanks. I wish I had the energy to make some of the much-needed changes but I'm just not involved with the project enough these days to have a goo

Bug#681924: ITP: gwtexpui -- Extended UI tools for GWT

2012-07-17 Thread Thomas Koch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Koch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: gwtexpui Version : 1.2.6 Upstream Author : Shawn O. Pearce * URL : http://code.google.com/p/gerrit * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: Jav

Bug#681920: ITP: gwtjsonrpc -- JSON based GWT-RPC implementation

2012-07-17 Thread Thomas Koch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Koch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: gwtjsonrpc Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Shawn O. Pearce * URL : http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/ * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: Ja

Bug#681919: ITP: travis -- trajectory analyzer and visualizer

2012-07-17 Thread Daniel Leidert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Leidert -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: travis Version : 120707 Upstream Author : Martin Brehm * URL : http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~travis/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++

Bug#681918: ITP: gwtorm -- tiny Object-Relational-Mapper library used by Gerrit

2012-07-17 Thread Thomas Koch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Koch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: gwtorm Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Shawn O. Pearce * URL : http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/ * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: Java

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi, On 2012-07-17 10:35, Russ Allbery wrote: > Could someone who has the time and the tools available do a check on all > the dependencies in main for dependencies on non-free/contrib? This > information would be very helpful in evaluating tech-ctte bug #681419. In > particular: [...] I wrote a

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Niels Thykier , 2012-07-17, 20:03: It would also be quite interesting, although much harder to determine, whether there are any scenarios where such a dependency would result in a non-free package being installed by default. If, for example, there's a dependency on foo | foo-nonfree and some

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Niels Thykier writes ("Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib"): > I suspect installability checking of all packages should find them if > they are there. One run with non-free+contrib and one without - the > "newly" uninstallable between the two runs should be set you a

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-07-17 19:35, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hello all, > > [...] > > It would also be quite interesting, although much harder to determine, > whether there are any scenarios where such a dependency would result in a > non-free package being installed by default. If, for example, there's a > depen

tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello all, Could someone who has the time and the tools available do a check on all the dependencies in main for dependencies on non-free/contrib? This information would be very helpful in evaluating tech-ctte bug #681419. In particular: * How many total dependencies are there? (We're only int

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 07:30:48PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > So in answer to your question, there are plenty of Android devices > which are trivially unlockable. (And once a Nexus phone is unlocked, > it's you can get a root shell trivially; no jail-breaking necessary. > Of course this is true for

Re: Collaborative maintenance of mime-support (was Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support).

2012-07-17 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Answering to my own mail. On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 05:38 +, Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 09:27 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > 2) Install in Alioth's collab-maint a git repository made with the --debsnap > >option of git-import-dscs, unless we try to go deeper in t

Re: Moving changelog and copyright files to control tarball, or merging?control and data tarballs ?

2012-07-17 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Charles Plessy, 2012-07-14 02:48+0200 (gmane.linux.debian.devel.general): > As the logic applied to the changelog and copyright files can be applied to > most other files produced by the packager, like NEWS.Debian, it looks like the > trend would be to have them installed in /var/lib/dpkg rather th

Re: Moving changelog and copyright files to control tarball, or merging control and data tarballs ?

2012-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 09:00:29AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > Just to give some context and background, this started with the > discussion of binNMUs and multi-arch [0], related to file conflicts > due to the coinstallability of multiple M-A:same instances, and while > initially a wild

Bug#681882: ITP: sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw -- Open-source firmware for Cypress FX2 based logic analyzers

2012-07-17 Thread Uwe Hermann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Uwe Hermann * Package name: sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Uwe Hermann, Joel Holdsworth * URL : http://www.sigrok.org/wiki/Fx2lafw * License : GPL2+, LGPL2.1+ Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#681881: ITP: sigrok-util -- sigrok related utilities

2012-07-17 Thread Uwe Hermann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Uwe Hermann * Package name: sigrok-util Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : sigrok developers * URL : http://www.sigrok.org * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Python Description : sigrok related utilities A colle

Bug#679853: general: Too much downtime during a big dist-upgrade - avoidable with snapshots

2012-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 08:27:05PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > While it might work for some, there's a much simpler way to minimize > > daemon downtime: Avoid stopping a daemon in the prerm, and instead > > restart it in the postinst. Downtime then becomes < 1 second per daemon > > (les

Re: Audit of Debian/Ubuntu for unfixed vulnerabilities because of embedded code copies

2012-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:27:06PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 07/02/2012 10:53 AM, Silvio Cesare wrote: > > Hi, > > [ ... ] > > Now some of these cases are going to be false positives. From looking at > > the results, many of the vulns were probably fixed but have not been > > reported in the

Re: Finding missing epochs

2012-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 11:34:28PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > I wrote a tool to detect versioned (build-)dependencies with > possible missing (or insufficient) epochs. The results for unstable > and a DD-list are attached. > > The source code is available at: > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-qa/e