Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-20 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <874optd4jd@benfinney.id.au> you wrote: > If the bug then needs to be forwarded upstream, that facility is also > there, as is severity ?wishlist? and, in extremis, the ?wontfix? tag. And that checking needs to be manually. A lot of man page nitpicking is distribution specific examp

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Holger Levsen dijo [Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:16:07PM +0200]: > > There are many false positives in that list. For example, of the first > > five packages I checked, four of them (anki, audacious-plugins, avogadro, > > babiloo) do not leave any files themselves, but are affected by indirect > > depe

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 12.10.2009 15:25, Wim De Smet wrote: Hi, On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Gabor Gombas: - start advertising that openjdk/icedtea is now supposed to be usable, Note that the non-applet stuff has been quite usable for a while. Even the openjdk-6 in lenny is not too

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Frank Lin PIAT writes: > A. We could have a different work-flow for (non)-native package: > - For non-native package, we could instruct people to submit the >diff-file to the upstream maintainer. Surely a big part of the job of a Debian package maintainer is to be an interface between upstr

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-20 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Thu, 08.10.2009 at 11:44:21 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > A few of us have been discussing the removal of sun-java6. It is hmmm... are we really talking about sun-java_6_ and not sun-java_5_? When I look at Sun's site, I find that Java 6 is the most current offering they have: htt

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 07:17 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I have written a small script to make it easy to submit manpage > improvements (it's attached). > I believe that it much more effective to submit a patch, rather than > explaining what needs to be improved. The tool works like quilt... [

Bug#551809: ITP: stressapptest -- stress test application for simulating high load situations

2009-10-20 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop * Package name: stressapptest Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Nick Sanders + Rapahel Menderico (Google Inc) * URL : http://code.google.com/p/stressapptest/ * License : Apache Programming Lang: C++ De

Re: Proposed mass prototypejs bug filing for multiple security issues

2009-10-20 Thread Charlie Smotherman
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 20:43 -0400, Michael S Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > > The prototypejs script has been found to be vulnerable to a couple > security issues [0],[1]. This script is embedded in about 32 other > packages and I would like to file bugs against all of those that are > affected. Since th

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:51:20AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:54:47 +0100 > Vincent Sanders wrote: > > A constructive discussion was held about the outstanding firmware > > issues, how the team addresses them and how we might work with upstream > > to address our DSFG iss

Changes to libc affecting name resolution in chroots?

2009-10-20 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Hi, One of my development sid chroots has mysteriously been unable to download apt lists since around the time of the last upgrade, which I noticed upgraded libc6. My best guess at this point is that something related to this upgrade has broken some forms of name resolution, although not complete

Bug#551767: ITP: libset-tiny-perl -- Simple sets of strings Perl Module

2009-10-20 Thread dwilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: dwil...@unixdaemon.net * Package name: libset-tiny-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Stanis Trendelenburg * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Set-Tiny/ * License : GPL, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:54:47 +0100 Vincent Sanders wrote: > A constructive discussion was held about the outstanding firmware > issues, how the team addresses them and how we might work with upstream > to address our DSFG issues with kernel sources. By chance, did any of that discussion touch on

Re: Something like Pre-Depends for Suggests

2009-10-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 20 octobre 2009 à 14:31 +0200, Vincent Danjean a écrit : > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > A possible solution to this kind of issue is to create a package > > available-mysql-server, which Depends: mysql-server | > > dummy-mysql-server. The dummy-mysql-server could simply drop a note > > ind

Bug#469906: Can I take care of it?

2009-10-20 Thread Alexander Gerasiov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Gerasiov I've took a look at Philippe's work. It really looks hard-hacked inside. It's also outdated a lot. So I rewrite package based on scrapbook package. Here it is: http://vice.gq.net.ru/staff/flashblock It nobody raise against, I'd like to m

Re: Something like Pre-Depends for Suggests

2009-10-20 Thread Vincent Danjean
Josselin Mouette wrote: > A possible solution to this kind of issue is to create a package > available-mysql-server, which Depends: mysql-server | > dummy-mysql-server. The dummy-mysql-server could simply drop a note > indicating that you need to configure the remote server. Not very simple > for t

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Stefano, On Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 08:14:12PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Reasoning: "a piuparts clean archive" is a release-goal for squeeze (and > > was for lenny) and this is prohibited per debian-policy. As the impact of > > the b

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 08:14:12PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Reasoning: "a piuparts clean archive" is a release-goal for squeeze (and was > for lenny) and this is prohibited per debian-policy. As the impact of the > bugs ain't that high (except that we break our quality promise with it and >

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 19. Oktober 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: > I'd like to file bugs with the severity "important" against all packages > leaving owned and unowned files after purge. > > Reasoning: "a piuparts clean archive" is a release-goal for squeeze (and > was for lenny) and this is prohibited per d

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > This seem like the old and fixed issue with util-linux depending on > install-info. Are you working with old mirrors? IME this bug is not fixed. > > I am leaning towards thinking this is a false positive. > The issue was re

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Can you point to me what files vm is leaving behind? I'll > certainly fix the bug once it is pointed out to me. Another false positive (for yet another reason..). You can find all your packages at http://piuparts.debian.org/

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > So it seems piuparts needs to get fixed to take into account packages > being removed due to Conflcits. And probably should purge those > packages which got removed, or reinstall them at the end of the run. Thanks for pointing this out, ad

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009, Nicholas Breen wrote: > There are many false positives in that list. For example, of the first > five packages I checked, four of them (anki, audacious-plugins, avogadro, > babiloo) do not leave any files themselves, but are affected by indirect > dependencies o

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 19. Oktober 2009, Julien Cristau wrote: > Please hold off on the xfonts-* ones. These are most likely due to a > bug in xfonts-utils, so don't need to have individual bugs. Ok, will do. But http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/x/xfonts-utils.html was tested successfully?! rega

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 19 octobre 2009 à 22:54 +0100, Vincent Sanders a écrit : > IDE to libata decision > -- > > Debian will perform this transition using the udev packages in a > similar way to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu developers have offered their > assistance with this transition. When is th

Re: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

2009-10-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Manoj Srivastava] > I can't seem to run piuparts locally here, since it fails trying > to chroot with this cryptic error message while trying to install, for > some reason, debfoster: [...] > | WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. > | This should NOT be done unl

Re: Something like Pre-Depends for Suggests

2009-10-20 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:30:05 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen napsal(a): > Get dbconfig-common fixed to allow you to configure a database that's > not yet set up. I guess you can do this by asking the questions, then > having a trigger fire when the database is configured? This probably would not all

Re: Something like Pre-Depends for Suggests

2009-10-20 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:09:17 +0200 Josselin Mouette napsal(a): > Pre-Depends would certainly not solve the issue. Actually, a simple > Depends would be enough, since the server would be started by > mysql-server.postinst, always executed before phpmyadmin.postinst. > > Furthermore, it is a