Re: Bug#652423: ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit

2011-12-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Philip Ashmore > > * Package name: v3c > Description : C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit None of your ITPs have long descriptions. This makes the ITPs rather less useful as part of th

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/17/2011 05:12 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > And while we might > debate the usefulness of a separate /usr back and forth, I think I can > safely say that it won't become a *recommended* configuration anytime > soon. :) I do recommend a separate /usr to anyone. It's *not* safe to say that, and I

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thanks to a lot of work by the Hurd folks, there's quite a bit less than > there used to be.  :) > > I haven't looked at the patch in this thread, but most of the time that > I've seen PATH_MAX used in software, it's indicated a design flaw in

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 06:08:48PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I haven't looked at the patch in this thread, but most of the time that > > I've seen PATH_MAX used in software, it's indicated a design flaw in an > > interface: use of static buff

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: utility C/C++ include files libv3c - a C/C++ library v3c - a utility program meant to be used in scripts or from the command line makefile includes - see v3c's client projects "makefile" for examples automake/aclocal m4 macros - see v3c's client projects for examples --

Re: Bug#652425: Acknowledgement (ITP: treedb -- on-disk memory library)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: treedb can implement malloc functionality, and much more! Need a heap that allocates of a fixed size chunk of memory? No problem. But where treedb comes into its own is when it comes to allocating from a mmap()ed disk file - the memory becomes persistent. . If you follow th

Re: Bug#652429: Acknowledgement (ITP: meta-treedb -- on-disk memory library using meta-data)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: meta-treedb can implement malloc functionality, and much more! Need a heap that allocates of a fixed size chunk of memory? No problem. But where treedb comes into its own is when it comes to allocating from a mmap()ed disk file - the memory becomes persistent. . If you foll

Re: Bug#652432: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c-dcom -- Baby steps to DCOM)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: v3c-dcom provides a plug-in system as an alternative COM implementation. Unlike COM, v3c-dcom encourages the use of "sandboxes" of registered plug-ins, so allowing per site, per-group, per-user, per-program and per-job sandboxes, allowing virtually unlimited configuration

Re: Bug#652433: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c-qt -- v3c/automake wrapper for QT)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: The v3c-qt package ties QT doxygen-generated documentation into the v3c documentation chain, so that client packages can "inherit" this in their own doxygen-generated documentation. . It also provides automake rules for MOC, UIC and RCC, to ease their usage in client pa

Re: Bug#652435: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c-qt-examples -- v3c/automake wrapper for Qt4 - examples)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
Long description: The v3c-qt package ties QT doxygen-generated documentation into the v3c documentation chain, so that client packages can "inherit" this in their own doxygen-generated documentation. . It also provides automake rules for MOC, UIC and RCC, to ease their usage in client pa

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-17 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Sa, Dez 17, 2011 at 12:35:15 (CET), Philip Ashmore wrote: > Long description: > utility C/C++ include files > libv3c - a C/C++ library > v3c - a utility program meant to be used in scripts or from the command > line > makefile includes - see v3c's client projects "makefile" for examples >

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 01:29:18PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > WRT mounting additional filesystems in the initramfs, how difficult > would it be to add an additional mount option to /etc/fstab entries, > e.g. "init" or "initramfs" to mark them as being required for mounting > in the initramfs. Thi

Bug#652462: ITP: libwx-scintilla-perl -- Scintilla source code editing component for wxWidgets

2011-12-17 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: libwx-scintilla-perl Version : 0.34 Upstream Author : Ahmad M. Zawawi * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Wx-Scintilla/ *

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 17 décembre 2011 à 17:42 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > I do recommend a separate /usr to anyone. It's *not* safe to say that, > and I know many people that agree with me. To me, it has, and still is, > the best choice. You have no rights to arbitrary decide what should > be/was/will

Bug#652464: ITP: aguilas -- A web-based LDAP user management system

2011-12-17 Thread Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth" * Package name: aguilas Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth * URL : http://code.google.com/p/aguilas * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: PHP Description

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-17 Thread David Prévot
Le 17/12/2011 08:59, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : > On Sa, Dez 17, 2011 at 12:35:15 (CET), Philip Ashmore wrote: > >> Long description: >> utility C/C++ include files >> libv3c - a C/C++ library >> v3c - a utility program meant to be used in scripts or from the command >> line >> makefile includ

Re: Bug#652433: ITP: v3c-qt -- v3c/automake wrapper for QT

2011-12-17 Thread Mario Fux
Am Samstag 17 Dezember 2011, 07.10:06 schrieb Philip Ashmore: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Philip Ashmore > > * Package name: v3c-qt > Version : 0.7.0-01 > Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore > * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-qt/ > * License

/etc/mtab and /lib/init/rw migration; libpam-mount breakage

2011-12-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:54:14PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > The above have been mentioned a few times during the course of the > year, but we're now at the point where all the prerequisites have > been satisfied, and there are no blockers present to proceed. > > I've put a proposed set of packa

Bug#652481: ITP: libhtml-html5-entities-perl -- module to encode and decode character entities defined in HTML5

2011-12-17 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libhtml-html5-entities-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~tobyink/HTML-HTML5-Entities-0.001/ * License : GPL-1 or Artistic Programmin

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > I tend to see upstreams defining their own PATH_MAX rather than calling > pathconf. Perhaps there needs to be a lintian warning about that. The purpose of Lintian is not to be a C source lint program. There are lots of those that already have the C parsing infrastructure imp

Users of Debian! Who lives in the North Caucasus? (Russia)

2011-12-17 Thread UNLEVIN
Good time of day Dear subscribers, users of Debian. I have a simple question: Who lives in the North Caucasus (preferably in the Stavropol Territory) I assure you this question applies to Debian and its development. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Bug#652492: ITP: python-multipartposthandler -- handler for urllib2 to enable multipart form uploading

2011-12-17 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: python-multipartposthandler Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Will Holcomb * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MultipartPostHandler/ * License : LGPL-2 Programming Lang: Python Desc

Users of Debian! Who lives in the North Caucasus? (Russia)

2011-12-17 Thread UNLEVIN
Good time of day Dear subscribers, users of Debian. I have a simple question: Who lives in the North Caucasus (preferably in the Stavropol Territory) I assure you this question applies to Debian and its development. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

RFP: BOINC screensaver for Unix/X11

2011-12-17 Thread Ettore Atalan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: boincscr * URL : http://boinc.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/boinc/clientscr/screensaver_x11.cpp * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : A XScreenSaver compatible BOINC screensaver for Unix/X11 BOINC is an op

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Hands
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:52:36 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 20:16 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > > Let's try to summarize the possible configurations and what is needed to > > support them: > > > > - / and /usr are in the same filesystem > > * no changes are need

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 07:42, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/17/2011 05:12 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > And while we might > > debate the usefulness of a separate /usr back and forth, I think I can > > safely say that it won't become a *recommended* configuration anytime > > soon. :) > > I do rec

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-17 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 05:42:59PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/17/2011 05:12 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > And while we might > > debate the usefulness of a separate /usr back and forth, I think I can > > safely say that it won't become a *recommended* configuration anytime > > soon. :) >

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 20:42 +, Philip Hands wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:52:36 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 20:16 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > > > Let's try to summarize the possible configurations and what is needed to > > > support them: > > > > > >

Re: Bug#652464: ITP: aguilas -- A web-based LDAP user management system

2011-12-17 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Saturday 17 December 2011 14:48:22 Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth" > > * Package name: aguilas > Version : 1.0.0 > Upstream Author : Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth > > * URL : h

Re: Bug#652464: ITP: aguilas -- A web-based LDAP user management system

2011-12-17 Thread Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth
On 17/12/11 16:19, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2011 14:48:22 Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: "Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth" >> >> * Package name: aguilas >> Version : 1.0.0 >> Upstream Author : Luis Alejan

Re: Bug#652464: ITP: aguilas -- A web-based LDAP user management system

2011-12-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 06:08:35PM -0430, Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth wrote: > On 17/12/11 16:19, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > > $sel_q = "SELECT * FROM NewUser" > > . " WHERE mail='" . $mail . "'" > > . " AND uid='" . $uid . "'" > >

Re: Bug#652464: ITP: aguilas -- A web-based LDAP user management system

2011-12-17 Thread Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth
On 17/12/11 18:24, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 06:08:35PM -0430, Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth > wrote: >> On 17/12/11 16:19, Sune Vuorela wrote: >>> >>> $sel_q = "SELECT * FROM NewUser" >>> . " WHERE mail='" . $mail . "'" >>>

Re: Bug#652464: ITP: aguilas -- A web-based LDAP user management system

2011-12-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 17 décembre 2011 à 18:08 -0430, Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth a écrit : > > $sel_q = "SELECT * FROM NewUser" > > . " WHERE mail='" . $mail . "'" > > . " AND uid='" . $uid . "'" > > . " AND token='" . $token . "'" > >

Re: Bug#652464: ITP: aguilas -- A web-based LDAP user management system

2011-12-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 07:02:35PM -0430, Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth wrote: > On 17/12/11 18:24, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > What you have done is reinvent the wheel, and badly at that. > > I coudn't find any other user friendly interface to manage user accounts > from an LDAP. > I sh

Re: Bug#652433: ITP: v3c-qt -- v3c/automake wrapper for QT

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 17/12/11 16:25, Mario Fux wrote: Am Samstag 17 Dezember 2011, 07.10:06 schrieb Philip Ashmore: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore * Package name: v3c-qt Version : 0.7.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projec

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 17/12/11 15:29, David Prévot wrote: Le 17/12/2011 08:59, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : On Sa, Dez 17, 2011 at 12:35:15 (CET), Philip Ashmore wrote: Long description: utility C/C++ include files libv3c - a C/C++ library v3c - a utility program meant to be used in scripts or from the comma

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-17 Thread David Prévot
Le 17/12/2011 20:50, Philip Ashmore a écrit : > On 17/12/11 15:29, David Prévot wrote: >> Please prefer the up to date developers' reference: >> >> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices#bpp-desc-basics […] > Please let me know what you think. Quote from the

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Doing this has many advantage. Like, if your laptop has to unexpectedly > > reboot (like when you inadvertently removed power cord when batteries > > were not plugged, which happens often in real life), having separated > > partitions usually makes

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 17, Roger Leigh wrote: > So WRT mounting /usr (and potentially /etc and other filesystems), > I've pushed patches upstream for util-linux (initramfs mount option) > and initramfs-tools (generate /etc/fstab from host and mount after > rootfs). From my answer to #652459: This is highly subo

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 18/12/11 01:30, David Prévot wrote: Le 17/12/2011 20:50, Philip Ashmore a écrit : On 17/12/11 15:29, David Prévot wrote: Please prefer the up to date developers' reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices#bpp-desc-basics […] Please let me know