Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Debian Report

2010-09-23 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On 2010-09-23 21:26, David Kalnischkies wrote: 2010/9/23 Filipus Klutiero: On 2010-09-23 05:32, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Filipus Klutiero wrote: [...] I would recommend requiring candidate mentors to agree to share evaluations with GSoC admins, so admins ca

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-23 Thread Paul Wise
On 9/24/10, Simon McVittie wrote: > Suspend-to-RAM also works, but is obviously not secure against attackers > waking up the laptop and exploiting some bug in a locked screensaver, or > remote access, or whatever. Don't forget about folks using cold boot attacks to grab your key from RAM. I also

Bug#597903: ITP: gnome-gmail -- Make Gmail an option for the default GNOME mail handler

2010-09-23 Thread David Steele
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Steele * Package name: gnome-gmail Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : David Steele * URL : http://gnome-gmail.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Make Gmail an option for t

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Debian Report

2010-09-23 Thread David Kalnischkies
2010/9/23 Filipus Klutiero : >  On 2010-09-23 05:32, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Filipus Klutiero >>  wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> I would recommend requiring candidate mentors to agree to share >>> evaluations >>> with GSoC admins, so admins can at least pick informatio

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Stepping in sideways here, but in case you can make use of them, > backports is creating the same debversion info like the main > archive. Want them synced to the bts? Yes, please. Don Armstrong -- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is ver

Bug#597899: ITP: yii-framework -- High-performance component-based PHP framework

2010-09-23 Thread Paul McEnery
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul McEnery * Package name: yii-framework Version : 1.1.4 Upstream Author : Qiang Xue * URL : http://www.yiiframework.com * License : BSD Programming Lang: PHP Description : High-performance component-based PHP

Re: A new Priority level, ‘backports’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > The ftp team has a history of strongly discouraging uploads that they > don't feel like accepting (such as a package that would download > eicar.com from the internet and place it in a defined place where other > packages might find and use it) and of killing of packages on g

Bug#597866: ITP: ukopp -- Full incremental backup to disk or disk-like device

2010-09-23 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: ukopp Version : 3.8 Upstream Author : Michael Cornelison * URL : http://kornelix.squarespace.com/ukopp/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Full incremental backup to

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Debian Report

2010-09-23 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On 2010-09-23 05:32, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Filipus Klutiero wrote: [...] I would recommend requiring candidate mentors to agree to share evaluations with GSoC admins, so admins can at least pick information on results when a report has to be made. Mentors ar

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:30:30 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Personally I would like to have snapshots every 2 or 3 months. Colin > Watson pointed out in an LWN comment (http://lwn.net/Articles/406597/): > | There's a good chance that CUT could serve a dual purpose of making it > | easier to prepar

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 at 17:31:39 +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > Indeed. My current setup is that sda1 is small, unencrypted and holds > /boot only. sda2 is the whole rest of the hard disk, and it's mapped to > a LUKS device used as a physical volume for LVM, and there are several > LVs on there, inclu

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-23 Thread Roland Mas
Mike Hommey, 2010-09-23 17:14:01 +0200 : > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:50:26PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:13:06PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >> ... >> > By policy, we use full-disk encryption at my workplace (where full-disk >> > really means "except the bootloader and

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:50:26PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:13:06PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > ... > > By policy, we use full-disk encryption at my workplace (where full-disk > > really means "except the bootloader and /boot"). For a 2-year-old recipe for > > it, wh

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:13:06PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: ... > By policy, we use full-disk encryption at my workplace (where full-disk > really means "except the bootloader and /boot"). For a 2-year-old recipe for > it, which I believe still mostly works with grub2, see > http://smcv.pseudor

Re: debdelta back online

2010-09-23 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 23/09/2010 08:59, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino ha scritto: > On 22 September 2010 22:46, A Mennucc wrote: >> due to my PC running out of disk space, no deltas were generated in the >> last week (while I was absent); I found more space, so it will be b

Re: A new Priority level, ‘backports’ ? (R e: unstable/testing/[ pending/frozen/]stabl e)

2010-09-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:23:55 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: >As far as I can tell the FTP team bases its accept/reject decisions on >whether it's legal for us to distribute a package (and whether it's >suitable for the component it was uploaded to in terms of the dfsg), not >whether it's a good idea

not yet, Re: debdelta back online

2010-09-23 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 22/09/2010 22:46, A Mennucc ha scritto: > due to my PC running out of disk space, no deltas were generated in the > last week It seems that there was another problem: there is broken pdiff in amd64/experimental, so that debmirror was not updating m

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-23 Thread Simon McVittie
(Context: a private mail to which I'm replying suggested that full-disk encryption should be used to make it harder to subvert our infrastructure, and worried about the use of an unencrypted /boot, since "they" could insert a keylogger or trojan into the initrd.) By policy, we use full-disk encryp

Bug#597839: ITP: emerald-themes -- Themes for Emerald Window Decorator

2010-09-23 Thread Janos Guljas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Janos Guljas * Package name: emerald-themes Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Quinn Storm * URL : http://cgit.compiz.org/fusion/decorators/emerald-themes/ * License : GPL Description : Themes for Emerald Window Dec

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Luk, thanks for your comment! On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Luk Claes wrote: > > Raphael's article is now published, and is probably a good basis for > > discussing CUT on -de...@. > > Free link: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/406301/bd522adc828b3461/ > > Personally I have the feeling that if we would

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Luk Claes
On 09/23/2010 09:00 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 22/09/10 at 15:01 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: >>> CUT discussions at debconf10 and recent news of the birth of Linux Mint >> >> discussions on CUT have continued after debconf on the

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Debian Report

2010-09-23 Thread Bastian Venthur
Am 22.09.2010 08:56, schrieb Olivier Berger: > Le lundi 20 septembre 2010 à 12:47 +0200, Adrian von Bidder a écrit : >> Hi Arthur, >> >> On Monday 20 September 2010 11.37:04 Obey Arthur Liu wrote: >> [GSoC report] >> >> Hmm. It would have been nice to hear about what the students did and how >> f

Re: Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Debian Report

2010-09-23 Thread Obey Arthur Liu
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Filipus Klutiero wrote: >  Obey Arthur Liu wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Adrian von Bidder >>  wrote: >> >  Hi Arthur, >> > >> >  On Monday 20 September 2010 11.37:04 Obey Arthur Liu wrote: >> >  [GSoC report] >> > >> >  Hmm.  It would have been

Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable

2010-09-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > hm... did you mean > http://lwn.net/Articles/406301/ > "A constantly usable testing distribution for Debian"? Yes. > if indeed, taken on the reasoning that "testing" is a bad name and "rolling" > is > better, then it goes similar to what I sa

Re: A new Priority level, ‘ backports ’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 17:12:49 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:17:02AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > > > > So what backports "priority" actually says is "my package is such a > > bullshit that I don't want it ever released, but I am fine with putting > > burden on t

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 09/23/2010 09:00 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > Raphael's article is now published, and is probably a good basis for > > discussing CUT on -de...@. Free link: > > http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/406301/bd522adc828b3461/ > > > > It's still looks we

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 23/09/10 at 10:40 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 09/23/2010 09:00 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > Raphael's article is now published, and is probably a good basis for > > discussing CUT on -de...@. Free link: > > http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/406301/bd522adc828b3461/ > > > > It's still l

Re: Debian ppa

2010-09-23 Thread William Grant
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 10:36 +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > William Grant, 2010-09-23 16:31:57 +1000 : > > [...] > > > While Launchpad.net does not provide Debian PPAs, what prevents you from > > taking the Launchpad code, rebranding it, and running your own instance? > > Based on a presentation give

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 09/23/2010 09:00 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Raphael's article is now published, and is probably a good basis for > discussing CUT on -de...@. Free link: > http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/406301/bd522adc828b3461/ > It's still looks weired to me to have to read this article there (I mean, _o

Re: Debian ppa

2010-09-23 Thread Roland Mas
William Grant, 2010-09-23 16:31:57 +1000 : [...] > While Launchpad.net does not provide Debian PPAs, what prevents you from > taking the Launchpad code, rebranding it, and running your own instance? Based on a presentation given by Jonathan Lange (product strategist for Launchpad) at LSM this su

Re: Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Debian Report

2010-09-23 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Obey Arthur Liu wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Hi Arthur, > > On Monday 20 September 2010 11.37:04 Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > [GSoC report] > > Hmm. It would have been nice to hear about what the students did and how > far they got in their GSoC project

Re: A new Priority level, ‘ backports ’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:17:02AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > > So what backports "priority" actually says is "my package is such a > bullshit that I don't want it ever released, but I am fine with putting > burden on the people keeping backports running instead". I think we have > a way alr

Re: Debian ppa

2010-09-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 04:31:57PM +1000, William Grant wrote: > While Launchpad.net does not provide Debian PPAs, what prevents you from > taking the Launchpad code, rebranding it, and running your own instance? > It does require some changes to work with Debian's suites, but that > would be far e

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> From what concerns the BTS, Don's proposal in [2] (the main one, not >> the alternative solution) seems reasonable to me and others in the >> thread. The proposal also seems to assume a different Maintainer >> field for the bpo package, as hinted above, am I wrong Don? > Right. The idea here is

Re: A new Priority level, ‘backports’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> the addition of new suites has the disadvantage of dispersing our userbase. > Here is a proposition that conserves the current flow of package migration for > packages released in Stable, and that makes Testing the meeting point for all > the packages. > We could introduce a new priority level

Re: debdelta back online

2010-09-23 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
On 22 September 2010 22:46, A Mennucc wrote: > due to my PC running out of disk space, no deltas were generated in the > last week (while I was absent); I found more space, so it will be back > online as soon as it generates all needed deltas. Question: How much space does debdelta take? (per arc

Re: Debian ppa

2010-09-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> I still believe that this can and should be implemented. If someone is > interested, I'm happy to help; I assume the same holds for Joerg. True. -- bye, Joerg Yeah, patching debian/rules sounds like changing shoes while running the 100 meters track. -- Michael Koch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/09/10 at 15:01 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi all, > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > CUT discussions at debconf10 and recent news of the birth of Linux Mint > > discussions on CUT have continued after debconf on the CUT mailing. I > wrote a summary of the discussion