Re: Debian PopCon & Linux Counter: Statistics

2008-07-27 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
if you know what proportion of > actual Linux users is registered at li.org. If an anonymous registration is done in popcon package then a debconf dialog should ask the user if he already has an account on counter.li.org Regards -- Thomas Preud'homme (just a user) Why Debian : h

Re: Debian PopCon & Linux Counter: Statistics

2008-07-27 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le dimanche 27 juillet 2008, vous avez écrit : > Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > Le dimanche 27 juillet 2008, RalfGesellensetter a écrit : > >> Dear list, > >> > >> today I got a reminder from Linux Counter [1] to update my > >> registration.

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-26 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
On mercredi 26 mai 2010 02:39:52 Raphael Geissert wrote: [SNIP] > > Yes, $BASH_SOMETHING is just used to make it easier to see that the > following code (probably a bashism) is only executed after checking the > shell is actually bash. That and the other FP are the most common ones, yet > not that

Bug#599008: ITP: ultracopier -- Advanced graphical file copy system

2010-10-03 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Thomas Preud'homme" * Package name: ultracopier Version : 0.2.0.15 Upstream Author : Herman Brule * URL : http://ultracopier.first-world.info/contact.html/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C+

Bug#604178: ITP: gcp -- Advanced command line file copy system

2010-11-20 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Thomas Preud'homme" * Package name: gcp Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Jérôme Poisson * URL : http://www.goffi.org/index.php * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Python Description : Advanced co

Re: DEP5 CANDIDATE parser/editor/validator/migrator is released in libconfig-model-perl

2011-01-21 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
ted: > 'Format','Upstream-Name','Upstream-Contact','Source','Disclaimer','Comment > ','Copyright','Files','License','Format-Specification','Name','Maintainer', > 'Upstre

Re: New version of DEP-5 parser

2011-02-22 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
gt; in the cross-distro dev room at FOSDEM in 2 weeks. Feel free > to come by and let's discuss DEP5 or other possible applications. > > > All the best Thanks for this tool > > Dominique Thomas Preud'homme > > [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model/ &g

Re: New version of DEP-5 parser

2011-02-23 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 22 février 2011 20:24:02, Dominique Dumont a écrit : > Le mardi 22 février 2011 19:06:27, vous avez écrit : > > Can't call method "fetch_element" on an undefined value at > > /usr/share/perl5/Config/Model/Backend/Debian/Dpkg/Copyright.pm line 121. > > > > Do you want me to fill a bug repo

autoconf method in ifupdown

2009-03-29 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Hi all, I was looking a method to just have ipv6 with autoconf network and found this patch http://mlblog.osdir.com/linux.debian.devel.ipv6/2005-05/msg00012.shtml Does anybody know the answer of upstream dev to this patch proposition ? Regards, Thomas Preud'homme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: autoconf method in ifupdown

2009-04-17 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
On mercredi 08 avril 2009 04:42:38 Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:00:14 +0100, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > I was looking a method to just have ipv6 with autoconf network and > > found this patch > > http://mlblog.osdir.com/linux.debian.d

Re: autoconf method in ifupdown

2009-04-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
On samedi 18 avril 2009 00:06:52 Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 19:14:14 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > I'm ready to do it but I think this makes more sense to submit the bug to > > the upstream dev. Unfortunetely I couldn't find the web pag

Re: eglibc 2.14 for wheezy?

2012-04-14 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 14 avril 2012 20:37:14, Svante Signell a écrit : > On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 20:27 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Svante Signell (14/04/2012): > > > As the title says, are there plans to use eglibc 2.14 for wheezy?? > > > It has been out for some time now. > > > > Again, ask the maintain

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
a position to do so, and > > even if we did, the transition now would be many times more disruptive > > for users than if this had been dealt with in 2010. > > > > > If Debian is frozen tomorrow, then Nodejs will not be part of it, > > > for the very reason that I *did* respect Policy. > > > > It may not be part of the release, but it will still be a mess for > > everyone involved. > > Thanks to stpid actions by people not doing their homework, yes. > > > - Jonas Best regards, Thomas Preud'homme signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

2012-05-08 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 8 mai 2012 07:56:35, Peter Miller a écrit : > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 20:23 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Conversely, debhelper contains actual, > > documented, and non-insane interfaces that could be used to do > > this properly. For some value of "properly" that the ftpmasters > > would prob

Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

2012-05-12 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 12 mai 2012 04:25:08, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Michael Gilbert writes: > > So, I think [0] is the most astute message in that thread. > > > > [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2000/11/msg00251.html > > I thought that too when I first read it, but later in the thread are very >

Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

2012-05-13 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 12 mai 2012 22:56:39, Russ Allbery a écrit : > "Thomas Preud'homme" writes: > > Are you referring to [1]? Because the full paragraph is about Program's > > source code. > > > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2000/11/msg00260

Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

2012-05-14 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 14 mai 2012 01:59:41, Russ Allbery a écrit : > "Thomas Preud'homme" writes: > > Back to the redistribution. In the section 4 (Conveying Verbatim > > Copies), what is discussed is the redistribution of the Program as > > source code form. Every word

Re: Bug#672847: ITP: python-nbxmpp -- Non blocking Jabber/XMPP module

2012-05-14 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 14 mai 2012 11:45:01, Thomas Preud'homme a écrit : > Le lundi 14 mai 2012 07:57:11, Yann Leboulanger a écrit : > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Yann Leboulanger > > > > * Package name: python-nbxmpp > > > >

Re: Bug#673071: ITP: vodstok -- Voluntary Distributed Storage Kit

2012-05-16 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 16 mai 2012 09:22:46, Jonathan Wiltshire a écrit : > Hi, > > On 2012-05-15 21:33, Pierre Jaury wrote: > > This is an opensource, free and viral project > > Viral? I hope this is just a translation artefact; can you explain > exactly what you mean by it? From the website linked in th

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 18 mai 2012 17:41:55, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo a écrit : > 2012/5/18 Neil Williams : > > There's a big difference between these bugs and the rest - here there > > are clear migration paths to later packages which can be used to triage > > the bug reports in order not to lose report

Re: Bug#679236: O: ckport -- portability analysis and security checking tool

2012-06-27 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
ink between celt and ckport? I mean, why does this orphaning message refers (implicitely) to celt? > > Ian. Anyway, I didn't know this package and it seems interesting. I'd be happy to adopt this package but since I'm quite busy now it wouldn't make any sense to adopt

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-10 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 2 juillet 2012 18:42:13, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > Hey folks, > > As you might have seen from recent discussions about the Fedora and > Ubuntu strategies for how to deal with EFI and Secure Boot, there are > potentially major issues in the area. In Debian we don't (yet) have a > plan, so

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-10 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 13:08:57, Russell Coker a écrit : > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, "Thomas Preud'homme" wrote: > > When the flaws was exploited, then the attacker had sufficient access to > > change e.g. EFI and could thus have done whatever nasty things he wanted >

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 28 août 2012 18:27:23, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > Are all alternate compilers expected to implement gcc extensions? Must > the code be changed to use appropriate '#ifdef __GNUC__' guards? (And > what happens the next time gcc adds a new extension...?) I maintain tcc and it clearly doe

Re: nacl and CPU frequency.

2012-09-23 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2012 01:42:01, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > So the build process is trying to determine which method will work? > Then what if it settles on some method that is available on the build > machine's kernel, but not the target distribution's kernel? I think you > need to eithe

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-25 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 24 septembre 2012 23:53:01, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 07:33:03PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > package X would depend on the maintainer field of the packages *already* > > in Debian, not the one in the package he uploads. Just the way it is at > > One way to re

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
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Re: Do opaque struct changes break C library ABIs

2013-05-17 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 17 mai 2013 07:17:48, Guillem Jover a écrit : > (…) I agree dlopen()ing shared libraries in general should not > be supported (I'd even go further and say this should be outright > banned, given the pain it causes, and optional library support should > always be implemented by loading a

Re: Temporary solution for changelog problem in binNMUs

2013-05-17 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 17 mai 2013 13:40:13, Dominique Dumont a écrit : > > This may be a dumb question, but looking at this example of different > binNMU changelogs [1], I wonder what is the point of having a log specific > to each build system ... > > In other word, can't we have a binNMU log generated by

Re: Temporary solution for changelog problem in binNMUs

2013-05-17 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 17 mai 2013 15:36:02, Julien Cristau a écrit : > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 14:14:20 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > Also, it wouldn't help for the case of a binNMU on a subset of all arches > > since only some of them would have the entry. The solution pro

Re: MBF: transition from texi2html to texinfo

2013-05-29 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
packages run through dd-list before doing the > > MBF. > > Sorry, I guess I forgot to actually attach the list. Let's try that > again :) Thomas Preud'homme tcc Thomas Preud'homme tcc Fixed upstream already and I cherry-picked the patch for the next uploa

Re: Bug#720202: ITP: qreator -- utility for creating QR codes

2013-08-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 19 août 2013 23:24:48 Chow Loong Jin a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Chow Loong Jin > > * Package name: qreator > Version : 13.05.3 > Upstream Author : David Planella > * URL : https://launchpad.net/qreator > * License : GPL-3

Re: A DM/DD should know how to watch his mouth (code of conduct).

2012-03-04 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le dimanche 4 mars 2012 22:55:46, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Sergio Cipolla writes: > > I'm just a Debian user for some years and I'm writing to this list > > because I found that at > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660814 the Debian > > Multimedia maintainer Fabian Greffrath was

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 19 octobre 2012 09:40:12, Christian PERRIER a écrit : Greetings Christian, First, let me take advantage of this mail to thank you for your tireless work on localization. > > Nowadays, would someone bet a coin that the same is happening? I would > not. In my daily job, I see student

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 30 octobre 2012 16:03:35, Stuart Prescott a écrit : > > I think four weeks would be much better. A maintainer might > > reasonably go abroad for 2-3 weeks - we even have a VAC process for > > handling absences. (And we don't want to complicate this third-party > > orphan process with ref

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 4 janvier 2013 05:44:57, The Wanderer a écrit : > > That doesn't seem to match my experience. > > I most commonly encounter apt-listbugs bug lists via 'apt-get > dist-upgrade'. If I say "no" in response to the list of bugs, and then run > 'apt-get dist-upgrade' again, I see the same l

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-12 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 12 janvier 2013 15:21:24, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > > I recommend instead of redefining logic of unstable, branch off new > suites with new logic. > > ...and then back to that issue of "maintainers should concentrate on the > release" again: I do sincerely worry that additional suite

Bug#703917: ITP: urwid-satext -- curse-based widget library based on Urwid

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Thomas Preud'homme" * Package name: urwid-satext Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Jérôme Poisson * URL : http://wiki.goffi.org/wiki/Urwid-satext/en * License : LGPL-3+ Programming Lang: Pytho

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-05 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 5 avril 2013 13:41:50, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > It can be done, here's an example how to use a JIT C compiler (tcc) > this way: > dget http://angband.pl/debian/pool/main/g/goodbye/goodbye_0.2-1.dsc > although you might have trouble smuggling this through the FTPmasters :p > > On

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 8 avril 2013 23:35:42, David Prévot a écrit : > Hi, > > Le 08/04/2013 16:41, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > > For general use I believe, however, that html5shiv has proven a better > > shim. It is part of Modernizr already packaged for Debian. > > AFAICT, html5shiv is not in Debian, nor p

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 9 avril 2013 13:29:09, Wookey a écrit : > > I too am a huge aptitude fan. The curses UI is brilliant for working > out what's up when things are a bit broken. However it doesn't deal > with multiarch well so I've been stuck with apt-get trying to work out > fro the tealeaves what's wrong.

Re: Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools

2013-04-10 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 10 avril 2013 21:33:32, Andreas Henriksson a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > I request assistance with maintaining the iproute2 package. > > Help is welcome in all areas, but following ones would be > extra appreciated: > > "Please perform a full source scan and docume

Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 04 mai 2011 14:23:19, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : > Le 04/05/2011 14:06, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > a nice behaviour, it would be way better to print > > a warning and fallback to a correct behaviour. Users can then report the > > problems without experiencing a non working-application.

Re: Bug#631002: ITP: swift-im -- The Swift IM client

2011-06-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le dimanche 19 juin 2011 18:22:01, Kevin Smith a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Kevin Smith > > > Package name: swift-im > Version : 1.1 > Upstream Author : Swift Developers > URL : http://swift.im/ > License : GPL > Programming

Re: help with git

2011-07-21 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 10:11:37, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > On 11-07-21 at 11:10am, Norbert Preining wrote: > > I now want to include upstream git into a branch, either the upstream > > branch itself, or some other/new one, but I have no idea how > > to set that up? > > > > Can someone help me

Re: Bug#642586: ITP: mmtk -- The molecular modeling toolkit

2011-09-24 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 24 septembre 2011 10:05:13, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel" > > Dear Maintainer, > > * Package name: mmtk > Version : 2.7.5 > Upstream Author : Konrad Hinsen > * URL : http://dirac.cn

Re: Bug#642586: ITP: mmtk -- The molecular modeling toolkit

2011-09-24 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 24 septembre 2011 12:55:27, Thomas Preud'homme a écrit : > Le samedi 24 septembre 2011 10:05:13, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel a écrit : > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: "Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel" > > > > Dear Maintainer, >

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le dimanche 19 avril 2015, 12:25:28 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Le dimanche, 19 avril 2015, 10.25:11 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > > Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, > > Raphaël! > > Indeed, thank you buxy! > > OdyX +1. Thanks a lot Raphaël. Cheers, Thomas sig