Re: Cedilla removed from sid, users complain

2011-01-26 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Juliusz, it is better to point your question to the *maintainer* of the package, not to debian-devel@ (which is not a mandatory mailing list for all the maintainers). Adding the Debian Common Lisp team to the loop. On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:25:19 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > It seems that

Re: Cedilla removed from sid, users complain

2011-01-26 Thread Philip Hands
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:12:01 +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > There is always the option of either recruiting one of those > > disappointed users to maintain the package, or doing it yourself. > > Thanks for the suggestion -- but I'm already spending all of my > proverbial Copious Free Time

Bug#611167: ITP: libfpdi-php -- PHP library for importing existing PDF documents into FPDF

2011-01-26 Thread Sebastian Harl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Harl * Package name: libfpdi-php Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Jan Slabon * URL : http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/ * License : Apache License, Version 2.0 Programming Lang: PHP Descr

Bug#611168: ITP: libfpdf-tpl-php -- PHP library to use PDF templates with FPDF

2011-01-26 Thread Sebastian Harl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Harl * Package name: libfpdf-tpl-php Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Jan Slabon * URL : http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/ * License : Apache License, Version 2.0 Programming Lang: PHP D

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson writes: > Shachar Shemesh writes ("Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)"): >> I'm sorry, it might be me, but I fail to see the overlap between the >> functionalities of safewrite vs. userv. The premises for safewrite is >> that a program wants to make sure data integrity is

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Shachar Shemesh writes: > Hi all, > > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL > is https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite, and the actual code is at > https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite/blob/master/safewrite.c > > This is not a formal release just yet (plus one func

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > [Ben Hutchings] >> I think the plan was that any firmware package that is available >> during installation and that satisfies a firmware request will get >> installed. However, I have not worked on this and I don't know what >> has actually been implemented. > > At

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Shachar Shemesh writes: > > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL > > is https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite, and the actual code is at > > https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite/blob/master/saf

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: >> typedef struct { >>         int fd; >>         char buffer[PATH_MAX]; >> } safe_t; > > Except, you can't rely on PATH_MAX on any modern system.  It's defined in > Linux headers to an arbitrary value to make old code compile, but for > examp

Re: How to build a 32-bit package in Debian?

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Borowski writes: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:49:17AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> >> > What is the recommended course of action for such a package? >> >> For now: build on a 32-bit system or in a 32-bit chroot. >> >> Other optio

Bug#611178: ITP: undertaker -- static code analysis tool checking preprocessor directives

2011-01-26 Thread Christoph Egger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Egger Homepage: http://vamos.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/trac/undertaker License: GPL-2 GPL-3+ Version: 1.0 Prograaming Language: C++ Package: undertaker Description: static code analysis tool checking preproc

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bastian Blank writes: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 01:23:01PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:21:52 +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote: >> > Le 15/01/2011 11:29, Philipp Kern a écrit : >> > > Arch:all binNMUing will only work if you keep the invariant of >> > > version(arch:al

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I think you are dead wrong there Ian. Even if every single program is > dead right (and we know a lot aren't) that means every one of them has > a safe file update function somewhere in it. > > A function doing exactly the same thing

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Borowski writes: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Shachar Shemesh writes: >> > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL >> > is https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite, and the actual code is at >> > https://github.com/Sha

Re: Bits from the Security Team (for those that care about bits)

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thijs Kinkhorst writes: > * Issues in specific packages > > We further discussed some specific problematic packages. One example is > ia32-libs, which is difficult because it includes 100+ other source > packages. This will be handled better for Squeeze: we'll have to ensure > it's as up to date

Re: How to build a 32-bit package in Debian?

2011-01-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:44:02PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adam Borowski writes: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:49:17AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > >> Add lib32 packages for the deps. > > Actually you need ia32-libs-dev and also gcc-multilib when you COMPILE a > 32bit package. ia32-lib

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Zitat von "Goswin von Brederlow" : Adam Borowski writes: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Shachar Shemesh writes: > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL > is https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite, and the actual code is a

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Hi Goswin. Excerpts from Goswin von Brederlow's message of Qua Jan 26 11:28:59 -0200 2011: (...) > But having some generated html files depend on the exact ghc version > seems extrem. Yes, I don't see the need of adding a Depends: field to -doc packages. > So splitting out the version dependent

Bug#611189: ITP: libmodule-metadata-perl -- Gather package and POD information from perl module files

2011-01-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmodule-metadata-perl Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : David Golden , Ken Williams ,

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Goswin von Brederlow] > Isn't that a non-issue (for now)? > > Here's my reasoning: > > 1) The non-free deb is only in apt if non-free is in sources.list. > 2) AN earlier mail stated that the kernel recommends the non-free >firmware deb. > 3) Recommends are to be installed by default. > > Shoul

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Hendrik Sattler" writes: > Zitat von "Goswin von Brederlow" : > >> Adam Borowski writes: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Shachar Shemesh writes: > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL > is https://git

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > typedef struct { >        int fd; >        char buffer[]; > } safe_t; > > or what do you mean by invalid C? Zero length arrays are not valid C AFAIK. -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Bits from the Security Team (for those that care about bits)

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:47:52 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst writes: > > > * Issues in specific packages > > > > We further discussed some specific problematic packages. One example is > > ia32-libs, which is difficult because it includes 100+ other source > > packages. This

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Zitat von "Goswin von Brederlow" : "Hendrik Sattler" writes: Zitat von "Goswin von Brederlow" : Adam Borowski writes: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Shachar Shemesh writes: > I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL >

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva writes ("Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages."): > Excerpts from Goswin von Brederlow's message of Qua Jan 26 11:28:59 -0200 > 2011: > (...) > > But having some generated html files depend on the exact ghc version > > seems extrem. > > Yes, I don't see the need of adding

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > BTW: KDE4 is a very good example for failure with modern filesystems. I > regularly loose configuration files when suspend-to-ram fails even if the > configuration of the running programs were not changed. Yay :-( And this is > with XFS, no

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva writes: > Hi Goswin. > > Excerpts from Goswin von Brederlow's message of Qua Jan 26 11:28:59 -0200 > 2011: > (...) >> But having some generated html files depend on the exact ghc version >> seems extrem. > > Yes, I don't see the need of adding a Depends: field to -do

Re: How to build a 32-bit package in Debian?

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Borowski writes: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:44:02PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Adam Borowski writes: >> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:49:17AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> >> Add lib32 packages for the deps. >> >> Actually you need ia32-libs-dev and also gcc-multilib when you COMP

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-26 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 15.01.2011, 10:29 + schrieb Philipp Kern: > On 2011-01-15, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: > > The best option to fix this issue I can see is if it was possible to do > > binNMUs > > for Arch: all packages. There are some options to workaround the fact that > > we >

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Zitat von "Olaf van der Spek" : On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Hendrik Sattler wrote: BTW: KDE4 is a very good example for failure with modern filesystems. I regularly loose configuration files when suspend-to-ram fails even if the configuration of the running programs were not changed. Yay

Bug#611207: ITP: libperl-ostype-perl -- map perl operating system names to generic types

2011-01-26 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libperl-ostype-perl Version : 1.002 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-OSType/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : map perl

Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

2011-01-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Zitat von "Olaf van der Spek" : > >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Hendrik Sattler >> wrote: >>> >>> BTW: KDE4 is a very good example for failure with modern filesystems. I >>> regularly loose configuration files when suspend-to-ram fai

Bug#611209: ITP: libcpan-meta-yaml-perl -- Read and write a subset of TAML for cPAN meta files

2011-01-26 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcpan-meta-yaml-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Meta-YAML/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Rea

Where does the update-initramfs hook get the kernel name from?

2011-01-26 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I've got a multi-boot system for which I maintain my own (Grub2) grub.cfg. I've got Debian Lenny, Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu partitions inside an encrypted LVM2 logical volume, a booting nicely. I just have to watch out if one of them tries to "update" grub.cfg, completely trashing

Bug#611223: ITP: node-expat -- fast XML parser library for Node

2011-01-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: node-expat Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Stephan Maka * URL : https://github.com/astro/node-expat * License : Expat Programming Lang: C++ Description : fast XML parser library

Bug#611224: ITP: node-xmpp -- idiomatic XMPP library for Node

2011-01-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: node-xmpp Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Stephan Maka * URL : https://github.com/astro/node-xmpp * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Node Description : idiomatic XMPP library f

Re: How to build a 32-bit package in Debian?

2011-01-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 06:46:33PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adam Borowski writes: > > Aren't ia32-libs on their way out, together with rest of the bi-arch stuff? > > Since sarge, yes. Nothing is as permanent as a quick temporary hack. With no multiarch on horizon, there wasn't anythi

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 12:19 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [...] > Isn't that a non-issue (for now)? > > Here's my reasoning: > > 1) The non-free deb is only in apt if non-free is in sources.list. > 2) AN earlier mail stated that the kernel recommends the non-free firmware > deb. [...] Of c

Re: Where does the update-initramfs hook get the kernel name from?

2011-01-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 19:50 +, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Hi there. > > I've got a multi-boot system for which I maintain my own (Grub2) > grub.cfg. > > I've got Debian Lenny, Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu partitions inside an > encrypted LVM2 logical volume, > a booting nicely. > > I just have to

package testing, autopkgtest, and all that

2011-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:19:32AM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > First, tests run during a package build are good, but they do not > ensure, for example, that the package as installed is working OK. I've > been thinking that (also) providing tests to be run after the package is > installed (and not on

Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
JFYI. Debian has been represented at the meeting by Enrico Zini (who has blogged about various aspects of the meeting as well [1,2,3]) and David Kalnischkies. In the end, quite some pieces of Debian technologies have attracted interest and are on their way to be part of the proposed solution. Well

Bug#611236: ITP: ttm -- TeX/LaTeX to HTML converter

2011-01-26 Thread Ian Maclaine-cross
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ian Maclaine-cross" * Package name: ttm Version : 4.01 Upstream Author : Ian Hutchinson * URL : https://tth.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tth/trunk * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C, lex Description : TeX/LaT