Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Like lintian, your list falsely includes packages that use cdbs to build, > which automatically updates config.{sub,guess}. There doesn't seem to be a bug on lintian about this, please file one. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/Pa

Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list

2009-04-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Saturday 25 April 2009 02:51:40 Bradley Smith wrote: > In light of the recent outdated config.{sub,guess} discussion I have > decided to generate a list[0] of packages that have these files from before > June 2006, which is when the AVR32 architecture was added. > The list was generated using l

Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Speaking of which, where can one read more about that port? Are there > build logs available (one might want to ease your task and keep an eye > on them for some given packages at least)? http://avr32.debian.net/ http://ftp-avr32.debian.n

Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list

2009-04-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bradley Smith (25/04/2009): > In light of the recent outdated config.{sub,guess} discussion I have > decided to generate a list[0] of packages that have these files from > before June 2006, which is when the AVR32 architecture was added. Speaking of which, where can one read more about that port?

Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Bradley Smith writes: > The list was generated using lintian 2.2.9 with this[1] patch. It is > obviously possible that there are false positives in this list since the > files might be not be actually used in the build, or they are copied from > the host on clean etc. Please let me know if this i

Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list

2009-04-24 Thread Bradley Smith
Hi, In light of the recent outdated config.{sub,guess} discussion I have decided to generate a list[0] of packages that have these files from before June 2006, which is when the AVR32 architecture was added. The number of affected packages comes to 620, and obviously filing 620 bugs seems like the

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 19:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Finney writes: > > > Okay. So I take it then that you would be against separate packaging > > for Linux-Libre for Debian, and prefer instead to apply all its > > changes to Debian's Linux? No, but I am committed to separating sourceles

Bug#525490: ITP: fizmo -- console-based Z-Machine interpreter for playing Infocom / Inform games

2009-04-24 Thread Christoph . Ender
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: christoph.en...@spellbreaker.org * Package name: fizmo Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : christoph.en...@spellbreaker.org * URL : http://spellbreaker.org/~chrender/fizmo/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Descr

Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

2009-04-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 24 April 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Florian Lohoff wrote: > > rdate ist not a replacement for ntpdate - it does not use the ntp > > protocol but the time protocol (builtin inetd) - So making > > ntpdate depend on rdate is not a solution as it changes the protocol > > and i dont think all nt

Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

2009-04-24 Thread Frans Pop
Florian Lohoff wrote: > rdate ist not a replacement for ntpdate - it does not use the ntp > protocol but the time protocol (builtin inetd) - So making > ntpdate depend on rdate is not a solution as it changes the protocol > and i dont think all ntp servers also open/support the time protocol. rda

Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

2009-04-24 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:30:36AM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: > - For Squeeze: a package "ntpdate" which depends on rdate and > provides a wrapper script, used to emulate ntpdate's main functionality > (set the system's clock) in terms of rdate and mark it as deprecated > > - For Sque

Re: file permissions on /etc/apt/trusted.gpg

2009-04-24 Thread Frank Küster
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" wrote: > The easiest way for me to fix this is to do 'chmod +r > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg' in the cupt's postinst. As this file contains only > public gpg public keys, this should not harm anything. An alternative would be to instruct the user to do the change, if you cannot ge

Re: Bug#525428: ITP: profit -- structural alignment of multiple proteins

2009-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Steffen Moeller wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: profit Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : Andrew Martin , Graig T. Porter * URL : http://www.bioinf.org.uk/software/profit/ * License : non-free, n

Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

2009-04-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:30:36 +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: > - For Squeeze: a package "ntpdate" which depends on rdate and >provides a wrapper script, used to emulate ntpdate's main functionality >(set the system's clock) in terms of rdate and mark it as deprecated Isn't rdate what we tried

Bug#525428: ITP: profit -- structural alignment of multiple proteins

2009-04-24 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: profit Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : Andrew Martin , Graig T. Porter * URL : http://www.bioinf.org.uk/software/profit/ * License : non-free, non-redistributable Description : struct

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Freitag, 24. April 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > Adeodato Simó writes: > > > To an hypothetical person that would deeply care about not running > > non-free software, does that provide any real gain/benefit/improvement > > over running a kernel full of request_firmware() calls, and never > > i

file permissions on /etc/apt/trusted.gpg

2009-04-24 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello developers, I am implementing a package manager named 'cupt' for Debian for the aim to provide future APT replacement using the same archive infrasctucture avoiding however some hard-to-fix APT bugs. One of already present cupt features - checking of Release gpg signatures in every run, not

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Frank Küster
Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Finney writes: > >> Okay. So I take it then that you would be against separate packaging >> for Linux-Libre for Debian, and prefer instead to apply all its >> changes to Debian's Linux? > > I know this wasn't addressed to me, but I feel the urge to weigh in. > > I think

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Finney (24/04/2009): > Think of it as “defense in depth”, ensuring that there is more than > one barrier to undesirable elements. Having to enable contrib/non-free and to pull stuff from there being of course insufficient? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Is there a lawyer in the room?] JPEG-LS license issue

2009-04-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mathieu Malaterre (24/04/2009): > I am trying to understand some license issue I am having. Could > someone let me know if the following is compatible with a debian > package: You usually want -legal@ for that. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#525386: RFP: antico -- Antico is a window manager based on Qt

2009-04-24 Thread Rostislav Okulov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: antico Version: 0.1 Upstream Author: [Giuseppe Cigala ] URL: [http://www.antico.netsons.org/] License: [GPL] Description: [Antico

Re: [Is there a lawyer in the room?] JPEG-LS license issue

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > What I do not understand is implementation such as CharLS, which declare: ... > Ref: http://charls.codeplex.com/ On an unrelated note, please do not package this until upstream fixes the security issues that are mentioned on the website

[Is there a lawyer in the room?] JPEG-LS license issue

2009-04-24 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am trying to understand some license issue I am having. Could someone let me know if the following is compatible with a debian package: >From the [For License Of Certain Hewlett-Packard Patents Relating To Lossless and Near-Lossless Image Compression] page (*) The following stateme

Re: AVR32 port - config.{sub,guess} bug filing

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Gabor Gombas wrote: > Hmm, wouldn't it be better to look for the newest version instead of > "first one that's newer"? The above would work on a buildd where there is > nothing in $HOME or under /usr/local, but could break on user's machines > if they have a scrip

Re: AVR32 port - config.{sub,guess} bug filing

2009-04-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:37:01PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > cur_v=`echo "$timestamp" | sed s/-//g` > > for path in \ > "$HOME/.config/automake" \ > /usr/local/share/automake \ > /usr/local/share/misc \ > /usr/share/automake \ > /usr/share/misc \ > ; do > > if test -x "$path/co