Accepted subversion 1.6.17dfsg-2 (source all kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386)

2011-09-20 Thread Peter Samuelson
-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 source Version: 1.6.17dfsg-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Closes: 422699 443860 585358 607381 607544 610236 628507 628990 631765 634049 Description: libapache2-svn - Subversion server

Re: *-config programs and multi-arch

2011-09-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
it. Plus, it should also include /usr/local/lib/${triplet}/pkgconfig, /usr/local/share/pkgconfig, and /usr/share/pkgconfig. So, like, PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/${triplet}/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/${triplet}/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig pkg-config $@ -- Peter

Re: *-config programs and multi-arch

2011-09-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
be Multi-arch: same. I don't know how pkg-config handles multiarch either, but however it detects the desired host arch (is it just the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable?), your /usr/bin/foo-config shouldn't have to care. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Accepted gpm 1.20.4-4 (source all amd64)

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:16:08 -0500 Source: gpm Binary: gpm libgpm2 libgpm-dev libgpmg1-dev Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 1.20.4-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter

Accepted serf 1.0.0-2 (source amd64)

2011-08-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:12:21 -0500 Source: serf Binary: libserf1 libserf-dev libserf1-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0.0-2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter

Re: Introduction of a lock group

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
approach, just that doing this sort of thing inside your init script need not be painful. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
it everywhere we should be.) -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20110814225455.ga7...@p12n.org

Re: Bug#636072: ITP: stud -- scalable TLS unwrapping daemon

2011-07-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
. From the ITP, I cannot figure out why I would want this instead, or indeed, why Debian should ship both. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
be justifiable if there were very solid arguments why systemd is a big net win for the project, or after a vote showing significant support for the package. Just sayin', -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
of time after all. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20110719224237.gh4...@p12n.org

register files in dpkg database programmatically? (was Re: How Debian Deals with Data)

2011-07-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
feature, maybe that's a sign that it is a bad idea after all.) -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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

Re: register files in dpkg database programmatically? (was Re: How Debian Deals with Data)

2011-07-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
it the ucf use case. I'm just laying out the options, I don't know whether one, two, or all three options would be sensible. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Accepted serf 1.0.0-1 (source amd64)

2011-07-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:49:29 -0500 Source: serf Binary: libserf1 libserf-dev libserf1-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0.0-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter

Accepted serf 1.0.0~0+svn1514-1 (source amd64)

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Samuelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:09:28 -0500 Source: serf Binary: libserf1 libserf-dev libserf1-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0.0~0+svn1514-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed

Re: Fading away an old ABI transition

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
a package transition. Just wait for the next ABI bump. And if there never is one, oh well. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: packaging-dev 0.1 in unstable

2011-06-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
to ./configure make sudo make install as a single line to paste into your shell. Sure, when it works it works, but if the goal is to convey any sort of understanding of what one is doing ... it really doesn't. Better, IMO, to know what tools you need and why, not just install packaging-dev. -- Peter

Re: Ok to use upstream doumentation as-is (i.e. not regenerate)?

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
, if the generated files you're looking at are really large in comparison to the rest of the package, then it might be best to drop them to save bandwidth for uploads and downloads. But I'd say autoconf and automake output isn't nearly large enough to be worth worry about. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld

Accepted serf 0.7.2-1 (source amd64)

2011-06-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:18:07 -0500 Source: serf Binary: libserf0.7 libserf-dev libserf0.7-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.7.2-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed

Re: Uploading to multiple distros

2011-06-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
break the abstractions of debian/rules, debhelper, and the like. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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

Accepted subversion 1.6.17dfsg-1 (source all amd64 i386)

2011-06-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
source Version: 1.6.17dfsg-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Description: libapache2-svn - Subversion server modules for Apache libsvn-dev - Development files for Subversion libraries libsvn-doc - Developer

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
binNMUs This is unstable after all, right? (: -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20110526160439

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-25 Thread Peter Samuelson
to {hostname}:3690? I'd be reluctant to push for SRV lookups for http:// and https://, as that would be a break from what other HTTP and WebDAV clients do. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#626424: Please implement a method to save and restore netfilter rules at boot

2011-05-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
interfaces file by default ... but I don't expect it will ever happen (lots of people don't work the way I work), so I add it myself. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
on the dependency chain, depending only on some quite low-level libraries, so the impact should be minimal. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: /run in experimental

2011-04-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roger Leigh] This also permits the mount options for filesystems mounted in the initramfs (e.g. /dev, /run, /sys, /proc etc.) to be set in /etc/fstab; the filesystems are remounted with the options from /etc/fstab if already mounted during rcS. The mount options for /run are also made

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
. Sounds complicated, anyway. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20110428025543.gd20...@p12n.org

Re: Bug#623847: ITP: rescan-scsi-bus -- tool for reliable scsi hotplugging in linux

2011-04-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Stephen Kitt] This is already packaged in scsitools! Huh, I occasionally wondered whatever happened to 'scsiadd'. Guess its functionality was subsumed into scsitools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: MBF la-file-removal: links-not-existing-la

2011-04-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
of libopkele, I think libtool will then DTRT. However, intentionally making someone else's package RC buggy for a couple of days might be frowned upon. Is it a reasonable thing to do in unstable? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roger Leigh] Regarding the root shell issue, I wouldn't have an issue with it being /bin/sh. The admin is always free to chsh it to the shell of their choice. That brings up something I think all interactive shells should do: in 'prerm remove', check to see if you are root's login shell,

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-03-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
if the character class tables (ctype.h functions, and the [:foo:] posix regex classes) could be shared across UTF-8 locales. I rather suspect not. When you take out collation and possibly character classes, I'm not sure whether there's anything in the UTF-8 locales left to hardcode into libc. -- Peter

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] new buildd dependency resolution breaks self depends?

2011-03-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
the compiler is self-hosting. gcc avoids the (explicit) self-dependency by being in Build-Essential. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
the autotools files won't have to wonder how to rebuild them. 'sudo apt-get build-dep packagename' and 'dpkg-buildpackage' will Just Work. That's sort of a side benefit, but can be important (say, if the downstream patch-er happens to be the Debian Security Team). -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n

Accepted subversion 1.6.16dfsg-1 (source all amd64 i386)

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
source Version: 1.6.16dfsg-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Description: libapache2-svn - Subversion server modules for Apache libsvn-dev - Development files for Subversion libraries libsvn-doc - Developer

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
them too. Anyway, it's not a bug or even really a design flaw (IMO). -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Bug#613806: ITP: mplayer2 -- next generation movie player for Unix-like systems

2011-02-18 Thread Peter Samuelson
be looking for. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20110218201547.gd10...@p12n.org

Re: Cross-check autobuilt binary pkg with maintainer-provided pkg

2011-02-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
your build to be just after a mirror pulse. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20110214163827

Re: Use language determination tool for SPAM prevention (Was: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool)

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
, SpamAssassin has a plugin based on the same algorithm as libtextcat. man Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::TextCat for SpamAssassin configuration information. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
tell Samba what client code page to translate your filenames into on the wire. Fun stuff. Samba doesn't really deal with file _contents_, which is a much more interesting problem than filenames. It just serves contents as-is, like most file service protocols other than FTP. -- Peter Samuelson

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
B1 nor B2 are installed. Is that what the user would want? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
but couldn't find your name anywhere, as maintainer or comaintainer. I guess that means when you say it isn't your problem, you really mean it. Got any more advice for those of us actually doing the work, while you're here anyway? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
their packages because they're not taking on enough of what a maintainer is supposed to do, seem to be stepping up to maintain, co-maintain, or otherwise help out with these packages that are apparently so poorly maintained? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Accepted subversion 1.6.12dfsg-4 (source all amd64)

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
Version: 1.6.12dfsg-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Description: libapache2-svn - Subversion server modules for Apache libsvn-dev - Development files for Subversion libraries libsvn-doc - Developer

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
by default (a base system). That said, of course there are valid reasons not to even consider removing perl-base from Essential. Others have covered that ground already. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Accepted subversion 1.6.12dfsg-3 (source all amd64)

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
Version: 1.6.12dfsg-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Description: libapache2-svn - Subversion server modules for Apache libsvn-dev - Development files for Subversion libraries libsvn-doc - Developer

Re: exim-using packages - are you relying on -C or -D options?

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
file is not in a build-time configured directory. ...Or just fstat() the file after you open it, to make sure it's owned by root:root, and !(mode 002) ? I mean, is there a legitimate case where this wouldn't be true? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: apt-diff: a tool to diff filesystem content against APT

2010-12-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:30:02PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: Note that this information is redundant - that's rich. As though the entire md5sums file weren't redundant. (I.e., could easily be generated at unpack time.) People seem to hold on to their reasons why it's important

Re: apt-diff: a tool to diff filesystem content against APT

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Samuelson
a little bit more redundant than shipping md5sums of the rest of the files. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
that intentionally relied on indirect linking. I suppose boost doesn't use versioned symbols, so this is a more general point.) -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 04:02 +0800, Keng-Yu Lin wrote: From [1], it is not a place to dump code and then run away, hoping that someone else will do the cleanup work for you. While there are developers available to do this kind of work, you need to get someone to agree to babysit the

Re: Music store

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
like more of a job for the Wikimedia Foundation. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20101002230153

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-10-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
on every upload. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20101001174051.gb3...@p12n.org

Accepted subversion 1.6.12dfsg-2 (source all amd64)

2010-10-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
Version: 1.6.12dfsg-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Description: libapache2-svn - Subversion server modules for Apache libsvn-dev - Development files for Subversion libraries libsvn-doc - Developer

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
, it would have to be an upgrade. Tool support for being able to install a base deb in order to install an updated deb would be pretty hairy, I expect, as would infrastructure support for providing both in the same Packages file. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org

Re: /usr/share/info/dir.gz if install-info is installed

2010-09-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior] Sounds reasonable. However sometimes package maintainer argueue that the policy says clean build environment and having package X intalled is no longer clean (thus I have a problem and buildds do not). Where does the policy say that? I can't find anything that even

Re: how to best handle this library update?

2010-09-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[sean finney] 1) split out the c++ libraries, make the c++ library conflict with the older version of libxmlrpc-c3 (conflicting files) make the -dev package depend on both libraries, and hope that a half dozen binNMU's fix the problem quickly enough. 2) do (1) but also fake an

Re: Bug#593260: ITP: bar -- Show information about a data transfer

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Georges Khaznadar] Is pv able to do the same? for example how can I use pv to monitor the transfer which is done by modifying a command such as: dd if=someImageFile of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 pv someImageFile

Re: Non-recompilable binaries in source and binary packages (Adobe Flash strikes again)

2010-08-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
to our rule about self-hosted building. Of course they are still subject to the DFSG. As a service to the user, of course it's still helpful to document in the source package why you aren't building or shipping the .swf file. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org

Re: RFH: How to compile swf files from source

2010-08-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Charlie Smotherman] ampache ships a swf file but does not build it from source. I am curious to know which part of Debian Policy states that this is required? I have search but was unable to find anything. It is the principle. If I am an end user, and I want to modify your .swf file on

Re: RFH: How to compile swf files from source

2010-08-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Peter Samuelson] Source code is a means to an end. The end is the ability of the end user to customize the software. If you get source code but no way to build a new .swf file from it, this end is not served. Also, I'm a proponent of the idea of always building our packages from source

Re: packages being essential but having stuff in /usr/?!

2010-07-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
goals. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20100715213129.ge3...@p12n.org

Re: [RFC] removing xserver-xorg-video-nv from squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
with nouveaufb running so I can't say. But from past experience, I've learned that not all framebuffer drivers do. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: architecture limitation question

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
-Specific: yes or no? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20100712164622.gc3...@p12n.org

Re: Bug#588526: ITP: cpm -- Console Password Manager

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
. I can't figure out how that could be useful for a password manager. Aside from that, can it use or import password from 'pwsafe', 'gnome-keyring' or 'kwallet'? Is there a reason this app isn't just a frontend to one or more of those? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org

Re: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
was not able to figure it out immediately. My first guess was actually 1). -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Removal of not+kfreebsd and linux-gnu dependency, bugs already filled

2010-07-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
- but I don't think it does. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20100702154844.ga2...@p12n.org

Accepted subversion 1.6.12dfsg-1 (source all amd64 i386)

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
source Version: 1.6.12dfsg-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Closes: 510883 582344 Description: libapache2-svn - Subversion server modules for Apache libsvn-dev - Development files for Subversion libraries

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Samuelson
On Mon, 31 May 2010 12:49:28 +0100, Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de wrote: Well, this method was grown since ages when reprepro was not available and I hadn't the time to migrate a working method to a /nice/ working method. [Marc Haber] You should have taken that time before going public.

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-28 Thread Peter Samuelson
? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20100528204411.ge18...@p12n.org

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Gerfried Fuchs] Requiring the file won't get rid of format 1.0 but will make people put 1.0 into debian/source/format. Planing to make the file mandatory might indeed make more people think about it, though having the file won't make the format 1.0 go away. It's pretty clear that this is

Re: Upstream stopped to ship tar.gz file. What to do?

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Samuelson
| bzip2 -9 | md5sum - (Most people use -9, anyway.) I agree with Russ. There's no compelling reason to upload a tar.bz2 that has the same content as an existing tar.gz. At the very least, you would have to give the tarball a new upstream version number. Not worth it. -- Peter Samuelson | org

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Kurt Roeckx] I get alot of them that have: possible bashism in ./configure line 22 ($BASH_SOMETHING): elif test -n ${BASH_VERSION+set} (set -o posix) /dev/null 21; then possible bashism in ./configure line 147 ($BASH_SOMETHING): $as_unset BASH_ENV || test ${BASH_ENV+set} !=

Re: Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Samuelson
have no authority here, just an opinion. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20100524195739.ga18

Re: bindv6only again

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Marco d'Itri] Which ones? There is only one bug open (gdm) and it has patches. Well, there is #572279 against lighttpd. It's not directly a bug with bindv6only, but it is caused by the fix for bindv6only. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Accepted subversion 1.6.11dfsg-1 (source all amd64 i386)

2010-04-20 Thread Peter Samuelson
source Version: 1.6.11dfsg-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Closes: 570271 Description: libapache2-svn - Subversion server modules for Apache libsvn-dev - Development files for Subversion libraries libsvn

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-31 Thread Peter Samuelson
less perfect integration with the host environment (though NFS and ssh could probably let me write a script like pdebuild). These platforms support some form of hostfs, don't they? I thought they did, anyway. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: migration to testing

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
of flexibility is possible. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20100327182129.gv18...@p12n.org

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Samuelson
? If you have a .deb on a different host and don't want to transfer the entire thing over the network, well, no reason you can't do your SHA16384 on both ends, and transfer only the hashes at that time. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: source package descriptions: subtsvars are not enough

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Samuelson
debian/source.README. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20100310173014.gu18...@p12n.org

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
to something more up to date than MD4. Which, IIRC, is just as broken. I guess the masses must have realized, in a way they usually do not, that sometimes an integrity check is just an integrity check. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Frank Lin PIAT] Please, let's do the easy move *now* for Squeeze, using shasums, and go ahead later with an even better solution. Drawbacks: more CPU time on build daemons, slightly larger binary packages to download, and some disruption when we're trying to get a release out the door.

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
just as well compute your SHA16384 hashes, sign those, and store them. That way you can even use an attached (as opposed to detached) gpg signature, without confusing downstream tools. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: libgcrypt brain dead?

2010-03-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20100309003921.go18...@p12n.org

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org writes: How many times do I have to say the .deb also includes checksums of control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz, thanks to use of the gzip container format before you notice? [Goswin von Brederlow] - You download and verify the deb with the checksum

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org writes: Be that as it may, I don't think the md5sums file was ever intended to be an integrity check of the .deb itself. Fortunately, the .deb also includes checksums of control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz, thanks to use of the gzip container format. [Goswin

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
the fact, it should be shipped in /usr/lib or /usr/share and then copied into /var/lib at install time, or as needed. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:05:11 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: fundamentally, shipping a md5sums file is really just a tradeoff in download size vs. installation speed, not unlike gzip vs. bzip2. One Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes: Only if you assume that disks never fail

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
is little consideration, letting those md5sums files all be generated at install time. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
gzip already do that? (Yes, it's only 32 bits, but we aren't trying to detect intentional tampering, only corruption. To detect intentional tampering, you need signed debs, or at least signed Packages.bz2.) -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Harald Braumann] Given a .deb, turning the data.tar.gz into foo.md5sums is a SMOP. This could be before, during, or after the deb is unpacked. If you create the hashes at unpack time, you don't catch errors that happen during unpack. You mean errors reading the data.tar.gz file? That is

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Luis R. Rodriguez] BTW -- while we're on the topic of 2.6.32 and the next Debian release, and 802.11, do you guys ship iw by default yet? It's available (version 0.9.14), but not shipped by default. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Harald Braumann] On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:41:26PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Harald Braumann] Given a .deb, turning the data.tar.gz into foo.md5sums is a SMOP. This could be before, during, or after the deb is unpacked. If you create the hashes at unpack time, you don't

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

2010-02-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
?) -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- 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/20100220015259.ge18...@p12n.org

Accepted serf 0.3.1-1 (source amd64)

2010-02-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:04:17 -0600 Source: serf Binary: libserf-0-0 libserf-0-0-dev libserf-0-0-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.3.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed

Re: multiarch and pkg-config

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
create the symlink if the architecture is the host architecture, however you detect that in multi-arch land. And indeed it could stop doing so if it detects that pkg-config is an appropriate version. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: multiarch and pkg-config

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
already present. Indeed, dh_makeshlibs could do this in the same way it adds those 'ldconfig' calls. (Well, I suppose some shlib packages don't run dh_makeshlibs -s, instead using -p on each library package ... but they could if they wanted.) -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http

Accepted subversion 1.6.9dfsg-1 (source all amd64 i386)

2010-01-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
source Version: 1.6.9dfsg-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Closes: 537297 545372 561516 Description: libapache2-svn - Subversion server modules for Apache libsvn-dev - Development files for Subversion

Re: Bug#566905: ITP: python-ctypeslib -- code generator to convert header files into ctypes interfaces

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Richard Darst] * Package name: python-ctypeslib Oh, great. Now I will no longer have a good excuse to avoid shipping the Subversion cpython bindings. (:, -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Accepted equivs 2.0.8 (source all)

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:28:13 -0600 Source: equivs Binary: equivs Architecture: source all Version: 2.0.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org Changed-By: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org

Re: Bug#564820: ITP: libpam-barada -- PAM module to provide two-factor authentication based on HOTP

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andrew Pollock] * Package name: libpam-barada Description : PAM module to provide two-factor authentication based on HOTP I would suggest that the PAM architecture is better suited to providing only _one_ factor of authentication per plugin. Does this module really implement two

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
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