Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 05:57:32PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:10:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > But moving the 32-bit libs to /usr/lib32 does not make us > > standards-conformant on amd64, because the FHS (yuckily) standardized on > > storing the *32-bit* libs

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: > > [Mike Hommey] > > > > > Screen does that too, so that would hardly be less secure than screen. > > > > Well, if by "in /tmp" you mean "in /var/run/screen". > > Well, that's a Debian thing. Upstream default is /tmp/screens, and last > time I checked on RH

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-13 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 12 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Yeah, I disagree with the idea that inetd is a bad choice for new > programs. In the particular case of approx (which I have installed, thanks to some comments on the -mentors list), I run it from a private package of ucscpi-tcp: in particular, tcpserver. I'm

Re: BDF Considered Harmful?

2009-03-13 Thread Paul Hardy
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:19:47AM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote: >> The only advantage is in preserving all information if (and only if) >> the original font is in BDF format.  It seemed harmless to me if the > > That's not an advantage per

Re: Why are evo*-dbg binary files not executable or don't run when made executable?

2009-03-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 22:45 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > I'm trying to debug a problem together with the evolution developers > with evolution-data-server crashing when adding new email contacts and > accessing address book. However, when downloading and trying to run the > binary files we find t

Re: HD TV as Monitor

2009-03-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 16:04 -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I have a Samsung 42" HD TV. It has a connector for a computer monitor > input, and I have been trying to get a computer hooked up to use it as > a monitor with little luck. If the machine runs Windows it will use > the monitor correctly as a

Bug#519641: RFA: soundtracker

2009-03-13 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I'd like to look for people who wants to maintain soundtracker. Soundtracker depends on gnome 1, which needs to be fixed (bug #460778). There is some forked activity to get it to work with gtk2, but I have not been following it too closely. $ apt-cache show

Why are evo*-dbg binary files not executable or don't run when made executable?

2009-03-13 Thread Svante Signell
I'm trying to debug a problem together with the evolution developers with evolution-data-server crashing when adding new email contacts and accessing address book. However, when downloading and trying to run the binary files we find that they are not executable. changing the executable flag by chmo

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Mar 13 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > [ Bcced to -devel and -dpkg, discussion should happen on -policy ] > > Hello, > > we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage > and the policy do not match fully. > > I tried to summarize the problem here: > http://wiki.deb

Re: need help updating @debian.org email alias

2009-03-13 Thread Lex Spoon
Thanks for the help, guys! I have lots of pointers now to go from. - Lex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: HD TV as Monitor

2009-03-13 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, Is it 720p or 1080i or 1080p? The following modeline makes my 720p 32" HDTV happy: |SubSection "Display" |Depth 24 |Modes "1680x1050" |EndSubSection William On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 16:04 -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I have a Samsung 42" HD TV. It has a

HD TV as Monitor

2009-03-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
I have a Samsung 42" HD TV. It has a connector for a computer monitor input, and I have been trying to get a computer hooked up to use it as a monitor with little luck. If the machine runs Windows it will use the monitor correctly as a display. If I run Damn Small it will display, but the bottom po

Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Bcced to -devel and -dpkg, discussion should happen on -policy ] Hello, we have an unfortunate situation where the practice in dpkg-buildpackage and the policy do not match fully. I tried to summarize the problem here: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebianRules I want to resolve this probl

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:19:40PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > > I've not looked at this at all - but the idea of shared sockets > > > in /tmp which I recall from a previous message in the thread jumped out > > > at me as being a recipe for symlink attacks, if nothing else. > > [Mike

Re: need help updating @debian.org email alias

2009-03-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
I replied to him in private (because I wanted to mention his current emailForward setting). Cheers, -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze

2009-03-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:10:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > But moving the 32-bit libs to /usr/lib32 does not make us > standards-conformant on amd64, because the FHS (yuckily) standardized on > storing the *32-bit* libs in /usr/lib on this architecture, with 64-bit libs > in /usr/lib64

Bug#519583: ITP: opticalraytracer -- A Utility that analyzes systems of lenses.

2009-03-13 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: opticalraytracer Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Paul Lutus * URL : http://www.arachnoid.com/OpticalRayTracer/ * License

need help updating @debian.org email alias

2009-03-13 Thread Lex Spoon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Who would I talk to about machine access issues? I suspect my l...@debian.org alias is pointing to an old college email. I tried to check it by logging into people.debian.org, but I was refused access. Now I'm stuck. What should I try next, or who

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
> > I've not looked at this at all - but the idea of shared sockets > > in /tmp which I recall from a previous message in the thread jumped out > > at me as being a recipe for symlink attacks, if nothing else. [Mike Hommey] > Screen does that too, so that would hardly be less secure than scr

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Mar 12 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:48:32PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Oh, I think the existing language is perfectly unambiguous, I'm just saying > that the behavior described doesn't seem to be what most/many maintainers > want in practice, with the re

Bug#519574: ITP: parser3 -- Parser 3, HTML-embedded scripting language

2009-03-13 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sergey B Kirpichev * Package name: parser3 Version : 3.3.0 Upstream Author : Alexandr Petrosian * URL : http://www.parser.ru/en/ * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Parser 3, HTML-embedded scri

Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze

2009-03-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:52:04PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Steve Langasek writes: > >> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:03:06AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> >> > What transitional issues is that going to cause us if and when multiarch >> >> > becomes

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> No, please don't just add another watch file just for the sake of it, >> using these files is more or less like living in the last >> century. People are able to get the current source from the Debian pool, >> if that is not enough for them, they s

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> a) Run a upstream version check from cron, which mails me if there are >>> new upstream versions of something I have. >> What happens if your watch file breaks? Do you check upstream announcem

Re: Bug#519510: ITP: polipo -- a caching web proxy

2009-03-13 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:26:32 +0100 Christoph Thielecke napsal(a): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > --- Please fill out the fields below. --- > >Package name: polipo > Version: 1.0.4 We already have this in Debian... http://

Bug#519510: ITP: polipo -- a caching web proxy

2009-03-13 Thread Christoph Thielecke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: polipo Version: 1.0.4 Upstream Author: [Christoph Thielecke ] URL: [http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/] License: [MIT/X

Re: Work-needing packages report for Mar 13, 2009

2009-03-13 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:27:47AM -0600, w...@debian.org wrote: > The following packages have been orphaned: >yaclc (#519377), orphaned yesterday > Description: Check the bug closings in a Debian changelog > Installations reported by Popcon: 32 maybe it can be integrated into devs

Re: BDF Considered Harmful?

2009-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:19:47AM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote: > The only advantage is in preserving all information if (and only if) > the original font is in BDF format. It seemed harmless to me if the That's not an advantage per se. Either you know that some of that information are useful for the

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 12. März 2009, Eric Cooper wrote: > I'm packaging approx, which for compatibility with apt-proxy defaults > to port (not in /etc/services). That was fine when approx, like > apt-proxy, was run as a standalone daemon from an initscript. But I > just changed it to run (only

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:59:00PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:37:41PM +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: > > > - a clearly-defined client-server model: windows are independent > > > entities which may be a

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:49:19PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > No, please don't just add another watch file just for the sake of it, using > these files is more or less like living in the last century. People are able > to > get the current source from the Debian pool, if that is not enough for

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:43:37PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 22:37:41 +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: > > > - a more usable status line syntax, with the ability to display the first > > line > > of output of a specific command; > > That is also possible in GNU Scre