Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:00:19AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Lucas Nussbaum > wrote: > > > However, what could be done is to rewrite DDPO in a more "modern" way, > > leveraging UDD (as DDPO-by-mail does). Since almost all the data is > > already in UDD, it's main

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:15:36PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > The main objection is that gnome/kde maintainers do not want to see > all installed applications in their FreeDesktop menu. > ... > Personally, I prefer the Debian menu because I can find here all > software on my machine. I use

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > However, what could be done is to rewrite DDPO in a more "modern" way, > leveraging UDD (as DDPO-by-mail does). Since almost all the data is > already in UDD, it's mainly a matter of doing the web frontend, and it > would then be possible,

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

On 14/02/2010 10:44, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Personally, I believe this is a good idea, as the current situation with two partly integrated menu systems is confusing for both maintainers and users. For what I remember, the problem is not technical (the format of entry menu). As said before,

Re: 'gtk+extra3' uploaded to mentors.debian.net

Thank you Peter, it is always a relief and a pleasure to hear that a package you maintain may be useful! Best regards, Georges. Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : > > [Georges Khaznadar] > > As my concern is to maintain the package ktechlab, I see no > > disadvantage if gtkextra is

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:53:26 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 11:00 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > BTW, will users think that the current warning ("possible SYN flooding > > on port %d. Sending cookies") always indicates an attack? Hopefully > > not. > > I'm sure non

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 11:00 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > BTW, will users think that the current warning ("possible SYN flooding > on port %d. Sending cookies") always indicates an attack? Hopefully > not. I'm sure non sysadmins will be confused by it- but they probably don't look at dmesg anyh

Re: 'gtk+extra3' uploaded to mentors.debian.net

[Georges Khaznadar] > As my concern is to maintain the package ktechlab, I see no > disadvantage if gtkextra is removed from Debian. The main question > for me is how to make ktechlab usable with the minimum trouble. Very good to hear that you are working on making sure ktechlab will stay in Debi

Re: 'gtk+extra3' uploaded to mentors.debian.net

Hello Neil, I understand your sadness: making something just compilable from the sources of gtk+extra took me a lot of efforts, mainly due to the lack of upstream development for too long a time. I agree with you to say that those packages are in a very bad state. However they are still free sof

Re: Possible problems in your Debian packages

On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 19:50 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > - Forwarded message from DDPOMail robot - > > From: DDPOMail robot > To: Debian-Med Packaging Team > Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:08:13 + > Subject: Possible problems in your Debian packages > > === phylip: > = No migration to

Re: JPEG 8 transition

Bill Allombert wrote: > Naming the package libjpeg8-dev allowed me to upload it, get it built and > tested, before it started to provide libjpeg-dev. Thats what experimental is for. Other developers manage to ask people to test newlibraries in experimental, so I fail to understand why you can't d

Re: Possible problems in your Debian packages

- Forwarded message from DDPOMail robot - From: DDPOMail robot To: Debian-Med Packaging Team Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:08:13 + Subject: Possible problems in your Debian packages === phylip: = No migration to testing for 155 days. See

Re: 'gtk+extra3' uploaded to mentors.debian.net

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:37:38 +0100 (CET) "mentors.debian.net" wrote: > The upload of the package 'gtk+extra3' to mentors.debian.net was > successful. URL of your package is: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gtk+extra3 > > Uploaded version: 3.0.0-0.1 > Package maintainer: Bradley Be

Re: JPEG 8 transition

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 04:09:18PM +0100, sean finney wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:18:28AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > The first step is to fix packages that Depend on 'libjpeg62-dev'. They > > should > > Depend on 'libjpeg-dev' instead. Please do not make them Depend on > > 'libjpeg8

Re: JPEG 8 transition

On 2010-02-14 16:09 +0100, sean finney wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:18:28AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: >> The first step is to fix packages that Depend on 'libjpeg62-dev'. They >> should >> Depend on 'libjpeg-dev' instead. Please do not make them Depend on >> 'libjpeg8-dev', or 'libjpeg

Re: initial packages with multiarch paths

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 at 14:08:07 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > FWIW, it was an unintended consequence of the wording of the policy change > that static libs and .so symlinks are permitted in the multiarch dirs at > this point As Goswin pointed out in an earlier thread, in the general case (librari

Re: JPEG 8 transition

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:18:28AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > The first step is to fix packages that Depend on 'libjpeg62-dev'. They should > Depend on 'libjpeg-dev' instead. Please do not make them Depend on > 'libjpeg8-dev', or 'libjpeg-dev|libjpeg62-dev' or 'libjpeg-dev|libjpeg8-dev' > or

Bug#569819: ITP: liferay-portal -- Java all-in-one enterprise portal

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Damien Raude-Morvan" * Package name: liferay-portal Version : 6.0.0 Upstream Author : Liferay Inc. * URL : http://www.liferay.com/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description : Java all-in-one enterprise p

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 02:57:45PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 13/02/10 at 21:09 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:46:31PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > But we are constantly wondering where we should go from there. Should we > > > add more data (like the RC bugs i

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

On 13/02/10 at 21:09 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:46:31PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > But we are constantly wondering where we should go from there. Should we > > add more data (like the RC bugs in stable and the unfixed security > > issues)? Or should we instead try

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

On 13/02/10 at 21:21 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It would be nice to have a web version of it so that I can quickly check > that I did not miss something important. It could also be useful in MIA/QA > to see how many problems someone has left accumulating. On 14/02/10 at 08:56 +0800, Paul Wise

Bug#569813: dh-kpatches: Can't fulfill its original purpose anymore (kernel-package dropped --added-patches)

Package: dh-kpatches Version: 0.99.36 Severity: serious Hi, according to the Description, the purpose of dh-kpatches is to produce patches to be automatically usable by kernel-package: The dh_installkpatches script pro

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

* Petter Reinholdtsen [100214 10:45]: > If we are to believe > http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/MenuMigrationToXDG >, > it is possible to migrate from Debian menu files to XDG desktop files > and still get working and useful menus for the following window > managers: WindowMaker, fvwm

Re: JPEG 8 transition

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:27:12AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Bill, > > Bill Allombert [2010-02-14 10:18 +0100]: > > The first step is to fix packages that Depend on 'libjpeg62-dev'. They > > should > > Depend on 'libjpeg-dev' instead. Please do not make them Depend on > > 'libjpeg8-dev',

Re: JPEG 8 transition

Hi, On 14/02/10 10:18, Bill Allombert wrote: > The first step is to fix packages that Depend on 'libjpeg62-dev'. They should > Depend on 'libjpeg-dev' instead. Please do not make them Depend on > 'libjpeg8-dev', or 'libjpeg-dev|libjpeg62-dev' or 'libjpeg-dev|libjpeg8-dev' > or > other combinaiso

Re: JPEG 8 transition

Hello Bill, Bill Allombert [2010-02-14 10:18 +0100]: > The first step is to fix packages that Depend on 'libjpeg62-dev'. They should > Depend on 'libjpeg-dev' instead. Please do not make them Depend on > 'libjpeg8-dev', or 'libjpeg-dev|libjpeg62-dev' or 'libjpeg-dev|libjpeg8-dev' > or > other co

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

* Peter Palfrader: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Craig Small: >> >> > While initially skeptical, I can see that under high TCP loads having >> > some sort of connection is better than having no connection. Connections >> > with large windows will be dropped, but they would b

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

[Frank Küster] > By the way, one thing you'll learn is to use terms that everyone > understands without problems, and that not everyone is using a > "Desktop envirnoment". In my window manager, there's only one menu, > and that's the Debian one. If we are to believe http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/D