Maintainers

2007-03-05 Thread Howard Young
I know of a way that maintainers could be increased substantially (I expect hundreds to many thousands a year). I am not sure of the specifics but I have little doubt that in the end it would work. It will likely take more than four years to implement and only work in England. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#413491: ITP: krecordmydesktop -- kde frontend to recordmydesktop

2007-03-05 Thread Luca Bedogni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luca Bedogni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: krecordmydesktop Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Dusan Zatkovsky * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/krecmydesktop/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: xs-vcs-browser and friends

2007-03-05 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi Stefano, If I got it right, XS-Vcs is to point to VC of a debian packaging, not the original upstream sources. That would be useful to have both - links to Debian packaging as well as to original upstream. For instance my VC keeps only debian-related changes and uses mergeWithUpstream provided

Re: racoon and bug 372665

2007-03-05 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:36:34PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > > Milan P Stanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd like to discuss problem with regards to bug #372665. > > Why the racoon should be started in the rcS when even ssh is not? > > The reasons should be fairly obvious from

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-05 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Now that I am aware about openssh bsd vs openssh portable ( ;-) ), I looked at the CVS of portable SSH (following [1]) to see what/when it really happened - so it wasn't a BSD specific patch, it was only adopted by bsd team in 2002 but was in portable ssh since 1.2.2p1 (Mar 2000). I am not sure on

Re: Custom repository and "WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!"

2007-03-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Michael, I have simpel signed my /debian/duats/etch/Release file with an external signature /debian/duats/etch/Release.gpg and imported the public key I have used for it. So whats the problem? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Netwo

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:27:29PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > Simply replying to a bug won't get it fixed any sooner or > decrease the impact it has on the user. In addition, it > distracts us from doing what is potentially far more > productive work. Writing a mail to a bug along the lines of

Re: Maintainers

2007-03-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 10:33 +, Howard Young wrote: > I know of a way that maintainers could be increased substantially (I > expect hundreds to many thousands a year). > I am not sure of the specifics but I have little doubt that in the end > it would work. > It will likely take more than four

Maintianers

2007-03-05 Thread Howard Young
My earlier message was very over the top it would appear. I had a look while on lunch and tracked down some statistics. http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SBU/b000266/154-t17a.htm See the line for GNVQ Advanced IT. If this line is accurate then the number of people completing the course year b

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:57:46AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > And I think the list can grow larger just by looking at > the reality, and not dreaming stupid ideas and trying to > defend them. snip > Just _look_ at that: [0]. I mean _look_, not pretend to. > Instead of answering to th

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:07:33PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > Now, the iceape case is interesting: *you* (as in, the one > complaining about rotting bugs) are also allowed to help > the maintainers instead of whining. One very positive thing from this thread is the number of packages / teams that

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-05 Thread Bastian Venthur
Nico Golde schrieb: > what about the following idea. > If a configuration file is marked as conffile in a package > you have the possibility to select between: > > - Install the new version of the configuration file from the > package > - Keep your current installed version of the file > - Vie

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007, Jon Dowland wrote: > I think that there is an untapped pool of people who could > help a lot with the triage work, but the question is, where > do they start? How do they know that they are welcome to > start responding to a given packages bugs with some kind of > analysis?

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-05 Thread sean finney
just to throw in my $0.02, On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 18:43 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I haven't tested your patch, but I like the general idea. > > A good example is exim4. Where I have greylistd installed and configured > it to allow SSL connections. Every once in a while exim gets an update >

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ,- > | revision 1.17 > | date: 2000/03/03 11:35:33; author: damien; state: Exp; lines: +9 -1 > | - Don't permanently fail on bind() if getaddrinfo has more choices left for > | us. Needed to work around messy IPv6 on Linux. Patch from Arkad

Re: Bug#1927: no /usr/include/linux/errno.h

2007-03-05 Thread Karen.Schmidtman
Karen Schmidtman Logistics Analyst SPARTA Satellite Control Network Contract 719-637-5601 I am NOT an authorized purchasing agent, I am only authorized to gather information regarding a part(s), availability,location, and budgetary data such as cost and lead time. NOTICE: This communic

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-05 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-05 19:07]: > just to throw in my $0.02, > > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 18:43 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > I haven't tested your patch, but I like the general idea. > > > > A good example is exim4. Where I have greylistd installed and configured > > i

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-05 Thread sean finney
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 19:23 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > > The implementation was not really difficult, the patch file > itself is 200 lines alltogether. not bad :) i have to admit i haven't looked at the patch. > > would be to see the differences between the new maintainer conffile and > > the p

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-05 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> > So it IPv6 still messy? if not, then probably this patch indeed could be > > safely deapplied I guess ;-) > This is probably referring to binding an IPv6 :: socket and getting IPv4 > for free and if socket on IPv4 is taken already? this is what lead to the original issue. So should that "cont

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:35:43PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:07:33PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Now, the iceape case is interesting: *you* (as in, the one > > complaining about rotting bugs) are also allowed to help > > the maintainers instead of whining. > > One ve

Re: Maintainers

2007-03-05 Thread Howard Young
See the email I sent after wards. It has the same subject (and sorry, it is quite long). In short I suppose the material answer to your question would be: A set of books and for quick sale of the proposal possibly having a few people run localized linux terminal servers that allow colleges to h

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and if socket on IPv4 is taken already? this is what lead to the > original issue. > So should that "continue" should then be taken only if ai->ai_family == > AF_INET6 ? Maybe. I don't know that part of the code well. Looking at INN, we ran into

Re: xs-vcs-browser and friends

2007-03-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:02:29AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > If I got it right, XS-Vcs is to point to VC of a debian packaging, not > the original upstream sources. That would be useful to have both - links XS-Vcs point to the repository used by the maintainer to version its work. If he i

[RFR] po-debconf://lam (6 strings)

2007-03-05 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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[RFR] po-debconf://rkhunter (4 strings)

2007-03-05 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-05 Thread Nico Golde
Hey, * sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-05 20:00]: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 19:23 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > > > would be to see the differences between the new maintainer conffile and > > > the previous version of the maintainer conffile. > > > > > > to implement this, one would simply nee

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-05 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Montag 05 März 2007 19:59 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > and if socket on IPv4 is taken already? this is what lead to the > > original issue. > > > > So should that "continue" should then be taken only if ai->ai_family == > > AF_INET6 ? > > Maybe. I d

State of the slimserver package.

2007-03-05 Thread Simon Kelley
I'm in a quandary about the future of the slimserver package. There's a problem with upstream: it contains a significant amount of non-free stuff, which had to be ripped out of the software before it went into Debian. This means that the Debian package is missing some functionality, and that t

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-05 Thread Vincent Danjean
Nico Golde a écrit : > * sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-05 20:00]: >> anyway, good luck waking up the sleeping dpkg monster. > > Sleeping is good, the first bug mentioning the need of a > merge functionality is 8 years old... > I can not really understand this since we build up on tools

Re: On management

2007-03-05 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not convinced at all that *funding* a manager would do any good to > the project. If we already had a _good_ project manager in our ranks, don't you think they/he/she would have stepped up already? THAT'S why I think paying for one might help...

Re: Bug#413353: debian-policy: New virtual package: dict-freedict

2007-03-05 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
clone 413353 -1 retitle -1 debian-policy: New virtual package: dictd-dictionary thanks I'm cloning this bug for "dictd-dictionary". On March 5, 2007 at 2:14AM +0900, tats (at vega.ocn.ne.jp) wrote: > > BTW, I recommend to add a virtual package for a dictionary package > > which provides /usr/sha

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[OFFTOPIC] Announcement of accounting program TXbook

2007-03-05 Thread Claus Fischer
Dear Debian developers, I would like to announce TXbook, a GPL accounting program for small businesses. It has successfully done my balance sheet and P&L for an Austrian small "Limited" (Ges.m.b.H.). With some work it should serve users in the EU region well; I don't know enough about the acco

Re: On management

2007-03-05 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Monday 05 March 2007, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > (exept maybe translators, but they don't do it for the project, they do it > for them selfs - which is a GOOD thing! The mere fact that you're able to translate kinda excludes you needing the translation in the first place (e.g. I translate cau

The GIMP plugins for refocussing blurred images

2007-03-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hello, since I'm not only a geek but also a photographer and GIMP user I've decided to have a look at wnpp bug #398765 [1] and package the plugin [2]. While packaging gimp-refocus I came across the refocus-it plugin, which uses a different algorithm and also supports to refocus motion blur, so I'v

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 05, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is probably referring to binding an IPv6 :: socket and getting IPv4 > for free, so that a subsequent bind to an IPv4 0.0.0.0 address fails. So > far as I know, this is still the Linux IPv6 behavior. Yes, but it can be controlled with code

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:48:01PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > > Like every packaging team in debian, mailing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] depending on how old the team is. Usually that list > is in the Maintainer or Uploaders field of the control file. > #debian-$team is

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]

2007-03-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 11:25 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Now that I am aware about openssh bsd vs openssh portable ( ;-) ), I looked at > the CVS of portable SSH Sorry, the OpenBSD version was the only version web-browseable and I forgot to refer to the portable version before citing a commi

Bug#413605: ITP: qfits -- Library offering easy access to FITS files

2007-03-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qfits Version : 6.2.0 Upstream Author : Yves Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : ftp://ftp.hq.eso.org/pub/qfits/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Lib

Re: Bug#412919: ITP: predictive -- Text completion package for Emacs

2007-03-05 Thread Jan Michael C. Alonzo
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zack, > > The main point of IntelliSense [1] is not about the actual completion > which type the word after you started typing it, is more about where to > find the possible completions and, in particular to find them via some > kind of representati

Re: racoon and bug 372665

2007-03-05 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
> "Milan" == Milan P Stanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > README says that in the /etc/rcS.d/ should go scripts which are > executed once during boot. In debian policy manual rcS.d is > mentioned only once in section 9.3.4, but from short description it is > not clear could the daemons be star