Re: Can "PDB" license be considered free ?

> The distribution of modified PDB data including the records HEADER, CAVEAT, > REVDAT, SPRSDE, DBREF, SEQADV, and MODRES in PDB format and their mmCIF and > XML equivalents is not allowed. I'm not sure what the PDB format is, so I might be wrong, but my intuition is that trying to stop people

Re: 50.000 binary packages

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:25:00 +0100 Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 12:01:41PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > Possibly someone should set up an online quiz thing, where you're > > shown a package name, its short description, and three randomly chosen > >

Accepted signify-openbsd-keys 2015.1 (source all) into unstable, unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:21:32 +1100 Source: signify-openbsd-keys Binary: signify-openbsd-keys Architecture: source all Version: 2015.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj24

Re: Help me please... I need help immediately becouse I can't open my pc and I need to use it for work

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 22:07:15 +0100 Patrik Liçi wrote: > Hi debian I have a big problem and I need help immediately. ... I was > installing kali linux mini 2.0 in my pc then I power off the pc becouse > the downloads wants a lot to finish when I want to open

Accepted signify-openbsd 13-1 (source amd64) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:27:55 +1100 Source: signify-openbsd Binary: signify-openbsd Architecture: source amd64 Version: 13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj24

Bug#808373: ITP: libwaive -- Allow processes to waive their rights

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch> * Package name: libwaive Version : 1.0.0+git20151218.a0e8c1 Upstream Author : Dima Krasner <d...@dimakrasner.com> * URL : https://github.com/di

Accepted praw 3.3.0-1 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:47:27 +1100 Source: praw Binary: python-praw python3-praw praw-doc Architecture: source all Version: 3.3.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj24

Accepted 2vcard 0.6-1 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:45:57 +1100 Source: 2vcard Binary: 2vcard Architecture: source all Version: 0.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch> C

Accepted 2vcard 0.5-5 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:00:11 +1100 Source: 2vcard Binary: 2vcard Architecture: source all Version: 0.5-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch> C

Re: IceCat package request

> Could somebody add/cerate a IceCat package? > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ This has been discussed about two months ago. You can read the discussions here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00184.html To *greatly* simplify what was said: -Packaging icecat is difficult

Re: Request for documentation about creation of Debian Language Packs

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 12:46:11 -0500 Zeus Hughes wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to request some documentation be provided to the public forums > or just myself appertaining the process of how a person can create a unique > language pack for Debian. I can't find any

Accepted praw 3.2.1-1 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:24:53 +1000 Source: praw Binary: python-praw python3-praw praw-doc Architecture: source all Version: 3.2.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj24

Accepted pyelliptic 1.5.7-1 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:27:31 +1000 Source: pyelliptic Binary: python-pyelliptic python3-pyelliptic Architecture: source all Version: 1.5.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird <

Accepted praw 3.2.0-1 (source all) into unstable, unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:53:32 +1000 Source: praw Binary: python-praw python3-praw praw-doc Architecture: source all Version: 3.2.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj24

Re: GNU IceCat?

On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:58:46 +0200 Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote: > Riley Baird writes: > > >> Is there any reason (other than lack of manpower) that GNU IceCat is not > >> packaged in Debian? > >> > >> I understand Debi

Re: GNU IceCat?

On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 09:30:46 +0200 Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote: > Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch> > writes: > > > On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:58:46 +0200 > > Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org

Re: GNU IceCat?

> Is there any reason (other than lack of manpower) that GNU IceCat is not > packaged in Debian? > > I understand Debian has IceWeasel to (primarily?) fix the Firefox > trademark issue and to have a mechanism to deal with security backports. > > IceCat has diverged from Firefox/Iceweasel and has

Re: GNU IceCat?

> > Also, what advantages does IceCat have over the Tor Browser? (Debian > > doesn't have the Tor Browser either, due to the impossibility of long > > term maintenance, but just wondering.) > > Have a look at torbrowser-launcher in synaptic Ah, didn't realise that! pgpqsKNlZs_cp.pgp

Accepted granule 1.4.0-7-5 (source amd64) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:38:59 +1000 Source: granule Binary: granule Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.4.0-7-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch

Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code

Sure, you can proofread a 30k-line configure script without a problem. So, the condition is now must be generated from source only if the generated from is hard-but-not-impossible to read. Several times over the last year I have modified the output form of autoconf directly when doing minor

Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code

For years, we have been able to ship generated files without checking if they can really be built from sources (for example, autoconf stuff). And JS stuff should comply to stricter standards from day one? JS stuff has been in Debian for a long time; it isn't fair to say that this is day one.

Accepted granule-manual 1.1.0+dfsg-2 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:40:02 +1000 Source: granule-manual Binary: granule-docs Architecture: source all Version: 1.1.0+dfsg-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Re: Bug#796467: general: if user has mail then how do we tell them if in GUI mode?

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:20:17 -0500 Richard Jasmin frazzledj...@gmail.com wrote: Package: general Severity: important telling user has mail is easy as pi in console mode and when using a server. But how do we tell the user they have mail without a configured mail client when under runlevel

Accepted libassa 3.5.1-6 (source amd64) into unstable, unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:02:45 +1000 Source: libassa Binary: libassa-3.5-5-dev libassa-3.5-5v5 libassa-3.5-5-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 3.5.1-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Riley Baird bm

Re: Mass bug filing about non free lena image.

On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 14:10:21 +0100 Matthew Woodcraft matt...@woodcraft.me.uk wrote: Phil Hands wrote: I saw that at least one package (I'm afraid I've forgotten which) settled on this picture of Grace Hooper:

Accepted coq-highschoolgeometry 8.4+20150620-1 (source all) into unstable, unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 18:58:01 +1000 Source: coq-highschoolgeometry Binary: coq-highschoolgeometry Architecture: source all Version: 8.4+20150620-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm

Re: Feature Debian in MeetAdvisors Blog!

a response yet? If not, you might want to try sending this message to our publicity department. Its email address is pr...@debian.org Thanks for taking an interest in Debian, Riley Baird pgpr66zRgMome.pgp Description: PGP signature

Accepted granule-manual 1.1.0+dfsg-1 (source all) into experimental, experimental

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:31:20 +1100 Source: granule-manual Binary: granule-docs Architecture: source all Version: 1.1.0+dfsg-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Accepted signify-openbsd 12-1 (source amd64) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:13:13 +1000 Source: signify-openbsd Binary: signify-openbsd Architecture: source amd64 Version: 12-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Accepted signify-openbsd 10-1 (source amd64) into experimental, experimental

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:38:30 +1100 Source: signify-openbsd Binary: signify-openbsd Architecture: source amd64 Version: 10-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Accepted signify-openbsd 9-1 (source amd64) into experimental, experimental

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:07:46 +1100 Source: signify-openbsd Binary: signify-openbsd Architecture: source amd64 Version: 9-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:20:35 +0200 IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) umlae...@debian.org wrote: On 07/16/2015 08:29 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Simon Richter wrote: The problem is that the icons are displayed in the search field dropdown, which should be fully functional

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

FWIW, those [requests to search engines to retrieve their icons] are a consequence of removing supposedly non-free icons from the source package. But maybe you'd prefer no icons at all for the list of search engines. That's a tough one. I haven't yet got a firm position on what should

Accepted python-zxcvbn 1.0+git20130503.bc1c2d-1 (source all) into unstable, unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:43:07 +1100 Source: python-zxcvbn Binary: python-zxcvbn Architecture: source all Version: 1.0+git20130503.bc1c2d-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

In the same way, I'm pretty sure is perfectly possible to make money developing free software. You just don't charge for selling copies or licenses, but instead you charge for developing new custom features or offering support and consultancy around the software. True, but you would make much

Bug#789432: ITP: coq-highschoolgeometry -- coq library for high school geometry proofs/formalisation

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch * Package name: coq-highschoolgeometry Version : 8.4+20150620 Upstream Author : Frédérique Guilhot frederique.guil...@sophia.inria.fr * URL : http

Accepted 2vcard 0.5-4 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 21:47:19 +1000 Source: 2vcard Binary: 2vcard Architecture: source all Version: 0.5-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch Changed-By: Riley

Accepted granule 1.4.0-7-4 (source amd64) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 01:02:44 +1000 Source: granule Binary: granule Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.4.0-7-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch Changed

Accepted pyelliptic 1.5.6-2 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:15:18 +1000 Source: pyelliptic Binary: python-pyelliptic python3-pyelliptic Architecture: source all Version: 1.5.6-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird bm

Re: git and https

If we can use a Debian-specific CA, we can do cert pinning, since we're then assuming we have some control over the client. I was assuming a general client where we'd have to play nice with the normal CA roots. Then we would constantly get complaints

Re: git and https

On Fri, 29 May 2015 13:55:31 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm fine with locking the doors. I'm not fine with paying protection money to a Mafia goon who claims they'll lock your windows, and sort of sometimes does. It's the

Re: git and https

If we can use a Debian-specific CA, we can do cert pinning, since we're then assuming we have some control over the client. I was assuming a general client where we'd have to play nice with the normal CA roots. Then we would constantly get complaints from Ubuntu/etc

Accepted slides 1.0.1-15 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 12:41:53 +1000 Source: slides Binary: python-slides slides-doc Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.1-15 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:55:56 +0100 Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Vincent Bernat writes (Re: Minified javascripts in packages): 13 avril 2015 17:37 +1000, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au : Is the implication of “built by web services” that the source isn't available

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

What I have done so far in my package is to include the concatenated but unminified js from the upstream (that would be my upstream's upstream) source tarball in debian/missing-sources. During package build i use uglifyjs (which is already in Debian) to place minified copies where the app

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:40:07 +0200 Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: ❦ 14 avril 2015 11:00 +1000, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au : I presume that we can agree that, if someone started offering a web service compiling C code with output an order of magnitude better in

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:42:00 +0200 Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: ❦ 14 avril 2015 18:22 +1000, Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch : It makes sense that for small changes, the preferred form for modification would be the generated bootstrap.css

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:44:06 +0200 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: On Apr 10, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: To put it simply: no, you should build everything from source, and not using pre-compiled code (yes, minified scripts can be (and actually are) considered as

Re: manual in sgml

the manual of my package is written in SGML language. I guess that it may be translate into a more readable format: What is the best Debian way to convert it in HTML and/or PDF (via LaTeX) ? I recently had to deal with this problem myself, when packaging the documentation for granule. If there

Accepted slides 1.0.1-14 (source all) into experimental

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 15:33:36 +1100 Source: slides Binary: python-slides slides-doc Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.1-14 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Accepted pyelliptic 1.5.6-1 (source all) into experimental

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 06:48:33 +1100 Source: pyelliptic Binary: python-pyelliptic python3-pyelliptic Architecture: source all Version: 1.5.6-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird bm

Accepted pyelliptic 1.5.5-2 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 18:55:10 +1100 Source: pyelliptic Binary: python-pyelliptic python3-pyelliptic Architecture: source all Version: 1.5.5-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:19:34 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Riley Baird wrote: Kind of, but it's only for that one article. Is there something similar that lists all edits to the wiki itself like that? If not, I could make one by downloading

Accepted granule 1.4.0-7-3 (source amd64) into experimental

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 06:49:30 +1100 Source: granule Binary: granule Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.4.0-7-3 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

But dictatorially coming in and demanding that volunteers join you in riding your hobby horse? Please leave. I did not see any dictatorial demands in his message, he gave the story on how to get rid of systemd _within_ Debian, nothing else. True, but it was bait for another systemd

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:30:44 +0100 Tomas Pospisek t...@sourcepole.ch wrote: Am 13.02.2015 um 21:15 schrieb Riley Baird: On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:16:39 +0100 Tomas Pospisek t...@sourcepole.ch wrote: Am 12.02.2015 um 20:59 schrieb Riley Baird: Bug #388141 [RC] refers to the relicensing

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:16:39 +0100 Tomas Pospisek t...@sourcepole.ch wrote: Am 12.02.2015 um 20:59 schrieb Riley Baird: Bug #388141 [RC] refers to the relicensing of the debian www pages. After contacting debian-www, it seems that there isn't much interest in fixing it. I interpret

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:40:53 + Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk wrote: On 2015-02-12 19:59, Riley Baird wrote: In any case, even if there is interest in closing this bug, it is definitely more of a long-term thing and is unlikely to be fixed before the jessie release. Because

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:47:53 -0800 Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Riley Baird wrote: In any case, even if there is interest in closing this bug, it is definitely more of a long-term thing and is unlikely to be fixed before the jessie release. Because

Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

. In any case, even if there is interest in closing this bug, it is definitely more of a long-term thing and is unlikely to be fixed before the jessie release. Because of this, would it be okay to mark it as jessie-ignore? Thanks, Riley Baird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Bug#777220: ITP: you-get -- downloader for youtube and number of sites

On 07/02/15 18:36, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: I smell the chance to share… It would be nice if someone could contact all of the Python ones and ask them to merge their code. Same for all of the Perl ones and all of the other ones. Even more

Re: Jessie Release

On 29/01/15 09:32, Balder García García wrote: Hi, I only want to know when will jessie released , I am waitting for SteamOS final version, but first you must launch jessie, thanks for your time! // Hola, solo quería saber cuando se lanzará la versión estable de Debian Jessie, estoy

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

On 27/01/15 19:19, Johannes Schauer wrote: Hi, Quoting Riley Baird (2015-01-27 04:01:20) That's a good idea. That being said, tarballs containing *all* of the firmware are already (unofficially) produced on a regular basis[1]. Perhaps an easier way of solving this problem would

Bug#776005: general: After finished the installation, I rebooted and the initialization has been stopped

/Linux (recovery mode). Then, as root, I do a exit, and then it start the rest OK greeen, and then start LXDE. 2015-01-22 21:04 GMT+01:00 Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch: The initialization is stoped and the system does not do anything. I have to do a hard

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

I just installed Debian 8 (testing) on a PC of mine with the graphical installer and the setup ran really smooth - with one exception: It was a big hassle to find and download the unfree firmware for my Wifi adapter, which I needed for the installation. Generally, you shouldn't need a network

Re: motd handling in jessie

If we go the update-motd route, I'd like to see the update-motd calls be removed from login (and boot) and instead have the dynamic part of /etc/motd be updated via a cron job. Please, no. Under normal circumstances, the only dynamic bit of the motd comes from uname, and only changes on

Re: comment installer une imprimante canon PIXMA MG2450

On 24/01/15 02:18, bejaoui wrote: j ' ai eu des problèmes d' installation de l' imprimante j' arrive télé charger les logiciels qu' il faut je vous demande de l' aide merci. Nous ne parlons pas français. debian-devel-fre...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: motd handling in jessie

On 24/01/15 15:18, Russ Allbery wrote: Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org writes: Please, no. Under normal circumstances, the only dynamic bit of the motd comes from uname, and only changes on reboot; updating it via cron just wastes cycles and adds noise to syslog. I'm not particularly

Re: length of a package extended description

This is *not* what I asked. I've complained on the long description only. The other fields like Depends: are still needed, without having them to be truncated by less. This shows that any attempt to write a wrapper will fail at some point, and the real solution would be either to limit the

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

While not a full-scale ad-hominem attack, I’d say that the two differences I know of between the vrms operation and the official FSF position amount to a misrepresentation at best. Are we going to drop that package, too? If you apt-cache show vrms, you will see the

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

* URL : https://github.com/xaionaro/xlennart The URL should be the main branch of xlennart; that is https://github.com/Xylemon/xlennart if there are other packages providing similar functionality, how does it compare? This's a fork of XBill. Everything the same, just with

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

On 16/01/15 12:40, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Riley Baird wrote: That sounds like a lot of code duplication. Is it possible to have a common library between XBill and XLennart? ITP submitters aren't necessarily subscribed to debian-devel, please CC the submitter

Re: length of a package extended description

On 10/01/15 08:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-01-10 07:05:48 +1100, Riley Baird wrote: Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such as dpkg -s) provide a configurable way to limit the output of the Description: field? You can pipe the output to head or tail to sort of achieve what you want

Re: length of a package extended description

Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such as dpkg -s) provide a configurable way to limit the output of the Description: field? You can pipe the output to head or tail to sort of achieve what you want to. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

On 06/01/15 05:17, john Lutz wrote: I was wondering how one would one go about buildinga GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUIinterface for the majority of standard live and other installedDebian distribtion?.. And what tools / standards are required by such? Hmm... each GUI

Bug#773850: ITP: signify-openbsd -- Lightweight cryptographic signing and verifying tool

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riley bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch * Package name: signify-openbsd Version : 7 Upstream Author : Adrian Perez ape...@igalia.com * URL : https://github.com/aperezdc/signify * License : BSD

Accepted pyelliptic 1.5.5-1 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:00:10 +1000 Source: pyelliptic Binary: python-pyelliptic python3-pyelliptic Architecture: source all Version: 1.5.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird bm

Accepted pyelliptic 1.5.4-2 (source all) into unstable, unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:22:40 +1000 Source: pyelliptic Binary: python-pyelliptic python3-pyelliptic Architecture: source all Version: 1.5.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Accepted python3-pyelliptic 1.5.4-1 (source all) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 20:32:51 +1000 Source: python3-pyelliptic Binary: python3-pyelliptic Architecture: source all Version: 1.5.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4

Accepted python3-pyelliptic 1.5.3+git20140617.7810c7afd8-1 (source all) into unstable, unstable

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Bug#758874: ITP: python3-pyelliptic -- High level Python 3 wrapper for OpenSSL

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riley bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch * Package name: python3-pyelliptic Version : 1.5.3 Upstream Author : Yann Guibet yanngui...@gmail.com * URL : https://github.com/yann2192/pyelliptic/ * License

Bug#754357: ITP: gmastermind.app -- GNUstep clone of Mastermind (TM)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riley bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch * Package name: gmastermind.app Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Marko Riedel mrie...@neuearbeit.de * URL : http://gap.nongnu.org/gmastermind/ * License : GPL2

Re: Ghostscript licensing changed to AGPL

So please excuse my ignorance here: But how does that work? How can we, as Debian, ensure that a user automatically complies with the license when a package is installed and spawns up a service on a port? (Or similarly, installs itself into a web server found on the system.) I don't think

Re: Ghostscript licensing changed to AGPL

So if Debian provides, say, a web frontend to Ghostscript, then with AGPL Ghostscript running that web frontend as a service for others only require an interface serving its sources if the _webmaster_ changes the code for that frontend? Not if Debian makes changes to both the frontend and

Re: Ghostscript licensing changed to AGPL

Yes. But this isn't as bad as you think, because the source availability requirement exists only if you modify the AGPL'd software. I don't think that this is the case. Firstly, because it leaves a practical loophole in the AGPL: -Person A takes some software under the AGPL. -Person A