Work-needing packages report for Oct 28, 2005

The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 206 (new: 11) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 93 (new: 6) Total number of packages request

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

On 10/27/05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Robert Lemmen wrote: > > if zsync would be taught to handle .deb files as it does .gz files, and > > You are talking about freaking lot of metadata here, and about changing some > key stuff to get --rsyncable

Re: Can we just finish the C++ transition for crying out loud?

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:22:38AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kudos to the people who are holding back on new depdendency-bumping uploads > > until this enormous clog makes it into testing. Can the rest of you > > please make a serious eff

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

Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There are people in this world who can read and program PostScript. > > Sure, and it's the preferred form of modifcation for removing > ink-wasting background images from Powerpoint presentations, but: This > is not the kind of modifcation I'm talking

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

On 27-Oct-05, 07:53 (CDT), Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nah, the biggest hit isn't disk space, it's NSS lookup times from having to > do a linear search through a flat-file /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Well, > thank God no one uses pam_pwdb anymore, at least... I'd be willing to b

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

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:07:11AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Moreover, the consequences of getting the one wrong are that you > delete the sysadmin's changes. It can be worse. If you create a directory for working files which you remove on package removal (with rmdir), but which contain

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Re: Can we just finish the C++ transition for crying out loud?

Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kudos to the people who are holding back on new depdendency-bumping uploads > until this enormous clog makes it into testing. Can the rest of you > please make a serious effort? > > If your package is caught up in the clog -- don't make a new upload.

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

Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it produces at least a bloated passwd/group/shadow file. This is reason > enough to consider possible solutions. You're worried about disk consumption? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Can we just finish the C++ transition for crying out loud?

On 10/27/05, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And now, a new gcc-4.0 bumped the shlibdeps for libstdc++ -- and worse, > depends on new binutils and new glibc. This will undoubtedly mean that either > forced package breakages, significant numbers of package removals, or months > more o

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

* Frank Küster: > It is for sure not a bug to contain a PostScript file where PostScript > is the preferred form of modification. If you have tetex-base > installed, /usr/share/texmf/dvips/misc/resolution400.ps is a short > example, /usr/share/texmf/dvips/misc/crops.pro is a bit longer. > > The

Re: [Fwd: ITP: l!m3w!r3 - a Java based gnutella servent]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:26:30PM +1000, jenny garland wrote: > Hi my name is jenny garland and i would like to cancel my > subscription to limewire effective immediately. I would like > comfrimation that this has been done. > Thanks > Hello, We don't have any control over limewire. The onl

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:39:45PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > How does this help boot faster? Doesn't it just increase disk > contention? In theory, parallel I/O requests give a chance to the kernel's I/O scheduler to optimize them (by serving them in the order they are laid out on disk

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

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:53:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Nah, the biggest hit isn't disk space, it's NSS lookup times from having to > do a linear search through a flat-file /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Well, > thank God no one uses pam_pwdb anymore, at least... One can use nscd if he/s

Can we just finish the C++ transition for crying out loud?

So I've been hoping that the C++ transition for KDE, together with the KDE transition to 3.4, and the JACK transition, and the C++ transition for unixodbc, and flac, and various other things, would get into 'testing' soon. php4 and php5 are waiting for this too. Meanwhile, a transitory upload of l

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

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:54:10AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > but we try to make packages better for our users, and one issue in doing > so is dealing with system accounts. > if a package creates a system user who is intended to be used by the > package only, the package should remove the user a

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

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:51:00PM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > It seems that you still did not get my point. > My point is, in a SoHo workstation, this is exactly the most common > scenario nowadays (example: "hmm. let me try this new dvd-player... I > open synaptic, install it, ... nah, it d

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:57:48 +1000 Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (I have seen a system that appears to run ntpdate on startup before > the network is configured - but it hasn't bothered me enough to > investigate why yet.) I had one which needed working pcmcia for the network. Pcmcia i

Re: old question with new status? Sun-Java in Debian non-free?

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:34:52AM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote: > According to various press releases [1], it seems that Sun is relaxing > their redistribution license for Java. I know very little about the > historical releases that the JRE has been kept out of Debian but wasn't > it because the

Re: old question with new status? Sun-Java in Debian non-free?

* Jason Clinton: > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2144710/sun-kicks-oem-programme-jds This is about the "Java Desktop System". AFAIK, this is just a GNOME variant, and not an implementation of the Java language. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: old question with new status? Sun-Java in Debian non-free?

Quoting Jason Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If so, what can I do to take the initiative to package it up for Debian > non-free? > > I apologize in advance if this brings up an old flame war... I don't expect one about this issue. Just don't expect Debian to join any "Partner Programme", which se

old question with new status? Sun-Java in Debian non-free?

According to various press releases [1], it seems that Sun is relaxing their redistribution license for Java. I know very little about the historical releases that the JRE has been kept out of Debian but wasn't it because the license was too restrictive? If so, does this mean that Java is now i

Re: Removing system users on purge [Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch]

Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Frank K?ster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Have we actually got a specific case of this happening and there being a >> > real security threat from it? >> >> When I ran a samba server years ago, I changed th

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

* Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Stephen" == Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stephen> Not to mention that quite a few things do things like DNS > Stephen> lookups which could take quite a while for an unconnected > Stephen> system (perhaps because something

Re: Removing system users on purge [Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch]

* Frank K?ster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have we actually got a specific case of this happening and there being a > > real security threat from it? > > When I ran a samba server years ago, I changed the default log file names > and, IIRC, location.

Re: License for PEAR packages

> >http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/08/msg00188.html > > > > Currently the Pear team claims to be "in the process of resolving this > > situation" (see Pear request #5473). > > What does it mean? Is the problem already solved? Can I upload the packages? No, it is not solved. To be sp

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

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:24:28AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 27-Oct-05, 04:39 (CDT), Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it produces at least a bloated passwd/group/shadow file. > "Bloat"? The /etc/passwd on my development machine, which has seen all > kinds of random server ins

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

On 27-Oct-05, 04:39 (CDT), Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it produces at least a bloated passwd/group/shadow file. "Bloat"? The /etc/passwd on my development machine, which has seen all kinds of random server installs and removes, has grown to a whole 2K. So it could double before e

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

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 23:38, Stephen Gran wrote: > While I appreciate the effort at a standard shell script fragment for > 'install a user', and think that it would be useful as reference and for > reuse, I tend to think making it a dh_ fragment doesn't work in the > normal use cases I can t

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

Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Bernhard R. Link: > >> * Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051025 13:51]: >>> * Steve Langasek: >>> >>> > Frank Lichtenheld has already posted an announcement[4] detailing the >>> > release team's plans for the question of non-DFSG documentation in

Re: SPF or the like for *some* *subdomains* of .debian.org ?

On Thursday 27 October 2005 21:51, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Russell Coker wrote: > > or the forwarding mechanism. Is it common that users will have such a > > lack of control when using systems that implement SPF? > > It shouldn't be in our dem

Re: Fwd: Research for a thesis which will deal with motivations of linux programmers

Re: Frank Küster in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I just received this and thought this guy might use some more > > feedback... > > You may answer "I have a girl/boy friend" if in fact it is a > wife/husband. I have not yet understood whether he knows the difference > between "Linux" and "an OS runni

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Robert Lemmen wrote: > if zsync would be taught to handle .deb files as it does .gz files, and You are talking about freaking lot of metadata here, and about changing some key stuff to get --rsyncable compression. I may not understand why most apt metadata in .gz (Packages, S

Re: Fwd: Research for a thesis which will deal with motivations of linux programmers

* Frank Küster: > Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just received this and thought this guy might use some more >> feedback... > > You may answer "I have a girl/boy friend" if in fact it is a > wife/husband. I have not yet understood whether he knows the difference > bet

Re: SPF or the like for *some* *subdomains* of .debian.org ?

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Russell Coker wrote: > or the forwarding mechanism. Is it common that users will have such a lack > of control when using systems that implement SPF? It shouldn't be in our demographics (Debian developers). But for the type of user that have their email handled by, say, AOL

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

* Bernhard R. Link: > * Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051025 13:51]: >> * Steve Langasek: >> >> > Frank Lichtenheld has already posted an announcement[4] detailing the >> > release team's plans for the question of non-DFSG documentation in main. >> >> Just to clarify, is technical document

Re: Fwd: Research for a thesis which will deal with motivations of linux programmers

Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just received this and thought this guy might use some more > feedback... You may answer "I have a girl/boy friend" if in fact it is a wife/husband. I have not yet understood whether he knows the difference between "Linux" and "an OS runni

Re: Segmentation fault on xmms startup (NVIDIA graphic driver involved)

hi try this: deinstall all xmms plugins that use GL graphics; indeed the crash is in the "add_plugin ()" call Paolo Pantaleo wrote: >Well i discovered that it is not an xmms issue, but some problems with >NVIDIA non free graphic drivers, probalby it is a configuration >problem (specific of my

Bug#336008: ITP: paredit-el -- Emacs minor mode for structurally editing Lisp code

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: paredit-el Version : 16 Upstream Author : Taylor Campbell * URL or Web page : http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/ * License : Public Domain Description : Emacs minor mode for structurally editing Lisp code -- Trent Buc

Bug#336007: ITP: paredit-el -- Emacs minor mode for structurally editing Lisp code

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: paredit-el Version : 16 Upstream Author : Taylor Campbell * URL or Web page : http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/ * License : Public Domain Description : Emacs minor mode for structurally editing Lisp code -- Trent Buc

Re: [Fwd: ITP: limewire - a Java based gnutella servent]

Hi my name is jenny garland and i would like to cancel my subscription to limewire effective immediately. I would like comfrimation that this has been done. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

On 26/10/2005 Andreas Barth wrote: > * Humberto Massa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051026 18:34]: > > in my workstation I try out a new package (for scientfic computing, a > > game for Lucas, a new development package) at least once each two days, > > and a lot of times they come with their libs and thei

Fwd: Research for a thesis which will deal with motivations of linux programmers

I just received this and thought this guy might use some more feedback... Konstantinos -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Research for a thesis which will deal with motivations of linux programmers Date: Πέμπτη 27 Οκτώβριος 2005 12:13 From: Rainer Rapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

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

On 26/10/2005 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Problem being, if daemons don't remove their (supposedly exclusive-use) > > accounts, you can end in two years with 100 unnecessary accounts in a > > workstation. > > And what bad results does this produce

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

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:38:44 +0100, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >add user > >chown a bunch of stuff to the new user > >start the daemon > >Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm imagining this dh_ fragment being added >by the DEBHELPER blob at the end, and so anything needed to be done >in be

Re: Removing system users on purge [Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch]

Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:24:28PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> > > What about log files with sensitive content? >> > >> > Non-issue, as I said

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 23:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > Does this make sense? > > Yes, it does. Such functionality is part of a proper dependency-based > initscript system, actually. Which doesn't actually have much to do with > pa

Re: License for PEAR packages

On Wednesday 26 of October 2005 20:02, Charles Fry wrote: > This issue has already been explained and discussed on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > debian-legal@lists.debian.org): > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/200

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

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:15:41 +0200, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you want to allow automatic user/group removal, then adduser should >be extended to remember every UID/GID that was ever used by a system >user, and never reuse them again even if they have since been removed >from /etc

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:15:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > (And yes, we still need a solution to speed up the actual deb file > downloads..) i think zsync is the way to go here. it would cause no load on the servers as rsync does, and only require a few percent more of mirror space. if zsync wo

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

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:54:18 +1000, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If the code "just" calls adduser, this would seem to be a bug, as >adduser will exit with a warning if the user already exists (see >#264570). (If I am mistaken here with the precise details it is >because the man page has mi

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:47:21PM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > As explained, I wish to use rsync (or preferably, zsync) to update the > local packages list; repeatedly downloading the 3.6MB "Packages.gz" file > over a 56kb/s link is highly undesirable. I am unable to understand why > this ambition is

problem(static linking)

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