Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339581 has been fixed on > Apr 17, 2007. But it still shows up in http://bugs.debian.org/texmacs . Is > this a bug in the BTS or am I missing something stupid? 1:1.0.6-11 is still available in unst

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-07 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339581 has been fixed on > Apr 17, 2007. But it still shows up in http://bugs.debian.org/texmacs . Is > this a bug in the BTS or am I missing something stupid? Maybe it's because a version with the bug is still availab

old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

2007-12-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339581 has been fixed on Apr 17, 2007. But it still shows up in http://bugs.debian.org/texmacs . Is this a bug in the BTS or am I missing something stupid? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://mala

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2007-12-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:23:28AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > With constructs like: > > PYVERS := $(shell pyversions -vr debian/control 2>/dev/null) > > build-%: > PYTHON=`which python$*` ./configure I guess this should have been "`which $*` ./configure", right? If so, re

Bug#107862: bathtub rock clown

2007-12-07 Thread Mac Guy
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Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'd also tend to think that generic internationalization support > sentences are quite inappropriate into package long description. > Support leve is generally subject to frequent changes, so why > polluting descriptions with those things? Su

Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2007-12-07 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi all, one thing that has bothered me for a long time already is the complete lack of a security boundary between processes of the same user. Things like LD_PRELOAD and ptrace() (IOW, gdb) are enabled by default for all users, and especially for developers this is a good thing. However, a lot of

Bug#206187: salt butterfly

2007-12-07 Thread Cyril Page
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Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:10:35PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:40:43PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Leo costela Antunes said: > > > Enrico Zini wrote: > > > > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > >

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgtk2.0-0 #MINVER# > * Devel-Package: libgtk2.0-dev > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.8.0 > ... > How does that sound ? Sounds like a good start! Perhaps the injection should be explicitely requested with: * UseBuildDepVersionAsMinVer

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:22:49PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > Couldn't debtags support this sort of information in a good enough way > (not via culture::*, but something like translated-in::*)? > Or perhaps - if stricter solution is desired - implementing a new > control field that could

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Friday 07 December 2007, Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: > Enrico Zini wrote: > > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > > first. > > While I agree it's an issue (albeit a small one), I think we shouldn't > file bugs for it while there's no better place to put this in

Re: priorities

2007-12-07 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:28:22PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > both required and base in the same list, so you have to look for the split > yourselve (zlibg1 and adduser atm), but that's not too hard hopefully. Yes it is not _hard_, but it is exactly this sort of dependency hunting that is usele

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:40:43PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Leo costela Antunes said: > > Enrico Zini wrote: > > > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > > > first. > > > > While I agree it's an issue (albeit a small one), I think we

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:52:08AM +, Enrico Zini wrote: > ldap-account-manager is not the only package doing this: a quick search > gives me [...] gperiodic I removed that in svn. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Stephen Gran wrote: > At the moment, I'm inclined to agree with Enrico. I don't think it's > all that helpful to have some small subset of all the programs actually > translated into a given language returned in a search for that language > string. It's both an incomplete list (since many other p

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > I do imagine it wont be mandatory (or useful) for all libs as well and > I agree it should be added on a per package basis; one idea I > mentionned to Raphaël is to extend the shlibs / symbols system to allow > a syntax meaning "Take the build-dep versi

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > Almost no packages currently do this, hence relying on the package > description to check wether a package is localized for your language is > completely unreliable. Agreed. > For a list of localised packages check http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po/ > for y

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Leo costela Antunes said: > Enrico Zini wrote: > > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > > first. > > While I agree it's an issue (albeit a small one), I think we shouldn't > file bugs for it while there's no better place to put this inf

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Enrico Zini wrote: > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > first. While I agree it's an issue (albeit a small one), I think we shouldn't file bugs for it while there's no better place to put this information. It may reduce the objectiveness of some searches, but it

Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I'm reviewing tag submissions and I noticed that people added lots of culture::* tags to a non culture specific package like ldap-account-manager. The reason was simple: the description mentions: LAM is translated to Catalan, Chinese (Simplified + Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English,

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007, Colin Watson wrote: > I wonder if the objections raised to this suggestion could be addressed > by making it optional in some way - perhaps either by requiring it to be > manually enabled for each library by some kind of shlibs/symbols-like > system, or by providing support fo

Re: Injecting versions of build-deps in the deps

2007-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 06:38:20PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2007 at 17:33:41 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Every successful call to pkg-config would fill in a file, let’s say > > debian/pkgconfig.deps, that would in the end contain: > > > > # pkgconfig_file requi

Re: ITP: squeak-vm -- Virtual machine needed to run Squeak images on unix

2007-12-07 Thread L. Redrejo
El vie, 07-12-2007 a las 10:57 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz escribió: > > * License : MIT > > hmm, on a fast look trough the tarball all I found was > - a LICENSE file, with a license from Apple > - a COPYING file, with a license which seems to be written by squeak > (starts pretty ugly, didn't re

Re: ITP: squeak-vm -- Virtual machine needed to run Squeak images on unix

2007-12-07 Thread L. Redrejo
El jue, 06-12-2007 a las 23:00 +0100, Daniel Baumann escribió: > squeak is supposed[0] to be unable to package for debian due to legal > reasons. can you elaborate on the current status? > > [0] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package > Sure: Squeak is being relicensed from the old Ap

Re: ITP: squeak-vm -- Virtual machine needed to run Squeak images on unix

2007-12-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> * License : MIT hmm, on a fast look trough the tarball all I found was - a LICENSE file, with a license from Apple - a COPYING file, with a license which seems to be written by squeak (starts pretty ugly, didn't read it, though). - a COPYRIGHT file which contains the GPL2 and no licens

Re: Sheldon Hearn MIA?

2007-12-07 Thread Philipp Marek
Hello Thomas, > On Friday 07 December 2007 01:02:14 Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > He seems to have progressed in creating packages because there is an > > (unanswered) request to sponsor (upload) them[1]. > > > > He also posted to debian-kernel in mid-October[2]. yes, thank you - he's back :-) Hello

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2007-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:50:15PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:08:13PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > === Alternate naming of the macros === > > > > Do omit the '''DEB_HOST_''' prefix and all packages should honour the > > value of CFLAGS etc. in the environment.

Re: priorities

2007-12-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:25:05AM +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > Question: is there somewhere on the net a script (*) such that: > * it installs required/essential packages (_all_ of them but _only_ > them) of such a release as a chroot in that directory You could create a variant for debo

Re: priorities

2007-12-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:03:08PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Frankly, I suggest we look at the list of Unix commands as > specified by the SUS -- which can also be seen at: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_programs > So -- how many of the standard unix commands

Re: priorities

2007-12-07 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:37:57PM +0900, Michal ??iha?? wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:25:05 +0100 > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * it installs required/essential packages (_all_ of them but _only_ > > them) of such a release as a chroot in that directory > Isn't minimal fl

Re: priorities

2007-12-07 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:25:05 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: is there somewhere on the net a script (*) such that: > > * it accepts two parameters: a debian release (etch, sarge, woody, ...) > and an (empty) directory; > > * it installs required/essential pa