Re: Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-19 Thread Martin Koegler
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Marc Leeman, le Sun 17 Jan 2010 22:16:17 +0100, a écrit : > > * Package name: pthsem > > Mmm, could this perhaps rather be just a patch added to the existing pth > package? Else you'll have to share the Debian patches. The situation with GNU pth is: * pth in debian

Re: Is Paul Dwerryhouse MIA?

2010-01-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 19/01/2010 00:47, Russell Coker wrote: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfenwick/363199868/ > > I believe that he is currently at LCA in NZ, so any DDs at LCA might want to > speak to him about it. The above URL has a recent picture of him. Are you sure? Uploaded on January 19, 2007 by p...@c

Re: Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Martin Koegler, le Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:27:07 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Marc Leeman, le Sun 17 Jan 2010 22:16:17 +0100, a écrit : > > > * Package name: pthsem > > > > Mmm, could this perhaps rather be just a patch added to the existing pth > > package? Else you'll have to s

Re: Is Paul Dwerryhouse MIA?

2010-01-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > I believe that he is currently at LCA in NZ, so any DDs at LCA might want > > to speak to him about it.  The above URL has a recent picture of him. > > Are you sure? > > Uploaded on January 19, 2007 > by p...@cpan Yes, he told me he was attending

Re: Is Paul Dwerryhouse MIA?

2010-01-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 19/01/2010 12:40, Russell Coker wrote: > Yes, he told me he was attending LCA. That photo was just one of the first > hits on a Google image search. Ok, those were two unrelated facts :) I though you saw the picture and deduced that he was at lca 2010. Sorry for misunderstanding. Cheers, --

Bug#565886: RFP: tex packages -- [SHORT DESCRIPTION]

2010-01-19 Thread Marco Righi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: tex packages Version: Upstream Author: [NAME ] URL: [http://example.com] License: [GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.] Description: [DES

Bug#565885: ITP: ibid -- Multi-protocol general purpose chat bot

2010-01-19 Thread Stefano Rivera
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Rivera * Package name: ibid Version : 0+bzr849 Upstream Author : The Ibid Developers * URL : http://ibid.omnia.za.net/ * License : GPL (mostly MIT/X as well) Programming Lang: Python Description : Multi-

Re: Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-19 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Martin Koegler, le Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:27:07 +0100, a écrit : >> Samuel Thibault wrote: >> > Marc Leeman, le Sun 17 Jan 2010 22:16:17 +0100, a écrit : >> > > * Package name    : pthsem >> > [..] > > The problem is that people know pth, but

Bug#565904: ITP: slimrat -- Application for automated downloading from file hosters

2010-01-19 Thread Paul McEnery
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul McEnery * Package name: slimrat Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Přemek Vyhnal Upstream Author : Tim Besard * URL : http://code.google.com/p/slimrat/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Perl Description :

Re: Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-19 Thread Yavor Doganov
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Martin Koegler, le Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:27:07 +0100, a écrit : > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Marc Leeman, le Sun 17 Jan 2010 22:16:17 +0100, a écrit : > > > > * Package name: pthsem > > > Mmm, could this perhaps rather be just a patch added to the > > > existing pth p

GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi, it seems that some buildds occasionally have libssl-dev installed in their chroot. A friend of mine has found out that the netatalk package depends on libssl0.9.8 [sparc] in sid and [hppa, mipsel] in squeeze. Other architectures are not affected. For GPL-licensed software like netatalk this is

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Fabian Greffrath writes: > it seems that some buildds occasionally have libssl-dev installed in > their chroot. A friend of mine has found out that the netatalk package > depends on libssl0.9.8 [sparc] in sid and [hppa, mipsel] in squeeze. > Other architectures are not affected. For GPL-licensed

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > This is a bug in the netatalk Debian packaging. You cannot assume the > package will be built in a clean chroot; among other things, the buildd > software explicitly does not guarantee that all packages will be removed. > Would it b

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Neil, On Tue Jan 19, 2010 at 22:29:25 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > This is a bug in the netatalk Debian packaging. You cannot assume the > > package will be built in a clean chroot; among other things, the buildd > > software

Bug#565946: ITP: remotepad-server -- Server for mouse/keyboard X11 remote control using Apple's iPhone

2010-01-19 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Rossi * Package name: remotepad-server Version : 1.10 Upstream Author : Kawamoto Yosihisa * URL : http://www.tenjin.org/RemotePad/ * License : GPL and BSD-like Programming Lang: C Description : Server

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil McGovern writes: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> This is a bug in the netatalk Debian packaging. You cannot assume the >> package will be built in a clean chroot; among other things, the buildd >> software explicitly does not guarantee that all packages wi

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/01/10 at 14:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil McGovern writes: > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> This is a bug in the netatalk Debian packaging. You cannot assume the > >> package will be built in a clean chroot; among other things, the buildd > >>

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 19. Januar 2010, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > we already have two or three buildds doing that... The buildd team (esp. > HE) working on that and if it works out to be stable enough, we can see > if we can roll out it to all buildds. very cool. thank you! cheers, Holger

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 19/01/10 at 14:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Well, I would argue that proper package builds in dirty environments is >> something we want in Debian anyway, and while this isn't the ideal >> method to find it, it would be a bug regardless of how the buildds >> worked

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:40:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Why would we want that? > > > I mean, it's very difficult to guarantee that packages build correctly > > in dirty envs. I don't really see the point of enforcing that when we > > have the technology (pbuilder, sbuild + lvm snap

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 00:48:15 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > hu? since when do we have a broader interest in people patching > and rebuilding packages? I know that there are *some* people interested > in that (me included) but I don't see that a broader > audience wants to support that. >

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Patrick Schoenfeld writes: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:40:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Because we want our users to be able to patch and rebuild our software >> to suit their needs. Asking them to set up a chroot build environment >> is asking quite a lot. > hu? since when do we have a b

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/01/10 at 16:04 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> People do occasionally test whether packages rebuild properly in dirty > >> environments and file bugs when they don't. Being absolutely certain it > >> will always work is, of course, hard, but I think fixing the bug when we > >> detect it is t

Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I would like to ask on this list a question I asked to the FTP team last December, and for which I have not received answer yet. Is tabular data in a binary format that can be read, written, modified and exported using free software acceptable for Debian, or shall we contact the upstrea

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 19/01/10 at 16:04 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: People do occasionally test whether packages rebuild properly in dirty environments and file bugs when they don't. Being absolutely certain it will always work is, of course, hard, but I think fixing the

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > There are two ways to attack that problem: how about the compromise and doing both, except that for (1) we file the bugs with severity important? cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message par

Re: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > Is tabular data in a binary format that can be read, written, modified > and exported using free software acceptable for Debian, or shall we > contact the upstream author to check if he used an intermediate format > (be it text, or binary like .odt or .xls) and require th

Re: GPL-licensed software linked against libssl on buildds!

2010-01-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 20/01/10 at 01:49 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > There are two ways to attack that problem: > > how about the compromise and doing both, except that for (1) we file the bugs > with severity important? There are a lot of more useful QA tas