Bug#1073553: ITP: libgeo-converter-wkt2kml-perl -- a package to convert between WKT and KML standards

2024-06-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgeo-converter-wkt2kml-perl Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Contact: OHTSUKA Ko-hei * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Geo-Convert

Bug#1074409: ITP: jeolib-miallib -- JRC morphological and image processing library

2024-06-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-...@lists.debian.org Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-...@lists.debian.org * Package name

Bug#1074581: ITP: libtie-aliashash-perl -- module to provide hash with aliases key (multiple keys, one value)

2024-07-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtie-aliashash-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Contact: Aldo Calpini * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Tie-Ali

Bug#1078554: ITP: guile-commonmark -- module to parse CommonMark documents, a fully specified Mardkdown variant

2024-08-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: guile-commonmark Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Contact: Erik Edrosa * URL : https://github.com/OrangeShark/guile-commonmark

Re: Bugzilla package in need of help

2004-10-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t see why this is changed) > > I'm afraid I forgot why this was added (it's been roughly three months). > Judging from the code it looks like some left over test code and can be > removed. > > Cheers, > Moritz I'm looking into the package now. Stay tuned. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: AMD64 Archive Key compromised!

2004-10-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:52:07AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > I guess this is the modern version of "real men just upload their > important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it." > RMS used to have no password at MIT times, indeed :) How times cha

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-02-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
FYI: new mysql FLOSS includes OpenSSL license, so many packages could migrate to current libmysqlclient starting from no starting from now.. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:38:08AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine writes: > > It depends on programs, sometimes the same usage function is used for > > either --help or invalid options. > > Sure, but the output should still be directed correctly. Q

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:13:32AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Quite difficult if the function is the same. In both cases it uses stderr. > > Oh good grief. Add an argument to the function s

Re: cvs loginfo configuration for alioth?

2005-12-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
> I came back, it no longer seems to work correctly: > > The script used in debian-gis repo (pkg-grass) works like a charm. Feel free to use it... I also looked around a bit to have a working program after alioth upgrade. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
DD's corner contents should be discussed on d-www, eventually. It already links official and unofficial urls and it seems reasonable for listing those kinds of things. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Maintainer for fftw 2.1.3 requested

2006-03-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
AFAIK. Maybe the fftw3 maintainer could be interested in maintainace of fftw2 too... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Maintainer for fftw 2.1.3 requested

2006-03-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
> > Maybe the fftw3 maintainer could be interested in maintainace of fftw2 too... Oh well he, filled the ITA about that on December... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#304521: ITP: wanna-build -- Database management for package (re-)compilation/status control

2005-04-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
eady present buildd project at https://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools/ -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:38:17PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > see shy jo, who argued for 4.0 at the appropriate time to discuss the > version number to use :-) right -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: NEW processing slowdown (Was: FAQ, Re: new mplayer)

2006-10-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
O adding people to do that is the only way to go, but for removing auditing (which is not acceptable). This is the same reason why none can sponsor dozen of packages without lowering reviewing quality. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: apt hangs for ever

2006-11-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ot the same issue with ftp.it and solved twice as pointed by henrique. Installing debian-archive-keyring in the pbuilder chroot (with the new recent key) just before updating solved the issue this time and in the previous case also. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: out of date package with maintainer AWOL

2007-01-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t > i be allowed to become the new maintainer of this package. > > any help is appreciated. > Better contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] in order to track the thing properly. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?

2007-01-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
automatically as > Maitnainer/Uploader, the fact that the package is well maintained may > hide that a particular DD do nothing at all, and is in fact MIA. > That would be avoided by removing entry on the basis of the changelog containts. People who do not touch the package for +365 days

Re: library for imap (client)

2006-03-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:49:07PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Currently I am starting a new project and want to know, if someone > know the existence if an imapclient library for C programing? > libc-client with some limitations... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

[RFC] proftpd 1.3.0rc5 in experimental

2006-03-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
es, I know that aptitude is the sane choice for dist-upgrading :) so I'm not too worried about. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ted. > Unfortunately sometimes the daemon does not stop for an error in the maintainer script and that prevents upgrading for ever, even when the package has been corrected. BTW, it seems a lack in the policy to specify how the maintainers scripts should work on stop (i.e. what returning as exit co

Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t; cruft that needs to be addressed. There are absolutely no acceptable > exceptions to either this rule (stopping a stopped service is okay) nor to > its counterpart (starting an already started service is okay), as far as I > know. > Absolutely ack. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: /sbin/halt always changes its access rights

2005-01-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d root root 02755 /sbin/halt > > Note that making random programs like "halt" setuid root might > be a serious security hole. > I find ctrl-alt-del quite nice in these cases, changing a bit /etc/inittab and using acpi/apm to powerdown. Any decent login manager allo

Re: LVM packages up for adoption

2005-01-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
We are all awating for new-alioth in place. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
zlib1 ldso libg++27-altdev libregex0-altdev svgalib1-altdev xlib6-altdev xpm4.7 xaw3d netscape-base-4-libc5 svgalib1 svgalib-dummy1 termcap-compat and others, partially. This could impact potentially very old (commercial mostly) binaries, Comments, ideas, complaints? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:55:02AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:17:43PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > zlib1 > > The ocaml bindings to zlib still build depend on zlib1g-dev. > Which is the newer alternative to this package? > E

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
(another dead product) will have problems. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
, 19 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:56:32AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > > xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8 > > > documents. > > > > > > > That's exactly one of the

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ople have accumulated a lot > on their HDDs in twenty years. > ... and they are also completely uninterested in storing docs in a way that will allow them to read their own data in the future... -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:59:46AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > IMO it's a good moment to drop all the following i386-specific packages > > which are libc5 related: > > I agree, with the proviso that we make sure anyone who really need

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:43:23PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > You, and rest of the minority who use libc5 program, can dual-boot > an older distribution of Debian (say potato) where the programs still > work. Yes, it can be a hassle, but it works. > Also woody...

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Thursday, Jun 19, 2003, at 06:57 US/Eastern, Francesco P. Lovergine > wrote: > > >And surely Debian DOES NOT support > >non-free (in DFSG sense) software, > > No, but we do support our us

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
nefits of having them in a modern distro as sarge, whenever it will be available. In these days, zlib's maintainer already dropped libc5 support. I have a grave bug in libc5 linker which is currently unable to manage properly also a silly program. Those kinds of problems will (probably) become quite constant in the future, 'cause of aging of those libs. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Bug#200355: ITP: csound -- incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis program

2003-07-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
e... http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream/Copyrights -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Bug#200355: ITP: csound -- incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis program

2003-07-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:58:50PM +0200, Andrea Glorioso wrote: > >>>>> "fpl" == Francesco P Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > fpl> I wonder if that classic package can stay in our archives > fpl> (also non-free). Did you check

Bug#204494: ITP: jot -- print out increasing, decreasing, random, or redundant

2003-08-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-07 Severity: wishlist * Package name: jot Version : 9.0 Upstream Author : John Kunze, Office of Comp. Affairs, UCB * URL : http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/system/rhlinux/athena-9.0/free/SRPMS/athena-jot-9.0-3.src.rpm *

Re: looking for nco maintainer Brain Mays

2003-08-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
We are going into mainstream towards sarge releasing, so you couldn't have sufficient time for usual release-test cycle of a new upstream release. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
pilation of ancient code. When I asked for revoming due to an old grave bug, people answered almost the same: it's yet useful. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
nts looks not so good. For instance I used happily this resource: XTerm*Font: -monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--15-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-15 and the visual quality of that font is now less good. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
sed policy is already followed in case of ABI changes. And any sane program would not compile when ever a library change its _API_ in a way not back-compatible. If not, well that's an upstream issue, not a debian one :) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: debconf5 - videos of the talks and BOFs available

2005-07-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Will the slides be available in a central repository too? Having both videos and slides would be nice for who missed the event, like me :'( -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: about voting for bugs

2005-07-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
able to discriminate what's a spurious bug and what's not. That could be useful to create a priority list for QA team jobs, but I wonder if it's better than the proposed popcon approach. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
have the same role of lintian/linda by this point of view. Filling BTS reports could be not so appropriate. Disclosure: I do not know piuparts at all :) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#319334: ITP: ng-spice -- Mixed-level/mixed-signal electronic circuit simulator

2005-07-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ed all but distribution/copy it could be fine for non-free AFAIK. But that one poses too many limitations. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
with CVS, > arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian > Weimer lists on http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/arch/design-issues.html > Comparing svn and arch is like comparing apples and tomatos. They have completely different purposes (i.e. centralized vs di

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Marc Chantreux wrote: > that are not bugs so i wonder if package maintainers where pleased if i > reportbug those lines as wishlist. > Why not? a patch is a patch. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: FTPmasters (again)

2005-08-31 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
tion for their regular job. Well done. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spam on the BTS

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ry? Once it becomes multi-threaded CPU usage > could become an issue, especially if we upgrade to spamassassin 3. What's wrong with using native perl threads and mutexes ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
instead of thread mutexes (which is the proper answer to syncronization issues in a thread-safe architecture)? "It's more easy" is not a decent answer, of course. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > >> resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads > >> doesn't. >

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > > >> res

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > >> resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads > >> doesn't. >

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:35:50AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> SQLite databases (and Subversion repositories) are intended to be > >> opened concurrently by multiple processes. > > > To be more clear: programs which use ordina

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:33:32PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I've looked at the SQLite code and it does this. At the same time, it > >> has to implement recursive locks (which can be entered multiple times > >> by the sa

Re: Removing non-free documentation from main

2005-09-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ept comments in the source code). > I don't think so, there is a lots of software which does not use a separate license for doc, man pages and so on. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patch² : Maintaining a patch for a debian package

2005-09-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
atching already implemented? Maybe apt-fu could > be used for that task, but it's apparently discontinued. > apt-src ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
does not require preregistering users, monitoring to remove spam, maintaining a black list of terms ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP License for PEAR packages

2005-10-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d be BSD-like but claims to be from Berkeley instead. AFAIK they should adapt a PHP-like license or any better. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get wants to remove hotplug?

2005-10-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d. > The driver for USB mice is usbhid. > It is (was?) not loaded anyway, keeping off my usb logitech mouse. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Calculating deps size - splitting a package

2005-11-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
; dependancies (with their installed-sizes) that adding the plugin in > question to a binary package would pull in. I am interested on the total > effect to an end-user, for each plugin. Mmm, if plugins used dlopen() ldd would not help in that respect. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UN

Re: dput works but dupload does not -- illegal PORT command

2005-11-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ackage).dsc: Illegal PORT command. > at /usr/bin/dupload line 508 > > Yet dput works fine. > > Any suggestions what's wrong? Has anyone else been having htis problem? > -- Did you try passive ftp? It works here. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
enerally good to work with, at least from what i have observed. > What about first hand experiences with them in heavy-load production environments? Stability, etc. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
lem, not a choice of contributors. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > There are rumours about that, yes. Maybe a package hijack could be > attempted by someone who's lucky enough to have his|her key in the > keyring. > ... and still have it after that upload :-P -- Fr

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:33:32PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 16/04/08 at 17:08 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > There are rumours about that, yes. Maybe a package hijack could be > >

Re: Compie ProFtpD on etch

2008-04-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
until it will be available a proftpd-dev package to build independently other DSO modules (in 1.3.2). -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian tcl/tk policy: where to put shared libs?

2008-05-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
in for a debian-tcl mailing list, so I'm sending > this to debian-devel as well as the two names listed in the Tcl/Tk > policy package and the pkg-tcltk-devel list. If this is not the right > place, please advise and do feel free to forward this email to the > right place. This is the right place. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: funny outputs of ssh-vulnkey

2008-05-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
to read such files, so those 'funny' outputs are perfectly justified. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
that grub is more flexible and generally useful but I would retain lilo as an optional package at least. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: password -- little ruby random password generator

2008-07-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d generator which generates a random > > password which is strong, safe and secure. > > pwgen already exists. > And gpw for pronaunceable passwords. If it did not add anything new I would avoid to add a new password generator just because it is written in Ruby instead of plain

Re: question about iptables and bug #538608

2009-07-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
. > > Cheers, At least in one case, I change the series file on-fly at building time to create different flavors of the same lib with a different patchset. I roughly suspect this is not compatible with the 3.0 format, but it is also difficult to be auto-detected... -- Francesco P. Loverg

Possibly hijacking netcdf

2009-09-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
never :) - Forwarded message from "Francesco P. Lovergine" - Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:33:51 +0200 From: "Francesco P. Lovergine" To: Warren Turkal Cc: fran...@debian.org Subject: Netcdf status User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Warren are you still motivated in maintaini

Re: Possibly hijacking netcdf

2009-09-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
gt; another interested party, so please feel free to take it over. > > Warren Turkal > Linux Enthusiast and Libre Software Advocate > Thanks for all the paste work Warren, I'm going ahead with adoption. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ.

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
rades for instance, and it would also allow maintainers to mark proper transitional/dummy packages. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
stalled packages belonging to a given section. > I see no uses for such a selective removing. But that could be a pro for the control field. > Debtags is clearly meant to solve this problem, but for transitional > packages I'd like to have a solution which is both sound and > co

Re: Bug#548720: ITP: libkml -- The C++ library for supporting OGC KML 2.2 standard

2009-09-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:36:58AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > It would be nice to mention what KML is. KML is standard for vector geo-data representation, also used in common applications like Google Maps and Earth. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Re: Bug#550542: ITP: jhdf -- Java HDF5 Object Package

2009-10-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ing/essays/bsd.html. Maybe you can give > it a try? > > Have a nice day, > Note that in hdf5tools (from the same source, HDF Group) the advertising clause is not mandatory. It could be something that would require an update on their side. Did you try to contact HDF group? -- Francesco P.

Re: Bug#551123: ITP: echinus -- lightweight tiling window manager

2009-10-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
admittedly > more debatable than I originally thought if this package deserves a spot. > > Daniel > Most tiling WM are customizable by changing one configuration file. On that regardi, dwm is quite unique. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists

kfreebsd problem

2009-10-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFC: convenience copy of cddlib

2009-11-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
. > 3) Use versioned symbols for the internal library to avoid conflicts with the external one. http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/coldfire/gcc-doc/docs/ld_25.html -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
of a single maintainer: this should be mandatory. Blocking maintainers should also be gently changed when they are not able to step down themselves for what ever reason. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: Bug#413987: ITP: openjpeg -- JPEG 2000 image compression codec library

2007-03-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
packaging this as a dependancy of secondlife-client > Just I wonder if/how it's better than Jasper for jpeg2k. Any hints about that? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-03-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
out debpool and debarchiver, involving > Joel, Ola and several users/code writers. If you are interested, I can > send you the discussion. > Pointers? Debpool is a nice tiny tool, but lacks some major useful features and has a few annoying bugs. It could be improved. It's a pity it stale

Re: MySql broken on older 486 and other cpuid less CPUs. Does this qualify as RC?

2007-04-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
well, but it seems > only honest to admit that as a project, we don't care about 486 enough to > even get 486-specific problems marked as RC in time to do anything about > them for a release. > That could be fixed in R1, isn't it? I see no major problems on those regard

Re: Not-so-mass bug filing for the patented IDEA algorithm

2007-04-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
, no program in Debian actually uses this code, it's just > inherited from upstream libraries. > > Are there any objections? > Just check that they _CONTAIN_ implementation, not just are able to link some external library which implements IDEA. Just for precision and unu

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
or you quick help! > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422717 As you can see, it does not help: proftpd-ldap is (was starting from next upload, thanks God) an all-type fake package with a ${source:Version} dependency in place. That strict dep was probably supefluous in the

Re: checklib

2007-05-25 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:22:12PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > We're still waitinf for the lufthansa machines to set it up :/ > That remembers me that having some bits about that would be nice. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
to > this ITP... > > Fr'wants to laugh too'ank > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
amp;dist=unstable&include=patch > That's simply due to missing regular contributors. Also a few people are still reported as 'main contributor' even if their contribution level reached ground zero years ago. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: python, then C++, or C++ from the start?

2007-05-31 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
on proficiency to mockup a new application in Python first? > I would choose plain C instead of C++ to avoid possible ABI breakages during main upgrades. But for that, there are more tiny languages available to be embedded into a C/C++ framework, but probably I'm biased and old-fashioned ;-) -

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
job) > > This sounds juicy, assuming it matches what I've in mind; where can I > find more info on this new feature? > It looks also very dangerous :) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GSASL Maintainer Missing in Action?

2007-06-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:20:53PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know the whereabouts of Yvan? May I consider him missing in > action? > It's a good think to CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] in those cases for tracking. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: RFC: declaritive diversions

2007-07-03 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
diversions, because I found broken diversions quite often on my development sid boxes. I have not an idea about that, but some sort of dpkg logging would be nice for instance... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for new FTP assistants

2007-07-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
subjects to filter spamming activities? Something already adopted for the RT system indeed. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What to do with new upstream releases before Lenny is out ?

2008-07-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
nny was truly broken and the new one perfect (which is doubtful). Also in that case think twice, than give up: you are probably missing something and the result will be worst. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
r remove to avoid breakages for other packages installed at the same time. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
to some degree of misnomers, with which we can cope > well as long as there are good descriptions of their meanings. > Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ce of old fashioned hardware with a more old fashioned owner ... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and private libraries

2007-09-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t a soname and a more complex tree of dirs to pick up their stuff than a single directory. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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