Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Sebastian Pipping] > > * Would non-free be an option to all or some of them? > > Do we have binary only packages in Debian? > > Yes. The issue is more that very few package maintainers in Debian > want to maintain non-free packages. And that'

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-01-30 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:47:57PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > In conclusion, there is no appreciable performance hit on any algorithm. > Note that these are all hash algorithms, but they all make heavy use of > memcpy, and are extremely CPU-intensive. OTOH the memcpy they use are static

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

2008-01-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Paul Wise wrote: -- wnpp.debian.net sources Be nice if that wasn't just a redirect domain. Sorry, but I don't think this will change as long it's maintainer is not a Debian developer. This way or the other. Might want to also ask on debian-security (list or IRC) Will do, good idea. Se

Re: linux-kernel-headers???

2008-01-30 Thread Cyril Jaquier
First of all, linux-kernel-headers has been replaced by linux-libc-dev. Ok. But linux-kernel-headers is still a virtual package. Isn't it? But either way, the answer is the same: those packages install them in /usr/include, which is unpacked and accessible to any program being compiled. l

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-01-30 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:47:57PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > And now for some numbers, on an amd64 machine (/proc/cpuinfo at [0]), Oh and I missed that at the first read, but … > With -fPIE -pie only: > > MD4: 335544320 bytes in 0.741s (431.703 MiB/s) > MD5: 335544320 bytes in 1.052s (

Re: Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-30 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:02 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:47:45 -0600, William Pitcock > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (on another note, dsyslog is now complete enough that it has replaced > > the syslogd on my desktop.) > > What are the difference with rsyslog whi

Re: Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:47:45 -0600, William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (on another note, dsyslog is now complete enough that it has replaced > the syslogd on my desktop.) What are the difference with rsyslog which also aims at providing a pure modular design? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:58:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > [Please only reply to -devel] Reply-To? > I just completed an archive wide check on amd64/all packages by searching > for shell scripts in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/etc/init.d:/usr/share > and checking them with checkbash

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-01-30 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:16:24PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > In kernels that support text ASLR, programs compiled > for PIE will gain full position randomization. For which architectures is text ASLR available? does it require external kernel patches? PIE means considerable system overhea

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:15:27PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:17:37PM +0100, sean finney wrote: > In trying to not duplicate effort, I've been working both in Debian and > Ubuntu to help get these options enabled globally. > > > I have to repeat the question that tfheen a

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

2008-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Jan 30, 2008 5:32 PM, Sebastian Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Be nice if that wasn't just a redirect domain. > > Sorry, but I don't think this will change as long > it's maintainer is not a Debian developer. This > way or the other. Why not? If it is good enough for a redirector domai

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Jan 30, 2008 11:31 AM, Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/01/2008, Paul Wise wrote: > > Has there been any bashisms checks on maintainer scripts (postinst/etc)? > > There's already: > > http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tpossible-bashism-in-maintainer-script.html Ah, so there

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:58:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >camlp5 (U) This is a false positive: $ checkbashisms /usr/bin/mkcamlp5 possible bashism in /usr/bin/mkcamlp5 line 43 (let ...): echo "let _ = Dynlink.add_available_units crc_unit_

Specifying where to follow-up (was: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal)

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:58:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > > > [Please only reply to -devel] > > Reply-To? That's a field defined (in RFC 2822) as specifying where posts intended individually to the author ("replies") should be sent. It

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 29 janv. 08 à 23:57, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : One of the lists from popcon.debian.org I find most interesting, is the list of popular packages currently missing in Debian, http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote>. I understand it to list the packages our users would love to find in D

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

2008-01-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Paul Wise wrote: Sorry, but I don't think this will change as long it's maintainer is not a Debian developer. This way or the other. Why not? If it is good enough for a redirector domain, why not a real one? What I was trying to say is that I don't think I will get necessary permissions to ru

Re: linux-kernel-headers???

2008-01-30 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:08:21AM +, Cyril Jaquier wrote: > > >First of all, linux-kernel-headers has been replaced by linux-libc-dev. > > Ok. But linux-kernel-headers is still a virtual package. Isn't it? no, it doesn't exists anymore. ll-dev provides it to allow upgrades, but no-one sh

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 30/01/2008, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > 7 virtualbox > In sid, at least in part IIRC Called virtualbox-ose, but present indeed and also in testing. > > 28sun-j2sdk1.5 > Wrong Java licence - packaged before Sun went "free": I think only > Java 7 will be fully free IIRC FWIW: 2008/01/

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

2008-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Jan 30, 2008 7:09 PM, Sebastian Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I was trying to say is that I don't think I will > get necessary permissions to run this site on Debian > ground as long as I am not a full Debian developer. > I will also need a MySQL server for that. Ah, I see. Perhaps

Re: Wrong Architecture for openhackware

2008-01-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:48:45AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 18:47:53 +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > > Again, I don't agree here (backed by p2): The package is wrong if it > > asserts that it's "Architecture: all". It contains powerpc specific > > stuff and can only be buil

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:48:06AM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Perhaps a possibility would be to have a sort of "module-assistant"- > like package with a database of third-party, non-free software. This > tool would either install the third-party software on demand (like > googleearth-pack

Library versioning

2008-01-30 Thread David Paleino
Hi *, I'm packaging a software for the Debian-Med group (CCed), and found that, even if the library is at version 2.2.1, the compilation makes a libfoo.so.2.0.2 [1]. This is due to the fact that in Makefile.am upstream (CCed) has set: libvista_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 2:2:0 As already discusse

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:58:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >ax25-tools (U) >hf (U) Thanks, fixed these two. >libguilegtk-1.2-dev False alarm: the /usr/bin/build-gtk-guile script is actually in guile, but has a quick shell wrapper at the top

Re: Library versioning

2008-01-30 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:38:42 +0100 Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Hi David, Hi Sebastian, > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:14:13PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > > Is there any solution to this? If not, is it that important that the > > filename has the same version number

Re: Library versioning

2008-01-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 30/01/2008, David Paleino wrote: > I'm packaging a software for the Debian-Med group (CCed), and found > that, even if the library is at version 2.2.1, the compilation makes a > libfoo.so.2.0.2 [1]. > Is there any solution to this? If not, is it that important that the > filename has the same v

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 29 January 2008 00:55, Russ Allbery wrote: > Of course, since other syslog implementations are potentially better in > larger ways, there may still be good reason to switch the default syslog > to another implementation. It seems to me that everybody replied in favor to this idea

Re: Library versioning

2008-01-30 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi David, On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:14:13PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > This is due to the fact that in Makefile.am upstream (CCed) has set: > > libvista_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 2:2:0 > > As already discussed in the thread at [1], the numbers get reversed in the > file name, so that 2:2:0

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
Paul Wise wrote: > > There doesn't seem to be a lintian check for what Raphael has checked > for though. > Raphael, perhaps you could submit a bug+patch to lintian if you haven't > already? > If there's any chance to get it in lintian it'd be great. I haven't sent any bug/patch for it, hope Russ

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Rene Mayorga
On mar, 2008-01-29 at 19:58 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Rene Mayorga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >afbackup >afbackup-client False positive Both one have csh scripts. Cheers -- Rene Mauricio Mayorga signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

Re: Specifying where to follow-up (was: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal)

2008-01-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
Ben Finney wrote: > Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:58:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> > >> > [Please only reply to -devel] >> >> Reply-To? I sent the email via KNode/gmane, AFAIR there's no way to set a Reply-To. > > That's a field defined

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

2008-01-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
Paul Wise wrote: > > Ah, I see. Perhaps lucas (according to [1]) could be convinced to > change the IP to yours. > > What do you think about that lucas? Why only a redirect in the first > place? > > 1. http://people.debian.org/~nion/net-domains.html > Why not just move it to alioth? What I don

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:49:23PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:58:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > >libguilegtk-1.2-dev > > False alarm: the /usr/bin/build-gtk-guile script is actually in guile, > but has a quick shell wrapper at the top. checkbashisms is foo

checkbashisms: fails to detect shell wrappers (was: Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal)

2008-01-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.13 User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: checkbashisms Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:49:23PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:58:05PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> >libguilegtk-1.2-dev >> >> False ala

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
Clint Adams wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:37:03PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > This work flow simply doesn't work with our current source package format > > and a patch management system. Requiring this to work *with the current > > source package format* essentially means outlawing using

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
Russ Allbery wrote: > With that source package format, everyone using quilt or simple-patchsys > can trivially satisfy this requirement, and most uses of dpatch are > similarly trivial. It doesn't provide all of the power of a git or bzr > package format, but it's a lot easier to implement I hope

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

2008-01-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Paul Wise wrote: Ah, I see. Perhaps lucas (according to [1]) could be convinced to change the IP to yours. What do you think about that lucas? Why only a redirect in the first place? 1. http://people.debian.org/~nion/net-domains.html Lucas offered that to me but the host the site runs on cann

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Leidert wrote: > Why should I mirror the upstream VCS and blow up > svn.d.o or my own VCS servers? Because disk space is so much cheaper than your time that I can't even find the adjectives to describe how much cheaper it is? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> With that source package format, everyone using quilt or >> simple-patchsys can trivially satisfy this requirement, and most uses >> of dpatch are similarly trivial. It doesn't provide all of the power >> of a git or bzr package forma

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a false positive: > > $ checkbashisms /usr/bin/mkcamlp5 > possible bashism in /usr/bin/mkcamlp5 line 43 (let ...): > echo "let _ = Dynlink.add_available_units crc_unit_list" >> $CRC.ml > > checkbashisms is complaining about the "let",

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Wise wrote: >> There doesn't seem to be a lintian check for what Raphael has checked >> for though. Raphael, perhaps you could submit a bug+patch to lintian >> if you haven't already? It's been a wishlist bug in lintian for eons. What needs to

Re: checkbashisms: fails to detect shell wrappers

2008-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This sounds more like a report against checkbashisms. > I guess it could try to detect these: See script_is_evil_and_wrong() in lintian's check/scripts. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUB

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 30.01.2008, 12:31 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess: > Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Why should I mirror the upstream VCS and blow up > > svn.d.o or my own VCS servers? > > Because disk space is so much cheaper than your time that I can't even > find the adjectives to describe how much cheaper

Re: Bug#462975: ITP: kde4-style-qtcurve -- This is a set of widget styles for KDE4 based apps

2008-01-30 Thread Salvatore Ansani
Hi Fathi, of course I've asked Bastian if he've a plain to release a KDE4 package but I did'nt receive a response, so I make my ITP. Regards, Salvatore -- From: "Fathi Boudra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:51 PM To: ; "Sa

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > Well, assuming that you're not anticipating people would use tools in > dpkg-dev instead of a patch management system, we're talking about I don't know yet really. I imagine that someone doing an NMU on a source package using the new format would want to

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Well, assuming that you're not anticipating people would use tools in >> dpkg-dev instead of a patch management system, we're talking about > I don't know yet really. I imagine that someone doing an NMU on a

Re: checkbashisms: fails to detect shell wrappers

2008-01-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This sounds more like a report against checkbashisms. >> I guess it could try to detect these: > > See script_is_evil_and_wrong() in lintian's check/scripts. > Based on the next statement on checkbashisms I though they wer

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-01-30 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Kees Cook wrote: > Does anyone have any good test harnesses we can try this on? I'd be > more than happy to run them on some modern hardware. Video: mplayer with the -benchmark option in conjunction with -nosound and -vo. HTML rendering: Mike Hommey once blogged about benchmarking the ACID test:

Re: checkbashisms: fails to detect shell wrappers

2008-01-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:40 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> This sounds more like a report against checkbashisms. > >> I guess it could try to detect these: > > > > See script_is_evil_and_wrong() in lintian's check/

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It'd be nice if lintian could provide an interface to perform an > specific check on a specific file (not on a .deb directly). That's out > of lintian's pourpose but it would be nice anyway. One of my long-term goals for lintian is to move more of th

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
Thanks Russ for your input. Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The script basically uses find on those directories (under /usr/share it >> only searches for '*.sh') and then uses file on those to get a new list >> of those file being shell scripts which are then

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > The script basically uses find on those directories (under /usr/share it > > only searches for '*.sh') and then uses file on those to get a new list > > of those file being shell scripts

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
"Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > lintian's parsing code certainly sounds better (mainly because > checkbashisms is based on an old version of the lintian code) but, from > a quick look, checkbashisms flags more issues than lintian does. We do > appear to be missing a few though; I'l

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-01-30 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:46:55PM +, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Kees Cook wrote: > > Does anyone have any good test harnesses we can try this on? I'd be > > more than happy to run them on some modern hardware. > > Video: > mplayer with the -benchmark option in conjunction with -nosound and

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-30 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 06:38:01PM +, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 30.01.2008, 12:31 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess: > > Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > Why should I mirror the upstream VCS and blow up > > > svn.d.o or my own VCS servers? > > > > Because disk space is so much cheaper than you

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

2008-01-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 30/01/08 at 19:59 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 7:09 PM, Sebastian Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What I was trying to say is that I don't think I will > > get necessary permissions to run this site on Debian > > ground as long as I am not a full Debian developer. > > I wi

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 29 January 2008 00:55, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Of course, since other syslog implementations are potentially better in > > larger ways, there may still be good reason to switch the default syslog > > to another implementation. > > It

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:01:58 +0100, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It seems to me that everybody replied in favor to this idea and nobody replied >suggesting to keep sysklogd the default. Which leads me to believe it should >be done :-) Please, do change away from sysklogd. sysklogd i

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-01-30 Thread Kees Cook
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:41:41AM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:16:24PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > In kernels that support text ASLR, programs compiled > > for PIE will gain full position randomization. > > For which architectures is text ASLR available? does it

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 29 January 2008 00:55, Russ Allbery wrote: Of course, since other syslog implementations are potentially better in larger ways, there may still be good reason to switch the default syslog to another implementation.

Re: wnpp.debian.net sources released, security review wanted, plans for the future

2008-01-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Paul Wise wrote: Not sure what you had in mind for a "feed". If you mean RDF/RSS of DSAs, there are two here: http://www.debian.org/security/ Is there a way to get notified of new security bugs right when they are opened? Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Bug#282225: dfontmgr: still depends on gtk1 libraries - libgtk-perl and libglade-perl

2008-01-30 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On sam, jan 26, 2008 at 12:34:24 +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Please, we would like to get rid of libperl-gtk (and libglade as > well). I'm not versed in perl, not really in gtk either for the matter. > I don't think porting dfontmgr to gtk2 is a really hard work, and I'd be > glad if someone

Bug#463337: ITP: mod-atom -- Apache2 module for publishing and editing web resources

2008-01-30 Thread Jack Bates
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jack Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mod-atom Upstream Author : Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/mod-atom/ * License : Apache Programming Lang: C Description : Apache2 module for publis

Re: Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
William Pitcock wrote: > * Package name: dsyslog > Version : 0.1.0 > Upstream Author : William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://nenolod.net/dsyslog > * License : ISC (BSD-like) > Programming Lang: C > Description : a dumb syslog > dsyslog is

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Raphael Geissert wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >paw-demos This is a false positive: % checkbashisms bin/paw-demos.in possible bashism in bin/paw-demos.in line 54 ('select' is not POSIX): echo "(Or use the --dir option to the script to select a different" best regards

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Sebastian Pipping wrote: * A mapping to current ITPs might be interesting. (Integration into http://wnpp.debian.net/) I just added that. Currently about 500 RFPs and ITPs show more than 0 installs: http://wnpp.debian.net/?type%5B%5D=ITP&type%5B%5D=RFP&sort=installs;desc Sebastian -- To

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:17:32 +0100 Sebastian Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > * A mapping to current ITPs might be interesting. > > (Integration into http://wnpp.debian.net/) > > I just added that. Currently about 500 RFPs and ITPs > show more than 0 install

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, here we go... > > [investigation and analysis of dependencies on 'sysklogd'] Good work, thankyou. > Should, I file a lenny release goal first and wait for it's > approval, or can I take this thread as consensus that I can pursue > changing the defa

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 00:11:44 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > For 12.) and 28.), I'd file a wishlist bug providing a config file > snippet for /etc/rsyslog.d/ Can we please use /etc/syslog.d/ instead? this way we don't get locked in any specific implementation. I'm preparing a patch for inetut

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:31:00PM -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008 4:31:51 pm Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On mar, 2008-01-29 at 15:47 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > I notice, for instance, that the latest cups > > > requires avahi. Can we

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: The list of syslogd sorted by Installed-Size: Package: socklog-run Installed-Size: 148 This one requires runit (430k) and socklog (291k) for operation Package: sysklogd Installed-Size: 212 This one requires klogd (139k) for kernel logging. Package: inetutils-syslog

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Guillem Jover wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 00:11:44 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: For 12.) and 28.), I'd file a wishlist bug providing a config file snippet for /etc/rsyslog.d/ Can we please use /etc/syslog.d/ instead? this way we don't get locked in any specific implementation. I'm prepari

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:01:58 +0100, Holger Levsen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It seems to me that everybody replied in favor to this idea and nobody > >replied > >suggesting to keep sysklogd the default. Which leads me to believe it should > >be done

Re: Bug#462975: ITP: kde4-style-qtcurve -- This is a set of widget styles for KDE4 based apps

2008-01-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Salvatore Ansani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Salvatore Ansani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: kde4-style-qtcurve > Version : 0.55.2 > Upstream Author : Craig Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : > http://www.k

Re: Bug#462792: ITP: failmalloc -- demonstrate what really happens if memory allocation fails

2008-01-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Hideki Yamane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > Hi, > > I want to package "failmalloc" library that leads interesting function > for making robust program, made by GNU GRUB author. > >Package name: failmallo

Re: Bug#463029: ITP: synce-sync-engine -- Synchronization Engine for Windows Mobile devices

2008-01-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Jonny Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jonny Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: synce-sync-engine > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Ole André Vadla Ravnås <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting William Pitcock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Users are very good at missing these jokes. > > > > -Rob > > Yes, I hadn't thought of that. I'll just refer to it as a "an advanced > and powerful syslog daemon" in the short description then. Without the leading article, then, please...:-). See

Re: Bug#463002: ITP: doomsday -- GPL licensed engine for classic doom, heretic, hexen and strife which provides updated 3d graphics and network gameplay

2008-01-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Hash C. Borger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Hash C. Borger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: doomsday > Version : 1.9.0-beta5.2 > Upstream Author : Jaakko Keränen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.example.o

Re: Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-30 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 06:36 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting William Pitcock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Users are very good at missing these jokes. > > > > > > -Rob > > > > Yes, I hadn't thought of that. I'll just refer to it as a "an advanced > > and powerful syslog daemon" in the sh

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:48 +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Perhaps a possibility would be to have a sort of "module-assistant"- > like package with a database of third-party, non-free software. This > tool would either install the third-party software on demand (like > googleearth-package)