Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-01-09 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 12:35:05 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Guillem Jover writes ("Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary > packages ?"): > > On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 10:42:09 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Magic number(s): > > > Files usually start with the following string: > > > ! > >

Work-needing packages report for Jan 10, 2014

2014-01-09 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 535 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 156 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Bug#734799: ITP: wxpython3.0 -- wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxPython binding)

2014-01-09 Thread Olly Betts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olly Betts * Package name: wxpython3.0 Version : 3.0.0.0 Upstream Author : Robert Roebling et al * URL : http://wxpython.org/ * License : wxWindows Licence; wxWindows Free Documentation Licence, Version 3 Programming L

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Overall, I would therefore prefer option 1 (not the option I expected to > prefer when I started analysing this!), because as far as I can see it > will unblock cross-building for both packages that need /usr/bin/libtool > and those

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:55:06PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > This analysis makes sense as far as it goes, but the problem with it is > > that it neglects any consideration of libtool's dependencies. As I > > discovered today, it t

Bug#734793: ITP: pstar -- The P* Web Programming Language

2014-01-09 Thread Atle Solbakken
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Atle Solbakken * Package name: pstar Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Atle Solbakken * URL : http://www.p-star.org/ * License : GPLv3+, Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : The P* Web Programming Lang

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 06:14:07PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > The correct solution is for libtool package to be marked as > > "multi-arch: allowed" without splitting this tiny package into two > > even smaller packages. > >

Re: Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 06:14:07PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > The correct solution is for libtool package to be marked as > "multi-arch: allowed" without splitting this tiny package into two > even smaller packages. This analysis makes sense as far as it goes, but the problem with it is t

Re: Bug#274229: System accounts with valid shells

2014-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 08:50:55AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > For a lightweight, PAM-less uid switcher in Debian's base system, you > probably want to use start-stop-daemon --chuid. Unless you might need to run in contexts (e.g. debootstrap, or chroots of various kinds) where start-stop-daemon

Re: Bug#274229: System accounts with valid shells

2014-01-09 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Steve Langasek , 2014-01-09, 08:50: I wonder whether noninteractive su to drop privileges from root to a system account (in maintainer scripts, etc.) should be discouraged altogether, in favour of something with argv rather than shell semantics, like sudo/chrootuid? You can always get back fr

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread Nick Andrik
2014/1/9 Martin Bagge / brother : > And the license on those strings are? > I have a old memory in the back of my head about Rosetta strings not > being importable into Debian because of something. > > Easy detail to forget, or maybe the situation is better now. All translations submitted directly

Re: Bug#274229: System accounts with valid shells

2014-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 08:40:36AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Simon McVittie writes: > > I wonder whether noninteractive su to drop privileges from root to a > > system account (in maintainer scripts, etc.) should be discouraged > > altogether, in favour of something with argv rather than shell

Bug#734759: ITP: vim-pathogen -- Manage your runtimepath with ease.

2014-01-09 Thread Andrea Capriotti
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrea Capriotti * Package name: vim-pathogen Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Tim Pope * URL : http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2332 * License : Vim license Programming Lang: Vim Description : Mana

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-01-09 15:34, Nick Andrik wrote: > I went here: > https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/im-config/+pots/im-config > > > and clicked on the "download" link in the upper right: > https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/sauc

Re: Bug#274229: System accounts with valid shells

2014-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon McVittie writes: > I wonder whether noninteractive su to drop privileges from root to a > system account (in maintainer scripts, etc.) should be discouraged > altogether, in favour of something with argv rather than shell > semantics, like sudo/chrootuid? You can always get back from argv-b

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread osamu
Hi, Thanks. When I tried, I did receive mail from launch pad so it is some bug situation. As I see other responses, there is no easy way for me. (I thought I was the only one DD who can not figure it out. That is why I asked.) Maybe, we need to wait that site to get matured. (Or find out lau

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:48:06PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Is there any easy ways to get latest PO files from Ubuntu? It may need a bit of massaging, but I seem to recall https://launchpad.net/lp-translations-tools being useful for this kind of thing. bzr co lp:~jtv/lp-translations-tools/tru

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On 09/01/14 13:48, Osamu Aoki wrote: > PS: I also wonder if there is some generic script to update *.desktop > files using PO files. GNOME uses intltool for this. Look at how gnome-terminal generates its .desktop file, for instance: gnome-terminal.desktop.in.in (the actual source) does not contain

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread Nick Andrik
2014/1/9 Nick Andrik : > I attach this file for your convenience The link I forgot: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/162016788/launchpad-export.tar.gz -- =Do- N.AND -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread Nick Andrik
2014/1/9 Osamu Aoki : > Hi, > > == Short version == > I want to update PO files with Ubuntu site data. So far no luck. Help > needed. > > == Long story == > One of my packages got a translation bug report pointing me to: > > https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/im-config/+pot

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Osamu Aoki (2014-01-09 14:48:06) > I want to update PO files with Ubuntu site data. So far no luck. > Help needed. I understand you are frustrated, but please take it up with Ubuntu - this is Debian, and we cannot fix issues over at their camp. (we can yell and shout and have theories

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/09/2014 03:14 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > and projects in general. products*, sorry. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/09/2014 02:48 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > (I even see my name listed under "By" without my knowledge. It seems > to happen often on Launchpad. I do not mind listed as upstream but this > makes me uneasy. I do not even have any Japanese translation here but > it is listed 100% translated w

translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, == Short version == I want to update PO files with Ubuntu site data. So far no luck. Help needed. == Long story == One of my packages got a translation bug report pointing me to: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/im-config/+pots/im-config FYI: * I am the solo upstr

Re: Bug#274229: System accounts with valid shells

2014-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 11:43:09AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 09/01/14 11:23, Colin Watson wrote: > > In short, if you're using "su " for any of the affected users > > (daemon bin sys games man lp mail news uucp proxy www-data backup list > > irc gnats nobody), and you weren't already passin

Re: Bug#274229: System accounts with valid shells

2014-01-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On 09/01/14 11:23, Colin Watson wrote: > In short, if you're using "su " for any of the affected users > (daemon bin sys games man lp mail news uucp proxy www-data backup list > irc gnats nobody), and you weren't already passing an -s option, you > must add "-s /bin/sh". I wonder whether nonintera

Re: Bug#274229: System accounts with valid shells

2014-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 03:59:34PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Russ supplied a patch to allow update-passwd to use debconf for > prompting, which I've now merged after some tweaking between us. As of > base-passwd 3.5.30, all these accounts will have their shells changed to > /usr/sbin/nologin, w