Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 26 May 2010 23:44:52 +0200 Iustin Pop wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:34:32PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > I think the announcement is wrong, we cannot ever expect every > > single package to be touched for any single change. We don't even > > do that when libc changes SONAME - tha

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 27 May 2010 00:16:01 +0200 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Putting the list back into the loop. > On 26/05/10 23:34, Neil Williams wrote: > > Declaring a format mandates touching every single package because > > the vast majority of packages are currently dpkg source format 1.0 > > ONLY be

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-05-26, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2010, Philipp Kern wrote: >> ETOPIC. You have to specify the format in the package. Nowhere they >> write that 1.0 will disappear. And they say "in the long term" too, so >> "debian/source/format" should be propagating naturally into mo

Meaning of the different “ format” fields and files.

2010-05-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I am getting confused by the different meanings of the Format fields and the format file in the Debian source packages and their accompanying files. [In the paragraphs below, I name the files according to Policy 3.8.4 §5] * In Debian changes files, Format is currently 1.8; I suppose t

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Vojta, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:47:14 +, a écrit : > In article , > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > >Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything > >which only LILO can do, I recommend you start complaining on the > >Syslinux and the Grub mailing lists. I suppose it w

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Scott Kitterman
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: >Scott Kitterman kitterman.com> writes: > >> >> Additionally, Ubuntu ships a distro specific binary called dovecot-postfix >> that implements part of this >> vision already. We'd love to see it in Debian if the dovecot maintainer is >> interested. >> > >The dovec

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Jaldhar H . Vyas
Scott Kitterman kitterman.com> writes: > > Additionally, Ubuntu ships a distro specific binary called dovecot-postfix > that implements part of this > vision already. We'd love to see it in Debian if the dovecot maintainer is > interested. > The dovecot maintainer might be interested if so

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread Paul Vojta
In article , Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything >which only LILO can do, I recommend you start complaining on the >Syslinux and the Grub mailing lists. I suppose it will be heard. Does either grub2 or syslinux allow for single-key boo

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Scott Kitterman
"Roberto C. Sánchez" wrote: >On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:42:50PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: >> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:58:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> > Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: >> > > I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working, >> > > I'm installing dh

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2010, Philipp Kern wrote: > ETOPIC. You have to specify the format in the package. Nowhere they write > that 1.0 will disappear. And they say "in the long term" too, so > "debian/source/format" should be propagating naturally into most of the > packages due to the linti

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Tue, 25 May 2010 16:43:21 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek : > I am not willing to diverge from upstream on this as this > would mean admins coming from other systems may get an unpleasant > surprise when they find that Debian gives a more relaxed umask than > they were expecting in some corner cas

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Tollef Fog Heen said: > The problem is when you then run addgroup foo, every user created > after that will not be considered to be a UPG user. Perhaps addgroup > shouldn't use the same gid range as what we are using for users, to > make this problem at least smaller,

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Banck said: > In light of UPG, we might want to revisit the default here as well, > maybe it makes sense to have your $HOME not world-readable be the > default? That is already trivailly settable and not a debate likely to bring much new to the table on either

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Roger Leigh said: > How will adduser cope with group addition; does it skip UIDs until > it finds an unused unique UID/GID pair? That certainly is the only approach that makes sense - it has the benefit of simplicity, if not elegance. Cheers, --

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Wed, 26 May 2010 23:26:37 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen: > Perhaps addgroup > shouldn't use the same gid range as what we are using for users, to > make this problem at least smaller, if not make it go away. Hm, that may be another option to allign UIDs and GIDs, you'd create split max. UID/GID amounts t

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Wed, 26 May 2010 14:25:58 +0200 schrieb Michael Banck : > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:36:53AM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > > Am Tue, 25 May 2010 22:47:51 +0200 > > schrieb Harald Braumann : > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:09:35PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > > > > The path into your home dire

GID/UID algorithm? (Re: The story behind UPG and umask.)

2010-05-26 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Wed, 26 May 2010 18:05:32 +0100 schrieb Roger Leigh : > How will adduser cope with group addition; does it skip UIDs until > it finds an unused unique UID/GID pair? Maybe just skip taken GIDs by default? (every user has one, less gap more likely to be usable for a user account), starting +1 f

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Wed, 26 May 2010 18:05:32 +0100 schrieb Roger Leigh : > What, exactly, does comparing the UID and GID get you? I.e. what > is is protecting you against? If you're using a system such as > Debian, which has created a group by the same name for many years, > you're in no danger AFAIU it is mea

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Iustin Pop
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:34:32PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 22:59:25 +0200 > Iustin Pop wrote: > > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:43:36PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > On 05/24/2010 11:05 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > * The plan concerning dpkg-source and the def

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Michael Banck | On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:58:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: | > Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: | > > I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working, | > > I'm installing dhelp and ... magic, magic ... it extends the running | > > web-server to serve the

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 26 May 2010 22:59:25 +0200 Iustin Pop wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:43:36PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > On 05/24/2010 11:05 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > * The plan concerning dpkg-source and the default source format > > > has been clarified. In the long term, the default

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] "C. Gatzemeier" | So yes, you can setup UPGs with UID!=GID, but then you'll also | have to set the umask manually to make it work (globally or in gecos or | ldap etc.). | | The UID==GID and username==groupname restriction of the | pam_umask's "usergroups" option ensures that the umask is only

Re: SRWare Iron: Chromium without the data-mining

2010-05-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Josselin Mouette | Le samedi 22 mai 2010 à 08:43 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : | > | I don't see what you mean by "iffy" tabbed browsing, what's wrong with | > | tabbed browsing in Epiphany? | > | > For me, at least two things: | > | > - C-TAB/C-S-TAB doesn't work for switching tabs, I ha

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:43:36PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 05/24/2010 11:05 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The versions 1.15.6 and 1.15.7 of dpkg introduced several important changes. > > Let's skim over them: > [...] > > * dpkg-dev provides a new script called dpkg-build

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Iustin Pop
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:43:36PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 05/24/2010 11:05 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > * The plan concerning dpkg-source and the default source format has been > > clarified. In the long term, the default format will disappear and > > debian/source/format will

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-05-26, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> * The plan concerning dpkg-source and the default source format has been >> clarified. In the long term, the default format will disappear and >> debian/source/format will become mandatory. The lintian tag >> missing-debian-source-format[2] will

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/24/2010 11:05 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > The versions 1.15.6 and 1.15.7 of dpkg introduced several important changes. > Let's skim over them: [...] > * dpkg-dev provides a new script called dpkg-buildflags that packages > should use in debian/rules to retrieve the default

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2010 02:29 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: [snip] Anyway, postfix is NOT the only package that we shall consider modifying here. As per my original post, there's loads of other components that are to configure as well. The question is: is there a will to do this job by other maintainers. I am

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/26/2010 11:42 AM, Michael Banck wrote: >> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:58:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working, I'm installing dhelp and ... magic, magic ... it ext

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Andreas Hemel
Thomas: Sorry for the private mail, I hit the wrong reply button. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:58:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > > I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working, > > I'm installing dhelp and ... magic, magic ... it extends t

Re: Bug#583257: ITP: haskell-gnomevfs -- Binding to the GNOME Virtual File System library

2010-05-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 14:59:41 -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: > Hi Brian. > > Excerpts from brian m. carlson's message of Qua Mai 26 14:53:48 -0300 2010: > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:07:22PM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > >

Bug#583272: ITP: haskell-gtkglext -- Binding to the GTK+ OpenGL Extension

2010-05-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: haskell-gtkglext Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Author : Duncan Coutts * URL : http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Haskell Description :

Re: extlinux

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/26/2010 10:45 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > That's the single feature I misseded. Thanks. welcome. > Although it would be even better if it was possible to include some > fixed part in it, while keeping most of it auto updated. I tested the > extlinux package after reading about it yesterday, a

Re: Bug#583257: ITP: haskell-gnomevfs -- Binding to the GNOME Virtual File System library

2010-05-26 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - "brian m. carlson" wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:07:22PM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva > wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" > > > > * Package name: haskell-gnomevfs > > Version : 0.11.0 > > Upstream Auth

Re: Bug#583257: ITP: haskell-gnomevfs -- Binding to the GNOME Virtual File System library

2010-05-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Hi Brian. Excerpts from brian m. carlson's message of Qua Mai 26 14:53:48 -0300 2010: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:07:22PM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" > > > > * Package name: haskell-gnomevfs > >

Re: Bug#583257: ITP: haskell-gnomevfs -- Binding to the GNOME Virtual File System library

2010-05-26 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:07:22PM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" > > * Package name: haskell-gnomevfs > Version : 0.11.0 > Upstream Author : Duncan Coutts > * URL : http://www.haske

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2010 11:42 AM, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:58:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working, I'm installing dhelp and ... magic, magic ... it extends the running web-server to ser

Bug#583261: ITP: haskell-gstreamer -- Binding to the GStreamer open source multimedia framework

2010-05-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: haskell-gstreamer Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Author : Peter Gavin, Axel Simon * URL : http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Haskell Descrip

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:42:50PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:58:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > > > I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working, > > > I'm installing dhelp and ... magic, magic ... it exten

Bug#583257: ITP: haskell-gnomevfs -- Binding to the GNOME Virtual File System library

2010-05-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: haskell-gnomevfs Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Author : Duncan Coutts * URL : http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Haskell Description :

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:22:43PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 01:00:49PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said: > > > > pam_umask requires both username == primary group name and uid == gid > > > > before it will assume

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:58:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > > I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working, > > I'm installing dhelp and ... magic, magic ... it extends the running > > web-server to serve the dhelp content as well. I'm i

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:36:53AM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > Am Tue, 25 May 2010 22:47:51 +0200 > schrieb Harald Braumann : > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:09:35PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > > > The path into your home directory is not restricted, just as the > > > path others can take to rin

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 01:00:49PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said: > > > pam_umask requires both username == primary group name and uid == gid > > > before it will assume UPG are in place when using its 'usergroups' > > > option, > > I'd be int

Bug#583236: ITP: haskell-glade -- Binding to the glade library

2010-05-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: haskell-glade Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Author : Manuel M T Chakravarty * URL : http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ * License : LGPL-2+ Programming Lang: Haskell Description

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working, > I'm installing dhelp and ... magic, magic ... it extends the running > web-server to serve the dhelp content as well. I'm installing smb2www > and it extends the running web-server to act as smb

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-26 Thread Raphael Geissert
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 03:00:58 Michael Meskes wrote: > Don't you think we should run the test *after* the patches got applied? That's done if the package uses format 3.0 (quilt). Regards, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Bug#583228: ITP: haskell-gconf -- Binding to the GNOME configuration database system

2010-05-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: haskell-gconf Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Author : Duncan Coutts * URL : http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Haskell Description : Binding t

Bug#583225: ITP: haskell-gtk -- Binding to the Gtk+ graphical user interface library

2010-05-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: haskell-gtk Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Author : Axel Simon, Duncan Coutts and many others * URL : http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Haske

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 15:58:51 Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > Why would you like to go another way with mail servers? > Get maintainer support for such conf.d directories, maybe get upstream > support for such conf.d mimics (sendmail most likely won't need it - > some m4 magic and triggers wil

Bug#583220: ITP: haskell-pango -- Binding to the Pango text rendering engine

2010-05-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: haskell-pango Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Author : Axel Simon, Duncan Coutts * URL : http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Haskell Descripti

Re: Improving in-place upgrades of Ada packages from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-05-26 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > Ludovic Brenta wrote: > >> Over the last two weeks I have been testing upgrades of >> Ada packages from Lenny to Sid and Squeeze in a chroot. >> The picture is not as pretty as it should be. In a >> nutshell, when you change /etc/apt/sources.list from lenny >>

Re: Packaging Gzstream?

2010-05-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:58:05AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 04:00:56PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > A quick apt-file search indicates that at least two other packages (CCed) > > may > > be using the gzstream library, k3d and freecad. So it seems that it wou

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Thomas Goirand wrote: > What happens here is that, if you take a normal Debian system, then > install postfix, then let's say amavis, they don't talk to each other. ... > much spams. It is also totally unrealistic to say that it's up to the > system administrator to configure everything by hand. I

Bug#583217: ITP: libconfig-mvp-reader-ini-perl -- Perl module providing a MVP config reader for .ini files

2010-05-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt * Package name: libconfig-mvp-reader-ini-perl Version : 1.101450 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-MVP-Reader-INI/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ (like perl) P

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 26 May 2010 00:23:04 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 05/26/2010 03:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> That works for now; but if a package upgrade for extlinux is ever >> downloaded, I'm afraid that new versions of the hook scripts will >> be copied into these directories which

Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear everyone, 1/ Briefly, who am I My first Debian package was for the web hosting control panel (a web interface) that my company released in open source. I'm the main programmer of it. The first time I tried to have it enter i

Bug#583215: ITP: haskell-cairo -- Binding to the Cairo library

2010-05-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" * Package name: haskell-cairo Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Author : Axel Simon, Duncan Coutts * URL : http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ * License : BSD3 Programming Lang: Haskell Description

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-26 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
On mercredi 26 mai 2010 02:39:52 Raphael Geissert wrote: [SNIP] > > Yes, $BASH_SOMETHING is just used to make it easier to see that the > following code (probably a bashism) is only executed after checking the > shell is actually bash. That and the other FP are the most common ones, yet > not that

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 08:40:26AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said: > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:30:49PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Michael Banck said: > > > > > > Seems worthwhile to change adduser how you suggest

Bug#583209: ITP: haskell-smtpclient -- Simple Haskell SMTP client library

2010-05-26 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: mascell...@poisson.phc.unipi.it Package name: haskell-smtpclient Version: 1.0.2 Upstream Author: Stephen Blackheath URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SMTPClient License: BSD Description: Simple Haskell SMTP c

Bug#583207: RFA: fusecompress -- transparent filesystem compression using FUSE

2010-05-26 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the fusecompress package. Overall the packaging is in pretty good shape. There are a couple of bugs (forwarded upstream) that need some love. Upstream also has support for lzma in the git repo but I have not bothered backporting that. The p

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-26 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 26/05/10 13:14, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 26/05/10 at 11:55 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> Right. That's exactly why I suggested debdiffing the resulting binary >> packages >> from a new and an old dash. > > Are you volunteering? :-) No. I'm not volunteering on adding LINENO support

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/05/10 at 11:55 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 26/05/10 08:07, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 25/05/10 at 23:10 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > >> 124 source packages. Bad, but not as crazy as 1,540. > >> > >> (I've heard of off-by-one errors but off-by-one-order-of-magnitude is a > >>

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-26 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 26/05/10 08:07, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 25/05/10 at 23:10 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: >> 124 source packages. Bad, but not as crazy as 1,540. >> >> (I've heard of off-by-one errors but off-by-one-order-of-magnitude is a >> stretch.) > > No. 124 is the number of packages that failed to build.

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:55:58PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > For example, almost all udebs are listed. Why? Because udebs execute > busybox shell as /bin/sh, which happens to be fairly compatible with bash. The busybox /bin/sh is also a dash, but a different version than the dash package. Bastia

Re: Translations copyrights/licences

2010-05-26 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 06:41:09PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Helge Kreutzmann may or may not have written... > > Speaking both with my translator and my Debian Maintainer hat on, I can > > state the following: > > > a) There are lots of "drive by" translators. Systems like l

Re: extlinux (was: Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2"))

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bjørn Mork, le Wed 26 May 2010 10:45:49 +0200, a écrit : > Just comparing http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git with > http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/ should IMHO give more > than enough information to choose extlinux over grub2 I don't understand what you mean her

extlinux (was: Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2"))

2010-05-26 Thread Bjørn Mork
Daniel Baumann writes: > as of current git, you can now use EXTLINUX_UPDATE=false in > /etc/default/extlinux to prevent having update-extlinux do anything. That's the single feature I misseded. Thanks. Although it would be even better if it was possible to include some fixed part in it, while

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Meskes
> > This doesn't necessarily mean that we are drowned by bashisms, as some of > > those may already be fixed by Debian- provided packages or might affect > > unused code > > s/packages/patches/ Don't you think we should run the test *after* the patches got applied? Michael -- Michael Meskes Mi

Re: Improving in-place upgrades of Ada packages from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-05-26 Thread Jacob Sparre Andersen
Ludovic Brenta wrote: Over the last two weeks I have been testing upgrades of Ada packages from Lenny to Sid and Squeeze in a chroot. The picture is not as pretty as it should be. In a nutshell, when you change /etc/apt/sources.list from lenny to squeeze (unstable, actually) and do "aptitude

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:30:49PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Michael Banck said: > > > > Seems worthwhile to change adduser how you suggest to me, is there > > > a bug filed to this end? > > > adduser has had bu