Re: RFS: libopenspc -- library for playing SPC files

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Could be because it's actually called SNEeSe. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sneese/ Cheers, - Michael

Re: RFS: libopenspc -- library for playing SPC files

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
(Follow-ups to debian-legal, please.) FWIW, I would not touch SNEeSe or any fragment derived from it with a ten-foot pole unless they can tell you where sneese.dat came from and what's in it. My guess is that it is an infringing copy of the contents of an SNES64 ROM and that the history of its in

Re: zoo: directory traversal security bug

2005-07-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 7/15/05, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh .. which DD can be responsible for my package Felix then? > They would have to know: > > * C/C++ > * OCaml > * Python > * Bash > * Interscript > * Felix > * ocamllex/ocamlyacc and Elkhound > * HTML/XML > * Latex/troff/texinfo > * snippets of 10 o

Re: RFS: libopenspc -- library for playing SPC files

2005-07-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 7/18/05, Ryan Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 18 July 2005 11:12 pm, you wrote: > > >FWIW, I would not touch SNEeSe or any fragment derived from it with a > > >ten-foot pole unless they can tell you where sneese.dat came from and > > >what's in it. > > > > Well file(1) said it is

Adopting orphaned packages (axkit and relatives)

2003-11-14 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I'm interested in adopting and maintaining the axkit source package (i. e., the AxKit XML application server and its relatives axkit-examples, axkit-language-htmldoc, and axkit-language-query). Debian has been my preferred distribution for several years and I've monkeyed with dpkg for internal pur

Re: Adopting orphaned packages (axkit and relatives)

2003-11-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:04:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Adopting orphaned packages (axkit and relatives) From: "Michael K. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Reply-To: "Michael K. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Use

Re: Adopting orphaned packages (axkit and relatives)

2003-11-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
> axkit has been on my radar for a while so I'd be willing to sponsor your > upload. Thanks, Jaldhar. I built a set of packages under pbuilder, which can be obtained from http://www-static.sane.net/axkit-1.6.2-4/ (as soon as the DNS record has propagated; it's the same IP address as www.sane.net)

Re: neglected RC bugs

2003-11-16 Thread Michael K. Edwards
> Hello, > > I've put together a list of neglected RC bugs: > > http://memebeam.org/john/tests/bug-mining/neglected-bugs.html Thanks, John; I found this helpful, on two scores. One, I spotted one package on your list that I care about and feel competent to help with (lyx); I'm putting togeth

Pre-RFS: axkit (orphaned), latex-xft-fonts

2003-11-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I could use the help of a DD to confirm that the packages I am building are structurally fit for upload. I think I'm doing the right thing with pbuilder, but I expect there are subtleties. There are three packages available at http://www-static.sane.net/ (each group of pbuilder results in a separ

Re: Pre-RFS: axkit (orphaned), latex-xft-fonts

2003-11-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
> Piotr >> Michael > I've uploaded latex-xft-fonts to incoming. The first upload was rejected > by James Troup for license reasons. > > See http://people.debian.org/~dexter/latex-xft-fonts/ for latest version. > Good. Testers, please use Piotr's version of latex-xft-fonts, it's better.(Uses d

Re: neglected RC bugs

2003-11-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
>> Two, I find it very encouraging to see that there are so few "neglected" >> bugs. A few of these bugs stem from known issues like the ruby 1.6->1.8 >> transition; i. e., the lack of follow-ups on a particular bug is >> misleading, because it's mostly there as a reminder or to block >> propagati

Re: neglected RC bugs

2003-11-18 Thread Michael K. Edwards
> The list is short, but I don't consider it to be complete. Several > cases which aren't covered, such as when someone other than the > maintainer confirms the bug or provides more info, or where there has > been a dialog between the maintainer and reporter with the ball left in > the maintainer'

Debian axkit packages

2003-11-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > > The warning about the Perl modules in the 'wrong" location has never been > officially > approved by the project. This warning has been added by the lintian > maintainer due > to someone filing a bug report but without consensus on the debian-perl > mailing list. >

Re: neglected RC bugs

2003-11-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
> Michael K. Edwards wrote: >> Perhaps the tool that generates the list could be amended to list >> "someone >> other than maintainer has responded, but maintainer has not" cases. Is >> this likely to generate a lot of false positives? > > I'd th

Re: take over libghttp

2003-12-26 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Friday 26 December 2003 08:00 am, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: [snip] > And libhttp-ghttp-perl is used by axkit which is ITA'ed. So maybe the > person that ITA'ed axkit should also take these two packages. I am that person, and will happily take those packages. I will probably also port axkit

RFS: libghttp and libhttp-ghttp-perl (orphaned)

2003-12-28 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Friday 26 December 2003 09:14 pm, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On Friday 26 December 2003 08:00 am, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > [snip] > > > And libhttp-ghttp-perl is used by axkit which is ITA'ed. So maybe the > > person that ITA'ed axkit should also take th

RFS: libapache-requestnotes-perl (orphaned), libapache-authcookie-perl, libimager-perl

2003-12-29 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Friday 26 December 2003 09:14 pm, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On Friday 26 December 2003 08:00 am, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > [snip] > > > And libhttp-ghttp-perl is used by axkit which is ITA'ed. So maybe the > > person that ITA'ed axkit should also take th

RFS: libxml-libxml-perl etc. to fix libxml-filter-xslt-perl FTBFS

2004-01-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I could use an upload sponsor for these packages, preferably before libxml-filter-xslt-perl is removed from unstable due to FTBFS: libxml-libxml-perl (I am maintainer; this will be my second upload, and contains a major overhaul of the XSUB code) libxml-sax-writer-perl (orphaned; I would like t

Re: RFS: libxml-libxml-perl etc. to fix libxml-filter-xslt-perl FTBFS

2004-01-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:47 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:29:14AM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > > I could use an upload sponsor for these packages, preferably before > > libxml-filter-xslt-perl is removed from unstable due to FTBFS: Thanks for l

Re: RFS: libxml-libxml-perl etc. to fix libxml-filter-xslt-perl FTBFS

2004-01-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Updated packages for libxml-libxml-perl and friends are in the same place as before. (The only real differences are Uploaders: Jay Bonci and signature with a proper securely managed key.) As I mentioned before, the "make test" failures are harmles

Re: how do I get rid of browser bug

2004-01-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 03:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] threw a Hail Mary: > I have a browser bug in my windows XP under Amazon.com. I emptied my > shopping cart but when I pull up My Favorites for Amazon.com. only, the bug > notice appears. How do I get rid of this notice. Recommend you insta

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-07 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:50:01 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what, rpath? noo! > do not hardcode the path. Could you expand on the scope of this advice? I'm in the process of repairing a broken build procedure (for a commercial app that runs on Debian) and would appreci

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-07 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:04:22 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.07.2147 +0100]: > > So the server core can load these shared libraries with dlopen(), get > > the "factory" routines

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-07 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I wrote: > ... a quick > perusal of the manpage suggests that RPATH in the loaded object has no > effect, but I think I'd better UTSL before relying on that. Note that I haven't verified whether RPATH in the loaded object has an effect on dlopen(), but it clearly does have an effect on the use of

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/17/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Ryan, for your quick reply. I suspected that the correct thing > to do would be to just accept the performance hit (although 15% seems > pretty significant). I'll wait to see if anyone else has suggestions. > Otherwise, I'll just compil

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/17/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael K Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> I'd be surprised if it's that bad under NPTL, and if it is, I'd > Michael> be surprised if

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-18 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The configure flags for compiling libgc are: --disable-threads > --disable-shared --enable-cplusplus (obviously with --disable-threads > toggled for the different tests). I'm also running on a > single-processor machine. Not a hyperthreaded Xeo

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-18 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I'm trying to compare the single-threaded libgc against the stock > libgc that is in Debian, so for my baseline, I'm not going to do > anything that Ryan doesn't do in his package (other than, of course, > static linking, to make the compar

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael K Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Commenting out those lines, and compiling multi-threaded, gives > performance similar to the single-threaded case. So what doe

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/19/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, if you want to use oprofile, you might as well use the > 0.8.2 release. apt-get source oprofile will get you 0.8.1; grab the > 0.8.2 upstream, unpack it, grab the 0.8.2 release notes, put them in > ./Relea

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I'm trying to compare the single-threaded libgc against the stock > libgc that is in Debian, so for my baseline, I'm not going to do > anything that Ryan doesn't do in his package (other than, of course, > static linking, to make the compar

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/19/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [a copy of a message from yesterday] Aha! That's where the odd duplicated outbound e-mail is coming from -- accidentally opening a new URL in the tab where my GMail account is open, and then hitting the "back" button,

Re: depending on a customized library

2005-05-26 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/26/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My upstream reports that according to his measurements, disabling > THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC gives only a 5% performance hit instead of 15%. So > it's much closer to the single-threaded case, but is still a bit > slower. Perhaps upstream is on a hype

Re: Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"

2005-05-27 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/27/05, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/27/05, Matthijs Kooijman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Matthijs Kooijman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Package name: openttd > > Version : 0.4.0.1 > > Upstream Author

Re: Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"

2005-05-27 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/27/05, Matthijs Kooijman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's correct; and, with or without that dependency, OpenTTD > > infringes the copyright on Transport Tycoon Deluxe under a "mise en > > scene" theory, as discussed on debian-legal. (Not to say there's a > What do you mean by that exact

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-04 Thread Michael K. Edwards
(copied to debian-legal, where the discussion belongs; next person please cut debian-mentors) On 6/4/05, Dafydd Harries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a package Alexandria, written in Ruby, which will depend on a > new library in the next version. This library, ruby-zoom, is an LGPL Ruby > bi

Adopting orphaned packages (axkit and relatives)

2003-11-14 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I'm interested in adopting and maintaining the axkit source package (i. e., the AxKit XML application server and its relatives axkit-examples, axkit-language-htmldoc, and axkit-language-query). Debian has been my preferred distribution for several years and I've monkeyed with dpkg for internal pur

Re: Adopting orphaned packages (axkit and relatives)

2003-11-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
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Re: Adopting orphaned packages (axkit and relatives)

2003-11-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
> axkit has been on my radar for a while so I'd be willing to sponsor your > upload. Thanks, Jaldhar. I built a set of packages under pbuilder, which can be obtained from http://www-static.sane.net/axkit-1.6.2-4/ (as soon as the DNS record has propagated; it's the same IP address as www.sane.net)

Re: neglected RC bugs

2003-11-16 Thread Michael K. Edwards
> Hello, > > I've put together a list of neglected RC bugs: > > http://memebeam.org/john/tests/bug-mining/neglected-bugs.html Thanks, John; I found this helpful, on two scores. One, I spotted one package on your list that I care about and feel competent to help with (lyx); I'm putting togeth

Pre-RFS: axkit (orphaned), latex-xft-fonts

2003-11-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I could use the help of a DD to confirm that the packages I am building are structurally fit for upload. I think I'm doing the right thing with pbuilder, but I expect there are subtleties. There are three packages available at http://www-static.sane.net/ (each group of pbuilder results in a separ

Re: Pre-RFS: axkit (orphaned), latex-xft-fonts

2003-11-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
> Piotr >> Michael > I've uploaded latex-xft-fonts to incoming. The first upload was rejected > by James Troup for license reasons. > > See http://people.debian.org/~dexter/latex-xft-fonts/ for latest version. > Good. Testers, please use Piotr's version of latex-xft-fonts, it's better.(Uses d

Re: neglected RC bugs

2003-11-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
>> Two, I find it very encouraging to see that there are so few "neglected" >> bugs. A few of these bugs stem from known issues like the ruby 1.6->1.8 >> transition; i. e., the lack of follow-ups on a particular bug is >> misleading, because it's mostly there as a reminder or to block >> propagati

Re: neglected RC bugs

2003-11-18 Thread Michael K. Edwards
> The list is short, but I don't consider it to be complete. Several > cases which aren't covered, such as when someone other than the > maintainer confirms the bug or provides more info, or where there has > been a dialog between the maintainer and reporter with the ball left in > the maintainer'

Re: neglected RC bugs

2003-11-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
> Michael K. Edwards wrote: >> Perhaps the tool that generates the list could be amended to list >> "someone >> other than maintainer has responded, but maintainer has not" cases. Is >> this likely to generate a lot of false positives? > > I'd th

Debian axkit packages

2003-11-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > > The warning about the Perl modules in the 'wrong" location has never been > officially > approved by the project. This warning has been added by the lintian > maintainer due > to someone filing a bug report but without consensus on the debian-perl > mailing list. >

Re: take over libghttp

2003-12-26 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Friday 26 December 2003 08:00 am, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: [snip] > And libhttp-ghttp-perl is used by axkit which is ITA'ed. So maybe the > person that ITA'ed axkit should also take these two packages. I am that person, and will happily take those packages. I will probably also port axkit

RFS: libghttp and libhttp-ghttp-perl (orphaned)

2003-12-28 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Friday 26 December 2003 09:14 pm, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On Friday 26 December 2003 08:00 am, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > [snip] > > > And libhttp-ghttp-perl is used by axkit which is ITA'ed. So maybe the > > person that ITA'ed axkit should also take th

RFS: libapache-requestnotes-perl (orphaned), libapache-authcookie-perl, libimager-perl

2003-12-29 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Friday 26 December 2003 09:14 pm, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On Friday 26 December 2003 08:00 am, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > [snip] > > > And libhttp-ghttp-perl is used by axkit which is ITA'ed. So maybe the > > person that ITA'ed axkit should also take th

RFS: libxml-libxml-perl etc. to fix libxml-filter-xslt-perl FTBFS

2004-01-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I could use an upload sponsor for these packages, preferably before libxml-filter-xslt-perl is removed from unstable due to FTBFS: libxml-libxml-perl (I am maintainer; this will be my second upload, and contains a major overhaul of the XSUB code) libxml-sax-writer-perl (orphaned; I would like t

Re: RFS: libxml-libxml-perl etc. to fix libxml-filter-xslt-perl FTBFS

2004-01-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:47 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:29:14AM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > > I could use an upload sponsor for these packages, preferably before > > libxml-filter-xslt-perl is removed from unstable due to FTBFS: Thanks for l

Re: RFS: libxml-libxml-perl etc. to fix libxml-filter-xslt-perl FTBFS

2004-01-19 Thread Michael K. Edwards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Updated packages for libxml-libxml-perl and friends are in the same place as before. (The only real differences are Uploaders: Jay Bonci and signature with a proper securely managed key.) As I mentioned before, the "make test" failures are harmles

Re: how do I get rid of browser bug

2004-01-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 03:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] threw a Hail Mary: > I have a browser bug in my windows XP under Amazon.com. I emptied my > shopping cart but when I pull up My Favorites for Amazon.com. only, the bug > notice appears. How do I get rid of this notice. Recommend you insta