Re: analyzing popcon data for bogus recommends

2008-05-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joey Hess] > It would be nice to have a list which Recommends are > ignored/overridden the most when installing packages, to identify > Recommends that need to be downgraded to Suggests. Could we derive > such a list from popcon data? I have no idea if that can be done. :) > I think it would nee

Regenerated SSL certificates for debian.org (was: debian infrastructure ssh key logins disabled, passwords reset)

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We also had to replace the SSL certificate on db.debian.org because > its CA which is operated by Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is > known to have been created with a SSL with the bug. The new SPI > CA can be found at the SPI's secretary page[

Re: analyzing popcon data for bogus recommends

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:09:20PM -0400, Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > It would be nice to have a list which Recommends are ignored/overridden > > the most when installing packages, to identify Recommends that need to be > > downgraded to Suggests.

Re: analyzing popcon data for bogus recommends

2008-05-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
Joey Hess wrote: > It would be nice to have a list which Recommends are ignored/overridden > the most when installing packages, to identify Recommends that need to be > downgraded to Suggests. Could we derive such a list from popcon data? I > think it would need to be done by analyzing each indivi

analyzing popcon data for bogus recommends

2008-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
It would be nice to have a list which Recommends are ignored/overridden the most when installing packages, to identify Recommends that need to be downgraded to Suggests. Could we derive such a list from popcon data? I think it would need to be done by analyzing each individual popcon data submissio

Re: conglomeration packages (Re: Will nvidia-graphics-drivers ever transition to testing?)

2008-05-13 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Le May 13, 2008 09:54:46 pm Lennart Sorensen, vous avez écrit : > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:27:31PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > > Packaging icebear wouldn't necessarily be useless. I defined it as yet > > another IRC client for the sake of the example. You can imagine it as yet > > another me

Re: conglomeration packages (Re: Will nvidia-graphics-drivers ever transition to testing?)

2008-05-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:27:31PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > Packaging icebear wouldn't necessarily be useless. I defined it as yet > another > IRC client for the sake of the example. You can imagine it as yet another > media player if you think that's more useful. You can't compare pack

Bug#481142: ITP: libhtml-tableparser-perl -- Perl library to extract data from an HTML table.

2008-05-13 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libhtml-tableparser-perl Version : 0.36 Upstream Author : Diab Jerius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-TableParser/ * License : GPL Programming

conglomeration packages (Re: Will nvidia-graphics-drivers ever transition to testing?)

2008-05-13 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Le May 13, 2008 09:39:38 am Lennart Sorensen, vous avez écrit : > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:42:31PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > > No, a more frequent change is disabling/enabling modules [on some arch]. > > Even if you were right, adding new module packages doesn't "justify" > > updating othe

Re: ITP crypt++el

2008-05-13 Thread Karl Berry
I intend to reintroduce crypt++el into Debian because I think we still I haven't tracked it down yet, but on the face of it, crypt++ doesn't work with Emacs 22. When I visit a .tar.gz file, it doesn't get uncompressed. jka-compr.el warns that users have to "take out all the compression entri

Re: Specification for the 'Bugs' field in 'debian/control'

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron M. Ucko) writes: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't want to just guess based on existing packages and hope I > > get it right. Where can I find the specification for this 'Bugs' > > field? > > deb-control(5): Thanks, I wasn't aware of that manpage.

Re: Split a package, rename an init file

2008-05-13 Thread Bertrand Marc
I'm currently using fglrx without atieventsd (for testing pupose). Everything is working fine except for the acpi stuffs. Whenever I'm on battery, I have to manually configure aticonfig with --set-powerstate 1. Except for this, everything is fine. I have 3D acceleration, as usual. Adam Majer a

Re: Split a package, rename an init file

2008-05-13 Thread Adam Majer
Bertrand Marc wrote: > Thanks for your answers! > > So I guess the best way to do this is to split the package and use > dh_installinit --name=foo > > This way I can provide the buggy binary daemon in a seperate package > (recommended by foo), and keep the name of the conffiles. > > Do you think

Re: Split a package, rename an init file

2008-05-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:00:45PM +0200, Bertrand Marc wrote: > Thanks for your answers! > > So I guess the best way to do this is to split the package and use > dh_installinit --name=foo > > This way I can provide the buggy binary daemon in a seperate package > (recommended by foo), and keep

Re: Split a package, rename an init file

2008-05-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (gmane.linux.debian.devel.general) you wrote: > I'd like to split a package foo into 2 new packages : foo and > foo-daemon. To do that I moved the daemon and the other obvious files > with dh_install -pfoo-dameon. I used dh_installinit to install the > init.d file

Re: Split a package, rename an init file

2008-05-13 Thread Bertrand Marc
Thanks for your answers! So I guess the best way to do this is to split the package and use dh_installinit --name=foo This way I can provide the buggy binary daemon in a seperate package (recommended by foo), and keep the name of the conffiles. Do you think of something else? Regards, Bert

Re: Split a package, rename an init file

2008-05-13 Thread Adam Majer
Bertrand Marc wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to split a package foo into 2 new packages : foo and > foo-daemon. To do that I moved the daemon and the other obvious files > with dh_install -pfoo-dameon. I used dh_installinit to install the > init.d file to the foo-daemon package. > > Here are my que

Split a package, rename an init file

2008-05-13 Thread Bertrand Marc
Hello, I'd like to split a package foo into 2 new packages : foo and foo-daemon. To do that I moved the daemon and the other obvious files with dh_install -pfoo-dameon. I used dh_installinit to install the init.d file to the foo-daemon package. Everything seems fine, but when I upgrade foo t

Re: Specification for the 'Bugs' field in 'debian/control'

2008-05-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't want to just guess based on existing packages and hope I get > it right. Where can I find the specification for this 'Bugs' field? deb-control(5): Bugs: The url of the bug tracking system for this package. The current

Bug#481082: ITP: crypt++el -- Emacs-Lisp Code for handling compressed and encrypted files

2008-05-13 Thread Christoph Martin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I intend to reintroduce crypt++el into Debian because I think we still need it. The mentioned alternatives jka-compr and easypg do not provide all the features which crypt++.el provides. Although Karl Berry stopped main

Bug#481078: ITP: konq-kim -- image service menu for Konqueror

2008-05-13 Thread Marcos Daniel Marado Torres
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcos Daniel Marado Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: konq-kim Version : 0.9.4 Upstream Author : Charles Bouveyron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bouveyron.free.fr/kim/ * License : GPL (2 or later) Program

Bug#481074: O: pycurl -- Python bindings to libcurl

2008-05-13 Thread Domenico Andreoli
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the pycurl package. It is an easy package so it may be indicated for newcomers. The package description is: This module provides the Python bindings to libcurl. Please refer to the libcurl documentation available in libcurl4-gnutls-dev Debian p

ITP crypt++el

2008-05-13 Thread Christoph Martin
I intend to reintroduce crypt++el into Debian because I think we still need it. The mentioned alternatives jka-compr and easypg do not provide all the features which crypt++.el provides. Although Karl Berry stopped maintaining the file some years ago, it is now again maintained within xemacs packa

Re: Will nvidia-graphics-drivers ever transition to testing?

2008-05-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:42:31PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > No, a more frequent change is disabling/enabling modules [on some arch]. Even > if you were right, adding new module packages doesn't "justify" updating > other modules. Reusing the ice* example, suppose that Debian would have su

package for configuration - Some suggestions

2008-05-13 Thread Anthony
Hello I would like just to have some suggestions... I have to change the authentification configuration of debian computers (lot of computers) at work...! In SARGE the users will be authenticated on ldap so i need install some package : libpam-ldap, libnss-ldap, ldap-utils, nss-updatedb, lib

Specification for the 'Bugs' field in 'debian/control'

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, I'm trying to find the specification for the 'Bugs' field found in some packages (usually non-Debian ones). The field is not mentioned in the Policy §5 on control files http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html>. The combination "debian", "control", and "bugs" isn't