Work-needing packages report for Dec 2, 2005

2005-12-01 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 187 (new: 6) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 90 (new: 4) Total number of packages requeste

Windows RamDisk Driver

2005-12-01 Thread Toshihiro Shimizu
Dear who may concerns,   Pls allow me to ask following questions from Japan. If you know it, we would appreciate if you could reply to question.   On WDM(Windows Driver Model), we try to keep memory by "ExAllocatePoolWithTag" API But, we can not keep more than certain capacity, though there

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 12:35 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > (Followups to -vote) > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:30:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > The primary reason for this is that the existing messages were sent to > > debian-private with an expectation of privacy. > > As Matthew pointed o

Bug#341674: ITP: QwikWeb -- Communication tool which integrates mail and wiki

2005-12-01 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: NIIBE Yutaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: QwikWeb Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Kouichirou Eto <2005 at eto.com> * URL : http://qwik/jp * License : GNU GPL Description : Communication tool which integrate

Announcement: Common Power-Management Framework

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin Locke
Greetings -devel, It is my pleasure to announce the creation of a project to create a common power-management framework[1] for Debian (and eventually, the world). This idea, in various forms, has been discussed several times in the past[2][3] with a generally positive response. These ideas have

Re: RFA: dbi,rmysql,qtl -- GNU R package providing a generic database interface

2005-12-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Steffen, On 1 December 2005 at 08:57, Steffen Moeller wrote: | Dear Dirk, | | one should indeed discuss if the packages should remain in the distribution, | but please not because I am a bit behind in maintenance. I promise updates I disagree about the 'not'. It is _precisely_ because of the

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
(Followups to -vote) On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:30:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > The primary reason for this is that the existing messages were sent to > debian-private with an expectation of privacy. As Matthew pointed out in [0] this expectation of privacy isn't really that strong, fundam

Re: [tex-live] Re: XyMTeX in TeX live

2005-12-01 Thread Norbert Preining
On Don, 01 Dez 2005, Karl Berry wrote: > Regretfully, Dr. Shinsaku unambiguously replied to me that he wishes to > restrict XyMTeX distribution. So I'll be taking it out of TeX Live for > next year. Thanks Karl for asking. I am rebuilding texlive debian packages now without xymtex. Best wishes

Re: Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-12-01 Thread Mike Paul
> A cryptographer friend of mine recently attended the NIST Hallowe'en > Hash Bash (http://www.csrc.nist.gov/pki/HashWorkshop/index.html), and > made a few notes in his blog: > > http://www.livejournal.com/users/sevenstring/7326.html > > His suggestion there was "stick to SHA2 (or maybe Whirlpo

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051202 00:33]: > This has been suggested before; the standard counterargument is "what > about closing an ITP?" Then why not make a check (source package of bug and changelog are the same) or (bug to be closed is an ITP)? Yours sincerely, Alexander --

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:33:11PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Roberto C. Sanchez] > > Is there a way to not allow changelog entries to automatically close > > bugs assigned to other packages? > > This has been suggested before; the standard counterargument is "what > about closing an ITP?

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:45:53PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I just had a bug that I opened (#339832) closed by a changelog entry in > a new debconf upload. This is apparently a typo, as the changelog entry > claims that the bug it was closing was related to a Swedish translation > update

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roberto C. Sanchez] > Is there a way to not allow changelog entries to automatically close > bugs assigned to other packages? This has been suggested before; the standard counterargument is "what about closing an ITP?" signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 December 2005 23:45, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Is there a way to not allow changelog entries to automatically close > bugs assigned to other packages? This sounds like a usefull restriction. I've seen enough cases where the wrong bug was closed to see the benefit of this. If the

Bug#341638: ITP: libparams-util-perl -- Perl extension for simple standalone param-checking functions

2005-12-01 Thread Jonas Genannt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Genannt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libparams-util-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/ * License : GPL Description : Perl exten

Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I just had a bug that I opened (#339832) closed by a changelog entry in a new debconf upload. This is apparently a typo, as the changelog entry claims that the bug it was closing was related to a Swedish translation update. My bug was a wishlist bug against gmessage asking for it to become an alt

Proposal for *Real* Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
As dicussion follows, I decided to formalize a proposal for a real declassification of the content on -private. As I said before, if we're going to choose which material is made public, we can't call it "declassification". The main points are: 1) Everything except financial information about oth

Re: XyMTeX in TeX live

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Karl Berry wrote: > Regretfully, Dr. Shinsaku unambiguously replied to me that he wishes to > restrict XyMTeX distribution. So I'll be taking it out of TeX Live for > next year. I'm very sorry to hear that my inquiry resulted in the removal of XyMTeX from TeXLive. :-( It is a really useful tool.

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2005-12-01 às 08:32 -0600, Manoj Srivastava escreveu: > a) The post contained sensitive material. > In this case, if a reasonable case has been made for the > material being sensitive, and one that the declassification > teams accepted, then the material should be

Re: XyMTeX in TeX live

2005-12-01 Thread Karl Berry
Regretfully, Dr. Shinsaku unambiguously replied to me that he wishes to restrict XyMTeX distribution. So I'll be taking it out of TeX Live for next year. Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:16:29 +0900 From: Fujita Shinsaku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) Subject: Re: XyMTeX licensin

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:56:48PM +, Dave Holland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:30:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > I think the default behaviour should be to keep the post private, not to > > open it up. That is, if the author and other individuals do not reply, > > the message is

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Holland
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:30:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > I think the default behaviour should be to keep the post private, not to > open it up. That is, if the author and other individuals do not reply, > the message is kept hidden. > > The primary reason for this is that the existing mes

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 08:32 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > ... > - the author and other individuals quoted in messages being reviewed > will be contacted, and allowed between four and eight weeks > to comment; I think the default behaviour should be to keep the post pri

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Jérôme Marant
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> What is this supposed to mean? If no comments have been made by the >> author for eight weeks, messages will be automatically declassified? >> It looks like a kind of opt out to me. > > True. It may be an idea to have

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
Here are the urls I didn't find for my other post: http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/nb/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2005/03/13/0 http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec2000/full_papers/rao/rao.pdf http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/NewsBruiser-2.6.1/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2005/04/06/0 http://en.w

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > a) The post contained sensitive material. > > In this case, if a reasonable case has been made for the > material being sensitive, and one that the declassification > teams accepted, then the material should be redacted from the > post, a

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 01 December 2005 15.32, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > +   - If the author indicates he does not wish to be associated with a > +     post, any identifying information is redacted from that post, > +     and any quotes in subsequent posts, but the rest of the material > +     is published.

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Jérôme Marant wrote: What is this supposed to mean? If no comments have been made by the author for eight weeks, messages will be automatically declassified? It looks like a kind of opt out to me. True. It may be an idea to have another proposed amendment reversing the logic, and see

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * The team will automatically declassify and publish posts made to > that list that are three or more years old, with the following > exceptions: > > - the author and other individuals quoted in messages being reviewed > will be

binNMU or apt or something differnt problem?

2005-12-01 Thread Noèl Köthe
Hello on an uptodate etch I get: # apt-get source samba Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Unable to find a source package for samba # apt-cache policy samba samba: Installed: 3.0.20b-2+b1 Candidate: 3.0.20b-2+b1 Version table: *** 3.0.20b-2+b1 0 990

Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Rationale: I have been thinking about the kinds of reasons for not wanting to have a post to -private published. I came up with two major (reasonable) scenarios: a) The post contained sensitive material. In this case, if a reasonable case has been made for the m

ITP netdump-server and netdump-client

2005-12-01 Thread Russell Coker
Netdump is the network dump facility. It's purpose is to transfer an image of a machine's memory over the network when it crashes for the purpose of debugging. The main advantage of using the network over disk is that network hardware is often simpler than storage hardware (and easier to opera

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-12-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This means that it's dangerous to commit yourself to the contents of a > document, using a digital signature, unless you fully understand the > meaning of each byte in the document. So how do the MD5 sums of .debs end up in a Packages file signed with

Re: Bug#341465: ITP: libfile-copy-recursive-perl -- Perl extension for recursively copying files and directories

2005-12-01 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak
Florian Ragwitz wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:05:02PM +0100, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libfile-copy-recursive-perl Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : Daniel Muey <

Bug#341565: ITP: libsundials-serial -- SUit of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers

2005-12-01 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsundials-serial Version : 2.1.1 Upstream Author : Peter Brown, Aaron Collier, Keith Grant, Alan Hindmarsh, Steve Lee, Radu Serban, Dan Shumaker, Carol Woodward *

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 01 décembre 2005 à 11:56 +0100, Frank Küster a écrit : > We are trying to *get* both into the archive; and I don't see how > texlive could replace tetex for etch. But I agree with you that we > should reconsider the question later. In this case, I have to agree with you. > Personally, I

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-01 Thread Frank Küster
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le jeudi 01 décembre 2005 à 19:08 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit : >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> The source of teTeX is a *subset* of TeXLive's source, modulo versions. >> > >> > Then we definitely shouldn't need two copies of it! >>

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 01 décembre 2005 à 19:08 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit : > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The source of teTeX is a *subset* of TeXLive's source, modulo versions. > > > > Then we definitely shouldn't need two copies of it! > > Er, it sounds to me like what people are saying i

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-01 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:51:34AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > [Frank Küster] >> >> > Why do we need two packages containing the "latex" command, for example? > >> >> Why do we need N packages that prov

md5sum output format

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Has the tech-ctte decision regarding the output format of md5sum [0] been withdrawn in some form? It seems to be back to the old format: $ md5sum http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2004/06/msg00032.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-01 Thread Miles Bader
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The source of teTeX is a *subset* of TeXLive's source, modulo versions. > > Then we definitely shouldn't need two copies of it! Er, it sounds to me like what people are saying is: "Yeah it would be great and desirable to have no duplication between tet

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:51:34AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Frank Küster] > >> > Why do we need two packages containing the "latex" command, for example? > >> Why do we need N packages that provide MTA functionality? > > That's not equivalent.

Re: Stephen Frost MIA?

2005-12-01 Thread Frank Küster
"Thijs Kinkhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, November 30, 2005 18:34, Nico Golde wrote: >> [...] >> Please consider reading this: >> http://www.us.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html >> #s-mia-qa > > You mean where it says "It is also allowed to post a query to >

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-01 Thread Frank Küster
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Frank Küster] >> > Why do we need two packages containing the "latex" command, for example? >> >> Why do we need N packages that provide MTA functionality? > > That's not equivalent. An equivalent question would be more like "why > do we need N packa

Bug#341532: ITP: mozilla-thunderbird-locale-cs -- Mozilla Thunderbird Czech Language/Region Package

2005-12-01 Thread Ondrej Sury
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ondrej Sury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mozilla-thunderbird-locale-cs Version : 1.07debian Upstream Author : Czilla Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.czilla.org/ * License : Mozilla Public License 1.1