Re: Packages not making it into testing (fwd)

2001-05-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
niel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Packages not making it into testing On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:41:46PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > > Anthony Towns writes: > > > > > + mpg123 upl

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-05-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:35:03PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Anthony Towns : > > + roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by > > + roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by > These are fonts. Why should they be 'out of date'?! Because they're not

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-05-04 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Anthony Towns : > + roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by > + roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by These are fonts. Why should they be 'out of date'?! Reason why these haven't made it into testing is the same as for: > + libroxen-templatecrea

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote: > any news one getting php4 into testing? pretty please :)) And here was me thinking you already knew all about this... Okay. First, php3 and apache. The apache in testing is old, old, old. Getting the apache from unstable into testing, w

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:41:46PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > > + mpg123 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days! > > mpg123-alsa is uninstallable (needs alsa-base 0.4, which is no > > longer available?) > > mpg123 won't work with the newer AL

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-27 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Anthony Towns writes: > + mpg123 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days! > mpg123-alsa is uninstallable (needs alsa-base 0.4, which is no > longer available?) mpg123 won't work with the newer ALSA, and there seems to be no real mpg123 activity. I'll drop ALSA

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-26 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:52:39PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > + gdb uploaded 250 days ago, out of date by 240 days! doesn't > > > build on sparc, see 86882 > > > i'd l

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-26 Thread David N. Welton
Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > + gdb uploaded 250 days ago, out of date by 240 days! doesn't > > build on sparc, see 86882 > i'd like to adopt this, i'll mail to the maintainer. Do you have the resources to try

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-26 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Hello world, > ciao > > + gdb uploaded 250 days ago, out of date by 240 days! > doesn't build on sparc, see 86882 > i'd like to adopt this, i'll mail to the maintainer. -[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://fili

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:49:24PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Doesn't the user have to belong to the relevant group anyway? > > We already control access to things like floppy drives, sound > > cards etc through groups, so cd burni

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Rahul Jain
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Doesn't the user have to belong to the relevant group anyway? > We already control access to things like floppy drives, sound > cards etc through groups, so cd burning is another good example. -rwxr-sr-x1 root cdrom 498

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:46:55AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > > > + xcdroast uploaded 152 days ago, out of date by 142 days! > > > gtk/setgid problems, see 92230 etc > > > > that's new change in gtk 1.2.9 to disallow suid applications, which I find > > silly > > Why does xcdroast need to be set

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:52:24PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > IIRC it also disallows SGID, which breaks some games that only want to > > write to hi-score files. > > Guess that will force them to get a clue and write a sgid helper > then. ... and over tim

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Anthony Fok
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > + locale-vi uploaded 202 days ago, out of date by 192 days! > + locale-zh uploaded 190 days ago, out of date by 188 days! > probably should be removed from the archive as of glibc 2.2.x > (conflicts with glibc > 2.1.94, ex

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 25-Apr-2001 Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> It's not silly, it is an extremely good idea. I'm very pleasantly >> surprised to hear that they did that. It is basically not possible to >> write safe suid X programs. > > IIRC it also di

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Arthur Korn
Anthony Towns schrieb: > + libvoxel uploaded 357 days ago, out of date by 347 days! > has a year old "doesn't build" bug, 60985 I hacked at it at BSP#3, nothing depends on it, and the bug is _really_ obscure (that's not only me saying this). I asked the maintainer wheter it would be OK to re

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:07:58AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: [...] > task-python-dev just depends on -imaging-tk. > > So this means python can't be updated without also updating palm-doctoolkit > and python-imaging, and those can't be updated without updating python. > > Further some of the bi

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:22:36PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Do I have to check all dependencies in all 54 python packages in the pool > (10 architectures, 4 arch-dependent packages, 4 arch-independent packages), > to see what's the reason that keeps the packages out of testing ? > All I can

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Daniel Kobras wrote: > Isn't the xcdroast/cdrecord suid/sgid stuff about grabbing realtime > scheduling priority? You can't control this via group ownership. You could start a suid helper that passes you a new capability though. Wichert. --

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:46:55AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > > Why does xcdroast need to be setgid? I think it's terrible to have any user > > able to burn or screw up a burn... why can't they use sudo or su? > > Doesn't the user h

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 25, Anthony Towns wrote: >+ diablo uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days! > doesn't build on sparc, no bug filed It's an obsolete version which should be removed anyway. -- ciao, Marco

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:46:55AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote: > > > + xcdroast uploaded 152 days ago, out of date by 142 days! > > > gtk/setgid problems, see 92230 etc > > > > that's new change in gtk 1.2.9 to disallow suid applications,

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > The following packages haven't been uploaded this year, and also haven't > made it into testing for a while. If people could go through and make > sure the maintainer knows about the issues, or do NMUs as appropriate, or > work out wh

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote: > I'm not sure what the solution is for m68k... Simply use an Architecture line that does not include m68k. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAI

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Petr Cech wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000 , Anthony Towns wrote: > > Hello world, > > + netscape4.7 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days! > > depends on X3 libs, should remove? > > yes, iff it's not needed for !=i386 It is for powerpc - the l

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Dale Scheetz
+ atari800 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days! depends on svgalibg1 on m68k; svgalib isn't supported on anything but i386 (aiui) I've been working on the newest upstream source for this package for several weeks (actual working time is much smaller ;-) and will have so

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Aaron Lehmann wrote: > IIRC it also disallows SGID, which breaks some games that only want to > write to hi-score files. Guess that will force them to get a clue and write a sgid helper then. Wichert. -- / Generally

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Anthony Towns | + xitalk uploaded 397 days ago, out of date by 387 days! | xitalk on arm needs to be rebuilt against X4 Also missing standards-version !? (bug filed) Anyhow, rebuilt and uploaded on arm. | + xacc uploaded 397 days ago, out of date by 387 days! | xacc on arm, power

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:24:38AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Incidentally, could I request one change to the format of > update_output.txt that would make problems in testing easier to debug > (unless there's some other set of information I don't know about)? I'd > like to see the reports of uni

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
Anthony Towns wrote: >The following packages haven't been uploaded this year, and also haven't >made it into testing for a while. If people could go through and make >sure the maintainer knows about the issues, or do NMUs as appropriate, or >work out what the problem actually is, or similar, that'

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It's not silly, it is an extremely good idea. I'm very pleasantly > surprised to hear that they did that. It is basically not possible to > write safe suid X programs. IIRC it also disallows SGID, which breaks some games that onl

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Petr Cech wrote: > that's new change in gtk 1.2.9 to disallow suid applications, which I find > silly It's not silly, it is an extremely good idea. I'm very pleasantly surprised to hear that they did that. It is basically not possible to write safe suid X programs. Wichert. -- __

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Rahul Jain
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote: > > + xcdroast uploaded 152 days ago, out of date by 142 days! > > gtk/setgid problems, see 92230 etc > > that's new change in gtk 1.2.9 to disallow suid applications, which I find > silly Why does xcdroast need to be setgid? I think

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Petr Cech
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000 , Anthony Towns wrote: > Hello world, > + mysql-gpl uploaded 307 days ago, out of date by 297 days! > has an RC bug related to php4-mysql in testing (although php4-mysql > isn't in testing..) is mysql-gpl really still needed? shouldn't it be re

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Philip Blundell
>+ libch uploaded 288 days ago, out of date by 278 days! > m68k package depends on libmysqlclient9, needs to be rebuilt against > libmysqlclient10, presumably It needs the build dependencies updating too, see #93850 (which has been closed but I think is still applicable). p.