Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

This is an intent to mass-file bugs as required per custom. Bugs will be filed: 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; 2) on packages in 1) that do not include the copyright or license of the material in their copyright files; 3) at serious severity (DP sec.

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote: >> This is an intent to mass-file bugs as required per custom. >> >> Bugs will be filed: >> >> 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation L

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote: >> Bugs will be filed: >> >> 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; > > I recommend not filing bugs on documentation

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El miÃ, 17-11-2004 a las 19:27 +0000, Brian M. Carlson escribiÃ: > > [...] >> > Without wishing to start/take part in a huge flamewar didn't we have >> > a vote and agree to leave such documentation is

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is of course understood. But one could always upload to >> unstable, AIUI. I am trying to *improve* the quality of the >> distribution

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I'd say that it's not obvious at all how removing crucial documentation >> > because some people do not like its license will help

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian M. Carlson) writes: > >> 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; > > These are currently not bugs (but will be as soon as sarge is released > and the Social Contra

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:27 -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:01:25PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:41AM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > > > I've been under the impression that the only machine-level > > > incompatibilities are really ker

Re: execturing libc

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:20 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:31:02PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so > > GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.2, by Roland McGrath et al. > > Copyright (C) 2003

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 13:26 +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 02:30, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:05:19PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Op do, 03-02-2005 te 15:44 +0100, schreef Frederik Dannemare: > > > > > which > > > > > requires no impri

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:13 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:33:35AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> > But a total of eleven is insane. >> >> It is sometimes hard to get them all to work, yes. >> >> It al

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 20:45 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Architectures that are no longer being considered for stable releases > are not going to be left out in the cold. I disagree. I feel that maintainers are going to ignore the SCC architectures for the purposes of portability bugs and securi

Re: RFC: allow usage of mknod in postinst

DVB devices > into makedev. Then you have a problem with the makedev maintainer. -- Brian M. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Running on GNU/kFreeBSD Support alternative kernels in Debian! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My IP address seems listed as a spammer address by bugs.debian.org

r perhaps only fall back to HTTP. Additionally, the robots.txt is being violated by "bts cache", so perhaps someone should file a bug. -- Brian M. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Running on GNU/kFreeBSD Support alternative kernels in Debian! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 08:25 +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > Are you going to sign the contract? I'm sure not putting my signature on > > anything about MP3s. > > I'm afraid I can't as a poor little NM :) From the Book of Policy (v3.6.2.2), Section 2.3: We reserve the ri

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:10 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hi > >I wanted to report a minor bug on kicker using reportbug package > tool. But then it forces me to read a huge number of bug titles (around > 647 of them) most of which were not filed against kicker. For example it > shows

Re: need help with minc

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 00:10 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hello, > > I made the mistake of adding "make check" to debian/rules. Now minc > won't build on certain architectures. It builds on i386 (my > architecture), ia64, s390, and powerpc. It fails on alpha, sparc, > mips, hppa, arm, and mi

Re: buildd and experimental

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:59 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I recently uploaded gnucash 1.9.1 to Debian experimental, but this > doesn't seem to have affected buildd.debian.org. Is this normal? Yes. You want experimental.ftbfs.de, specifically:

Re: buildd and experimental

No need to Cc, I'm subscribed[0]. On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 23:39 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:59 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: [gnucash not appearing on buildd.d.o; is

Re: buildd and experimental

[Please followup to -project; I am subscribed there, too, so you should *not* Cc me.] On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:13 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:59:46AM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > > [0] In case you're unsure, you can check the X-Spam-Status heade

Re: dependency on base package adduser ?

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 11:19 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > libc6 is not and may not be marked Essential, as the NM process taught me. > > So its a bad example. > > Even if it is marked as essential, you have a versioned dependency, anyway. But the po

Re: Question about replacing obsolete packages.

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 17:43 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I was planning on adopting iceme and icepref. However, both are no > longer active upstream. They are now modules of the IceWM Control Panel > (IceWMCP). I will package IceWMCP soon. However, I would like to > ensure that users with

Re: Preferred way to genereate a gpg key?

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 18:39 -0500, Erick Vresnev Castellanos Hernández wrote: > While I was reading Developer's Reference [1], in the part about gpg > keys, it says: > > "You need a type 4 key for use in Debian Development. Your key length [...]" > > I supposed that it refers about the "gpg --gen

Re: (Re)Build problem with g++ 4.0

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:57 +0200, Juergen Salk wrote: > Hi, > > first of all: if this is not the appropriate list for this kind > of question, please give me pointer to better one. > > I am having problems with rebuilding my dcmtk package with g++ > 4.0 on Sid. The problem seems to be related t

Re: Use clisp shiped with source or from Debian?

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 21:06 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to pack Xindy an index processing system like makeindex. > Xindy's source comes with clisp 2.33.2 and it is compiled at build time. > > I've got it managed to build with the clisp package from Debian. But I > have littl

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 21:03 +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi, > > After an upgrade of my system some days ago I found some (in words two) > programms not working. The first ist gkrellm and the second is > nvidia-settings. > > The effect is that when I try to start them they will hang. strace says

Re: debian and UDEV

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:52 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > You don't need to wait for a particular event to be finished processing; > > instead you should wait for the resource you actually need to become > > available, e.g. a device node. > > > > It would be usefu

Re: I want to modify the gnome panel deb package

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 02:44 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Indraveni wrote: [snip] > I notice that you have asked lots of questions on the debian-user and > debian-devel lists. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but you > may wany to consider hiring a Debian consultant [0] to help the

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

[For -legal people, the license is attached.] On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:01 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:20:14AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Official packages of Sun Java are now available from the non-free > > section of Debian unstable, thanks to Sun releas

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:19 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:59 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:53:39AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >> ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti: > [...] > >>> AFAIK, vi

Re: copyright vs. license

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 12:52 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been manually filing bugs against packages with improper > copyright files, as per this thread: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/03/msg02190.html > > I stopped when I started gettign consecutive bug numbers

Re: libcrypto++ (Was: NMUs wanted: C++ library packages in need of uploading)

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 01:33 +0200, Jens Peter Secher wrote: > I am fighting with libcrypto++ but so far I am loosing. > > GCC4 does definitely not like a mix of templates and anonymous enums > [1,2] but there are easy fixes for this. > > What is worse, it seems that GCC4 silently refuses to gen

Re: RFC, problem with g++4

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 10:55 +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > Hello, > > /usr/include/sys/socket.h has this: > > - > /* The following constants should be used for the second parameter of >`shutdown'. */ > enum > { > SHUT_RD = 0, /* No more receptions. */ > #define SHUT_R

Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

This is a public service announcement about Debian Policy section 10.4, which states in part: The standard shell interpreter `/bin/sh' can be a symbolic link to any POSIX compatible shell, if `echo -n' does not generate a newline.[1] Thus, shell scripts specifying `/bin/sh' as interpreter sh

Re: When is the C++ transition needed?

On Thursday 06 October 2005 12:45, Henning Makholm wrote: > I notice that the newest upload of pstoedit has reverted the C++ > transition name change; instead of libpstoedit0c2 sid now contains > libpstoedit0, as in sarge. This is, IMHO, incorrect. > However, the library exports things with inter

Re: Licenses for DebConf6 [was: Re: DebConf6: Call For Papers]

e other way, too. But they must at least offer a DFSG-free license. -- Brian M. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Running on GNU/kFreeBSD; i686-pc-kfreebsd-gnu Support alternative kernels in Debian! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

On Saturday 05 November 2005 11:27 pm, Brian May wrote: > Can't we just pick one standard name for the environment variable and > stick to it? If we do that, I'd request that it be $TMPDIR, as that's what SUSv3 has standardized. -- Brian M. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: OT: Humor: Re: Licenses for DebConf6 [was: Re: DebConf6: Call For Papers]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 01:58 am, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > The way I read it was that "the authors may pick any license, so long as > > it's DFSG-free". Do you see how it could be read that way? > > You sound just

Re: miBoot floppies for debian-installer and use of people.debian.org

bviously, one must comply with the source requirements, as always. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

In conclusion, there is no appreciable performance hit on any algorithm. Note that these are all hash algorithms, but they all make heavy use of memcpy, and are extremely CPU-intensive. Code available upon request. [0] https://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/machines/lakeview -- brian m. carls

Re: linux-kernel-headers???

, which is unpacked and accessible to any program being compiled. linux-source-2.6.* (AFAIK) is not unpacked by default, and even when it is unpacked, the headers are not accessible under /usr/include. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http

Re: Copyright question

re, please post questions about copyright and licenses to -legal, where the regulars are well versed. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwa

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

pose: providing the bare minimum required by Policy. It's useful as a test of Policy-compliance, and not much more, which is fine. [0] I believe that Clint Adams said as much himself. [1] I have no opinion on this, other than that I want udev to work with posh. -- bria

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

[No need to Cc me; I'm subscribed. Please respect my M-F-T.] On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:39:45PM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 22:11 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: As far as I can tell, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[ are completely useless, because none of bash, dash,

Re: Bug#468221: ITP: missidentify -- a program to find win32 applications

? lakeview ok % file setup.exe setup.exe: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit, UPX compressed -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http

Re: Bug#467249: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale

. Believe me, if it were that easy, I'm sure Colin would have done it. Are you working with Brian M. Carlson on this? He has been working on a solution acceptable to groff upstream, which is, frankly, the only way I want to go now. He has already made substantial progress with character clas

Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference

on-localized lists), use the proper list, and don't send HTML email. These are all things I think we should encourage on Debian lists, and on lists in general. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opini

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

sticks use the standard business card or netinst images, or a special pre-built image. So creating those for all architectures that can boot from USB is obviously important, especially for those people that don't want to destroy all the data on their USB sticks. -- brian m. carlson / brian w

Re: [RFH] Loki bug #409370: missing 64-bit executablex

_FreeBSD__) #include #else #define __unused #endif So that code in comes out to: long int [3]; which isn't valid. The solution is not to define things that aren't in your namespace, so flex shouldn't #define __unused, or use it, for that matter. HTH. -- brian m. carlson /

Re: [RFH] Loki bug #409370: missing 64-bit executablex

file using flex, the program should compile properly. At least on my amd64 system, the executable is built. HTH. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.a

Re: Default value for CFLAGS/LDFLAGS set by dpkg

libraries to provide useful functionality, and we shouldn't break this. Also note that there are symbols that are present in both libc.so.6 and libpthread.so.0, and that using -Bsymbolic-functions would probably break libc thread safety. IANADD. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Ho

Re: Default value for CFLAGS/LDFLAGS set by dpkg

tions that must be serviced by ld.so. However, if -Bsymbolic-functions were used, those functions would already be relocated, speeding up link time, but preventing LD_PRELOAD from working, since no relocation ever occurs for that symbol. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Te

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

upstream does not. At least that seems to be my experience. [0] Google for "Mozilla Debian shared library" -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.a

Re: Bug#476340: ITP: datapacker -- Tool to pack files into minimum number of CDs/DVDs/etc

the minimum number of containers. This sounds suspiciously like the knapsack problem, which is in NP. Is it guaranteed to use the minimum number, or are there cases when it would not? If the former, I'm sure Merkle and Hellman would like to hear from you. ;-) -- brian m. carlson / brian w

Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

ately determine (e.g) what a SIGBUS on sparc means. Obviously, if a machine doesn't prohibit unaligned accesses (like the i386) then that field would be left blank. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only tr

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

eptitiously spies on other programs. Is that the case? I don't see how we gain any benefit by disabling ptrace. All it prevents me from doing is snooping on my own programs, which I might want to do for any number of reasons (strace comes to mind). IANADD. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sanda

Re: Bug#478518: ITP: librelative-perl -- Load modules with relative names

iption would be useful as well. I think I have a good idea what this package does, but if there are any things I should know before installing it, this would be a good place to put them. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bm

Re: Manpages for binaries not in $PATH

f cpp-4.3, you never need to run cc1 (since it is an implementation detail), so it does not require a manpage. It seems that in the case of john, the main executable cannot figure out which implementation is better, so the user may need to run the program manually. Thus it needs a manpage.

Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA (was: Alioth and SSH: restored)

od random number generator for every signature. If the nonce is not chosen randomly, it will leak bits of the key. This is true for all discrete logarithm algorithms. Therefore, anyone who had a DSA key has had it compromised, and RSA is just as good a choice for a new key. -- brian m. carlson / br

Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA (was: Alioth and SSH: restored)

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:12:26PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: Also, DSA absolutely requires a good random number generator for every signature. If the nonce is not chosen randomly, it will leak bits of the key. This is true for all discrete logarithm algorithms. Therefore, anyone who had

Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA (was: Alioth and SSH: restored)

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:00:25AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:12:26PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: If one can solve the Discrete Logarithm Problem, then one can factor, but the reverse is not true. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone claim

Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA (was: Alioth and SSH: restored)

secret key. (For the unlikely situation that you have, see "Low Encryption Exponent Attack against RSA", Applied Cryptography, p.472). -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of

Re: possible mass-bug filing on fc-cache-using packages

u are using "set -e" like you're supposed to, then the postinst fails. For example, at the prompt, try: (set -e; echo 1; false || (echo error; exit 1); echo 2) which will never print "2". ttf-bitstream-vera isn't using set -e, which is probably a bug. ISTR that pol

Re: A dream of the Debian-logo

;s one of the common ones whose name I don't know). It looks to me like Helvetica[0], which is one of the 14 standard PostScript fonts. [0] Or Nimbus Sans L, which is basically the same thing. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustyto

Re: "cupsys" renamed to "cups", please adjust your (build-)depends

t. [0] My first thought on seeing lp was that someone had made a typo. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

worse than all the GNOME applications whose code I've ever seen. The thing that really stuck out for me was the large number of global variables in esd. It's lack of modularity didn't exactly excite me, either. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas,

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

It is my understanding that if you don't have a /boot partition, you do need lilo, however. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

e is not at all original and hence not copyrightable. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B

Re: bashism question

, that most people use i386 or amd64 as their main platform, and program accordingly. Judging by the number of FTBFS bugs on sparc due to alignment problems, this is a safe assumption. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

very upset. I agree that alternatives are the optimal tool here, but I don't know how that can be achieved. Suggestions welcome. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on t

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 07:56:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: brian m. carlson writes ("Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling"): You still have to handle multiple diversions for /bin/sh. When d-i installs the system, you have to have a working /bin/sh immedi

Re: Bug#535143: ITP: gnome-do-docklets -- Dock applets for GNOME Do's "Docky" interface.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 02:37:51PM +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > * Package name: gnome-do-docklets > Version : 0.8.2 > Upstream Author : Jason Smith > * URL : http://do.davebsd.org/ This should be <http://do.davebsd.com/>. --

Re: CDPATH and shell scripts

set it. You can probably do something like unset `set | sed -re 's/^([^=]+)=.*$/\1/g' | grep -E '^[A-Za-z0-9]' | grep -vE '^(PS|PATH|TERM)'` 2>/dev/null to get a "clean" environment. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 4

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

*can* write anything you want, but whether it is permitted or not is another matter. The implicit direct object of "follow" is "this line". -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

ding bugs with zsh as /bin/sh; see #510358. If anyone knows about a good /bin/sh (POSIX, XSI, or Debian) testsuite, please let me know off-list. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 409

Re: Bug#538802: ITP: mercury -- The Mercury programming system, a pure logical/functional programming language.

ee to disregard this. [0] That is, the compiler is written in Mercury. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: new package format

LaTeX hyphenation patterns, then groff can declare a recommends on those packages without having to necessarily install LaTeX. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9

Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

on the lists.debian.org pseudo-package. While you're at it, please don't reply to spam, and if you must reply to it, please don't quote it. We don't want to see it (again) and you make it harder for those of us who use statistics-based spam filters. HTH. -- brian m. carlson / b

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

mportance actually uses SCSU or BOCU-1, except for Reuters (with SCSU). -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ITP: libjs-extjs -- a cross-browser JavaScript library

the GPLv3 says we can. Either way, it should be fine. This is a distinct difference between the GPLv2 and the GPLv3. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

Lenny to > Squeeze migrations? Uh, icedtea6-plugin is present and installable; that would be the replacement for sun-java6-plugin. It doesn't work in non-Gecko browsers, but I don't think sun-java6-plugin did either. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 71

Re: Bug#551210: ITP: blame -- display the last modification for each line in an RCS file

m. Probably a less generic name (for both this software and mine) would be appropriate. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#551550: general: many Java packages needlessly depend on java?-runtime

unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- brian m. carlson / brian with san

Re: Bug#545691: diverting telinit

kfreebsd-* architectures don't use /dev/initctl; I think it's something like /etc/.initctl. They do, however, have a linuxy proc. You should probably check with the porters as to what location is appropriate on those architectures. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, T

Re: Bug#545691: diverting telinit

own to the fact that with kFreeBSD, /dev is a devfs, which cannot handle FIFOs, only block and character nodes and symlinks. I don't even know if that's still the case; my only kFreeBSD machine was moved back to Linux due to some problems with the earlier versions of kFreeBSD, like bind9 not

Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

the Iceweasel user agent :) Using the Bing (that is, MS) maps doesn't work either. Normally I would use Google Maps, but when my bank's locations tool makes a different choice, I'm pretty much obligated to accept it. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1

Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG (take 2)

would agree with you, but that's not what it says. Honestly, I don't have a strong opinion on whether this should be considered DFSG-free or not, but I do think that it can create a lot of practical problems that may make it infeasible to support in the archive. It may also deter users f

Re: Bug#557431: general: there is no package to install all POSIX utilities at once

m. Such a package would be of little use since by default, these utilities are not POSIX-compliant. For example, patch is not POSIX-compliant by default and most patch systems rely on this non-POSIX behavior. Debian does not have a POSIX-compliant vi, since none of the implementations have open

Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

to make ucf essential, and I don't think that's a good idea. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#560088: ITP: python-portio -- low level port I/O for Linux

lity between architectures, and any package depending on this one will be (likely permanently) stuck to i386. Is there something that you want to package that depends on this? -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My

Re: Package management unsafe?

tally incorrect, such as when a new machine is first installed. That may affect the installation of ntp itself, perhaps. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.a

Re: Re: Include on first iso: m-a, build essential, kernel headers

or optimal compatibility. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 sig

Re: Need g++-3.4 package in lenny

find backports.org useful, although I don't know if the things you need are there. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

user, and then sets TMPDIR and other variables to that. Hence, it doesn't matter nearly as much if you create a non-random filename, because nobody but you can access it. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My

Re: Need g++-3.4 package in lenny

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 05:21:43PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * brian m. carlson: iostream.h has never been a valid C++ header. This is wrong, contained the standard streams in the early 90s. Like it or not, there was C++ even before ISO C++. Yes, this is true. But by "valid"

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

support in browsers these days? Firefox supports it in a whitelist approach. However I never tested it. I use Kerberos authentication for my OpenID server, and it works flawlessly with Iceweasel and mod_auth_kerb. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http

Re: Bug#508249: ITP: libio-pager-perl -- pipe output to a pager if destination is a TTY

low up there. - Thou shalt use and dispense freely without other restrictions. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4

Re: Out-of-tree kernel module popularity

hy we should not follow Fedora. [0] The tg3 driver, which I am using right now for my laptop's ethernet card, is just such a case. See also #446028. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only a typesett

Re: Bug#449317: ITP: zekr-quran-translations-ur -- Zekr Quran Urdu translations

description. The package description should provide only enough information for one to decide whether or not to install the package. If the correctness of the translation is so doubtful as to be useless, then perhaps the translation should not be packaged at all. IANAL; IANADD. -- brian m. ca

Re: Bug#449317: ITP: zekr-quran-translations-ur -- Zekr Quran Urdu translations

maintainer, and I'm not. P.S: If you can send me a link of howto discussing when a package should be called dfsg I will appreciate. Included above. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only a typesett

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