Bug#611236: ITP: ttm -- TeX/LaTeX to HTML converter

2011-01-26 Thread Ian Maclaine-cross
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ian Maclaine-cross" * Package name: ttm Version : 4.01 Upstream Author : Ian Hutchinson * URL : https://tth.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tth/trunk * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C, lex Description : TeX/LaT

Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
JFYI. Debian has been represented at the meeting by Enrico Zini (who has blogged about various aspects of the meeting as well [1,2,3]) and David Kalnischkies. In the end, quite some pieces of Debian technologies have attracted interest and are on their way to be part of the proposed solution. Well

package testing, autopkgtest, and all that

2011-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:19:32AM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > First, tests run during a package build are good, but they do not > ensure, for example, that the package as installed is working OK. I've > been thinking that (also) providing tests to be run after the package is > installed (and not on

Re: Where does the update-initramfs hook get the kernel name from?

2011-01-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 19:50 +, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Hi there. > > I've got a multi-boot system for which I maintain my own (Grub2) > grub.cfg. > > I've got Debian Lenny, Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu partitions inside an > encrypted LVM2 logical volume, > a booting nicely. > > I just have to

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 12:19 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [...] > Isn't that a non-issue (for now)? > > Here's my reasoning: > > 1) The non-free deb is only in apt if non-free is in sources.list. > 2) AN earlier mail stated that the kernel recommends the non-free firmware > deb. [...] Of c

Re: How to build a 32-bit package in Debian?

2011-01-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 06:46:33PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adam Borowski writes: > > Aren't ia32-libs on their way out, together with rest of the bi-arch stuff? > > Since sarge, yes. Nothing is as permanent as a quick temporary hack. With no multiarch on horizon, there wasn't anythi

Bug#611224: ITP: node-xmpp -- idiomatic XMPP library for Node

2011-01-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: node-xmpp Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Stephan Maka * URL : https://github.com/astro/node-xmpp * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Node Description : idiomatic XMPP library f

Bug#611223: ITP: node-expat -- fast XML parser library for Node

2011-01-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: node-expat Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Stephan Maka * URL : https://github.com/astro/node-expat * License : Expat Programming Lang: C++ Description : fast XML parser library

Where does the update-initramfs hook get the kernel name from?

2011-01-26 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I've got a multi-boot system for which I maintain my own (Grub2) grub.cfg. I've got Debian Lenny, Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu partitions inside an encrypted LVM2 logical volume, a booting nicely. I just have to watch out if one of them tries to "update" grub.cfg, completely trashing

Bug#611209: ITP: libcpan-meta-yaml-perl -- Read and write a subset of TAML for cPAN meta files

2011-01-26 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcpan-meta-yaml-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Meta-YAML/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Rea

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Zitat von "Olaf van der Spek" : > >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Hendrik Sattler >> wrote: >>> >>> BTW: KDE4 is a very good example for failure with modern filesystems. I >>> regularly loose configuration files when suspend-to-ram fai

Bug#611207: ITP: libperl-ostype-perl -- map perl operating system names to generic types

2011-01-26 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libperl-ostype-perl Version : 1.002 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-OSType/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : map perl

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Zitat von "Olaf van der Spek" : On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Hendrik Sattler wrote: BTW: KDE4 is a very good example for failure with modern filesystems. I regularly loose configuration files when suspend-to-ram fails even if the configuration of the running programs were not changed. Yay

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 15.01.2011, 10:29 + schrieb Philipp Kern: > On 2011-01-15, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: > > The best option to fix this issue I can see is if it was possible to do > > binNMUs > > for Arch: all packages. There are some options to workaround the fact that > > we >

Re: How to build a 32-bit package in Debian?

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Borowski writes: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:44:02PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Adam Borowski writes: >> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:49:17AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> >> Add lib32 packages for the deps. >> >> Actually you need ia32-libs-dev and also gcc-multilib when you COMP

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva writes: > Hi Goswin. > > Excerpts from Goswin von Brederlow's message of Qua Jan 26 11:28:59 -0200 > 2011: > (...) >> But having some generated html files depend on the exact ghc version >> seems extrem. > > Yes, I don't see the need of adding a Depends: field to -do

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > BTW: KDE4 is a very good example for failure with modern filesystems. I > regularly loose configuration files when suspend-to-ram fails even if the > configuration of the running programs were not changed. Yay :-( And this is > with XFS, no

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva writes ("Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages."): > Excerpts from Goswin von Brederlow's message of Qua Jan 26 11:28:59 -0200 > 2011: > (...) > > But having some generated html files depend on the exact ghc version > > seems extrem. > > Yes, I don't see the need of adding

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Zitat von "Goswin von Brederlow" : "Hendrik Sattler" writes: Zitat von "Goswin von Brederlow" : Adam Borowski writes: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Shachar Shemesh writes: > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL >

Re: Bits from the Security Team (for those that care about bits)

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:47:52 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst writes: > > > * Issues in specific packages > > > > We further discussed some specific problematic packages. One example is > > ia32-libs, which is difficult because it includes 100+ other source > > packages. This

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > typedef struct { >        int fd; >        char buffer[]; > } safe_t; > > or what do you mean by invalid C? Zero length arrays are not valid C AFAIK. -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Hendrik Sattler" writes: > Zitat von "Goswin von Brederlow" : > >> Adam Borowski writes: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Shachar Shemesh writes: > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL > is https://git

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Goswin von Brederlow] > Isn't that a non-issue (for now)? > > Here's my reasoning: > > 1) The non-free deb is only in apt if non-free is in sources.list. > 2) AN earlier mail stated that the kernel recommends the non-free >firmware deb. > 3) Recommends are to be installed by default. > > Shoul

Bug#611189: ITP: libmodule-metadata-perl -- Gather package and POD information from perl module files

2011-01-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmodule-metadata-perl Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : David Golden , Ken Williams ,

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Hi Goswin. Excerpts from Goswin von Brederlow's message of Qua Jan 26 11:28:59 -0200 2011: (...) > But having some generated html files depend on the exact ghc version > seems extrem. Yes, I don't see the need of adding a Depends: field to -doc packages. > So splitting out the version dependent

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Zitat von "Goswin von Brederlow" : Adam Borowski writes: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Shachar Shemesh writes: > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL > is https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite, and the actual code is a

Re: How to build a 32-bit package in Debian?

2011-01-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:44:02PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adam Borowski writes: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:49:17AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > >> Add lib32 packages for the deps. > > Actually you need ia32-libs-dev and also gcc-multilib when you COMPILE a > 32bit package. ia32-lib

Re: Bits from the Security Team (for those that care about bits)

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thijs Kinkhorst writes: > * Issues in specific packages > > We further discussed some specific problematic packages. One example is > ia32-libs, which is difficult because it includes 100+ other source > packages. This will be handled better for Squeeze: we'll have to ensure > it's as up to date

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Borowski writes: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Shachar Shemesh writes: >> > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL >> > is https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite, and the actual code is at >> > https://github.com/Sha

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I think you are dead wrong there Ian. Even if every single program is > dead right (and we know a lot aren't) that means every one of them has > a safe file update function somewhere in it. > > A function doing exactly the same thing

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bastian Blank writes: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 01:23:01PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:21:52 +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote: >> > Le 15/01/2011 11:29, Philipp Kern a écrit : >> > > Arch:all binNMUing will only work if you keep the invariant of >> > > version(arch:al

Bug#611178: ITP: undertaker -- static code analysis tool checking preprocessor directives

2011-01-26 Thread Christoph Egger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Egger Homepage: http://vamos.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/trac/undertaker License: GPL-2 GPL-3+ Version: 1.0 Prograaming Language: C++ Package: undertaker Description: static code analysis tool checking preproc

Re: How to build a 32-bit package in Debian?

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Borowski writes: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:49:17AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> >> > What is the recommended course of action for such a package? >> >> For now: build on a 32-bit system or in a 32-bit chroot. >> >> Other optio

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: >> typedef struct { >>         int fd; >>         char buffer[PATH_MAX]; >> } safe_t; > > Except, you can't rely on PATH_MAX on any modern system.  It's defined in > Linux headers to an arbitrary value to make old code compile, but for > examp

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Shachar Shemesh writes: > > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL > > is https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite, and the actual code is at > > https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite/blob/master/saf

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > [Ben Hutchings] >> I think the plan was that any firmware package that is available >> during installation and that satisfies a firmware request will get >> installed. However, I have not worked on this and I don't know what >> has actually been implemented. > > At

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Shachar Shemesh writes: > Hi all, > > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL > is https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite, and the actual code is at > https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite/blob/master/safewrite.c > > This is not a formal release just yet (plus one func

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson writes: > Shachar Shemesh writes ("Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)"): >> I'm sorry, it might be me, but I fail to see the overlap between the >> functionalities of safewrite vs. userv. The premises for safewrite is >> that a program wants to make sure data integrity is

Bug#611168: ITP: libfpdf-tpl-php -- PHP library to use PDF templates with FPDF

2011-01-26 Thread Sebastian Harl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Harl * Package name: libfpdf-tpl-php Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Jan Slabon * URL : http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/ * License : Apache License, Version 2.0 Programming Lang: PHP D

Bug#611167: ITP: libfpdi-php -- PHP library for importing existing PDF documents into FPDF

2011-01-26 Thread Sebastian Harl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Harl * Package name: libfpdi-php Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Jan Slabon * URL : http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/ * License : Apache License, Version 2.0 Programming Lang: PHP Descr

Re: Cedilla removed from sid, users complain

2011-01-26 Thread Philip Hands
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:12:01 +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > There is always the option of either recruiting one of those > > disappointed users to maintain the package, or doing it yourself. > > Thanks for the suggestion -- but I'm already spending all of my > proverbial Copious Free Time

Re: Cedilla removed from sid, users complain

2011-01-26 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Juliusz, it is better to point your question to the *maintainer* of the package, not to debian-devel@ (which is not a mandatory mailing list for all the maintainers). Adding the Debian Common Lisp team to the loop. On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:25:19 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > It seems that