Work-needing packages report for Oct 23, 2009

2009-10-22 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 603 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 150 (new: 4) Total number of packages request

Bug#551992: general: stopping squeeze chroot shuts system

2009-10-22 Thread Bryan Donlan
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:01 PM, wrote: > All, > very sorry for the confusion about stopping the chroot. > I think the easiest way is to include the script we use to 'start' > and 'stop' chroots. > > Some notes; > - I haven't written the script, so any geniality or stupidity isn't mine > - For ma

Bug#551992: general: stopping squeeze chroot shuts system

2009-10-22 Thread martin
All, very sorry for the confusion about stopping the chroot. I think the easiest way is to include the script we use to 'start' and 'stop' chroots. Some notes; - I haven't written the script, so any geniality or stupidity isn't mine - For managing different chrooted environments it works really gr

Bug#551992: general: stopping squeeze chroot shuts system

2009-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Burrows writes: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:16:39PM +0200, Martin Boer > was heard to say: >> On this system I installed a squeeze chroot using the following command: >> >> debootstrap squeeze /chroot/squeeze-x64-lighttpd-chroot >> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ >> >> This works as ex

Re: Submitting bugs for manpage improvements

2009-10-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:02:26AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > I have received some feedback from a developer who is concerned about > having to deal with the contribution from "nitpickers". I must admit > that I am concern with bikeshedding and nitpicking too. I fail to see how this concern sh

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
Toni Mueller wrote: > > 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_? sun-java5 is already gone. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert

Bug#552015: ITP: libcrypt-gcrypt-perl -- Perl interface to the GNU Cryptographic library

2009-10-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor * Package name: libcrypt-gcrypt-perl Version : 1.21 Upstream Author : Alessandro Ranellucci * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-GCrypt/ * License : Same terms as Perl itself Programming Lang:

Bug#551992: general: stopping squeeze chroot shuts system

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Package: general > Severity: important > > > On this system I installed a squeeze chroot using the following command: > > debootstrap squeeze /chroot/squeeze-x64-lighttpd-chroot > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ > > This works as expected but when I stop the chroot, the system shuts as well. >

Re: pdns (PowerDNS): need new (co)maintainer

2009-10-22 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christoph Haas (h...@debian.org): > There are a few bug reports open but most of them are already forwarded to > the upstream developer. The package might just need some love by uploading > updated debconf translations, tidying up the init.d script etc. So it's not > in a terribly bad shap

Bug#551992: general: stopping squeeze chroot shuts system

2009-10-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Martin, thanks for your bugreport! On Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009, Martin Boer wrote: > This works as expected but when I stop the chroot, the system shuts as > well. This is highly unexpected and somewhat unpleasant behaviour. How do you stop the chroot? regards, Holger signatur

Bug#551992: general: stopping squeeze chroot shuts system

2009-10-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:16:39PM +0200, Martin Boer was heard to say: > On this system I installed a squeeze chroot using the following command: > > debootstrap squeeze /chroot/squeeze-x64-lighttpd-chroot > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ > > This works as expected but when I stop the chroot,

Re: Changes to libc affecting name resolution in chroots?

2009-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Holger Levsen writes: > Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Check the BTS. There was something about it. > > I've read the first 20 bugs but then got tired of it... :-( Dude, you start from the back. :) > Seriously though, the fix is at > http://lists.de

Bug#552000: ITP: rawtherapee -- A free RAW converter and digital photo processing software

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Rinn
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: rawtherapee Version: 2.4.1 Upstream Author: Gábor Horváth URL: http://rawtherapee.com License: will be GPL in the future Description: A free RAW converter and digital photo

Re: Changes to libc affecting name resolution in chroots?

2009-10-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Check the BTS. There was something about it. I've read the first 20 bugs but then got tired of it... :-( Seriously though, the fix is at http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2009/10/msg00157.html and shall be uploaded eithe

Re: Changes to libc affecting name resolution in chroots?

2009-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Holger Levsen writes: > Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> libnss-mdns or something missing? > > (maybe,) why is it suddenly required? > > > regards, > Holger Check the BTS. There was something about it. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Bug#551992: general: stopping squeeze chroot shuts system

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Boer
Package: general Severity: important On this system I installed a squeeze chroot using the following command: debootstrap squeeze /chroot/squeeze-x64-lighttpd-chroot http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ This works as expected but when I stop the chroot, the system shuts as well. This is highly unexpe

Bug#551987: ITP: python-stompy -- Implementation of the STOMP protocol in Python

2009-10-22 Thread David Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Watson X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-stompy Version : 0.1.5 Upstream Author : Benjamin W. Smith * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stompy * License : BSD Programming Lang: Py

Bug#551985: ITP: python-dingus -- A record-then-assert mocking library

2009-10-22 Thread David Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Watson X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-dingus Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Gary Bernhardt * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dingus * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python

pdns (PowerDNS): need new (co)maintainer

2009-10-22 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, everyone... Matthijs Mohlmann and me are the current maintainers of the "pdns" package. It is a (DNS) name server software that can use different database backends like MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite and is used by large organisations with many domains to maintain their DNS zones. In addition the

Re: Changes to libc affecting name resolution in chroots?

2009-10-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > libnss-mdns or something missing? (maybe,) why is it suddenly required? regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#551982: ITP: python-carrot -- An AMQP messaging queue framework

2009-10-22 Thread David Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Watson X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-carrot Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Ask Solem * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/carrot * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python D

Re: Something like Pre-Depends for Suggests

2009-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > 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-serv

Re: Changes to libc affecting name resolution in chroots?

2009-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Holger Levsen writes: > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009, Julien Cristau wrote: >> Random guess, your chroot is missing /etc/hosts? (#551760) > > Yes, /etc/hosts is not there, just like debootstap created it. > > > regards, > Holger libnss-mdns or something missing? MfG Goswi

Bug#551978: ITP: vtkedge -- Library of advanced visualization and data processing techniques

2009-10-22 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: vtkedge Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Kitware, Inc. * URL : http://www.vtkedge.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Library of advanced visualization and