About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts of yum based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs. Unfortunately, it seems that the current maintainer of Yum in Debian haven't been active for a long ti

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a > working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts of yum > based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs. Indeed. > Unfortunately, it seems that the current maintainer of Yum

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
I forgot to add... The current maintainer of yum AND rpm (Anibal Monsalve Salazar ) has been unactive for quite a long time now, there are outstanding very serious bugs without even any reply from him since 2006. We really need something to be done for rpm as well. I have contacted the people fro

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > I forgot to add... > > The current maintainer of yum AND rpm (Anibal Monsalve Salazar > ) has been unactive for quite a long time now, there > are outstanding very serious bugs without even any reply from him since > 2006. We really need something to be done for rpm as well

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jonny Lamb [Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:41:46 +]: > Version : 0.0.0+git+37ec0c I don't know what your further plans of versioning are for Git snapshot (incrementing the micro release number?), but I thought I'd point out that SHA1 are not sensibly sortable, just in case. Cheers, -- Ade

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-14 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:17:42 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Jonny Lamb [Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:41:46 +]: > > > Version : 0.0.0+git+37ec0c > > I don't know what your further plans of versioning are for Git snapshot > (incrementing the micro release number?), but I thought I'd point ou

Re: file-roller: Can't open .deb by default (aka should recommend binutils)

2009-02-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi Folks, I filed the following bug (515175), which raises 2 questions: In Bug 515175, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Package: file-roller > Version: 2.22.4-2 > Severity: normal > > On a default gnome-desktop system (Lenny), .deb files (application/x-deb) > are associated with file-roller, but it can't

AW: Bug#515130: ITP: unrealircd -- Unreal IRC Server

2009-02-14 Thread Rondal
Hi, > UnrealIRCd has many licensing and code-quality issues which would > block it's inclusion in a Debian release. I admit that the sourcecode is not of the highest quality, but I do not see where it will block inclusion into Debian. About the licensing issues I already said that their license

AW: Bug#515134: ITP: ircservices -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ

2009-02-14 Thread Rondal
retitle 515134 ITP: ircservices-church -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ Hi, > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=424844 . > Inclusion of ircservices in Debian may be problematic. I missed this one when I looked for ITPs/RTPs. I've did

Re: DDE, Debian Data Export

2009-02-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:37:46PM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: > One of the criticisms I could make (and made live at your > presentation @FOSDEM), is the lack of semantics (as in Semantic Web > W3C standards) there (somehow what I mentioned also in > http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/web

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bastian Blank: > GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates > just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision > themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. GNUTLS has rejected RSA-MD5 signatures in X.509 certificate chains s

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-14 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:20:44AM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:17:42 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > * Jonny Lamb [Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:41:46 +]: > > > > > Version : 0.0.0+git+37ec0c > > > > I don't know what your further plans of versioning are for

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-14 Thread Jonny Lamb
On Sat, Feb 14, 08:12:45 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Is it stable enough, even for unstable? :) I've been using it for a little while and I think so, yes. -- Jonny Lamb, UK jo...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-14 Thread Jonny Lamb
On Sat, Feb 14, 11:17:42 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > I don't know what your further plans of versioning are for Git snapshot > (incrementing the micro release number?), but I thought I'd point out > that SHA1 are not sensibly sortable, just in case. Right. I suspect some releases will start popp

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jonny Lamb [Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:55:42 +]: > On Sat, Feb 14, 08:12:45 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > Is it stable enough, even for unstable? :) > I've been using it for a little while and I think so, yes. Do you have binary packages anywhere? I'd like to give it a try without having to com

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2009-02-14 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Bastian Blank: >> GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates >> just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision >> themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. > GNUTLS has rejected RSA-M

ITP: mediawiki-smwhalo -- The Halo extension provides usability improvements to Semantic MediaWiki

2009-02-14 Thread Jörg Heizmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joerg Heizmann * Package name: mediawiki-smwhalo Version : 1.4.0 * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo-extension/ * License : GPL Description : The Halo extension provides usability improvements to Semantic Me

Re: Bug#515141: ITP: libmimic -- A video codec for Mimic V2.x content

2009-02-14 Thread Luciano Bello
El Sáb 14 Feb 2009, Luciano Bello escribió: > even when it was being updated since 3 years ago what i meant: "it has *not* been updated since 3 years ago". The last version is from Feb 7th 2006. sorry for my English, luciano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:08:49 +0100 Luk Claes wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a > > working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts > > of yum based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs. > >

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Luk Claes wrote: > Why is the python-iniparse also needed? That's not clear from the bug > report. Very simple: yum crashes with a not-so-nice error message when I try to boostrap a CentOS complaining about the iniparse python module not being present. I should have add it to the bug report, but

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] sean finney | when i've had to do this in the past i think i did something like | ~.git.. this way you get lots of relevant info, the | fact that it's a prerelease of , the date the snapshot was taken, | the fact that it's a git snapshot, and the sha sum. and of course it's | sortable. If

Bug#515198: ITP: gnurush -- GNU Rush is a Restricted User Shell, designed for sites providing limited remote access to their resources.

2009-02-14 Thread michaelh . debian+gnurush
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: michaelh.debian+gnur...@googlemail.com * Package name: gnurush Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Sergey Poznyakoff * URL : http://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/projects/rush * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description :

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-14 Thread Jonny Lamb
On Sat, Feb 14, 16:25:41 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Do you have binary packages anywhere? I'd like to give it a try without > having to compile it. Sure. I threw some i386 and amd64 packages here: http://people.debian.org/~jonny/gitg/ -- Jonny Lamb, UK jo...@debian.org signature.asc De

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> Why is the python-iniparse also needed? That's not clear from the bug >> report. > > Very simple: yum crashes with a not-so-nice error message when I try to > boostrap a CentOS complaining about the iniparse python module not being > present. > > I shou

Re: Bug#515134: ITP: ircservices -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ

2009-02-14 Thread The Fungi
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 01:59:34PM +0100, Rondal wrote: [...] > there are currently no other IRC Services packages in the > repositories [...] Unless I misunderstand your assertion or am taking it out of context, I would hold up at least the dancer-services package as a counterexample (though I ex

Should Debian Live be supported with lenny?

2009-02-14 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Hi, according to the current lenny release notes, Debian Live is going to become official with lenny for x86. I tried Debian Live several times and always had issues with it. So, I decided to test Debian Live a bit and found that several issues still applied. I discussed with Daniel Baumann abou

AW: Bug#515134: ITP: ircservices -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ

2009-02-14 Thread Rondal
>> there are currently no other IRC Services packages in the >> repositories > [...] > > Unless I misunderstand your assertion or am taking it out of > context, I would hold up at least the dancer-services package as a > counterexample (though I expect there are others, this is one I > actively us

Re: Bug#515134: ITP: ircservices -- IRC Services for IRC networks providing services like Nick- and ChanServ

2009-02-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 19:38:16 +0100, Rondal wrote: > >> there are currently no other IRC Services packages in the > >> repositories > > [...] > > > > Unless I misunderstand your assertion or am taking it out of > > context, I would hold up at least the dancer-services package as a > > countere

Bug#515221: ITP: voms -- Virtual Organization Membership Service

2009-02-14 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: voms Version : 1.9.2 * URL : http://edg-wp2.web.cern.ch/edg-wp2/security/voms/voms.html * License : non-standard but DFSG free Description : Virtual Organization Membership Service In

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-14 Thread Brian May
Florian Weimer wrote: Yesterday several people started to complain that they could not longer connect to their ldap servers, many of them using pam-ldap and nss-ldap. A quick look showed certificates in the chain which was signed with MD5. Are you sure this isn't #514807? Also see #514

Bug#515225: ITP: lfc -- LHC Computing Grid File Catalog

2009-02-14 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: lfc Version : 1.7.0.6 * URL : http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/LCG_File_Catalog * License : GPL2+ Description : LHC Computing Grid File Catalog The File Catalog (or Replica Catalog) maps

Re: Bug#515225: ITP: lfc -- LHC Computing Grid File Catalog

2009-02-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 01:08 +0100, Steffen Moeller a écrit : > The LCG (LHC (Large Hydron Collider) Computing Grid) File Catalog (LFC) ^ Hadron -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We w

Bug#515226: ITP: cgsi-gsoap -- GSI plugin for gSOAP

2009-02-14 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: cgsi-gsoap Version : 1.3.2.2 * URL : http://glite.cvs.cern.ch/cgi-bin/glite.cgi/org.glite.security.cgsi-gsoap/ * License : their own DFSG compatible Description : GSI plugin for gSOAP

Bug#515233: ITP: sqldeveloper -- Oracle SQL Developer

2009-02-14 Thread Lazarus Long
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lazarus Long -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: sqldeveloper Version : 1.5.3.57.83 Upstream Author : Oracle, Inc. * URL : http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/sql/ * License : Non-free Pro