RFS: QA Upload - muine 0.8.8-1 - Simple playlist based music player

2008-02-19 Thread Barry deFreese
Hi, I have prepared a QA upload for the orphaned package muine which includes an new upstream that fixes RC bug #440817, and fixes a few other bugs. (#415419, #427263, #449835, and probably several of the bugs posted against the 0.6.x versions). If someone could please review and/or upload

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Bug Tracking System contains patches fixing 3 bugs, you should > consider including them or removing the "patch" tag from the bugs. Slightly more idiomatic: X bugs in the Bug Tracking System are tagged as having patches. Either they should

Possible MIA DD - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-02-19 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Hello, Looking at pkglist I went back the track and it seems that the maintainer is MIA (last upload was aprox 2 years ago): http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I already sent a O: mail for pkglist (466622). This is just a heads up. -- Regards, EddyP ===

Re: mercury: should this package be removed?

2008-02-19 Thread Roy Ward
Paul Bone wrote: Hi Barry. I'm interested in re-packaging this, however it's going to be one of those things that gets a small amount of attention here and there. I'm one of the Mercury developers, so I use and develop on Mercury day-to-day. This will mean that there may be 6-12 mercury-rel

Re: mercury: should this package be removed?

2008-02-19 Thread Roy Ward
I filed the initial ITA, but have then been unable to make much progress because of other commitments (including being overseas for a while). Unfortunately, although I'm back now, unforeseen personal circumstances mean I won't be able to do anything in the immediate future (next 2-3 weeks at le

RFS: QA Upload -- kguitar - Stringed instrument tablature editor for KDE (Try2)

2008-02-19 Thread Barry deFreese
Barry deFreese wrote: Hi, Here is a QA upload for kguitar. Fixes 2 bugs and standards update, etc. if someone has time to review/upload. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kguitar/kguitar_0.5-3.dsc Description: Stringed instrument tablature editor for KDE Kguitar is basically a g

Re: mercury: should this package be removed?

2008-02-19 Thread Barry deFreese
Hi folks, Sorry for all of the CCs but all of you have expressed interest in fixing/adopting this package (with the exception of QA). Do any of you still have an interest and/or a plan to fix this package? According to the Mecury website, it is supposed to build with gcc-4.1 which would be

Re: Bug#466539: gnome-peercast: CVE-2007-6454 heap-based buffer overflow possibly leading to code execution

2008-02-19 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Tuesday 19 February 2008 14:08:46 Thijs Kinkhorst, vous avez écrit : > > As a side note, I've already done a lot of things to try to fix this, > > but upstream seems not to care at all, and didn't maintain this package > > for 1 year (last upload was my NMU)... > > So am I right to conclude that

Bug#466515: marked as done (PTS: "you should include .")

2008-02-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:46:52 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Re: Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ." has caused the Debian Bug report #466515, regarding PTS: "you should include ." to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 19 February 2008 14:14, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > The Bug Tracking System contains patches fixing 3 bugs, you should > consider including them or removing the "patch" tag from the bugs. Wonderful :) regards, Holger pgp8kk8GN53tc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 14:29, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Perhaps "The Bug Tracking System contains patches fixing 3 bugs, you > should consider including or untagging them." then? Two additional > words. :) Patch updated :-) Thijs Index: pts/www/xsl/pts.xsl

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ti, 2008-02-19 at 14:14 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:55, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On ti, 2008-02-19 at 11:23 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > And as this isn't always right, I suggest to use a less strong wording. > > > "You should look at.." or "You could in

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ti, 2008-02-19 at 13:39 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:55:32PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I concur, although I suggest that the wording could say that if the > > patch is inappropriate, the patch tag should be removed. > > No objection, but please someone c

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:55, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ti, 2008-02-19 at 11:23 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > And as this isn't always right, I suggest to use a less strong wording. > > "You should look at.." or "You could include". Or whatever. But _all_ > > those patches should definitly

Re: Bug#466539: gnome-peercast: CVE-2007-6454 heap-based buffer overflow possibly leading to code execution

2008-02-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 13:57, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Package: gnome-peercast > Version: 0.5.4-1.1 > Severity: grave > Tags: security > Justification: user security hole > > > Hi ! > > CVE-2007-6454 as been fixed for peercast, but since this package > includes a static version of the c

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 19/02/2008, Holger Levsen wrote: > Actually I'm always slightly annoyed when I see this. A computer should not > tell anyone what to do, unless its 100% right. > > And as this isn't always right, I suggest to use a less strong wording. "You > should look at.." or "You could include". Or whatever

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:55:32PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I concur, although I suggest that the wording could say that if the > patch is inappropriate, the patch tag should be removed. No objection, but please someone come up with an appropriate wording. I will include it, but please don't

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ti, 2008-02-19 at 11:23 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > And as this isn't always right, I suggest to use a less strong wording. "You > should look at.." or "You could include". Or whatever. But _all_ those > patches should definitly _not_ be included. I concur, although I suggest that the wordi

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 19 February 2008 10:16, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > When a package has one 'patched' bug, the PTS now displays: > > The Bug Tracking System contains patches fixing 1 bug, you should include Actually I'm always slightly annoyed when I see this. A computer should not tell anyone what t

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, When a package has one 'patched' bug, the PTS now displays: > The Bug Tracking System contains patches fixing 1 bug, you should include . as seen e.g. here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sword.html Attached patch restores the word "it", th

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-19 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:23:35AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > >One low-tech thing that one could do is just put, in the package long > >description, a note that the software is dead upstream. Personally, I > >think that's often information worthy of being in the long description; > >one purpose

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: One low-tech thing that one could do is just put, in the package long description, a note that the software is dead upstream. Personally, I think that's often information worthy of being in the long description; one purpose of the long description, after