Re: Bits from keyring-maint

2010-09-16 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:15:25 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > | I just wondering where I am supposed to find a good smartcard that can > | take 2048R (or larger) keys, works well with gnupg, and for how much :) > > http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 03:08 +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > * Hector Oron , 2010-09-15, 21:26: > > c) allow build depends on source packages, which it is probably a worst > > idea. > > On the contrary, I think that allowing source packages to be installable > in the same way as binary pack

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:22:57AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Plus, these packages would (in the current state of affairs) lack a > description. On this topic, we have our friend #555743. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.juss

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

2010-09-16 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:38:25 +0200, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> As for the large keysize, it is seen as too large. It was recommended >> that Debian should try to do something that would help reduce the >> overall threat to the De

Bug#597053: ITP: sparkleshare -- git-backed file sharing and collaboration tool

2010-09-16 Thread Iain Lane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian CLI Applications Team * Package name: sparkleshare Version : 0.2~beta1 Upstream Author : Hylke Bons * URL : http://sparkleshare.org/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C# Description : git-backed file sha

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-16 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 16/09/2010 09:22, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > I agree this is a cleaner solution, but how do you ensure there are > sources (deb-src) referenced in the sources.list ? You don't need to. The package would be reported as uninstallable. Some message suggesting to add deb-src lines to sources.list

RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've collected several rules that upstreams should follow to make distro maintainer's life much easier: http://www.metux.de/index.php/de/component/content/article/57.html Free feel to comment on it :) cu -- -- Enr

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:40:30 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I've collected several rules that upstreams should follow to make > distro maintainer's life much easier: > > http://www.metux.de/index.php/de/component/content/article/57.html > > Free feel to comment on it :) About autoconf stuff:

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Vincent Bernat schrieb: Hi, > About autoconf stuff: > - Why require autogen.sh? On a release, configure script should be > present. No need to rebuild it. No, there often *is* a need to rebuild it (actually, much of my QM work on dozens packages requires changing configure.in+friends). And

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-16 Thread Luca Bruno
Enrico Weigelt scrisse: > I've collected several rules that upstreams should follow to make > distro maintainer's life much easier: You may also be interested in http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide Cheers, Luca -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Luca Bruno (kaeso) : :' : The Universal O

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

2010-09-16 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 15.09.2010 17:07, schrieb Marco d'Itri: >> I suspect that those figures are because 2048 bits is the default size >> for RSA keys and 4096 bits is the largest size that GnuPG supports. > FWIW, the OpenPGP smartcard v2 supports keys up to 3072 bits. At the recent FrOSCon I have been told,

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

2010-09-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 02:02:33PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > FWIW, the OpenPGP smartcard v2 supports keys up to 3072 bits. > At the recent FrOSCon I have been told, that 4096 bit keys should work, > but aren't officially supported. (Haven't tested it myself, yet.) Well, I'

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Luca Bruno schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt scrisse: > > > I've collected several rules that upstreams should follow to make > > distro maintainer's life much easier: > > You may also be interested in http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide Thanks. It's seems my rules are a bit more rigid and contain

Bug#597094: ITP: ringojs -- server-side JavaScript runtime and web framework

2010-09-16 Thread Hannes Wallnoefer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hannes Wallnoefer * Package name: ringojs Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Hannes Wallnoefer * URL : http://ringojs.org/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Java, JavaScript Description : server-side JavaScr

Bug#597110: ITP: kpartsplugin -- Netscape-compatible plugin to embed KDE file-viewers into browser

2010-09-16 Thread Michele Gastaldo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michele Gastaldo * Package name: kpartsplugin Version : 20100723 Upstream Author : Thomas Fischer * URL : http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kpartsplugin/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C++ Description :

Re: /usr/share/info/dir.gz if install-info is installed

2010-09-16 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Ian Jackson | 2010-09-15 11:56:49 [+0100]: >Julien Cristau wrote: >> I'd say they're serious bugs if packages in the archive suffer from >> the misbuild, and normal ones if not. > >I agree. Okay. In that case I open this weekend bugs against the packages I identified [0] with severity serious

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Enrico Weigelt writes: > I've collected several rules that upstreams should follow to make > distro maintainer's life much easier: > http://www.metux.de/index.php/de/component/content/article/57.html > Free feel to comment on it :) You've prohibited upstream distributions that come in multiple

Work-needing packages report for Sep 17, 2010

2010-09-16 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 492 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 129 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Luca Bruno wrote: > You may also be interested in http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide Just added a link to Enrico's page from that. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le temps de midi du jeudi 16 septembre 2010, vers 12:28, Enrico Weigelt disait : >> About autoconf stuff: >> - Why require autogen.sh? On a release, configure script should be >> present. No need to rebuild it. > No, there often *is* a need to rebuild it (actually, much of my >