Re: Of the use of native packages for programs not specific to Debian.

2009-09-16 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Wouter Verhelst writes: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:22:30AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: We have a lot of troubles when upstreams ship a debian/ directory in upstream tarball, thus I'll expect derivatives will have similar problems I don't see it that way. T

[DEP-5] Short license names (was: Re: DEP-5: query about possible inheritence of License:)

2009-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:48:04PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > Question on this (because the current draft does not look particularly > clear on that topic, at least to my own reading): is it true that > arbitrary keywords can be used in License fields to reference license > blocks exp

Re: responsibility for iptables bug

2009-09-16 Thread jidanni
You people are lucky you have me on board. Because I am a very simple minded person. All I know is I use some thing documented there on the iptables man page, and I get a warning. I noticed that warning because I happened to look in /var/log/syslog one day. The warning says something worse will

Re: Bug#546831: ITP: perdition-pbs -- POP / IMAP Before SMTP Tool

2009-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 16, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> People are still using pop/imap before smtp? OMG. > People are also still using 10 years old systems in production, so > anything that helps integrating them in modern infrastructure is > useful. If I remember right I've disabled pop/ima

Re: Bug#546831: ITP: perdition-pbs -- POP / IMAP Before SMTP Tool

2009-09-16 Thread Simon Horman
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:04:04PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Horms wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Horms > > > > > > * Package name: perdition-pbs > > Version : 1.0.0 > > Upstream Author : Simon Horman > > * URL : http://www.vergenet.ne

Bug#547006: ITP: libiterator-simple-perl -- Simple iterator and utilities

2009-09-16 Thread Dusty Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dusty Wilson * Package name: libiterator-simple-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Rintaro Ishizaki * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Iterator-Simple/ * License : Perl (GPL-1+|Artistic) Programming Lang: Perl D

Bug#546995: ITP: eog-plugins -- set of plugins for Eye of GNOME

2009-09-16 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort * Package name: eog-plugins Version : 2.28.0 Upstream Author : Lucas Rocha * URL : http://live.gnome.org/EyeOfGnome/Plugins * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C, Python Description : set

Bug#546991: ITP: python-texml -- Convert TeXML to LaTeX or ConTeXt

2009-09-16 Thread Neskie Manuel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neskie Manuel * Package name: python-texml Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Oleg Parashchenko * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/getfo/ * License : Personal (see below) Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#546941: ITP: libclass-accessor-children-perl -- Automated child-class/accessor generation

2009-09-16 Thread Dusty Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dusty Wilson * Package name: libclass-accessor-children-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Yusuke Kawasaki * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Accessor-Children/ * License : Perl (Artistic|GPL1+) Programming

Bug#546936: ITP: r-cran-igraph -- GNU R package for igraph

2009-09-16 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: r-cran-igraph Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Gabor Csardi * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/igraph/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: R Description : GNU R packa

Re: replacing libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev

2009-09-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:21:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13 2009, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > Both libreadline-dev (>= 6.0) and libreadline6-dev are now available > > in unstable and testing. If possible, please replace the > > libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadl

Re: Bug#546831: ITP: perdition-pbs -- POP / IMAP Before SMTP Tool

2009-09-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 16, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > People are still using pop/imap before smtp? OMG. People are also still using 10 years old systems in production, so anything that helps integrating them in modern infrastructure is useful. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: responsibility for iptables bug

2009-09-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 16, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > This bug should *NOT* be closed. Getting a deprecation warning for a simple > and > common use of iptables is a bug somewhere, either in iptables or the kernel. Sometimes life is just not how we would like it to be, and by accepting this you could save much ange

Re: Bug#546831: ITP: perdition-pbs -- POP / IMAP Before SMTP Tool

2009-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Horms wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Horms > > > * Package name: perdition-pbs > Version : 1.0.0 > Upstream Author : Simon Horman > * URL : http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/pbs.shtml > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C > D

Re: responsibility for iptables bug

2009-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 14, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > >> LB> You could file this a a wishlist bug report against the iptables >> LB> package, and see if the maintainer wish to add this file (or a larger >> LB> /etc/sysctl.d/iptables.conf with some sane defaults). > What makes you believe

Re: Of the use of native packages for programs not specific to Debian.

2009-09-16 Thread Jonathan Yu
I agree that debian/ files likely don't cause a "whole lot of trouble" to us (it should only be a line to remove it using debian/rules prior to building? but I'm not 100% sure on that). However, I don't think that it not being tremendously burdensome on us in Debian is sufficient justification to p

Bug#546919: ITP: python-pycuda -- module to access Nvidia‘s CUDA parallel computation API

2009-09-16 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko * Package name: python-pycuda Version : 0.93 Upstream Author : Andreas Kloeckner * URL : http://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++, Python Description : mo

Re: Bug#545949: who should cleanup /var/lib/update-rd.d ? should it be cleaned up at all?

2009-09-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I've just rescheduled piuparts testing for 233 failed packages in sid which were affected by #545949, which has been fixed now - thanks for that. No packages in squeeze were affected. regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#546895: ITP: libwww-freshbooks-api-perl -- Perl Interface to the Freshbooks API

2009-09-16 Thread Dusty Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dusty Wilson * Package name: libwww-freshbooks-api-perl Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Anthony Decena * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-FreshBooks-API/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Of the use of native packages for programs not specific to Debian.

2009-09-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:22:30AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >> We have a lot of troubles when upstreams ship a debian/ directory >> in upstream tarball, thus I'll expect derivatives will have similar >> problems > > I don't see it that way. > > The reason why w

Re: apt-get not working anymore

2009-09-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Klaus Ethgen writes: > Hi, > > Am Sa den 5. Sep 2009 um 20:06 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: >> % rmadison apt >>apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1 | etch-m68k | source, m68k >>apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1 | oldstable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, >> i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s