Re: Bug#464159: ITP: ktsuss -- gtk wrapper for su

2008-02-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Yves-Alexis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > * Package name: ktsuss > Version : 1.2 > Upstream Author : David B. Cortarello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ktsuss > * L

Re: Intend to hijack rrdtool

2008-02-06 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bernd Zeimetz: > as rrdtool is a vital part of a lot of system monitoring solutions and > should not go into Lenny in its current unmaintained state, I intend to > hijack it. > Do it. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was sele

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Feb 06 12:09, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:17:12PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Again, the discussion isn't (for me) about a tool, but an exchange > > format. We are discussing having patches served in a quilt series, and > > okay, this appro

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-02-06 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Pierre, On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:17:12PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Again, the discussion isn't (for me) about a tool, but an exchange > format. We are discussing having patches served in a quilt series, and okay, this approach is similar but different. So you want a quilt series, but

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread maximilian attems
> The priority of selinux packages was changed from optional to standard, > fairly shortly before the release of Etch. > > I propose to revert that change before Lenny. The basic reason is that > the selinux packages have basically been unmaintained since the release > of Etch. I'd like to work

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:27:45PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > I'd like to work on SELinux packages and bugs. That's wonderful, thanks for your help offering! Still, if I'm interpreting correctly Frans' and Erich's mails, the *current* status of SELinux in Debian is, erm, sub-optimal. So I

Re: [update] Automatic mirror selection - feedback appreciated

2008-02-06 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Michal Čihař wrote: > This server was the place where I tried the lookup and it is really in > Czech. It has own DNS server which does not use any proxy and I flushed > it's cache before each attempt. Just tested it again to be sure: [snip] > Okay let's try it also another way - ask directly your

Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

2008-02-06 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:14:35PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:10:41AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > > I find personnaly patch/unpatch more easy to understand, but YMMV... > > I think (hope) that no one will be able to find a reason why the two > target should *n

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:27:45 +0100 maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > The priority of selinux packages was changed from optional to standard, > > fairly shortly before the release of Etch. > > > > I propose to revert that change before Lenny. The basic reason is that

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-06 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:56:05AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Description : A GTK+-based Last.fm client > > "Last.fm" isn't really clear for anybody. I suggest using a more > generic description and somehow say this is related to audio/media > playing. Well, you're right, I should

Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

2008-02-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:34:58PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > So please go for patch/unpatch. > > An unpatch target might be problematic. There're packages with patches > that touch the upstream Makefile, and calling 'make unpatch' before > 'make clean' can break things; of course the clean ta

Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Jean Parpaillon
Hi, I intend to package HPL benchmarks. Copyright file contains the following statements: -- 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread brian m. carlson
[Please follow up to -legal only. Full quote for the benefit of -legal.] On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:30:01PM +0100, Jean Parpaillon wrote: Hi, I intend to package HPL benchmarks. Copyright file contains the following statements: -- 1. Redistributions of source code must r

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 06/02/2008, Jean Parpaillon wrote: > 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this > software must display the following acknowledgement: > This product includes software developed at the University of > Tennessee, Knoxville, Innovative Computing Laboratories.

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jean! You wrote: > I intend to package HPL benchmarks. Copyright file contains the > following statements: > -- > 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. >

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi, On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:46:23PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 06/02/2008, Jean Parpaillon wrote: > > 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this > > software must display the following acknowledgement: > > This product includes software developed at t

Bug#464388: RFP: alfresco -- open source enterprise content management

2008-02-06 Thread Carlos Izquierdo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: alfresco Version: 2.1 Upstream Author: Alfresco Software, Inc. URL: http://www.alfresco.com/ License: GPL with FLOSS exception Description: Alfresco is an open source enter

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Cyril Brulebois said: > On 06/02/2008, Jean Parpaillon wrote: > > 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this > > software must display the following acknowledgement: > > This product includes software developed at the University of

Bug#464392: ITP: libdebian-package-make-perl -- Perl extension for autobuilding Debian packages

2008-02-06 Thread Hilko Bengen
Package: wnpp Owner: Hilko Bengen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: libdebian-package-make-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : myself * URL or Web page : not published yet * License : GPL2+ Description : Perl extension for autobuilding Debian pa

Re: [update] Automatic mirror selection - feedback appreciated

2008-02-06 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
[setting MFT to avoid OT discussion on -mirror] Raphael Geissert wrote: > PD. What do you think about adding a built-in list of addresses which 'work' > for OpenDNS so they are excluded and some kind of http redirection is used > instead? It's a possibility, but I had envisioned something simpler

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-06 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:59:30AM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote: > > Also drop the leading article, of course > > "graphical GTK+-based client for Last.fm media service" > > Is it necessary to say it's graphical provided that it's based on > GTK+? > > How about ... > > "Graphical GTK+-based clie

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Václav Ovsík
Hi, I'm not DD, but I'm very interested into SELinux on Debian (but must to say - not a guru for SELinux yet :). I'm experimenting with latest SELinux code on Etch, so if this staff can be worth for anyone... http://linux.i.cz/debian/dists/selinux-etch/ Packages are a bit hairy (changelogs). I r

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 06/02/2008, Sebastian Harl wrote: > Just to make this clear […] Yep, thank you (all) for clarifying that, sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpFkxYGMPJdq.pgp Description: PGP signature

ITP: opencascade -- CAE platform library and scripting engine

2008-02-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: opencascade Version: 6.2.0 Author: Open Cascade SAS (OCC), a French software services company URL: http://www.opencascade.org/ License: Open CASCADE Technology Public License, includes triangle with non-free source Description: CAE platform library a

unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-06 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I'm not sure whether this is an issue with dpkg or rather with lintian, but if I check the cryptsetup deb+udeb packages after building them, lintian reports that udebs don't allow the Homepage field in debian/control. If I got it right, the Homepage field belongs to the Source section of d

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-06 Thread Barry deFreese
Jonas Meurer wrote: Hello, I'm not sure whether this is an issue with dpkg or rather with lintian, but if I check the cryptsetup deb+udeb packages after building them, lintian reports that udebs don't allow the Homepage field in debian/control. If I got it right, the Homepage field belongs to t

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-06 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Jonas Meurer wrote: > I: cryptsetup-udeb udeb: unknown-field-in-control homepage Quick guess: could this be a case-sensitivity issue? Should be "Homepage:"... Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:27:45PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > I'd like to work on SELinux packages and bugs. > > That's wonderful, thanks for your help offering! > > Still, if I'm interpreting correctly Frans' and Erich's mails, the > *cu

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-06 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 06/02/2008 Barry deFreese wrote: >> I: cryptsetup-udeb udeb: unknown-field-in-control homepage > > What version of lintian do you have? That should be fixed by now. $ lintian -V Lintian v1.23.43 greetings, jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-06 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 06/02/2008 Leo costela Antunes wrote: > Jonas Meurer wrote: > > I: cryptsetup-udeb udeb: unknown-field-in-control homepage > > Quick guess: could this be a case-sensitivity issue? Should be > "Homepage:"... Unfortunately not. It's already 'Homepage' in debian/control. lintian inself seems to l

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure whether this is an issue with dpkg or rather with lintian, > but if I check the cryptsetup deb+udeb packages after building them, > lintian reports that udebs don't allow the Homepage field in > debian/control. This is what I was told by (a

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Alberto Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:56:05AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > Description : A GTK+-based Last.fm client > > > > "Last.fm" isn't really clear for anybody. I suggest using a more > > generic description and somehow say this is related

Re: Bug#464388: RFP: alfresco -- open source enterprise content management

2008-02-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Carlos Izquierdo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > >Package name: alfresco > Version: 2.1 > Upstream Author: Alfresco Software, Inc. > URL: http://www.alfresco.com/ > License: GPL with F

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-06 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 06/02/2008 Russ Allbery wrote: > > I'm not sure whether this is an issue with dpkg or rather with lintian, > > but if I check the cryptsetup deb+udeb packages after building them, > > lintian reports that udebs don't allow the Homepage field in > > debian/control. > > This is what I was told by

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-06 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:57:21PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > "graphical GTK+-based client for Last.fm media service" > > Is it necessary to say it's graphical provided that it's based on > > GTK+? > "GTK+" is jargon..:-) Then we'd need to change quite a few package descriptions :-) $

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Erich Schubert
Hi everyone, There is no real "SELinux team" anymore that could say yes or no to anything I figure. The SELinux people at Debian were mostly Manoj, RJC and myself. I havn't heard anything from Manoj in months, I'm not able to do any actual SELinux work anymore and while RJC updated his SELinux Demo

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:30:01PM +0100, Jean Parpaillon a écrit : > > 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this > software must display the following acknowledgement: > This produ

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 20:23:37 +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 06/02/2008 Russ Allbery wrote: > > > I'm not sure whether this is an issue with dpkg or rather with lintian, > > > but if I check the cryptsetup deb+udeb packages after building them, > > > lintian reports that udebs don't allow th

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This example is maybe a bit artificial, but the point is that with such > licences in main, redistributors who use advertisement should in theory > read all the copyright files to check who to acknowledge. For this > reason, I wouldn't recommend to incl

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:44:38PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This example is maybe a bit artificial, but the point is that with such > > licences in main, redistributors who use advertisement should in theory > > read all the copyright files t

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Alberto Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:57:21PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > > "graphical GTK+-based client for Last.fm media service" > > > Is it necessary to say it's graphical provided that it's based on > > > GTK+? > > "GTK+" is jargon..:-) > > Then

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that it is a bit frivolous to distribute software with > advertisment clause in main and not properly warning the redistributors, > who are the most likely persons to infringe the clause. We should > remeber that for other aspects of licencing a

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:00:52 +, Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue Feb 05 00:51, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > If we can't figure out a good and clean way to keep a large stack >> > of long-lived patches in the vcs then I firmly believe we should >> > standardize on quilt. >> >

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:30:40 +0100, Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On another note, I have a slight problem with the (other) proposal of > using a (git/$DVCS) repository as the form of source package > distribution. Mainly because I think this will usually add > bloat. While developing/

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think it's horribly credible that including software covered > by the 4-clause BSD license in Debian violates the principle of > least surprise when we specifically list it as one of our acceptable > licenses in the DFSG. The 4-clause BSD license

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:19:14 +0100, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The priority of selinux packages was changed from optional to > standard, fairly shortly before the release of Etch. > I propose to revert that change before Lenny. The basic reason is that > the selinux packages have basic

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:27:45 +0100, maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > so asking if the SELinux team is ok with adding me as co-maintainer? > thanks Erich for your concise posting on where the work needs to be > picked up! The place we need most work is 1) slat 2) polgen-dfs

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:49:01 +0100, Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello Frans, Hello fellow DDs, Yes, the SELinux stuff doesn't seem to > have any currently active developers. I haven't heard anything from > Manoj in months. I haven't been around a whole lot, no. > Anyway

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The 4-clause BSD license is not one that we list as an acceptable > license. > > DFSG http://www.debian.org/social_contract> §10: > > 10. Example Licenses > > The GPL, BSD, and Artistic licenses are examples of licenses that > we consider fre

Re: Bug#464392: ITP: libdebian-package-make-perl -- Perl extension for autobuilding Debian packages

2008-02-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Hilko Bengen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Owner: Hilko Bengen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: libdebian-package-make-perl > Version : 0.01 > Upstream Author : myself > * URL or Web page : not published yet > * License : GPL2+ >

Re: ITP: opencascade -- CAE platform library and scripting engine

2008-02-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > Package name: opencascade > Version: 6.2.0 > Author: Open Cascade SAS (OCC), a French software services company > URL: http://www.opencascade.org/ > License: Open CASCADE Technology Public License, includes tria

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:27:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > Am I missing something? This ? http://web.archive.org/web/19990210065944/http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license http://web.archive.org/web/20001205083200/http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting maximilian attems ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > but currently willing to work on i'd nack fjp requests. > of course if no progress has been made in a month, > his request is more then reasonable. I slightly disagree. Not that I have doubts about your commitment, but this entire discussion sh

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: Possible alternative: create a tasksel's task to include it, which would make testing of installs with SELinux by default easier. I would be in great favour of this. Being something not really end user-oriented, that would have to be a "hidden" ta

Re: unknown-field-in-control homepage

2008-02-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 07 February 2008, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I raised this issue on #debian-boot (irc), and was told that the > > concerns by "(a d-i maintainer | someone who was willing to express an > > opinion" were correct. Frans Pop from the debian-installer team > > verified that the Homepage field