Re: Matt Zimmerman appears to be Rarely In Action

2006-08-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:25:59AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le mar 8 août 2006 20:06, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > > I'm happy for anyone to upload it; the person who takes over > > upstream, though, should have solid Python skills and be prepared to > > own it goi

Re: Matt Zimmerman appears to be Rarely In Action

2006-08-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:54:29PM +0200, Amaya wrote: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Le mar 8 août 2006 00:00, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:15:30PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > > apt-listchanges (4 NMUs) > > > > > >

Re: Matt Zimmerman appears to be Rarely In Action

2006-08-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:15:30PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The last upload that the PTS can attribute to Matt was 2005-01-20, and > the packages that he maintains are growing worse in shape. At least > the following packages need new maintainers: > > apt-listchanges (4 NMUs) Needs a n

Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-06-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 06:22:26AM -0400, Jose Parrella wrote: > I don't really support this idea but: what if a branch of the archive is > opened where this packages could be put in and Debian makes a explicit > statement indicating that packages there are orphaned or very little > maintained? Thi

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2006-01-04 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > hct looks very cool and does seem to solve some of the problems that are > considered here. When I read https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/HCT , I > get the sense that it's not actually released yet. Is that the case? If > no

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2006-01-04 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:53:22PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > I disagree. Soyuz is a reimplementation of the archive software. HCT > addresses the problem of package publishing within Soyuz. In what scope > HCT will support 'collaborative maintenance' is AFAIK quite unclear. HCT is a tool fo

Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches

2005-07-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:46:50AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Why are changes made by one particular derived debian distribution so > important that they should be singled out by the PTS? They aren't necessarily more important changes, but Ubuntu, unlike other derivatives, publishes deltas relative

Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches

2005-07-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 05:44:09PM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > to improve integration of Ubuntu patches into Debian we need to make > maintainers aware of their existence. So they need to be mentionned in > the PTS. > > Scott, can you generate (regularly) a simple list of available

Re: State of dhcp3

2005-02-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 01:10:30PM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote: > There's a few reasonably annoying bugs in dhcp3-client, that have been open > for a fair while and have patches. > > I notice that there hasn't been an upload in over 6 months. Is there any > chance that any of these bugs can be fi

Re: Bug#262402: Severity of bug #259993

2004-08-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 12:05:12PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > If cups-pdf invoked on behalf of a regular user is actually run with root > privileges (I haven't checked), then -dSAFER only alleviates the security > problems resulting from that situation, but it certainly doesn't end them,

Re: FWD: Squirrelmail XSS + SQL security bug?

2004-07-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:27:55AM +0200, Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:28:23 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: > > >About security fixes in the SquirrelMail code; SquirrelMail does not > >(contrary to Roman's standpoint) adhere to a obscurity-policy but in > >stead openly d

Re: Severity of bug #259993

2004-07-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
severity 262402 grave thanks On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 05:07:52AM +0200, Florian Zumbiehl wrote: > I recently (well, two weeks ago, that is) reported a number of security > problems in cups-pdf, originally filed under #259993. Please read the BTS > entry for details on the development up to the cur

Re: Bug#228394: marked as done (qa.debian.org: Adding a "upstream version" column in the developer.php page would be nice)

2004-07-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 04:26:52PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Your message dated Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:53:49 +0200 > > with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > and subject line Upstream version is now available in developer.php > > has caused the attached B

Re: security related bug report - no maintainer reaction for 1 year

2004-07-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:29:04PM +0200, Johannes Poehlmann wrote: > I am working in the development projekt for the speak-freely package. > (speak-freely.sourceforge.net) > > One Year and a day ago, i filed this bug report, saying that > o There are security related bugs in the very outdated de

Re: changelogs.debian.net

2004-06-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:20:22AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Not sure if anyone else is going to find this of massive use, but I find I'm > often looking at changelogs for packages that aren't necessarily installed > locally, or I'm out and about and all I have is my email and a web browser,

Re: BSP bugs - some proposed targets

2004-03-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 04:02:28PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:25:10AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I was going through the RC bug list and compiled a little set of > > packages that seem to deserve a NMU. > > > > You can find it at http://people.

Re: how to resolve a bug?

2004-03-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 12:21:59AM +0100, P.B.van.den.Berg wrote: > Some points arising: > 1. The maintainer does recognize that speedtouch depends on libatm1, > because that > is stated in ppp's README.Debian (speedtouch needs the pppoatm.so plugin): The ppp package already suggests libatm1, me

Re: Time to remove a few test kernels?

2004-02-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:47:10PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:37:30AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > The description lies; kernel-patch-evms was updated for 2.6.0 some time ago. > > Of course, 2.6.0 has known security problem

Re: Time to remove a few test kernels?

2004-02-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:51:26AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > The following patches apply to test kernels, they probably need updates for a > current one. > > kernel-patch-evms - Enterprise Volume Management System (kernel patches) The description lies; kernel-patch-evms was upda

Re: usbmgr still useful?

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:22:39PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > is usbmgr still useful (as we have hotplug)? Reason for this question > is that usbmgr is orphaned and has one RC-grade bug, and if it is not > useful any more, it should be rather removed than fixed. > > More infos on http://packag

Re: Further trawl for old, ignored RC bugs

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 08:24:33PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > sysklogd: #199989 -- 1/500 chance of hang on diskless systems > Sounds effectively unreproducible, should probably be closed. I certainly have never experienced this on my diskless system, which has run almost everything from woo

Re: Further trawl for old, ignored RC bugs

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 08:24:33PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > zebra: #198458 -- segfault > Maintainer: Takuo Kitame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Presumably just busy, what with Mozilla and all. This sounds rather serious. Someone needs to reproduce the bug under gdb or do something else useful in

Re: Results of a trawl for old, ignored RC bugs

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:59:35PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > modutils: #171949 > Maitnainer wants help. I think you mean #171947. This bug should really be trivial to fix by enforcing a sane umask. I think it deserves an NMU by now, but I can't do it at the moment. > postnuke: #197636 -

Bug#204808: marked as done (developer.php: please count merged bugs only once)

2003-08-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 04:03:16PM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Now the merged bugs are not counted anymore. Thanks for the quick response. I think something is wrong, though. The page now says that apt has no bugs at all. -- - mdz

Bug#204808: developer.php: please count merged bugs only once

2003-08-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:01:47AM +0200, Martin Godisch wrote: > Package: qa.debian.org > Version: N/A; reported 2003-08-10 > Severity: wishlist > > Thank you! > > Kind regards, Indeed, this would be very helpful for a quick visual scan of relative package bugginess. -- - mdz

Re: About requests for co-maintainers

2003-08-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 02:17:36AM +0200, Raphael Goulais wrote: > Reading the thread about nm process on debian devel, I learned the mutt > maintainer was willing to co-maintain mutt. I wondered how I could have found > this information ... and did not found it. > > Some maintainers use the PT

Re: xtrojka qa upload

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:21:20PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > i fixed the xtrojka bugs (trivial), set the maintainer field to qa > and updated the policy version. i am not a dd so i would be happy if > someone could have a look and upload it for me, files are at > http://www.semistable.com/file

Re: libc6 security download

2003-07-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:32:25PM -0400, Joe Brown wrote: > I've downloaded the libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb from the debian security > updates server twice, and both times came up corrupted. > > I'm throwing a fit trying to get debian installed, but that's due to a > dual headed video card and X

Re: Bug#197797: gnome-terminal v2 is horribly slow to display

2003-06-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:34:59AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:56:40PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > >> I've already saying 4 times that this bug is a configuration issue. Your > >> attitude is also unacceptable,

Re: Depressing bug statistics

2003-06-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:16:52AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > We've all heard that the bug count in Debian is rising... some may > have argued that this is because we have an increasing number of > packages in the archive. I just looked at the data from over 2 years > of packages in the bas

Re: 15277: potato/default xaw library

2003-05-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Bug 15277 against xaw3dg,xlib6g,xaw95 > potato/default xaw library > > is tagged potato and is probably obsolete. It would be a decidedly good idea to send this information to the bug itself, so that it is recorded for anyone exam

Re: Moving packages from "Requested" to "Can't be packaged"

2003-04-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:23:29PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > ___ > / Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | AFAIK, there is no automatic way of doing this. What about adding a > | new tag, something like CBP (cannot be packaged),

Re: Coloured graph of bug history over a single package's release cycle?

2002-05-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:42:47PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:12:34PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I'll see about setting up rrdexplorer or a similar tool to allow the > > RRDs to be interactively browsed, and see what else can be done. I ca

Re: Coloured graph of bug history over a single package's release cycle?

2002-05-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:05:43PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:39:28PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there any tool to visualize the bug history over the release cycle > >

Re: Coloured graph of bug history over a single package's release cycle?

2002-04-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:48:12AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:51:41 -0300, > Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any tool to visualize the bug history over the release cycle of an > > individual package? I'm thinking that would be an interesting way to se

Re: Status of clisp

2002-02-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:56:07PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > clisp | 1999-07-22-4 | testing | m68k > clisp | 1999-07-22-4 | unstable | m68k > clisp | 1999-07-22-5 |stable | source, alpha, i386, powerpc > clisp | 1999-07-22-5 | testing | pow

Re: ITP->RFP

2002-01-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:55:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:35:11PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > I intend to rename all ITP's that haven't had any activity in the last > > 100 days to RFP's. Any objections? > > No objections, a couple of suggestions that you're

Re: Stale ITAs done

2002-01-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:43:54PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The main problem is that it's very much work if every six months a person > comes and tries to go through the WNPP bugs. That's something I hope it > will become with my proposal of testing tasks - there are people > responsible for WN

Bug#124515: coolicon: Spelling error in description

2001-12-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: coolicon Severity: minor This is an automated bug report. I have recently conducted a mass spelling check of Debian package descriptions. In the process, some other errors were also detected, such as capitalization, word wrap, and indentation problems. Some notable guidelines that I us

Re: ssh2 2.0.13-6 vulnerable to crc32 compensation attack ?

2001-12-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:54:59PM +0100, Philipp Haeuser wrote: > Is ssh2 2.0.13-6 (the debian/unstable package from packages.debian.org) > vulnerable to the crc32 compensation attack described here ? > > http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_ssh1crc.html This issue only applies to s

Re: Low Averge Bug Counts

2001-12-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:20:52AM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > Christian Kurz and I came up with some other factors that are measurable > and may need to be taken into account to increase the validity of the > data. Just the average open unarchived bugs isn't very accurate though > I feel it's a

Is anyone interested in adopting ssh2? (Re: RC bugs in packages maintained by this list)

2001-10-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:37:32PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 05:44:32AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > >[RC ssh2 bugs] > > And a few more. It's buggy, and real ssh does the job; I'm not aware > of any compelling justification for it's continued existance. I > suggest i

Bug#112208: grunch: Use tempfile instead of ~/.grunch/tmp

2001-09-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: grunch Version: 1.3-2 Severity: wishlist Since the programs in question are shell scripts, they should use tempfile(1) from debianutils for creating its temporary files. Since this package is orphaned, if I get the itch, I'll do an NMU to make this change. -- System Information Debian R

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:29:41AM +0200, David Spreen wrote: > well, perhaps herbert xu will listen to you, he doesn't listen to me. My > problem is the following, I do not know why it is necessary to modify the > kernelsource from upstream so much, that patches etc. do not apply to it. In > my

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > + photopc uploaded 232 days ago, out of date by 222 days! > hasn't built on sparc; there doesn't appear to be > a bug filed It built fine on vore once I copied in debstd. Uploading now. -- - mdz

Bug#58259: Patch?

2001-04-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
I confess to knowing almost nothing about writing Perl XS modules, but the typemap file here really shouldn't be using anything with a double underscore in front of it. Also, isn't this all unnecessary because the XS language already provide a way to get at a variable number of arguments? The doc

Bug#90053: Patch

2001-03-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Here is a patch to eliminate this warning: --- libnewt-perl-1.08/Newt.pm Tue Mar 20 05:47:39 2001 +++ libnewt-perl-1.08+mdz/Newt.pm Tue Mar 20 05:47:29 2001 @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ sub Newt::Form::DESTROY { my $self = shift; - Newt::newtFormDestroy($self->{co}); + Newt::newtFormDestr