Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:43:00PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > upstart is looking interesting and it might just as well replace > sysvinit for etch+1. Or at least be an alternative. > In order to enable this change, we're facing the "To continue type > in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'" proble

Bug#391682: ITP: torrus-cisco-cbqos-plugin -- Cisco class-based QoS discovery and collection plugin for Torrus

2006-10-07 Thread Jurij Smakov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: torrus-cisco-cbqos-plugin Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Stanislav Sinyagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.torrus.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl De

Re: Call for votes for "GR: Recall the project leader"

2006-10-07 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
> - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 49a98df6-2bd4-40c8-a559-7e15212dbd26 > [ ] Choice 1: Recall the project leader > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Further discussion > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- Ganesan Rajagopal

Re: Call for votes for "GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel"

2006-10-07 Thread RISKO Gergely
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > c2d43675-9efa-4809-a4aa-af042b62786e > [ 2 ] Choice 1: Release Etch even with kernel firmware issues > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Special exception to DFSG2 for firmware as long as req

Bug#391678: ITP: asio -- a cross-platform C++ networking library

2006-10-07 Thread Marek Habersack
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asio Version : 0.3.7 Upstream Author : Christopher M. Kohlhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://asio.sf.net/ * License : The Boost License (http://www.boost.org/LICENSE

Re: Bug#391667: RFP: qshaderedit -- shader editor

2006-10-07 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:44:09AM +0200, Jiří Paleček wrote: > Shaders are small programs which run on the GPU during the rendering > process. They can be used to implement anything from some special lighting > model to raytracing or Voronoi diagram display. Voronoi diagrams are sort of a bad exa

Bug#391667: RFP: qshaderedit -- shader editor

2006-10-07 Thread Jiří Paleček
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: qshaderedit -- shader editor Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Ignacio Castaño, Karl Robillard and Lars Uebernickel * URL or Web page : http://castano.ludicon.com/page.php?page_id=118 * Li

Re: Call for votes for "GR: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader"

2006-10-07 Thread Kevin Rosenberg
Debian Project Secretary wrote: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > a65763d3-b1e2-4530-8ff8-aa5915274eb4 > [ 2 ] Choice 1: Re-affirm DPL, wish success to unofficial Dunc Tank > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Re-affirm DPL, do not endorse nor support his other projects >

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Roberto C. Sanchez said: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 12:39:39PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:34:35PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > I'm thinking of this slightly obscure service called email. It might > > > possibly be affected by suc

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread James Westby
On (06/10/06 17:35), Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > We are at a point where we can support a targeted SELinux > policy, at least in permissive mode. Everything seems to work for > me; I can fire up targeted SELinux UML's and only see a few harmless > log messages. > Hi, I am inte

Bug#391638: ITP: aspell-ar-large -- Large Arabic dictionary for aspell

2006-10-07 Thread Mohammed Sameer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: aspell-ar-large Version : 1.2-0 Upstream Author : Ethan Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gokalp Yapici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/ar/aspell6-ar-

Re: new mplayer

2006-10-07 Thread Izak Burger
On 10/6/06, Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not true. Mplayer is the only one with proper support for ASS subtitles. It is also the only one that plays dvd's without halting halfway (and in the case of xine, telling me there is a codec problem). Luckily Ubuntu has had player in

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:39:03PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Well, I'm surprised to say the least. I have some virtual domains on a > server. So I did `mail "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"@the.real.host` and sent a > test message. Surprisingly, to me anyway, I got this on the local host: > > Oc

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If people think finger and sharutils are not important enough anymore to > still be standard, we can still fix that. I think finger at least should be downgraded to optional at this point. How many people still run a finger server? Stanford has one, I

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 08:05:55PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > i know of servers which create system accounts for email users (pop3 > and imap) with the complete email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) as username. > > so especially for email addresses, the @ in system accounts might be > interestin

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On 10/7/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there any potential breakage to allow adduser --force-badname to >> create accounts with @ in user names? > >The only thing that immediately comes to mind is that of a MTA that >has to deliver mail fo

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Greg Norris
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:35:32PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > As per policy, I am raising a balloon about ths issue; I think > if we ship vacation, finger, and sharutils, we can also ship > mandatory acess controls in the standard distribution :) This would make me very happy! :)

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 07/10/2006 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 06:32:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in #389160, the bug submitter suggests allowing @ in user names, which > > adduser currently does not even allow when called with > > --force-badname. > > > > Is there any potenti

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 12:39:39PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:34:35PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I'm thinking of this slightly obscure service called email. It might > > possibly be affected by such brain damage. Why can't the bug submitter > > make to with

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:34:35PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I'm thinking of this slightly obscure service called email. It might > possibly be affected by such brain damage. Why can't the bug submitter > make to with +, ., and other such characters? According to my very brief examinati

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 06:32:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > in #389160, the bug submitter suggests allowing @ in user names, which > adduser currently does not even allow when called with > --force-badname. > > Is there any potential breakage to allow adduser --force-badname to > create

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Izak Burger
On 10/7/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any potential breakage to allow adduser --force-badname to create accounts with @ in user names? The only thing that immediately comes to mind is that of a MTA that has to deliver mail for this user. For example, when cron runs a job

Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, in #389160, the bug submitter suggests allowing @ in user names, which adduser currently does not even allow when called with --force-badname. Is there any potential breakage to allow adduser --force-badname to create accounts with @ in user names? Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: supporting alternative init systems

2006-10-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi martin, hi fellow DDs! I really support the idea martin is proposing but I want to see it in a broader scope, not restricted to upstart alone (although I'm very interested in upstart). Currently our support for alternative init systems (like upstart, minit, runit, initng, to name a few) sucks r

Re: Bits from the DPL: Looking forward

2006-10-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:12, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > 2007 join as support team to Debconf > > 2008 propose Japan as Debconf candidate > > 2009 hold Debconf in Japan. > > This timeline won't work :-) At least the debconf-team hopes so: > > From 2007 we want to decide the venue two y

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:33:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:04:50 +0200, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Oct 07, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The size of the .debs for targeted policy is 2185702 Bytes, and > >> adds seven packages

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:18:32PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:37:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Would you mind sharing the -39 or deb-src with us? > > xv isn't distributable by me as I'm not the copyright holder. Whoever > controls where the original -26 source liv

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 15:29:43 +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Supported by shadow maintainers. If you think they're needed, >> they'll be here (I doubt it would be hard to convince release >> managers to make a freeze exception

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Manoj wrote: > >As per policy, I am raising a balloon about ths issue; I think > if we ship vacation, finger, and sharutils, we can also ship > mandatory acess controls in the standard distribution :) Sounds like a good plan to me... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061007 00:41]: > I brought this over on the debian-installer mailing list, and > suggested that we ship SELinux installed, but turned off by default; > and a README or a short shell script fr the local administrator to > enable SELinux. Our s

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Supported by shadow maintainers. If you think they're needed, they'll > be here (I doubt it would be hard to convince release managers to make > a freeze exception for this). I was of course meaning "if you think that changes to what's already the

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:27:50PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > It is easier to turn on something that is already installed; Full ACK. We want to make it as easy as possible for Debian users to profit from the added security features they gain from SELinux. IMHO. > we can add c

Processed: severity of 360643 is wishlist, reassign 360643 to dpkg-dev

2006-10-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.21 > severity 360643 wishlist Bug#360643: APT configure flags Severity set to `wishlist' from `normal' > reassign 360643 dpkg-dev Bug#360643: APT configure flags Bug reassigned from packa

Bug#365918: Suggestion: raise the severity to important.

2006-10-07 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Raúl Sánchez Siles 2006-10-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I don't think this bug could only be considered as a minor bug, since it > prevented me to enter into kde and once you are used to apps inside a > graphical environmnet it's quite difficult to find a solution yourself. Do you have an idea w

Bug#212049: marked as done ("dependency" used backwards)

2006-10-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 7 Oct 2006 12:51:13 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line "dependency" used backwards has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your respons

Processed: reassign 253359 to cyrus21-common

2006-10-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.21 > reassign 253359 cyrus21-common Bug#253359: general: Possible problems when setting of Cyrus-Imap Bug reassigned from package `general' to `cyrus21-common'. > End of message, stopping

Bug#212028: marked as done (apt-cache uses "dependency" backards )

2006-10-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 7 Oct 2006 12:51:13 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line "dependency" used backwards has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your respons

Re: Bits from the DPL: Looking forward

2006-10-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:12, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > 2007 join as support team to Debconf > 2008 propose Japan as Debconf candidate > 2009 hold Debconf in Japan. This timeline won't work :-) At least the debconf-team hopes so: From 2007 we want to decide the venue two years in advance,

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El sáb, 07-10-2006 a las 01:04 +0200, Marco d'Itri escribió: > On Oct 07, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The size of the .debs for targeted policy is 2185702 Bytes, > > and adds seven packages to the standard install. No special > While I like much the idea of having s

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
> Personally, *I* think that still fails the DFSG, as you can't convey > the right to distribute, but what do I know? Definitely this failes the DFSG. These packages will probably never enter Debian again, but at least _we_ (at d-u.o) are explicitely _allowed_ to redistribute them. > Wow... yo

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/06 18:56, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Samstag 07 Oktober 2006 00:35 schrieb Manoj Srivastava: [snip] > Well, most users have enough to find out what groups they must be in for > fully > working desktop (>= 8). How many will use _any_ SELinux

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/06 22:18, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:37:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Would you mind sharing the -39 or deb-src with us? > > xv isn't distributable by me as I'm not the copyright holder. Whoever > controls where the