Bug#659689: ITP: permute -- R functions for generating restricted permutations of data

2012-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: permute Version : 0.6-3 Upstream Author : Gavin L. Simpson URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/permute/ License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: R Description : R functions fo

Bug#659691: ITP: neo -- IO library for electrophysiological data formats in Python

2012-02-13 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke * Package name: neo Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Samuel Garcia, Pierre Yger, Luc Estabanez, Andrew Davison, Yury V. Zaytsev * URL : http://neuralensemble.org/trac/neo * License : BSD Programming Lang:

Bug#659693: ITP: 389-admin-console -- 389 admin server management console

2012-02-13 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Timo Aaltonen * Package name: 389-admin-console Version : 1.1.8 Upstream Author : Red Hat, Inc. * URL : http://directory.fedoraproject.org/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Java Description : 389 admin server m

Re: Virtual package lua should be provided by lua5.1.

2012-02-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On 11/02/12 15:54, Neil Williams wrote: debian-u...@lists.debian.org would probably have been better, or searching on packages.debian.org and contacting the relevant maintainers. Discussion of virtual-package-names-list.txt is certainly on-topic for -devel and really not a user-level question

Bug#659700: ITP: libwacom -- Wacom model feature query library

2012-02-13 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Timo Aaltonen * Package name: libwacom Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Bastien Nocera * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxwacom/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : Wacom model feature query

Re: Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-13 Thread Aron Xu
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 08:00, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Aron Xu [2012-02-09 01:22 +0800]: >> Some packages come with data files that endianness matters, and many >> of them are large enough to split into a separate arch:all package if >> endianness were not something to care about. ... > > Debian Po

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support"): > And what about adding 700 packages vs. adding no packages at all, in the > case of systems which aren't going to have multiarch enabled? One thing that seems to have been overlooked in this discussion o

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
I wrote: > Or to put it another way: if currently > libfoo1 (1.1) contains and needs /usr/share/libfoo1/foo-data-1.1 > libfoo1 (1.2) contains and needs /usr/share/libfoo2/foo-data-1.2 > then splitting the foo-data out into > libfoo1-data (1.1) <-depends- libfoo1 (1.1) > libfoo1-data (1.2) <

Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support"): > Steve Langasek writes: > > the [pam] module packages should be installed > > for all archs, not just a subset[1]. > > Ok, that is acceptable. We just lack any technical means to ensure this > so

Re: [DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)

2012-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Serafeim Zanikolas writes ("[DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)"): > To test it, in a nutshell: > > - make your package install xinetd.conf(5) fragment files in > /usr/share/reconf-inetd/, one file per service that needs an entry in > inetd.conf > >

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?"): > You could probably use strace to find problems by looking for an > open(O_CREAT) of a file in /tmp that doesn't look like it's > mkstemp-created (ending in six random characters) and doesn't use O_EXCL. > You'll get some false

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 13, Ian Jackson wrote: > The rule would be that if: > * A file is being opened in a sticky directory > * The file is going to be created by this operation > * O_EXCL was not specified > then the syscall fails with EPERM. This should be easy to implement as a LSM. -- ciao, Marco s

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 13, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> The rule would be that if: >>   * A file is being opened in a sticky directory >>   * The file is going to be created by this operation >>   * O_EXCL was not specified >> then the syscall fails with EPERM. >

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 12:40 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?"): > > You could probably use strace to find problems by looking for an > > open(O_CREAT) of a file in /tmp that doesn't look like it's > > mkstemp-created (ending in six rand

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 22:07 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Feb 13, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > >> The rule would be that if: > >> * A file is being opened in a sticky directory > >> * The file is going to be created by this operation > >> *

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:44:38AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Based on a quick grep of /usr/bin/* I expect you are correct. If $TMPDIR is not set, /tmp is a reasonable default, so I'd expect a *lot* of matches for '/tmp' in programs with correct behaviour. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 17:33 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Bastian Blank writes: >> >> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> >> just >> >> to have a suiteable kern

Bug#659753: ITP: libnet-irr-perl -- Net::IRR - Perl interface to the Internet Route Registry Daemon

2012-02-13 Thread Carlos Vicente
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlos Vicente * Package name: libnet-irr-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Todd Caine * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-IRR * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Net::IRR

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson writes: > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with > multiarch support"): >> Steve Langasek writes: >> > the [pam] module packages should be installed >> > for all archs, not just a subset[1]. >> >> Ok, that is acceptable. We just lack any tech

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson writes: > I wrote: >> Or to put it another way: if currently >> libfoo1 (1.1) contains and needs /usr/share/libfoo1/foo-data-1.1 >> libfoo1 (1.2) contains and needs /usr/share/libfoo2/foo-data-1.2 >> then splitting the foo-data out into >> libfoo1-data (1.1) <-depends- libfoo1 (

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Borowski writes: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> If there is no 64bit kernel in i386 then you can not safely enable >> multiarch to install amd64 packages (in general, kernel my just >> work). It is kind of a prerequisite. > > qemu-user? > > Of cour

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins"): > As you said these are usualy plugins that nothing depends on. So this > wouldn't help much. Also if there is a dependency than the rules for > m-a:same should be sufficient. If the package is something to depend on > then pa

Re: [DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)

2012-02-13 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi Ian, First of all, thanks for the feedback. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:36:40PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Serafeim Zanikolas writes ("[DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd > (update-inetd replacement)"): > > To test it, in a nutshell: > > > > - make your package install xinetd.conf(5)

Bug#659774: ITP: xvidenc -- shell script to encode DVDs to Xvid

2012-02-13 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: xvidenc Version : 8.4.3 Upstream Author : Grozdan Nikolov * URL : http://xvidenc.sf.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Bash Description : shell script to encode DVDs to Xvid

Bug#659780: ITP: liblog-dispatch-config-perl -- Log::Dispatch::Config - Log4j for Perl

2012-02-13 Thread Carlos Vicente
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlos Vicente * Package name: liblog-dispatch-config-perl Version : 1.04 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Log-Dispatch-Config/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang:

Bug#659789: ITP: liblog-dispatch-configurator-any-perl -- Log::Dispatch::Configurator::Any - Configurator implementation with Config::Any

2012-02-13 Thread Carlos Vicente
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlos Vicente * Package name: liblog-dispatch-configurator-any-perl Version : 1.110690 Upstream Author : Oliver Gorwits * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Log-Dispatch-Configurator-Any * License : Artistic or GPL-1+

Re: Bug#659753: ITP: libnet-irr-perl -- Net::IRR - Perl interface to the Internet Route Registry Daemon

2012-02-13 Thread Carlos Vicente
On 2/13/12 12:53 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Carlos, > > On 02/13/12 17:29, Carlos Vicente wrote: >> Hopefully this module will stimulate development of new Route >> Registry tools written in Perl. An example of Route Registry tools >> can be found by googling for RAToolset which is now known as

Re: Bug#659753: ITP: libnet-irr-perl -- Net::IRR - Perl interface to the Internet Route Registry Daemon

2012-02-13 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Carlos, On 02/13/12 17:29, Carlos Vicente wrote: > Hopefully this module will stimulate development of new Route > Registry tools written in Perl. An example of Route Registry tools > can be found by googling for RAToolset which is now known as the > IRRToolset. The RAToolset was originally develo

Bug#659798: ITP: Net::CLI::Interact -- Toolkit for CLI Automation

2012-02-13 Thread Carlos Vicente
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlos Vicente * Package name: Net::CLI::Interact Version : 1.120042 Upstream Author : Oliver Gorwits * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-CLI-Interact/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Descri

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 04:30:47PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes: > > > On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 17:33 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Bastian Blank writes: > >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > >> >>

Bug#659800: ITP: libnet-appliance-session-perl -- Run command-line sessions to network appliances

2012-02-13 Thread Carlos Vicente
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlos Vicente * Package name: libnet-appliance-session-perl Version : 3.113610 Upstream Author : Oliver Gorwits * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Appliance-Session/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming La

Re: -fPIE and stuff

2012-02-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:06:27PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > Hi > > One of my upstreams of a collection of shared libraries is about to make > a change that is going to require all executables built against these > shared libraries to be built with -fPIE (and libraries with -fPIC). > > Is ther

Re: -fPIE and stuff

2012-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx writes: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:06:27PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> One of my upstreams of a collection of shared libraries is about to >> make a change that is going to require all executables built against >> these shared libraries to be built with -fPIE (and libraries with >

Re: -fPIE and stuff

2012-02-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-02-13, Russ Allbery wrote: > No, I think only executables would be built PIE. Libraries would continue > to be built PIC Correct. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Bug#659807: ITP: ladder -- Stepwise repository upgrade tool

2012-02-13 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams * Package name: ladder Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Neil Williams * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Stepwise repository upgrade tool Creates a local repository of packages required to

Bug#659819: ITP: jenkins-subversion-plugin -- Subversion integration for Jenkins

2012-02-13 Thread Jakub Adam
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: jenkins-subversion-plugin Version: 1.37 Upstream Author: Kohsuke Kawaguchi and others License: MIT Description: Jenkins Subversion Plugin (J

Re: -fPIE and stuff

2012-02-13 Thread Uoti Urpala
Kurt Roeckx roeckx.be> writes: > So my understanding is that you want to build libraries with -fPIE > instead of -fPIC, and that that creates a different ABI? What affects the ABI is compiling the library in a way that does not support copy relocations. This can be done with visibility attributes

Re: mass bug filing of 'ucf: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-02-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:07:22PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:52:42AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:10:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > > > > Interesting timing. initscripts started depending on ucf just a few > > > > days ago, which makes ucf

Bug#659826: ITP: mozilla-gnome-keyring -- Store mozilla passwords in GNOME Keyring.

2012-02-13 Thread Ximin Luo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ximin Luo * Package name: mozilla-gnome-keyring Version : 0.6.1 Upstream Author : Ximin Luo * URL : https://github.com/infinity0/mozilla-gnome-keyring * License : MPL-1.1 or GPL-2+ or LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C++

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > If $TMPDIR is not set, /tmp is a reasonable default, so I'd expect a *lot* > of matches for '/tmp' in programs with correct behaviour. I get the impression that directly hardcoding /tmp/ usually indicates that safe temporary file/dir function

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: >> If $TMPDIR is not set, /tmp is a reasonable default, so I'd expect a >> *lot* of matches for '/tmp' in programs with correct behaviour. > I get the impression that directly hardcoding /tmp/ usually indicates > that safe

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-13 Thread Aron Xu
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 00:09, Ian Jackson wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins"): >> As you said these are usualy plugins that nothing depends on. So this >> wouldn't help much. Also if there is a dependency than the rules for >> m-a:same should be suffic

Bug#659837: ITP: libnet-dns-zonefile-fast-perl -- parse BIND8/9 zone files

2012-02-13 Thread Carlos Vicente
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlos Vicente * Package name: libnet-dns-zonefile-fast-perl Version : 1.16 Upstream Author : Wes Hardaker * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-DNS-ZoneFile-Fast/ * License : THE BEER-WARE LICENSE Programming Lang:

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ian Jackson] > Where should this fact be declared ? Is it a property of a package > that it makes sense to install it only on all configured architectures > or none ? Or is it a property of the dependency from the depending > package ? Neither. If I've configured i386 on an amd64 system just

Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal (was: Summary: dpkg shared / reference counted files and version match)

2012-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
There's been a lot of discussion of this, but it seems to have been fairly inconclusive. We need to decide what we're doing, if anything, for wheezy fairly soon, so I think we need to try to drive this discussion to some concrete conclusions. First, Steve's point here is very good: Steve Langase

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal (was: Summary: dpkg shared / reference counted files and version match)

2012-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: > There's been a lot of discussion of this, but it seems to have been fairly > inconclusive. We need to decide what we're doing, if anything, for wheezy > fairly soon, so I think we need to try to drive this discussion to some > concrete conclusions. Thank