Re: Changes in the maintenance of the Developers Reference

2009-09-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:40:51PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Debian Policy has a more formal process than developers-reference and > I am concerned that mixing both discussions on the same channel would cause > confusion. > > debian-de...@l.d.o could be a better channel for the developers-ref

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-22 Thread Hilko Bengen
* Philipp Kern: > On 2009-09-21, Hilko Bengen wrote: >> I have written and maintained scripts that download signature file >> updates for several commercial antivirus scanners and built packages for >> them -- which is pretty much the same thing that clamav-getfiles does. >> 10 updates to the sig

Bug#547804: RFH: stfl -- structured terminal forms language/library

2009-09-22 Thread Nico Golde
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the stfl package. The package description is: stfl is a library which implements a curses-based widget set for text terminals. . This package contains the development files required to build software that uses libstfl. I

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 18 septembre 2009 à 21:18 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > If there are no objections, I will submit a MBF for those 75 packages in > a few days. Done, omitting a reported false positive and a few packages fixed in the meantime. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=d

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-22 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
2009/9/20 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh : > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: >> As long as you do not expect me to manually sign every single upload, > > Why not?  It is a package, it has root access anywhere it is being installed > or removed.  Even if you abuse the DM machinery to have a key

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Javier Fernandez-Sanguino: > This really sounds like there is a "use case" for data-only > "packages" that: Is clamav-data really data-only? Other AV software ships some sort of code even in signature updates (as opposed to engine updates). > - do not include maintainer scripts (dpkg refuses

Re: Automatic ITP closing.

2009-09-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
Sandro Tosi wrote: [...] > > I'm personally happy that this script stops: ITP without work should > be retitled to RFP (since this way we don't loose the history of the > bugs if someone will step in) instead of closing it. > FWIW I have a script that I usually run to do WNPP bugs maintenance th

Re: The 'git' Debian package in squeeze

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Samuelson
> > Well, except _not_ to abet the hostile takeover of a > > project name that has been around since ... I don't know, > > but the Debian package goes back to 1997. [Jon Dowland] > In what way is it hostile? It is hostile in the sense that nobody in Linus-git went to GNU-git to ask permission be

zendframework package with or without bin package

2009-09-22 Thread Frank Habermann
Hi folks, i have created the package zendframework and zendframework-bin. The package zendframework contains the php libraries. The bin package contains two scripts with that you can create a mvc environment with the zendframework. This is only important for developers. So my question is, if i

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
By the way,.. a similar problem is also present in many other packages. Let me just name a few concrete examples so that you get a feeling on what I mean. 1) debootstrap/cdebootstrap IIRC, only cdeboostrap requires a keyring per default (or did it always use debian-archive-keyring?) Anyway,... w

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-22 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Anton Mitterer schrieb: > By the way,.. a similar problem is also present in many other packages. > Let me just name a few concrete examples so that you get a feeling on > what I mean. > > > > 1) debootstrap/cdebootstrap > IIRC, only cdebo

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 21:23 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > There are so many scenarios where we are not able to verify any > signatures (upstream does not provide any kind of verification) or where > it is non-sens. > > If we are so pedantic about this topic, we should also ask ourself, if > pack

Re: zendframework package with or without bin package

2009-09-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
Frank Habermann wrote: > Hi folks, > > i have created the package zendframework and zendframework-bin. The > package zendframework contains the php libraries. The bin package contains > two scripts with that you can create a mvc environment with the > zendframework. This is only important for dev

Re: zendframework package with or without bin package

2009-09-22 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 23, 2009, at 1:22, Raphael Geissert wrote: Frank Habermann wrote: I also want to rename the package to libphp-zendframework. biased answer: ugh, why? That reminds me some of the libfoo-bar-moo-invent-something-else-here packages we have in the archive. One possible answer to "why?

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Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:13:38PM +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino a écrit : > > This really sounds like there is a "use case" for data-only "packages" that: > > - do not include maintainer scripts (dpkg refuses to run them) or are > only allowed a set of limited tasks (run in a restricted shell

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Re: zendframework package with or without bin package

2009-09-22 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:22:20PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > > > I also want to rename the package to libphp-zendframework. > > > > biased answer: ugh, why? > That reminds me some of the libfoo-bar-moo-invent-something-else-here > packages we have in the archive. the php policy draft r