Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Michael Banck wrote: >> - sign your response (!) > > He did. Oops, sorry, my mistake. :-( -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de -- Relax, Julie. Everyone will understand.

Bug#193612: ITP: fbpanel -- A lightwight X11 desktop panel

2003-05-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-05-17 Severity: wishlist * Package name: fbpanel Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Anatoly Asviyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://fbpanel.sf.net/ * License : BSD Description : A lightweight X11 desktop panel

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:30:46AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Yes, and funnily enough, uploads to -p-u have to be processed by the > > release manager, either Joey for stable, or me for testing. How's the > > phrase go? "You suggest distributing the workload, and your concrete > > suggestions

Testing the voting scripts

2003-05-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi folks, I would like to test the new voting scripts, complete with signed acks. I'll be running this vote over on my home machine, pending the resolution of the fact that devotee does not run on potato (vote.d.o runs potato). This vote would also be a good test of the super majority

Bug#193606: ITP: swftools -- utilities for handling flash .swf files

2003-05-16 Thread Chris Butler
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 12:10:38AM +0200, Juan Manuel García Molina wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-17 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: swftools Last time I checked this package, it contained MP3 encoding code from LAME - which cannot be included in Deb

Bug#193606: ITP: swftools -- utilities for handling flash .swf files

2003-05-16 Thread Juan Manuel García Molina
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-17 Severity: wishlist * Package name: swftools Version : 0.4.4-1 Upstream Author : Matthias Kramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rainer Böhme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.quiss.org/swftools/ * License : GPL

Discussion period starts for the Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, We have six seconds (well, five people on public mailing lists) for the GR labelled: "Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying". It would not hurt to get a few more sponsors for this GR. =

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 05:35:01PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > It would be a start and I think that's what is needed. It needs to be > started by someone, and I contend *anyone* can start it, before it will > be possible to do it in full. The thing is: The autobuilders for testing-security are

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You seem to be missing something: > > I'm not the least bit interested in running a testing-security > repository outside of Debian. Furthermore, I've neither the skill, nor the > time to contribute to something like this integrated to Debian. I've > me

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 04:09:28PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I wouldn't feel like setting up a repository for testing that only > > clueless people-who-put-every-apt-line-they-see-in-their-sources-list[0] > > would use. > > Others would see what y

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El día 16 may 2003, Matthias Urlichs escribía: > Hi, > >> Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying: > >> __ > > > > I second this resolution. > > The accepted procedure seems to be to > - quote the full

Re: Questions regarding utf-8

2003-05-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> *prompt* echo ö§ | recode latin1..ascii >> "oSS >> *prompt* echo ö§ | iconv -f latin1 -t >> ascii//TRANSLIT ; echo $? >> oe? >> -- >> »oe« is much better than »"o« and »SS« is no usable replacement

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:06:23PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > The accepted procedure seems to be to > - sign your response (!) He did. Michael -- Well, if we can't talk about the Hurd here, we may as well talk about sex. They are often equivalent. functionally speaking. neal: T

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Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I wouldn't feel like setting up a repository for testing that only > clueless people-who-put-every-apt-line-they-see-in-their-sources-list[0] > would use. Others would see what you had done and you could post patches to the BTS with the fixes in them, e

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, >> Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying: >> __ > > I second this resolution. The accepted procedure seems to be to - quote the full resolution - sign your response (!) - send the reply to debian

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > > > more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less > > > > than 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically also the m

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 16 May 2003 12:13 pm, Keegan Quinn wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > > > more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less > > > > than 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically

Re: Questions regarding utf-8

2003-05-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *prompt* echo ö§ | recode latin1..ascii > "oSS > *prompt* echo ö§ | iconv -f latin1 -t > ascii//TRANSLIT ; echo $? > oe? > -- > »oe« is much better than »"o« and »SS« is no usable replacement for > »§« (I do not think there is one), it wou

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:49:28PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You seem to fail to understand that people don't pull security updates > > from Joe-Random-NM-or-not's server. Of course, one can setup a > > repository with testing-security-updates. Whe

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Huh? How could a DD create a repository somebody else cannot? The only > place that would be is people.debian.org/~, right? That'll be > quite a bad place for security updates because I think one still cannot > pin different repositories at p.d.o to

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Comments and proposals for security bugs

2003-05-16 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
There are many questions and comments about how the security team, RM and others handle security bugs. Some change is desired by at least several people. I've already started trying to help clean up security bugs. I won't even bother volunteering for the security team until I've had my identity ver

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > > more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less > > > than 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically also the minimal > > > installation has to be tight.. then r

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:39:20PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:41:47PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200305/msg5.html I stand corrected. > > If a member of the sec-team says "Yes, we are act

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Ben Collins
> == > > PROPOSAL > __ > > Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying: > ___

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You seem to fail to understand that people don't pull security updates > from Joe-Random-NM-or-not's server. Of course, one can setup a > repository with testing-security-updates. Whether it would (or should) > actually be used is another matter. People

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less than > > 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically also the minimal > > installation has to be tight.. then rm doc and man and after install the > > minimum sets of pkgs to provi

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:39:20PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > If a member of the sec-team says "Yes, we are actively trying to > > find > > new members, but finding competent and responsive people who have > > the > > time and will to help is very difficult", then I'm happy and shut > > up.

Bug#193574: ITP: albatross -- a Toolkit for Stateful Web Applications

2003-05-16 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-05-16 Severity: wishlist * Package name: albatross Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Object Craft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/ * License : BSD Description : a Toolki

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Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:38:39PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:06:57AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > People are only going to bitch if you make it look like an > > > official part of Debian when it isn't, and rightly so

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:41:47PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:06:25PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > The problem is finding competent volunteers to do the work. > > I must have missed that post to debian-devel-announce where the security > guys call for respo

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 16 May 2003 01:07 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I agree with Wouter. For me would be an issue having the base system > > > bigger than it is now. Specially preparing very small "black box" where > > > i need to save as much space as i c

Re: Bug#190038: libgtkdatabox_1:0.2.3.0-1(m68k/unstable/thing2): FTBFS on m68k

2003-05-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > It's strange, because on my i386 system > > objdump -T /usr/lib/libgdk-X11-2.0.so gives > > > > 0002e71c gDF .text 0049 Base_gdk_display_x11_get_type > > 00045ebc gDF .text 014c Base_gdk_windowing_window_init > > 0005017c gDF .text 0106 Base

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:06:57AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > People are only going to bitch if you make it look like an > > official part of Debian when it isn't, and rightly so. > > Why the hell do you think this should not be an official part of

Re: ABI change in libsensors1 (from lm-sensors)

2003-05-16 Thread David Z Maze
Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why not kick upstream into releasing 2.7.1 with proper soname bump to > libsensors2 (Make sure they are aware they screwed up...). Then upload > libsensors2, there are only 8 sources depending on libsensors1 now so > it wouldn't be a big deal to rebuild t

Re: Questions regarding utf-8

2003-05-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, John Darrington wrote: > Given a text file, it will attempt to guess the natural language in > which it was written. I'm sure it would be fairly simple to modify it to > guess the charset. If you point me to a reasonably large set of example > files, I'll see what I can do. You could use you

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:06:57AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > People are only going to bitch if you make it look like an > official part of Debian when it isn't, and rightly so. Why the hell do you think this should not be an official part of debian

Re: Do not touch l10n files (was Re: DDTP issue)

2003-05-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:31:59AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > Unfortunately 0xa0 is the no-break space which is very common in > French typography. One could argue that Tollef was not aware of this > fact, but the question is: why does he believe that he can change this > localized file when

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Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Look. People already complained about mentors.debian.net being run by > non-DDs. Do you think 'security.debian.net', being run by non-DDs, would > get any support at all? It shouldn't and wouldn't need to be security.debian.net. It can be 'mytestingupd

Re: Screwed up fonts in _ALL_ Qt applications :(

2003-05-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:33:12AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 09:00:02PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Something related to #189750, perhaps? > > > > -- > > Looks like excitement by repetition! > > It is very unlikely that it is related to 189750, but it could be > som

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:52:15PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > So, what have we got here? > > Three theses: > > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:13:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > 1. > > Well, the documentation says that there is no security for testing, > > 2. > > but it does not say that the

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:44:28PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:13:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > The only thing really needed here is the RM's blessing, and an > > announcement. > > I have no idea how you might think this announcement should look like. > Could you

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:59:48PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:28:48PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Outstanding DSA's are not the matter at hand; > > Sure they are: if you're complaining that the security team already has > too much work to do, then it's outstand

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:52:26AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Matthias Urlichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > >> (a) Before I do something like that, I'd need to be accepted as DD. > > > > > > False statement. > > > > So non-DDs can get accounts on Debian ma

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
So, what have we got here? Three theses: On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:13:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: 1. > Well, the documentation says that there is no security for testing, 2. > but it does not say that the security of unstable is higher than the > one of testing. OK, so testing has "no se

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:13:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > The only thing really needed here is the RM's blessing, and an > announcement. I have no idea how you might think this announcement should look like. Could you perhaps at least give a rough outline of it? Thanks. Michael -- DaniFi

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:06:25PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > The problem is finding competent volunteers to do the work. I must have missed that post to debian-devel-announce where the security guys call for responsible people to get on the team then. I mean, nothing wrong with tryin

confidential matter

2003-05-16 Thread timothykembela
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Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-16 Thread mcINEK
W liście z pią, 16-05-2003, godz. 13:05, Michał Politowski pisze: > You obviously haven't read man mailcap.order? I've read, when you first time told me. It's just a step to provide that usability like my script. Please, look at this two opions objectively. Forget, that one of them is already imp

Packages adopted (ap-utils, igal, tcpflow)

2003-05-16 Thread Robert McQueen
On Thu, 15 May 2003 21:39:54 +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > Just a brief note to draw people's attention to the following RFAs > I filed a few days ago: > #193116 ap-utils -- Access Point SNMP Utils for Linux > #193117 igal -- online image gallery generator > #193118 tcpflow -- TCP flow recorder

Re: Packages up for adoption: ap-utils, igal, tcpflow

2003-05-16 Thread Robert McQueen
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:51:40PM +0200, Celso González wrote: > I will like to adopt ap-utils, i??m using the 1.1 package but i have > a few problem that is resolved in the current 1.3 version > > If you think I could to the job i will send the request to wnpp. > > Best regards Fine by me. As

Re: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version

2003-05-16 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote: It is true that the 2.09 compatibility mode works finely in almost cases. However, LaTeX-2.09 itself still be needed for style files that use internal macros of LaTeX-2.09. The style file of my bachelor's thesis is an example of such style files, and there are a fair num

Re: Packages up for adoption: ap-utils, igal, tcpflow

2003-05-16 Thread Robert McQueen
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 08:48:46AM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > I'd take tcpflow if it's not already been claimed, it nicely > comliments dsniff which I already have. > > Steve It's yours. Regards, Rob

Re: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version

2003-05-16 Thread TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
>> On Fri, 16 May 2003 12:55:54 +0200 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Agustin Martin Domingo) said as follows: >If your documents starts with a '\documentstyle{your_style}' call >instead of a '\documentclass' one the 209 compatibility mode should >automatically be activated. What kind of problems are you >e

Re: Michael-John Turner MIA? (was: Debian MIA check)

2003-05-16 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 16 May 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > I didn't check yet whether he really made that upload. But yeah, the > mrtg bug is certainly a good reason to contact him again... Feel I wrote to him (again) on the 13th about his, still zero response. > free to NMU in the meantime. Done, mrtg

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:36:38PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:15:48PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Yes, but before someone steps for and does this, a consensus need to be > > found on what to do, the RM at least has to green-light it, and it > > should be announced o

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-16 Thread Michał Politowski
On Fri, 16 May 2003 12:05:17 +0200, mcINEK wrote: > Next is replacement for update-mime script to use 'new' format. It > generates full compatible mailcap file, but inserts just one application > (x and non x) for each mime type. You obviously haven't read man mailcap.order? -- Michał Politowski

Re: Packages up for adoption: ap-utils, igal, tcpflow

2003-05-16 Thread Celso González
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:39:54PM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > Just a brief note to draw people's attention to the following RFAs > I filed a few days ago: > #193116 ap-utils -- Access Point SNMP Utils for Linux > #193117 igal -- online image gallery generator > #193118 tcpflow -- TCP flow re

Re: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version

2003-05-16 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2003 10:08:37 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fielder George Dowding) said as follows: I use LaTeX2e and friends (almost daily). I know that LaTeX-2.09 is obsolete, however I need it to process ancient TeX sources without modification. If your documents starts wi

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:11:27AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Yes, and funnily enough, uploads to -p-u have to be processed by the > > release manager, either Joey for stable, or me for testing. > This may be a stupid question, but why is there a "have to" here (w

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:15:48PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Yes, but before someone steps for and does this, a consensus need to be > found on what to do, the RM at least has to green-light it, and it > should be announced on debian-devel-announce so all the maintainer are > aware of it and the

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:01:54PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > [Removed debian-private from Cc-List, there is *no* need to duplicate > the thread there] > > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:58:44AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > 2) a way for people for which stable is too outdated to run more > >

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 05:45:21AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:15:21PM -0500, Anthony Towns wrote: > >Please don't bother listening to or arguing with Michael on this, > >he's wrong, but likes to keep repeating his opinion as though it's > >gospel whenever this comes up

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-16 Thread mcINEK
I'm attaching two scripts. One just converts 'old' /usr/lib/mime/packages/ directory to 'new' one. Why I'll explain later. Next is replacement for update-mime script to use 'new' format. It generates full compatible mailcap file, but inserts just one application (x and non x) for each mime type. I

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
[Removed debian-private from Cc-List, there is *no* need to duplicate the thread there] On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:58:44AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > 2) a way for people for which stable is too outdated to run more > advanced software, without suffering from the breakages of unstable. >

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:15:21PM -0500, Anthony Towns wrote: Please don't bother listening to or arguing with Michael on this, he's wrong, but likes to keep repeating his opinion as though it's gospel whenever this comes up anyway. aj likes to say I'm wrong, but hasn't fixed the problems to make

Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-16 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:47:37PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:40:57PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:25:56PM +0100, Thom May wrote: > > > * Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > > > It has already been told more than once: in Fren

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Fri, 16 May 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > I agree with Wouter. For me would be an issue having the base system > > bigger than it is now. Specially preparing very small "black box" where i > > need to save as much space as i can even during the installation phase. > > Can't you basically just '

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:24:14AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > Hi, > > There is currently no consensus whether translated man pages should > be shipped along with original man pages or within manpages-xx packages. > Unfortunately this leads to conflicts when a translation is first > shipped by t

Re: Packages up for adoption: ap-utils, igal, tcpflow

2003-05-16 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:39:54PM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > Just a brief note to draw people's attention to the following RFAs > I filed a few days ago: > #193116 ap-utils -- Access Point SNMP Utils for Linux > #193117 igal -- online image gallery generator > #193118 tcpflow -- TCP flow re

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Finding a cure is not a problem: we know what the cure is; do > the same thing the security team does for stable. A few other cures have been advocated. I'll not repeat them here. As in medicine, figuring out what the RIGHT cure is is the problem. -- Matthias Url

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:09:00AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: [restored attribution you snipped ...] > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:48:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > When grabbing old mails, I found an answer from a developer who told

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Anthony Towns wrote: > Yes, and funnily enough, uploads to -p-u have to be processed by the > release manager, either Joey for stable, or me for testing. This may be a stupid question, but why is there a "have to" here (we're not in freeze mode!), and would you be OK with sharing this part of

Re: conflicts-based solution (was Re: security in testing)

2003-05-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Anthony Towns wrote: > If someone > would like to volunteer whose not in with the security team, or a > release assistant, please talk to herr DPL about doing so, rather than > me. [ patiently waiting for AM approval ] Will do. And, thanks for the info. Whether to further automate this (i.e

Re: ABI change in libsensors1 (from lm-sensors)

2003-05-16 Thread Chris Cheney
Why not kick upstream into releasing 2.7.1 with proper soname bump to libsensors2 (Make sure they are aware they screwed up...). Then upload libsensors2, there are only 8 sources depending on libsensors1 now so it wouldn't be a big deal to rebuild those few in any case. Chris sources depending on

Re: Screwed up fonts in _ALL_ Qt applications :(

2003-05-16 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 09:00:02PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Something related to #189750, perhaps? > > -- > Looks like excitement by repetition! It is very unlikely that it is related to 189750, but it could be something related to how fontconfig chooses fonts. For example the medium font se

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 07:30:36PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 07:07:16AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > >But we don't advertize this, so it is natural that people make the > >mistake and use testing instead of unstable. > > People say this all the time. Then other people go

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:40:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:06:47AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> > release >> > (Or "released version", "baseline") A version of >> > a piece of software which has been m

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > When grabbing old mails, I found an answer from a developer who told me > > that his package is part of base and thus he wants to keep it small. > > Is this indeed an important issue? > > I'd say yes; but those packages will not usually be uninstalle

Re: Do not touch l10n files (was Re: DDTP issue)

2003-05-16 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Tue, 13 May 2003 06:57:45 +0200 (CEST), Fabio Massimo Di Nitto > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > > Now Apache maintainers are telling us that they chose another layout > > > and we are bound to it. > > > > Yes because the official maintain