Bug#736908: ITP: optcomp -- syntax extension for optional compilation with cpp-like directives

2014-01-27 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Stéphane Glondu" * Package name: optcomp Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Jérémie Dimino * URL : https://github.com/diml/optcomp * License : BSD Programming Lang: OCaml Description : syntax extension for optional

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Sebastian Feld writes: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: >> I agree with the removal. http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2375 >> was already a sufficiently unpleasant christmas present (exploit was >> posted on on 24th December) > I agree with the removal. Debian

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-27 Thread Sebastian Feld
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Brian May schrieb: >> --001a11c1fd62df72e504f0aac077 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> On 24 January 2014 04:14, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: >> >>> > My proposal is to drop the package from the archive, but I wanted to >>> > g

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May writes: > On 28 January 2014 04:08, Russ Allbery wrote: >> (And, regardless, the telnet implementation really needs to go away.) > I don't know what problems telnet has, however I suspect you will find > the Kerberos ftp to be equally as bad. I believe ftp at least uses GSS-API and h

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-27 Thread Brian May
On 28 January 2014 04:08, Russ Allbery wrote: > (And, regardless, the telnet implementation really needs to go away.) > I don't know what problems telnet has, however I suspect you will find the Kerberos ftp to be equally as bad. At one stage, I seem to recall there was a bug in heimdal ftpd th

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Toedt writes: > If courses there is another issue: What still left as "use case" of > Kerberos5 if krb-rsh and krb-rlogin are no longer available? Typical > university setup is krb-NFSv3/krb-NFSv4 plus krb-rlogin internally and > ssh only for external access. I am quite dubious of this sta

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Joshuah Hurst writes: > Only in cases when Kerberos5 is not available. One major advantage over > ssh is that krb5-rsh has much lower latency and overhead (in terms of > used cpu time) when executing a plain /bin/true on a remote host, doing > that in a loop over 1000 logins can take hours with

Re: what about PTS (Re: libunwind and ia64)

2014-01-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 16:19:24 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > And regarding the icu52 transition: The transition tracker is not smart > enough to detect that a package has finished the transition (i.e. > testing has a version satisfying the "good" constraint.). But this does > not happen too o

Re: what about PTS (Re: libunwind and ia64)

2014-01-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2014-01-27 15:19, Andreas Beckmann wrote: On 2014-01-27 14:12, Osamu Aoki wrote: It seems that this "auto-*" transition should not block upload if old libunwind7 library is used. Especially for packages indirectly depending on one of the auto-* packages. That is good. Looks like the trans

Bug#736850: ITP: lightcouch -- CouchDB Java API

2014-01-27 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: lightcouch Version : 0.0.6 Upstream Author : Ahmed Yehia * URL : http://www.lightcouch.org * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : LightCouch - CouchDB Java API

Bug#736848: ITP: vim-tabular -- Vim script for text filtering and alignment

2014-01-27 Thread Andrea Capriotti
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrea Capriotti * Package name: vim-tabular Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Matthew J. Wozniski * URL : https://github.com/godlygeek/tabular * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: Vim Description : Vim scrip

Re: what about PTS (Re: libunwind and ia64)

2014-01-27 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2014-01-27 14:12, Osamu Aoki wrote: > It seems that this "auto-*" transition should not block upload if old > libunwind7 library is used. Especially for packages indirectly > depending on one of the auto-* packages. That is good. Looks like the transition tracker should get an optional flag "

Bug#736844: ITP: mozilla-password-editor -- Create and edit entries in the password manager in Mozilla applications

2014-01-27 Thread Ximin Luo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ximin Luo * Package name: mozilla-password-editor Version : 2.7.2 Upstream Author : Daniel Dawson * URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saved-password-editor/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: JavaS

what about PTS (Re: libunwind and ia64)

2014-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, It seems I got good answers then I have another practical question : Can I upload ibus-qt package with warnings on PTS as below. On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 05:57:38PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 01:06:07 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > libunwind seems to be holding o

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:27:52AM +0100, Simon Toedt wrote: > Hint: Before further claiming the obsolesce of krb-rsh/rlogin vs ssh > please try ssh on an ARM box (e.g gumstix) vs krb-rsh. ssh takes > almost 2.6 seconds to complete (even with tuning and using arcfour), > krb-rsh executes the same i

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-27 Thread Simon Toedt
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2014-01-25 20:23, Joshuah Hurst wrote: >> >> One major advantage over ssh is that krb5-rsh has much lower latency >> and overhead (in terms of used cpu time) when executing a plain >> /bin/true on a remote host, doing that in a loop over 10

Bug#736826: ITP: tea4cups -- The Swiss Army's knife of advanced CUPS administrators

2014-01-27 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: tea4cups Version : 3.13~alpha1+svn3565 Upstream Author : Jerome Alet * URL : http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : The Swiss A