Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-11-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Bill Allombert (bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr): > > What about moving the su-to-root binary to a different binary package ? > > Bill what's your PoV about spliting it ? > > I am not very keen creating a new Debian package for a 3kB script. In that case, I think that the above discu

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 02 novembre 2011 à 19:15 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit : > thanks Cyril -- that indeed clarifies it (finally)! > > it is all clear now that users would need to invoke them from under > /usr/lib/ No, they would need to invoke them using a wrapper in /usr/bin. Think of “git foo” or

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-11-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 03 novembre 2011 à 00:48 +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit : > The real issue is that nobody is really maintaining the XDG menu system. No, the real issue here is that some packages require to run GUIs as root while X11 was not designed to do that. Upstream is not going to encourage broken b

Bug#647505: ITP: tcp-over-dns -- TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol

2011-11-03 Thread Wolfgang Frisch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolfgang Frisch * Package name: tcp-over-dns Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Tim Valenzuela * URL : http://analogbit.com/software/tcp-over-dns * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description : TCP tunnel throug

popcon.debian.org improvement

2011-11-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear developers, I have updated popcon.debian.org to publish two dataset instead of one: 1) the statistics for all reports 2) the statistics for reports generated with the version of popcon in stable. See . Suggestions for the site layout are welcome. Cheers, -- Bill.

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Laurent Bigonville [01 14:14 +0100]: > Le Tue, 1 Nov 2011 12:31:26 +, > Ian Jackson a écrit : > > > Josselin Mouette writes ("Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome"): > > > Le lundi 31 octobre 2011 à 16:37 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > > > I agree with the original submitter of this

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 03.11.2011 15:26, schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: > Hmm, does NM works if nis runs ? nis daemon has by default no > time-out, starts before NM provides a network and locks the machine > lng time 'til root can become access to stop nis. If that is true, this is a serious flaw in nis and really n

Re: Bug#647505: ITP: tcp-over-dns -- TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol

2011-11-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:13:46PM +0100, Wolfgang Frisch wrote: > Description : TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol How does this differ to dns2tcp? Bastian -- Mind your own business, Spock. I'm sick of your halfbreed interference. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-re

Re: Bug#647505: ITP: tcp-over-dns -- TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol

2011-11-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 03, Wolfgang Frisch wrote: > * Package name: tcp-over-dns How is this different from dns2tcp? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Minified files and source code requirement

2011-11-03 Thread Mike O'Connor
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 22:11:34 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 02 Nov 2011, Mike O'Connor wrote: > > > > What is the preferred form for modification for a work (aka source) is > > > > highly context-dependent. > > > > > > I share entirely the opinion of Russ who replied to this specific poin

Re: Bug#647505: ITP: tcp-over-dns -- TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol

2011-11-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:27:51 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:13:46PM +0100, Wolfgang Frisch wrote: > > Description : TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol > How does this differ to dns2tcp? Or iodine? Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comod

Re: Bug#647505: ITP: tcp-over-dns -- TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol

2011-11-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 03, gregor herrmann wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:13:46PM +0100, Wolfgang Frisch wrote: > > > Description : TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol > > How does this differ to dns2tcp? > Or iodine? iodine tunnels IP, which is not very efficient if you only need ssh. --

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 03 novembre 2011 à 15:26 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter a écrit : > Hmm, does NM works if nis runs ? nis daemon has by default no > time-out, starts before NM provides a network and locks the machine > lng time 'til root can become access to stop nis. You don’t use NIS on a desktop machin

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-11-03 Thread Luk Claes
On 11/03/2011 07:20 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Bill Allombert (bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr): > >>> What about moving the su-to-root binary to a different binary package ? >>> Bill what's your PoV about spliting it ? >> >> I am not very keen creating a new Debian package for a 3k

Bug#647547: ITP: python-tomahawk -- A simple ssh wrapper for executing commands into many hosts

2011-11-03 Thread Kouhei Maeda
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kouhei Maeda * Package name: python-tomahawk Version 0.4.1 Upstream Author : oinume * URL : https://github.com/oinume/tomahawk * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : A simple ssh wrapper for ex

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 03.11.2011 19:28, schrieb Luk Claes: > On 11/03/2011 07:20 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > It seems many uses of su-to-root could be replaced by pkexec (package > policykit-1), no? > > Or is there something wrong with that approach? Ideally, applications should support policykit natively and sp

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-03 Thread Igor Pashev
03.11.2011 00:48, Roger Leigh пишет: When considering the divide between "internal use" and "for users", consider that if it's for users to invoke then it should simply be in the default path. It's not typical to need to add special directories to one's path, and it's certainly not encouraged or

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 at 22:58:38 +0400, Igor Pashev wrote: > Isn't /usr/libexec for "internal use" exetutables? In the GNU coding standards and on Red Hat-based distributions, yes; in the FHS (and hence Debian), no. (libexec isn't specified by the FHS.) S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-03 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
well -- correct but ... ,--- | http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIBLTQUALGTALTERNATEFORMATESSENTIAL | /lib : Alternate format essential shared libraries (optional) | Purpose | | There may be one or more variants of the /lib directory on systems which support more than one binary form

Bug#647554: ITP: python-flaskext.oauth -- Extention that makes easy to connect flask apps to oauth providers

2011-11-03 Thread Lincoln de Sousa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lincoln de Sousa Primo Clarete * Package name: python-flaskext.oauth Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Armin Ronacher * URL : http://packages.python.org/Flask-OAuth/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Descriptio

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:21:59PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 at 22:58:38 +0400, Igor Pashev wrote: > > Isn't /usr/libexec for "internal use" exetutables? > > In the GNU coding standards and on Red Hat-based distributions, yes; in the > FHS (and hence Debian), no. (libexec

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 03.11.2011 21:47, schrieb Ben Hutchings: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:21:59PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: >> On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 at 22:58:38 +0400, Igor Pashev wrote: >>> Isn't /usr/libexec for "internal use" exetutables? >> >> In the GNU coding standards and on Red Hat-based distributions, yes

Bug#647558: ITP: instead-game-lines -- clone of "Color Lines" game

2011-11-03 Thread Sam Protsenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Protsenko * Package name: instead-game-lines Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Peter Kosyh * URL : http://code.google.com/p/instead-games/downloads/list * License : CC-BY-3.0 Programming Lang: Lua Description :

Description-less packages file

2011-11-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hello world, I don't know if I really got everyone who should have a copy of this mail in my CC list, so please forward it to wherever you think I am missing. Thanks. I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without the English description embedded inside them. Instead the

Bug#647559: ITP: tweetstream -- Module for simple access to twitter's streaming API

2011-11-03 Thread Lincoln de Sousa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lincoln de Sousa * Package name: tweetstream Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Rune Halvorsen * URL : https://bitbucket.org/runeh/tweetstream/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Module for sim

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-03 Thread Jean Charles Delepine
Florian Reitmeir écrivait (wrote) : > Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >]] Florian Reitmeir > >| i believe a way of installing network-manager, but disabling it > >| completly would be enough for many people. > > >like update-rc.d disable network-manager or dpkg-divert --rename --local > >/usr/sbin/Netw

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-03 Thread Jean Charles Delepine
Laurent Bigonville écrivait (wrote) : > Well as already said, gnome-core meta-package depends on official core > GNOME modules, which network-manager is part of. If you don't want to > install network-manager, don't install gnome-core meta-package. I don't want to have to know which packages I h

Work-needing packages report for Nov 4, 2011

2011-11-03 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: 401 (new: 4) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 145 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

Bug#647573: ITP: python-flaskext.uploads -- Upload handling utility for flask applications

2011-11-03 Thread Lincoln de Sousa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lincoln de Sousa * Package name: python-flaskext.uploads Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Matthew "LeafStorm" Frazier * URL : http://bitbucket.org/leafstorm/flask-uploads/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python

can somebody update wwwoffle

2011-11-03 Thread jidanni
Can somebody update wwwoffle? Upstream has a new version that makes HTTPS work once again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3d81t8t@jidanni.org

Bug#647579: ITP: python-libmemcached -- python wrapper for libmemcached

2011-11-03 Thread Shell Xu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Shell Xu * Package name: python-libmemcached Version : 0.40 Upstream Author : hongqn * URL : http://code.google.com/p/python-libmemcached/ * License : Apache License 2.0 Programming Lang: C python Description : p