Re: pbuilder + local backports question

2007-04-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: >> pbuilder-satisfybuilddeps is not smart enough to try packages from >> repository with lower pin-priority, even if build-depends is versioned. >> It just installs default version, without any notice. > > Completely correct; but there are tw

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:37:46PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > write documentation or don't understand the API. Wrong API docs are surely > worse than not having no docs, aren't they? > If I thought putting it in policy would significantly improve the > availability of API docs in Debian, I wo

Re: pbuilder + local backports question

2007-04-29 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Btw, is it a bug or a feature that pdebuild option --pbuildersatisdydepends > works only when --use-pdebuild-internal is also given, and is ignored > otherwise? It's a bug, and I don't know where it comes from. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Neil Williams] > I chose Debian as a development platform for my own reasons and my > decision was "not deemed to be wise" in the eyes of some of my > upstream colleagues. As the newbie to that particular team, I was > under significant pressure to "upgrade to Fedora or SuSE". Are you saying Fed

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:23:03AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > docs", but I'm convinced it will be quantitatively small). My approach > to this is first to decide whether API docs in the policy is something > we want in debian or not. Then, if it is the case, to state it in the > policy. Th

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 29-Apr-07, 03:10 (CDT), Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Neil Williams] > > I chose Debian as a development platform for my own reasons and my > > decision was "not deemed to be wise" in the eyes of some of my > > upstream colleagues. As the newbie to that particular team, I was

Re: Bug#421107: ITP: torbutton -- iceweasel/icedove extension enabling 1-click toggle of Tor usage

2007-04-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Apr-07, 19:58 (CDT), Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We don't need to describe in excrutiating detail every aspect of every > package. No, but surely something along the lines of "Tor (the anonymous P2P file sharing system)[1]" is a reasonable expectation. If nothing else, it will

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's all true, but it fails to convince me that is better not to state > this in the policy than to state it (only Steve's point about "wrong API > docs", but I'm convinced it will be quantitatively small). My approach > to this is first to decide

krb5 transition: upgrading to krb5 1.6.1

2007-04-29 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi, folks. I've just uploaded krb5 1.6.1 to experimental. This is a new version with enhanced plugin support, support for realm referrals, support for storing Kerberos credentials in the Linux keyring rather than on disk, and generally improvements all around. The one big feature that is missi

Re: krb5 transition: upgrading to krb5 1.6.1

2007-04-29 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:02:41PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > I'm aware of one issue that impacts nfs-utils. Bug #413838 describe a > problem where if your server has a common misconfiguration the 1.6 > Kerberos libraries on the client will cause mounts to fail. In > particular, the kernel only

Re: krb5 transition: upgrading to krb5 1.6.1

2007-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Steinar H Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Reading the bug log, it looks like the "proper" configuration in this > case is deleting all the nfs/[EMAIL PROTECTED] encryption types except > des-cbc-crc. Is this correct? Correct. In general, you never want to have Kerberos keys in your KDC f

Bug#421513: ITP: sphpblog -- web-based blog software without need for a database

2007-04-29 Thread Cord Beermann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cord Beermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sphpblog Version : 0.4.9 Upstream Author : Alexander Palmo (apalmo bigevilbrain com) * URL : http://simplephpblog.com/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Descripti

Re: krb5 transition: upgrading to krb5 1.6.1

2007-04-29 Thread Marcus Better
Russ Allbery wrote: > Correct. In general, you never want to have Kerberos keys in your KDC for > a service principal for enctypes that that service doesn't support. Is there an easy way to find out which enctypes a service supports? (And why does the poor admin have to worry about this at all?)

Re: krb5 transition: upgrading to krb5 1.6.1

2007-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Correct. In general, you never want to have Kerberos keys in your KDC >> for a service principal for enctypes that that service doesn't support. > Is there an easy way to find out which enctypes a service supports? (And > why doe

Re: krb5 transition: upgrading to krb5 1.6.1

2007-04-29 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Marcus" == Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> Russ Allbery wrote: >> Correct. In general, you never want to have Kerberos keys in >> your KDC for a service principal for enctypes that that service >> doesn't support. Marcus> Is there an easy way to find

Bug#421556: ITP: libyaml-tiny-perl -- Read/Write YAML files with as little code as possible

2007-04-29 Thread John Lightsey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lightsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libyaml-tiny-perl Version : 1.04 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/YAML-Tiny-1.04/ * License : Perl (GPL/Artistic)