Bug#572029: ITP: pppd-sql -- pppd-sql provides a MySQL or PostgreSQL backend for CHAP/PAP pppd authentication

2010-02-28 Thread Micah Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Micah Anderson * Package name: pppd-sql Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Maik Broemme * URL : https://babelize.org/pppd-sql.php * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : pppd-sql provides a MySQL or Po

Re: klibc only initramfs

2010-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:26:48AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:05:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > This is not really a big deal in the case of d-i, since first, when > > things fail, they fail for everyone who uses the same image, and second, > > if the installe

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2010-02-28 Thread Ben Finney
Luk Claes writes: > There is currently discussion ongoing about how to move forward, > though due to the complex nature of the current situation (where also > lots of FUD etc is on the lists), it is being dealt in private. Nearly three months later, the issue remains: Python in Debian does not h

Bug#572016: ITP: liboauth-ruby -- A ruby library for implementing both OAuth clients and servers in

2010-02-28 Thread Will Daniels
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Will Daniels * Package name: liboauth-ruby Version : 0.3.6 Upstream Author : Pelle Braendgaard * URL : http://oauth.rubyforge.org * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : The OAuth Ruby Library This

Buildd.Net - to be shutdown soon

2010-02-28 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
Crossposting from my blog[0]: For over 6 years now I've been running Buildd.Net[1] as a service for additional information about Debian autobuilder network[2]. The reason for running Buildd.Net was simple: until then there was a web interface running on kullervo.debian.org, but generating the

Re: klibc only initramfs

2010-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:05:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Don't know, but I'm not sure that's a very good idea. The library > reduction as implemented by mklibs is a bit of a kludge IMO, which seems > to fail every so often for one of our architectures, because that > architecture's ABI us

Bug#571969: ITP: cifs-utils -- utilities for CIFS file systems

2010-02-28 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Samba Maintainers Package name: cifs-utils Version : 4.0rc1 Upstream Author : Jeff Layton and the Samba Team URL : http://www.samba.org/~jlayton/cifs-utils/ License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Descriptio

Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-02-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:06:37PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > Therefore I propose that we drop the requirement of a manual page if > these conditions are met: > * the program requires graphical interaction with the user, and is > not meant to be used from a script; >

Re: Double dependency problem with ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, etc.

2010-02-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 01 mars 2010 à 00:08 +0900, Osamu Aoki a écrit : > For python-gdata (2.0.7-1) which seems broken today also had: > > --\ Depends (4) > --- python > --- python (>= 2.5) | python-celementtree | python-elementtree > --- python-support (>= 0.90.0) > --- python2.4 (UNAVAILAB

Double dependency problem with ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, etc.

2010-02-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Since lintian complains about missing ${misc:Depends}, people are adding it to Depends: in debian/control. This is good thing but there could be complication. One example is http://bugs.debian.org/548282 This is causing double dependencies and creating uninstallable set of packages in some

Bug#571942: ITP: cmospwd -- decrypt BIOS passwords from CMOS

2010-02-28 Thread Luke Faraone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luke Faraone * Package name: cmospwd Version : 5.0 Upstream Author : Christophe GRENIER * URL : http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: C Description : decrypt BIOS passwords f

Re: Bug#571754: strftime("%c") crashes in (some) locations

2010-02-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Klaus Ethgen, le Sun 28 Feb 2010 14:41:27 +0100, a écrit : > Am So den 28. Feb 2010 um 14:24 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > > Yes, and I explained you why your code is wrong. > > A part, which was not related to the bug itself. The bug was not explained at all except the output of a buggy program :)

Re: Bug#571754: strftime("%c") crashes in (some) locations

2010-02-28 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am So den 28. Feb 2010 um 14:24 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > Yes, and I explained you why your code is wrong. A part, which was not related to the bug itself. > > Please do not try to find typos in places were no bug is and check the > > real bug sour

Re: Bug#571754: strftime("%c") crashes in (some) locations

2010-02-28 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:03:12PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Ah, and why is that bug closed? Did you ever try to compile the test > program? Did you ever try to reproduce the bug? Did you??? Yes, and I explained you why your code is wrong. Please provide a real example and I'll reopen the bug.

Re: Bug#571754: strftime("%c") crashes in (some) locations

2010-02-28 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ah, and why is that bug closed? Did you ever try to compile the test program? Did you ever try to reproduce the bug? Did you??? Please do not try to find typos in places were no bug is and check the real bug source (strftime and NOT localtime, which

Re: klibc only initramfs

2010-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:21:15PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:02:24PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > The reason would be size. I don't see anything else there. > > > For network based boots, specifically high performance cluster, the size > > can make a real

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:58:18PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > hello (6.6-1) unstable; urgency=low > > * New upstream release. >- Fixes a buffer overflow in excessively long greetings (CVE-2038-001) > > -- Simon McVittie Tue, April 1, 2038 09:00:00 + > > (I conject

Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-02-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-02-27 21:03:04 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > We are talking of programs that you will not have the idea to run with > the command line unless you know what they do. Programs that are usually > run through a graphical menu. They are sometimes found by shell completion. Moreover, before c

Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-02-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 03:30:49PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > The crux of your argument is that for many GUI programs, manpages > aren't as essential as other forms of documentation, and developer > time would be better spent doing making other improvements. I acknowledge this part of the probl