Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le dimanche 02 mai 2010 à 11:57 -0500, Steve M. Robbins a écrit : >> One example is scientific users that need to ensure reproducibility of >> computer experiments [1] over many years: one technique used is to >> statically link the code and quarantine it so that it

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Mikhail Gusarov | Twas brillig at 23:54:02 02.05.2010 UTC+04 when yo...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: | | >> For #includes that your library may do for its API (e.g. gobject). | | NVY> But libetpan's public headers do not include any headers of those dependent | NVY> packages, so it

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | And GNOME developers insistance (so applications developers may > | blindly include gtk+2.0.pc and get all the stack). > > Yes, historical baggage, basically. So this is being fixed for GTK+ 3.0? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/Pa

Re: Decoupling GNOME 2.30 transitions

2010-05-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, March 28, 2010 12:54, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 3 - totem-pl-parser (libtotem-plparser12 → libtotem-plparser17) > + evince (libevince1 → libevince2) As discussed on IRC, please go ahead with these: > Sourceful uploads: > brasero > evince > gnome-python-deskto

Bug#580055: ITP: libpod-plainer-perl -- Perl extension for converting Pod to old-style Pod

2010-05-03 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves * Package name: libpod-plainer-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Robin Barker * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-Plainer/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl ext

Bug#580056: ITP: libshell-perl -- run shell commands transparently within perl

2010-05-03 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves * Package name: libshell-perl Version : 0.72 Upstream Author : Larry Wall * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Shell/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : run shell commands tran

Bug#580058: ITP: libclass-isa-perl -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree

2010-05-03 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves * Package name: libclass-isa-perl Version : 0.36 Upstream Author : Sean M. Burke * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-ISA/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : report the

Bug#580059: ITP: libswitch-perl -- A switch statement for Perl

2010-05-03 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves * Package name: libswitch-perl Version : 2.16 Upstream Author : Damian Conway * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Switch/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : A switch statemen

Re: Decoupling GNOME 2.30 transitions

2010-05-03 Thread Sebastian Dröge
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 11:39 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sun, March 28, 2010 12:54, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > 3 - totem-pl-parser (libtotem-plparser12 → libtotem-plparser17) > > + evince (libevince1 → libevince2) > > As discussed on IRC, please go ahead with these: > > > Sourceful u

Bug#580065: ITP: pdfgrep -- search in pdf files for strings matching a regular expression

2010-05-03 Thread Christoph Egger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Egger Version: 0.1 License: GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++ Source: pdfgrep Package: pdfgrep Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: Christoph Egger Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), automake, libpoppler-dev Standards-Version: 3.8.4 Homepa

Re: Proposed changes to the Debian Machine Usage Policy (DMUP)

2010-05-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Martin Zobel-Helas: >Using Debian machines for reading mail is OK, please >choose a lightly loaded machine [ie not master]. We do not master is not heavily loaded anymore, isn't it? So this is probably outdated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: Bug#579675: ITP: goban -- Goban screensaver

2010-05-03 Thread Al Nikolov
On Monday 03 May 2010 00:28:55 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Description : Goban screensaver > > The short description should not include the package name, maybe > something like: > "screen saver replaying games of Go" I haven't mentioned the name of the program, just the object on the screen.

Re: Bug#580088: jack-audio-connection-kit: FTBFS on armel ("cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list'")

2010-05-03 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:00:14PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > ../common/JackAPI.cpp:303: error: cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list' > for argument '4' to 'jack_client_t* jack_client_open_aux(const char*, > jack_options_t, jack_status_t*, va_list)' The code in question: jack_client_open_aux

Re: Bug#579177: ITP: xul-ext-monkeysphere -- Iceweasel/Firefox extension for using Monkeysphere on the web

2010-05-03 Thread Jameson Rollins
Hi, Frank. Thanks so much for the feedback. Responses below. On Sun, 02 May 2010 23:36:57 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 18:44 -0400, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > > * Package name: xul-ext-monkeysphere > > Version : 0.1 > > The package description could me

Re: Bug#580088: jack-audio-connection-kit: FTBFS on armel ("cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list'")

2010-05-03 Thread Sebastian Dröge
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:13 +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:00:14PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > ../common/JackAPI.cpp:303: error: cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list' > > for argument '4' to 'jack_client_t* jack_client_open_aux(const char*, > > jack_options_t, jack_sta

Re: Bug#580088: jack-audio-connection-kit: FTBFS on armel ("cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list'")

2010-05-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 03 May 2010 at 18:13:00 +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote: > Obviously, arg4 is NULL, so the message means the compiler cannot > convert 0 to a va_list, which should be (more or less) a pointer. Or a struct, or a platform-specific-object that exists nowhere else in C, or a piece of cheese, dependi

Re: Bug#580088: jack-audio-connection-kit: FTBFS on armel ("cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list'")

2010-05-03 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 05:50:39PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > The code in question: > > > >jack_client_open_aux(client_name, (jack_options_t)options, NULL, NULL); > > Instead of trying to fake up an empty va_list, why not call the varargs > version, with only the argument terminator in

Re: Bug#580088: jack-audio-connection-kit: FTBFS on armel ("cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list'")

2010-05-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 18:13:00 +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:00:14PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > ../common/JackAPI.cpp:303: error: cannot convert 'int' to 'va_list' > > for argument '4' to 'jack_client_t* jack_client_open_aux(const char*, > > jack_options_t, ja

Re: Bug#579177: ITP: xul-ext-monkeysphere -- Iceweasel/Firefox extension for using Monkeysphere on the web

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 12:13 -0400, Jameson Rollins wrote: > Hi, Frank. Thanks so much for the feedback. Responses below. > > On Sun, 02 May 2010 23:36:57 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 18:44 -0400, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > > > * Package name: xul-ext-monkeysphe

Re: Bug#579675: ITP: goban -- Goban screensaver

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 17:01 +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 00:28:55 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Description : Goban screensaver > > > > The short description should not include the package name, maybe > > something like: > > "screen saver replaying games of Go" > > > Repl

Re: Bug#579675: ITP: goban -- Goban screensaver / copyright issue

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 22:36 +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: > > * Package name: goban > * URL : http://draves.org/goban/ > * License : GPL >From what I understood, the package contains a copy of some games that were recorded during some tournaments. The records are retrieved fro

Re: Bug#579284: ITP: voxbo -- processing, statistical analysis, and display of brain imaging data

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:05 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Michael Hanke > > * Package name: voxbo > Version : 1.8.5 > Upstream Author : Daniel Kimberg > * URL : http://www.voxbo.org > * License : GPL-3 > Programmin

Re: Bug#579284: ITP: voxbo -- processing, statistical analysis, and display of brain imaging data

2010-05-03 Thread Michael Hanke
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 12:43:35AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:05 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Michael Hanke > > > > * Package name: voxbo > > Version : 1.8.5 > > Upstream Author : Daniel Kimberg > > *

Re: Proposed changes to the Debian Machine Usage Policy (DMUP)

2010-05-03 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Florian Weimer said: > * Martin Zobel-Helas: > > >Using Debian machines for reading mail is OK, please > >choose a lightly loaded machine [ie not master]. We do not > > master is not heavily loaded anymore, isn't it? So this is probabl

Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python

2010-05-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
أحمد المحمودي dijo [Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:48:47PM +0300]: > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > "Harm others" is a vague term that can be applied to a wide range of > > activities usually considered ok[1]. > > I am indeed discussing this matter with upstream. That

Bug#580176: ITP: obdgpslogger -- Suite of tools to log OBDII and GPS data

2010-05-03 Thread Gary Briggs
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gary Briggs * Package name: obdgpslogger Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Gary Briggs * URL : http://icculus.org/obdgpsloger/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Suite of tools to log OBDII and

Re: Bug#579284: ITP: voxbo -- processing, statistical analysis, and display of brain imaging data

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:11 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 12:43:35AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:05 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > > > > > > * Package name: voxbo > > > Description : processing, statistical analysis, and display of >

pid file security

2010-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Take a look in /var/run. Find a pid file that is owned by a non-root user. Now, look at the corresponding init script. What does it stop if that non-root user edited the pid file to contain '1'? I surveyed 20-odd daemons, and found 5 with this problem. This is a pity, because start-stop-daemon has

Re: pid file security

2010-05-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2010-05-04 at 02:25 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > As security problems go, being able to DOS a system by killing targeted > processes, slowly, is not very bad. After all, it could be fork bombed > or OOMed just as effectively. Security aside, there's an overall correctness > issue: There's the

Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python

2010-05-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, could you plese change othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python into othman -- electronic Quran browser or is there any reason that the Quran can better browsed with Python than any other programming language? Thanks Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email