Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071016 17:50]: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed: > > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > libdb4.5 64 > libdb4.6 4

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:33:20PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > > > following bdb versions installed: > > > version: # of

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:37:21AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > If you want to help reducing this number, a good point would helping > getting more documentation about the different versions (and their > differences) available, and (at least for me) make some backports of the > suggested ver

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > IMHO we should declare a quarantine of a minimum of 6 months on every new > > libdb upstream, and only package it *if* openldap (*the* heavy-duty user of > > libdb advanced features) and cyrus imap (*the* thousands-of-concurrent- > > locks, mmap-happy

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:52:33AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > That's equivalent to an indefinite quarantine; according to BDB upstream, > OpenLDAP's problems with various versions are a consequence of abusing the > interface, not of using "advanced features". I'm not sure why the burden > h

Re: Intend to hijack gpsd

2007-10-17 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 11:34 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Thus I intend to hijack gpsd, it would be maintained by me within the > debian-gis team, which would also open a way for the currently listed > maintainer to work on the package if he decides to be active again. > Please let me know if anybo

Re: Intend to hijack gpsd

2007-10-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi Tilman, > just for the record, since after the fact: I am quite happy with you > taking over gpsd. I have been bogged down with real life and work more > and more within the last year. I always hoped to find some time to > devote to gpsd "some time soon". Alas, I have to accept that this was >

Bug#447014: ITP: detox -- utility to cleanup filenames from problematic characters

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: detox Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Doug Harple * URL : http://detox.sourceforge.net * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : utility to cleanup f

New swish-e package: more filters for indexing office files

2007-10-17 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Hi! I've just uploaded a new swish-e package. I've updated the filter rules and added a sample swish.config file to easily index all kind of OOo/MSoffice files (ppt, doc, xls). It's based on a running setup which indexes 100GB of office files daily. Feel free to test and report any bug ! Cheers,

Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-10-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Frank Lichtenheld schrieb: 3) Autodetection My approach would be to have the autobuilders use "build-arch", and if that fails within 60 seconds, "clean" and "build". If "build-arch" is not implemented, it fails rather quickly, so we use "build" and make a note in the build log. Later,

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Kurt Roeckx writes ("Re: Bits from the Testing Security team"): > Decompression is typicly something that is i/o bound, not cpu bound. If the package is stored on disk and not in buffer cache. However, in many cases the package will have been just downloaded and so on a big memory machine like a

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-17 Thread Roland Mas
Ian Jackson, 2007-10-17 15:00:55 +0100 : [...] > And if there is no good reason to have the decompressors bound in > then having that facility wired into the code is just extra > complexity to no useful purpose. I thought the ability to just copy one binary (/usr/bin/dpkg) from one box to anothe

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Clint Adams
Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: > Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. What are Maybe you could help out with the bugs here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED];tag=oldbdb;dist=unstable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:00:58 +0200 "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:52:33AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > That's equivalent to an indefinite quarantine; according to BDB > > upstream, OpenLDAP's problems with various versions are a > > conseq

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-17 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:00:55PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Indeed on modern multicore systems running the decompression in a > > > separate process allows it to be run on a separate CPU, in parallel to > > > the other processing done by dpkg proper. So it might be faster. > > > > > > (I ha

Re: 0-day NMUs, DELAYED/n uploads

2007-10-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, This thread started on [EMAIL PROTECTED] The process that should be followed for 0-day NMUs is being discussed. (reminder: it's allowed to do 0-day NMUs for RC bugs and release goals, for bugs older than 7 days). Please continue the discussion on -devel@, as it's of interest to everybody. On

Bug#447027: ITP: gnome-device-manager -- GNOME device manager based on HAL

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gnome-device-manager Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : David Zeuthen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-device-manager/ * License : GPL Pr

Re: Bug#443392: ITP: gitpkg -- helper scripts for maintaining packages with git

2007-10-17 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:40:04PM +0930, Ron wrote: > > > ... surprised to learn that git-import-dsc can only import one > > > .deb per repo. > > This indeed is a limitation of git-import-dsc that could quiet simply be > > fixed if this should be needed. > > I'm not sure this is totally trivial t

Re: Bug#443392: ITP: gitpkg -- helper scripts for maintaining packages with git

2007-10-17 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 02:15:11PM +0930, Ron wrote: > Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear there. I'm not advocating total chaos > inside any single repo, or any group of repos maintained by the same > people. Localised consistency in these things is highly desirable, > for all the reasons you mention

Bug#447067: O: libapache2-mod-auth-pam -- module for Apache2 which authenticate using PAM

2007-10-17 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'd like to orphan the libapache2-mod-auth-pam. New maintainer can choose YADA based package from Debian or CDBS package from Ubuntu. -- .''`.Piotr Roszatycki : :' :mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Bug#447064: O: libapache2-mod-auth-plain -- Module which provides plaintext authentication

2007-10-17 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi. I'd like to orphan the Debian package libapache2-mod-auth-plain and the upstream hosted on Alioth http://mod-auth-plain.alioth.debian.org/ This package provides the simplest authorization for Apache. Also the htpasswd file can be hold in current directory for h

Re: 0-day NMUs, DELAYED/n uploads

2007-10-17 Thread Luk Claes
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:03:14PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, Hi > This thread started on [EMAIL PROTECTED] The process that should be followed > for > 0-day NMUs is being discussed. (reminder: it's allowed to do 0-day NMUs > for RC bugs and release goals, for bugs older than 7 days). >

Bug#447079: O: litmus -- WebDAV server protocol compliance test suite

2007-10-17 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi. I'd like to orphan the litmus package. It is available the new upstream version and some simple bugs have to be resolved. -- .''`.Piotr Roszatycki : :' :mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' mailto:[EMAIL PROT

#447068: O: libapache-mod-rpaf -- module for Apache which takes the last IP from the 'X-Forwarded-For' header

2007-10-17 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi. I'd like to orphan the libapache-mod-rpaf package. This package is really useful is the mod_proxy or squid is used before Apache. Probably the package should be renamed to libapache2-mod-rpaf and the dependecies on Apache 1.3 have to be removed. -- .''`.P

Status of gfortan transition

2007-10-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian developers, Bidding adieu to the old Fortran compiler and using gfortran is one of the proposed Lenny release goals[1]. However, the showstoppes, definitely, are lapack3 and atlas. There hasn't been any movement on that side, and it seems that the packages could do with some help. Thi

Bug#98549: Feel Like Chatting

2007-10-17 Thread Holly Sears
Hi My Name is Holly I am bored and would love some company I love to chat online and meet new people If you want I can send you some photos email me for the pics -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]