Re: pcsc-cyberjack needs update to support more apparatus Germany oriented.

2024-09-18 Thread Frank Neuber
Hello Reinhard, the upstream is now on SP17. http://kernelport.com/reiner-sct/SP17/pcsc-cyberjack-3.99.5final.SP17.tar.bz2 I don't know how to update the package to the correct Debian way. Maybe you have the time to do this. Thank you, Frank Am 18.09.24 um 13:14 schrieb Reinhard Ta

Bug#1049986: ITP: filtermail -- Filtermail filters incoming e-mail as accepted, spam, or ignored

2023-08-17 Thread Frank B. Brokken
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Brokken X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: filtermail Version : 1.02.00 Upstream Contact: Frank B. Brokken * URL : https://fbb-git.gitlab.io/filtermail * License : GPL Programming Lang

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread frank paulsen
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 02:12:25AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> >> And, in any case, for your example on Debian you will do 6 -> 7 -> 8. > It seems you've missed the point (which was about 4 years between RHEL > releases). there were three years between Woody and S

Bug#813485: ITP: setop -- apply set operations like intersection to text inputs

2016-02-02 Thread Frank Stähr
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Frank Stähr" * Package name: setop Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Frank Stähr * URL : http://github.com/phisigma/setop * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : apply set opera

Tighter systemd integration for stretch?

2015-08-08 Thread Frank Bauer
-networkd. Cheers, Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/capds5_+ogy3qnosvcbrgg8vafflvx5oe9d2k_bnhazpk4e+...@mail.gmail.com

Bug#772736: ITP: pathlib -- Set of classes to handle filesystem paths

2014-12-10 Thread Frank Brehm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Brehm * Package name: pathlib Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Antoine Pitrou * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib * License : MIT Licence Programming Lang: Python Description : Set of classes to

Bug#750138: ITP: scap-workbench -- Scanning and tailoring tool for SCAP content

2014-06-01 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Lin PIAT * Package name: scap-workbench Version : 0.8.8 Upstream Author : Martin Preisler : Maros Barabas * URL : https://fedorahosted.org/scap-workbench/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C

Re: Nftables in jessie?

2014-05-25 Thread Frank Bauer
oad these at boot time. Cheers, Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAPds5_KGC1FM-NnYN_Kt=AzoJX=pexwulyc5rn5rlnoqm_r...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Nftables in jessie?

2014-05-14 Thread Frank Bauer
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > > Just to let you know: nftables is now on Debian [0]. Great news! Now I will let this and the fixed kernel 3.14 migrate to jessie and start playing... Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Nftables in jessie?

2014-05-08 Thread Frank Bauer
will be here in no time. I believe it is essential for users to be able to test this new technology in jessie before fully switching to it in jessie+1. Regards, Frank

Bug#737352: ITP: ajaxometer -- webbased download and upload speed test utility

2014-02-01 Thread Frank Piotrowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Piotrowski * Package name: ajaxometer Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Akita Noek * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxometer * License : BSD Programming Lang: PHP & JavaScript Descrip

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-22 Thread Frank Fegert
- would like to provide buildd/developer machines (i.e. LPARs on an "old" IBM Power6 P550 with console access) I am not a DD/DM Best regards, Frank Fegert signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Updating /etc/hosts automatically / behavior of sed command

2013-07-04 Thread Tad Frank
Your issue lies in the line: sed -e "s/$REGISTERED_IP/$CURRENT_IP/g" /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.new Take a look at the modification I made below, it should help. if [ $CURRENT_IP != $REGISTERED_IP ] ; then echo -n "IP address has changed: creating a new /etc/hosts file" sed -i.old "s/$REG

Re: system time has change while installing

2013-06-20 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 19.06.2013 18:12, schrieb Steve Langasek: > The *only* argument for using local time in the system clock is so that the > time displayed in the timezone-ignorant BIOS will be correct. But who looks > at the time in the BIOS anyway? Windows is doing ;) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP dig

Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-27 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Monday 27 May 2013 12:45:27 Holger Levsen wrote: > On Montag, 27. Mai 2013, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > EFI in VirtualBox has definitely not the same level of stability as the > > normal BIOS. I would strongly discourage from publishing an EFI-only > > VirtualBox package.

Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-27 Thread Frank Mehnert
boot a VM in BIOS mode and > it's not available. > - The VirtualBox maintainers (= me at the moment) don't even have time to > properly maintain the VirtualBox package as it is. So someone else would > have to join pkg-virtualbox and do the work. Kind regards, F

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread Frank Bauer
eyes. The point, however, is not whether the SSD in question will last 94 or 100 overwrites, but whether Debian's packaging system is not causing too much unneccessary write overhead. Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-09-30 Thread Frank Bauer
0 MB of data are written in each subsequent run. > Disable pdiffs, mount /var/cache/apt as tmpfs, so at least the packages > are not written again. Good call, thanks Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: delete file with dcut on ftp master

2012-06-28 Thread Frank Habermann
> Jun 27 21:53:07 Removing > /dcut.lordlamer_lordlamer.1340833798.30713.commands Thanks for the hint! Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fec0e01@lordlamer.de

delete file with dcut on ftp master

2012-06-28 Thread Frank Habermann
: dcut rm zendframework_1.11.12.orig.tar.gz A sign command is uploaded to ftp-master but the file is not deleted. Can anybody help me to delete my file on the master? Or what is my mistake? regards, Frank -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: exFAT fuse driver and the patent situation

2012-01-02 Thread Frank Lanitz
as well as utils. Maybe you can use it as base. Cheers, Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f01a43e.8060...@frank.uvena.de

Re: Bug#649338: ITP: pxe-kexec -- Retrieves PXE configuration file and kexec entries

2011-11-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Some comment regarding the package description... On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 02:32 +, Dave Walker (Daviey) wrote: > Package: wnpp > > * Package name: pxe-kexec > Description : Retrieves PXE configuration file and kexec entries > Tool that fetches PXE configuration from a TFTP (o

Re: Sharing data between maintainer scripts and debian/rules

2011-11-05 Thread Frank Küster
. The original idea is from Davide Salvetti in his auctex package, but I wouldn't recommend this any more - the packaging may be "aesthetic", but it is overcomplicated. In particular, newer upstream versions probably don't need much more than ./configure; make; make inst

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

2011-11-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 10:21 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 09:13:43AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Other package that depend on menu... mostly met

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

2011-11-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 07:20 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Bill Allombert (bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr): > > > > What about moving the su-to-root binary to a different binary package ? > > > Bill what's your PoV about spliting it ? > > In that case, I think that the above discus

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 spec

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on

2011-10-30 Thread Frank lin Piat
On Sun 30/10/11 18:51, "Russ Allbery" r...@debian.org wrote: > Frank lin Piat fp...@klabs.be writes: > On Sun 30/10/11 11:31 , Daniel Baumann wrote:: > >> packages that need root have to use su-to-root in order to play > >> well on live systems (where you know

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on

2011-10-30 Thread Frank lin Piat
On Sun 30/10/11 13:55, "Bernhard R. Link" brl...@debian.org wrote: > * Frank lin Piat [111029 20:49]: > [Please, reply/discuss .. separate thread.] > Please don't put stupid requests into then... > (Not even speaking about the flames outside ). > > > Specio

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

2011-10-30 Thread Frank lin Piat
> On Sun 30/10/11 11:31 , Daniel Baumann wrote:: > > On 10/29/2011 08:49 PM, Frank lin Piat wrote: >> I intend to submit a mass bug filling to ask packages maintainer to drop or >> downgrade their dependency on "menu": > >[...] > > packages that need r

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

2011-10-29 Thread Frank lin Piat
Joey Hess tasksel (U) Sven Hoexter lyx (U) Philipp Huebner btnx-config system-config-cluster system-config-lvm Ben Hutchings rutilt (U) Giuseppe Iuculano dkms (U) gsmartcontrol Aurelien Jarno rutilt (U) Tatsuya Kinoshita mhc w3m Julian Andres Klode

Re: Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-13 Thread Frank Steinborn
Josh Triplett wrote: > ...which produce output to somewhere other than a log file, in some > scenario other than "being buggy and accidentally producing output", and > which expect end users to read their output, and which therefore expect > that the end user has configured root's mail to go somewh

Re: Forw/Re: Removal of systemtap from testing

2011-07-29 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi, Ritesh - On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:01:54PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > [...] > The 1.6 packaging is almost done. It runs on my box. Thank you very much. > TODO: > * 1.6 stripped down many things. The systemtap-client package is almost > empty. The only worthy file it installs is stap-

Forw/Re: Removal of systemtap from testing

2011-07-27 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi - mehdi wrote on debian-devel: > Systemtap seems in pretty bad shape. Its removal from testing has > been requested (See #635543) and will be effective by Saturday if > still not fixed. It you still care about systemtap, please step up > and offer your help to fix it. While we have no debian

Re: Debconf syntax error message that I don't understand

2011-07-13 Thread Frank Küster
Joey Hess wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> OLD_IFS="$IFS" >> IFS=$OLDIFS > > s/_// :-( -- Frank Küster Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg Debian Developer (TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Debconf syntax error message that I don't understand

2011-07-12 Thread Frank Küster
stalled post-installation script returned error exit status 20 Errors were encountered while processing: texlive-base With IFS=' ' it works, but that doesn't look right? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffe

Debconf syntax error message that I don't understand

2011-07-12 Thread Frank Küster
oo" at the end, but that doesn't change anything. Probably I'm missing something trivial... Regards, Frank P.S. Script at http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-tex/texlive2009/trunk/texlive-base/debian/texlive-base.libpaper?view=log -- Frank Küster Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Milt

Re: svn.debian.org ???

2011-06-17 Thread Frank Küster
Date: 2011-05-10 18:09:45 +0200 (Di, 10 Mai 2011) Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg Debian Developer (TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-12 Thread Frank Küster
Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:05:40PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Not at the same time, but someone might allow a user of a laptop to >> access their WLAN, but neither accept that an other user of the laptop >> should be able to use the same network wit

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-05-11 Thread Frank Küster
ept that an other user of the laptop should be able to use the same network without asking, nor that the keys be written in a system-wide configuration file. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Vorstand B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg Debian Developer

Bug#614137: ITP: libparallel-iterator-perl -- Simple parallel execution

2011-02-19 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Package: wnpp Owner: Frank Lichtenheld Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libparallel-iterator-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Andy Armstrong * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parallel

Bug#613651: ITP: oxref -- cross reference utility

2011-02-16 Thread Frank B. Brokken
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Frank B. Brokken" * Package name: oxref Version : 0.90.00 Upstream Author : Frank B. Brokken * URL : https://oosix.icce.rug.nl/svnroot/oxref/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : cross

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-10 Thread Frank Küster
d make sure their documentation is findable both in /usr/share/doc/package (for Debian Policy) and /usr/share/texmf/doc (for the TeX tools). If one package installs it as a directory, might files from other packages also be installed there? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster VCD Milte

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-18 Thread Frank Fegert
x27;t mind booting at all! But even with 1.3.14rc2 there are occasionally boot problems, where you get thrown back to the yaboot prompt and on second try everything starts up fine. So if it were possible to ditch the whole yaboot stuff in favour of e.g. Grub2 i'd be more than hap

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-03 Thread Frank Küster
> file. > > Does the issue happen for dvips ? dvips does not use gs - it creates input for gs. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: APT do not work with Squid as a proxy because of pipelining default

2010-05-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 14:02 +1200, Robert Collins wrote: > Given that pipelining is broken by design, that the HTTP WG has > increased the number of concurrent connections that are recommended, > and removed the upper limit - no. I don't think that disabling > pipelining hurts anyone - just use a c

Re: ITP: gnome-media-player -- GNOME Media Player is a simple media player for GNOME that supports playing media using the vlc, xine and gstreamer engines.

2010-05-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 17:58 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 18:25:15 +0300, Bilal Akhtar wrote: > > > Package name: gnome-media-player I find the package name extremely misleading: There is already a "Gnome Media Player": Gnome's Totem. BTW, do we really need yet anoth

Re: Bug#579569: ITP: ants -- advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping

2010-05-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 12:36 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Thanks Frank! > > On Sun, 02 May 2010, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Description : advanced normalization tools for brain and image > > > mapping > > > The ANTS package is designed to enable

Re: Bug#580221: ITP: python-libssh2 -- python-libssh2 is a python binding for libssh2 library.

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 22:40 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT writes: > > > > Note that the two first paragraph are a pristine copy of libssh2 > > description... the I18N teams should appreciate ;) > > On the other hand, I don't think the libssh2 desc

Re: Bug#579871: ITP: libnet-https-any-perl -- A perl module for HTTPS GET and POST using any available SSL module

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 15:25 -0700, Ivan Kohler wrote: > > * Package name: libnet-https-any-perl > Description : A perl module for HTTPS GET and POST using any available > SSL module Short description is too long. May be just: "Perl module for HTTPS GET and POST" > This is a simple w

Re: Bug#580176: ITP: obdgpslogger -- Suite of tools to log OBDII and GPS data

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:39 -0700, Gary Briggs wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Gary Briggs > > * Package name: obdgpslogger > * URL : http://icculus.org/obdgpsloger/ wrong URL: http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/ > Description : Suite of tools to log OBDII

Re: Bug#580221: ITP: python-libssh2 -- python-libssh2 is a python binding for libssh2 library.

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 15:47 +0200, fabien.dot.bouc...@gmail.com wrote: > > * Package name: python-libssh2 > Description : python-libssh2 is a python binding for libssh2 library. The short description should not contain the package name, so: "python binding for libssh2 library." > pyt

Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 23:18 +0300, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > * Package name: othman > * License : Waqf Public License > Description : electronic Quran browser > > Othman electronic Quran browser displays Quranic text in Othmani script style > as written under authority of Othman i

Re: Bug#579284: ITP: voxbo -- processing, statistical analysis, and display of brain imaging data

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:11 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 12:43:35AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:05 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > > > > > > * Package name: voxbo > > > Description : processing,

Re: Bug#579284: ITP: voxbo -- processing, statistical analysis, and display of brain imaging data

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:05 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Michael Hanke > > * Package name: voxbo > Version : 1.8.5 > Upstream Author : Daniel Kimberg > * URL : http://www.voxbo.org > * License : GPL-3 > Programmin

Re: Bug#579675: ITP: goban -- Goban screensaver / copyright issue

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 22:36 +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: > > * Package name: goban > * URL : http://draves.org/goban/ > * License : GPL >From what I understood, the package contains a copy of some games that were recorded during some tournaments. The records are retrieved fro

Re: Bug#579675: ITP: goban -- Goban screensaver

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 17:01 +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 00:28:55 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Description : Goban screensaver > > > > The short description should not include the package name, maybe > > something like: > >

Re: Bug#579177: ITP: xul-ext-monkeysphere -- Iceweasel/Firefox extension for using Monkeysphere on the web

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 12:13 -0400, Jameson Rollins wrote: > Hi, Frank. Thanks so much for the feedback. Responses below. > > On Sun, 02 May 2010 23:36:57 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 18:44 -0400, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > > > * P

Re: Bug#579177: ITP: xul-ext-monkeysphere -- Iceweasel/Firefox extension for using Monkeysphere on the web

2010-05-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 18:44 -0400, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > * Package name: xul-ext-monkeysphere > Version : 0.1 The package description could mention that this is an early/alpha/experimental release, to avoid deception (and encourage feed-back) > Description : Icewease

Re: Bug#579147: ITP: libapp-cpanminus-perl -- Get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN

2010-05-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 18:12 +, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > > * Package name: libapp-cpanminus-perl > Description : Get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN > > A dependency free, zero configuration, and stand alone CPAN module > installer. Maintainable and extensible with

Re: Bug#579692: ITP: libtest-inter-perl -- framework for more readable interactive test scripts

2010-05-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 22:03 +0100, Chris Butler wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: Chris Butler > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: libtest-inter-perl > Version : 1.01 > Upstream Author : Sullivan Beck >

Re: Bug#579600: ITP: sigrok -- Crossplatform logic analyzer and protocol decoder software

2010-05-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 00:41 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > Owner: Uwe Hermann > > * Package name: sigrok > Version : 0.1 Version is 0.1... the package description could mention that the software is an early release (alpha/experimental), to avoid deception (and encourage feed-back). >

Re: Bug#579569: ITP: ants -- advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping

2010-05-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 13:23 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > * Package name: ants > Description : advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping > > The ANTS package is designed to enable researchers with advanced tools for > brain and image mapping.

Re: Bug#579675: ITP: goban -- Goban screensaver

2010-05-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 22:36 +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Al Nikolov > > > * Package name: goban > Version : 1.1 > Upstream Author : Scott Draves > * URL : http://draves.org/goban/ > * License : GPL > Program

Re: Bug#578750: ITP: kmid -- MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE

2010-04-28 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello Lisandro, On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 10:40 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > * Package name: kmid is it kmid or kmid2? > Description : MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE > KMid is a rewrite from scratch of the original KDE midi player. Not so u

Re: Bug#579076: ITP: bitfrost -- Python library for BIOS security on the OLPC XO laptop

2010-04-28 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 23:17 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: > > * Package name: bitfrost > Description : Python library for BIOS security on the OLPC XO laptop > > Bitfrost is the OLPC security platform. This package contains tools to > handle securing the early boot stages of the system run

Re: Bug#579373: ITP: zthreads -- A platform-independent, multi-threading and synchronization library for C++

2010-04-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 14:07 +0200, Cleto Martin Angelina wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Cleto Martin Angelina > Owner: Cleto Martin Angelina > > * Package name: zthreads libzthreads? > Version : 2.3.2 > Upstream Author : Eric Crahen > * URL : ht

Package description review (in ITP)

2010-04-18 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, A good package description is important, because sysadmin often decide to install a package (or not), base on it's description. Shouldn't we suggest/require that the descriptions in ITP bugs includes the intended description for the package? (as opposed to a mere copy of upstream description)

Re: deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test

2010-04-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 00:30 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 04/03/2010 05:29 PM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > How can we make sure that all URL don't become broken once Bernd's > > attention move away from Debian (this may happen)? > > If the service is used I'

Re: deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test

2010-04-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 10:10 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > Comments, bugreports and patches are welcome! > > Please add an announcement to DeveloperNews: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews How can we make sure that all URL don't

Re: md5sums files... and beyond

2010-03-30 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
ebian.org/Sha256sumsInPackages should be enhanced with further meta-data. A very early draft is: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/BinaryPackageDescriptor Regards, Franklin On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 00:44 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 03:06 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >

Re: German Debian

2010-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
with english vocabulary. I don't care anymore for german translations. May the ones who cannot read the english original *and* have trouble with the german text discuss with them. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg

Group for hugepages / libhugetlbfs

2010-03-23 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
[re-sending, with proper debian-devel address, sorry for the noise] Hello, On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 01:20 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > This ITP was stalled, so I packaged this tool... > > * Package name: libhugetlbfs > Description : Tools and Library access huge pag

Re: Bug#533708: ITP: libhugetlbfs -- Tools and Library access huge pages of memory

2010-03-23 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
[re-sending, with proper debian-devel address, sorry for the noise] Hello Christopher and all, This ITP was stalled, so I packaged this tool. I am looking for one or more co-maintainer (read more at the bottom). On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 15:18 -0700, Simmons, Christopher wrote: > Package: wnpp > >

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-19 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 17:40 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 04:52:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > You add an additional ar member that contains the signed checksums of all > > of the files in data.tar.gz, possibly another additional member that > > contains the signed ch

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-19 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:14:13AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:39 +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:31:40AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > > Russ Allbery writes: &

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-19 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:39 +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:31:40AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Russ Allbery writes: > > > Simon McVittie writes: > > > > >> Most packages (in terms of proportion of the archive, in particular for > > >> architectures other tha

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-18 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 11:31 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:58:28AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:16:55AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > >> Harald Braumann writes: > > >> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi dear Teams, A few weeks ago, someone posted a link on planet.d.o, on how to demotivate contributors (a wikipedia page)... unfortunately I can't find the page anymore... On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 00:02 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 12053 March 1977, Luk Claes wrote: > > > You seem to send the m

Re: source.debian.net

2010-03-13 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 20:37 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 14:28:38 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > Does anyone know who maintains source.debian.net? It's a really great > > service, but its been down for about a month now. I would like to > > to make sure they're awa

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums, clear-signed checksum

2010-03-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 00:37 +, The Fungi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:22:00PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I made some tests, and it seems that we could allow,but not require, GPG > > signed checksum-file. sha256sum will ignore invalid lines by default > > (unle

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 03:06 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I must say I was somewhat surprised by these numbers. Out of 2483 > packages installed on my laptop, 2340 install md5sums. While that > might've been useful at some point, I don't think it still is. Hi all, Can you think of any sensib

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums, clear-signed checksum

2010-03-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 10:52 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Peter Samuelson writes: > > [Wouter Verhelst] > > >> At any rate, a PGP signature takes a lot of data; much more so than > >> a checksum. It's therefore more economical to produce a signed > >> package.checksums file than it is to produce

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 17:36 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 20:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > What about a transitional dh_md5sums that would produce md5sum AND > > > invoke dh_sha ? > > > > Or

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 19:57 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Joey Hess writes: > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> It's also always worth bearing in mind that while a really good > >> attacker can do all sorts of complex things that make them very hard to > >> find, most attackers are stupid and straightf

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:59 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT writes: > > > Find a patch attached, for a smooth transition from DEBIAN/md5sums to a > > recent checksum. > > > The way it is implemented, is that the dh_md5sums is a symlink to the > >

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:21 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Note regarding the patch: > > I have tried to make the patch so it isn't too intrusive (for > > instance, dh_checksums is a symlink to dh_md5sums even though it > > should be the

Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
retitle 540215 Introduce dh_checksums tag 540215 +patch thanks On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 20:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > What about a transitional dh_md5sums that would produce md5sum AND > > invoke dh_sha ? > > Or call it dh_checksums or somet

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2010-03-07 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Dear devscripts maintainers, On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 07:17 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I have written a small script to make it easy to submit manpage > improvements (it's attached). > I believe that it much more effective to submit a patch, rather than > explaining what

Re: [Rant] Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-03-07 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 13:09 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2010-03-07, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > >> GNOME, Xfce and KDE maintainers all explained that we have no interest > >> in working on manual pages, and our upstreams don???t either. > > > > This is an impor

Re: [Rant] Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-03-07 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 09:50 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 05 mars 2010 à 17:41 +, brian m. carlson a écrit : > > This still has the problem that I don't know immediately where to get > > the documentation. Do I use the GNOME help system? KDE's? man? info? > > a DVI? a PDF?

Re: including full package source code in the debian release

2010-03-07 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 19:29 -0800, Jamie Morken wrote: > > Debian releases have 25,000 or so packages and don't include the > source to them This is not completely accurate. The most frequently downloaded CD/DVD/BD don't include the source, but the debian-cd team does release some media that fulf

Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-03-05 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 15:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Daniel Leidert > wrote: > > > What's the problem, to write a short manual page, that points to the > > --help switch? All the maintainer would have to do is to provide the > > intention of the command, point to

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:37 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-03-03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > This is where I disagree. When a checksum algorithm is compromised (and > > MD5 *is* compromised), things only ever get worse, not better. Indeed, > > MD5 preimage attacks are pretty hard *today*. Bu

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 18:21 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > Or is it useful to be able to say "if it doesn't check out, it's > > certainly corrupt, and if it does check out, it may be corrupt"? Didn't > > think so. > > I don't understand why you say this. Cryptographi

Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-02-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 11:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josselin Mouette writes: > > > GUI applications usually take only a few simple command-line options, > > and more importantly, when you use a modern development framework, these > > options will always be documented correctly with the --hel

Re: Flag images

2010-02-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Thanks to Kibi for notifying some mistakes... On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 00:11 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > I would love to get some comments from: > - people leaving in a country with many official languages. > - people leaving in a country which official language is the same >

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 22:47 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 16/02/10 at 22:27 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > - disk space on buildds: at least 2 GiB are required to build a kernel > > > with debuginfo. (that doesn't sound to

Re: Flag images

2010-02-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:28 +0100, sean finney wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:53:56AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On lun., 2010-02-15 at 12:03 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > Flags are a poor representation of a particular language, and language > > > selection is better handled usin

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-13 Thread Frank Küster
nd that not everyone is using a "Desktop envirnoment". In my window manager, there's only one menu, and that's the Debian one. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUB

Using ucf other than from maintainer scripts

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Küster
ts changes to the papersize setting, and "commit" it with ucf - hence no three-way-merge situation is possible here. When other settings in that files, besides papersize, change in an upload, that would be handled the usual ucf way by texlive-binaries' postinst script. Would that

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