Re: BIMI verified email logo for @debian.org addresses

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:19:11 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 07:29:45PM +0800, Blair Noctis wrote:
> > [BIMI], or Brand Indicators for Message Identification, is a specification 
> > to
> > let supporting email clients show a brand's logo next to verified email 
> > domains.
> > It would be great to have the Debian logo shown next to @debian.org 
> > addresses.

> (everything I know about BIMI I've learned from
> https://16years.secvuln.info/ )

Hanno also gave a talk at the MiniDebConf in Berlin earlier this
year:
https://berlin2024.mini.debconf.org/talks/17-breaking-dkim-and-bimi-with-the-2008-debian-openssl-bug/

Video at
https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2024/MiniDebConf-Berlin/


Cheers,
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Re: what about Netplan?

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:13:16 +0200, Philip Hands wrote:

> I suspect having something that's agnostic about the underlying
> implementation as our default would be rather better for the non-systemd
> options that people care about, …
> Also, networkd doesn't support non-Linux and non-systemd systems AFAIK,

AFAICS, the netplan packages (netplan.io, netplan-generator) currently
have a hard dependency on systemd.

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Bug#1076749: ITP: pmarkdown -- configurable Markdown processor, supporting the CommonMark spec and extensions

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* Package name: pmarkdown
  Version : 1.07
  Upstream Author : Mathias Kende 
* URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Markdown-Perl
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : configurable Markdown processor, supporting the CommonMark 
spec and extensions

The pmarkdown script reads from standard input and writes to standard output.
Both are assumed to be encoded in UTF-8.

It supports several Markdown flavours ("default", CommonMark, GitHub Flavored
Markdown, original Markdown), and also provides the Markdown::Perl module for
programmatical usage.

The package will be maintained under the umbrella of the Debian Perl Group.

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Bug#1077695: ITP: libextutils-builder-compiler-perl -- interface around different compilers for ExtUtils:Builder

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* Package name: libextutils-builder-compiler-perl
  Version : 0.015
  Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans 
* URL : https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUtils-Builder-Compiler
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : interface around different compilers for ExtUtils:Builder

ExtUtils:Builder::Compiler is an interface wrapping around different
compilers. It's usually not used directly but by a portability layer like
ExtUtils:Builder::Autodetect::C.

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Bug#1077696: ITP: libextutils-builder-perl -- ExtUtils::Builder Plan framework

[gregor herrmann]

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* Package name: libextutils-builder-perl
  Version : 0.008
  Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans 
* URL : https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUtils-Builder
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : ExtUtils::Builder Plan framework

Writing extensions for various build tools can be a daunting task.
ExtUtils::Builder tries to abstract steps of build processes into reusable
building blocks for creating platform and build system agnostic executable
descriptions of work.

The ExtUtils::Builder Plan framework includes Actions, Nodes and Plans.

Actions are the cornerstone of the ExtUtils::Builder framework. They provide
an interface between build tools (e.g. ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
Module::Build, ...) and building extensions. This allows producing and
consuming sides to be completely independent from each other. It is a
flexible abstraction around pieces of work, this work can be a piece of perl
code, an external command, a mix of those or possibly other things.

Nodes are composite Actions.

Plans are the equivalent of a (piece of a) Makefile. They are a bunch of
nodes that should interconnect.

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Bug#1077697: ITP: libdist-build-perl -- modern Perl module builder

[gregor herrmann]

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* Package name: libdist-build-perl
  Version : 0.007
  Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans 
* URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Build
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : modern Perl module builder

Dist::Build is a Build.PL implementation. Unlike Module::Build::Tiny it is
extensible, unlike Module::Build it uses a build graph internally which makes
it easy to combine different customizations. It's typically extended by
adding a .pl script in planner/.

At configure time, it will run a dynamic-prereqs.json file if present to
determine the conditional dependencies.

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Re: Accepting DEP14?

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:15:33 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> So accepting DEP14 would mean a lot of work for me (at least
> testing the suggested scripting solutions[4] carefully)
[…] 
> Are there any blockers to accept this DEP which I might have missed?

> [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/09/msg00168.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/09/msg00172.html

IMO, and from discussions in the Debian Perl Group, the blocker is
the conversion of existing repos, both on salsa (which should be
doable via the API as suggested in the sketches mentioned above) and
also locally for hundreds of developer machines [git fails horribly
on the upstream/ → upstream/latest change].

Some notes are in https://gobby.debian.org/export/Teams/Perl/new-branch-layout
from 2022; just to show that this is all not totally trivial … 

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Re: Accepting DEP14?

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:47:36 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> I have in the past found it confusing how to handle it, but now I find
> it tolerable (and don't recognize the "better to start from scratch"
> judgement), after I figured out (as also hinted at in one of the links
> by gregor) that you need to do the following, in that order:
> 
>  1. unlock branch "upstream" on salsa
>  2. rename branch "upstream" → "upstream/latest" on salsa (or delete it)
>  3. rename branch "upstream" → "upstream/latest" locally
>  4. push local changes to salsa

Then you have an updated repo on salsa and an updated repo on your
machine. The problem is that for everyone else, who has a local clone
of the repo, the next `mr up' or `gbp pull' explodes.


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Bug#1079561: ITP: libmeta-perl -- meta-programming API

[gregor herrmann]

Package: wnpp
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* Package name: libmeta-perl
  Version : 0.004
  Upstream Author : Paul Evans 
* URL : https://metacpan.org/release/meta
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : meta-programming API

This package provides an API for metaprogramming; that is, allowing code to
inspect or manipulate parts of its own program structure. Parts of the perl
interpreter itself can be accessed by means of "meta"-objects provided by
this package. Methods on these objects allow inspection of details, as well
as creating new items or removing existing ones.

The intention of this API is to provide a nicer replacement for existing
tricks such as no strict 'refs' and using globrefs, and also to be a more
consistent place to add new abilities, such as more APIs for inspection and
alteration of internal structures, metaprogramming around the new 'class'
feature, and other such uses.

meta should be considered experimental; no API stability guarantees are made
at this time. Behaviour may be added, altered, or removed in later versions.

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Re: debian/gbp.cnf analytics?

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:04:59 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:

> 3. a workflow where upstream/latest contains imported tarball snapshots
>*with* upstream git history merged in, most likely via upstream-vcs-tag
>(like src:glib2.0)
… 
> I'm surprised the number your statistics give for (3.) is such a small
> proportion: I find this workflow really useful as a way to reconcile
> devref 6.8.8.1's assertion that pristine upstream tarballs are important
> with the desire to have upstream git history readily available to make
> maintenance easier.

In the Debian Perl Group, our dpt-import-orig wrapper around
gbp-import-orig uses --upstream-vcs-tag, but it guesses the name of
the upstream tag, so we're typically not using upstream-vcs-tag in
gbp.conf. As a result, the numbers from checking all gbp.conf files
are lower than the real use.
 
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Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:46:09 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> Also, I think a 10-minute break is a good thing for the author
> themselves. The maintainer should get some fresh air and do the final
> review of their changes after a small break to ensure nothing was done
> too hastily.

That depends on the amount, type, and size of packages one is working
on.
In the Debian perl Group we have 4000 packages, and there are days
with 5-10 new upstream releases.
Many of the packages are trivial, so updating them (including
autopkgtests and blhc and lintian and whatnot) doesn't take longer
than 5 minutes.

So I can decide to wait for salsa CI for 10 minutes or update 2 more
packages in the same time. (Or try to context switch and keep a stack
of where I was etc.)

I totally see the value of salsa CI for complex packages, for running
things which can't be run locally, for merge requests, etc.

But there are also situations where it doesn't help. -- I guess what
I want to say is that salsa CI is a useful tool, and like every tool,
it has its places but it's not a panacea.
 

Cheers,
gregor

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Bug#1081021: ITP: libfile-sharedir-tiny-perl -- module to locate per-dist and per-module shared files

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Package: wnpp
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* Package name: libfile-sharedir-tiny-perl
  Version : 0.001
  Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans 
* URL : https://metacpan.org/release/File-ShareDir-Tiny
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : module to locate per-dist and per-module shared files

Quite often you want or need your Perl module (CPAN or otherwise) to have
access to a large amount of read-only data that is stored on the file-system
at run-time.

On a linux-like system, this would be in a place such as /usr/share, however
Perl runs on a wide variety of different systems, and so the use of any one
location is unreliable.

File::ShareDir::Tiny provides a more portable way to have (read-only) data
for your module.

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Bug#1081853: ITP: libtest2-plugin-ioevents-perl -- module to turn STDOUT and STDERR into Test2 events

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Package: wnpp
Owner: gregor herrmann 
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name: libtest2-plugin-ioevents-perl
  Version : 0.001001
  Upstream Author : Chad Granum 
* URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Test2-Plugin-IOEvents
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : module to turn STDOUT and STDERR into Test2 events

Test2::Plugin::IOEvents turns prints to STDOUT and STDERR (including
warnings) into proper Test2 events.

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Bug#347826: ITP: fullquottel -- Tool for recognizing mails/postings in tofu/top-posting style

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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* URL : http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/
* License : GPL
  Description : Tool for recognizing mails/postings in tofu/top-posting 
style

 The program performs several tests to decide whether the mail is a tofu
 mail or not. Each test produces a score. The final sum of the individual
 test scores is compared to a threshold. If it is above it, the mail is
 classified as tofu mail ('Fullquottel' is returned). Further more, the
 score itself is returned as number and as a row where each score point
 produces one *. Each test can be customized via a config file or on the
 command line.
 
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  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
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Bug#347828: ITP: mailtextbody -- Tool to return the body of an email message

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* URL : http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/
* License : GPL
  Description : Tool to return the body of an email message

 Mailtextbody reads a complete email message on stdin and returns
 the body (the text/plain part) on standard out.
 Mailtextbody can therefore easily be included in other tools using
 pipes.

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Bug#351470: ITP: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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  Version : 0.08
  Upstream Author : Best Practical Solutions, LLC; Robert Spier <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/~rspier/Mail-GnuPG-0.08/GnuPG.pm
* License : GPL or Artistic License
  Description : Perl module for processing email with GPG

GnuPG::Interface can process or create PGP signed or encrypted
email.

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Bug#351471: ITP: libmarc-perl -- Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable Cataloging records

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  Version : 1.07
  Upstream Author : Chuck Bearden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Birthisel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Derek Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charles McFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ed Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/~bbirth/MARC-1.07/MARC.pm
* License : GPL or Artistic licence
  Description : Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable Cataloging 
records

 MARC.pm is a Perl 5 module for reading in, manipulating, and outputting
 bibliographic records in the USMARC format.
 .
 MARC.pm can handle both single and batches of MARC records. The limit on
 the number of records in a batch is determined by the memory capacity of
 the machine you are running. If memory is an issue for you MARC.pm will
 allow you to read in records from a batch gradually. MARC.pm also includes
 a variety of tools for searching, removing, and even creating records from
 scratch.
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Bug#351472: ITP: libnet-amazon-perl -- Perl framework for accessing amazon.com via SOAP and XML/HTTP

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  Version : 0.34
  Upstream Author : Mike Schilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : 
http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Net-Amazon-0.34/lib/Net/Amazon.pm
* License : GPL or Artistic Licence
  Description : Perl framework for accessing amazon.com via SOAP and 
XML/HTTP

 Net::Amazon provides an object-oriented interface to amazon.com's SOAP and
 XML/HTTP interfaces. This way it's possible to create applications using
 Amazon's vast amount of data via a functional interface, without having to
 worry about the underlying communication mechanism.


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Bug#353777: ITP: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

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* Package name: multixterm
  Version : 1.8
  Upstream Author : Don Libes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://expect.nist.gov/example/
* License : Public domain
  Description : drive multiple xterms separately or together

 Multixterm creates multiple xterms that can be driven together or
 separately.

 In its simplest form, multixterm is run with no arguments and commands are
 interactively entered in the first entry field. Press return (or click the
 "new xterm" button) to create a new xterm running that command.

 Keystrokes in the "stdin window" are redirected to all xterms started by
 multixterm. xterms may be driven separately simply by focusing on them.

 The stdin window must have the focus for keystrokes to be sent to the
 xterms. When it has the focus, the color changes to aquamarine. As
 characters are entered, the color changes to green for a second. This
 provides feedback since characters are not echoed in the stdin window.

 Typing in the stdin window while holding down the alt or meta keys sends an
 escape character before the typed characters. This provides support for
 programs such as emacs.

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Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:58:37PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote:

> > Title: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together
> > ITP: #353777
> Standard question: Do you know clusterssh, which does pretty much the 
> same thing and is already in Debian? If no, I suggest you take look. 

Thanks for your hint, I didn't know clusterssh. Just checked it out
and it does pretty much the same (and has more options), so I close
the ITP for multixterm hereby.

> BTW, the KDE konsole can also feed keypresses into multiple terminals.
> This is what I use.

For those who like to install kde(-libs) ;-)


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:44:19AM +, David Pashley wrote:

[description]

> You might want to rewrite the description to include some use cases for
> multixterm.

Good point, too, but not required anymore.


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:20:16AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:

> Konsole already seems to do everything this program does, from my
> reading, FYI.

Thanks to you, too, but see above.


Thanks to all of you who took the time to comment!

Regards,
gregor
 
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Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:10:03AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:

> > Thanks for your hint, I didn't know clusterssh. Just checked it out
> > and it does pretty much the same (and has more options), so I close
> > the ITP for multixterm hereby.
> As I understand the description of "clusterssh" right, it open
> "xterms" with SSH sessions not plain xterm.  If I have no
> "sshd" running on the local machine, "clusterssh" won't work.

Taking a second look at both tools, I think you are right:
clusterssh opens xterms with ssh sessions, multixterm opens multiple
xterms (with whatever contents). So if you want to control several
xterms at the same time that are not ssh sessions multixterm can
handle this but clusterssh can't.
 
If you would like to try multixterm the packages are still available at
deb-src http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/debian unstable/
or
http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/debian/unstable/

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Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:11:29PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:

(shortening cc:-list)

> > clusterssh opens xterms with ssh sessions, multixterm opens multiple
> > xterms (with whatever contents). So if you want to control several
> > xterms at the same time that are not ssh sessions multixterm can
> > handle this but clusterssh can't.
> :-/

If you find a good argument why controlling multiple xterms
simultanously that contain no ssh sessions might be useful I guess
there's no problem with re-opening the ITP bug and looking for a
sponsor again.
  
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Re: Bug#381568: ITP: med-fichier -- Library to exchange meshed data

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:27:23 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> >* Package name: med-fichier
> >MED-fichier (Modélisation et Echanges de Données, in English Modelisation
> >and Data Exchange) is a library to store and exchange meshed data or
> >computation results. It uses the HDF5 file format to store the data.
> Havin gthe Debian-Med project in mind I would love if the package
> name would not start with "med-" to avoid that people expect medical
> software inside this package.  My suggestion would be to go with
> just "fichier".

AFAIK fichier (fr) means file (en) or Datei (de), so this might be a
not very appropriate name for a package (with or without the med-
prefix).

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Bug#352653: RFP: libmail-domainkeys-perl -- Perl DomainKeys implementation

[gregor herrmann]

Anything new regarding libmail-domainkeys-perl? I'd really like to
see this module in Debian.


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Re: Orphaning my packages

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:00:06 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote:

> >I was planning on starting the wide adopting process to the group, 

Fine, I had the same idea.

> >but
> >if you can help, much better. 

Ack.

> I have no experience with maintaining within a group, but I will be
> happy to learn :)

Just take a look at http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/ and start
working :-)
Feel free to ask any questions an [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Bug#387629: ITP: libdatetime-format-builder-perl -- Create DateTime parser classes and objects

[gregor herrmann]

Package: wnpp
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Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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* Package name: libdatetime-format-builder-perl
  Version : 0.7807
  Upstream Author : Kellan Elliott-McCrea
* URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DateTime/
* License : Perl
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : Create DateTime parser classes and objects

 DateTime::Format::Builder creates DateTime parsers. Many string formats of
 dates and times are simple and just require a basic regular expression to
 extract the relevant information. Builder provides a simple way to do this
 without writing reams of structural code.
 .
 Builder provides a number of methods, most of which you'll never need, or
 at least rarely need. They're provided more for exposing of the module's   
 innards to any subclasses, or for when you need to do something slightly  
 beyond what I expected.

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Bug#387628: ITP: libdatetime-format-mysql-perl -- Parse and format MySQL dates and times

[gregor herrmann]

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* Package name: libdatetime-format-mysql-perl
  Version : 0.04
  Upstream Author : David Rolsky
* URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DateTime/
* License : Perl
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : Parse and format MySQL dates and times

 DateTime::Format::Builder creates DateTime parsers. Many string formats of
 dates and times are simple and just require a basic regular expression to
 extract the relevant information. Builder provides a simple way to do this
 without writing reams of structural code.
 .
 Builder provides a number of methods, most of which you'll never need, or
 at least rarely need. They're provided more for exposing of the module's
 innards to any subclasses, or for when you need to do something slightly
 beyond what I expected.

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Re: Orphaning my packages

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:58:31 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:

> (There are quite a few more -perl and -ruby packages, but I'm not quite sure
> which ones have been picked up.)

The lib*-perl packages are all already in the Debian Perl Group's svn
repository and will be uploaded soon.

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Re: Orphaning my packages

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:59:11 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:

> * sendemail -- does what it says.
> -- Small and written in perl -- maybe the Debian Perl Group would like it?

AFAIK at the moment the DPG only maintains Perl modules.

> Meanwhile, I don't suppose I could convince the Debian Perl Group to pick up
> some of the *other* orphaned perl libraries?.  ;-)

I know I know :-)
 
> The ones I've noticed on a quick run through the orphaned package list are:
[long list]
> These perl modules constitute more than 10% of the orphaned packages.
> (I suspect some of them may be obsolete or folded into the main Perl
> distribution or other perl modules.  Perhaps at least these could be
> identified and removal bugs filed.)

I, too, guess that some old packages are not really needed (otherwise
someone would have adopted them ;-)) but I guess the list is worth a
second look.

Other opinions?

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Bug#388569: general: always printed in letter format

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:13:27 +0200, gerhard oettl wrote:

> Since updating to etch some weeks ago i was not able to print
> from firefox, because always letter format is requested on the
> printer panel.

Do you have /etc/papersize and what is its content?

$ cat /etc/papersize 
a4
$ 

Cf. also man papersize

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Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:52:58 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:

> > A "-" might work on the numeric
> > keyboard but it is often even hard enough to find the '=' 
> would it be kooky to use numbers instead of letters and then have the
> help screen show what the number mean: eg.
> task=001 # sets gnome desktop
> task=002 # sets kde desktop

See above - the "=" is on a different location e.g. in English and
German keyboard layouts.

> as I would hope that numbers are not moved to random places on keyboards

Except on french keyboards where they are accessed with Shift-
:-)

I guess all these ideas are not that really fool-proof ...

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Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:24:40 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:

> You can actually look at what different layouts look like, by using the
> "xkbprint" tool and a compiled xkb keymap (see xkbcomp, or fetch it from
> your running X server).

Or xkeycaps.

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Re: xv and xorg

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:20:30 +0200, Izak Burger wrote:

> >xv was removed from Debian over five years ago due to licensing issues, so
> >I'm afraid you're likely to have to rebuild it yourself against xorg in
> >order to make it work.
> Oh yes, I remember it now.  It is an image viewer/manipulator isn't
> it?  

Ack.
Alternatives that work similar are among others xli or xloadimage.

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Re: want to contribute

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:39:18 -0500, Arvind kumar wrote:

> I am using debian linux for quite some time and quite impress by it. I want
> to contribute to its development .
> Please give me some pointers . I looked at website , it not quite clear how
> to start

Take a look at http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ - the page is titled
"How You Can Help".

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Re: how can download and run checklib

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:47:48 +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:

> I also couldn't find in the FAQ [3] any reference about how to
> download checklib.
> [3] http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/faq.html 
> How can download and run checklib?

On http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/ the last line says:
"Source code: available here" (and 'available here' is a link leading
to http://greek0.net/div/checklib.tar.gz ).

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Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:45:31 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote:

> I would prefer, however, to keep the package name as "sixpack" rather than 
> change it.  

Just FYI:
There is a package called 'sixpack' containing a BibTeX editor [0] but
it's only 1) in my private repository and 2) in Ubuntu.
I never tried to get it into Debian because it's not really useful
anyway.
For the sake of avoiding confusion I will remove it from my repo, and
(@Daniel:) I think sixpack (and tkbibtex) could be removed from
Ubuntu, too, or not included in Feisty.

Cheers,
gregor

[0]
http://www.santafe.edu/~dirk/sixpack/
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Bug#404510: ITP: libjgoodies-looks-java -- library with Swing look&feel implementations

[gregor herrmann]

Package: wnpp
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Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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* Package name: libjgoodies-looks-java
  Version : 2.1.1
  Upstream Author : Karsten Lentzsch
* URL : http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/looks/
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : library with Swing look&feel implementations

 The JGoodies Looks make your Swing applications and applets look better.
 The package consists of a Windows look&feel and the Plastic look&feel
 family. These have been optimized for readability, precise micro-design and
 usability.
 .
 The JGoodies Looks require Java 1.4 or later.
 .
  Homepage: http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/looks/


This library is needed by jabref (cf. #389068).

gregor

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Bug#404511: ITP: libspin-java -- transparent threading solution for non-freezing Swing applications

[gregor herrmann]

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* Package name: libspin-java
  Version : 1.4
  Upstream Author : Sven Meier
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/spin/
* License : LGPL
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : transparent threading solution for non-freezing Swing 
applications

 Swing is the standard component architecture for developing Java desktop
 applications. Its exhaustive collection of widgets is the foundation for
 easy development of rich graphical user interfaces (GUI).
 .
 Alas every non trivial GUI sooner or later encounters the problem of
 "freeze". This annoying behaviour is experienced by users every time the
 application performs extensive calculations or blocks for network or disk
 I/O.
 . 
 Spin offers a - to our knowledge - revolutionary new approach. It offers
 transparent thread handling with minimal impact on your application code.   
 .
  Homepage: http://spin.sourceforge.net/


This library is needed by jabref (cf. #389068).


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Bug#404512: ITP: libmicroba-java -- set of JFC (Swing) components

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* Package name: libmicroba-java
  Version : 0.4.4
  Upstream Author : Michael Baranov
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/microba/
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : set of JFC (Swing) components

 Microba is a set of finely crafted & feature rich JFC (Swing) components.
 Keywords: jfc, swing, java, date picker, datepicker, date-picker, calendar,
 gradient editor, marker, slider, palette editor
 .
  Homepage: http://microba.sourceforge.net/


This library is needed by jabref (cf. #389068).


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Bug#404513: ITP: libjempbox-java -- XMP Compatible Java Library

[gregor herrmann]

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* Package name: libjempbox-java
  Version : 0.1.0
  Upstream Author : "www.fontbox.org"
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/jempbox
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : XMP Compatible Java Library

 JempBox is an open source Java library that implements Adobe's
 XMP(TM) specification. 
 .
  Homepage: http://www.jempbox.org/

 
This library is needed by jabref (cf. #389068).


gregor

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Bug#404515: ITP: libjgraph-java -- graph component for Java

[gregor herrmann]

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* Package name: libjgraph-java
  Version : 5.9.2.1
  Upstream Author : Gaudenz Alder
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgraph/
* License : LGPL
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : graph component for Java

 JGraph is an easy-to-use, feature-rich and standards-compliant open source
 graph component available for Java. Application areas include:
 .
  * Process diagrams, workflow and BPM visualization, flowcharts, even
traffic or water flow.
  * Database and WWW visualization, networks and telecoms displays, mapping
applications and GIS.
  * UML diagrams, electronic circuits, VLSI, CAD, financial and social
networks and data mining.
  * Biochemistry, ecological cycles, entity and cause-effect relationships   
and organisational charts.
 .
 This package contains the library.
 .
  Homepage: http://www.jgraph.com/


This library is needed by jabref (cf. #389068).


gregor

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Bug#404519: ITP: libpdfbox-java -- Java PDF library

[gregor herrmann]

Package: wnpp
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* Package name: libpdfbox-java
  Version : 0.7.3
  Upstream Author : "www.pdfbox.org"
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfbox
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : Java PDF library

 PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents.  
 This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing  
 documents and the ability to extract content from documents. PDFBox also  
 includes several command line utilities.
 .
  Homepage: http://www.pdfbox.org/


This library is needed by jabref (cf. #389068).

gregor

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Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:03:03 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

[pkg-ruby]
>   Maintainer: "main responsible person for the package" (ie best contact
>   point)
>   Uploaders: the team mailing list, + all the members of the team
>   (auto-generated using a cdbs rule)

It's interesting that you bring this up because in the pkg-perl team
there were discussions about "doing it the pk-ruby way" (but up to
now almost everybody disliked the idea).
 
> The perl team, on the other hand, uses the different scheme:
>   Maintainer: "main responsible person for the package"
>   Uploaders: the team mailing list, + members who actually care for the
>   package (who have touched it in the past, for example).

In fact usually it's Maintainer: , Uploaders: . Cf.
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/policy.html#debian_control_handling
 
> See also, on the same topic,
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2007/01/msg7.html

Ah you've found the thread already :-)
 
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Re: GPG signing of debian packages

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On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:19:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> dpkg-deb: building package `sshguard' in `../sshguard_1.0.0-4_all.deb'.
>  signfile sshguard_1.0.0-4.dsc
> gpg: skipped "Tomas Davidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>": secret key not 
> available
> gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available
> 
> The name and email address match those which I used for key generation, so 
> this should be ok. Maybe one has to specify the sign-command (-p) in 
> dpkg-buildpackage ? If so, how does such a command look like ? Or is 
> there anything else wrong ?

>From man dpkg-buildpackage:

   -kkey-id
  Specify a key-ID to use when signing packages.

You might also take a look at the devscripts package (debuild, debsign, ...).

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Re: Bug#364317: ITP: weather-util -- command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

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On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 05:36:29PM +, The Fungi wrote:

> * Package name: weather-util
>   Description : command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and 
> forecasts
> 
> This utility is intended to provide quick access to current weather
> conditions and forecasts. Presently, it is capable of providing data for
> localities throughout the United States of America by retrieving and
> processing METAR data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
> Administration and forecasts from the National Weather Service.

You might (with your upstream hat on) take a look at (python-)pymetar,
a nice python module that can retrieve METAR data from all around the
world.

http://www.schwarzvogel.de/software-pymetar.shtml
http://packages.debian.org/python-pymetar

HTH,
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Re: Bug#366285: ITP: ajaxterm -- web based terminal written in python

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:01:51AM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote:

> ajaxterm is a web based terminal written in python and some AJAX javascript 
> for client side.
> It can use almost any web browser and even works through firewalls.

1) I'm glad to see ajaxterm approaching Debian because I think it's
   really useful.
2) I've tried it today and it didn't work in any of 3 three tested
   browsers. I hope that your Debian package will be better (or at least
   give more user information ...)


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Bug#366554: ITP: cdck -- verifies the quality of written CDs/DVDs

[gregor herrmann]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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* Package name: cdck
  Version : 0.5.2
  Upstream Author : Alexey Semenoff>
* URL : http://swaj.net/unix/index.html#cdck
* License : GPL (2 or later)
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description : verifies the quality of written CDs/DVDs

 cdck (CD/DVD check tools) is a simple console program to verify CD/DVD
 quality. The known fact is that even if all files on the disc are readable,
 some sectors having bad timing can easily turn into unreadable ones in the
 future.
 .
 To get an idea about a disc cdck reads it sector by sector, keeping
 all reading timings and then tells you its verdict. Optionally it
 can write the timing table into text file usable by gnuplot(1)
 program, so you can draw some graphs out of it.


Additional comment:
qpxtool does something similar, but it depends on the used drive and
it needs X. cdck works on all discs/drives and is a console
application.


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Bug#367007: ITP: libnet-z3950-zoom-perl -- Perl extension implementing the ZOOM API for Information Retrieval via Z39.50

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* Package name: libnet-z3950-zoom-perl
  Version : 1.08
  Upstream Author : Mike Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : 
http://search.cpan.org/~mirk/Net-Z3950-ZOOM/lib/Net/Z3950/ZOOM.pm
* License : Same as Perl, i.e. GPL or Artistic Licence
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : Perl extension implementing the ZOOM API for Information 
Retrieval via Z39.50

 This module provides a nice, Perlish implementation of the ZOOM
 Abstract API described and documented at http://zoom.z3950.org/api/
 .
 The ZOOM module is implemented as a set of thin classes on top of the
 non-OO functions provided by this distribution's Net::Z3950::ZOOM module,
 which in turn is a thin layer on top of the ZOOM-C code supplied as part of
 Index Data's YAZ Toolkit.  Because ZOOM-C is also the underlying code that
 implements ZOOM bindings in C++, Visual Basic, Scheme, Ruby, .NET
 (including C#) and other languages, this Perl module works compatibly with
 those other implementations.  (Of course, the point of a public API such as
 ZOOM is that all implementations should be compatible anyway; but knowing
 that the same code is running is reassuring.)
 .
  Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/~mirk/Net-Z3950-ZOOM/lib/Net/Z3950/ZOOM.pm

Additional comments:
* libnet-z3950-zoom-perl is the "successor" of libnet-z3950-perl.
* libnet-z3950-zoom-perl currently FTBFS on Debian because it depends
  on (lib)yaz(-dev) >= 2.1.11, and unfortunately only 2.1.8 is in
  Debian; the current upstream version is 2.1.18; cf. #359265


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Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

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Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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  Version : 1.1
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* URL : http://marlon80.interfree.it/cpulimit/
* License : LGPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : limits the cpu usage of a process

 cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a
 process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to
 control batch jobs, when you don't want then to eat too much cpu. It does not
 act on the nice value or other priority stuff, but on the real cpu usage.
 Besides it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically
 and quickly.
 .
  Homepage: http://marlon80.interfree.it/cpulimit/


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Re: Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

> >   Description : limits the cpu usage of a process
> >  cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a
> >  process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to
> >  control batch jobs, when you don't want then to eat too much cpu. It does 
> > not
> >  act on the nice value or other priority stuff, but on the real cpu usage.
> I thought nice was supposed to handle these kinds of things, and
> that a busy CPU is a *good* thing.

On an otherwise idle box even a process (re-)niced to 19 uses all the
CPU. That might be desirable often but in other cases (e.g. when
CPU temperature is an issue) you might still want to say "assign this
process only xy% of CPU resources".
 
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Re: Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 07:31:56PM -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:

> > On an otherwise idle box even a process (re-)niced to 19 uses all the
> > CPU. That might be desirable often but in other cases (e.g. when
> > CPU temperature is an issue) you might still want to say "assign this
> > process only xy% of CPU resources".
> Linux's ``conservative'' scaling governor ignores nice'd processes for 
> calculating the desired CPU speed.  Do you have a case in mind where CPU 
> scaling is insufficient?

CPU scaling TTBOMK
* doesn't work for all CPUs;
* is more complex than a single binary;
* works on the CPU as a whole and not on single processes.

IMO tuning the frequency of the CPU is something different than
adjusting the CPU usage of a process.


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Re: Making init scripts use dash

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On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:10:06PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:

> > This option also might imply some extra bugs, but it's believed that
> > not so many, since there are already quite a number of people with
> > /bin/sh -> /bin/dash, and they do file bugs when "bashisms" appear.
> A tool searching for "bashisms" in init scripts and maintainer scripts
> could help a lot on this...

IIRC lintian does this already.
 
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Re: alternatives and priorities

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:

> >  Using popcon would ensure that the applications which most people
> >  prefer would be the default; this is a fair and objective criterion.
> Interesting idea, but by my reckoning that would make "ed" the default
> editor for most people, which I don't think is a good idea:
>   

If you look at by_vote [0] the situation is different:
http://popcon.debian.org/main/editors/by_vote

[0] which seems more relevant to me:
# is the number of people who installed this package;
# is the number of people who use this package regularly;


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Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:29:34PM +0200,  wrote:

> * libdigest-hmac-perl, libdigest-sha1-perl, libdigest-md2-perl,
>   libdigest-perl, libio-interface-perl, libio-socket-multicast-perl,
>   libnet-xwhois-perl, libvideo-capture-v4l-perl
>   (easy pickings; check for new Upstream)

I guess these packages would fit in the Debian Perl Group's
"collection".
If there are no objections I would start to move them over.

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Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:46:30AM -0700, Zak B. Elep wrote:

> >* libdigest-hmac-perl, libdigest-sha1-perl, libdigest-md2-perl,
> > libdigest-perl, libio-interface-perl, libio-socket-multicast-perl,
> > libnet-xwhois-perl, libvideo-capture-v4l-perl
> I'd like to take these up.

Oops, I just saw your mail now after writing my own offer.
Please just go ahead; unless you want to maintain the packages within
the Debian Perl Group, of course ;-)

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Bug#370485: ITP: libdata-random-perl -- Perl module to generate random data

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Severity: wishlist
Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: libdata-random-perl
  Version : 0.05
  Upstream Author : Adekunle Olonoh, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/~adeo/Data-Random-0.05/Random.pm
* License : Same as Perl (GPL or Artistic)
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : Perl module to generate random data

A module used to generate random data.  Useful mostly for test
programs.


Note:

This module was requested on IRC (#debian-devel at OFTC) today:
11:11  doesnt anyone want to package 
  
http://search.cpan.org/~dcantrell/Net-Random-1.2/lib/Net/Random.pm?
11:11  and why is selenium not packaged? is the license wrong?
11:12  why would one want random numbers from weird online sources?
11:13  did i past the wrong link?
11:13  yes
11:13  i meant 
http://search.cpan.org/~adeo/Data-Random-0.05/Random.pm

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Re: jabref destiny

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On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:33:14PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

> > The problem from my point of view is that it builds in my normal
> > environment (with the Sun Java jre/jdk installed) but not in a
> > pbuilder chroot (because the Sun Java packages require a "Yes, I
> > agree with this licence" confirmation which obviously doesn't work in a
> > chroot) - I don't know what the buildds would do in that case.
> but jabref is architecture "all", why buildd should see it at all? :-)

Something like "FTBFS" rings in my ears :-)
 
> > Furthermore the future of Sun Java in Debian is a little unclear - to
> > put it mildly.
> well... since finally it made its way into non-free, I think (hope) that
> it will stay there for quite a while ;-)

We'll see.
 
> > And I've tried to compile jabref with free java compilers but without
> > success so far.
> It might be worth seeking for help of "Debian Java Packaging Project"
> members: http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/, if you really want to get
> involved that much ;-)

To be honest I don't really want to go into java stuff in Debian ATM.
 
> > So I'm a bit unsure what should be done about jabref.
> > >...<
> indeed, it might be worth asking for an advice from -dev mailing list

True.
Cc'ing d-d (for your reference: the previous mails can be found at
#205392).
 
> > > P.S. Gregor, Unfortunately could not inspect jabref package thoroughly
> > >  since
> > >  
> > > http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/debian/unstable/jabref_2.0.1+2.1b-2_i386.changes
> > >  lacking read permissions for us ;-)
> > That's a feature (bug?) of mini-dinstall.
> > You still can grab all other files from
> > http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/debian/unstable/ though.
> Well... though I doubt that anyone would run after you but you are
> violating GPL license now -- binary is available without the full source...
> ;-) and it forbids me to try pbuilder on it...

TTBOMK a source package consists of .dsc, .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz.
All these files are available. You can download them manually, via
apt-get source or via dget *.dsc
 

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Re: Bug#372239: ITP: Nmap::Parser - parse nmap scan data with perl

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:50:32PM -0400, Joshua D. Abraham wrote:

> * Package name : Nmap::Parser
> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~apersaud/Nmap-Parser-1.05/Parser.pm

I guess the package should be named libnmap-parser-perl like all
other Perl module packages.
Cf. also
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-package_names

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Re: Bug#374088: ITP: openmovieeditor -- a simple non-linear video editor

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:43:10 +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote:

> * Package name: openmovieeditor
>   Version : 0.0.20060326
>   Upstream Author : Richard Spindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://propirate.net/oracle/zipfiles/

This URL just gives me an empty page. Linked from Richard Spindler's
blog/home page is:
http://openmovieeditor.sourceforge.net/

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Re: Bug#378996: ITP: vulcan -- chess variant inspired by a certain well-known science fiction TV series

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:54:16 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:

Hi,

> * Package name: vulcan
>   Version : 0.2
>   Upstream Author : Mauro Persano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.fzort.org/mpr/projects/vulcan/
> * License : GPL
>   Description : chess variant inspired by a certain well-known science 
> fiction TV series

sounds cool, especially to all who know the well-known series :-)

I just wanted to point out that there is a package in Debian that
sounds quite similar:

  Package: 3dchess
  Description: 3D chess for X11

I don't know 3dchess, maybe there are large differences to vulcan.


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Re: How to cope with patches sanely

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:20:59 +0100, Roland Mas wrote:

> >> It would be great to document in some place
> >> (devref?) why quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I
> >> don't think it's obvious for everybody :)
> > Yes, please do so!  I would like to read that.
> Seconded.  Also, please include the "how" as well as the "why" :-)

Damyan has written a nice howto for the pkg-perl group; it includes
the "how" and also a short paragraph (section #4) in the "why":
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/quilt.html

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Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:21:41 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:

> About these new Vcs-* fields in debian/control: it's not clear to me 
> where the URLs should be pointing at.

They are explained in the Developer's Reference, section 6.2.5:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-vcs

In short: they point to a VCS repository where the Debian package is
maintained.

HTH,
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Re: dpatch -> quilt

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:09:28 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Is there any easy conversion from dpatch to quilt for a given package
> that is using dpatch?

The following two links might give an idea:
* manual conversion:
  http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/08/converting-debian-packages-from-dpatch.html
* script (but svn-centric):
  http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/dpatch2quilt?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 

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Re: dpatch -> quilt

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On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:07:00 +0100, Sven Mueller wrote:

> > * script (but svn-centric):
> >   
> > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/dpatch2quilt?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 
> The script should (IMHO) make sure QUILT_PATCHES is set correctly.
> (Cc'ing dmn because of this)

Good catch, thanks!
Fixed.
 
> Being able to keep only debian/* in the repository along with the
> orig.tar.gz

IIRC this issued has already come up in this long thread, and IIRC
there where no positive answers yet.
 

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Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:56:40 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:

> > What about a bug... Bugs are our "pets" : we take care of them.
> I guess I just repeat myself when I question why we need to join the
> free software zoo. Is it hip? Are we hip? What's the gain? Why
> bother?

Ack.
 
> A fluffy pillow with a swirl on it sounds like a good idea, for when
> you're feeling down and need some FOSS lovin'.

What I'd actually like to see, own and use is a sweat-shirt; wearing
it in everday life would be a nice and easy way of promoting Debian.

gre "as long as it's black" gor 
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Re: actively notifying users of removed packages

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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:23:45 -0700, Karl Chen wrote:

> Thoughts?  What have I missed?  Existing solutions or non-problem?

Not a general solution probably but maybe interesting for you is the
following RSS feed:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/~joerg/removals/removals.rss

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Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:01:30 +, Neil Williams wrote:

> > I appreciate the strive to make Debian work on small machines, but it
> > is reasonable to put their constraints on the whole project?
> IMHO the Packages.gz file is already too large for my standard Debian
> machines! 

I see this point and I agree to it.

Maybe a better place for Tincho's idea would be an (optional)
debian/bugtracker file (similar to debian/watch).

FWIW: The idea of being able to type "bts forward 123456" (instead of
forward_ed_) sounds really appealing to me. Or an equivalent to uscan
like 'ubts'. (And it would need some additional local config for
credentials for upstream bug trackers etc.)

Cheers,
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Bug#474398: ITP: libfile-pid-perl -- Perl module for pid file manipulation

[gregor herrmann]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: libfile-pid-perl
  Version : 1.01
  Upstream Author : Casey West, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Pid/
* License : GPL-1+ | Artistic
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : Perl module for pid file manipulation

 File::Pid manages pid files. It creates a pid file, querys the
 process within to discover if it's still running, and removes the
 pid file.
  

The package will be maintained within the Debian Perl Group.

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Re: Bug#481973: ITP: libiptables-parse-perl -- Perl extension for parsing iptables firewall rulesets

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On Mon, 19 May 2008 22:38:16 +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote:

> * Package name: libiptables-parse-perl
 
> The "IPTables::Parse" package provides an interface to parse iptables
> rules on Linux systems through the direct execution of iptables
> commands, or from a file.

The package psad contains a file /usr/lib/perl5/IPTables/Parse.pm.

(http://www.cipherdyne.org/modules/ also mentions ".. provides ..
modules used by the psad, ...")

This potential clash should be sorted out before an upload.

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Re: Bug#481973: ITP: libiptables-parse-perl -- Perl extension for parsing iptables firewall rulesets

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:34:48 +0200, Franck JONCOURT wrote:

> > The package psad contains a file /usr/lib/perl5/IPTables/Parse.pm.
> As a matter of fact, all packages from cipherdyne are being packaged
> to avoid conflicts between psad, fwsnort and fwknop.

Sounds good, thanks for the clarification!
 
BTW: Just in case you don't know, there's the Debian Perl Group that
could help with the two lib*-perl packages:
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup

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Re: packages with perl-modules, CPAN, Policy

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On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:42:34 +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:

(cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please adjust accordingly)

> 1. dh-make-perl
> For   example   we   build   with   itshelpthepackage
> libwww-mechanize-perl.  Excellent! The package is built. But it's
> not a package, its a template for package!  

not if you use dh-make-perl's --build switch.

> 2.  Thank you for many links on  apt-cache  search,  but  I  mean
> rather another class of problems :)

that's why you've been pointed to apt-file search :) 

> Start the command apt-cache --full search -- -perl|less
> and  see  hoe  many  packages  haven't  the  modules'  names   in
> description.  

I agree that that's sub-optimal.
If you hit such packages IMO a whishlist bug would be appropriate.

> Bringing into service the possibility of the  unambiguous  search
> according to the module name will give an opportunity to  improve
> dh-make-perl and write utilities such as I described in my  first
> mail etc. 

dh-make-perl uses `apt-file search Module::Name' internally.

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

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On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:36:48 -0400, James Westby wrote:

> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > Josselin Mouette wanted to allow bug numbers instead of URLs in the 
> > Bug-*/Bug
> > fields. Several people expressed their preference for a simple URL field.
> > Sub-thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/06/msg00543.html
> I don't like this suggestion at all. Copying and pasting a URL in is
> generally convenient, and while many of us will have quick ways of going
> from a bug number to the bug page, new contributors and those outside
> the project won't, and so it will be harder for them to get the
> information.
> Yes, typing the bugs.debian.org part when you have the bug number is
> tedious, but it's easy, and it's possibly a case of write-one read-many.

I respectfully disagree on that issue.

In my experience bugs in Debian (in whatever context but
also/including current patches) are referred to by their number; the
same is true IMO for upstream bugs in certain fields (e.g. CPAN RT).

I agree that that's not completely obvious/intuitive for "newcomers"
but consumers of the patch format (command line tools, web
interfaces, ...) are free to expand them to URLs, and those
interfaces are probably more used than the raw source packages by the
people who are not intimate with the semantics of the used bug
trackers.

Maybe I'm too lazy but I'd rather use
Bug: #123456
Bug_CPAN: #12345
than having to construct URLs for these cases ...

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

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:03:28 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:

> I think gregor makes a good point, and that there can be a reasonable
> compromise between the two worlds of "hey, let's just use URLs in the
> Bug: field" and "no, I'm too lazy, we should just use a nubmer and
> refer to the Debian BTS"

Thanks for honouring my laziness :)
 
> > Maybe I'm too lazy but I'd rather use
> >    Bug: #123456
> >    Bug_CPAN: #12345
> Maybe an idea is to have a format like:
> Bug: #123456 (assumes Debian BTS)
> Bug: BTS#123456 (same as above, but explicit)
> Bug: RT#123456 (to point to the CPAN Request Tracker)
> Bug: http://blahblah

Ack, and/but the original proposal has Bug- which seems
reasonable to me, therefore I'd rather stick to Bug:, Bug-CPAN:,
Bug-Gnome, ...
 
> So you can use any of the above formats, either the short forms where
> you have: SYSTEM#NUMBER or the full URL.

Ack on either #number or URL.
 
> And given previous fields I think Bug-CPAN is more appropriate than
> Bug_CPAN (underscores are not used in Control fields from what I can
> tell, like with Vcs-Browser for example)

Sorry, that was a typo on my side.
 

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Re: piuparts run by every uploader

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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:22:07 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:

> Largely due to the need of maintaining a full chroot just for its
> use, I thought piuparts had too high of a barrier of
> entry/maintenance to be used by everyone. Am I completely wrong?

It can use pbuilder's chroot, and pbuilder --create/--update is not
that difficult :) 

But I have to admit that I run it very rarely because it takes way
too long (including the time to unpack pbuilder's base.tgz).

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Re: piuparts run by every uploader

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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:44:07 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:

> > But I have to admit that I run it very rarely because it takes way
> > too long (including the time to unpack pbuilder's base.tgz).
> In that case, using cowbuilder instead could work, 

#389223

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Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

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On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:44:18 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:

> > >   * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the
> > > original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with
> > > warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the
> > > original language.[12.1]

> Maybe on debian-i18n we could issue a call for translation of this
> text (once we agreed on a phrase) such that maintainers using a patch
> system could add it already until a solution with upstream is found.

That might indeed be helpful.
 
> > As such, this "should" prevents *many* packages to meet 3.8.3 for
> > Standards-Version. You may thus want to check things carefully..:)

An interesting question is how to detect outdated translated
manpages; if they are only half the size or miss some options in an
item list it's simple but if the text is just outdated and/or wrong I
fear I'll have some problems in several languages ...

Cheers,
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Re: Taking care of exising packages

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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:07:42 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:

[Any reason why this thread happens on both -devel and -mentors?]

> Josselin Mouette  writes:
> > It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are
> > seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to
> > the archive, consider joining one of the packaging teams
> Perhaps a good way to point it out on an ongoing basis would be a
> central clearing house for ???specific teams that a newcomer should
> consider joining???. Is there such a list (and where is it maintained)?
> Would such a list even make sense?

There's a central place for teams in Debian:
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams 

The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams;
some thoughts from DebConf can be found here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/07/msg00083.html
(especially point 3)

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Re: Taking care of exising packages

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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:15:00 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:

> > The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams;
> > some thoughts from DebConf can be found here:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/07/msg00083.html
> > (especially point 3)
> One thought captured in those notes is to mention things on
> debian.org/devel/join. I was surprised to find no mention of teams at
> all there, so I just submitted a patch to add the following paragraph
> (the HTML equivalent rather):

Wow, cool, thanks a lot!
 
Can you image to take a look at the Developers' Reference too? AFAIK
the only mentioning of teams there is in 5.12.

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Re: developers-reference: Improve "Getting started" to talk about more than New Maintainer's Guide

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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:27:05 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:

> > Can you image to take a look at the Developers' Reference too? AFAIK
> > the only mentioning of teams there is in 5.12.
> Yes, definitely. 
[..]
> I'm filing a bug against the developers-reference package for this
> now.

Cool!

> Thanks for pointing out another great place where Debian's
> documentation can be improved. I really want to help ensure that
> Debian presents itself well to attract good people to come and have
> fun building the universal operating system with us.

Thanks to you, much appreciated!

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Re: Taking care of existing packages

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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:33:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:

> The reason why I posted to both is that I see a trend in -mentors that
> many new contributors seem to create an artificial need as a reason to
> get their contributions in the distribution and choose to package a new
> program.

I agree with most parts of your analysis, esp. that teams could use
help and that joining teams helps new contributors.

I just think we also have to keep in mind that the proverbial "itch"
that new contributors are trying to "scratch", i.e. why they want to
help in Debian in the first place, is that they are missing a piece
of software they use or would like to use. Therefor an approach as
(silly example) "You can only get a new package sponsored after
fixing 10 existing ones." might demotivate potential new
contributors.
 
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Bug#543255: ITP: libpoex-types-perl -- Perl module to provide MooseX::Types for POE

[gregor herrmann]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: gregor herrmann 

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1


* Package name: libpoex-types-perl
  Version : 0.091420
  Upstream Author : Nicholas Perez 
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/POEx-Types/
* License : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : Perl module to provide MooseX::Types for POE

 POEx::Types exports the needed subtypes, and coercions for POEx modules and
 is based on Sub::Exporter, so see that module for options on importing.


libpoex-types-perl is a new dependency of libpoex-role-sessioninstantiation-perl
and will be maintained in pkg-perl group.


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Re: RFC round 5: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:13:58 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I think that either of ‘Origin: vendor’ (for a patch created by the
> > package maintainer) or ‘Origin: other’ would be better than omitting the
> > field. I'd like to see the examples recommend its use in these cases.
> I don't share this opinion, let's see if we can have some more feedback.

I prefer to omit Origin and interpret a
missing-Origin-with-Author-present as a Debian patch.

Adding a URL (pointing where - to a webinterface of a VCS?) seems
cumbersome, and just stating in some way that the origin is Debian or
the person who wrote the patch/put in into the package seems like a
duplication of information and effort.
 
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Re: Is Mari Wang MIA?

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On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:26:27 -0430, Ernesto Hernández-Novich wrote:

> > I've got a new version of the package (7.82) just about ready for upload,
> > give me a day or two (I want to take another look at it when this headcold
> > leaves, hopefully along with all the cotton in my head).
> Have you had a chance to review your package?
> It's the only one holding the latest webgui 7.7 package I have ready for
> upload to close a couple of bugs.

libimage-exiftool-perl 7.89-1 was uploaded two days ago already :)

http://packages.qa.debian.org/libi/libimage-exiftool-perl.html
$ rmadison libimage-exiftool-perl

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Re: Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:27:45 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> Therefore, I’d find it handy to have, on the header of the package’s bug
> page a link "Search upstream bugtracker" that directly sends me to the
> upstream bugtracker, ideally to a search request for all bugs affecting
> this particular program/component.

I agree, and we had a similar discussion during Debconf in the Debian
Perl Group. [0]

> Implementation-wise, this is probably best implemented via a new
> control header, similar to Homepage, containing the URL. But of course
> I’m open for other ideas.

In order not to bloat the Packages file we where thinking about a
header in debian/copyright (which has, according to DEP5, already
information about the Upstream-Author and Upstream-Source).

But there may be other and better places to put the information.

Cheers,
gregor

[0]
http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2009/07/msg00104.html
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Re: Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:23:02 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:

> > In order not to bloat the Packages file we where thinking about a
> > header in debian/copyright (which has, according to DEP5, already
> > information about the Upstream-Author and Upstream-Source).
> I'd like to re-iterate my earlier mail on this subject about splitting
> up the Packages file:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00057.html

Good point.

Another approach would be to make some of our tools more VCS-aware
(or UDD-aware if UDD imports data from VCSses).
 
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Re: transitioning from a single to split package

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:15:35 +0100, Penny Leach wrote:

> Well, that's logically equivalent to installing multiple versions of the
> same package.  At the moment,  there's one moodle installation, which has
> code that lives in /usr/share/moodle, and connects to one database.   This
> is determined by its one config file.  You can do tricks in the config file
> to fool Moodle into connecting to different databases, based on some rule
> (like virtualhost), but I don't see the use case here, 

Having several separate moodle instances on one machine seems like a
normal use case to me.

> and I don't think
> any other web applications support being installed multiple times, do they?

wordpress for example allows "multiple blog" setups.

mediawiki can at least be tricked into it, and I remember a host with
one mediawiki instance using postgres and two or three others mysql.


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Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:18:46 +, Neil Williams wrote:

> > For more informations, see http://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade
> Which describes the technical minutiae of the codebase without
> explaining the "big picture" benefits of using the model or how the
> model proposes to "fix" the (IMHO non-existent) problem that it has
> invented.

The problem and the aim are stated in the Introduction section of
this page.
 
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Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:32:13 +, Neil Williams wrote:

> > Configuration file `/etc/sensors3.conf'
> >  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
> >  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
> >What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
> > Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
> > N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
> >   D : show the differences between the versions
> >   Z : background this process to examine the situation
> >  The default action is to keep your current version.
> > *** sensors3.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?
> That is a bug in the package, as described in my other reply. If the
> user hasn't changed that file, the package should be able to cope with
> the changes without prompting. Whichever package caused the file to be
> modified in such a way that it cannot be upgraded cleanly is BUGGY.

If the file is unmodified, then there's indeed something wrong. But
the interesting case is when the admin has changed something. The
common case that is getting on my nerves currently is:

* foo 1.0 ships /etc/foo.conf with
  featureA=yes
  featureB=no
* I change featureB to yes
* foo 2.0 ships /etc/foo.conf with
  featureA=yes
  featureB=no
  featureC=7
* Now dpkg ask if I want the new version or my modified one. But what
  I actually want is 
  - keep my change of the featureB variable and
  - add the new featureC variable
* Or more generally: I want to preserve my locally modified values
  and at the same time update the rest which I haven't touched.

And that's what Config::Model allows, as far as I understood it.
 
> > Avoid asking users configuration questions during packages upgrades.
> > This could make dist-upgrades between Debian releases easier.
> No, it hides the problem inside another dependency. The package should
> handle it's own config files *and* the bugs that result.

I don't consider writing parsers in each and every .postinst very
efficient.
 
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Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:38:19 +, Neil Williams wrote:

> > * Or more generally: I want to preserve my locally modified values
> >   and at the same time update the rest which I haven't touched.
> That's a user change, I thought the point of this was that changes *not
> done by users* are causing problems. Different problem.

Right, that's a different problem, and AFAIK Config::Model handles
both.
  
> > And that's what Config::Model allows, as far as I understood it.
> That's not how I understood the purposes of it, although it could be
> used that way, it isn't sufficient justification IMHO.
> If admins make changes, admins should expect to handle the dpkg
> conflicts.

Sure, just that I (as an admin) would like to be able to do it easier
than it works now.
 
> I thought the idea of this was to handle changes not made by users - I
> think we agree that those instances are bugs.

Ack.
  
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Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:46:04 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

> Oh, well, I should probably
> just study Config::Model!

Since you speak French you might be interested in Dominique's
presentation at some French Perl meeting:
http://fpw2009.ubicast.eu/videos/free/64/

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Re: Bug#559524: ITP: libleocharre-perl -- Bundle of several modules in the LEOCHARRE:: namespace

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:58:59 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:

> > Useful suggestions are gladly accepted and appreciated. Please give me a
> > less crappy alternative. I beg of you. PLEASE.
> File RM: bug on libwordpress-xmlrpc-perl. Less bad code = less 
> problems in the long term.

$ apt-cache rdepends libwordpress-xmlrpc-perl 
libwordpress-xmlrpc-perl
Reverse Depends:
$ 

That would support dam's idea :) 

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Bug#559732: ITP: libweb-simple-perl -- simple web framework

[gregor herrmann]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: gregor herrmann 

* Package name: libweb-simple-perl
  Version : 0.002
  Upstream Author : Matt S. Trout 
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Web-Simple/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : simple web framework

Web::Simple provides a bare minimum system for writing web applications that
don't need a full-fledged web framework.

The philosophy of Web::Simple is to keep to an absolute bare minimum, for
everything. It is not designed to be used for large scale applications; the
Catalyst web framework already works very nicely for that and is a far more
mature, well supported piece of software.

However, if you have an application that only does a couple of things, and
want to not have to think about complexities of deployment, then Web::Simple
might be just the thing for you.

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Bug#562102: ITP: libdist-zilla-perl -- Perl distribution builder

[gregor herrmann]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: gregor herrmann 

* Package name: libdist-zilla-perl
  Version : 1.093400
  Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES 
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dist-Zilla/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : distribution builder; installer not included!

Dist::Zilla builds distributions of code to be uploaded to the CPAN. In this
respect, it is like ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Module::Build, or Module::Install.
Unlike those tools, however, it is not also a system for installing code that
has been downloaded from the CPAN. Since it's only run by authors, and is
meant to be run on a repository checkout rather than on published, released
code, it can do much more than those tools, and is free to make much more
ludicrous demands in terms of prerequisites.

~

Dist::Zilla also needs the following modules:

* Package name: libstring-flogger-perl
  Version : 1.001
  Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES 
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Flogger/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : string munging for loggers

string munging for loggers


* Package name: libmixin-extrafields-perl
  Version : 0.007
  Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES 
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mixin-ExtraFields/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : add extra stashes of data to your objects

Sometimes your well-defined object needs a way to tack on arbirary extra
fields. This might be a set of session-specific ephemeral data, a stash of
settings that need to be easy to grow over time, or any sort of
name-and-value parameters. Adding more and more methods can be cumbersome,
and may not be helpful if the names vary greatly. Accessing an object's guts
directly is simple, but is difficult to control when subclassing, and can
make altering your object's structure difficult.

Mixin::ExtraFields provides a simple way to add an arbitrary number of
stashes for named data. These data can be stored in the object, in a
database, or anywhere else. The storage mechanism is abstracted away from the
provided interface, so one storage mechanism can be easily swapped for
another. Multiple ExtraFields stashes can be mixed into one class, using one
or many storage mechanisms.


* Package name: libstring-formatter-perl
  Version : 0.093221
  Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes , Darren Chamberlain 

* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Formatter/
* License : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : build sprintf-like functions of your own

String::Formatter is a tool for building sprintf-like formatting routines. It
supports named or positional formatting, custom conversions, fixed string
interpolation, and simple width-matching out of the box. It is easy to alter
its behavior to write new kinds of format string expanders. For most cases,
it should be easy to build all sorts of formatters out of the options built
into String::Formatter.

Normally, String::Formatter will be used to import a sprintf-like routine
referred to as "stringf", but which can be given any name you like. This
routine acts like sprintf in that it takes a string and some inputs and
returns a new string:

my $output = stringf "Some %a format %s for you to %u.\n", { ... };


* Package name: libconfig-ini-mvp-perl
  Version : 0.024
  Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES, C<<  >>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-INI-MVP/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : multi-value capable .ini file reader (for plugins)

Config::MVP::Reader::INI reads .ini files containing MVP-style configuration.
It uses Config::INI::MVP::Reader to do most of the heavy lifting.


* Package name: libconfig-ini-perl
  Version : 0.014
  Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES, C<<  >>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-INI/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : simple .ini-file format

simple .ini-file format


* Package name: libconfig-mvp-perl
  Version : 0.093350
  Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes 
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-MVP/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : multivalue-property package-oriented configuration

MVP is a mechanism for loading configuration (or other information) for
libraries. It doesn't read a file or a database. It's a helper for things
that do.

The idea is that you end up with a
Config::MVP::Sequence|Config::MVP::Sequence object, and that you can use that
object to fully configure your library or application. The sequence will
contain a bunch of Config::MVP::Section|Config::MVP::Section objects, each of
which is mea

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:22:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:

> But Manoj says the 'maintainer ping' was tried and was
> not liked. So I guess some other method need to be found.

Just out of curiosity: What exactly was this "maintainer ping" and
why was it disliked?

gregor
 
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Bug#411880: ITP: libglazedlists-java -- java list transformation library

[gregor herrmann]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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* Package name: libglazedlists-java
  Version : 1.7.0
  Upstream Author : publicobject.com, O'Dell Engineering Ltd.
* URL : http://www.publicobject.com/glazedlists/
* License : LGPL, MPL
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : java list transformation library

 Glaced Lists features:
  * API Compatibility with ArrayList
  * Generic TableModels
  * Easy dynamic filtering & sorting
  * High performance
  * Designed for concurrency
  * Swing or SWT
  * Free and open

(libglazedlists-java is needed by JabRef, cf. #389068)

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  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 
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Re: Roundcube

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:27:26 -0200, Fernando M.M. wrote:

> Althought i have already seen some old discussion about packing the
> webmail Roundcube (1) i have not found the package using the
> package search (2).
[..]
> Is someone working on it?

Seems so:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=333756
http://lists.debian.org/debian-webapps/2007/02/msg0.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/02/msg00098.html

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Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:33:30 +0100, Nico Golde wrote:

> you always have the problem that you 
> might miss new configuration flags or you have to adapt the 
> new file manually from your old backup and "merge" the 
> changes.

Ack, that's annoying IMO.
 
> What about the possibility to view the patch, edit it with 
> your favorite editor and the just apply the patch?
> This way you don't have to do all the manual stuff after 
> installing the packages and you don't miss new configuration 
> flags.

Sounds great.
 
> Are there already people who started to do something 
> similar? Do you think this is useful?

IMO this feature would be very useful.
 
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Re: Debhelper and variable substitution in *.install files etc.

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:19:21 +0100, Paul Cager wrote:

>/usr/share/java/thing.jar -> /usr/share/java/thing-1.2.3.jar

> The rules file already has "PACKAGE" and "VERSION" variables (parsed
> from the changelog). It would be really nice if the config files could
> use variable substitution, so the links file would look like:
> 
> /usr/share/java/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).jar /usr/share/java/$(PACKAGE).jar

I guess you'll end up with
/usr/share/java/libFOO-java-1.2.3.jar
which might not be what you want.
 
> Would anyone else find it useful to be able to use variable substitution
> in the debhelper config files?

In general: Yes.
 
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Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:39:32 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:

> > I may be wrong, I don't know, but in my opinion a ping to call back home
> > even if the user said `No' is a evil behaviour and Debian should avoid it.
> I agree. If the user says "no", we should do nothing.

Full ack.
 
> [ ] No, I do not want to participate at all.
> [ ] I want to report once that I have installed Debian.
> [ ] I want to participate in the package popularity contest.
>
> How does that sound?

Sounds good to me.

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Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:22:37 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> > dmidecode output is a big problem.  It includes machine UUID and serial
> > numbers.
> Yes.
> Perhaps we only want to collect a subset of that information, or at
> least warn the admin about the issues.

I'd suggest to show the person in front of the computer which data
would be sent and get their approval before actually sending them.
 
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