Re: Bug#414534: ITP: sucrack -- multithreaded su bruteforcer

2007-03-13 Thread Tim Brown
On Monday 12 March 2007 18:25, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10956 March 1977, Tim Brown wrote: > > Why package it? Other than the practical uses outlined above, because > > having binaries on a system outside of the package management system is a > > PITA to keep track of / update and it makes buildi

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-03-13 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Russ Allbery 2007-01-06 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is what I'd do. Yes, it's a bunch of extra packages, but it clearly > expresses the actual dependency structure, rather than an approximation of > it, and that's usually a good thing in the long run. As a very late follow up, here's what the

Re: What happened to Agnula.org (DeMuDi)?

2007-03-13 Thread Tomas Nykung
RalfGesellensetter wrote: > > Maybe I'd rather go for the Suse Multimedia Live CD. > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/live-cd-9.2/SUSE-Linux-9.2-LiveCD-Audio.iso This is OT for this mailinglist, but... DeMuDi is dead, SUSE 9.2 is antique and AFAIK not security supported anymore. I would recomm

Re: dpkg-genchanges: warning: package XYZ in control file but not in files list

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Roman, Am 2007-03-08 22:01:25, schrieb Roman Müllenschläder: > Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2007 schrieb Roman Müllenschläder: > > Hi there ... > > > > I've got a little problem ;) > > Sorry .. will never user reply for a new message anymore ;) Things happen! I create a new debian/control on th

Bug#414737: ITP: scratchbox2 -- Transparent cross compiling environment

2007-03-13 Thread Riku Voipio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: scratchbox2 Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Lauri Leukkunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rahina.org/sb2/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, lua Description

May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Hi there ... I'm packaging for debian right now and wanted to now if I may use a version number like: 1.0.8~rc1-1 ? Reason is the following: I have this packages on my repository for making it available to users for testing puposes. I know that the initial release should be 1.0.8-1. So if I do

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 3/13/07, Roman Müllenschläder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm packaging for debian right now and wanted to now if I may use a version number like: 1.0.8~rc1-1 ? If you use that number, the upstream version should be 1.0.8~rc1. Is that the upstream number? If you want to have release candid

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb Margarita Manterola: > On 3/13/07, Roman Müllenschläder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm packaging for debian right now and wanted to now if I may use a > > version number like: 1.0.8~rc1-1 ? > > If you use that number, the upstream version should be 1.0.8~rc1.

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread sean finney
hi roman, On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:23 +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb Margarita Manterola: > > On 3/13/07, Roman Müllenschläder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm packaging for debian right now and wanted to now if I may use a > > > version number like: 1.

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 3/13/07, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:23 +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > > If you use that number, the upstream version should be 1.0.8~rc1. Is > > that the upstream number? If you want to have release candidates of > > your _own_ package, you should d

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roman Müllenschläder] > > So, why are you using a version that's not the one in testing, nor the > > one in stable? > > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running Edgy ;) I know I'm stating the obvious here ... but you shouldn't try to develop packages for Debian exclusiv

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > [Roman Müllenschläder] > > > > So, why are you using a version that's not the one in testing, nor the > > > one in stable? > > > > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running Edgy ;) > > I know I'm stating the obvious here

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb Margarita Manterola: > On 3/13/07, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:23 +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > > > > If you use that number, the upstream version should be 1.0.8~rc1. Is > > > > that the upstream number? If you wan

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: [...] > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running > Edgy ;) [...] If you're developing packages for Debian, not Ubuntu, I would suggest at a minimum that you do your builds in a Sid chroot (pbuilder and/o

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Roman Müllenschläder
Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb The Fungi: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > [...] > > > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running > > Edgy ;) > > [...] > > If you're developing packages for Debian, not Ubuntu, I would > suggest at

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-13 Thread Ben Finney
Roman Müllenschläder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb The Fungi: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > > > Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running > > > Edgy ;) > > > > If you're developing packages for

Free laptop...? Here is how.....

2007-03-13 Thread John Hamel
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Bug#414844: ITP: tweak -- an efficient hex editor

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tweak Version : 3.01 Upstream Author : Simon Tatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/tweak/ * License : MIT Programming Lang

Huge cache dirs in $HOME

2007-03-13 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Hi, I just discovered today that some packages can store pretty huge cache data in my $HOME, and found that rather problematic. When I backup my home, I don't want to waste backup space or time to do it, because I have to check what eats space and tell if it's cache data. Couldn't such packages,