Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:13:12AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:23:24 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[Steve Langasek] > >> This seems like an opportune time for someone to write a config > >> interface for /etc/pam.d/common-*, so that we have a gener

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marc Haber] > If so, we need an adduser interface which properly handles LDAP and > NIS. This is something that our current adduser does not do, and the > corresponding bugs are open for many years. Well, it would be nice to have, but is not really a requirement. Those of us using LDAP and NIS ar

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:23:24 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Steve Langasek] >> This seems like an opportune time for someone to write a config >> interface for /etc/pam.d/common-*, so that we have a generally >> useful means of enabling other PAM modules as well. > >Good id

Bug#335459: ITP: flock -- mozilla-firefox based social web browser

2005-10-23 Thread David Moreno Garza
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: flock Version : 0.4.9 Upstream Author : Flock Inc. * URL : http://www.flock.com/ * License : GPL under the MPL base of F

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
> "Steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Do heimdal's krb4 support libraries actually implement the Steve> same ABI as the kerberos4kth implementation? Depending on Steve> the details, it might be better to Steve> Provides/Conflicts/Replaces the old krb4

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:18:27PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:20:08PM -0400, Sam Hartman > Steve> wrote: > >> Does the krb524 functionality disappear from the KDC if you > >> turn off krb

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
> "Steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:20:08PM -0400, Sam Hartman Steve> wrote: >> Does the krb524 functionality disappear from the KDC if you >> turn off krb4? Steve> According to upstream, krb524 works without krb4 in he

Re: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:20:08PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > Does the krb524 functionality disappear from the KDC if you turn off > krb4? According to upstream, krb524 works without krb4 in heimdal 0.7; nothing was said about heimdal 0.6.3 which we

confused MTA - body != headers

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
It looks like some mail program can't cope with the fact I put lines in my message body prefixed with "To:" and "CC:". Oh well. The full message is at http://bugs.debian.org/315059>. Looks like a Fidonet Gateway - Amazing that Fidonet is still around. --- Begin Message --- Topics: Mail delive

Bug#335408: ITP: colorwrapper -- Colorizer for shell commands output

2005-10-23 Thread Andreas Fester
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Fester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: colorwrapper Version : 1.0.14 Upstream Author : vade79 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cwrapper.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Colorizer for shel

Re: changing default ping

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns writes: > Going too far on the "consistency" side of things makes working on > alternative OSes pointless: if Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd do > the exact same thing, why bother putting in the effort to have both? > Would you say that "tar" shouldn't have special options on t

Versioned BTS question:

2005-10-23 Thread Ken Bloom
I'm tracking through some old bugs I submitted, cleaning up. I'd like to close bug 256715, because jpilot and gtk-engines-smooth no longer interact (because jpilot uses GTK+2 now). What's the appropriate version to specify to the BTS? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature include

Re: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Sam Hartman
Does the krb524 functionality disappear from the KDC if you turn off krb4? If so, that will be a problem for current openafs, although probably not for future openafs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#335397: ITP: keysid -- Tiny linux daemon for laptop/multimedia keyboars' enhanching

2005-10-23 Thread Daniele Sempione
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniele Sempione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: keysid Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Daniele Sempione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://keysid.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Tiny linux daem

Re: Bug#335367: ITP: abakus -- KDE calculator

2005-10-23 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Package name: abakus [...] > Description : KDE calculator > > This program is a simple calculator for the KDE. > Think of it as bc (the command-line calculator) with a nice GUI. > It is more userfriendly and not as blindness as most other

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:33:47AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > > > Making one of the portable versions the default ping for Debian seems > > > > > like the > > > > > right thing to do. > > > > Please explain why. > > > Consistancy. > > Losing important features to be consistent with unrel

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Oct-05, 09:42 (CDT), Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 23, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Oct 23, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Making one of the portable versions the default ping

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Re: Bug#335185: ITP: newmat -- manipulate matrices using standard operations

2005-10-23 Thread Willi Mann
i felt that "no restrictions on the use", plus "if you distribute the source, please make it clear which parts are mine" was enough to imply that "use" was meant to include "modification". We should not accept software in debian based in speculations. When it comes to software licenses, you

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 23, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Oct 23, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Making one of the portable versions the default ping for Debian seems > > > like the > > > right thing to do. > > Please explain w

Bug#335367: ITP: abakus -- KDE calculator

2005-10-23 Thread Steffen Joeris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: abakus Version : 0.90 Upstream Author : Michael Pyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://grammarian.homelinux.net/abakus/ * License : GPL Description : KDE calculator

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Oct 23, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Making one of the portable versions the default ping for Debian seems like > > the > > right thing to do. > Please explain why. Consistancy. The alternatives system could be used if someone

Re: Bug#335185: ITP: newmat -- manipulate matrices using standard operations

2005-10-23 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:17:37PM +0200, Willi Mann wrote: > I disagree. Where does the author say that you may modify it? I don't > think the term > > > You can use it in your commercial projects. > > can be interpreted as "you are allowed to distribute modifications". It > might be his inten

Re: Bug#335185: ITP: newmat -- manipulate matrices using standard operations

2005-10-23 Thread Willi Mann
So it appears that the author is happy about modifications and redistribution, and probably has it in his own interpretation of freeware. .. from the excerpt you provided, i think that text is quite clear already. I disagree. Where does the author say that you may modify it? I don't think t

Re: Bug#335185: ITP: newmat -- manipulate matrices using standard operations

2005-10-23 Thread sean finney
hi, On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:53:17PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > So it appears that the author is happy about modifications and > redistribution, and probably has it in his own interpretation of > freeware. > > Maybe he can be talked into removing the ambiguity and formalizing it in > a clearer

Re: Bug#335185: ITP: newmat -- manipulate matrices using standard operations

2005-10-23 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:14:06AM +0200, Willi Mann wrote: > >* License : Custom license (looks like public domain to me) > I think this is wrong. > The readme file states: > >This library is freeware and may be freely used and distributed. > This fails DFSG, paragraph 3. I think the rea

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 23, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Making one of the portable versions the default ping for Debian seems like > the > right thing to do. Please explain why. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#335185: ITP: newmat -- manipulate matrices using standard operations

2005-10-23 Thread Willi Mann
* License : Custom license (looks like public domain to me) I think this is wrong. The readme file states: This library is freeware and may be freely used and distributed. This fails DFSG, paragraph 3. Willi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: [Bug#334632] Your message to Pkg-openssl-devel awaits moderator approval

2005-10-23 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
On Oct 22, 2005, at 10:04, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I maintain one such list on alioth, and I have not been able to find a way to let bug reports and other debian-related messages get into the lists unmoderated without also accepting a lot of spam. If you or anyone else can give me a recipe

Re: ITP: jahshaka -- Realtime editing and effects system

2005-10-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Just a few hints for the future: - you should not cc: a wnpp bug (ITP, RFP, ...) to d-devel, because these bugs go to d-devel anyway. - if you want to cc: a bug submission somewhere, please use the X-Debbugs-CC: header (read up in the bts documentation) instead of directly cc-ing, because that

changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How about naming the packages netkit-ping and iputils-ping, >respectively? Oh, wait, we have that already... > >iputils-arping also has a more portable, alternative implementation >(cf. package arping). That leaves us with tracepath that indeed appears >to be Linux-only at