Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-06-26 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Raphael Geissert wrote: dash already has one, the idea is to make it essential and default to yes, so that as soon as it is installed the symlink is changed. If you wish to have dash installed but not as /bin/sh you can always dpkg-reconfigure dash. Why essential? It doesn't provide anything da

Re: [Debconf-discuss] using OpenPGP notations to indicate keysigning practices

2009-06-26 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-06-25, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <20090625100437.ga10...@ana.debian.net> you wrote: >> FWIW, you will see plenty of national ID from all the european countries >> in DebConf. I do expect most of germans, frenchs, italian, belgian, etc just >> travelling with their cards. They do

Re: [Debconf-discuss] using OpenPGP notations to indicate keysigning practices

2009-06-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Philipp Kern (26/06/2009): > On 2009-06-25, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > European ID cards are more like a passport, whereas a US ID is a > > driver license. (In addition to that national driver licenses of > > european countries are much less usefull for this purpose unless > > they are the new e

Re: BTS and the missing 'invalid' tag

2009-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 06:32:10PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: >> Which is precisely what I don't think we need. There is no difference >> between "invalid" and "this is an invalid bug, closing". > > Of course there is. After the closed bug got archived, it's no longer >

Re: BTS and the missing 'invalid' tag

2009-06-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Frank Küster (26/06/2009): > In this case, I'd tend to say that there is actually a bug: Move the > documentation that explains why the behavior is intended to a more > prominent, visible place. OK, and once that done, what do you do when the bugs keep on being opened because people don't read th

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Bug#534686: ITP: python-tgext.admin -- user management controller add-on for TurboGears

2009-06-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli * Package name: python-tgext.admin Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Christopher Perkins * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tgext.admin * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : u

Why does mysql-server depend on exim?

2009-06-26 Thread mli...@stacktrace.us
I just bootstrapped a fresh vm for some sandbox testing and came across the following issue. While installing mysql-server I noticed the following dependencies: "bsd-mailx exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light" Although it's not that big of a deal, it does raise the question "Why sh

Re: Why does mysql-server depend on exim?

2009-06-26 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, mli...@stacktrace.us wrote: > While installing mysql-server I noticed the following dependencies: > > "bsd-mailx exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light" > > Although it's not that big of a deal, it does raise the question "Why should > a database server require a MTA?" It doesn't.

Re: Why does mysql-server depend on exim?

2009-06-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
mli...@stacktrace.us (26/06/2009): > While installing mysql-server I noticed the following dependencies: > > "bsd-mailx exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light" > > Although it's not that big of a deal, it does raise the question "Why > should a database server require a MTA?" -(cy...@ta

Re: libswt and eclipse

2009-06-26 Thread Adrian Perez
I'm planning to adopt both. Essentially, what I need was azureus, but then as a dependency I need to adopt swt-gtk. Since in the future I plan to help maintaining eclipse, since it's orphaned right now, then I'm killing two birds in one shot here. Best regards. On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 23:03 +0200,

Re: C++ symbol mangling difference between arches

2009-06-26 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On 2009 m. June 26 d., Friday 02:02:48 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > - it's probably impossible to have substitutions to cover all cases > > for C++ symbol mangling... do you believe that it is possible > > to have enough (stable) substitutions to cover most common cases? > > > > (in the

Re: Bug#519941: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

2009-06-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:43:16PM +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > This could be very bad for the root-system package set. ROOT has > libraries named like libMatrix, libPostscript, libPhysics, libMath, and > so on - i.e., very general names. For that reason I moved all the > packa

Re: Visiontek ATI Radeon "All-In-Wonder" Delux card

2009-06-26 Thread Daniel James
Hi John, Any one here using this card effectively with Linux? It would help to know which chipset this card uses, there are many different Radeon cards offered by that manufacturer: http://graphics.visiontek.com/video/4000/4870x2.html When you find out, I suggest looking up that chipset on

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-06-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Luk Claes (l...@debian.org): > It's enough to dpkg-reconfigure dash for existing installations. And, by the way, if the switch happens, one has to think about rewording the current debconf template for dash, that says: Description: Install dash as /bin/sh? The default /bin/sh shell on

Re: Bug#534507: ITP: kalternatives -- graphical alternatives system configuration tool

2009-06-26 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Pino! On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 01:02:12 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Pino Toscano > > * Package name: kalternatives > Version : 0.12 > Upstream Author : Pino Toscano > * URL : > http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kaltern

Re: Bug#519941: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

2009-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx writes: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:43:16PM +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: >> This could be very bad for the root-system package set. ROOT has >> libraries named like libMatrix, libPostscript, libPhysics, libMath, >> and so on - i.e., very general names. For that reason I

Re: C++ symbol mangling difference between arches

2009-06-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:34:00PM +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: [...] > 2b) Still 2a is not enough if the base class contains such data members like > (s)size_t (on s390) or qreal (on armel). To support such cases, vt can only > be > a complex expression with recursive subst expansion like >

Re: C++ symbol mangling difference between arches

2009-06-26 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On 2009 m. June 26 d., Friday 19:43:13 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Would it be possible to implement expansion to a regexp instead of to a > string that must exactly match? I think yes if there is no other way (and according to your answers, there really isn't). Symbol files have two usage s

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > PS: I think that dash is a step toward a truly posix shell, but it is > not yet a posix shell: we still need fewer extentions. So in five/ten > year we will change it again. I doubt that we're going to move in that direction farther than where dash already is. T

Re: Architectures (Operating Systems and CPU Architectures)

2009-06-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
Russ and Steve: Thank you both for your replies. I'm going to have to spend some time considering what you have both said, and try to devise a clever way of representing the platform information. In terms of maintainability I don't think I have much of a problem there, since I'm using a Perl scri

Re: C++ symbol mangling difference between arches

2009-06-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Modestas Vainius: > While apparently, VT can't be implemented differently (except \d+), > what about size_t etc. then? They all can be implemented as regexps > too the most simple being 'any character'. However, in my opinion, > exact string matching is worthwhile to keep whenever possible. Can

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-06-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:21:45PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > I just noticed I forgot to say something: > > What won't change: > > * Bash will still be used as the default interactive shells for users > * the sh symlink won't be modified on existing installations I understand the concerns a

[VAC] July - August

2009-06-26 Thread David Paleino
Hello, I did hope I could've sent this mail in a better situation, but my DSL unexpectedly stopped working a bit ago, so I'm anticipating my [VAC] message by a couple of hours :) I'm moving to the seaside home, and will probably have from limited to no connection at all, for July-August. Please fe

Bug#534750: ITP: telepathy-mission-control-5 -- management daemon for Telepathy real-time communication framework

2009-06-26 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie * Package name: telepathy-mission-control-5 Version : 5.1.2 Upstream Author : the Telepathy project (© Nokia Corporation, Collabora Ltd.) * URL : http://mission-contro

Re: Bug#519941: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

2009-06-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:41:09PM +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > I understand this issue, but putting libMatrix in /usr/lib/root avoid file > > conflict with other package, do not address the problem of library name > > conflict at run-time. > Agreed. Suppose you have packages bar

Re: Bug#519941: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

2009-06-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:59:26PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > For the root-system binaries, there is of course the option to link with > > RPATH set. However, I believe that the Policy actually forbids this. > I see no reason why policy should forbid rpath's for that case. For the standard

Bug#534751: ITP: latex2mathml -- Convert LaTeX math formulas to MathML

2009-06-26 Thread Jeremy Oden
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeremy Oden * Package name: latex2mathml Version : 0.0.0 Upstream Author : Jeremy Oden * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2mathml/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: PHP Description : Convert LaTeX mat

Re: [Debconf-discuss] using OpenPGP notations to indicate keysigning practices

2009-06-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
David Moreno dijo [Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:27:28AM -0400]: > >> Driving licenses are expressly not accepted as official ID documents > >> in Mexico, even if they are government-issued. > > > > That just begs the question: official to whom, and why? > > Official for the government for procedures su

Bug#534768: ITP: libbarby-ruby -- Pure-Ruby barcode generator

2009-06-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: libbarby-ruby Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Tore Darell * URL : http://toretore.github.com/barby * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Pure-Ruby barcode generator

Bug#534769: ITP: librqrcode-ruby -- Pure-ruby QR Code (2D barcode) generator

2009-06-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: librqrcode-ruby Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Duncan Robertson * URL : http://whomwah.com/rqrcode/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Pure-ruby QR Code (2D barc

Re: C++ symbol mangling difference between arches

2009-06-26 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On 2009 m. June 26 d., Friday 23:01:54 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Modestas Vainius: > > While apparently, VT can't be implemented differently (except \d+), > > what about size_t etc. then? They all can be implemented as regexps > > too the most simple being 'any character'. However, in my op