Re: Changing name of source package

2007-09-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
l required in stable/oldstable isn't it? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
added in debian/control to help tracking things. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
there known cases where this is a required condition? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ource package. Maybe something like Embedded-Sources: , ... Static-Build-Depends: , ... with usual version relationships. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
es, this list has always included apps linking statically. > > Cheers, > Moritz > Anyway having a way to distinguish source-embedded by statically-linked would be useful. IMHO the second case is almost always an error, but for special cases (static linked shell for instance). --

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
gt; > > Additionally, packages with embedded sources require patching, while > packages which statically link only require rebuilding. > Yes, that was the ratio for distinguishing the two cases... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Bits from Tcl/Tk team

2007-10-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
a subdirectory of /usr/lib/tcltk or /usr/share/tcltk (not right > now). > /usr/share/tcltk/$package for tcl/tk scripts and /usr/lib/tcltk/$package for shared libs (extensions). -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
vable that the library is not backward compatible at every new release. Issues with specific versions should be managed and solved: having a new source for every release is simply not acceptable. BTW, this is not the only case of such a mess around for libraries (maybe some upstreams should be spanked...)

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t;. I'm not sure why the burden > here should be on BDB alone. > That remembers me some other cases where people insist to use a non stable C++ API instead of the C one. One could ask himself who is guilty: the upstream who releases as public his private functions, or developer who

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
PROTECTED];tag=oldbdb;dist=unstable > > It appears to me that essentially it is a problem moving from 4.2 to 4.6, but I see nothing about the intermediate versions. Having 2 releases is largely better than having 5 versions around, isn't it? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBS

Re: use of "Uploaders:" field for team maintained packages

2007-10-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
gt; the team. It more accurately reflects who's caring about the packages. > I agree, but how managing this thing is a team policy. In DebianGis we also remove uploaders after a reasonable period of non-contributing time. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Please all dependency info into your init.d script

2007-10-25 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
situation is worst than what it seems :) I guess mass bug filing should be tempted in order to change the current status and warns as many maintainer as possible. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the Security Team

2007-10-31 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
;s > 18k packages on our own. > Wouldn't be the case to add a suitable control field, as proposed in a previous thread for that case? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
tons of developers and maintainers that need to build against 2.8, and I doubt a transition plan from 2.6 has sense due to API and behaviors changes. We have simply to cope with two different versions, as already happens for other libraries. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
choice of 2.6 instead of 2.8 or the future 3.0 is definitively a per-program ones, it is not a duty of the library package. Also if one is not able to cope with patches and bugs of a specific library, why not calling for helpers or giving up? Inaction is not a solution. -- Francesco P. Lovergin

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:03:56PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > So what about that? 2.8 is around since almost 1 year, and this delay > > is not justifiable IMHO. There are now tons of developers and > > maintainers that

Re: wxwidgets 2.8 needs help !

2007-11-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:52:47AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > future 3.0 is definitively a per-program ones, it is not > a duty of the library package. s/package/packager/ -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Help needed for bug #441794 on postgis

2007-11-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
manual dump/restore) at the time of etch->lenny transition due to geometry changes, too. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare among each other

2007-11-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
rt from here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelCustomCompilation -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
long description. Support leve is generally subject to frequent changes, so why polluting descriptions with those things? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
memory does not fail) no contact by other supposed interested people in the meantime. I find quite superfluous waiting another month in the long way to a wxwidgets 2.8 package stabilization. It needs action and now. PS: I'm not personally interested in supporting wxwidgets because already heav

Re: wxwidgets 2.8, anyone?

2007-12-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:21:08AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Now, what are YOUR plans?" > > No answer. Sorry Ron, No _email_ answer. We talked in IRC about that indeed, I forgot that. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: List of packages defining a RPATH on amd64 (differs from i386/lintian.d.o)

2008-01-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
27;m not enable to manage the upstream messy building system... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#459776: RFP: manpages-cs -- Czech manual pages

2008-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
s-* packages because both provide manpages > > such as passd.1, passwd.5, etc. > > This is quite common among all translated pages. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mipsel is blocking wordnet migration to testing

2008-01-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
gt; > to fix the problem that was reported by the ddpo daemon. This > worked for Sparc. Any hint what I could do to trigger a rebuild > of the latest package version on Mipsel (except of uploading an > unchanged package)? > > Kind regards > >Andreas. > Asking a gi

Bug#571788: ITP: geographiclib -- A C++ library to manage some geodesic transformations and problems

2010-02-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" * Package name: geographiclib Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Charles Karney et al. * URL : http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

2010-04-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
e 8.4, as minimum requirement or die. Be warned ;-) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100401125245.gb4...@blegrez.ba.issia.cnr.it

Re: Bug#577715: FTBFS: 7 of 7 tests failed

2010-04-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 03:03:51PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:47:37PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Source: netcdf > > Version: 1:4.1.1-2 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: FTBFS > > > > Hi, > > &

Bug#604141: ITP: libepsilon -- A library for wavelet image compression

2010-11-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
parallel in multi-threaded and MPI environments, can process huge images and much more. (Source package has been renamed to avoid collision wth an existing python package). -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: bug in ppp - grave

2010-11-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
configuration has some problems. Please ask on d-users. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101129142128.gc19...@blegrez.ba.issia.cnr.it

Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d? > It definitively depends on the specific packageis. When ever it happened to me, I followed up all the maintainer(s) involved and we found all together a way to have a working pool of packages. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
e, maybe some of them > should be orphaned or dropped instead? > +1 Very outdated debhelper versions, policy versions and very aged last upload dates could be signs of MIA developers and abandonware. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
discussions > around varoius Python helpers and so on). +1 this is exactly the reason why we adopted *one* default Tcl/Tk instead of the broken-by-design use of admin-changeable alternatives. Interpreters are not the right target for such an approach. We have to choose a safe default versio

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ct place to start this kind of flame wars :) In the meantime I'm afraid there is not another list, but for d-d, where discussion on this kind of things can be accepted. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
probably xtradius. System password checking is present for portability with non-linux platform essentially, and for historical reasons, too. A lots of those servers are derived from the original livingston's implementation, but all add alternatives forms of authentication and accounting. It's an admin's choice. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Bug#220401: ITP: linux-experimental -- Linux 2.4 kernel [EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE]

2003-11-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
PROTECTED] is ok now. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: POSIX capabilities patch

2003-11-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
, doesn't it? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: First pass all buildds before entering unstable

2003-11-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
re is a regression), so what's the problem? c. Very few packages are seriuosly broken on some archs. Their problems are generally due either to compiler/binutils problems or upstream coding. In both cases removing them on some archs could be a profitable solution for rele

Re: First pass all buildds before entering unstable

2003-11-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
uto-build it first and, if no upstream/package faults, we let it in, > > we > > get less RC bugs. > Exactly this was the idea. I'm unsure whether experimental could serve as > this kind of staging area. > A FTBFS for a new package is not a RC error. Only regressions are RC. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: First pass all buildds before entering unstable

2003-11-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > b. They are already kept off testing (if there is a regression), > >so what's the problem? > The problem is that other packages which might dep

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
the benefit that it > doesn't require that often administrator action (and perhaps an staging > area where the newest things are in, and that is moved to stable once > everything is done). > Yep, that was the idea behind the need of a policy and a RM. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ed in respect with security.d.o is all in this pov. Incidentally, volatile could also be used to upgrade stable for interactive use, which is probably the major reason of obsolescence for stable, but that's questionable. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
problems. It is really a memory and cpu hog. I doubt it is usable as is on any box without a good deal of horsepower and memory. I would add at least a big warning in its NEWS file about this, until its problems will be not solved. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
rs is a non-sense, plain and clear. The volatile archive is having more and more sense. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
s a program which just > can't run on that machine. > Just for your information SA3 was almost unusable on my P4 1.4Ghz with 128MB. It's not a dedicated box, but it's adequate for my workstation use with wmaker. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
> I had -m2 and each child canibalized up 20M of VM in just a few minutes. With 128M that makes difference. I'm now quite happily using razor with only very few false positives and a very high success rate in filtering spam. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Package idea, Debian-Firewall.

2004-10-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Indeed currently iptables rules need to be loaded with pre-up scripting in /etc/network/interfaces. Old init.d scripts are deprecated and not installed at all. > There are a lot of ways to setup a firewall in Debian [1] I rather not have > yet another package to do this. > Agree. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
'm thinking to the pre-1.0 version of mozilla in woody: upgrading to a sane 1.0 version in stable by volatile could be considered, solving many functional problems and being a sane (and safe) possibility. Other major upgrades (e.g. mozilla-current) are backports.org concerns. We have currently a few software of large use in those conditions, e.g. firefox/thunderbird (but note that those programs are really in better conditions in respect with the old woody mozilla) -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Proposal of removing MOSIX stuff

2003-05-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
modifications without author's permission. OpenMosix is fully GPL, instead. I'm simply proposing the complete removing of mosix from archive, if none could adopt it and manage properly its moving in non-free. Ciao -- Francesco P. Lovergine pgpi5sg3X0F01.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
per use, see some old flames about similar cases. And it generally causes confusion in bug submitters' mind: how many of them knows the difference between a fixed and a closed bug? A brief note about NMU changes incorporation in changelog and closing those bugs in BTS by hand is more correct IMO. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Bug#111158: Kernel 2.4.5+ network timeouts

2001-09-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc does not solve the problem. Ideas? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Bug#111158: Kernel 2.4.5+ network timeouts

2001-09-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:42:37AM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:42:43AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > Package: kernel-image-2.4 > > Version: N/A > > Severity: important > > > > This is an issue for the kernel f

Re: how to install KDE or Gnome on Sid

2001-09-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
pt-get install kdm kdebase-crypto kde-devel This worked for me. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: how to install KDE or Gnome on Sid

2001-09-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:07:01AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:06:13AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > What is the recommended way to install Gnome o

Re: how to install KDE or Gnome on Sid

2001-09-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
for task-tcltk-dev W: duplicate task info for task-tex Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package task-debug It seems really outdated in unstable. I do not know for testing. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
alias contains things like: > What if the gdm pkg cut off `plain' english? Maybe a choice among english_british and english_american could me more correct. What about english_italian also :) ? We speak brooklino instead of plain english, generally ... -- Francesco P. Lovergine

[RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
t including OPL under /usr/share/common-licenses ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:30:54PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Some e-books are available also under Open Publication License. > > What do you think of a pseudo package `ebooks-dev' which collec

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:05:09PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:30:54PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Some e-books are available also under Open Publica

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
case HTML is preferred. But so many books are only available in PDF format - which can be printed in non-letter formats easily. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:08:30PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > > It could be nice if all you send me a collection of ebooks you think > > is a must for a developer. Only HT

Re: Bug#112648: ITP: ebook-dev-html - [EBOOK-DEV] HTML 4.01 specification

2001-09-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
998. Latest NMU is in Nov 2000. I'll check if this package can be adopted. In this case I could close this ITP. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

what's wrong with last KDE update?

2001-09-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
but 4:2.2.0.20010822-1 is to be installed Depends: artsbuilder but it is not going to be installed Depends: noatun but it is not going to be installed Depends: libarts-mpeglib (>= 4:2.2.1-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Maybe, I'm missing somethings... -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
lain with my upstream tomorrow morning for this, when I'll see him... in the bath, in front to the mirror :( -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
e the developers some time to actually do something about it. > And _then_ _consider_ filing bugs (by discussing it here again). > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I agree. As for yardradius, the bug could be in fact secondary - programs works anyway. Severity level should be evaluated in every single case. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Preparing a Proposal: 3 DD needed for every NEW package

2001-12-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
too much maintainers are not really active and too much pkgs are built up without a RFP. Some packages are built starting from beta-quality sw, and this is not a good practice. Burocracy cannot solve these problems. Maintainers intelligence could. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: NMU sclient

2001-12-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
st seen more than 1 year ago at people.d.o. Maybe a proposal of adoption could be done... He mntns that pkg only. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
NMU. > > If you want to make it clear that the upload is sponsored an entry in the > changelog should be the right solution. Before I became a maintainer I > added to the changelog entry of every package that was sponsored for me a > line > > * Upload sponsored by Tony Manci

Re: Gnome 2 packages?

2002-01-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
; developer. > Broken, you could search in BTS for wnpp bugs in the meantime. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Please, have a look at #127948 (should merge #128195) which should be grave bugs IMHO. Is this solved also now? I removed KDE at all in my sid. To reinstall it, kpackage issue needs to be solved. This is a PIV 1400Mhz, maybe I could help :) Thanks for your efforts. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Do not link GNOME1 apps with libpng3

2002-01-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ot;It's newer" is not a good reason :) We could discover new problems in linking qt2 with png3 we had not before. Anyway, it's done. Maybe something about these bad practices is already present in the Policy Manual. If not something should be obviuosly proposed. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

debmirroring...

2002-04-03 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Hi debfolks I'm using this command: debmirror /users/debian --nosource -h -d woody in order to have a local copy of i386 stuff for our net. What is the damn reason why it copies potato distribution instead? I'm missing something? Thanks PS: please cc me... -- Francesco P.

Re: inetd's status in Debian

2009-03-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
rver configurations, but that's another problem... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#519175: RFH: proftpd-dfsg

2009-03-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: normal With the release of 1.3.2 of proftpd is finally in place prxs and the whole infrastructure for building third-parties modules. I know currently at least about 30 different modules available as non-core and some of them are sometimes requested by users. See http://

Bug#519251: ITP: spatialite -- A spatial extension of SQLite library.

2009-03-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
that can be useful with all kinds of applications that manage spatial data. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) -- Francesco P. L

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:56:20PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > how to had new services in /etc/services database? > > ciao > cate Asking netbase maintainer(s)? Just read /etc/services about that. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: abiword package lacks maintenance

2009-03-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Do you agree? A monolithic source package simplies strict interdependencies. Splitting is pointeless if source packages have not different releasing road maps or you have not to encourage independent teams creations. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: dpkg-buildpackage

2009-04-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
> Regards > -r Have a look onto the debian-gis svn repository where some gdal-ecw stuff resides. Ecw support can be done using by plugin support. -- 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: dpkg-buildpackage

2009-04-22 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
, and anyway if I remember correctly you could experience some problems with older versions and ECW support. > I must say that running the standard configure && make works but I would > prefer not to do a make install against debian packages. > -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To

Re: simultaneous installation lib and lib-mpi

2009-04-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
mplementation in our distribution is a viable possibility, but diverged by upstream: that should be done in the library package, while the serial and mpi -dev packages still should retain the same names (and conflict each other). This is what I will implement for the HDF5 case. -- 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: [DebianGIS-dev] maps / coastline files within Debian

2009-06-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
a data providing infrastructure, but I missed the whole thread conclusion (if any). -- 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: [DebianGIS-dev] maps / coastline files within Debian

2009-06-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
he same script in your documentation. Note that GMT coastlines format is quite known and used so i'm quite sure you can provide eventually some helper script for possible format conversions. -- 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: RFP: openjump -- OpenJUMP is an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) written in Java

2012-05-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
issue by convincing Oracle to change license or even better by re-implementing the package. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

Re: Bug#657949: Cannot install libhdf5-mpi-dev and libnetcdf-dev

2012-02-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
.8.4 | libhdf5-1.8.4, libquadmath0 (>= 4.6), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0) So at least at packaging level, that should be fixed to follow the previous criteria. That said, indeed NetCDF provides nc_create_par and nc_open_par in both serial and parallel versions, but needs to be built with --enable-paralle

Re: Bug#657949: Cannot install libhdf5-mpi-dev and libnetcdf-dev

2012-02-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
if it is painful, perhaps > Debian could pioneer something and pass patches back to upstream? > > Thoughts? > I'm afraid it is quite difficult having such kind of proposal accepted by upstreams. It implies changes for both them in library use, that they could be not ready to in

Re: Bug#657949: Cannot install libhdf5-mpi-dev and libnetcdf-dev

2012-02-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
access to the git repository, so a branch can be prepared for having a parallel flavor too. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!

2014-02-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
lve the main problem i.e. simplify maintainer life. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140217120451.gd4...@blegrez.ba.issia.cnr.it

Bug#1039093: ITP: libalien-build-perl -- module to build external dependencies for use in CPAN

2023-06-25 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libalien-build-perl Version : 2.80 Upstream Author : Graham Ollis * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Alien-Bu

Bug#1052224: ITP: libalien-base-modulebuild-perl -- subclass of Module::Build for building Alien:: modules and their libraries

2023-09-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
::Build for new stuff. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Bug#1053604: ITP: libgeo-gdal-ffi-perl -- foreign function interface for GDAL/OGR binding

2023-10-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgeo-gdal-ffi-perl Version : 0.1 Upstream Contact: Ari Jolma * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Geo-GDAL-FFI * License

Bug#1060757: ITP: libdata-find-perl -- Find data in arbitrary data structures

2024-01-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdata-find-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Contact: Andy Armstrong * URL : https://github.com/AndyA/Data--Find * License

Bug#1061195: ITP: libgeo-wkt-simple-perl -- Simple utils to parse/build Well Known Text(WKT) format string

2024-01-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgeo-wkt-simple-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Contact: Yuto KAWAMURA * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/KAWAMURAY/Geo-WKT-S

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-02 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 12:39:55PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: In summary: would running unstable instead of bookworm let me find more bugs than running bookworm with unstable chroots? For my specific work: yes, absolutely. Am I upgrading from bookworm to unstable or at least

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-02 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 09:09:45PM +0100, Sirius wrote: Hi there, This is quite actively discussed on Fedora lists. https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/ https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 Worth taking a look if action need to be taken on Debian. Speaking ab

Bug#978705: ITP: ypbind -- Client daemon for working with Network Information System (NIS)

2020-12-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" * Package name: ypbind Version : 2.7.2 Upstream Author : Thorsten Kukuk * URL : http://www.linux-nis.org/ * License : GPL, LGPL, BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Client

Bug#978706: ITP: ypserv -- Server daemon for working with Network Information System (NIS)

2020-12-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" * Package name: ypserv Version : 4.1 Upstream Author : Thorsten Kukuk * URL : http://www.linux-nis.org/ * License

Re: Can aolserver4 be considered superseded and removed?

2018-02-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
much better state. https://bitbucket.org/naviserver/naviserver -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Can aolserver4 be considered superseded and removed?

2018-02-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
st. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804043 [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-tcltk-devel/2018-February/003546.html Kind regards, Héctor -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Can aolserver4 be considered superseded and removed?

2018-07-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
I would propose a replace roadmap for people using aolserver4 (in both testing and stable) with usual replaces/provides/conflicts items, and add a *big* warn in NEWS about known changes and incompatibilities. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Bug#904668: ITP: libfortran-format-perl -- Package to parse Fortran formats string descriptors in Perl

2018-07-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
implementation was written in pure Perl, with portability and correctness in mind. It implements the full ANSI standard for Fortran 77 Formats (or at least it should). It was not written with speed in mind, so if you need to process millions of records it may not be what you need. -- Francesco P

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