Re: Using defoma for building package ?

2006-05-03 Thread Marcus Better
Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Is there a way to use fc-match to locate a Type1 font (pfb) and also its >> associated font metrics (the afm file)? > > I may be wrong, but as fontconfig was designed for Xft which doesn't > make use of the .afm file but only uses the .pfb directly, I think > fontconfig

Keyboard error

2006-05-03 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi I do still have the problem with ADS that it does not accept any input from keyboard after the upgrade to xorg 7.0. I am using it in a chroot environment, without problems but I would like to get it working as before the upgrade. All other programs are working perfectly with xorg 7.0 I

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-03 Thread Frank Küster
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank wrote: >> > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: >> >> Wouter asked: >> >> > >> >> > Just out of curiosity, could you point me to arguments in favour of >> >> > Xprint? >> >> >> >> http://www.dailynews.co.th/ >> >> >> The

Re: Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-03 Thread Drew Parsons
Frank wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > >> Wouter asked: > >> > > >> > Just out of curiosity, could you point me to arguments in favour of > >> > Xprint? > >> > >> http://www.dailynews.co.th/ > >> > The > CUPS queues print those thai (?) letters very nice

Re: Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:23 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > Wouter asked: > > > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:22:45PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > > > This library isn't truly abandoned by upstream, but essentially it's not > > > > g

Bug#365951: ITP: ifpgui -- QT based iRiver iFP media player manager

2006-05-03 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jacob Luna Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ifpgui Version : 0.10.7 Upstream Author : Jim Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ifpgui.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL, BSD Programming Lang: C++ Desc

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Alexis Sukrieh wrote: As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' anymore: Given that apache2 has almost a magnitude more installations than all the other web servers in Debian (sans apache 1) combine

Re: Bug#365918: general: /tmp became 0755 durning sid upgrade

2006-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:20:27PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Somewhere during an hours long apt-get dselect-upgrade, some package, > I can't tell which, changed the permission of /tmp from 1777 to 755. > stat(1) at best reports the time some file was moved in or out of > /tmp, obscuring the time

Re: no libldap-dev from openldap2.2 package?

2006-05-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Ondrej Sury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 19:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> You can't right now because GnuTLS support is only available for 2.1. 2.2 >> and later will need substantial reworking of that support, and without it, >> the OpenSSL licensing issues cause too man

Re: gnokii: unmaintained

2006-05-03 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-05-03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It seems the gnokii package is unmaintained and its maintainer doesn't do > anything. > Should the package be orphaned so other interested developers can take it? It is already orphaned (with a pending ITA). Please so some research before pos

Re: gnokii: unmaintained

2006-05-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Roberto, On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 22:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems the gnokii package is unmaintained and its maintainer doesn't do > anything. > Should the package be orphaned so other interested developers can take it? The package is currently up for adoption by the current

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Joey Hess 2006-05-03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I won't discuss here the goodwill of this change, I just want to > > point out that by now, 110 packages are RC bug candidates because of > > this [2] (422 files installed inder `/usr/lib/cgi-bin'). > > Policy uses a "should" for this, so at most th

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:53:01PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:26, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > What we need and what should have been done a long time ago, is to > > > modularize profile to /etc/profile.d/ where e

Re: System users and valid shells...

2006-05-03 Thread Nicolas François
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:48:33PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > In any case, you could use noshell (already available in Debian) or nologin > (see #298782) instead of /bin/false. nologin is now distributed with login. I've closed the ITP. Kind Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNS

gnokii: unmaintained

2006-05-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems the gnokii package is unmaintained and its maintainer doesn't do anything. Should the package be orphaned so other interested developers can take it? Prueba el correo Terra ( http://www.terra.es/correo ); Seguro, rápido, fiable.

Re: wiki.debian.org mailer b0rken

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 03 May 2006, Ondrej Sury wrote: > > (added openldap2.2 + gnutls to SummerOfCode2006 page) > > > > Status of sending notification mails: > > [fr] PhilBat: (421, 'Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try > > again later.') > > [en] PhilippKern, RaphaelHertzog

keysigning in Helsinki

2006-05-03 Thread Joost Yervante Damad
Hi, I will be in Helsinki from 8/5 till 14/5. If someone wants to meet for a drink or some keysigning drop me an email. Greetings, Joost Damad -- The planet Andete is famous for it's killer edible poets. pgp5MB0sA5Ouh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#365918: general: /tmp became 0755 durning sid upgrade

2006-05-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: general Severity: minor Somewhere during an hours long apt-get dselect-upgrade, some package, I can't tell which, changed the permission of /tmp from 1777 to 755. stat(1) at best reports the time some file was moved in or out of /tmp, obscuring the time of chmod, so I can't check in dpkg.

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that > web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' > anymore: > > Quoting lintian: > > This is done to avoid conflicts with the cgi-bin script alias, > which is reserved for the

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread sean finney
hey alexis, On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:46:26PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that > web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' > anymore: > CGIs must be put under /usr/lib/cgi-lib now. i'd hold off on that

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 3 Mai 2006 18:55, Martin Michlmayr a écrit : > * Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-03 15:49]: > > IMHO, in his case, he should remove the forward, tag the bug > > upstream, and mention in the bug history that this is related to > > the upstream bug "foo". set the forwarded state o

Re: screenshot with package description

2006-05-03 Thread Gonéri Le Bouder
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 19:45, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Em Seg, 2006-05-01 às 17:54 +, Gonéri Le Bouder escreveu: > > I did some test. My repository is here: > > http://gloria.rulezlan.org/debian/ update_tarballs.pl updates the index_* > > files and the tarballs. > > For the moment it doesn't creat

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-03 16:30]: > after more pondering, what really miss for me, is a BTS > "closed-upstream" tag, meaning that the bug is closed on the remote > BTS, but not necessarily "fixed". I don't think this distinction is helpful. Also, it's exactly opposite to w

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-03 15:49]: > IMHO, in his case, he should remove the forward, tag the bug > upstream, and mention in the bug history that this is related to the > upstream bug "foo". set the forwarded state of a bug does not makes > sense to me, if you dont adhere to

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-03 Thread Frank Küster
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: >> Wouter asked: >> > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:22:45PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: >> > > This library isn't truly abandoned by upstream, but essentially it's not >> > > getting any new dev

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 3 Mai 2006 17:54, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:56:32AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > It currently only support bugzilla (which would still help kde, > > gnome, X.org, linux kernel, samba, mozilla, gcc Maintainers to cite > > only them), but is written so th

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:56:32AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > It currently only support bugzilla (which would still help kde, gnome, > X.org, linux kernel, samba, mozilla, gcc Maintainers to cite only them), > but is written so that adding new backend is not a difficult task. Could you plea

Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-03 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Hello, As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' anymore: Quoting lintian: This is done to avoid conflicts with the cgi-bin script alias, which is reserved for the local use of webmasters. CGI

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: Wouter asked: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:22:45PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: This library isn't truly abandoned by upstream, but essentially it's not getting any new development. Cairo is considered the way fo

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 3 Mai 2006 14:44, Martin Michlmayr a écrit : > * Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-03 14:28]: > > Automatically setting the 'fixed-upstream' tag is certainly a very > > nice idea that no one will object to. > > Unfortunately, there are always corner cases. What if upstream marks >

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 03 May 2006, Rogério Brito wrote: > One way to mitigate the memory consumption is to, among other things, > compile packages with optimization of GCC set to -Os, instead of -O2, What -Os is likely to give you is much better cache locality, which might make the code run that much faster on

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 3 Mai 2006 14:28, Christoph Berg a écrit : > Automatically setting the 'fixed-upstream' tag is certainly a very > nice idea that no one will object to. > > For 'upstream', I don't really see a benefit of setting it since the > bug is already marked as forwarded. I would just leave it alone n

Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-03 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer countries seem to have. It seems to be that a good amount of people upgrade their computers in a regular basis and, then, don't notice how things

Re: Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > Wouter asked: > > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:22:45PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > > This library isn't truly abandoned by upstream, but essentially it's not > > > getting any new development. Cairo is considered the way forward and

Re: Using defoma for building package ?

2006-05-03 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Hi, if your program uses fontconfig to find the fonts, then you don't need defoma. Otherwise, install defoma-doc and have a look at /usr/share/doc/defoma-doc/defoma-script.html/ch2.html about how to get a list of the installed fonts and how to write your configuration file. In both cases you sh

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060503 14:45]: > * Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-03 14:28]: > > Automatically setting the 'fixed-upstream' tag is certainly a very > > nice idea that no one will object to. > > Unfortunately, there are always corner cases. What if upstream mar

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-03 14:28]: > Automatically setting the 'fixed-upstream' tag is certainly a very > nice idea that no one will object to. Unfortunately, there are always corner cases. What if upstream marks something as fixed, you get a Debian bug report that the bug i

Bug#365856: ITP: python-visionegg -- Python library for 2D/3D visual stimulus generation

2006-05-03 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Owner: Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** * Package name: python-visionegg Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Andrew D. Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.visionegg.org * License

Re: Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-03 Thread Drew Parsons
Wouter asked: > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:22:45PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > This library isn't truly abandoned by upstream, but essentially it's not > > getting any new development. Cairo is considered the way forward and xprint > > is widely (though not universally) considered a broken impl

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 3 Mai 2006 14:02, Alexander Sack a écrit : > Anyway, I would have preferred to roll this out in a different > fashion: > > 1. release it as a package so all maintainers can use the tool if > they like. I intended it like that at the begining. sadly, the tool uses a local mirror of the d

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Christoph Berg
Hi, Re: Pierre Habouzit 2006-05-03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * as of tags, it only touches (like I explained) : >- upstream: ensure it's always set >- wontfix: try to guess if upstream tagged that bug wontfix, and >set/unset it accordingly >- fixed-upstream: >

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Alexander Sack
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:21:41PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > btslink will *never* close or reopen bugs. So it's pretty harmless IMHO, > this won't resurect a RC bug for which you made a debian-only patch and > that is still not fixed upstream. > > So just tell me if somethings looks illogi

Re: System users and valid shells...

2006-05-03 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:45:56AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > Security-wise it's probably a good idea to give as few users as possible > a valid shell, all others should get /bin/false, right? AFAIK, this is already being done in Red Hat, SuSE, FreeBSD and OpenBSD for many system users. And is th

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 3 Mai 2006 12:23, Alexander Sack a écrit : > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:56:32AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Hi developers, > > > > Like many of you may have noticed, a quite big mail was processed > > by the BTS today [1]. This was generated by a new service I'm > > currently devel

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Alexander Sack
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:56:32AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Hi developers, > > Like many of you may have noticed, a quite big mail was processed by > the BTS today [1]. This was generated by a new service I'm currently > developing, called bts-link. > > > This tool lists every BT

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 3 Mai 2006 11:56, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > How to Help: > > You can also help me to make the btslink.cfg more complete and > know about more bugzillas [7] about that: * private or mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are fine * any bugzilla that is used for a project packaged in debi

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 3 Mai 2006 12:06, Steinar H. Gunderson a écrit : > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:56:32AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > So basically to trig it, you just have to set the right forward > > status for your bugs. > > What is the "right" forward status? An URL for the upstream bug? Exactly.

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-03 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:56:32AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > So basically to trig it, you just have to set the right forward status > for your bugs. What is the "right" forward status? An URL for the upstream bug? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: System users and valid shells...

2006-05-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 03, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get tons of warnings like this when I run tiger(8): Tools like this need to generate lots of warnings or people may start thinking that they are useless... > Security-wise it's probably a good idea to give as few users as possible > a valid sh

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:22:45PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > This library isn't truly abandoned by upstream, but essentially it's not > getting any new development. Cairo is considered the way forward and xprint > is widely (though not universally) considered a broken implementation. Just out

Re: wiki.debian.org mailer b0rken

2006-05-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 03 May 2006, Ondrej Sury wrote: > (added openldap2.2 + gnutls to SummerOfCode2006 page) > > Status of sending notification mails: > [fr] PhilBat: (421, 'Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try > again later.') > [en] PhilippKern, RaphaelHertzog, AlphaPapa, AlexanderSchmehl, > Stev