Work-needing packages report for Mar 21, 2008

2008-03-20 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: 368 (new: 9) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 95 (new: 7) Total number of packages requeste

Re: Using apt-file db to find possible conflicts

2008-03-20 Thread Matthew Rosewarne
On Thursday 20 March 2008, Sami Liedes wrote: > I don't know if there's any previous work on this, but since I as a > sid user often see conflicts in packages, and I've seen those on > numerous oldstable->stable upgrades, I thought something could be done > about it. Actually, most often oldstable-

Using apt-file db to find possible conflicts

2008-03-20 Thread Sami Liedes
[Please Cc: me in replies as I'm not on the list] Hi, I don't know if there's any previous work on this, but since I as a sid user often see conflicts in packages, and I've seen those on numerous oldstable->stable upgrades, I thought something could be done about it. Actually, most often oldstabl

Re: disassembling machine code

2008-03-20 Thread Kees Cook
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:25:00AM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > There was no answer to this question in debian-user. > Is this the appropriate list? > > I have these 5 bytes of machine code to disassemble. > > b8 12 00 cd 10 > > I've looked at gdb and objdump. Appears they > need a compl

Re: Debian refpolicy and core SELinux package update

2008-03-20 Thread Kees Cook
Hi, On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:48:23AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:34:38 +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> I am beginning to come back from a deadline crunch on my day job, and > >> start paying atten

Bug#430896: and author of

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Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
"Artur R. Czechowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't sound good for me. Let's consider fglrx driver. I would like > to stay tuned with fglrx from Debian package. But sometimes I have a > problems running an OpenGL application. In such cases I use an flgrx > directly from ATI to verify if

Re: Standard to indicate repacking in version numbers?

2008-03-20 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On måndagen den 28 januari 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 28/01/2008, Andreas Tille wrote: > > ... which describes the _content_ of the tarball, but not the _name_ > > (or extension) of the tarball. So there is no clarification whether > > to use 'dfsg', 'debian', 'ds' or something else in the

Re: I am confused about configuration files

2008-03-20 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Artur R. Czechowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [cut] > > Is the only way to make sure that conffiles do not clutter filesystem to > > remove them in maintainer's script on upgrade from previous version? > I believe that's the case, although I'd like to g

Re: disassembling machine code

2008-03-20 Thread Ove Kaaven
PETER EASTHOPE skrev: I have these 5 bytes of machine code to disassemble. b8 12 00 cd 10 I've looked at gdb and objdump. Appears they need a complete object file. What tool can disassemble this string? If all else fails, decode it with your head, maybe? I probably would... You're gi

Re: disassembling machine code

2008-03-20 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:25:00AM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > There was no answer to this question in debian-user. > Is this the appropriate list? > > I have these 5 bytes of machine code to disassemble. > > b8 12 00 cd 10 > > I've looked at gdb and objdump. Appears they > n

Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference

2008-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/20/08 11:18, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:03:47AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/20/08 10:46, brian m. carlson wrote: >>> I think it's a good idea. I'm not a DD, but I don't appreciate getting >>> dupe messages from th

disassembling machine code

2008-03-20 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, There was no answer to this question in debian-user. Is this the appropriate list? I have these 5 bytes of machine code to disassemble. b8 12 00 cd 10 I've looked at gdb and objdump. Appears they need a complete object file. What tool can disassemble this string? Thanks,

Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference

2008-03-20 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:03:47AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/20/08 10:46, brian m. carlson wrote: > > I think it's a good idea. I'm not a DD, but I don't appreciate getting > > dupe messages from the list. procmail is not set up to handle them, and > > I read the vast majority of the list

Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference

2008-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/20/08 10:46, brian m. carlson wrote: > [Ignoring the part of M-F-T that indicates Ben Finney, per his request.] > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:31:22AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:50:11AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: >>> W

Re: Debian refpolicy and core SELinux package update

2008-03-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:34:38 +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I am beginning to come back from a deadline crunch on my day job, and >> start paying attention to my Debian packages again; so hopefully the >> state of SELinux i

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2008-03-20 Thread info
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Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference

2008-03-20 Thread brian m. carlson
[Ignoring the part of M-F-T that indicates Ben Finney, per his request.] On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:31:22AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:50:11AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: William, please follow the Debian mailing list code of conduct http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#co

Bug#471846: ITP: josm-plugins -- Plugins for JOSM (Java OpenStreetMap editor)

2008-03-20 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package name: josm-plugins Version: undefined, all plugins have independent version numbers Upstream Author: many authors, check them of URL below URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.

Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference

2008-03-20 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:50:11AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > William, please follow the Debian mailing list code of conduct > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct>; specifically, > don't send me individual messages that are also sent to the list, > since I didn't ask for them. How ma

Re: Installation of suggested packages: recursive or not?

2008-03-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:38:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Le Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Joe Smith a écrit : > > >On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > > >> > > >>apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar. > > > I will s

Bug#471834: proposition to split /etc/network/interfaces

2008-03-20 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Package: netbase Version: 4.29 Severity: wishlist I would like to RFC about splitting /etc/network/interfaces to several files ie. one file for each interface. Something like /etc/network/interfaces.d/ with files eth0, wlan0, ppp0, etc. That would make easier to maintain machines with several (o

Re: source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > > This is not needed: > > - updating build-essential would update it for lenny/sid only > > - only oldstable (sarge) has a dpkg version that doesn't support it > > > > Thus fixing build-essential doesn't fix it for the only case where it's > > broken, whe

Re: source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fixing build-essential does fix it at least for my case; my machine > was partially-upgraded sarge. Is versioned dependency for preventing > such stupidity? I'm curious why you are using sarge? Any particular reason or

Re: source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-20 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:36:39 +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > > According to the changelog, substvars source:Version is added in > > dpkg-dev 1.13.19. A package which uses source:Version in its > > debian/control and doesn't set its val

Re: Debian refpolicy and core SELinux package update

2008-03-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I am beginning to come back from a deadline crunch on my day > job, and start paying attention to my Debian packages again; so > hopefully the state of SELinux in Debian will improve -- at least, I'll > try to be more reactive in the fu

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-20 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At some point in 2006, a serious flaw is addressed via a NMU, so > it sits at 1.0+sarge1. I still cannot be bothered to take a look at > the damn package. Time passes. In March 2008 it (again) shows it needs > to be taken care of, and you kindly prepare a