Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

2010-04-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
t hard to be useful when printed. Don't you trust somebody with social security numbers and salary information? Don't give it to them. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python

2010-05-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
at is completely legitimate, as it has been debated over and over regarding the IETF RFCs. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#580694: ITP: liblocale-rails-ruby -- Pure ruby library with basic functions for localization

2010-05-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: liblocale-rails-ruby Version : 2.0.5 Upstream Author : Masao Mutoh * URL : http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-locale-rails.html * License : GPLv2 / LGPLv3 / Ruby

Bug#580697: ITP: libgettext-rails-ruby -- Gettext support for Rails applications

2010-05-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: libgettext-rails-ruby Version : 2.1.0 Upstream Author : Masao Mutoh * URL : http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html * License : GPLv2, LGPLv3, Ruby Programming

Bug#580701: ITP: libgettext-activerecord-ruby -- Localization support for applications using ActiveRecord

2010-05-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: libgettext-activerecord-ruby Version : 2.1.0 Upstream Author : Masao Mutoh * URL : http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html * License : GPLv2+LGPLv3+Ruby

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
y became a for-pay service), it is not controllable/predictable, and the stream itself is nonfree. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Xen for Squeeze, 3.4 or 4.0

2010-06-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
s supporting running as Dom0 and DomU? I understood there were still integration problems with upstream (Linux). -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Music store

2010-10-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Mauro Lizaur dijo [Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 08:49:12PM -0300]: > > [Lars Wirzenius] > > > Now, if you wanted to make a service that allows DFSG-free music to be > > > easily found and downloaded ("installed"), that would be a welcome > > > addition, though even that would not necessarily really be what

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ben Finney dijo [Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:01:46PM +1100]: > (...) > > I'm adding zero value here. Zero. It is a huge and frustrating waste > > of my time. > > Not in my view. I appreciate the Debian package maintainer acting in the > interest of “lower the barrier for each Debian user of this packa

Re: network-manager rant

2011-01-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Michael Biebl dijo [Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:34:45PM +0100]: > >> My workaround was to purge network-manager and I'm planning to fix this by > >> creating a package which Conflicts: network-manager. Maybe you could > >> provide > >> this kind of package by default :) > > > > Unless you have more u

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
John Goerzen dijo [Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 05:08:26PM -0600]: > So let's run out your scenario a bit: upstream asks user to test with > upstream version X. Bug isn't reproducible by maintainer. Does the > maintainer now have to provide user with binaries? This gets > complicated when packagin

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Mike Bird dijo [Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:51:43AM -0800]: > > KDE4 is crap, world+dog know that. Use GNOME, XFCE or whatever. If you > > want KDE3 in Debian, then put your money where your mouth is and > > come maintain it. > > That is well known. KDE 4 maintainers cannot keep up with > the bug rep

Re: Can insserv made better?

2011-01-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Mike Bird dijo [Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:09:39PM -0800]: > No, I'm saying that Snn/Knn values boot some systems where > insserv fails. Therefore Snn/Knn is superior in some cases. > I readily concede that insserv is superior in some cases. > > In order to avoid breaking Debian systems we should gi

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Mike Bird dijo [Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:44:31PM -0800]: > > But given that nobody has stepped up to package Trinity > > for Debian, I can only assume KDE4 is good enough for them. > > Trinity is packaged for Debian[1]. The problem is that KDE SC > quite unnecessarily took over the KDE package nam

Re: A request for those attending key signing parties

2011-02-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Martin Zobel-Helas dijo [Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:18:18PM +0100]: > a more theoretical question quite related to this: > > If one plans to have the key replaced in the keyring, and we have a > fellow DD in the keyring who's only trust path to other Debian > Developers goes via that key (this might

Re: Fwd: Compilation packages - major problem!!

2011-02-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
David Joseph P Crowley dijo [Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:23:30AM +]: > Thank you very much Goncalo, I'll have to try this now, but im not sure if i > am allowed to reply to you! > > Ben, > > I do not develop for debian but I am beginning a career as a software > engineer using Debian, who knows

Bug#616123: ITP: collabtive -- Simple web-based project management software

2011-03-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: collabtive Version : 0.6.5 Upstream Author : Philipp Kiszka et. al. * URL : http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/about.php * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: PHP Description : Simple web

Pushing tzdata updates to stable in time

2011-03-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, I was prodded by my Chilean friend, Germán Póo-Caamaño, to help find a way to push the tzdata corrections needed for Chile's change of timezone plans. Trying to do so, I found he already did everything needed (#617331). Chile was supposed to leave the Summer daylight savings period this comin

Re: Pushing tzdata updates to stable in time

2011-03-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Martin Zobel-Helas dijo [Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:31:36PM +0100]: > > I was prodded by my Chilean friend, Germán Póo-Caamaño, to help find a > > way to push the tzdata corrections needed for Chile's change of > > timezone plans. Trying to do so, I found he already did everything > > needed (#617331)

Re: Debian and the GNU Free documentation license

2003-10-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
our document was *much* more readable than the one I printed to read while on the bys, with no CSS in order to make itbehave :) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser

2003-10-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
e something I would like calling 'base'. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: ITA: libcache-cache-perl

2003-10-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
er incoming by Sunday). It is a very trivial patch, but I would not like you to miss it ;-) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
buildd workload), but I think it can help us have a stabler Testing distribution. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
John Hasler dijo [Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:25:45PM -0500]: > Gunnar Wolf writes: > > I think a third (or, after reading some replies to this same mail, > > fourth, fifth or nth) way could be used: Binary packages enter Sid as > > usual. Now, after the 10-day period, when th

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
nderstand some of the concerns against it) autobuilding using cross-compilers. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ting which were not autobuilt. As a sidenote, I remember some months ago there was a thread about information regarding a particular developer's working environment being distributed with the packages they built - If everything were to be autobuilt, we would also get rid of this (minor, IMHO) pro

Re: ftpmaster accepts packages that have been rejected a few days ago

2003-11-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
lic forum, then it should be their > choice, not Debian's. ...But it should be possible. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
mom to go and check if there is something fun in my packaging... -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Programming first steps.

2003-11-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
nice, elegant language. I have not yet used it for any real project, but I am looking forward to give it a spin. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces (was Re: Programming first steps.)

2003-11-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
itespace should be significant. I think you should really take a look at the Whitespace programming language [1], it will make you love Python. Greetings, [1] http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23

Re: Programming first steps.

2003-11-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
$count++; } END { print "Leaving Perl Interpreter.\n", "$count statements executed.\nHave fun out there!\n"; } -- Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#223370: ITP: makeztxt -- Create zTXT databases from ASCII files to read them in a Palm

2003-12-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: makeztxt Version : 1.6.0 Upstream Author : John Gruenenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gutenpalm.sf.net/ * License : GPL Description : Create zTXT databases from ASCII files to read them in a Pal

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ery DD ? I would ask for an extra one - I don't like to lug my computer around every day, and I often do Debian-related work either at home or at my office. I think each DD should at the very least get two such machines. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key

XFS entering kernel 2.4 tree - Should the installer include support?

2003-12-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
machines, but have heard quite a lot of good comments about it, and would like to see it available from the official d-i setup. Greetings, -- [1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1751#comment -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ewrite their .desktop files - We will still (I hope) strive to provide menus consistent with our way of doing things. One of the main roles of the maintainers of a distribution is to handle interaction between each individual package and the rest of the collection - this involves sorting out how me

Re: GNU within the name (Was: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s))

2003-12-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
le libc for Linux... ...Or the good ol' 'Because it's there' stuff? :) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
y concerns just as well. I have only one concern with this: What happens if you drop the package and someone else takes it? He will no longer be able to compile it with icc, and the icc-prebuilt users will be left out in the cold. What would you say to that? Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf

Re: mozilla address auto completion does not work anymore

2003-04-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
er to file the bug report, but yes, it *is* annoying. (BTW: I also experience the first bug... Didn't really notice it before, but it is there :-/ ) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: x86-64 mailing list

2003-04-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
of the user space is compiled for 32 bits, only specific bits (i.e. the kernel) are for 64 bits. [1] And i386 is the right name, even if it names a specific model of Intel chips - It is a great departure from previous x86 models, and it is the base architecture where lots of code work... Try t

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
386-fast, we will find out many users who found a creative use for their old hardware. Debian is about choice - we should do our best to let the *user* choose what he can and can not do with his old machine. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 10

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
a machine to be a X terminal about two years ago - 386SX, 8MB RAM. It worked fine, yes... But MUCH slower than a similarly-configured machine with a hardware FP unit, to the point of deciding it would be a text terminal, with no X :) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-970

Bug#190913: ITP: konqueror-embedded -- A small version of the Konqueror web browser

2003-04-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name: konqueror-embedded Version : 20021229_snapshot Upstream Author : Simon Hausman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Chitescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.konqueror.org/embedded/

Bug#190912: ITP: konqueror-embedded -- A light version of the Konqueror web browser for use in small machines

2003-04-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name: konqueror-embedded Version : 20021229_snapshot Upstream Author : Simon Hausman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Chitescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.konqueror.org/embedded/

Re: Bug#190912: ITP: konqueror-embedded -- A light version of the Konqueror web browser for use in small machines

2003-04-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
gt; upstream beforehand though. Also post on debian-kde mailing list if you > decide to work on it since there are several people who may wish to help > you with it. ...And the version of those libraries used to build Konqueror-embedded itself :-/ Anyway, I think I should provide builds bo

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I got disappointed because it is not unstable at all. I have only had a major (for me) problem once or twice. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: security in testing

2003-05-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
testing should always be usable. Testing was introduced because the inadequacy of freezing unstable for months in order to get a release done. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: DebConf 3 for New Maintainers

2003-05-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
sure someone will find use for it. But, is there a need for it? (specially because I understand most international customs departments allow you to travel with one computer for personal use, and I would be playing with my luck here ;-) ) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)56

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
echnological advance. How will it help anything? First of all, if they notice that they are ceasing to be the focus of technological development, they might understand that they are doing something wrong. And even if they don't, at least I feel better ;-) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
-${timestamp}-root. Or label all the partitions with a timestamp, preemptively avoiding this kind of conflicts. FWIW, setting them by label is the most flexible and robust way, not tied to hardware keys or specific hookups. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
use 'd-i-${timestamp}-root' is longer than 16 characters. Right. But some shortening might be in place. Maybe 090201-root (i.e. non-y2k, shortened timestamps). Or any other fixed-length token. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001

Bug#514786: ITP: dh-make-drupal -- Builds a Debian package for the requested Drupal project

2009-02-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: dh-make-drupal Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Gunnar Wolf * URL : http://github.com/gwolf/dh-make-drupal/tree * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Builds a Debian

Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME

2009-02-15 Thread Gunnar Wolf
reaks tools. Given that I kept staring at your message thinking something just went wrong, I suppose somebody else might fall in that logic trap: How can something be "positive but not bigger than zero"? 0~20090215 is. Nice math-breaking rules we had to introduce here :) -- Gunnar Wolf

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
e pushed in collaboration with their respective companies? At least, I'd be surprised if -say- the Solaris or HPUX people weren't open to discussion leading to better interoperability. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 200

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
profit, and neither were any of you. Jimmy, I advise you to triple-check if that it is the best way to help the visa process, or whether we should all apply as "tourists-and-nothing-else". After all, quite a bit of people go as tourists to NY, so nothing fishy there. -- Gunnar Wolf -

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
sa problems. But that's a (sad, stupid and quite) different story. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Requirement for a “pro per manpage” for every command

2009-03-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
behind the truth. Any strong opinions against? -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Requirement for a “pro per manpage” for every command

2009-03-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
in quality to a couple of manpages I have hand-generated (i.e. documenting a somewhat-obscure command or one for which the --help output is just enough). For one of them I have already ditched my man page for a call to help2man in debian/rules' install - It will at least make sure I don't skip

Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze

2009-03-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ably in many others. So, I cannot commit any time right now - But I do point my finger to this topic as a very important thing! :-/ Thanks, -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-03-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ow). Please confirm whether I should disregard this and put libcherokee*-dev also in httpd (or am I being too literal in my reading). Thanks, -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
oo's BSD ports' madness, where an upstream site restructure means packages become unreachable and insta-FTBFS. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBS

Re: Forcing version on dependency, how?

2009-03-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ask things, as otherwise we drown in cross-list or cross-topic traffic. -mentors is the place to ask, even if you are the author of dpkg. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
alike, both for software we distribute and for home-grown tools. Besides that, I'm all for the change. Although my fingers still prefer ifconfig over ip for some strange reason... Maybe it gets better huffman-encoded? -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1

Re: Transition of initscripts to new order / sequence number

2009-03-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
h leads to daemons that are bound to a specific IP to be unreachable) should be handled the best way possible - Right now we are kludging around it, but an event-based init system _is_ the way to go for the forseeable future. But we don't want to make things insta-incompatible, we must go step by ste

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ure (although you can come up with some pretty involved/complicated setups, but for most situations it is quite trivial). It does not support alerting, only monitoring and (offline, static, cron-based) graphing. It is by far not a replacement for netstat - it uses netstat as a source for many of

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
still - I don't want a vserver to be able to mess with any of my physical devices! -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ.

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
int to take into consideration, even for a particular DD who is against it. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF pgpWshlggeqtw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
prefer putting my ideas in front of the others and see if they make sense before formally proposing them. Besides, quite often my English is quite below par to what I read on lists such as this one - I am not saying that those are Lucas' motivations, but they are nevertheless real :) -- G

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
GR process, but to generalized frustration about the way 2008_002 and specially 2008_003 were handled. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I was requested to forward the following mail by Sven Luther: - Forwarded message from Sven Luther - From: Sven Luther To: Gunnar Wolf , listmas...@debian.org Cc: Romain Beauxis , debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-v...@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:01:17 +0100

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
nough backing will be represented in the ballot. If all options were submitted by a single person (even with the posterior review process you mention - There would be inertia against making subtle changes to an already submitted ballot), the options represented in it would come from a single person

Re: Why do we have to support tmpfs for /var/run (policy changes in 3.8.1)

2009-04-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
et, possibly failing cleanly, but possibly leading to head-scratching -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Why do we have to support tmpfs for /var/run (policy changes in 3.8.1)

2009-04-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
pid exists. Strong +1. This is, however, unrelated to whatever happened at boot - If the daemon crashed during regular system usage and it is started again, it should start regardless if there are any pidfiles lying around. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 102

Re: "Team uploads"

2009-04-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
even if the package is group-maintained, it is good to be able to note who is most familiar or has worked most with the package - And the current scheme does not properly represent it (save for parsing debian/changelog) -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP k

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
by 1.2 (say) implements 1.9 and JRuby 1.0 implements 1.8, possibly the (so far main) implementation should be renamed to only provide libruby1.8, so that also JRuby can satisfy it? -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ld versions? Why? What's the gain? -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: is not dunc tank

2009-04-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
#x27;s blessing and coordination. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Bug#525019: ITP: libspreadsheet-ruby -- Ruby library for manipulating .xls spreadsheets

2009-04-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: libspreadsheet-ruby Version : 0.6.3.1 Upstream Author : Hannes Wyss * URL : http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Ruby library for

Bug#525026: ITP: ruby-ole -- Ruby library for read/write access for OLE compound documents

2009-04-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: ruby-ole Version : 1.2.8.2 Upstream Author : aquasync (pending: Get his actual name!) * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ruby-ole/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Ruby Description

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
regularly knock at my door asking why their CDs don't work anymore. Grmbl... -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-re

Re: Thoughts on keeping a 3.0 (quilt) package in RCS

2009-04-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
s. Yes, I have to apply them in order to work on one of them, but debian/rules clean takes care of leaving everything ready for a clean build. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80

Re: Comparing MarkDown and reST (Was: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data)

2009-04-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ne, will cause said line to be incorrectly rendered and unreadable. Adding the requirement of having an empty line above (or being the first line in the long description) could work, at least for this particular case. But I'd prefer dropping 'o' as a bullet marker. -- Gunnar Wolf -

Re: Using uscan with VCS hosting sites

2009-05-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
irector at http://githubredir.debian.net/ - This takes a Git tree as exported by Github and gives the links for each of the tags. Now, there are some caveats - Mainly, the orig.tar.gz files are not _always_ identical, I guess due to timestamping differences. But it works for me. And source code is av

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-06-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
difference here, given we are talking about a Unixish system: In case 1, all of the bits in question belong to the same user. In case 2, some of the bits belong to a special user who is in charge of running the machine. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP ke

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-06-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
he Debian maintainer for Okular. Has this suggestion been pushed upstream? Don't you think we would do a greater service to the KDE users if we convinced the authors instead of just the Debian maintainers? (or at least, if we listened at their arguments as well) Greetings, -- Gunnar

Re: DEP 5 proposal omits original Debianization information

2009-06-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
aken into account with the proposed format - By using the «Files: debian/*» section. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

2009-06-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
would need if it were comma-separated. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

2009-06-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/09/17/469941.aspx So, just for ugliness and irony sake, we could employ ₩ or ¥ as a separator? Maybe Đ, as it bears more relation to Debian? No? Ok, nevermind. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB

Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

2009-06-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
re just one form of whitespace. And, of course, you can escape any whitespace character to prevent it from being treated as whitespace. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Bug#532796: ITP: libprawn-ruby -- Fast, Nimble PDF Generation For Ruby

2009-06-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: libprawn-ruby Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Gregory Brown <>, James Healy <> * URL : http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Ruby

Bug#532797: ITP: libttfunk-ruby -- Font Metrics Parser for Prawn

2009-06-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: libttfunk-ruby Version : 0~20090123 Upstream Author : Gregory Brown * URL : http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/ * License : (to be determined - likely, GPL-2) Programming Lang: Ruby

Re: [Debconf-discuss] using OpenPGP notations to indicate keysigning practices

2009-06-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
r see people use passports. I suspect you're going to see a > ton of them in the 2010 Debconf key signing, though, since a lot of > people in the US simply never bother to get a passport. Driving licenses are expressly not accepted as official ID documents in Mexico, even if they are

Re: [Debconf-discuss] using OpenPGP notations to indicate keysigning practices

2009-06-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
al for the government for procedures such as state and federal > elections or to prove citizenship to get passport. ...Or as an acceptable identification to handle your money at the bank, or to make government tramits, or... -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-224

Bug#534768: ITP: libbarby-ruby -- Pure-Ruby barcode generator

2009-06-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: libbarby-ruby Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Tore Darell * URL : http://toretore.github.com/barby * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Pure-Ruby barcode generator

Bug#534769: ITP: librqrcode-ruby -- Pure-ruby QR Code (2D barcode) generator

2009-06-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: librqrcode-ruby Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Duncan Robertson * URL : http://whomwah.com/rqrcode/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Pure-ruby QR Code (2D

Re: [Debconf-discuss] using OpenPGP notations to indicate keysigning practices

2009-06-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
expires 2009/12, and I expect to travel to Spain with a new one). Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: use of RDRAND in $random_library

2014-06-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Russ Allbery dijo [Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 07:08:40PM -0700]: > > If you don't trust a hardware random number generator, you should not > > xor it and another random number source together; after all, if you > > believe the numbers coming out of the hardware random source are not > > actually random,

Re: use of RDRAND in $random_library

2014-06-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Martijn van Oosterhout dijo [Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:09:02AM +0200]: > > Excuse me if I'm blunt here, but I understand that, on the point of > > using entropy to seed a PRNG, if you have several shitty entropy > > sources and one _really_ good one, and you xor them all together, the > > resulting o

Re: improving downloader packages (was: Re: holes in secure apt)

2014-06-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Christoph Anton Mitterer dijo [Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 04:21:36AM +0200]: > On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 20:14 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > debian-keyring is not useful for automatic authentication of source > > packages. > Well to be honest I never fully understood the idea behind > debian-keyring... > IM

Re: New project goal: Get rid of Berkeley DB (post jessie)

2014-06-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ibly others like LevelDB, > Tokyo/Kyoto, etc. we don't have to settle on one common solution). > (...) > Gunnar Wolf >ruby-bdb (U) Of course, given the purpose of this library is to facilitate interoperation with BDB from Ruby, if BDB is dropped, this package will just be drop

Re: improving downloader packages (was: Re: holes in secure apt)

2014-06-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Christoph Anton Mitterer dijo [Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:24:07PM +0200]: > > I do feel the keyring-maint package is a leftover from days long > > gone. Nowadays the keyring is kept at a DVCS tree, and regularly > > exported to a publicly accessible instance. > Any reason for that "internal" repo? I m

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