Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they > will not be supported to the degree that ordinary kernel packages are. I can't see any Xen kernel in Squeeze with support for Xen. Am I blind? I don't see the

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more > > secure > > then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. > > I haven't heard this claim before, do you have any referen

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May wrote: > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more > secure > then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. I haven't heard this claim before, do you have any references to support this? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:01:40PM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> 2) I believe KVM needs CPU support, and this is not yet available on all >> modern computers. > > It does require virtualisation extensions, but most x86 processors sold in > the la

Bug#563459: ITP: libtest-module-used-perl -- module for testing a module is used

2010-01-02 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-module-used-perl Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Author : Takuya Tsuchida * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Module-Used

Bug#563458: ITP: libmousex-types-perl -- Mouse extension to organise types in libraries

2010-01-02 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmousex-types-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Kazuhiro Osawa * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MouseX-Types/ * Licens

Bug in version tracking resolved

2010-01-02 Thread Don Armstrong
There was a bug in getting the version tracking information from DAK to the BTS, which resulted in some bugs erroneously being marked as absent when they were actually present in a particular distribution, and possibly some RC-buggy packages incorrectly transitioning to testing when they should hav

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:01:40PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > I have heard rumours that Xen is not going to be supported on Squeeze in > favour > of KVM. True or False? I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they will not be supported to the degree that ordi

Bug#563447: ITP: puckman -- The classic pacman game

2010-01-02 Thread Julien Odent
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Odent * Package name: puckman Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Julien Odent * URL : http://julien.odent.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : The classic pacman game Eat all the candies wh

Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have heard rumours that Xen is not going to be supported on Squeeze in favour of KVM. True or False? The reason I am concerned is: 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more secure then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. 2) I believe KVM needs CPU support, and this i

Bug#563422: ITP: suricata -- Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Tool

2010-01-02 Thread Pierre Chifflier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflier * Package name: suricata Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Open Information Security Foundation Team * URL : http://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2010-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:06:01PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 10:29:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:33:44PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > Using .local in own environments sadly clashes with the (I think now I see ... servicing LAN wit

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Banck
Vincent, On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:53:30PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-12-31 14:34:34 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Uh, no. That statement implies nothing of the sort; identification is not > > necessarily unique. > > I suggest that you look in a dictionary. Russ already said he w

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2010-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 10:29:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:33:44PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Using .local in own environments sadly clashes with the (I think now > > installed by default) mDNS namespace for locally-resolvable hostnames. > > But it somehow make

Bug#563374: ITP: ibus-table-rustrad -- traditional Russian input method based on table engine of ibus

2010-01-02 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: ibus-table-rustrad Version : 1.2.0.20090907 Upstream Author : Caius "kaio" Chance * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ibus * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: N/A Description : traditional

Bug#563368: ITP: gwrite -- GTK+ based simple HTML5 editor

2010-01-02 Thread Aron Xu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: gwrite Version: 0.1.1 Upstream Author: Jiahua Huang URL: http://code.google.com/p/gwrite/ License: LGPL v3+ Description: gWrite

Bug#563367: ITP: python-jswebkit -- WebKit/JavaScriptCore Python bindings

2010-01-02 Thread Aron Xu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: python-jswebkit Version: 0.0.1 Upstream Author: Jiahua Huang URL: http://code.google.com/p/gwrite/ License: LGPL v3+ Description