Bug#405271: ITP: libtemplate-plugin-gd-perl -- GD plugin(s) for the Template Toolkit

2007-01-02 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtemplate-plugin-gd-perl Version : 2.66 Upstream Author : Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-GD/ * License : Dual GPL/Arti

Re: Bug#405122: ITP: ocamlwc -- count the lines of code and comments in OCaml sources

2007-01-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 03:21:46PM +0100, Georg Neis wrote: > > Also, but maybe you already did that, sorry in that case, please > > consider joining the pkg-ocaml-maint project on alioth which is used to > > collaboratively maintain (and hence keep consistence) all OCaml-related > > packages in De

Re: A question on setting setuid bit

2007-01-02 Thread Ian Jackson
LEE, Yui-wah (Clement) writes ("Re: A question on setting setuid bit"): > This is an experimental package that we built and > evaluate internally (up to this moment). The program > that needs setuid is a cgi-bin program that is invoked > by apache2, which runs as a regular user www-data. The > cg

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Thanks for the explanations. Unfortunately that doesn't make these > measures really useful, as rejecting email blindly based on data as > reliable as RBLs is likely to give tons of false positives. I prefer to call them DNSBLs, as RBL is a proper nam

Re: Bug#405151: ITP: libclamav-client-perl -- A client for the ClamAV virus scanner daemon

2007-01-02 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Devin Carraway said: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 03:02:52PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Can you please test it against the 0.90 rc candidate in experimental and > > let me know if you have problems? It makes it easier that this package > > isn't targetted for etch, bu

Bug#405300: ITP: pyxplot -- A command-line plotting package that produces publication-quality output

2007-01-02 Thread Sam Morris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: pyxplot Version : 0.5.8 Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.pyxplot.org.uk/ License : GPL Programm

Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and upstream) in binary packages which share the same sources. Why not have symlinks in place of these and perhaps an extra /usr/share/doc directory named the same as the source package in case a binary package of the same name do

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and > upstream) in binary packages which share the same sources. Why not > have symlinks in place of these and perhaps an extra /usr/share/doc > directory

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and > > upstream) in binary packages which share the same sources. Why not > > have symlinks in place of these and p

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and > upstream) in binary packages which share the same sources. Why not > have symlinks in place of

Bug#405315: ITP: cryptgps -- OCaml library implementing symmetric cryptographic algorithms: Blowfish, DES, 3DES

2007-01-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cryptgps Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Gerd Stolpmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/ * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang:

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:28:59PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and > >> upstream)

Re: Proposal for Lenny: Please avoid duplicated changelogs for binary packages sharing the same source package

2007-01-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:28:59PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 1/2/07, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not have an extra /usr/share/doc/$source-name directory in case a > binary package of the same name doesn't exi

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:12:56PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > For those of you who are afraid about reliability of a DNSBL, > I can highly recommend cbl.abuseat.org as the absolute minimum. > This list (called CBL for short) has the following properties: > > * Takes its data from very large spa

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-02 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:12:56 +0100 (CET) Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of you who are afraid about reliability of a DNSBL, > I can highly recommend cbl.abuseat.org as the absolute minimum. > This list (called CBL for short) has the following properties: > > * Takes its d

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Michal iha wrote: > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This list (called CBL for short) has the following properties: > > [...] > > * Tries very hard not to list "real" SMTP servers. > > [...] > > * Almost every time there is at least one SMTP server from each > freem

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-02 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:59:09 +0100 (CET) Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As if those smtp servers were completely innocent. Most probably, > they are sending spam to CBL spamtrap addresses to begin with. Yes, most likely they send spam to spamtrap. You can not 100% filter spam on fr

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-02 Thread Matthias Julius
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Moreover, if you send a message using a real smtp server, and its IP > is listed in a DNSBL I use, you will receive a message from > mailer-daemon saying so. This may and will surely happen, hopefully > not often, but IMHO it's better than the message ar

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:16:24PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > What about gender? How is it specified? > > Currently it is a drop down that allows you to choose: > - unspecified > - male > - female > > Which in my opinion reflects sex and not gender. > > I would rather have

Bug#405358: ITP: freedict-tools -- Development files for the FreeDict dictionary packages

2007-01-02 Thread Joost van Baal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joost van Baal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: freedict-tools Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Horst Eyermann and Michael Bunk * URL : http://www.freedict.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl, Make, Shell Des

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Matthias Julius wrote: > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Moreover, if you send a message using a real smtp server, and its IP > > is listed in a DNSBL I use, you will receive a message from > > mailer-daemon saying so. This may and will surely happen, hopefully

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:50:27AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldapsearch -h 'db.debian.org' -b'cn=Subschema' -x -s > base '(objectClass=*)' attributeTypes | grep gender > attributeTypes: ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.9586.100.4.2.30 NAME 'gender' DESC 'ISO 5218 rep > resentation of huma

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 02, Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As if those smtp servers were completely innocent. Most probably, > they are sending spam to CBL spamtrap addresses to begin with. CBL would not list these servers. The person you are replying to is just confused. -- ciao, Marco signature.a

Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-02 Thread Aleksandr Koltsoff
Hello It was suggested that I'd post a short announcement on these two lists in order to get some feedback for a small set of utilities I just released. The documentation covers integrating the tools into Debian and I'd appreciate feedback on that part. Especially if I'm doing something which is o

ITP: diveintopython-zh -- free Python book for experienced programmers(zh_CN translation)

2007-01-02 Thread Zhengpeng Hou
Package: wnpp Version: N/A;2007-01-03 Severity: wishlist *Package: diveintopython-zh Version: 5.4 Upstream Author: Mark Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Translator: limodou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Zoom.Quiet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Jason Xie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) YuLin ([EMAI