Re: removal of the vacation package

2014-01-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Bjørn Mork writes: > Is there such a beast with feature parity? vacation has a few nice > defaults, like ignoring list mails and only sending one message per week > to each receiver. Having every end user implement similar behaviour in > sieve isn't likely to happen. > > The world has become a l

Re: removal of the vacation package

2014-01-13 Thread Bjørn Mork
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > Bjørn Mork writes: >> Is there such a beast with feature parity? vacation has a few nice >> defaults, like ignoring list mails and only sending one message per week >> to each receiver. Having every end user implement similar behaviour in >> sieve isn't likely to happ

Re: Open Source Survey - http://goo.gl/5bwR9t

2014-01-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jonas Smedegaard jones.dk> writes: > Quoting Michael Kaserer (2014-01-08 11:00:50) > > We are two students currently working on a research project regarding > > motivation for contributing to Open Source projects. You can help us > > by filling out the following web-survey, it only takes max. 2

Re: removal of the vacation package

2014-01-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Bjørn Mork writes: > Ansgar Burchardt writes: >> Bjørn Mork writes: >>> Is there such a beast with feature parity? vacation has a few nice >>> defaults, like ignoring list mails and only sending one message per week >>> to each receiver. Having every end user implement similar behaviour in >>>

Re: removal of the vacation package

2014-01-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/13/2014 05:25 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: >> On Jan 12, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> >>> It still seems to have a fair number of loyal users though. I see your >> popcon says 1867 have it installed, but only 222 "voted". >> >>> If we do have such a >>> replac

Re: ITA: microcom

2014-01-13 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 01:06:33PM +, Michael Tokarev wrote: > [Replying to an old message] > > 20.12.2013 19:29, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > >retitle 726551 ITA: microcom - minimalistic terminal program > >owner 726551 ! > >thanks > > > >Hello, > > > >my colleagues and I are using microcom muc

Bug#735154: ITP: sockjs-twisted -- Simple library for adding SockJS support to a twisted application

2014-01-13 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Rossi * Package name: sockjs-twisted Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Christopher Gamble * URL : http://github.com/Fugiman/sockjs-twisted * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Simple l

Broken link

2014-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
Not sure if this is the proper list, but this is broken: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/packages/partman/partman-crypto/README?op=file Which is from the 'Documentation for hackers' link. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Open Source Survey - http://goo.gl/5bwR9t

2014-01-13 Thread Philip Hands
Thorsten Glaser writes: > Jonas Smedegaard jones.dk> writes: > >> Quoting Michael Kaserer (2014-01-08 11:00:50) >> > We are two students currently working on a research project regarding >> > motivation for contributing to Open Source projects. You can help us >> > by filling out the following

Re: Broken link

2014-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:25 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > Not sure if this is the proper list, but this is broken: > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/packages/partman/partman-crypto/README?op=file > > Which is from the 'Documentation for hackers' link. ... here: https://wiki.debian.org/Deb

Re: Broken link

2014-01-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
shawn wilson (2014-01-13): > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:25 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > > Not sure if this is the proper list, but this is broken: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/packages/partman/partman-crypto/README?op=file > > > > Which is from the 'Documentation for hackers' link.

Bug#735158: ITP: minia -- short-read assembler

2014-01-13 Thread Olivier Sallou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou * Package name: minia Version : 1.6067 Upstream Author : Rayan * URL : http://minia.genouest.org * License : CeCILL Programming Lang: C Description : short-read assembler Minia is a short-read ass

Re: Open Source Survey - http://goo.gl/5bwR9t

2014-01-13 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Thorsten Glaser writes: > > > Jonas Smedegaard jones.dk> writes: > > > >> Quoting Michael Kaserer (2014-01-08 11:00:50) > >> > We are two students currently working on a research project regarding > >> > motivation for contributing to Open Source projects. You can help us > >> > by filling o

Re: removal of the vacation package

2014-01-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Marco d'Itri writes ("Re: removal of the vacation package"): > On Jan 12, Ian Jackson wrote: > > The set of bugs looks tractable to me. Do you have a half-prepared > > upload somewhere or is the versionn in the archive the most recent ? > > No, I have really ignored it since december 2003. > If y

Re: removal of the vacation package

2014-01-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 13, Ian Jackson wrote: > OK. I will take it. Would you prefer me to do an upload right away > to change the Maintainer or can it wait (weeks very likely) until I've > had a chance to do some actual work on it ? No hurry. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#735177: ITP: fuseloop -- loopback mount using FUSE

2014-01-13 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer * Package name: fuseloop Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Johny Mattsson * URL : https://github.com/jmattsson/fuseloop * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : loopback mount using FUSE

Bug#735180: ITP: snp-sites -- Find snp sites from multi fasta alignment files

2014-01-13 Thread Jorge Soares
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jorge Soares * Package name: snp-sites Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Andrew Page https://github.com/sanger-pathogens/snp_sites * License : (GPL, MIT) Programming Lang: (C++) Description : Find snp sites from multi fasta ali

xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead upstream? Maybe this question should go to debian-release instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: CUPS is now linked against OpenSSL

2014-01-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Daniel, and thanks for the insightful response, Le samedi, 11 janvier 2014, 14.22:28 Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit : > There is a fourth way forward -- loath though i am to propose it -- > which is to avoid enabling TLS in CUPS at all until upstream gets > their act together and does something se

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 13, Svante Signell wrote: > Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very > much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead upstream? Do you need more reasons? > Maybe this question should go to debian-release instead? Maybe you should send patches ins

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/13/2014 05:38 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very > much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead upstream? The 7 RC bugs are the exact reason: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xpdf/news/20131208T163914Z.html Thi

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:21 +0100 Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. No, it will be removed from testing. That means that new users won't have it available but anyone who already has it installed is welcome to it, with all it's bugs. apt does not remove

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:21 +0100 > Svante Signell wrote: > > I like that program very > > much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead > > upstream? > > That's 7 entirely sufficient reasons and one problem that arguably

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Svante, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 06:19:21PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:21 +0100 > > Svante Signell wrote: > > > > I like that program very > > > much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a de

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Svante Signell writes ("Re: xpdf removed from testing?"): > On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > That's 7 entirely sufficient reasons and one problem that arguably makes > > fixing the other seven harder. So 7.5 reasons to remove it from testing. > > OK; OK, I understand com

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Svante Signell contributed: > Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very > much. I like it too but it's save dialog is pretty terrible. Have you checked out mupdf. No save but similar otherwise. p.s. qpdfview is shaping up and remembers tabs too.

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:19:21 +0100 Svante Signell wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:21 +0100 > > Svante Signell wrote: > > > > I like that program very > > > much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead > > > upstream

OT: New RC handling policy (was: xpdf removed from testing)

2014-01-13 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
>> I like that program very >> much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead >> upstream? > That's 7 entirely sufficient reasons and one problem that arguably makes > fixing the other seven harder. So 7.5 reasons to remove it from testing. I just want to say that I like the approa

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Svante Signell , 2014-01-13, 17:38: Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, For very small values of 7. :-) a dead upstream? The last xpdf release was in 2011, the previous one in 2007. Upstream certainly

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Svante Signell writes: > OK; OK, I understand completely. As a follow-up: according to popcon > there are about 10 000 installations of that package. Any > interest/chance that patches will help re-introduce this package, or is > it just a waste of effort? What is the opinion of the maintainers?

Bug#735200: ITP: iprutils -- The iprutils package contains user space tools required by the ipr device driver.

2014-01-13 Thread brenohl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Breno Leitao * Package name: iprutils Version : 2.3.15 Upstream Author : Brian King * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/iprdd/ * License : Common Public License Version 1.0 Programming Lang: C Description : T

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 19:25 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Svante Signell , 2014-01-13, 17:38: > >Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very > >much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, > > For very small values of 7. :-) There are seven, but five of them are

Bug#735209: ITP: python-changelog -- Sphinx extension to generate changelog files

2014-01-13 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Piotr Ożarowski" * Package name: python-changelog Version : 0.3.4 Upstream Author : Michael Bayer * URL : https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/changelog * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : Sphinx ext

Bug#735222: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar -- gnome shell automatic topbar hider

2014-01-13 Thread coldtobi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: coldtobi -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar Version : 20140113 Upstream Author : Thomas Vogt, with contributions by Philip Witte and Mathieu LutfyName * URL

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Norbert Preining
> > Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very > > much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead upstream? > Do you need more reasons? Actually *1* RC bug that was introduced by replacing the proper xpdf code with linking to poppler - a moving target that

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 14 janvier 2014 à 07:16 +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : > Yes, xpdf works very well. THose people having problem should simple > compile a version from upstream without the pesty Debian changes to > link against poppler, and it will work again. And as a bonus, the PDF exploits will wor

Re: CUPS is now linked against OpenSSL

2014-01-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 01/13/2014 11:38 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > That would be quite a bold move to take. The one aspect that puzzles me > most is: in which ways "no TLS security" is better than "incompletely > secure TLS"? if the only axis we're measuring along is cryptographic security, then protecting

Re: removal of the vacation package

2014-01-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > With mailbot from courier-maildrop, it's easy to do for a .mailfilter > file (though it'd be once per recipient, which is IMO enough, I don't You have an interesting definition of "easy", Thomas..:-) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#735256: ITP: libx11-windowhierarchy-perl -- Perl module to query the current X11 window hierarchy

2014-01-13 Thread Dima Kogan
Package: wnpp Owner: Dima Kogan Severity: wishlist * Package name: libx11-windowhierarchy-perl Version : 0.004 Upstream Author : Tom Molesworth * URL or Web page : https://metacpan.org/pod/X11::WindowHierarchy * License : GPL/Artistic (same as Perl) Description : Pe

Bug#735257: ITP: libx11-protocol-other-perl -- miscellaneous X11::Protocol helpers

2014-01-13 Thread Dima Kogan
Package: wnpp Owner: Dima Kogan Severity: wishlist * Package name: libx11-protocol-other-perl Version : 28 Upstream Author : Kevin Ryde * URL or Web page : http://user42.tuxfamily.org/x11-protocol-other/index.html * License : GPL3+ Description : miscellaneous X11::Pr

mupdf (Was: xpdf removed from testing?)

2014-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Russ, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:43:50AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > While someone could fix the package, you may want to consider not doing > so. After running into endless bugs in xpdf, I personally switched to > mupdf for a light-weight PDF reader and found it superior in every respect > e