Bug#580303: ITP: ibus-table-cyrillic -- provides Transit, Translit Ukrainian, Russian Traditional, Yawerty input method on IBus-Table on IBus framework

2010-05-04 Thread Asias He
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asias He Owner: Asias He * Package name: ibus-table-cyrillic Version : 1.2.0.20100305 * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ibus/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Python Description : provides Transit, Translit Ukra

Bug#580302: ITP: ibus-table-xingma -- ibus-table-xingma provide structure tables for IBus-Table on IBus framework

2010-05-04 Thread Asias He
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asias He Owner: Asias He * Package name: ibus-table-xingma Version : 1.2.0.20100305 * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ibus/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Python Description : ibus-table-xingma provide structu

Re: Bug#580176: ITP: obdgpslogger -- Suite of tools to log OBDII and GPS data

2010-05-04 Thread Gary Briggs
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:05:39PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:39 -0700, Gary Briggs wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Gary Briggs > > > > * Package name: obdgpslogger > > * URL : http://icculus.org/obdgpsloger/ > wrong URL: htt

Bug#580301: ITP: ibus-table-yinma -- ibus-table-xingma provide structure tables for IBus-Table on IBus framework

2010-05-04 Thread Asias He
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asias He Owner: Asias He * Package name: ibus-table-yinma Version : 1.2.0.20100305 * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ibus/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Python Description : ibus-table-xingma provide structur

Re: perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles

2010-05-04 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On 4 May 2010 22:54, Niko Tyni wrote: > unlike earlier versions, perl 5.12.0-1 in experimental is configured with > the "use64bitint" and "uselongdouble" options on all architectures. I'm > looking for input on whether this is the right choice for sid. Sounds like a good idea to me. I had intend

Re: bindv6only again

2010-05-04 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 27/04/2010 13:43, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 27, Simon Huggins wrote: >> Anyway, is there a reason that #560238 isn't blocked by #560044 given it >> breaks that package or are you not bothered about breaking non-free >> software? > Nobody bothered to register this in the BTS, I did now. > I a

Bug#580276: ITP: liblingua-en-inflect-phrase-perl -- Inflect short English Phrases

2010-05-04 Thread Chris Butler
Package: wnpp Owner: Chris Butler Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: liblingua-en-inflect-phrase-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Rafael Kitover * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-EN

Bug#580275: ITP: liblingua-en-tagger-perl -- Part-of-speech tagger for English natural language processing.

2010-05-04 Thread Chris Butler
Package: wnpp Owner: Chris Butler Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: liblingua-en-tagger-perl Version : 0.15 Upstream Author : Aaron Coburn * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-EN-Tagger/ *

Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python

2010-05-04 Thread Filippo Rusconi
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 08:25:33PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:39:02PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I wonder who many people use the word "Coran" for Qur'an in English. If > > this is quite frequent, you might want insert this synonym somewhere in > > the descrip

Re: Bug#580221: ITP: python-libssh2 -- python-libssh2 is a python binding for libssh2 library.

2010-05-04 Thread Simon Josefsson
Frank Lin PIAT writes: > - > libssh2 is the thin library implementing client side of SSH2 protocol > as defined by Internet Drafts SECSH-TRANS, SECSH-USERAUTH, > SECSH-CONNECTION, SECSH-ARCH, SECSH-FILEXFER, SECSH-DHGEX, > SECSH-NUMBERS, and SECSH-PUBLICKEY > . > This boils down to the

Re: Bug#580221: ITP: python-libssh2 -- python-libssh2 is a python binding for libssh2 library.

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 22:40 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT writes: > > > > Note that the two first paragraph are a pristine copy of libssh2 > > description... the I18N teams should appreciate ;) > > On the other hand, I don't think the libssh2 description is particularly > useful

Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python

2010-05-04 Thread أحمد المحمودي
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:39:02PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 23:18 +0300, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > > * Package name: othman > > * License : Waqf Public License > > Description : electronic Quran browser > > > > Othman electronic Quran browser displays Qu

Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python

2010-05-04 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:39:02PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > I wonder who many people use the word "Coran" for Qur'an in English. If > this is quite frequent, you might want insert this synonym somewhere in > the description. In my experience, it's either "Qur'an" or "Koran." I think Gunnar

Re: Bug#579871: ITP: libnet-https-any-perl -- A perl module for HTTPS GET and POST using any available SSL module

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 15:25 -0700, Ivan Kohler wrote: > > * Package name: libnet-https-any-perl > Description : A perl module for HTTPS GET and POST using any available > SSL module Short description is too long. May be just: "Perl module for HTTPS GET and POST" > This is a simple w

Re: Bug#580176: ITP: obdgpslogger -- Suite of tools to log OBDII and GPS data

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:39 -0700, Gary Briggs wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Gary Briggs > > * Package name: obdgpslogger > * URL : http://icculus.org/obdgpsloger/ wrong URL: http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/ > Description : Suite of tools to log OBDII

Re: Bug#580221: ITP: python-libssh2 -- python-libssh2 is a python binding for libssh2 library.

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 15:47 +0200, fabien.dot.bouc...@gmail.com wrote: > > * Package name: python-libssh2 > Description : python-libssh2 is a python binding for libssh2 library. The short description should not contain the package name, so: "python binding for libssh2 library." > pyt

Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python

2010-05-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 23:18 +0300, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > * Package name: othman > * License : Waqf Public License > Description : electronic Quran browser > > Othman electronic Quran browser displays Quranic text in Othmani script style > as written under authority of Othman i

Re: Bug#579675: ITP: goban -- Goban screensaver / copyright issue

2010-05-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Frank Lin PIAT | The records are retrieved from [1], but the website mention: | « The databases on this site are a service to the Go Community:"The | databases have been compiled by Jan van Rongen and are his | copyright. They can be distributed freely, as long as this | copyrig

Re: pid file security

2010-05-04 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 07:02:23PM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > On Tuesday 04 May 2010 18:14:07 brian m. carlson wrote: > > Nevertheless, this could be a problem with other pids or on kfreebsd, > > where the kernel will happily kill init and cause a panic. > And the pid could still be set to som

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 04 mai 2010 à 10:31 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit : > Sorry I don't know what you're talking about. If you can explain it I'll try > to > look at the problem. It’s not a problem, it’s a disagreement over a design choice. When you do that: #include you’re able to use g

Re: pid file security

2010-05-04 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 18:14:07 brian m. carlson wrote: > Nevertheless, this could be a problem with other pids or on kfreebsd, > where the kernel will happily kill init and cause a panic. And the pid could still be set to something else than 1 and bring down something important. -- Salvo Tomase

Re: pid file security

2010-05-04 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:25:25AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Take a look in /var/run. Find a pid file that is owned by a non-root > user. Now, look at the corresponding init script. What does it stop if > that non-root user edited the pid file to contain '1'? On Linux, nothing. From kill(2): T

RFC: ubuntudiff.debian.net

2010-05-04 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Hi all, Sometimes, I need to see what happens to my packages in Ubuntu. To see quickly the changes of a given package, I open its PTS page, search for the Ubuntu box, and then click on "Patches…". I find this really painful and not really helpful when you want to inspect a set of packages (but I

Re: perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles

2010-05-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Niko Tyni: > The benefits are obviously improved numeric range and precision. The > downside is presumably increased memory usage. I have no measurement > data on this; suggestions on suitable tests would be welcome. I have run into several incompatibilities between i386 and amd64 due to differ

Bug#580221: ITP: python-libssh2 -- python-libssh2 is a python binding for libssh2 library.

2010-05-04 Thread fabien . dot . boucher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: fabien.dot.bouc...@gmail.com * Package name: python-libssh2 Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Wallix * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylibssh2/1.0.0 * License : (LGPL, BSD) Programming Lang: (C, Python) Descripti

perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles

2010-05-04 Thread Niko Tyni
(sent to -devel and -perl; followups to -devel only, please) Hi, unlike earlier versions, perl 5.12.0-1 in experimental is configured with the "use64bitint" and "uselongdouble" options on all architectures. I'm looking for input on whether this is the right choice for sid. For reference, quoting

Bug#580216: ITP: libhtml-formhandler-perl -- Form handler written in Moose

2010-05-04 Thread Antony Gelberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antony Gelberg Owner: Antony Gelberg Package name: libhtml-formhandler-perl Version : 0.31002 Upstream Author : Gerda Shank et al URL : http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?HTML::FormHandler License : GPL / Artistic (as

Re: pid file security

2010-05-04 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-05-04, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > On Tuesday 04 May 2010 08:25:25 Joey Hess wrote: >> Take a look in /var/run. Find a pid file that is owned by a non-root >> user. Now, look at the corresponding init script. What does it stop if >> that non-root user edited the pid file to contain '1'? > The

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Paul Wise | On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > | And GNOME developers insistance (so applications developers may | > | blindly include gtk+2.0.pc and get all the stack). | > | > Yes, historical baggage, basically. | | So this is being fixed for GTK+ 3.0? I don't b

Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python

2010-05-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:24:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Without getting deeper in the licensing of Othman itself, would you > consider the text of the Coran itself to be DFSG-free? I _think_ that > any religious text can only be distributed verbatim, not modified in > any way - That is compl

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-04 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 03/05/10 10:46, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Mikhail Gusarov > | And GNOME developers insistance (so applications developers may > | blindly include gtk+2.0.pc and get all the stack). > > Yes, historical baggage, basically. Sorry I don't know what you're talking about. If you can explain it I'

Re: pid file security

2010-05-04 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 08:25:25 Joey Hess wrote: > Take a look in /var/run. Find a pid file that is owned by a non-root > user. Now, look at the corresponding init script. What does it stop if > that non-root user edited the pid file to contain '1'? The fact that they are not owned by root doesn't

Re: Proposed changes to the Debian Machine Usage Policy (DMUP)

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 04 May 2010, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Florian Weimer said: > > * Martin Zobel-Helas: > > > > >Using Debian machines for reading mail is OK, please > > >choose a lightly loaded machine [ie not master]. We do not > > > > master is n

Re: pid file security

2010-05-04 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit : > And you usually need root access for invoke-rc.d or /etc/init.d scripts > (unless you have some kind of specific sudo permissions for that). So > you might be able to kill other process as well. I guess one (be it a human operator or a monit-like daemon) can be easily