Re: Moving ACL utilities to /bin?

2010-07-23 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Julien BLACHE (jbla...@debian.org): > Are there any reasons or objections against moving the ACL utilities to > /bin, alongside their traditional UNIX counterparts? Note that libacl is > already installed in /lib. > > If not, I'll file a bug against the acl package asking for the utilitie

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

2010-07-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:59:53 +0200 "Jesús M. Navarro" wrote: > Hi, Neil: > > On Thursday 22 July 2010 20:28:49 Neil Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:53:53 -0700 > [..] > > > Removing packages from testing does not remove them from any existing > > installation, so it's hard to see how

Re: Moving ACL utilities to /bin?

2010-07-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:30:40PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > This makes it impossible to use them during the early boot sequence > before /usr is mounted, so they're unusable in udev rules for instance. Care to explain what you try to do? We have groups for access control to devices and you ca

Re: Upstream Tracker

2010-07-23 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
On 07/22/2010 05:40 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > > >> Suggestions for libraries inclusion and feature/bug requests are very >> welcome. Thanks! >> > I'd suggest looking at each library in Debian Do you mean the http://packages.debian.o

Bug#590042: ITP: haskell-pretty-show -- Executable and lib to Pretty print arbitrary Haskell Show output

2010-07-23 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Erik de Castro Lopo * Package name: haskell-pretty-show Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Iavor S. Diatchki * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pretty-show * License : BSD3 style Programming Lang: Haskell Desc

Re: Moving ACL utilities to /bin?

2010-07-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 06:46:35AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Julien BLACHE (jbla...@debian.org): > > Are there any reasons or objections against moving the ACL utilities to > > /bin, alongside their traditional UNIX counterparts? Note that libacl is > > already installed in /lib.

Re: Upstream Tracker

2010-07-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > On 07/22/2010 05:40 AM, Paul Wise wrote: >> I'd suggest looking at each library in Debian > Do you mean the http://packages.debian.org/testing/libs/ list? Yes, or any package shipping a library in /lib or /usr/lib. -- bye, pabs http:

Bug#590044: RFH: cobbler -- Install server

2010-07-23 Thread Martijn van Brummelen
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with packagin Cobbler. Im looking for someone to co-maintain the Cobbler package or perhaps start a "cobbler-team" it needs a lot of work to get it in shape. Anyone who is interested feel free to contact me. The package description is: Cobbler

Re: Upstream Tracker

2010-07-23 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
On 07/23/2010 12:22 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > >> On 07/22/2010 05:40 AM, Paul Wise wrote: >> >>> I'd suggest looking at each library in Debian >>> >> Do you mean the http://packages.debian.org/testing/libs/ list? >> > Ye

Re: constantly usable testing

2010-07-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 23/07/10 at 09:16 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 22 iul 10, 22:51:32, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:10:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > I've noticed that linking to this page seems to kill threads, which is > > > not my intent, but: http://kitenet.net/~joey/co

Bug#590045: ITP: ant-contrib-cpptasks -- C/C++ compilation tasks for Ant.

2010-07-23 Thread Christopher Baines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher Baines * Package name: ant-contrib-cpptasks Version : 1.0~b5 Upstream Author : Unknown * URL : http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/cpptasks/index.html * License : Apache (v2.0) Programming Lang: Java Descr

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-23 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Brian May wrote: >> On 23 July 2010 00:05, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> > 1) I've been teaching him how to use reportbug [...] >> >> Recently I have found reportbug and other bts tools rather annoying >> because of their

Re: Moving ACL utilities to /bin?

2010-07-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 23 juillet 2010 à 10:09 +0200, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > The deep silence seems to prove that your suggestion is a good > > idea..:-) > > > As far as I'm concerned, it would really be welcomed. > > What are the reasons *for* moving this to /bin? The original message says: “they're

Bug#590049: ITP: lejos-nxj -- LeJOS NXJ is a replacement firmware and java api for the Lego Mindstorms NXT and RCX robotics platforms.

2010-07-23 Thread Christopher Baines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher Baines * Package name: lejos-nxj Version : 0.8.5 Upstream Author : Many * URL : http://lejos.sourceforge.net/ * License : MPL (v1.0) Programming Lang: Java Description : LeJOS NXJ is a replacement fir

Re: Moving ACL utilities to /bin?

2010-07-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
Bastian Blank wrote: Hi, >> This makes it impossible to use them during the early boot sequence >> before /usr is mounted, so they're unusable in udev rules for instance. > > Care to explain what you try to do? We have groups for access control to > devices and you can't rely on the availability

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

2010-07-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri July 23 2010 00:41:12 Neil Williams wrote: > Critical bugs cannot be ignored and buggy packages cannot be left in the > archive to trip up someone else For people who are relying on the package and are not affected by the critical bug, the removal of the package is itself the problem. --Mi

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

2010-07-23 Thread Steffen Möller
On 07/23/2010 01:56 PM, Mike Bird wrote: > On Fri July 23 2010 00:41:12 Neil Williams wrote: > >> Critical bugs cannot be ignored and buggy packages cannot be left in the >> archive to trip up someone else >> > For people who are relying on the package and are not affected by the > critical

Bug#590072: ITP: haskell-lexer -- A fully compliant Haskell 98 lexer

2010-07-23 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Erik de Castro Lopo * Package name: haskell-lexer Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Thomas Hallgren * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-lexer * License : BSD3 Programming Lang: Haskell Description : A

Re: Moving ACL utilities to /bin?

2010-07-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 12:26 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Moreover, it'd be consistent with having chmod and chown in /bin. btw: Consistency was the main reason for me to raise the question whether other acl tools (nfs4) should be moved, too then. But Maximiliano is right,... I also do not see any

Bug#590079: ITP: w3c-linkchecker -- Script to check web links

2010-07-23 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: w3c-linkchecker Version : 4.6 Upstream Author : W3 * URL : http://validator.w3.org/docs/checklink.html#csb * License : W3C Programming Lang: perl Description : Script to check web

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-23 Thread Julien Viard de Galbert
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:23:12AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 23 iul 10, 02:51:36, brian m. carlson wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:26:47AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > > On 23 July 2010 10:03, brian m. carlson > > > wrote: > > > > You can use "smtphost reportbug.debian.org" in th

Bug#590123: ITP: sugar-surf-activity -- WebKit-based browsing activity for the Sugar graphical shell

2010-07-23 Thread Luke Faraone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luke Faraone * Package name: sugar-surf-activity Version : 115 Upstream Author : Lucian Branescu Mihaila * URL : http://people.sugarlabs.org/lucian/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : WebK

Re: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Moving diversions between packages

2010-07-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Why not have the new package ship libGL.so.1 to a more specific filename > and create a symlink named libGL.so.1 by hand in its postinst ? That > way you can defer doing the diversion until that part of the postinst, > by which time the old package and its diversion are gon

Bug#590135: ITP: php-text-diff -- Engine for performing and rendering text diffs

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand Package name: php-text-diff Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Geoffrey T. Dairiki URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Diff License : LGPL Programming Lang: PHP Description : Engine for per