Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

Bah, sorry about the previous mail, sent it before it was finished. On pe, 2007-12-07 at 15:28 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Friday 7 December 2007 11:52, Enrico Zini wrote: > > If we want to implement a feature such that we can see what packages are > > localised for a given language, that s

Re: ftp.debian.org update

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:45:57AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:52:00PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > If you're using it now, please switch to a country-based DNS name > > such as ftp.us.debian.org, ftp.ca.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org, ... > > The list of those ser

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

Don Armstrong wrote: > [There is some argument that I should completely ignore hurd-i386 by > default since it isn't keeping up *at all* but I haven't made that > change yet.] Please do. It's been anoying for a long time and there is absolutely no improvement. For example, please take a look at:

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

On pe, 2007-12-07 at 15:28 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Friday 7 December 2007 11:52, Enrico Zini wrote: > > If we want to implement a feature such that we can see what packages are > > localised for a given language, that should be done differently, most > > likely by building a database sca

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

On Friday 7 December 2007 11:52, Enrico Zini wrote: > If we want to implement a feature such that we can see what packages are > localised for a given language, that should be done differently, most > likely by building a database scanning what .po files are present in the > source package. Wouldn

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339581 has been fixed on >> Apr 17, 2007. But it still shows up in http://bugs.debian.org/texmacs . >> Is this a bug in the BTS or am I missing something stupid? > > 1:1.0.

ldconfig (of libc6.1 2.7) caused segfault on alpha

Hi all, (please keep Cc to me) recently, libc6.1 2.7-3 got into testing but it caused segfault with my all/two alpha machines so I don't understand why it got into testing. I keep libc6.1 2.6.1-6 at present. Is this problem specific to my system or is there no one who encounterd the problem? Th

Re: old bugs are still shown on the bugs page

Frans Pop wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=partman-lvm;dist=unstable hurd 11 uploads behind; 7 out of 20 bugs long solved http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=base-installer;dist=unstable hurd 31 uploads behind, 7 out of 33 bugs long solved And note that that is

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:54:57AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > every package is very wasteful of space. Thus, I think it should not be > done. A better way to express the information is needed. Indeed. If anyone can tell me how comparison among locale strings is supposed to work, I can try to

Bug#454970: ITP: iolanguage -- Io is a small, prototype-based programming language.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Eschenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: iolanguage Version : 20071010 Upstream Author : Steve Dekorte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.iolanguage.com/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, Io Descrip

Bug#454993: RFH: fglrx-driver -- non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver

Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi ! I've mantained this driver for some times now, and I think it would be better to maintain it as a team. Honnestly this piece of software is not really great, but it's really needed for a lot of users. Because it is not free, most of the time the onl

Re: Bits from the MIA team

Hi Mario, * Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 21:33]: [...] > Team maintenance > > If one package of the person is maintained in a team, at the step where we > send > the prod-mail we file a Bug of severity "serious" against the package, > requesting that the person is

Bug#454992: ITP: ocaml-taglib -- ocaml interface to taglib library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-taglib Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://savonet.sf.net/ * License : LGPL+link exception Programming Lang: ocaml

Re: Bits from the MIA team

Nico Golde wrote: > Hi Mario, > * Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 21:33]: > [...] >> Team maintenance >> >> If one package of the person is maintained in a team, at the step where we >> send >> the prod-mail we file a Bug of severity "serious" against the package, >>

Re: Bits from the MIA team

Hi Luk, * Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-08 18:21]: > Nico Golde wrote: > > Hi Mario, > > * Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 21:33]: [...] > > What is the purpose of this? If the package is well > > maintained I think it's really > > questionable that an inactive co-maintainer

Re: Bits from the MIA team

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007, Nico Golde wrote: > > To make sure packages don't end up with only inactive (co-)maintainers. > > That could be avoided if you check that every maintainer of > the package is MIA. A MIA-check is not something instantaneous. It takes several months. So it's not really possibl

Re: Bits from the MIA team

Nico Golde wrote: > Hi Luk, > * Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-08 18:21]: >> Nico Golde wrote: >>> Hi Mario, >>> * Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 21:33]: > [...] >>> What is the purpose of this? If the package is well >>> maintained I think it's really >>> questionable that

Re: Bits from the MIA team

Hi Raphael, * Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-08 18:42]: > On Sat, 08 Dec 2007, Nico Golde wrote: > > > To make sure packages don't end up with only inactive (co-)maintainers. > > > > That could be avoided if you check that every maintainer of > > the package is MIA. > > A MIA-check

Re: Bits from the MIA team

On Saturday 8 December 2007 18:20, Luk Claes wrote: > Nico Golde wrote: > > Hi Mario, > > * Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 21:33]: > > [...] > > > >> Team maintenance > >> > >> If one package of the person is maintained in a team, at the step where > >> we send the pro

Bug#455038: ITP: shout-python -- Python bindings for libshout

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillaume Pellerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: shout-python Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://svn.xiph.org/icecast/trunk/shout-python/ * License : GPLv2 Programming

Re: Bits from the MIA team

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 06:39:15 pm Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 08 Dec 2007, Nico Golde wrote: > > > To make sure packages don't end up with only inactive (co-)maintainers. > > > > That could be avoided if you check that every maintainer of > > the package is MIA. > > A MIA-check is not something i

Re: Bits from the MIA team

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 06:39:15 pm Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 08 Dec 2007, Nico Golde wrote: > > > To make sure packages don't end up with only inactive (co-)maintainers. > > > > That could be avoided if you check that every maintainer of > > the package is MIA. > > A MIA-check is not something i

Re: Bits from the MIA team

Steffen Joeris wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 06:39:15 pm Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007, Nico Golde wrote: To make sure packages don't end up with only inactive (co-)maintainers. >>> That could be avoided if you check that every maintainer of >>> the package is MIA. >> A MIA-check

Bug#455061: ITP: libapache-authenhook-perl -- Perl API for Apache 2.1 authentication

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libapache-authenhook-perl Version : 2.00_04 (Converted to 2.00-04 for policy compliance) Upstream Author : Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Testing migration (Re: Re: Bits from the MIA team)

At least use important. I actually don't care, if there is a bug or not for the issue. But I do care about the testing migration. We do have DDs, who are doing work only during the weekend (which is perfectly acceptable). So if you write an RC bug on monday, this might hold up the testing migr

help needed for free pascal (fpc) / lazarus

Hi, please have a look at . The package lazarus requires the sources of free pascal because it parses them. The obvious solution is to create a binary package fpc-source shipping the sources and add a Depends or Recommends to lazarus. This i

Bug#455068: ITP: qlandkarte -- manage and visualize GPS data and upload/download to GPSr

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qlandkarte Version : 0.5.3 Upstream Author : Oliver Eichler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://qlandkarte.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Descrip

Re: Re: Bug#454162: libxine1-plugins: should not depend on libxine1-gnome

This bug is now about that all plugins are installed by default, dragging in too many dependencies at install/upgrade time. I have the following compromise in mind, which I first want to be commented on before I do the follwing changes: a) Let's introduce 2 meta packages: libxine1-all-plugins, w

Re: ldconfig (of libc6.1 2.7) caused segfault on alpha

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 09:57:00PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Hi all, (please keep Cc to me) > recently, libc6.1 2.7-3 got into testing but it caused > segfault with my all/two alpha machines so I don't understand > why it got into testing. Because no one reported such a bug while the package

Bug#455064: ITP: sofa-framework -- SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Belhachemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sofa-framework Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : INRIA * URL : http://www.sofa-framework.org * License : (GPL, LGPL) Programming Lang: (C, C++,) Description

Re: help needed for free pascal (fpc) / lazarus

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Torsten Werner wrote: please have a look at . The package lazarus requires the sources of free pascal because it parses them. The obvious solution is to create a binary package fpc-source shipping the sources and add a

snapshot.debian.net missing october

I did not see it mentioned elsewhere, but is it normal that october 2007 is missing from snapshot.debian.net ? http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/10/ is empty for me... -- JCD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

Although this is an interesting idea, I have misgivings about running even temporarily with any sort of extra privileges; C++ executables in particular may run a fair bit of code from static objects' constructors before main() ever starts. I would counter-propose introducing some sort of ELF tag t

Re: Proposal for reform of the Debian membership process

On Sat Dec 08 16:36, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > The total time it took you to convince the relevant people in Debian > > that you should be a DD was 301 days. Of those 301 days, you spent 4 and > > a half hours working on it (along with five uploads of your packages, > > and apparently a sponsored NM

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:01:27PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Although this is an interesting idea, I have misgivings about running > even temporarily with any sort of extra privileges; C++ executables in > particular may run a fair bit of code from static objects' > constructors before main() e

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:18:11PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > What do you think about this approach? I'm well aware that this alone > won't rescue desktop security (getting there is looots of more work), > but one has to start somewhere. I'm not particularly fussed about the race conditions invol

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are no extra privileges; noptrace is intended to be a group that owns > no files other than the sgid binaries, can write to none of them, contains > no users, is unable to ptrace any other processes that it couldn't already, > and doesn't grant pr

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:18:11PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > However, a lot of programs that we have deal with passwords and other > secrets which deserve some protection, like passwords you type into > ssh, screensavers, seahorse, etc. While I sort of like the idea, I must admit that if I could

Veja o caso de Abaitetuba

Você ja deve ter ficado sabendo do caso da menor de idade que foi mantida presa junto com presos,  do sexo masculino na cidade de Abaitetuba, no estado do pará a menor foi violentada e obrigada a fazer sexo  com os presos em troca de comida.  Como se já não bastasse, os proprios presos fi

Re: Doc-base section hierarchy

Le Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:58:15PM +0100, Robert Luberda a écrit : > A month ago I gathered some data about doc-base files (see [4] and [5]). > Based on that data I prepared some statistics about current doc-base > sections and also some mapping ("Apps/Applications" prefix removed): Dear Robert,