Re: New opinions wanted for bug #676485 ( squeeze→wheezy GNOME upgrade)

2012-12-19 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Wed 19 Dec 2012 21:09:55 Josselin Mouette escribió: > Hi all, > > we’re facing a very subtle APT upgrade bug with #676485 and we’d like > input from a larger number of developers before implementing an > imperfect solution. [snip] > We found by testing a few ways to break this cycle and get the

New opinions wanted for bug #676485 (squeeze→wheezy GNOME upgrade)

2012-12-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi all, we’re facing a very subtle APT upgrade bug with #676485 and we’d like input from a larger number of developers before implementing an imperfect solution. Basically, a full GNOME upgrade from squeeze to wheezy is failing because of a large number of lockstep upgrades using Depends/Breaks p

Re: Why are mailboxes in /var/mail owned by group mail?

2012-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" writes: > What is the reason for mailboxes to be owned by group mail when in > Debian we have per-user groups and AFAIK no daemons or other system > processes belong to the mail group? So that you can, if you choose, run mail delivery agents and POP/IMAP servers as something ot

Re: Why are mailboxes in /var/mail owned by group mail?

2012-12-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: The subject came up in the course of bug #693114 which in a nutshell is caused by dovecot by default copying the permissions of the users mailbox in /var/mail for indexes in the users home directory. Naturally, this fails when the user is not a membe

Why are mailboxes in /var/mail owned by group mail?

2012-12-19 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
The subject came up in the course of bug #693114 which in a nutshell is caused by dovecot by default copying the permissions of the users mailbox in /var/mail for indexes in the users home directory. Naturally, this fails when the user is not a member of group mail. What is the reason for mai

Re: RFA: jabberd2 -- Jabber instant messenger server

2012-12-19 Thread Willem van den Akker
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 16:53 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 18.12.2012 17:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 18 dec 12, 09:20:25, Willem van den Akker wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am willing to maintain the packages jabberd2 and udns. I have already > >> uploaded new versions of both packages t

Bug#696331: ITP: macs -- Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq on short reads sequencers

2012-12-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: macs Version : 2.0.9.1 Upstream Author : Tao Liu * URL : https://github.com/taoliu/MACS/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Python Description : Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq

Re: Multiple source package entries in Sources file

2012-12-19 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ansgar Burchardt debian.org> writes: > On 12/18/2012 05:09 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: […] > > also a talk about keeping old versions of the source package around for > > license compliance. This is mostly related to packages "embedding" > > (parts of) other packages during builds (I believe they w

Re: RFA: jabberd2 -- Jabber instant messenger server

2012-12-19 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 19.12.2012 13:53, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Besides, I'm now a debian developer, and it'd be quite a bit > silly to ask another person to package my own software for > debian... ;) while this is definitely a matter of personal preferences and you are of course all allowed to do so, let me t

Re: RFA: jabberd2 -- Jabber instant messenger server

2012-12-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
18.12.2012 17:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 18 dec 12, 09:20:25, Willem van den Akker wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am willing to maintain the packages jabberd2 and udns. I have already >> uploaded new versions of both packages to mentors.debian.org. >> >> http://mentors.debian.net/package/udns >>

Re: Math Fonts for Iceweasel and MathJax

2012-12-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:50:05 +0100 Frédéric WANG wrote: > Basically, Iceweasel must not depend on ttf-lyx, ttf-mathematica4.1, > xfonts-mathml or any other font packages that would lead to the > installation of Computer Modern fonts or Mathematica fonts. These old > fonts were used a l

Bug#696319: ITP: libapache2-mod-log-slow -- Apache module for logging of slow requests handling

2012-12-19 Thread Cyril Bouthors
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libapache2-mod-log-slow Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : Yoichi Kawasaki * URL or Web page : https://code.google.com/p/modlogslow/ * License : Apache License version 2.0 Description : Apache module for logging of slow