Re: Upcoming changes in Lintian & some bits

2011-02-23 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 22:47 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > As a consequence of these changes, the new Lintian release will cause > many existing overrides to no longer apply. We recognise that this will > lead to some noise in the short term but are convinced that the longer > term advantages ma

Re: Auditing systems for default homedir permissions and other potential security risks and also for overly long subjects and needlessly antagonistic mailing list discussion threads

2011-02-23 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
On 17 February 2011 16:36, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > It would be really cool if there was an automatic auditor for people to > use. Not just showing emblems in Nautilus, but offering to fix things as > well. Here's how I imagine it might work. (...) >From your description you are not looking at an

Fwd: Compilation packages - major problem!!

2011-02-23 Thread David Joseph P Crowley
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Joseph P Crowley Date: 24 February 2011 00:05 Subject: Re: Compilation packages - major problem!! To: Ben Hutchings Thank you very much Goncalo, I'll have to try this now, but im not sure if i am allowed to reply to you! Ben, I do not de

Re: Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Antonio Diaz Diaz [Fri Feb 18, 2011 at 05:58:22PM +0100]: > Michael Prokop wrote: >> I'm the maintainer of the ddrescue and gddrescue packages. >> I plan to drop the ddrescue package. > IMHO dropping the gddrescue package and moving GNU ddrescue to the > ddrescue package (replacing dd_rescue)

Bug#614688: ITP: json-simple -- Simple, lightweight and efficient JSON toolkit for Java

2011-02-23 Thread Gilles Filippini
[seems this ITP didn't make it to debian-devel; probably because I set two different X-Debbugs-Cc fields instead of one for all the recipients] Message original Sujet: ITP: json-simple -- Simple, lightweight and efficient JSON toolkit for Java Date : Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:19:05 +01

Re: Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Luca Capello [Thu Feb 17, 2011 at 12:05:18AM +0100]: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:17:58 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: > > I'm the maintainer of the ddrescue and gddrescue packages. > > I plan to drop the ddrescue package. > [...] > > I'd like to get rid of this confusion now. AFAICT gddrescue provid

Re: Compilation packages - major problem!!

2011-02-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
This list is for Debian developers, not for developers who happen to use Debian. Basic questions, such as how to log in as root, should be addressed to the debian-user list or to the http://ask.debian.net web site. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes

Compilation packages - major problem!!

2011-02-23 Thread David Joseph P Crowley
Dear Sir/Madam, I downloaded the Debian/GNU Linux OS stable version onto my 32 bit system. I wish to use it for development purposes but I am having trouble with compiling my .c files, in fact the "gcc" command isn't even working! I read on the Debian website that the command : " # apt-get install

Packaging an RGTP server and client

2011-02-23 Thread Thomas Thurman
There is a bulletin board system at Cambridge University called GROGGS[1]. Since 1995 it has used a TCP protocol called RGTP[2], which also finds limited use at a few other sites. Various pieces of software related to RGTP exist. I maintain two of these: "yarrow", a web client for RGTP, and "spurge

Re: Bug#614813: ITP: suexec-conf -- Fully configurable apache suexec binary

2011-02-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 at 18:54:30 +0300, Alexander Gerasiov wrote: > Description : Fully configurable apache suexec binary How does this differ from apache2-suexec-custom, which is provided by a Debian-specific patch in apache2? > or you may want to setup wrapper for some file's types (e.g. >

Bug#614808: O: loop-aes - loop-AES encryption modules

2011-02-23 Thread Max Vozeler
Package: wnpp Severity: normal The packages require more attention than I have been able to give them, so I decided to step down as their maintainer. loop-aes has an active and helpful upstream maintainer and quite a few users. loop-aes is a bit difficult, too. If you consider adopting it you

Bug#614813: ITP: suexec-conf -- Fully configurable apache suexec binary

2011-02-23 Thread Alexander Gerasiov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Gerasiov * Package name: suexec-conf Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Alexander Gerasiov * URL : https://github.com/gerasiov/suexec-conf * License : Apache Programming Lang: C Description : Fully confi

Re: New version of DEP-5 parser

2011-02-23 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 22 février 2011 20:24:02, Dominique Dumont a écrit : > Le mardi 22 février 2011 19:06:27, vous avez écrit : > > Can't call method "fetch_element" on an undefined value at > > /usr/share/perl5/Config/Model/Backend/Debian/Dpkg/Copyright.pm line 121. > > > > Do you want me to fill a bug repo

Re: Small transition: protobuf 2.4.0

2011-02-23 Thread Thomas Koch
Iustin Pop: > Hi all, > > I've uploaded to experimental the new protobuf version (2.4.0a) and this > brings as always a SONAME increase. It also has a new experimental > backend (C++-based) for the Python language bindings, hence the > heads-up. Don't bother about HBase. The current package needs

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:30:05 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > +# Should the dependency resolve use alternatives in Build-Depends and > +# Build-Depends-Indep? By default, only the first alternative will be > +# used; all other alternatives will be removed. Note that this does > +# not include arc

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:27:00PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40:52PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most > > > pragmatic approach will be

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 02/22/2011 06:08 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: I agree that the documentation is sorely lacking in this regard. It is, however, an unofficial and unwritten policy. The need for this is fairly self-explanatory: we don't want builds to vary. Taking one of php5's dependencies as an example: libdb-

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:27:00PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, and apologies in advance if this is a stupid question or if it has > already been discussed :) > > Is it possible that this should lead to problems with further levels of > package dependencies? E.g. something like that for two

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:30:05AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > I've now implemented this with the attached patch. If you are happy > with this behaviour, I'll commit it. Those six lines are equivalent > to about 300 in the internal resolver! With this change made, would > you be OK to consider m

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40:52PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most > > pragmatic approach will be to get the apt and aptitude sbuild > > resolvers to strip the alternati

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-02-23, Holger Levsen wrote: >> - wheezy is released. (This is the option I dont really favor, takes >> ages :) ) > I actually prefer this very much over more random breakage in which is > supposed to be stable. 2 years aint that long. Seconded. If it would've been urgent it should'

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 22. Februar 2011, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > - lenny is gone and the tools are fixed in squeeze with a point > update (provided the SRMs approve such updates, but I *hope* so). Do I understand correctly that you again plan to break squeeze, this time for those who then havent

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40:52PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most > > pragmatic approach will be to get the apt and aptitude sbuild > > resolvers to strip the alternati

discussing upstream software on -devel (Re: Bug#614601: ITP: libsafewrite -- Simple functions for performing safe atomic replacement of files

2011-02-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2011, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Giving feedback over the > upstream trustworthiness is not the purpose of ITP bugs, oh, hell yes, it is. Where else should we discuss what software fits into Debian? debian-qa@ when it's too late? > and I have been > warned by the l

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40:52PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most > pragmatic approach will be to get the apt and aptitude sbuild > resolvers to strip the alternatives (after arch reduction), which > will make them behave pretty much

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 02/22/2011 07:37 PM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: until today our Release files included 3 Hashes for all their entries: MD5SUM, SHA1, SHA256. I just modified the code to no longer include MD5SUM in *all* newly generated Release files. Right. For now I undo this (with next dinstall run), until eithe

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:53:08PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Julien Cristau writes: > > > I'm still not sure how 'Build-Depends: foo [i386] | bar [amd64]' > > would make sense (as opposed to making it an 'and'). > > They're equivalent, so I would view it as intended for human readers, not > f